Barney.

Recent photographs of Barney.

This is basically how he spend his life - trying to seduce you into giving him a belly rub.

Love his little face. So cute. :)

Perry Live, Part 2.

Sorry it's taken so long to post Part 2 of my Katy Perry post. I've been without the Internet for a week. It's been a very dark time...

But I'm back! :D

I used another one of my Katy Perry nail varnishes over the weekend - The One That Got Away.

Definately my favourite so far. It's such a lovely rich pink/ruby colour. So beautiful I didn't want to taint it by using the Black Shatter over the top.

So complete our look for the gig, me and my partner in crime Gatty wore cat ears - Katy Perry calls her fans her Katy Kats.

Gatty went one step further and sported a blue wig, a la...
 

Emma Summerton

Surprisingly, this got us a lot of attention. We were expecting everyone to be dressed up, which they were not.

We were photographed by Capital FM...

And by James Mollison for his Disciples series. Photo-montages that show 'different tribes of people that attended concerts, and how people emulated celebrity to form their identity.'

Madonna fans by James Mollison

I was so excited to be a part of this, as I studied this series while I was at university. And would you believe I was telling Gatty about it on the way to the gig.

I am very proud to call myself a Disciple of Katy Perry. :D

 

I will post the photograph when it's put up.

Perry Live, Part 1.

Remember ages ago when I did a post about Katy Perry?

Emma Summerton

At the end of the post I mentioned I was going to see her live. Well that day finally arrived yesterday!

I've got so much to blog about concerning my day, that I'm going to break it up.

Firstly, there's her nail varnish. Being the dedicated fan I am, I obviously ordered her nail varnish in preparation for the gig.

 

Katy has five colours, created in partnership with OPI. Four are named after songs from her second album - (l-r) Teenage Dream, Not Like The Movies, Last Friday Night and The One That Got Away. The last colour is a top coat called Black Shatter.

I alternated between using Not Like the Movies (top right side) and Last Friday Night (top left side).

They didn't come out as strong as the bottles suggest, but lovely colours none the less. I'm going to experiment with using them as top coats as well.

I then added a coat of Black Shatter over the top.

This top coat is amazing. If you haven't seen it in action, I insist you do so now!

The results the Black Shatter give vary so dramatically depending on how much you use, and the way you use the brush.

As you can see from my two index fingers, very different results.

My friend Gatty used Teenage Dream, with Black Shatter over the top.

I'm looking forwards to wasting many hours playing with these lovely colours.

More Katy Perry posts to follow!

Inspiration.

I've mentioned my Inspiration Folder a few times now, and I thought I'd expand on it a bit more.

It all started when Alastair Strong came into my university and to talk about his work.

Alastair Strong

He gave us a little insight and exaplantion of his Inspiration Folder, encouraging us to start our own.

I started mine immediately and have found it to be a massive help in so many ways ever since.

It's basically a folder on the desktop of my laptop where I save any photographs/artwork/graphics I love.

I name each image with the artists name, or any information I have. I also divide the images up in year folders, which is a great way to detect trends. Organisation is your friend.

So whenever I need some inspiration, to find a image to reference or to collect images for my next blog post, I head to my Inspiration Folder.

If you haven't already got one, start one right now.

And save anything and everything! Even if you're not sure about it. Your tastes may change and that image you once hated, you may end up loving.

As you know, I have an RSS Reader which is where I save most of the images from. I encourage you to get one of these too. So useful!

Hope my advice helps. There's nothing worse than being stuck for inspirarion.

Cats, Part 4.

.I'm always on the lookout for new cat photos (sad, I know...).

So I was delighted when I saw Amanda Seyfried's spread in Elle magazine this April.

Shot by Alexie Hay. I love how grumpy the cat looks in this one. So cute!

Found a few more as well.

Renata Raksha

Roberta Rebori

 

Andrew Smith

Definately making these cat posts a regular thing.

I can't help it. Cute pictures of cats must be shared. :)