how to make yourself cool

I'm always putting studs or crossed over paper clips on the ends of my shirt collars but have always wanted to go that extra bit further. Now I've actually had the time to do it!! I literally spent so long doing this that I listened to five Cd's and it wasn't until my mum came in that we noticed my crappy pink CD playa was a'smoking like the firey pitts of hell (no). So yeah, turned that bitch off straight away.

But anyway, here is what I created in about three and a half hours... I'm sure that normal people could do this in less than an hour. But like with all textillian things I rush into them and then have to make loads of mistakes in order to figure out what I'm doing. But I like it better that way. I don't measure anything because that would turn it into maths and I hate counting. So I just draw and cut and sew then re-sew until it looks decent.

B4 all boring n' shit

With the denim bits on lookin half-fly

This jumper is from Generation at New Look, that's how old it is (about 3 years). I bought it at the time because I thought it was very Alexander Wang-y. *cough* I got the idea do to the denim and studs from my own brain but it was inspired by the Ragged Priest collection. Whenever I'm in Topshop and Oxford Circus I love looking at their stuff but the magic has been taken away from me as a girl in my sixth form told me that SHE studs the clothes and gets paid for it and as much as I was like "woah dat kl" I was also like "wait, what happened to the mystical elves that stud n' tye-dye this stuff in the secret caves of Neverland..." then I also thought, I CAN DO IT TOO WITH KANDOO and not have to pay £40 for it. So there. Look what I did mommy...

 Observe the well neat sewing (NATTT) - A LEVEL Textiles FTW
Oh well, suppose it adds to the "vibe"

 Amazing photog skillz'

The complete masterpiece - so fly

The making of this caused me much pain and also the death of my CD player although I'm pleased with the final ting and have looooooadddddssss of ideas for a few of my shirts which I shall obvs post when I have done them!!

The studs I used were ones from a haberdashery down Berwick street in London that has 30 in a pack for £3.60. I bought the flatter studs instead of the nicer rounder ones because they were about £2 EACH and I was like "f dat bro". The denim I used I got from the cut-offs from when I cut some jeans that I didn't want anymore into some supa-kl shorts.

And in case you suddenly forgot what the hell you were reading/looking at, here it is again... IN USE?!!?!?!?!? I must point out now that I find it slightly worrying how I seem to naturally be standing slanted. THANKS FOR GAZING AT THIS VISUAL FEAST.

XOXO GOSSIP GIRL. (joke)

This post is dedicated to my best friend, Holly, the Ultimate Noob King.

musical adventures

This year my taste in music has developed beautifully as I realised that I don't have to listen to songs about "getting crunk in da club" or "bootay shakin gals" in order to keep friends (songs like that make me angry inside). Since I got a job I have been on a CD rampage and buy one every month or so. I love actually having an album to physically hold as opposed to on iTunes or what not. I'm like a granddad in that I don't like to switch to modern technology until the last possible second (I still don't have an iTunes account). You don't get to see the album artwork/lyrics if you don't buy the CD - come on guys!! ALSO, HMV 2 for £10... how good is that?! Although, that is only if your willing to wait until the albums you want are more than a few months out of date. Life gives us hard choices...

These are the albums that I have bought so far this year...

Crappy camera phone woop woop

• White Lies - Ritual / favourite songs: Strangers, Bigger Than Us, Bad Love
• Lana Del Rey - Born To Die / favourite songs: Off To The Races, Carmen, This Is What Makes Us Girls
• The Vaccines - What Did You Expect? / favourite songs: If You Wanna, Norgaard, Wolf Pack
• The Wombats - The Modern Glitch / favourite songs: Our Perfect Disease, Techno Fan, 1996
• Noah & The Whale - Last Night on Earth / favourite songs: Tonight's The Kind Of Night, Wild Thing, Give It All Back
• Ben Howard - Every Kingdom / favourite songs: all of them except the last 3 which I don't remember so they can't be too good

So! What is the point of this?... well, just thought you might like to know. I like all these albums for pretty much the same reasons, most of their songs are good, yet some are boring. Judging from my favourite songs you could probably tell that I love songs about memories and ones that tell mini stories. DEY DE BEST. Ben Howard's music is definitely my favourite though! His songs are like beauty in lyrical form.

Alice's CD of Da Weeeeeeekkkkk is...

 TheEnemy - Streets In the Sky

(dont h8 the excited face)

I made the mistake of carefully listening to this album for the very first time, lyrics in hand. This lead to slight disappointment. BUT WAIT. Once I listened to this in a relaxed manner I started to concentrate on THE MUSIC and let the lyrics do their ting. THIS LEAD TO HAPPINESS. The only song on this album that I don't like so far is "Like A Dancer". For anyone who has this album, why would she feel like a dancer and what is the significance of this? I DON'T UNDERSTAND. But yeah, get this, it's good.

In other news...
Last Saturday I was strutting around Spitalfields market and there were quite a few stalls representing independent record labels, which was the kind of thing you go to and your like "why is my life so boring and uncreative compared to these v.cool people?!" but anyway it was cool. So I managed to pick up this free CD AND THESE SUPA-HIP BADGES!! WOOP WOOP.

Please enjoy this aesthetically pleasing image

This album is from the record label Full Time Hobby and I was pleasantly surprised by some songs on here such as "My Name Is Carnival" by Erland & The Carnival and "Mirrored & Reversed" by White Denim - although I cannot fully judge the good-ness of this FREE TING as I've only listened to it twice through so don't h8 if anybody bothers to research and then comes to attack.

Thanks to any one who got to the end of this without falling asleep or going to the toilet inbetween. We should do this again sometime...

FIRST EVER POST

yoyoyo!
Je m'appelle Alice et j'ai dix-sept ans (ew). My exams are over for now and I just thought... 'hmmm you know what, imma start a blog'. So that's what I've done. I understand that maybe no one ever will read what I write - but I'm cool with that (I'm really not). I'm gonna keep this casual and write as if I'm talking to ma home gals, I don't want to come off too forced or act like I know what I'm going on about (when most of the time I don't.) I'm simply going to post about the things I love the most in life: FASHION. MUSIC. ART.

enjoy bitches!!

(Please remember this is a baby blog and so I will figure things out and get better at all this technical shizz)