48 Hours of Fashion Show!

Wow Wow Wow!! I have had the most AMAZING day today!! It has been planned for about a month now that my course would be taking part in the 48 hours of fashion.

Me being me had decided to create my white out project to only fit me so I had to model for myself (not that I mind! I LOVE that sort of thing!) and I loved it so much!!

We had everything white. White Eyes, White Nails, White Trainers, White Bottoms and of course out White Re-vamped Shirt. I will have to admit that when I first saw myself with out the rest of my outfit on I wanted to laugh my head off, I looked so so so funny but then so did everyone else, but when we were all in out outfits and all standing together, all that I can say is WOW!!

So here are some pictures of me and I'm hoping I will get the video for it very very soon!!!

so this is what my make up looked like, slightly scary right?! But it did look really good!

And this is me walking in the show!

I had so much fun and it was such a great experience! I loved every minuet and I can not believe that was my first catwalk where 1. I walked and 2. My own garment was shown on it!! Ekkkkk!.

The Elite - Kiera Cass

So as a 'Get Well Soon' present, my mummy got me The Elite to read while I was bed bound and as I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this novel i have somehow managed to read it in two days because I am so so greedy! But it is amazing and boy will you NOT be disappointed in any way shape or form!

This book starts with a BANG on the first sentence never mind the first chapter!

"The Angeles air was quiet and for a while I lay still, listening to the sound of Maxon's breathing."

I mean Hello book two or what!!! I knew it was going to be good by the first chapter. Actually forget that! I knew it was going to be Awesome when I finished the first book and I have been DYING to grab hold of this beauty!!

This time round, I feel as though Kiera Cass has really got the reader involved by the way she has told this story. I mean I am a very visual person as it is due to the whole arts that I am into and I can picture things really easily but I must admit that I let my mind wander and I make my make believe world so extravagant but hey we don't want to know that we need to know about this book!

I think have way through this book where Marlee and her lover get punished I was so emotional, I felt sick due to what I was picturing, it was so vivid and I was so upset due to the emotions that America had that I was swelling up and then a Chapter later I really really really wanted to just punch Celeste in the face! Which thankfully Miss Cass made America do.... Violence is not the way but.... Celeste needed to be put in her place and a good slap was necessary!!  

I love the way that Kiera Cass has written her novels, they are so beautifully put together and the description in each sentence, the whole wording in this novel is magnificent and if you want a brilliant read then you need to get these books! I can not even put to words how gripping and exciting this book is! 

The adventure really has continued and their is romance, betrayal, trust issues and a complicated yet unknown love triangle going on so if you have nothing to do and you want to go and exercises your imagination get to your nearest book store or go on amazon! 

You will not regret it and that is a promise!!

If you have not read Keira Cass' previous book and you want to know how the series began go to this link here on my blog!!

Also if you are interested at all, visit Miss Cass' website! CLICK NOW!

Oh and please tell me what you are thinking on the novel of this book and tell me if you love it as much as me and what your favorite part is!!

Oh and like I said last time!! I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT BOOK!!!!

Happy Reading!

Loads of Love

Melanie Katelin 

xoxo

Bloglovin' Review

So the other day I posted about how I was signing up to Bloglovin, just to see what it is and how it works and I absolutely LOVE it! So here's my little review.....

So this is what bloglovin' looks like before you sign in, if you just want to have a quick look, you can have a look at the top posts and see whether this is a site you would like to join.

Bloglovin'

  

So once you have logged in, you can see that you have your following posts that you have not seen right at your fingertips which is truly brilliant, especially if you’re busy and out and about it is a blessing in disguise! They are ALL at your fingertips and you can find new fun and interesting blogs!

Bloglovin'

 So these are the options that bloglovin' gives you. If you’re completely new to blogging, or just want to know some really cool blogs then this is the place to be!

You can like posts that you want to keep to refer to which I have done and I love this fact, you can see the MOST popular posts that other users have liked and then the most interesting one is Top Blogs which allows to see the best bloggers and I love it! It's the whole of the blogosphere in one place...

It's a fun place to go and network and just to find some amazing post and interesting things!!

Go Go Go Go Go Go Goooo!! 

www.bloglovin.com

Shoes Shoes Shoes!!

Okay now I have a serious love for shoes, I LOVE THEM more than any other item of clothing, I love how shoes can simply change the way that you are feeling and how they can make you the most confident person in the world by just placing them onto your feet. 

Even more importantly, Shoes are the main referance in films, No matter what you always notice peoples feet. In Cinderella she looses her shoes, there is obviously the film In Her Shoes which has the most amazing closet full of shoes! DREAM! Then lets not forget Gossip Girl, now some of the shoes in that TV show are AMAZING!! There is The Women where the whole of the opening credit ONLY shows SHOES! The Devil Wear Parada, Do I need to go on?

SHOES SHOES SHOES SHOES!!

unfortunately you only have one pair of feet but hey you have a WHOLE life time and that's a WHOLE lot of days!!

So anyways I was just having a little read of the news and I just saw these shoes, I haven't even read the story yet but WOW WOW WOW!! BEAUTIFUL! Oh and they are they are the WORLDS MOST expensive shoes.

Just look at them though! 

These Stunning shoes cost a whopping £276,000! WHAT! CRAZY! But its understandable. This single pair of shoes took Kathryn Wilson over 50 hours to create and thats just over two days WITHOUT sleep! But if she made them from 9-5 it would have taken her over 6 days!

As you can see in the image above she had to attatch each diamond by hand and the end result is so breathtaking that you don't know what to say! I'm pretty sure that at some point during this project she was probably like why on earth did I even consider doing thing?! This is purely due to the fact that this is exactly what I say to myself when I decided to do a project that your then getting ready to cry over! But look at that end result, that dedication DEFINATELY paid off and they are AMAZING!!

They look like a Cinderella shoe, I know that her's were made of glass, but I'm pretty sure that diamonds attatched to some really nice shoes to made them even nicer comes TOTALLY close!! Their are Swirls of Diamonds, Lace, Beads I'm quite sure that EVERYTHING white and shiny and beautiful imaginable is on this shoe!!

And to continue with the Cinderella Shoes, I give you the one and only Christian Louboutin...

And how beautiful are these?! WOW, just WOW!! And I mean being able to see the red sole just makes it that much more magical. Look at the way that they sparkle, I'm pretty sure that they come as close as they can to Cinderella slippers I mean even Disney created an advert with one of his creations.

Oh and if that is not enough then why not feast your eyes on these Solid Gold and Diamond badboys!!

These spectacular heels were create by Christopher Michael Shellis and I think that they speak for them selves

So Goodbye and thank you for reading

Melanie Katelin
xo

 

CAD - Day 2

Ooooo Look at what I have just done!!! Looks so professional don't you think?

I'm having so much fun doing CAD!

CAD - day 1 outcome

So these are the shorts that I made yesterday that I was telling you about.

I'm so pleased with the outcome and today I will be starting on my FMP and making my designs into CAD format which I will write all about later.

Melanie Katelin

xo

Boooo Hooooo!!

Boo Hoo Hoo Hoo :'(

I am so upset right now, I have not had the chance to read any books (that are not factual or picture books) since the start of my FMP I have just been so busy! The worst thing is that I have the second book for beautiful creatures waiting for me upstairs in my book case but I haven't managed to find the time or brain space to start it! My aim for my one week of Easter break is to start and finish this book! I adored the first and I know I will the second its just needing the time!

I also have not even finished my 6 Gossip Girl box sets and I'm still stuck on Season 5 Disc 2 which means I am going NO WHERE! However, I have watched the whole of Season 1 of Game of Thrones which is absolutely fantastic and why have I only just started watching it?! Am I CRAZY?! So this Easter I am going to completely STUFF my face with chocolate in bed with a good book/TV show/laptop/ depressingly Sketchbook :'( But This is the MOST important part of my LIFE right now! with out these grades, I AM NOT GOING TO UNI!! SO I need to STOP with my moaning and pull my finger out and great the BEST collection that I could ever imagine!!

I will keep you updated on everything and hopefully there will be a review of a book on here soon!!!

Chatsworth House Trip

Ok this is real late! On Thursday 21st March, I travelled to Chatsworth House with my friend from college so that we could get some primary research for our FMP. Now I have been here before but I was a lot younger and I couldn't quite remember it. But WOW!! I think that this trip was the best that I have done!!

It took us 3-4 hours to get around the whole house as we took so long drawing and taking pictures and just simply looking around but I have NEVER seen so much gold on one building apart from Buckingham Palace but that is the Queen's home!!!

We went through the main entrance and into the hall with the staircase which was just breath taking!! I spent a good 40mins drawing just the golden stair case. The amount of detail on it and the carpet that leads up to another staircase is ridiculously beautiful! I loved it and the whole room was one big mural! and the celling! just WOW! Also just to add note my sketchbook page from this room was AMAZING, best one of the day and I will another day do a sketchbook review.

<<<  To the left is the detailing of the golden staircase, I loved the swirls on each motif that ran along the stairs. I think that when you see detailing up so close, pictures can not do it justice especially not with this house! If you look closely at my picture, you will be able to make out the leaves that are coming off of the swirls and you can not notice how thick it is! 

>>>  To the right their is an image of the whole of the staircase and you can almost see what I mean about the detailing of the carpet. It was so thick and the colours were so vivid. Also in this image you can see how much gold their really is!!

After this room, we entered the drawing room I believe which was covered entirely of gold! It was EVERYWHERE. It had two silk covered thrones, two marble tables, lots of paintings and a really cool door with a painting of a violin on a door which looked like another door and I am going to have to put a picture up otherwise I can not explain my self! 

In this picture unfortunately you can not see it quite as clearly and it certainly does not do that door/painting justice. I didn't even realise that it wasn't real it was so good! it does just look like there is a violin casually hanging there!

Also from this picture you can tell what I mean by it is a golden room! The whole room is like this, gold everywhere you look it is pretty incredible.

Adjacent to this room is the King's Quarters I believe it was called, and this room was so rice in red and gold and blue. I also found out some rather cool facts about this room which I shall tell you all about. In this room I mainly concentrated on looking at colour and pattern.

This picture is not to the best quality, but this is because the room was so dark as they were not allowed to have the curtains open as this room is so old and precious that the sun would damage everything inside.

*Cool Facts*

 - The Duke paid £100 for a china vase which would have been filled with tulips to to remove any bad odours. Also this was in the days when £1 was your annual wage!!

- The Duke was NOT allowed to stay in this room as he was not from a high enough class and only the King was allowed in this room.

- King Richard did NOT like this room and the second time he came to visit, he asked to be moved room.

- As the Duchess of Devonshire (I am unsure which one) was the lady in waiting for a Queen, when she died, she took the Queens dressing table with her.

We also saw one of the most iconic painting of Georgina the Duchess of Devonshire and may others, but I was mainly interested in Georgina as I watched The Duchess the other night and I loved it and then I had to Google her (good old Mr Google knowing EVERYTHING! What would my life be with out him?!) and I fell in love with the story and I have found out that their is a biography about her which I have to go and buy!!

....ANYWAYS.... Did you know, that this was only one of many homes for the 5th Duke and Duchess of Devonshire? Although I was told that they visited Chatsworth often. 

Also which is pretty awesome is the fact that the current Duke and Duchess of Devonshire allow the public to look into their private quarter and into their rather impressive library which I would die to spend just a few hours in! The books are so old and I bet they have so may secrets would be quite fun to read even if I wouldn't be able to understand their English/writing! Also the Duke is often seen as he regularly holds meetings in his library and he sometimes goes for a casual chat with people.

Now this was probably my favourite room purely due to the bath in the room, I mean this is where the terms En-Suite began! 

I love how its casually chilling in the wardrobe! could you imagine,

"Darling I'm just jumping into our wardrobe, don't mind me, I'm feeling like a dip in our rather modern bath!"

hahahahahaha

I LOVE IT! haha plus all the trimmings on the door are of gold and their is a mirror chilling in and out of the doors so you can have a little peak at how clean you look, oooo Darling hehe

*FACT MOMENT*

Did you know that the reason the bath is put inside the wardrobe is due to the fact that they did not find it proper for their washing area to be on display. 

Oh what I would do to live in those eras for just a month, not being greedy although I would like to have experienced it as a Duchess or Queen.

So this is the fun adventures that I underwent in Chatsworth House.

Do go its amazing fun although I must admit it is much more fun with your friend and sketchbook because due to the fact that you have to analysis it sooooo much you end up making really random stories and imagining the people who once lived there. Well my friend and I did anyway hehe

And for the Grand Finale, Chatsworth House

P.S. HELLO PINK VASE!!!! This was probably the highlight of my trip as Pink is my favourite colour in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD and look and that vase! Beautiful, Stunning, Spectacular!!

Cinema :)

This weekend has been SO much FUN!!

I went to the cinema on Saturday to watch Wreck It Ralph with my mother and brother and I must admit that I loved it more than a 5 year old and I really really want to watch it again. This film has such a beautiful message behind it that tells you that you can only be the best version of yourself and that being you is perfectly fine no matter whether your the bad guy or not!

I think that this animation is fun, funny and fabulous! (what can I say I do love a little bit of alliteration! hehe)

I'd go for sure whether you have a brother or not and hey if your embarrassed to go by yourself borrow a little brother or sister for a few hours! They will love it, you will love it and the parents will love you!

I have also just arrived from the cinema after going to watch Oz the Great and Powerful, which was just fun all round although slightly sad at parts. The special effects on this film is ridiculously amazing, if their were plants made out of emeralds and rubies I would LOVE to say hi!! and I would love to rid in a big bubble, that would be pretty amazing!!

I found it quite sad the way that Theodora (Mila Kunis) became the green evil witch as she only wanted peace and for everyone in Oz to live in harmony, however her evil sister made the dark side of her stronger than the light and she eventually gave in, so sad!

And in the end Oz found his true calling and stopped being selfish and helped other people for once!

SUCH good films go and watch them, I loved them and maybe you will too

Hope you've had a good weekend too,
Love
Melanie xoxo

This Week: FMP

Wednesday 6th March ( I know its not this week!)

I went into college today to decide what I will do as my Final Major Project Topic. I sat with my tutor and unfortunately it was not easy to decide which was best suited for me, therefore I did more research and decided that I would be able to find more resources and information about the Tudors and that I would more than likely prefer this topic idea. When I was younger I loved loved loved Queen Elizabeth 1 and the stories of Henry VIII and his six wives, so in a way it is really fun and exciting to bring my childhood memories into this project.

Monday 11th March

So so so ill! I spent today just sleeping and got nothing done at all! Such a shame.

Tuesday 12th March

I went into college for 1 hour to speak to my tutor and then came home and drew from Elizabeth: The Golden Age. I managed to get a lot of information from this film and some really nice sketchbook pages that I have taken a lot of time over (I was told to slow down and take more care!) and I believe that it has really paid off.

Wednesday 13th March

I went to London today with my friend Megan, it was really fun and we found a lot of primary research with is AMAZING!!

We went to the Victoria and Albert Museum where we went to see the Treasures of the Royal Courts exhibition which I found rather disappointing and although this is mainly due to the fact that I was not allowed to spend time in the room and draw from the exhibition and also because I had personally thought that there were going to be crowns and jewels, however I did see Henry VIII's Armour which was pretty cool! (boy was he fat by the way! and short, haha).

After the exhibition we went to the Fashion area of the museum which was so much fun we spent 2 hours in about a quarter of the room! hahaha so bad but the garments were beautiful! There was one which I loved from 1755-60 which was the Court Mantua (imaged below) which was so beautiful and detailed and I think I spent a whole hour just studying this garment!

I also really liked the menswear from around about 1790 and their bows! LOVED THE BOWS!  (pictured below)

Afterwards we went to the Natural History Museum across the road and saw the dinosaurs purely for fun and went to see all the stuffed animals which was research before heading over to Somerset House.

Now I was really disappointed by Somerset House when I read the website it has a whole section called 'The Tudor Palace' which I read and found out that Princess Elizabeth 1 lived there when she was younger and I assumed that the would be rooms set up in that sort of style. I got told that there were two but you had to book to see them! :( But on the plus side there was a Wool House Exhibition which was fantastic and really interesting! Loved all the rooms and the colab with Alexander McQueen for a beautiful wall hanging!

18th Century Fashion V&A

18th Century Fashion V&A

Thursday 14th March

I drew from Elizabeth: The Golden Age (finished the film off) and The Other Boleyn Girl.

Friday 15th March

I was going to go to Wollaton Hall, however my tutor said it would be nice if I did some secondary research. So I went to the library got loads of magazines and Tudor fashion and history books which are at home right now!! I also did a few sketchbook pages and came up with the title for my FMP (what do you think)

Divorced Beheaded Died Divorced Beheaded Survived

Simple and rather long but it rhymes and I think is quite catchy and it just fits in with the whole era.

Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures - Review.

I wanted to wait before I wrote a post about the book as I wanted to watch the film too so that I could basically give my views on both of them as a whole and I'm so glad that I have.

The Book.

I was completely gripped with the book by the first 15 pages. This book took me 4 days to read and I went to see the film yesterday and on Waterstone's buy one get one half price, I brought the next two! hehe

The book is so much fun, I was there almost shouting to tell Ethan (male character) what to do! I just wanted it to work out! The end (which I will not tell, read it yourself!) was so sad that I think I may have shed a tear or two! 

The writers have really made this book so detailed and descriptive and plan beautiful, it is such a good read so if you’re bored or don't really have anything to do go read this book, you will not be disappointed and before you say I've seen the film, think again!

The Book

The Film.

Wow it was good, like real good! The only bad and annoying thing for me was mainly Ethan's accent, not what I had pictured when I was reading the book! 

The film was as good as the book and this is purely because I saw something different, admittedly I did compare it to the book and when the beginning was not the same as the book I was like NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! But the more it got into it, the more I realised that it was all slightly different, the ending ended in a WHOLE new way and the library was very different to how it was written. 

BUT... BUT...

It was still as good as the book due to the difference it had, it created a whole new way of seeing it, it did bring things to life that you hadn't thought of before, and it was still a sad ending!  

Watch it, it's not like any other supernatural film that I have seen and it is so good but if you watch the film you HAVE to read the book to!

  

    

Catching Fire!!!

WOOOOOO!! For any major Hunger Games fan today is seriously exciting!!!!

Some official posters have been released. Wooooop!! Excited or what?!

Ok so I'm the nerd that litterally read all the books in 4weeks or less I can't quite remember now, but I am a HUGE fan! To be fair though I tend to love books and films so its sort of my excuse to do nothing but create my own little world or chill in bed with the TV on and do not tell me you have not done this!!

Anyways, Catching Fire brings so much excitement, more games, love, scheming, CAN NOT WAIT!! If you have not read the books and are only going to watch the films then you are seriously missing out.
Why?
Well your missing out on picturing the scenes and characters in you own way, and it is so much more detailed and you feel the emotions so much more as you see everything as though you are Katniss. Everyone's different but that's the way that I see it.

Below are a few posters that I have found and they are all making me SUPER excited! LOVE IT!! The costumes and the special effects for this film are going to be out of this world! I also know that my expectations from the book will be meet as The Hunger Games book 1 and film were so similar and the cast and crew and producers really brought my little world and of course the vision and world that Suzanne Collins managed to create! Amazing.

Wow Wow Wow! Jennifer Lawrence looks AMAZ

SO SO CUTE!

I can not wait for this scene! The special effects are going to be pretty amazing!