Little snippets of *other* old art journal..

My friend let me have the other twin art journal for a while for me to look through and work on...

It's been almost 10years since I've opened this 'P book'! Some art I've forgotten I've put in there...

 My friend Artemesia's fan fic and my illustration on left to go with her story.

 Letter Art by Artemesia, illustration on right by me.

 Traditional pencil work by me.

 Illustration I've done basing on "Moon Child" design..I was heavily into Shimizu Reiko's comic then! lol

 More traditional painting...top right is an envelope.

 Lovely art work and fan fic by Artemesia.

Unfinished comic of 10 pages! lol

It's Christmas related so want to colour this in by the holiday but hmm...it's lot of work! Will see....

Arrival of "the Dress"!



Guess what? The wedding gown I ordered in middle of October arrived other day (only took 3 weeks for tailored dress, very impressed!!) It was a bit of shock really considering I wasn’t expecting it until next month! It was neatly packaged in A3 size courier bag, really full like Christmas roast chicken might look in a bag..lol I’m not sure how they managed to roll it up so small and neat, knowing the size and volume of ball gown style dress! So anyway, it was delivered to my work place and my colleague and I decided to have a sneak peak after lunch break. (we used little sample room to do so, which is only used by our department and away form main office) Well it was very well made and the details were beautiful, little bit on whiter side compare to the Champaign shade ivory I’ve imagined from picture but lovely either way. Of course after I’ve taken out of the plastic bag I couldn’t roll it back in to the little ball so I had to put it in bigger bag to take it back home..

Anyway so I’ve tried it with my beautiful 10cm heels and it was a perfect fit. Except maybe for my bust…little on the loose side without underwear but guess that can be easily fixed with good strapless bra! LOL

This Wonderbra Ultimate Strapless Lace Bra, Ivory is a must have!

(￡28 from Debenhams, free shipping!Also available in black) 

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10001_10001_152010211386_-1

Now my next project is finding a perfect wedding bands..

My wonderful friend who knows my taste so well found this web site and recommended for me…

http://rustjewellery.blogspot.com/

The Rust shop is run by married couple, both jewelry designers. (they also got married this year! Their lovely country theme DIY wedding is featured in their blog…some of their ideas for decoration and entertainments were very inspiring! ) The guy is from Japan and his wife is British, they have store in Tokyo and London. I’m so in love with their gorgeous floral curved/engraved rings!! Their price is very reasonable as well…I wanted gold ring for my wedding band but my fiancé insist that I need to have white gold ring to wear with my engagement ring. I had no idea people wear both rings at once on same finger until recently. I’m not too fussed with material as long as I love the design. I’m definitely going to book for a store visit!

Little snippets of old art journal

Well the last time I went back to my parents place in Japan, I brought back some stuff with me...My old room has been changed long ago, all my books and personal stuff has been either pushed in build-in dresser or just been left where they were and piling dust on…so I figured I should take anything that’s dear to me before they get lost or damaged.
I managed to pack some of my favorite perfumes I had to leave behind when I left for UK and my art materials in my suitcase. Some classic wooden stamp set, my Venetian style glass ink pen, and me and my friend's old art journal call "A" book. Since it's so old and somewhat falling apart, I was little afraid of moving it around. Although the journal ( with all the delicate papers glued on plus paint) was suffering from the poor storage condition and humidity of Japanese weather, I decided to bring it back to UK with me.
As some of you might noticed, this is the journal where half of my arts on Deviant Art Gallery comes from LOL My friend has twin journal call “P” book. Back when we were in high school, we used to swap these two journals every month or so to do few pages of art or story or anything we fancied related to Anne Rice novels and her characters, sometimes we worked on same pages. We eventually fall out of the A.R fandom and when we decided to move on, we both kept one journal each, the one with most art work of our own.
Anyway, so these two journals haven’t been side by side for many years. We lived in different countries for few years after we graduated University but now we both live and work in UK. Apparently she also packed her journal to be shipped to UK the last time she was back in New Zealand. So I’m looking forward to seeing the long lost "other half" of journal again and going through both scrap books together with my friend! Nostalsia of old days...
Story, card and collage by Artemesia

Art by me, poetry by Artemesia


A collaboration work (picture/collage by me, card by Artemesia ...)

Another collaboration work...

Pages added in later years by me...

Illustration by me

Artemesia's art & idea, left half page completed by me in later years..

http://tvcartgallery.blogspot.com/

I've been invited to do a guest blog at the TVC Art Gallery, some of my VC fan arts been featured there. The gallery is full of classical paintings and images mentioned in A.R. book plus some works done by fan artists!

Purple Heaven

So I've been searching/collecting for hair accessories in purple shade for the big day... since my sister chose a bridesmaid dress in purple so is my colour scheme for wedding. lol Apparently purple shade is the IN colour for wedding this year and next year according to bridal magazine. Well, that's good news I guess. I always liked purple...though my favourite is darker shades either blue tinted midnight purple or grape/mauve shade, never really pastel lilac. Although I need to be careful what shade I choose, as my dress is ivory I can't have a accessories that's too dark, need to stay away from any purple with too much black I guess (though I do love black and purple combinations!)




These will definitely look nice with bridesmaid dress! Under fiver from Primark.



Little bundle of lavender/lilac colour roses for my hair, from Antique shop in Angel's market for under fiver. I love the bottle design of this Anna Sui and Lanvin perfume...lavender colour liquid, both smell gorgeous.

Choosing a necklace is a headache as well. I want to stay away from conventional looking white/ivory colour jewellery. Since I'm wearing ivory dress I decided to go with little purple in my accessories for accent. Although anything with purple, either lavender colour freshwater pearl or violet colour gems they can look too pink or too Gothic! After looking around online, local markets, high street shops, nothing really tickled my fancy that within my budget!... for now I'll stick with this modest antique amethyst necklace my mum gave me while ago. It's simple and the colour is not overpowering yet can't be mistaken as pink...

Wedding Venue - Leeds Castle

So here's some of the pics I took when I visited the venue in August...It was a rainy day but still, had so much fun walking around!

This is the view from this lovely cafe/bar on otherside.

Entrance of the Gatehouse, the oldest part of Leeds castle. Great for modest size wedding venue!

Inside is very Medieval style..

Little ceremony room, can have up to 25 guests

Here's the room where we have wedding breakfast...very high ceiling. Will be very pretty once the long dining table is set, all decorated...

Dresses and Shoes!

Well I had to delete my old posts as it was quite embarrassing... not only it was two (yes only two...) most random entries, they were made one in 2009 and other in 2008....!! *dies* Only site I log on frequently now day is Deviant Art and I update my journal every 2month or so ...which is not often. Here I don't have to just write about my art or explain (a.k.a give excuse lol) why I haven't been around to update anything. Think I'll put up pictures of things I found amusing, and arts that's not suited for Deviant site. (scrap materials and experiments!)

Anyhow...long rambling aside.. I've been little obsessed looking around online for things for my wedding next year. It's on end of April so I still have ages. (well maybe not that long if you ask others...) I finally chose my dress and ordered them other day.

After seeing sooo many pictures of dresses online, I just got wedding gown overdose and started to feel bit nauseous looking at it (all those white colour!!)...so I went for the first one I really liked and pressed the button for order. Now at least I don't have to look at anymore dresses! It's done.

I had lot of trouble looking for a perfect shoes to go with it as well. I initially was thinking of getting violet/lavender colour satin shoes since my colour scheme was lavender/gold/olive-green. I figured it could work as accent. Although I soon find out there are so many different shades of purple out there and most of them looked quite cheap...something about the combination of shiny satin material and purple shade...does not complement each other.

In the end I ordered lovely ivory heels with corsage on the side, but had it delivered to a store so I can try it on before I purchase it.
Well as I suspected, the online pic was rather deceiving....they look quite nice from the side but from front, the corsage looks too big and sticks out too much...and white lace was bit old lady-ish. I picked up jewelled ankle cuff heels instead, which I initially thought bit plain compare to the other one...but they were different from the standard wedding shoes, gorgeous when you actually wear them, really accentuates your ankle. I know you can't see the shoes under the dress, but I'll definitely take a shot of heels as part of my wedding photo!

The sweetheart neckline taffeta dress is from Bridal Wedding Gowns.ca -> http://www.bridalweddinggowns.ca/
These lovely bridal Shoes are from Barratts ->http://www.barratts.co.uk/en/womens/wedding-shoes/bridal-shoes/