I'm so often asked where I get my stuff from, which is definitely flattering, so I made two separate videos and tried to list, as best I could, where I buy most of my cool and pretty things from. Hopefully you'll find them helpful!
I know there are loads of other good places to shop from online for Gothic and Alternative clothing, accessories, jewellery and so on, and I'm hoping to make a list of as many of these places as possible for this website. I've always thought such a thing would be useful, so I'm going to make one for everyone else. Ok! Here you go, hope you enjoy these and find them useful :)
Where I Buy My Clothes:
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Wednesday, 30 July 2014
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Here Comes the Crafty Bride
I've been approaching wedding planning like film shoot planning, it's not that different, really. When you plan a film shoot, you start by writing and perfecting a script, then you find a few crew members who feel passionate about the project, then you need to find funding. Once you have funding you can go about location scouting, organising art department, arrange unit, transport, hiring a full cast and crew i.e. camera and sound departments, and so on.
A wedding is similar in the sense that you need funding before location scouting (venues for ceremony and reception), hiring a cast and crew (bridal party, celebrant etc.) camera and sound crew (band, photographers, videographers), organising art department (decorations), arrange unit (catering), transport - basically it's kinda similar.
Being an Art Director on film shoots, naturally the 'Art Department' aspect of my wedding, to me, is the most important. Everything must look AMAZING. Aesthetic comes before anything else. I've started a 'Wedding Aesthetic Inspiration' Pinterest page, and am really having to rein myself in on the millions of ideas I have for making things look cool.
It's the funding part I'm struggling with at this point. Basically we've got zip so I have to implore my family for help. I have never asked for money for anything before ever, and I certainly don't like having to do so. I'm hoping that they will feel generous as this is the most important day of my life to date. I, as many girls, have spent most of my life dreaming about my perfect, fantasy wedding day. It's always been what I dream about when I'm in a bad mood and need cheering up. Obviously I want it to live up to expectations, because eventually, it won't be a dream anymore, but a memory.
I mentioned to my Dad the other day how much it would likely cost, and I think he nearly died on the spot. Weddings are not cheap these days! And again in doing film, I've learnt how to stretch money. So I guess we'll see there - but until I can get some 'funding' for this 'project', I'm really frustrated and stuck. I can't book a date at the church without a large downpayment, which means I can't start booking anything else at all. I risk losing a good date. All I can do at this stage is plan, design, and buy small things that I can afford by myself.
For example, I'm starting by making a ring box and ring pillow, as well as those decorative rings to go around wine glasses. Once the supplies I've ordered arrive, I can get my craft on and hope for the best. I've bought a beautiful brooch to pin to my non-existant wedding dress. I've decided to make all the favours, invitations, table decorations, pew decorations, name cards, and possibly my bouquet and the bridesmaids' bouquets. If I have a flower girl, I'll make her basket. I am way, way too excited about making all these things. Every time I finish something, I'll put a picture up. I really want to make more of a Vlog for the wedding planning process.
People get terrified and stressed about planning weddings, I'm not worried, at least not at this stage, except for getting enough money together to pay for everything. But I want to make a Vlog because I'm basically doing everything myself. Which is fine. I can totally do that. Sure. Again, it can't be as hard as planning a film shoot. But it should be be an interesting process to watch.
To finish up, here's the first picture my fiancé and I ever took together, rather classily taken with a phone in a bathroom mirror at a party while pretty drunk. It's still my favourite. So yeah, keep watching. x
A wedding is similar in the sense that you need funding before location scouting (venues for ceremony and reception), hiring a cast and crew (bridal party, celebrant etc.) camera and sound crew (band, photographers, videographers), organising art department (decorations), arrange unit (catering), transport - basically it's kinda similar.
Being an Art Director on film shoots, naturally the 'Art Department' aspect of my wedding, to me, is the most important. Everything must look AMAZING. Aesthetic comes before anything else. I've started a 'Wedding Aesthetic Inspiration' Pinterest page, and am really having to rein myself in on the millions of ideas I have for making things look cool.
It's the funding part I'm struggling with at this point. Basically we've got zip so I have to implore my family for help. I have never asked for money for anything before ever, and I certainly don't like having to do so. I'm hoping that they will feel generous as this is the most important day of my life to date. I, as many girls, have spent most of my life dreaming about my perfect, fantasy wedding day. It's always been what I dream about when I'm in a bad mood and need cheering up. Obviously I want it to live up to expectations, because eventually, it won't be a dream anymore, but a memory.
I mentioned to my Dad the other day how much it would likely cost, and I think he nearly died on the spot. Weddings are not cheap these days! And again in doing film, I've learnt how to stretch money. So I guess we'll see there - but until I can get some 'funding' for this 'project', I'm really frustrated and stuck. I can't book a date at the church without a large downpayment, which means I can't start booking anything else at all. I risk losing a good date. All I can do at this stage is plan, design, and buy small things that I can afford by myself.
For example, I'm starting by making a ring box and ring pillow, as well as those decorative rings to go around wine glasses. Once the supplies I've ordered arrive, I can get my craft on and hope for the best. I've bought a beautiful brooch to pin to my non-existant wedding dress. I've decided to make all the favours, invitations, table decorations, pew decorations, name cards, and possibly my bouquet and the bridesmaids' bouquets. If I have a flower girl, I'll make her basket. I am way, way too excited about making all these things. Every time I finish something, I'll put a picture up. I really want to make more of a Vlog for the wedding planning process.
People get terrified and stressed about planning weddings, I'm not worried, at least not at this stage, except for getting enough money together to pay for everything. But I want to make a Vlog because I'm basically doing everything myself. Which is fine. I can totally do that. Sure. Again, it can't be as hard as planning a film shoot. But it should be be an interesting process to watch.
To finish up, here's the first picture my fiancé and I ever took together, rather classily taken with a phone in a bathroom mirror at a party while pretty drunk. It's still my favourite. So yeah, keep watching. x
Saturday, 1 February 2014
Eating & Exercise
A few people have asked me lately to elaborate on my diet and exercise, so I thought I would. I guess the thing is that I have only started this a few weeks ago, and I haven't yet discovered how well it's going to work! So far so good though I think, like I said, I've lost 3kg this month and have been eating the greasiest food imaginable.
I've just put together all the things I know that genuinely work to help lose weight. Like it or not, it comes down to what we've all been told a thousand times: diet and exercise. There is no "secret" to weight loss, and it isn't easy.
1) Burn more calories than you eat in a day. One uses energy doing usual things, but doing actual exercise i.e. at the gym, an enjoyable sport, walking or running, etc. is a good way to know you've achieved something. I visit the gym most days and do about 40 minutes of cardio (burning roughly 400 cals) and maybe 30 minutes of weights. I've also started Zumba, there are free videos on YouTube. Doing 20 mins of Zumba in the morning is actually pretty fun.
2) Discover how many calories you should have each day. I can have 2,000 to be healthy, but to lose weight, I can consume only 1,200. I used an online calculator to find this out. I also joined LiveStrong.com which is a useful way to track how many calories you're consuming.
3) Having muscle helps your body burn calories. I do weights at the gym, machines not free weights, which hurts but is worth doing. People, mostly women, worry that if they do weights it'll make them look bulkier, this is absolutely not true.
4) You don't have to starve yourself, but you do have to feel hungry. I figure it's more how much you eat, rather than what. Obviously unhealthy junk food is a No but you can eat other stuff you like as long as you don't eat big amounts of it. A small calorie limit means you do spend much of the day feeling hungry, but really there are worse ways to feel.
5) Focus more on being healthy than thin. If you eat healthy food and learn more about what you can do to improve your health, the rest will take care of itself. I consider what is in everything I'm eating and what the benefits are, such as antioxidants, things to benefit the liver or kidneys or skin and so on.
6) Remove starch. Not eating starch all the time is a great way to help lose weight, so remove pasta, rice, potatoes, and bread from your diet, even for a few months.
7) Water. I find it's a bit yuck to pour water from the tap and drink it at tap temperature, so I bottle and refrigerate it and just drink that throughout the day. Water also helps one feel less hungry.
Basically all of the above are the things I have learnt, and am applying to my lifestyle every day. It all makes sense, right? I believe in being healthy and good to yourself. My diet every day currently consists of bacon and eggs for breakfast fried in extra-virgin olive oil, sometimes with mushrooms. I put on a lot of olive oil because it is unbelievably good for you. It has numerous health benefits as well as being great for skin. The best part of this meal is that the oil now tastes like bacon *thumbs up*.
I haven't been taking lunch, but I'll have a small supper of either fish and steamed vegetables, or avocado on wholegrain Ryvita, or yoghurt with fruit and nuts. I've been drinking 2-3 litres of water each day too as well as green tea. I drink a lot of ordinary tea during the day too which isn't going to change for any reason, the caffeine keeps my face off the floor. So it's a small amount of food, but it's all yummy things that I like!
Anyway, I have to go to work now but I hope I've managed to help at least one person out with their New Year's resolution or something :p Take care now, bye bye then. xox
I've just put together all the things I know that genuinely work to help lose weight. Like it or not, it comes down to what we've all been told a thousand times: diet and exercise. There is no "secret" to weight loss, and it isn't easy.
1) Burn more calories than you eat in a day. One uses energy doing usual things, but doing actual exercise i.e. at the gym, an enjoyable sport, walking or running, etc. is a good way to know you've achieved something. I visit the gym most days and do about 40 minutes of cardio (burning roughly 400 cals) and maybe 30 minutes of weights. I've also started Zumba, there are free videos on YouTube. Doing 20 mins of Zumba in the morning is actually pretty fun.
2) Discover how many calories you should have each day. I can have 2,000 to be healthy, but to lose weight, I can consume only 1,200. I used an online calculator to find this out. I also joined LiveStrong.com which is a useful way to track how many calories you're consuming.
3) Having muscle helps your body burn calories. I do weights at the gym, machines not free weights, which hurts but is worth doing. People, mostly women, worry that if they do weights it'll make them look bulkier, this is absolutely not true.
4) You don't have to starve yourself, but you do have to feel hungry. I figure it's more how much you eat, rather than what. Obviously unhealthy junk food is a No but you can eat other stuff you like as long as you don't eat big amounts of it. A small calorie limit means you do spend much of the day feeling hungry, but really there are worse ways to feel.
5) Focus more on being healthy than thin. If you eat healthy food and learn more about what you can do to improve your health, the rest will take care of itself. I consider what is in everything I'm eating and what the benefits are, such as antioxidants, things to benefit the liver or kidneys or skin and so on.
6) Remove starch. Not eating starch all the time is a great way to help lose weight, so remove pasta, rice, potatoes, and bread from your diet, even for a few months.
7) Water. I find it's a bit yuck to pour water from the tap and drink it at tap temperature, so I bottle and refrigerate it and just drink that throughout the day. Water also helps one feel less hungry.
Basically all of the above are the things I have learnt, and am applying to my lifestyle every day. It all makes sense, right? I believe in being healthy and good to yourself. My diet every day currently consists of bacon and eggs for breakfast fried in extra-virgin olive oil, sometimes with mushrooms. I put on a lot of olive oil because it is unbelievably good for you. It has numerous health benefits as well as being great for skin. The best part of this meal is that the oil now tastes like bacon *thumbs up*.
I haven't been taking lunch, but I'll have a small supper of either fish and steamed vegetables, or avocado on wholegrain Ryvita, or yoghurt with fruit and nuts. I've been drinking 2-3 litres of water each day too as well as green tea. I drink a lot of ordinary tea during the day too which isn't going to change for any reason, the caffeine keeps my face off the floor. So it's a small amount of food, but it's all yummy things that I like!
Anyway, I have to go to work now but I hope I've managed to help at least one person out with their New Year's resolution or something :p Take care now, bye bye then. xox
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