Le Bonjour

Hey folkseseses. Make Lovely will be back in the next few months, but for the meantime I am posting frequently enough at my other blog (why would anyone have two blogs I hear you say…shhhh….shhh…..), Magpeye.

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I’ve been messing around in Photoshop relaxedly and these came out -

Gonna be lots more of these in the next while, maybe Tumblr would be better.

Bedclothes

I have this inner hankering to design bedclothes and soft furnishings.
Maybe i’ll set up some templates and go nuts next week, sure fuckit, why not.
Any recommendations for kick ass bedclothes / interiors / soft furnishing / fabric / pattern designers, get in touch!

First very very very rough attempt at something along the lines of what i’d like on my bed!!

Teamed with some mad bright flat sheet, and a plain massive triangle pillow in the middle!!

Zorbcomb

Been playing around in Illustrator. This pattern happened by accident. By no means incredible but interesting none the less, reminds me of zorbing and honeycomb…at night….forever inside us.

OMG, Shoes

Was clearing up some debris from a recent shopping adventure, and stopped to consider the charm of these bags. The illustrations are actually beautiful. These are the kinds of items I really enjoy in day to day life. They make me think that someone actually owns and cares for this shop and then I wonder who had the job of designing this. <3

They remind me of the past, and I kind of forgot they existed until I stopped upon these and had a good look. I also quite liked them because they reminded me of Seb’s bag project from second year

Tags: collected, downpatrick, gathered, lovely, travels

Drive

I am finally getting my ass in gear (ho ho) and learning how to drive.

Totally hellbent on getting a shit hot vintage mini, and ain’t gonna settle for anything less.
Total drool machines so they are!! I am not too keen on the new ones, I find they are too clean cut and streamlined and are lacking loads of the character that I love about the old ones. So there ya have it. This time next year, i’ll be well settled with my vintage ride of a car and will be out on the road enjoying the car so much!

So weird because I didn’t know this, but when I was telling my mum i’d love a mini she was like, that’s funny, I used to have a mini too. Turns out her mum had one too! Feckin gas.

My mum had one in this colour. Totally love it. Classy or what?

Zjoooom. Love the style of this one, the lights on the front are totally epic. Wish my mums memory was better she like squints at something at says “that’s the one!” to like 3 different types. I want to know EXACTLY which one she had!!!

Total. Drool. Oh dear jeebus these actually excite me so freaking much.

I want either the creamy white / or one of the more unusual light pastel teal coloured ones. (as pictured). I was considering the black, but they are too common for my liking. The light blue one here is pretty much, insanely perfect.

I was trying to figure out why I love mini’s so much and I came to these conclusions:

The woman Cathy that used to mind me when I was really small had a mini. I only remembered this when I saw her son, who is now my age, driving a totally sexy red mini, and I suddenly remembered that his mum had one and I used to see her driving around in it when I was younger. She lived right beside my old school so I don’t think I was in it much as we would have walked home, but then I remembered that they moved to near where I do and I can recall seeing her around a fair bit a good many years ago, and gazing at the mini and really appreciating it. I can’t remember what colour it was, but for some reason I think it was blue!

There is another woman who lives locally, who I used to think was a witch. She always said hi to me by my name and I never knew how she knew it. It freaked me out and I thought she was really magical when I was little (She has that look about her). She also drove (and still drives) a Black mini, that I totally drool at every time she drives past.

My uncle used to have a vintage car in his drive way for years and years when I was younger. It was in ok condition to begin with, and then it gradually just got worse and worse. I remember sitting in it when I was extremely young, and i’m not sure how because I then just remember it being a total rustbucket. I really loved that car it was such a magical place to hang out

And then my dad, and his love of cars comes into play. He had a yellow MG when he was a wee whippersnapper. I totally love the look of it and always remember him talking of it with great fondness. I have a photo of him standing beside it … and it is totally my fave photo ever.

I have a feeling someone else had a mini that was close to me or my family. I am gonna keep trying to find out. I love figuring out why I like the things I do. “Is that weird?”

ON THE ROAD
V IS FOR VICI

Already on the road in my mind! <3

[Edit]
I have just remembered about Mr. Bean and his lovely yellow mini! How could I forget!

[Double Edit] And of course the lovely Sarah Verso and her green beaut of a mini that she drove us up to Monaghan in some years ago! <3

Two Ducks, 22

I got my Thesis finished, bound, and submitted… and that sounds far kinkier than it actually is.

Ready to Unfold

Bon Voyage, Lisa <3

Kabloom

Was thinking about art yesterday and realised I hadn’t drawn or painted anything in ages. Just grabbed the notebook and a drawer from my art supplies …drawers things, and this is what came out! The colours are interesting, I like that I used some paint with it. Found out that loads of my acrylic paints from my portfolio days have dried up, they musn’t have been closed properly! Oops Lesson there perhaps to take better care of my things! (Stephen probably nodding along here lol).
So I was listening to Kate Bush when I started this piece, and when I finished, I was blasting Tool, singing along like the oul days. Was fab. Totally love them, and haven’t listened to in ages and ages. I find that happens alot when arting, it’s like a gateway inside and it heals things without even trying to and I always feel better when it’s over. Tool constantly surprise me, I might think i’ve gone off them but then I will hear them some time later and they will blow my mind all over again. Their lyrics are multifaceted, mean so many different things at different times and are just perfect.

Anywho, I have decided to re-open the blog, and you can expect lots of updates in the next week or two as I play catch up!!!
Hope you like the vid etc, I have made a pact to do more art again as I actually truly love it and miss it in my life!

Cosmic Love

I put the shots of my A3 notebook to music last night – a song i’m totally loving right now… funny because everyone’s probably tired of Florence and the Machine at this stage.. I just never bothered listening to her that much when she was fresh on the scene.
You can watch it here!
It only really serves well as a zoomed out overview as you obviously can’t see too much detail when it is photographed at is full width like this! I think there will be a new video soon of lots of the little details, as this is where god is apparently! Or the devil, like yer man says!