i have officially done my first drawing since handing in for assessment. i'm that lazy. it's alright but once again doesn't quite look like the picture i copied... nevermind.
our rubbish landlord appeared today and started cutting the jungle (front garden). he's not supposed to come on/in the property without giving us 24 hours notice and he didn't even bother to knock on the door and say 'hello, i'm going to cut the grass for the first time in 2 years even though in the contract it's legally my responsibility to look after it and your rent will include that.' so we spent between 12 and 4 (yes thats how long it took him, it's not that big a garden, he just disappeared a lot) worrying about wills bike that is very close to the strimmering action and the fact that i had the day before run out of hayfever tablets. fun.
now all the grass is dead from shock and the old bat down the way stopped to stare at it and whinge to her old man friend about how it looks so dry. i almost shouted out at her that it was dear ol' mr.landlords fault because she thinks he's brilliant and that we're scum but i didn't, i just ignored her very politely even though she was staring at my garden and talking loudly about it next to my open window and continued making my mushroomy dinner. which was really yummy.
also recently i painted on a bag. i think it looks quite spiffy.
will's at work again and i'm all alone hence me being on here again and i'm also on last fm again which is quite awesome. last.fm that is, not that will is at work and i'm all alone.
gonna go watch kurt russell on graham norton now which i assume can only be good.

thought i could relax now...

i thought that once i had handed in all my work there'd be a massive weight lifted from me and i could relax. but i was obviously wrong. we're in the process of being checked for the house which is oddly worrying. i'm trying to sort stuff out for the degree show and i realise i haven't scanned anything at website resolution so that has to wait till the weekend when i've picked up all the work or anyone looking at my website would have to wait a year for anything to load. i tried printing out my portfolio pieces but even though the paper we found in london yesterday is quite dream like the printer is now refusing to print without borders even though it usually does it without me even asking. rubbish.

so i have had my miniature bottle of rose that i brought today to see whether i actually liked wine that isn't red and i've got the 'rob zombie' station on at last fm to try and calm myself with alcohol and industrial music before will comes home from work and has to put up with me.

oh my god. i just have to trim stuff and label everything and i'm done. a whole day early! will must hate me lol.

i love twitter : http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/highspeed_gallery/2/
the surfer shot is actually beautiful.
and i love twitter because that is where i got the link, courtesy of stephen fry.

i feel excited, which is odd because all the things i think of that are probably making me feel excited are all things that are actually quite scary. like finishing uni, handing in all this work, having my first exhibition. scary.

the end is nigh

having a rest from sewing coz it made my fingers go weird. but i'm good because my rest was to type up rationales, evaluations and try out my text on the postcards i have finished. here's one of the finished ones.

i'll put the others up once i'm done.
off to have dinner and finish the sewing hopefully tonight so i have 2 days to make everything look presentable.
and to the man that is bashing away in his garden: shut up!!!! i don't know what your hitting so hard but it sounds like you're trying to knock down our house and it woke me up far too early this morning!!! as if we don't have enough to stress about!

some stuff

this is my hair being awesome a couple weeks ago, i slept with it up and this is how it turned out. naturally my hair is straight as an ironing board. people are often jealous of my hair because i don't even blow dry it while they spend hours burning it straight. but i wish my hair would look like this more often without me doing anything to it. didn't last the whole day because it hates to be anything but dead straight but it was good while it lasted.

the other day i was on my way to uni and walking through the galleria and a man was walking towards me. i started to walk diagonally to move out of his way but he was still coming towards me so i kept trying to get out of his way figuring he was trying to get into the shop i was walking past and when we got level i realised he was looking right at me and he got really close and made a weird noise in my ear and kept walking. after a couple more steps the cringe started to wear off and i really wished i'd swung for him. i cringed so bad it actually made the side of my face feel weird. creep.

we went to view a flat today. crossing your fingers works. it was magically huge inside and we have now had it taken off the market! now i'm crossing my fingers for all the paperwork to go smoothly because it's technically still not ours just yet. please please please let it go well. it's a really nice little place on a private road really close to a lovely pub and the train station and it has a dining table. i'm fed up with eating dinner off my lap every day. *fingers crossed*

finished all the imagery for the showcase project. now its being rubbish and not printing well. all the colours are rubbish. i hate scanning and printing. i should have done fine art then i wouldn't have to print my work. but i would be thoroughly annoyed by all the arty crap that doesn't actually make sense. urgh. i just want it to look nice for my show!

will and i were walking across the field on the way home from tesco when we saw this and it made us laugh.
some art:

off to find some dinner now. i reckon it'll have to be nuggets and chips. we really need to go do a proper food shop...

www.beckygarratt.com

everything is mental. 2 weeks left before assessment. 3 weeks before the degree show. quite scared and excited. hope my show turns out good.
i now have a proper real website. its still 'under construction' but i'm slowly figuring out how it works.

i've been scanning in stuff i want to show off on it and when going through some stuff found some photos that i actually did with film and devoloped myself. for a first attempt i think they're quite good. especially considering we only had 30mins to use a whole roll of film and only had the ugly university as a subject.


final thought: why is there always someone that thinks 'fancy dress' means 'look as much like a slag as possible'? strange.

all the fun of the zoo

i haven't been on the internet in forever and have just spent some quality time with the computer catching up on things. except the computer is mad at me for neglecting it and keeps cutting the internet off so i haven't actually caught up on everything i want to. rubbish.

anyway the main amazing news is me and my mummy went to whipsnade zoo on tuesday and it was awesome! (i didn't skank will, he skanked me for ac/dc so i had to make plans with mum coz i wouldn't have been able to handle sitting at home on my own knowing he was doing something so awesome.) (and he didn't actually skank me, he was offered a ticket by his friend after we were too slow trying to buy our own and he couldn't very well turn down an offer like that just because i wasn't going, that would have been insane)(and to be honest i'm quite glad he skanked me coz the zoo was awesome!)

we loved the zoo. we spent all day there and managed to see everything. and took a ton of photos. and had a picnic courtesy of mum which we ate overlooking the white rhinos and some deer type things. i sat on a rhino and mum took my picture. its alive and everything.

in all the times i have been to that zoo i have never seen the brown bears, at all. we went to look and we could see them all lazing about under trees and i was amazed. they were huge and looked so soft and furry but like they could eat you. then on our way back past after seeing the penguins and on our way to the wolves one of the bears was actually in the water splashing about playing with a stick! it was brilliant.

the cheetahs were adorable, just laying in their little house constantly licking each others heads looking pretty.

i'm going to go and steal the sloth bears and keep them in my garden/house due to their awesomeness.

the flamingos were fluorescent orange.

it was just generally an awesome day. thank you mummy! then we went home and i spent the night at the 'rents house which was so nice. i got to have a shower. i felt so clean and relaxed and then came back to our manky house. tried cleaning it to make it feel nice then realised that i clean it anyway, that's not the problem. the house is just rubbish and stressy. i either need to stay at my mums more often or never go there again so i can't compare. and that would be too sad coz their house is lovely.

in other news i jynxed myself by mentioning how i hadn't missed any of my sketch a days and have now missed loads but i'll blame work and easter and start again from tomorrow (i'm too full, hot and tired to do drawing now). but i do have a few that i haven't put up yet so here are those ones.

nikki sixx, harry potter and hermione granger (supposedly)

easter was nice. me and will spent some quality time with the telly and ps3 and chocolate (and each other, but i see him all the time anyway) and we had a bit of a roast but i spent the day feeling the wrath of my body letting me know i'm not pregnant. i have eaten far too much the past couple of days and its finally caught up with me. i feel so full and unhealthy tonight, its not good.

i have also failed 52 weeks again. don't know why i bother really, i hate photos of myself and this house is too ugly to take a nice photo in anyway. (i'm really peeved with the house at the moment incase you hadn't guessed.)

have some hard work ahead of me for uni. i'm way behind and getting more behind by the second. i'm completely screwed for the self promotion brief. i haven't got a clue what to do for it. but i'm plowing on with the twilight illustrations, even though it doesn't seem like it coz i'm just reading and making notes again but now i know my plan i need to make the notes so i can just get on with the imagery. fingers crossed it turns out good.

gonna sort this out in the morning now coz i can't be bothered with trying to upload to flickr and put pictures on this with the internet being so rubbish.

edit~i came back to this today so it's probably all lying about what i'm doing and what happened 'today' and stuff but i can't be bothered to sort it out.

today i did another sketch a day. it doesn't even have a face but there you go.

and this morning i did one of those peel off face mask thingys and was amazed that it came off all in one go.
how creepy is that?
anyway, i'm gonna go put pictures on flickr (which you should have a look at for more fun from the zoo) and watch hell's kitchen for my daily dose of fear from marco.
oh and michael sheen for aro in the twilight films gets 2 thumbs up from me. i can't wait!