calendula river

This photo shoot from the other day for my art project that was based on pre-raphaelite paintings and Frida Kahlo's What the Water Gave Me. I wore a Laura Ashley vintage blouse and my rosary from the Vatican, and I picked these flowers from the garden.

A Young Girl by a Pool by Draper

Ophelia by Millais

What the Water Gave Me by Frida Kahlo

Sorry that a couple of the pictures are quite disturbing: being underwater gives a deathly quality. Kudos to UNDERWATER CAMERAS, they are an ingenious invention and I love them. Feedback would be good, not sure if I should use these in my project or not 

Sinead 

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sleepy sunday

I've been lazy, apologies. Here: 

CAT

Woolen socks are always the best. A sign of cosy times to come xo

And here are a couple of snippets from a painting I just finished for Holly's very late birthday present. It's very glittery/Frida inspired/floral.

LUNDY

Me drawing me

Lundy. I didn't post any of these pictures, so I thought I'd post a couple of very overdue ones.

Startled 

Katze und mir 

Hello all. I've been slightly (ha) neglecting my blogging duties (thus giving Sophie lots of responsibility, sorry Sophie :c ) so I've done an extra-long post to make up for it.

Love and stuff

Sinead

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Diamond Eyes

Tell me I've got diamond eyes

Tell me that I'm yours, hold me til the sunrise

Love me til the end

Oh baby

I'll love you til the end 

My darling

Lyrics from my newest song project, Diamond Eyes. I'll be sure to post a video or audio post asap, but I currently don't own very good quality recording kit so it will probably have to be a rushed video I'm afraid. In other news, I got some pictures developed today, and also took some pictures with my dear friend Emily. My song for the day is Lucky Star by Madonna, it's just delightfully adorable and I love it. 

Last weekend I visited Crikey It's Vintage, a vintage fair in Exeter. I managed to get a 2013 diary with a glittery Frida Kahlo on the cover, and a stunning 80's Laura Ashley dress for just £15! Bargain! Kitsch wonders galore.

Planets, flowers and Frida Kahlo

For 'Identity' in GCSE art, I am doing a Frida Kahlo-inspired project. I thought, who expresses their own identity perfectly in her artwork ? So, that's how that came about. Anyway, for part of my project I decided I wanted some Frida-style photos (brightly coloured walls, clothes, lipstick etc.) to back up the rest of my stuff. So here are the pictures from the first shoot. I just love my camera more and more every time I use it. My beloved ~*~*~* Anyway. I'll upload the rest of the Frida pictures as soon as I take and develop them (in a couple of weeks I shall be seeing my best friend in London, also my Godmother, so pretty photos in abundance! 

Planets and whimsy.

I like this one; quite surreal with the warehouse and tyres. It had just started to rain.

Some looovely pink sari fabric that my mum lent to me for the shoot. We're actually planning on making a curtain with it.

Being enigmatic and wistful.

I painted a little plastic Halloween skull bright colours to look more Day of the Dead.

I'm very proud of this one. I managed to get it in focus on the first (and only) shot c:

Being Frida-y in Holly's big, flower-abundant garden.

Flower headdress - made by moi (using an alice band, superglue and some fake flowers)

The beautiful Holly with one of the souvenir fans we all bought in Roma. I love the lighting in this one.

Hope you liked my pictures, and talk to y'all soon ~

Sinead 

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Terribly sorry, blogosphere....

 I have been ever so busy. Therefore I have neglected the blogging duties Sophie wholly entrusted in me.

Unfortunately, as I'm at my dad's house, I don't have my camera and therefore cannot post any new pictures. But I'll tell you about my week.

On Tuesday, Holly and I did a Frida Kahlo inspired photo shoot (for my Identity project in art), which consisted of us draped in saris, headscarves and fake flowers. I think it went really well. Anyway, the film is being developed, so as soon as I acquire the photos I will post them on here. 

On Wednesday I went to Fremington Quay with Micah, where we curled up and listened to The Cure and Pnau, which was nice, until an idiot from our school turned to his friend and not-so-discreetly said "is that a boy and a boy?" which enraged both the gay-rights activist in me and the fact that I am a girl. It was quite embarrassing. 

Yesterday I went to collect my GCSE results, but unfortunately I had to make unwanted interactions with several people from my school. I was grumpy and wanted to leave so that I could just get on a train to my dad's and listen to depressing music. When I was alone, I opened my envelope and was happily surprised that I got an A in one of my Science exams and an A* in the other, and an A* in my History exam. On the train I discovered just how amazing the 500 Days of Summer soundtrack is. 

And today was the best day of all; I discovered that Bishi follows me on Twitter, and I saw the new Patrick Wolf video, was told my nebula leggings had arrived, and came up with a tune for a new song.

I'll post some photos soon, of recent illustrations and leggings and songwriting things. Also I filmed some new videos of me singing, and shall try and Youtube them asap.

Love,

Sinead

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Things that have happened.

Yesterday I had a day out with our dear friend Holly, who will hopefully be writing a few pieces for our blog soon.

My outfit consisted of my yellow shirt, a grey patterned pullover from a vintage stall at Llama festival, my red shorts and Doc Marten shoes.

Patrick Wolf, my current hair-spiration, and a better look at my new hair. Ta daa!

I made a Frida Kahlo/Lana Del Rey-style headdress thing with fake flowers. ~

I also spent AGES gluing individual pink beads and random tacky pink things onto an alice band. It's my kitsch little Crown Of Pinkness. 

Today I haven't really done anything noteworthy. Except some maths. Which I am proud of, because I HATE and am AWFUL at maths. Oh and I made a video of another one of my songs, but I can't upload it yet because the camera ran out of battery and I need to charge it. Not that you care, probably... I'll shut up now. Just thought seeing as I'm temporarily in charge of this blog, I should keep it full of new stuff. 

~Bye!~

Sinead

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Late-night baking

 Last night, whilst watching QI XL, I decided to make a cake (because when I'm half asleep and in my pyjamas is obviously the best time to do that).

It was just a sponge with glace cherries in it, so I just chucked eggs, sugar, flour, water and butter in a bowl and mixed it for ages. Then I added a load of ground almonds and vanilla essence, because I like them in cakes. And of course the cherries. 

I read about Frida Kahlo whilst I was waiting for the cake to bake, and I must say it was a somewhat enlightening experience. I like reading about her, I think she's really amazing.

I listened to a strange selection of music whilst baking last night. Probably because I had my iPod on shuffle and every other track was 'Teach Yourself Finnish' (which, believe me, I am TRYING to do). 

Calexico - The News About William
Beirut - The Penalty
Stevie Nicks - Kind of Woman
Patrick Wolf - Bluebells

In the end, though, I gave in to the lovely Patrick and took it off shuffle and listened to Wind In The Wires (the album, not just the song).

The finished product doesn't look too good in this picture, but I'm pleased with it. It was yummy.


Hasta la Vista, baby
Sinead
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