friday

went to college first off all.. and did a photoshoot with gabby, sequins and a lot of light trails and colour.. but i can't post the pictures since my laptop is still fucked.

after that me and my mam went through to the metro centre. i needed to spend my make up voucher that i got for my birthday in AUGUST. so i had my make up done by this lovely girl at mac.. smokey eyes.. pink lips and cheeks. i really liked it but there's no way i'll be able to recreate that! ahaha.


mam was feeling overly generous today, she offered to make my £25 voucher up to £50! yes i was and still am gobsmacked, so i got some mac powder, blusher, lipstick and eyelashes.

Then I got a muted patterned jersey shirt and a sheer/velvet striped slouchy top from miss selfridges..

some fluffy bed socks and some tights and a big tapestry bag from new look.

i also went to new look for my boots that I'd wanted for ages, the black military boots I posted a few weeks ago.. I found them finally, in my size and everything and I never have before! one problem.. I had one shoe and a chav girl the other foot, and we both wanted them!

we stood there for about twenty minutes seriously hahaha but I gave in in the end.. well my mam did. I could have waited it out until she put it down. I was gutted cause I needed them for work and for Paris but I'll have to find some somewhere else.

we came home after that and tried to sort some stuff out for Disney on wednesday and I got myself a bit stressed out with the computer situation. But never mind!

for i ne'er saw true beauty till this night

woke up and looked at ucas.. still no further forward. my dvd's came though i ordered the truman show, and romeo and juliet the leonardo dicaprio/claire danes version. lovelovelove.

then got up and ready for my driving lesson. i did some manoeuvres and turns in the road.. stalled a bit, but it went alright.

i then came home and watched romeo and juliet whilst slowly getting ready for work.. i then caught the bus through there.. late cause i didn't want to miss the ending where they both die, how morbid of me.


work was alright.. we caught some shoplifters then i was payed a visit my gabrielle, madeline and diane. who also offered me a lift home! gabby drove us home, it was so surreal.. she's such a good driver for having no professional lessons, her parents have taught her well. i'm jealous cause my mam wont take me out. goon.

came home, pissed me mam off in the first five minutes of being home, ate some tea and watched gossip girl straight away :) followed by some of the ema's then desperate housewives.

peek round my room.

i got some new bedding put on today.. so i took a few pictures of my room and some things in it.

here's my photo wall, the majority of these pictures were taken on film.. either disposable cameras or from my canon ae-1 35mm film slr camera. favourite part of my room, but some of my all time favourite pictures that couldn't not be included i got printed out too..

this is my favourite mirror which i bought myself, and my very messy dressing table.. you can very rarely see the surface of it. there's also my little heart blackboard and sparkly heart, which my mam got me as a surprise one day when i felt really down.

close up of the new duvet cover..

behind my door is my bag collection, well some of it... all the others (the big totes and shoppers) are hidden in my wardrobe - to big to hang up. i need to sort this out because my door doesn't open properly anymore. there's also a few thank you cards from people i've done photography jobs for.. weddings/anniversarys/fashion shoots.

here's the main bulk of my wardsrobe.. but the door isn't slid all the way along so there's some more hidden. i need a VERY good sort out cause i don't wear half of it.. i'm obsessed with buying clothes and blowing my payslip every single month.

here's the middle section of my wardrobe where i keep my coats and jackets (yes my wardrobe fills a wall ahaha) but this section has shelves for my college work/books/etc. in the little chest of drawers is lots of arty farty things like glue.. glitter and ribbons.

a close up of my vogue collection, havent missed an issue in almost three years now. another of my favourite parts of my room.


and lastly.. here's a few of my video's and really old cd's on the top shelf of the wardrobe.

that's basically my room.

okay i changed it!

i'm going to take some pictures later to put up today... in one of those moods.

anyway.. here's the sex scene from the gossip girl episode that influenced the name change.
mwahahahaha



cause i'm a right pervert.. kidding, i'm just happy blair and chuck finally got back together.

i've decided to change my blog name on here!

from baby goth girl... to war at the roses.

we're switching from the name of my favourite nail varnish to my favourite gossip girl episode :) but it's still me.

bonfire night

remember remember the 5th of november - bonfire night!

started off the day pretty glum to be honest. since my supposed-to-be-double-exposed prints for photography were, s h i t e. i had nothing to do for the whole two hours. yet somehow, i ended up doing with for three hours instead.

robin's gotten this negative scanner thing.. called an epson perfection ;) which scans in the photo negatives. so basically i cheated the double exposure and just scan two negatives in over the top of each other.. but it is soooooo time consuming.

finally got home to see that my little doggie had a vet collar !!!

it'll come off in a week, it's just to stop him from scratching at an infected bit of skin on the back of his neck.. bless him!

i then did some college work before i got ready to go to the firework display with gabby.

outfit post!
jacket: bershka
top: h&m
jeans: primark
boots: bershka
necklace: vivienne westwood
pearls: home made
rings: camden market

i also redid my nails... sparkly pink under barry m black instant nail effects.


gabs came up mine and we walked down.. i got some candy floss and a hot chocolate, then we waited at the front and i set up my camera + tripod.. we talked to galey for a while and after waiting a bit.. the fireworks began..

they were lush! better than last year by far...
i think i got some okay pictures too :) pretty pleased with the outcome.

here's a few...
you can find the rest at http://sophiexlobban.tumblr.com/fireworks

i came home and decided against going to the pub.. i text sarah and she said it was completely dead. so i did uploaded my firework pictures and cuddles my poorly little doggy. facebooked and helped out a friend with her worries, hopefully i cheered her up. now it's bed time - i'm looking forward to tomorrow night! partypartyparty.

yesterday

missed my bus so i was 15 minutes late for media.

we skived the lesson anyway to go sit in the refectory eating toast and sitting in the library talking about all sorts with abby.

i then got the bus through to the galleries to pick up my prints.. which had finally been done! i failed miserably at double exposures though.. like seriously.




so i got the bus home and cheated some up on photoshop. i had a quick bowl of cereal for dinner and talked to gran for a while.. then got the bus back through to college. for a three hour graphics lesson.



we spent the whole three hours in the library scanning and photocopying stuff for our files.. i bumped into my cousin martin who i haven't seen for like, years. apparently he goes to shiney college on thursdays to learn theory about his job in engineering. it was raining, so he offered me a lift home.




i havent done much tonight, i couldn't be bothered to go to the pub. so i just stayed in and watched celebrity juice with me mam and brother and i also helped dominic with his geography homework. i miss doing geography.. i miss emily, stuart and adam in that class.. and i miss being really good at a subject. i wish i'd taken it at a level.. it was my only A* at gcse.


i apologise, this post is just scattered with my developed film pictures.

http://sophiexlobban.tumblr.com
http://www.flickr.com/slp_/

i want to travel the world. so bad.

matt cardle and manic-ness.

day three, last day
we woke early again, and got ready.. we walked straight to camden town underground and attempted to get to leicester square. in rush hour.

the tubes were completely packed! so me and my dad and brother squeezed ourselves onto the first train whilst gabby, mam, helen, lewis and gary got on the second.

look it is confusing ahahah...

little did we know that our first train turn off the wrong way, and headed for angel instead of leicester square. anyway, we ended up on three different lines to try to get us back to leicester square, but somehow we ended up in covent garden first.. we just stayed there and waited for the others to walk down..

while we waited dominic spotted matt cardle from the x factor walking up the road! hahaha.. naturally my dad stopped him and asked if we could get a picture with him. it was prett surreal to be honest. loads of peopl started to gather round and these two girls started screaming "where's one direction?! ahahaha" fools.
matt finally got away only to be stopped again by gary and helen further up the street! which was pretty funny. he seemed really nice and he had DEFINITELY had a spray tan. it must of been for that weekend live shows and it was wearing off. he was dead patchy.



so we got to covent garden and had breakfast in ponti's and had a stroll round urban outfitters and we went to see the pineapple dance studios to see if we could see anyone else, like we saw louis before. sadly, it was pretty empty so dominic just leaped around dancing outside and my mam did ballet on the window :')


douche. we then went back to leicester square for a while..


we got the tub back to oxford street and did a last minute dash around bershka, topshop and new look. i got two pairs of boots and a paul's boutique purse! dominic got a new jacket and gabby got a bershka fur gillet.


we also needed to get a few odds and ends from camden market, so we dashed back there too.
it was now about 12.59pm, and we needed to check out of our hotel at 2pm. so a mad dash it was... me and gabby whizzed round the markets to find some more jesus-bracelets for madeline and a moonstone ring for me, some lush vintage levi shorts for me too which a little bit small but i WILL lose weight to fit into them. we bartered with the man in a stall for some I ♥ LONDON jumpers but they were a bit hacky so we waited for some better quality ones later on and ended up going back to the hotel to check out.

we checked out by the skin of our teeth then headed back to the high street. we finally got our london hoodies and then had to hectically wheel our suitcases through the underground to king's cross st. pancras. mad.

we stocked up on some erm, pretty random food shall we say: bananas, mozarella cheese + tomatoes in little pots, pasties, chocolate muffins, doritos, haribos and aweet chilli prawn tortilla wraps. lol.

we boarded the train and headed home :'( !!! - so not ready to leave london.



as you can see we did not wanna leave. i could've stayed another week really. but we played some more games, chilled and finally ended up in durham station. my nana picked us up and we drove home. watched tv for a while... then hit the hay.

london.

day two.

after our extremely early night i actually woke up wide awake at 6.30am. we got ready quickly and walked around the lock to take some pictures for photography at college etc. it was really weird seeing the place so quiet and calm compared to the hustle and hectic feel yesterday.



we then all had breakfast in wetherspoons, pancakes! mmmmm. here's dominic in wetherspoons.. deciding on what breakfast to have.

we then had another camden stroll and caught the tube into london city centre to hit the shops.







we then got the tube to oxford street. we hit the huge topshop first, and shopped every corner of it.. then bershka for gabby. its her favourite shop and was devastated when the last one in the north of the country closed .. so she got her fill in there.. haha.
i got a jumper and some wool leggings in topshop and a aviator jacket in bershka. then we ran out of time!! i was a bit pissed off that my mam dragged me out of the shops, but there was everyone else to consider too i suppose ;) hahah.


we then did a bit of sight seeing, we went to visit eros in piccadilly circus. i nipped into boots to buy some more colour film for my canon ae-1.




then we had a beautiful lunch in grace's - i had a thai green curry which was heavenly like..


our site-seeing map.

we then went to trafalgar square to visit nelson's column and the national portrait museum. the weather was beautiful.




we looked around the museum for a while... it was pretty ineresting. the detail on the really old royal portraits was astonishing and the contempory art was mind blowing. i didn't take these pictures though, you're not allowed to inside the museum.

blur portraits by julian opie.

one artist sculpted his own head out of pints of his own blood! it was kept inside frozen silicone and was really disturbing and weird but such a cool concept.
marc quinn was the artist who scupted his own self portrait from frozen blood. here's an article on it incase you're interested.. it's so weirdly wow.

queen elizabeth prints by andy warhol


we then went back to into camden... to get ready for WE WILL ROCK YOU at the dominion theatre at 7pm.


we got back and got ready.. (gabby's pictures cause i didn't take any..)



we will rock you was absolutely amazing. i'd like to be meat, or scaramouche any day! and i want all of the bohemian's costumes to wear everyday too.



sheer brilliance. i still haven't got any of the queen songs out of my head.

mamma mia mamma mia mamma mia let me go!
THUNDERBOLTS AND LIGHTENING VERY VERY FRIGHTENING!
i want it all, i want it allllll
who wants to live foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrr?
hey! i'm gonna get you too another one bites the dust.
don't stop me nowwwwww i'm having such a good time, i'm having a ball.
buddy you're a boy make a big noise playin' in the street gonna be a big man some day you got mud on your face, you big disgrace. kickin' your can all over the place singin WE WILL WE WILL ROCK YOU! *boom boom clap*