30 Day Challenge 1 * Day 24 *

30 Day Challenge 1
Day 24
Tell us about the last film you saw in theatres



The last film I saw in theatres was The World's End!
Actually I saw the whole Cornetto Trilogy in the cinema, but The World's End was the midnight premier. And I loved it! I never got around to seeing it again before it left, but I can't WAIT for it to be released in November.



Anyway. I don't want to give anything away to people who haven't seen it. Basically, Simon Pegg's character Gary King hasn't really grown up, and is one of those greasy goth drinkers that never got anywhere in life. He decides to see if he can get his friends from the old days to go back to Newton Haven and complete the 'Golden Mile' - which is the pub crawl through the town, finishing at The World's End. Somehow he manages to convince them all (including Nick Frost's character who has shared a bad experience with Gary in the past) and they return to Newton Haven and start their pub crawl!
All is going well (albeit awkwardly) when they realise that everyone is acting extremely strange, and no one seems to recognise them any more...then it all kicks off and I won't share any more. But I highly recommend seeing it!

I'm torn between 'talking about it because hey, it's my blog', and 'oh no, I don't want to spoil it for people!' but y'know.

What I will say, is that I was really shocked when it all started kicking off, I think I didn't expect such a high budget look, and there is so much choreography in the fighting scenes, and it's just really nicely done. It was so much more than I expected from the film and that makes me extremely happy!

I adore Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and I was not disappointed with the final flick in the Cornetto Trilogy. I can't wait to see it a gazillion times so that I have the same kind of opinion on it as Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz so that I can decide which is my ultimate favourite!



And what makes me the most excited about it being released?
A FAT OFF BOX SET!
I hope they do me proud in that department, and being geeks I'm sure Edgar Wright will let the box set have eeeeeeverything :)

We will wait in the fog

Had a nice long weekend with my mister!
Kev came round Thursday and then after tea we made some cookie dough, which was yummy 'cause we bought Galaxy chocolate instead of basic cooking chocolate teehee :)
We made 4 and they came out lovely, but the other batches we made the next day were even nicer, alot squishier and gorgeous! Here's a photo of a few.

Gorgeous!
I'd kind of decided that Friday I wanted to go get my Proof of Immunisation form from the doctors to take down with an Occupational Health form for the job, and low and behold Thursday evening I had an email asking when I'd be bringing it down! I hate it when that happens! Like they have to remind you, but I was planning to come down!
Nevermind. So we got up Friday, had some breakfast and had a walk over to the clinic. On the way I was saying how I never get to see the goat that lives in a garden on the way, and low and behold, we stopped to see if it was there and it poked it's head out of it's little shelter and came trotting up the hill to see us! It was so adorable! I wish I'd had something to feed it, but I guess the owner probably hates that anyway lol! It had lots of flies on it, poor bugger, but it was itching them off with it's horns and that was so cute! Kev got to give it a scratch but I was trying to take a nice photo and didn't wanna touch it lol. Animals like that always sense my reserved fear lol.



After I got my form printed out (and enquired about getting the MMR I was due about 10 years ago to no avail) we jumped on the bus into town and walked up to the hospital to take my forms in!

The Gromit Headquarters is right by the hospital so we went up so I could get another Gromit and yay they had Feathers McGraw in there! <3 Was well chuffed with that!



After that we walked up to Bristol Museum 'cause Kev didn't think he'd been since he was kid, and we had a wander around. It didn't seem as thrilling as it had when I was young, and I swear they've taken away loads of things, I couldn't find the Gorilla or the African dog anywhere! But they had lots of nice stuffed animals everywhere and some really nice crystals and bones. I took a few photos on my phone but they're rushed and awful lol.









(That was a Giant Deer and had to be 7-8ft tall, amazing! <3)
It's a shame they haven't done a big exhibition in the last couple of years. The Banksy exhibition was amazing, and the Art From the New World exhibition was amazing too! I loved they, and they brought in some big crowds, so why not?! Maybe it costs them to get things in...but it was really worth doing, it got people going in there and visiting the rest of the museum all summer long!
Maybe I'll put up my photos from these shows another time.

Anyway, so we went home after a little sit down and a nibble. I had a disaster of an evening where making tea (and more cookies at the same time) went wrong and then I smashed a pint glass into smithereens! But it could have been worse. We watched Return of the Jedi so I've finally watched the first trilogy! Now to try and get a hold of episodes 1-3!

We've also been watching a lot of Catfish:The TV Series, it's really interested! I don't understand how people can be so spiteful as to use fake photos and things...it seems so odd. But the one with the transgender guy was pretty cute, they ended up more in love than before and that's so lovely to see! Usually everyone's angry as hell! Still need to see the original documentary film but nevermind.

Had a lazy day yesterday and then made a nice Spag Bol with garlic bread, yum yum!
Then today we got up, chilled for a bit, had a nice Sunday roast and watched more Catfish before we went to the train station for Kev to go home :) Nice time!
Hopefully we can go down to Swansea soon but there's lots to wait on, Kev's meeting, my start date, Noah's work days, ah! But it'll be fine anyway, we'll make it eventually :P

Sketchy Characters

I had another arty day today, didn't really know what to get up to but I started with Raegan using opposite-ish colours! I used red and blue. I wanted it to look a bit more sketchy but they're kind of in between sketchy and done...like they're a mess but not a sketch-mess lol! And the scanner killed them.
Anyway so I did Rae, then thought I'd add Toby on the other side. His nose came out a bit strong and he looks like he's pouting, bless him, but it could be worse!



I thought I'd keep with the theme and then try Monroe on the next page with a yellow/orange with teal, I didn't really know what to do with her so I put her hand out so that when I added Chunexia (who fitted the colours too) she could have Jay with her :) I wanted Chun to have a skull but with Jay there she had to be kind of looking at it instead lol.



Then I did Amy, who I think looks cute, but unfortunately my scanner really killed the colours in all of these and the pink and purple were a bit too close for it to 'work' so these look off a bit. I then did Emily with Girl, and it looks so cute! ^_^ Again it was killed by the scanner, but I like it lol.



Then I thought I'd do a fun one of Dresden and Chris in green and red! I thought it would be a good chance to show off Dresden's latest tattoos (the hands are on each side of her ribs) so that was fun, although Chris has ended up coming out awful. He looks really thin whereas he is pretty buff, so that's a shame, but I don't know, it just all looks bad. His hair is really high up too...don't think it was my day for drawing guys!

 

Either way. I did them and I like this set of images :) Will have to work this way again sometime! <3

Here are some awful photos I took as I did them just so you can kind of see how the colours were nicer than these scans!

30 Day Make Up Challenge * Day 9 *

30 Day Make Up Challenge
Day 9
A picture of the most creative thing you can do with make up

Dia de los muertos
I have been waiting to do this one for soooo long, and finally decided to give it a go this morning!
It's a sugar skull - Day of the Dead look. Took a while, but I'm happy with it considering it's the first time I've ever done anything like this! Next time will be more fun!
Would be nice to do this look for Halloween, but we never really do anything at Halloween other than eat themed treats and watch movies...which is all amazing, just doesn't help my need for dressing up lmao. Took my piercings out to do this too 'cause I thought it'd look odd with them in!
Hope you like it anyway!

30 Day Challenge 1 * Day 23 *

30 Day Challenge 1
Day 23
Your opinions on Lady Gaga.

I really like Gaga. I think she's fantastic at what she does. She's got the same edges as Andy Warhol and Marilyn Monroe, in the sense that she wants to be famous, she knows how to go about it and how to influence the pop culture, almost become pop culture.
Yes she tries to be controversial, and sometimes I think it's a bit over done, but it works! That's the effect she is after and she's doing it perfectly! She knows how to work the paparazzi and what the consequences are.
I think she's fab! I think the last album (or at least the hype around it) was a bit too obsessed with supporting LGBT rights - which I'm all for, but I just find the support for these issues tiring. I know that sounds awful, but hey.
I'm looking forward to the new album, and I'd love to get to see her live again.
I saw her back in 2010 and the above photo is one that I took! Yay! Best work my camera has ever done lmao.

30 Day Challenge 1 * Day 22 *

30 Day Challenge 1

Day 22

Do you play a sport? Tell us about it. If not, talk about a different hobby you may have.

I don't play sports at all lol. But I love to watch 'extreme sports' a lot. X-Fighters is one of my favourites (as above) and I'd love to go see the tour one day!

But...as I don't do a sport...I guess my real 'hobby' is Art.
I've always drawn since I could pick up a crayon. One of the earliest things I drew was a face, so I've always drawn people. I drew with pens and coloured pencils for years and I really didn't feel like my art was getting anywhere, or not progressing anyway. Now that I work digitally most of the time I feel like I can experiment more. I guess it's the safety of having an undo button.

But anyway. Here is a newish traditional and digital piece just because.

Cardiff Comic Con 2013!

This weekend was Cardiff Film and Comic Con!
Me, Kev, April, Noah and Ian decided to go along after finding out about it a couple of weeks ago!

I managed to meet Kev on the train in the morning, and then we met the gang at the station before walking over to the Motorpoint Arena :)

It was a shame that we didn't have a lot of money on us, but at least we managed to do a few things :)

Here's my photos!

Me and Anthony Stewart Head - looking awful...

April and Anthony Stewart Head - looking lovely!

Kenny Baker - R2D2!

Kev getting a photo signed by Dave Prowse - Darth Vader!

Exterminate!

Stamp :3

The wrestler Sabu!

Got my Crow graphic novel signed by James O'Barr!

My ET photo, Iron Throne photo and signed ASH photo!


Kev's signed photo and his Iron Throne photo!

The original press release package for Labyrinth! So lovely! With 6 prints! <3


Another photo of 2 of the prints and the back cover.

My awful photo with ET! Facing my fears!

And my handsome king on his Iron Throne lmao <3

Didn't get many photos, but maybe next time! We'd definitely like to go to more of these :)