Create your own instagram

It finally happened, I am officially a university graduate!  Upper Second honours degree in Digital Art.  So instead of sitting about and letting the never ending quest of finding a job get me down, I decided to add to my portfolio.  The world is being overrun by the phenomenon that is Instagram.

 I love the idea of old photographs but those who are not fortunate enough to have a Smart Phone, I decided to create my own using Photoshop using photographs I took of my home town, Glasgow

I then layered photos to create a hazy effect

I will put up a tutorial on how to create your own instagram effect photographs soon.  I promise it is a lot easier than it looks.

xxx

Since you've been gone

I have been absent from the blogging scene for some time due to the following pursuits....

Cooking

Enjoying the simple things, love, the city, gardening, shopping and...finger puppets which bare an uncanny resemblance to Freddie Mercury

Changing my look

Uni work and being nominated for awards

And of course...painting my nails

Cannot wait to relax, hunt for a job and devote more time to adding more to my blog-DIY and How-To's, Outfits of the day, Nails of the day and nail and cooking tutorials.

Busy, busy, busy summer ahead

xxx

Deborah Lipmann polish lust

Like Wimbledon my obsession with nail polish happens every summer without fail.  So obsessed am I that I have split my rather sizeable polish collection into 2 distinct groups- Winter and Summer.  So as the winter slowly fades and summer (supposedly) sizzles teasingly into view, I pack away my mustards, midnight blues, deep plums and reds, to be replaced with neons and pastels.  Having said all that there's one type of polish isn't dependant on seasons-sparkly polish.

Y'know that saying "All that glistens is not gold"?  Well that is none more evident with marvel that is Deborah Lipmann glitter nail polishes.  I have lusted after the collection for months, but at 16 quid a pop, is a little out of my price range. I will have to continue to long for them from a distance.


Here they are in all the bewitching glory

(I couldn't do any usual photoshop magic, like the image below, as my computer decided to die on me)

Now i'm not suggesting that people don't know how to use the polishes, I just wanted to show how lovely they look on nails and how verstile they are.

Right i'm off to save my pennies.  Who need's food anyway?


xxx

Song of Childhood

I haven't been blogging for a while due the the amount of uni work I have to get through.  Luckily for all you lovely people I have finally finished my animation.  It is based of a poem called Song of Childhood.  Contrasting the carefree nature of childhood with the vices of adulthood.  The scenes then reverse, symbolising the reverse time and starting anew...well thats what I tried to achieve.  It also features my own dulcet tones and my face, which makes me cringe a bit...but oh well

xxx