reading week--- monday 15th

so much for a reading week
so far during my 'week off' i have sent out so many e-mails and covering letters its ridiculous!
i was supposed to have a meeting with Steve smith and nyah to talk about the fashion show on the Monday but unfortunately he had to cancel (he cancelled after i had set off once i was almost back in Leeds-yes i drove all the way back just for the meeting) so instead of seeing him i cleaned my house kitchen....with desperately needed doing! it was gross!

Tuesday...... send of more cv's joy of joys.....

Wednesday was the next meeting nyah had organised with him, but i couldn't drive up again. so i missed the meeting and by the looks of things i would have found it really interesting. we set up a meeting for everyone to find out and talk about the fashion show and now it seems that myself and Jeni have told a few things wrong and got things a bit muddled. so to solve this problem sue is going to have a meeting with everyone thank god! I'm really glad about this because it turns out we didn't need to set up the bank account, so jenny and i didn't need to bother with that! gr! i don't understand why they didn't just do this in the first place!

never mind. I ordered a new camera this week so i can finally do my reiss shop report properly.....i ordered new inks for my printer and they have got lost in the post, so even though i want to work I'm a little stuck. i can only do my computer based work, and guess what. my laptop broke on Wednesday so now I'm dads (whilst hes out) I'm glad I'm such a super geek and that i saved everything o a portable hard drive otherwise id be screwed. and i hate falling behind with work, i know it ll just pile up....... and i cant handle that.

cooked dinner for Harry's rents as they came back from there 6 weeks away yesterday and now Harry's going away...sad times. but at least i don't have to worry about him wanting to come see me. i'm going back up to Leeds on Saturday as stew is coming to fix my laptop tonight! good times. i don't know what I'm going to do without it if he cant fix it. sad times!

monday 8th feb

Enterprise lecture- fun as always i just need to keep my notes up to date and typed up...fashion show meeting with everyone did not go well. surprisingly people were quite cynical and it really was not needed considering that they hadn't gone out of there way to organise the meeting, gr.

3.15- well tom was in a perfectly foul mood today. we have begun choosing our titles for our essay today. i know pretty much what I'm going to write about. underwear fashion and feminism. i need to get it checked through with tom but i can start researching it now as the basics of fashion and feminism are fundamentally the same.

begin applied fashion trend cycle research and shop report research- i really cannot be bothered today.

we have a meeting with one of the mac geeks to go through and learn illustrator with on Friday, we have heard what the Thursday group said and apparently I'm going to fall asleep.

monday 1st feb

we had our enterprise presentation today - it went really well. i was happy with everything that our group did! we have a few things to sort out. a few more things we have to sort and finalise such as how expensive certain stuff will be abd double check prices but we are within our budget and its all going well!
well our hand in was supposed to be on wednesday..... but thanks to the third year and the first years and the second years all being scheduled in at the same time to use the sewing machines we managed to get an extra day. we cant be expected to use the college sewing machines only in the evenings seeing as most of the 1st years are in there anyway.


i handed everything in and im really happy with it. review tomorrow.

gemma 1-45. went really really well im so happy with it. i spent enough time doing everything i concentrated on the time limits looked at the mark scheme and yay! i got a first!

tailoring brief continued......monday 18th jan

mon-fabric shopping at dewsbury is always fun! i think i have got some really good fabircs for my project. we were there for hours.... ive got some purple suede, really good to work with as it doesnt shift about. it'll be quite hard to sew as it'll be thick but it'll work well. i also purchsed some really fine cotton which is perfct as im designing for spring summer, and the floral fabric i bought is quite thick, so it'll be able to give stuructre to what i make.

critical studies on a tuesday is always fun, im slowly getting into although it doesnt always make much sense and i just find myself argueing with tom.

we were speaking to gemma about our ppd portfolio, which i need to get done, but i dont understand why we would sort it out yet as our hand in is not for another couple of months and our work will (should) have improved by then so we would only be re-doing it anyway.



thursday and friday we were designing im really happy that i am up-to-date with this project i think its goignt o go really well. working a little through christmas really got me in the mood for it.

final design for my waistcoat..... im going to use the beige cotton at the back...the suede for the collar and the floral fabirc to do along side the collar and down the back

mondY 25TH
Enterprise as alwasy is thrilling, it can be really good at times, and then sometimes its just boring and unnecesary some of the things we are told about just bore us. the swapsie daisy group is working really well, we always seem to get everything done we all put the work in. it just works well. and seeing as between the four of us we only live in 2 different places it makes life much simpler.

tuesday my tutorial with tom........ i really need to ge the long question done. i cannot for the life of me remeber what it is now, but its possibly the words weirdest text and its going to take me forever to turn into a small paragraph.
proposal form- for my essay needs to be done too. ahhhhh. i know i can get it done i plan on doing something underwear and fashion based.
thursady and friday was retro revival again- im really happy with this project. it couldnr be going better. i have been making my garment and during mon-wed i did the plans, and sorted everything out, so i just need to make my waistcoat. i think my technical file will be good. i think the technical file is going really well. i have managed to make a very simple step by step instruction manual wihch is 30% of my grade so hopefully i will do well.

these are scanned in images of my waistcoat... i havent had any modelled yet

back in leeds baby!

im not going to lie....its been a while and so much has happened.

so over the christmas period i did type up all of my enterprise notes and i have kept on top of them! i started typing up my critical studies notes and i now take my laptop into lesson so i dont have to re-type them. which saves me time and effort! :-)

im so glad i made a start on my christmas project doign the shop reports really made sure i was on time with everything and i did not fall behind.

this is what i did over christmas inbetween socialising!

research pages!