London to Paris

I have come back from two weeks away.

One week in London, doing nothing in particular:

Went to the National Gallery, bought a beautiful book about a man who plants trees,

fell in love with sweet potatoes, went to a rock bar wearing leather with dark lipstick.

My boyfried drove us round France: Rouen, Paris and Calais.

Rouen is beautiful, quiet and very french.

Paris is beautiful, busy, touristful, musical and very french.

Calais is ugly, quiet and dodgy.

Every day in France we would have 3 different types of sweet

french bread from the Boulangerie, we had such a lovely routine.

We also grew even more certain of each other.

We grew used to each others constant company.

We are ourselves with each other.

It was such a beautiful trip in more ways than one.

Paid our respects to Jim Morrison at his grave.

Walked up the Eiffel Tower but refused to go to the top like the cattle.

Met Parisians galore at the river with our wine and Ryan on guitar.

Paid £12 for a wee.

Walked down the Champs Elysees.

Saw amazing things in the Louvre.

Photographed a crime scene in the metro station: blood everywhere.

Got stared at alot for being blonde.

Almost got kidnapped.

Crashed into a parked car but the lady didn't care.

Bought a tin whistle.

Made many sandwhiches.

Got mistaken for French people alot.

Had a bath.

Always had a mini balcony.

Fell in love with two cities and one man.

- Ped

Transformation

I used to be brunnette

but now i'm blondy ginger

I love it

I don't see why anyone could complain about being ginger

I actually really love it

Today i voted

I'm not telling you who for because it's confidential

I like moths better than butterflies

I love life and appreciate everyone and everything in it

I am paranoid and scared of being vulnerable when i sleep

I like to smoke a cigarette every now and then

I broke into an abandoned building and spray painted the walls

I did glass cutting

I have cancelled my university offer to do a foundation art course instead

I would love to live in London sometime.

I love to paint.

I wish i had the guts to try oils.

I am an acrylics fiend.

I love black biro drawings.

My phone broke today.

Mum was angry I couldn't contact her so I let her yell at me until she calmed down.

I bit my tongue.

This is me now.

Paint for me

Please paint me a pretty picture

Of Bumblebeas not in the trees

But floating face down in the seas

Of butterflies with blue tacked bellies

On my box for my brain.

Please paint me a pretty picture

Of spiders pinned and rats drowned.

It'll give me such a huge grin

That you'll forget how i frown

Please paint me a pretty picture

For me to hang on my teeth

For me to kick with my knee

Oh it'll give me such glee

Will that pretty picture for me!

- Ped.

Arty farty

1. my ugly chin and beautiful feather earring

2. a painting i've just started

3. What are you?

4. Loneliness creates an active mind

5. Freedom of the body

6. Technique practise

7. Stuff

8. All Soul

Some of the stuff i did this year.

It's ok i guess, think i can do better though.

We'll see how the next one turns out :) x

Home

I'm back at the place of reality.

It's great to see my family, you don't realise how much they actually mean to you when you until you haven't seen them for a while.

I also love seeing the friends back here.

Ben, the littlest brother seems especially happy to see me :D which i am chuffed to its about, we're going to do something this weekend, but we're not sure what yet.. could be a cinema trip or just a PS3 tournament, either way it will be time well spent :

Ok so i have literally had to bribe my brother, physically drag him to his room and bribe him again with another chocolate bar offering to come with me to the supermarket... that feeling of love has gone.

Moving on, i plan on entering Vogues young writers thingy! As you can see from this small paragraph chockablock of grammatical and spelling errors i am clearly a very strong candidate.

Here are a couple of paintings i have finished!

I'll try and take a better picture of them some other time but at the moment my camera is at my boyfriends because i was infact showing off my painting too him via my camera after uploading them on here and now i havnt seen my camera for nearly a month dammit!

I took no photos of london because of this!!

Today me and the man have been invited to a crazy swiss ladies birthday dinner! She goes by the name of Lydia Dietrich and she is amazing and you can't turn down her invitation to a dinner :) infact you can't turn down an offer to come round their house!!

Here is a picture of something else because i have little to say:

This is in Amsterdam, i walked past it every day i lived in my favourite youth hostel (flying pig).

i loved this tree, it always made me smile, it was sucha beautiful shape and this day was particularly harsh in coldness and brightness: a perfect day to take out the camera.

long live the Dam, the place where things make sense, if only momentarily.

Could someone freeze time for me, my mind is so skatty and it's decision time. Student loan deadlines are coming forward... errrrrrrrrrr :(

lots of love to my family, they are wonderful and supportive and deserved a much more helpful and capable daughter/sister than this one.

xxx

BRUMMY

I'm in Halesowen, a nice town on the outskirts of Birmingham. I didn't come here to do anything in particular but visit Ade and Becky and just have a rest, sort my head out, finish a sketch off in my sketchbook and decide once and for all what i want to do.

The idea of doing art in London is an extremely attractive option, in fact I'll be completely honest i have fallen in love with London. It's a complete trap... it's another place that is not your friend it only seeks to entrap you.
But it is amazing.
I met some extremely sound people, they had their heads screwed on the right way.
After the work experience i met up with my man and we went out to a party and then crashed at Laurens. We were all pretty destroyed and had been on red wine so had horrible black lines on our lips. Next day was recovery day and saw some people at the market in Spitafields who had been at the party, we gawped at some fur protestors for a bit and moved on.
After that we mainly stayed at a guy called Rhucys place.
We had a full englsih every day! It was mint!!
And Charlie is amazing at the drums with his long dreads all happily sitting on his head, he also had a beautiful lady called Gabriella who's Italian, she was soo lovely ^^
!!
Speaking of Italians i met two others: Danielle and Jessica who are fabulous!! They were dressed like punks and had mint attitudes and just had a right good giggle with them for ages.
We swapped numbers and everything and now we have facebooks ^^ so i have to go see them again because they literally made my night at that party, they are also both very pretty of course :D ha
Thing is though, mums just gone and paid for some really expensive accomadation at Newcastle for my placement at Northumbria and if only I'd been offered it now i would have said no, but no that I've said ok just send it off i'm regretting it because that is going to be a big waste of money if i have the guts to say ... actually london is my place.
AHHH
also totally thinking of not going to norway and going to london instead....
OHZ A MA GAWD
I'm glad i went to London but in a way it's totally fudged it up :)
I was meant to meet Luc today in Brummy but he hasnt been texting back so I'm just giong to have to give that a miss and see him some other time, he is so unreliable!!! bless him :(
ANyway enough blabble.
Hope all is well.
ADiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiios xxxxxx

Lots of little towns put together to make one big city.

London is lovely. I could definitly imagine myself living here for some time.

My first day consisted of meeting the people who have taken me in: Nick and Mel.
They took me to the park! And i saw a big herd of deer and some Yaks!!
It was such a lovely big mass of grass and mud.. though it meant that my newly cleaned walking boots were very quickly back to their original state ready for my first day of work.
Met Mels mum who was even more lovely than them and who has now got me and Nick tickits to see Billy Elliot tomorrow night for free :D

The work experience is fun, so far I've visited the main office of warehouse, done a few pages of a sketch book and made a top but apparently it'll get much busier :( i enjoyed going back into my world with a project including scissors, paper and glue and my sewing skills aren't that great.


Kind of forgot to tell my mum i got to London Ok... found out today that she'd texted Ryan and asked if he'd heard anything because she was a little worried, bless.
Text her this morning though, got one text back ... nothing else.

Very tired, not used to working.
I'm going to dress more like me tomorrow instead of my fancy skirt and stuff because it's much more casual than an actual office place, it's more a creative place where you need to be able to relax into creative mode.

Tired, going to melt my brain with TV, bye! x