Just a sneak peek of my Leaver's Ball dress. Need to get it finished by Tuesday. Very excited about getting ready more than the actual event, but thats how I always feel!

The reason I haven't posted anything in the last week or so is due to a looming deadline. The project is for Textiles and the theme is Culture and Tradition. I still need to work on the sketchbook, but this week was the "exam" where we had 15 hours to make our final outcome.

I chose to make a skirt which I drafted the pattern for myself and I've actually quite pleased with it. I did make a toile which does fit me but I have no idea if the actual skirt does. I'm not really bothered if it does or not since that's just another stress I chose to ignore. And bear in mind that this skirt is not something that I would wear outside of school and there was only enough time to take poor quality photographs with my iPod.

I've been trying to not spend money recently and I'm desperate to go shopping so I thought making a few  bracelets might help solve this problem. I've seen variations of these bracelets around so I thought why not make myself some.

I used bits and pieces I already had, so yay for free stuff! The watering can and the floral star were from my mum's broken jewellery collection and the blue stone was from a market in France somewhere. Avignon perhaps? The cream chain was leftover from the beads used to make my last project. I don't expect them to last long since the original necklace was so cheap.