Recent Listens

I bought Sacred Mother Tongue's CD on the basis of a magazine review. They're a little more metal than I was expecting. I enjoy metal but the review made them sound groovier than they are. Still, excellent for chilling out to.


Grabbed The Great Gatsby Soundtrack in Morrisons (yes, I still buy CDs). I'm yet to see the movie, but the album artwork is so sublime in itself that makes it worth owning even if the music is rubbish (it isn't, bar Andre 3000 and Beyonce's cover of Black to Black).

 

Big thanks to Letraset

I won £20 to spend at letraset.com so spent it on this awesome stuff. Thanks very much Letraset, you know how to make a girl happy.

Adobe Certified Expertise

I'm studying for my ACE exam in InDesign CS6, them exam is at the end of June.

Here's me learning to apply Next Style.

Telly Talk London Poster

A chum of mine works in TV in London, she organises this charity networking event. Probably because there's free wine at it or something (I speculate, don't turn up and be disappointed). Anyway, she asked me to tweak this poster for the next event. I didn't design it, and am not claiming to. Most of the type needed resetting on it though, which took up a lot more time than you'd think.

So yeah, that's what I've been doing for a few evenings lately.

I'm in a book!

Well, my work is. A few years ago I entered a logo into a design awards. It wasn't a very good logo, but it made it into the book of entries anyway. And that's quite cool. Here are the screen shots whilst I save my pennies to buy the hardback version.

Calligraphy

More calligraphy practice here. It always looks better when you write in Ye Olde.

Craft Supplies Swap Shop

At the weekend I went to my first ever craft supplies swap shop. It was hosted by the (very) local sewing cafe Cheeky Sew and Sew. What you do is hand over your remnants, those bits and pieces that you bought but never used and anything else that someone else might appreciate having. You then get given a number of vouchers equal to the value of stuff you've brought in:

And then they are transformed into whatever you pick from everyone elses' unwanted craft supplies. I turned my two vouchers into some lace and a sewing pattern.

So, thanks Cheeky Sew and Sew, you did good.