It's often infested with Nargles

Look! An actually craft related post. Oooo.

As I may have mentioned earlier I need enclosed shoes for Uni to enter the computer labs. A stupid rule but I suppose safety is as good a reason as any. I have a pair of brown cons, I want to get a more interesting pair of cons and I have a pair of my mothers old boots. However I came across these shoes in K-Mart for $6 and couldn't resist. I figured they would be perfect for drawing on and testing out my new fabric pen. I've never drawn on fabric before, usually I screen print or lino print it. I think I will be drawing on more things in future.

I decided to do Luna Lovegood as she is a particular hero of mine. I don't normally do cartoon style things, instead my drawings are usually more like photo-realism so this was another interesting change. I have no idea what to do on the rest of the shoe. I'm not going to colour it in, I like black and grey on their own.

As for the other shoe, who knows. But I am leaning towards my other hero, Ginny Weasley if I can find a picture I like enough.

P.S I still have to erase the pencil lines under the pen. I'm waiting for it to dry
completely so it doesn't smudge. x

In My Mother's Clothing

It has been far too hot lately. I went to Melbourne to visit my father last week and it would have been the perfect opportunity to photograph some of my finished projects. 90% of my suitcase contained things I had made or altered in some way.

However 38 degress, while not the hottest it could be, was not very conducive of outside photography and my camera doesn't like the indoors unfortunately.

I had a bit of fun with my outfit today so I thought I'd post about that instead. It was so hot I wanted something light and comfy and after some wardrobe raiding I put this together. The dress is actually a halter dress that was a bit too dressy for just going to lunch with a friend. I found this cropped lace top that used to belong to my mother and paired it up with a new belt found in a second hand shop. In the end it was just what I wanted and quite light and cool despite the black and length.

Hair wise in this heat the only way to wear hip length hair is in a bun or in milkmaid braids which hurt my head after a while.

And i don't think you can see them very well but my shoes are new, so new they still give me blisters... I got them on sale. They are truly beautiful with a black and white art deco design.