FINAL POST

Best feeling EVER handing in!! Absolutely knackered now, my brain cant even function properly. Had one hours sleep last night from the time of 5am til 6am. Went for breakfast after with everyone, and only just woken up now after coming home and completely passing out fully clothed! AND everyone is going out again tonight drinking…don’t know if I can manage it!

To be honest I was quite disappointed with what I handed in, as I left so much to the last minute…..and seeing the amount of work some other people had done was pretty depressing…cant believe we have to wait to the end of june to get our marks.. Not looking forward to that…

Uh Oh..

This has got to be the worst weekend OF MY LIFE!!! For the past week I have been getting up at 5.45am every morning and going to bed about 2am. My whole body is so so so exhausted, I feel mentally and physically drained : ( I have drunk so much red bull this week I think I am getting heart palpitations!

The list today looks like this:

- Finish design sheets
- Finish range plan – pricing and heel heights
- Finish spec. sheets
- Put together concept bord
- Mount photographs
- More sketchbook pages!
- LABEL EVERYTHING
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Luckily I have my trusty little helper Aaron, gluing and sticking things together for me which is saving me lots of time! Need to go to get on!!

Also forgot to say about Zara calling me (and Sam) up and asking to interview us on skype, had mine on Friday at 9 am! Probably could not have come at a worse time!! But I think it went well as they asked us both to do miniature projects for them, but said in like a week to send it! AS IF I HAVENT GOT ENOUGH TO DO!!I guess it’s an amazing opportunity, but not to sound ungrateful, doing another shoe project after handing this in, is literally the last thing I want to do!!

Oh Em Gee..

Cant believe we only have 6 days left eeeeeeeeeek!!! Not even funny how much work I still have to do. Made a list earlier and it made me want to cry. Went into uni today and finished off the socks and got to mess about with the heat foiling machine up in accessories which was fun. Also had to finish making the samples box as it needed some bits of wood screwed onto the underside of the removable wooden parts. Didn’t take too long, but now I have to finish them off at home, as I still have to mount all the samples and attach them onto strips of canvas and THEN screw them into the wood. Its going to take forever and I don’t even know if it will get me any more marks!!

Photoshoot!

Today we did the photoshooooot! We being, my older sister and her boyfriend Chris. Chris was doing the photography and my sister was in charge of holding the mirror and reflecting the light, I was the foot model… We were so lucky with the light, went to Southbank at 8am this morning and it was really sunny and bright, but just as we were finishing a couple of hours later it had become really cloudy and threatening to rain, so im glad I made them get up early to do it! I owe them dinner now though! Had a quick look at the pictures, but Chris is going to take them home and edit them and hopefully send me some on Monday or Tuesday! So excited to see the final ones!
I haent quite finished the shoes, I still need to put the insocks in as I didn’t want to have them in for the photoshoot as I didn’t want them to get dirty or damaged.

Still so much to do!

Had such a good couple of weeks, well in social terms! It was my birthday on bank holiday Monday, and obviously ive had so much work to do, I didn’t really want to go out or anything. Went out for lunch and then came home where my boyfriend had arranged a surprise party!! Was so nice of everyone to come even though we have so much work to do! Back in uni on Tuesday and just really wanted to finish everything! My aim was to finish everything by today but unfortunately the soles have been taking longer than expected so now my aim is next Tuesday! Been getting on with design sheets and finishing off range plan, but even though Im quite close to finishing, I still feel like theres so much to do on them! Still not completely happy with my design sheet layout…

Peer Critique

Just got back from Sandra’s, had a really good chat with her about laying out sketchbook. Nice to see how someone else is working, as at uni we don’t really see each others paper work etc. I had tried to do some initial like sketchy drawings to put in, but they didn’t look right. Sandra suggested that I just used the drawings I did for the final shoes, as I never really did much sketching in the beginning, but drew them neatly straight away. It looked better once I ad done that as I wasn’t making things up. Hard to know how much annotation to put in the sketchbook, I cant remember who said it, but a general theory is that if you cant read the page of imagery without words then you’ve done something wrong. The images chosen should be clear to understand how they link in with the rest of the images. Need to do some more experimentation to put in sketchbook.

Repetitive Strain

FINALLY finished my uppers yesterday after having a nightmare stitching in the lining of the ankle boot. George couldn’t believe that I had been stitching the same stay stitches all day!1 Woops!

So now moved downstairs and starting on lasting. Only had to make my insole for my sandal 8 TIMES! Don’t know what was wrong with me but I kept messing it up by bevelling it too much or having cut the insole board in slightly the wrong place…

After all those bloody insoles, me and Darren struggled getting the insole to fit properly. Went for leather insole in the end!

Also spoke to my dad who is coming down this weekend for my sister’s birthday and he’s found me a box! I found these pieces of wood that originally must’ve been part of some kind of photo album box or something in a charity shop a couple of years ago and I’ve always wanted to use them for something. I wanted to use them to display my samples, but didn’t have a box for them. Spoke to my dad and wanted him to make me a box, but we had the issue that we may not be able to make it look aged. Coincidentally though, when he was shopping in Plymouth with my little sister he found the perfect box! In an antique shop, an old scallops box, the PERFECT width of my wooden things!! So happy when he told me! He showed me on skype last night and bringing it with him on Sunday!! Woop woop!!