Tilda doll

the doll in process

This week my brain was refusing to do homework, every time I  tried to do my art homework I seemed to get carried away and be doing my own project and this doll is a result of that! I made her using a kit that helps you create your own Tilda doll, the kit had been lying around for about two years in my room so this week I decided to put it to good use. And I'm very glad I did! However I must admit at first I felt a little edgy about using instructions as I don't feel creative doing it because I feel like I am copying off someone elses creativity. But this time I didn't feel like that, my attitude was completely different, I wanted to use instructions as not only would I feel challenged (because it is so different to me), it also would be a good start to using instructions for when I get into dress making (which hopefully will be in 2 weeks time). However when I was making the doll I did feel a little let down that the instructions were so vague but I guess that's not a bad thing as it made it more challenging and made me have to still use my creativity.


BUT, and its a big but, what will I call my doll ????!!!! PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!!!
(just leave a comment below)

Ipad and Iphone cases

(My sister doing revision in the background)

So here we have a great example of what I get up to when I'm board. It was one of those days were I couldn't think of anything to do (or refusing to do homework on the weekend) so I decided to make an ipad case. It started of by me managing to dig my dads old levis out of the material box and then I dissected the jeans by picking out the labels and zip. After that i had to decide where abouts I wanted to cut up the jeans. Eventually I decided on a pocket so that i could have a pocket in the final outcome. And from there i made it up as I went along really!

After i made the ipad case i decided to make my sister an iphone case for her birthday. Meaning that i recycled twice!

Henna!

Admittedly I have not posted anything for a while but it wasn't my fault-technical problems!!!

At around the end of summer last year I was in Camden Lock market were I brought a tube of henna.Thankfully it managed not to explode in the bag on the way home and so when I got home I did some henna on mine,my sister and my mum.

At the time I was studying Indian culture and patterns. I was blown away by the beautiful detail in all the Indian patterns but especially henna tattoos. In particular I loved how flowing and constant the flower patterns were, so I decided to use that as my inspiration for my mum's henna which came from her toe to around the her ankle on the other leg.
My sisters henna however was inspired by a picture I found on the web. The picture had petals of a flower similar to the leaf-type-things on the tree (on my sisters hand). I included the birds as I knew it was important to use symbolism in my piece. (Birds symbolising freedom).