things to come

this is just to put it out there, 

but i believe my model call will be june 20th from 10am to 1pm

we are looking to either host it at the university of calgary or sait. more details to come

hello summer

i feel like i took a week off from working on anything.

the sun came out,  i set up my hammock and spent almost every free moment outside in the sun. feels like for once i got a bit of a tan, without it being the result of a burn. ill admit this this was my goal, im tired of going to LA and being made fun of for bein so pastey lol.  

ive also stayed home everynight for about three weeks, everynight my family gets together and watches episodes of battlestar galactica.. ive come to really look forward to these times this show is really addicting.

im also putting together more details for my show. ill be holding a model call in june for the runway show.  i feel i also need to name the show so i can stop talkin about it saying "my show".  we will see how this goes. 

ive scheduled photoshoots to do a set of shoots with my silks, and im also in the process of setting up shoots for my jackets. 

after not sewing for a week i finally got back in it and yesterday finished a black suede jacket with pintuckes in the sleeves and shoulders with a standing collar. i like this one, and it is very soft. 

ive been having good conversations with new friends, and old friends. excited to have lunch with s.m. this week its been a while. 

summer pieces seem to be falling into place. new updates soon. 

accpetance

so for the first week of summer, i just slept - had so much sleep to catch up on from school.

the second week i just cleaned. cleaned my studio in our basement 

and now i am being productive. i now have three jackets in my collection and things seem to be coming along nicely.

last week i went to the dance workshop with popula and i really wish i had attended more of the workshops. unfortunetly i had decided a) to stay home and work on one of my jackets b) to sleep through the next workshop i could have gone to but then made it to one finally. too bad i had to work mothers day so i missed the last two workshops. however if i wernt working i would probably be with my mom. 

i found it really intimidating when popula turned to me during the workshop and said "what kind of dance do you do?" and just got really nervous and said i dont know.... how do you tell someone that amazing that id like to think that i can pop? lol 

i find it really funny when people leave me their numbers at work. like on mothers day i got a note on a table with a name and a number with the attached "not the old guy paying the bill".  th last one i got was all numbers no names with arrows pointing each number to where the person was sitting and the attached "take your pick". people are weird, however this is less awkward than when they straight up ask you for your number.

i thought i had already posted this video but i guess not, so here it is. a video created from the parkshow. i appear a few times in the video but most notably the last model for the video.

parkshow

summer time

well i have offically been out of school for nine days. i feel like i am going crazy! i really need to be working on things.  i have trouble falling asleep because all i think about is projects and ideas.  ive already planned multiple designs for printing.. new designs for my new jackets ive been working on (images comming soon). ive been planning photoshoots, for both my silks as well as the jackets.  i have also been painting shoes in my head.  (photo shoes for glen, and shoes for grim reminder for my show. they are not yet confirmed to open the performances). i have also been planning out the way the show will go down. how my pieces will be displayed.  how the performances will play out, when the break will be. and also i have decided to add a short runway show to the end with my jacket collection.  

in short, its killing me not to have studio space. may 30th cannot come soon enough.

oh yes i got into contextual a fibre arts program which allows for you to use the acad fibre studios for the summer.  which starts may 30th.

boys. boys, boys.  oh boy. thats all ill say to that.

on saturday was the live style urban arts festival. amazing! the bboy battle was fantastic, havent seen something like that in a very long time. big ups to relfex and j-bugz who repped soul felons and won the two grand prize.  very interesting getting to meet some of the boys from vancouver. 

also new photos released from working with aw makeup/hair classes and i have also gotten a photo from our ArtaWEARness shoot. 

phyllis balm student award

yay, my first scholarship that i have won. its worth three thousand dollars and i got chosen out of my faculty to win this award.  it came with good timing as i might not be working as much this summer, which i am very ok with suprisingly.  

I've decided that this summer i might start my clothing line.  Nothing big esp since im not really the interested in ready to wear, but something to keep me busy.  I wont be making large collections mostly just limited ed. things, more for the people that know how to take one piece and be versatile with it.  I've already picked the fabrics out for this said summer collection. fingers crossed i dont get too bored of the ready to wear-ish like things. 

In my weaving class we are doing a workshop with Luise Lemieux Berube, to design images to be brought back to Montreal and woven on a jacuard loom.  ive been incorpurating contours from the photoshoot i did a while back with my silks and super-imposing them onto the original Hokusai print that inspired the piece.  im so excited with the way these images are looking i think I am going to start drawing again and use these created images to be large scale drawings.

show n sale is this week. lots of projects due and three presentations. time to work.. and work.. and work.. till i get kicked out of the school lol

summary of recent events

modeling for defy gravity designs, with the links collective jewellery show at tantra. very shaky runway- bobbed every time you stepped on it. check the girl with the  stank face behind me lol

one shouldered linen dress that i made for the after party of parkshow. i think im going to enjoy wearing this in the summer.

Park Show

so saturday has now come and gone, was at the cultural center from 9:45 to about 11:30ish.  what a long day

started off with hair and makeup then to photoshoots

break to grab bubble tea from TryAgain and sushi from Sakana... found out that happy hour prices do not work for take out.. oh well i still was craving it so we got the love boat delux anyways. 

i pretty much proved i can eat the whole boat to myself.

nice ashley pig out at a runway show when your already considered one of the bigger models next to the 15 year olds haha. it was worth it.

on to rehearsals.. helping direct with other photoshoots which i found i quite enjoy

time for touch ups, and into freeze modeling.

show time!

the show was pretty good and house of dangerkat was amazing as always. everything was well planned out right down to having us pose in "doll boxes" (the theme was porcelain dolls). 

went out to eat after with the boys, boy some of the looks i got with that hair and makeup...