art equals happy.

hi new year.

i'm excited.

time takes time, y'know.

i have had the best and the worst days this past week. 

after animal farm the whole world slowed and slowed and i had my scary appointment in bristol.

i also had to tell some of my teachers, which is a much bigger thing than writing about being ill on my blog. i'm not quite sure why i feel a sense of liberation when i tell you- but when i am forced to outright say 'hey- look, i'm tired and this is why; blahblahblah' i just crumble. 

so the week started out  with me overcoming this obstacle.

(oh yes- some iphone photos too. i love that thing!)

that same day was 'snowball' which is like a 'prom' and jon and i attended, yes.

(we think proms are yucky)

but we ended up in the pub with a few lovelies, so it was good in the end!

tuesday i rested. 

wednesday The Outtakes had a gig at the louisiana, and that was good- there will be pictures coming soon. wednesday was also the day i realized that by starting to let go and 'just be' that i could actually breathe and be more connected. 

thursday was mad panic for last day events = kim bakes cookies

and getting ready for the xmas WYS challenge, fun!

friday was insane happiness!

actually. i love my friends. it's that simple.

from having two very different types of conversations in the space of 2 min, to charity shopping, to spending four hours in the afternoon in a pub in clifton just because we can, to buying far too many bottles of wine and playing silly games at a cosy house. friday felt like so long- but then it was gone so fast and suddenly it was saturday and i am catching a sleepy bus home to spend a few hours with my parents and then back off into bristol to see more lovelies. i shot alot of film on friday. and we made alot of art.

(i feel like all of this wonderfulness needs to come out and i'm far too tired to paint it so it will have to be blogged for now.)

jon and i were meant to be doing xmas shopping- but we saw so many people we knew in town that we had to stop and have coffee with a few of our favourites (but not before heather and i pretended that fopp was our own art gallery... more about that later).

then i collapsed and spent the rest of the evening half asleep while listening to jon and sam make up beautiful music and lyrics. 

somehow i managed to wake up on sunday and find my way home where i had some tea and then started to cough and shiver and sweat on the couch. yes. kim has the flu.

so i've been pretty much asleep for the majority of this week- but that's alright. haha. xmas has been so so good and tomorrow i am heading up to leicestershire to visit some family!

also- TAIF had me as their guest designer! which totally made me smile! you should go and look. they are amazing over there.

okay! that's it for me. i still feel like i have a whole bundle of stuff to share, but that's probably because i'm really bad at being a consistent blogger! new year? i don't know. haha. hopefully speak to you all soon! HAPPY HOLIDAYS! kxxoo

autumn 08 journal.

Here is the journal I have been writing in the last few months. I have done alot of thinking and feeling on these pages- this is just a snippet.








Thanks for looking, I'm quite shy about these pages, actually- but I like them too much not to share.
love, kimxxoo
(Some info; I made the whole book before I started journalling, i attached the pages in little chunks and stitched them all together for the binding. I needed something easy and accessible anywhere so it's 6x6 and all the pages were different papers so no matter where i was, or how tired i was, i could journal every day, easily.)

I’m so happy with these.

I just love my fisheye. Is there anything more to say?
I don’t really know- but I wanted to share this on here, mainly because I get so inspired by fisheye/wide angle photos that it makes me just want to make something.

(this is a bit of rambling of thoughts in my head at the moment. Feel free to just look and not read. [: )
I am in the middle of applications to University and we have to write a thing called a ‘personal statement’.
What am I supposed to say about myself? I talk about who I am all the time online- profiles, blogs, flickr and I scrapbook my life constantly and make my thoughts into something physical- but to have to put my love for something as huge as art into a 200 word ‘personal statement’? How am I supposed to cram this huge swell in my heart and this massive urge to just make make make into a few paragraphs? I have no idea.



Today felt good. Today I worked a lot. Little few-lesson projects that looked good and had a purpose and will be used for something- not just to stick in my sketchbook or anything. Real work. And school is great at the moment, in general. I am enjoying every moment of this I can because Uni looms big and unknown in front of me- this massive exciting adventure where everything will be different and all of these incredible people I know will be off living just as exciting adventures in other places. And it scares me- but it is a good butterfly-in-my-belly feeling. Because if these are the amazing people here, in Bristol (and yeah- I am fighting the urge to brag about everyone I know)… imagine how incredible London will be (if I get in).




Also- I am massively excited about the holidays! I get to see my favourite cousins everrrrrrr in a creative house in a cold and magical town where I first fell in love with England!

love, kimxxoo!!

ok, so- updates!

You should’ve all checked out WORK YOUR SOUL over the weekend, because a new challenge went up on Friday! Woop! Oh- this is fun- seriously!


There is a tutorial up with some UH-MAZIN’ projects by Jen and our lovely guest designer. Get ready to move and groove!

I have some exciting posts lined up for this week, and I’m going to give you some little ‘sneaks’ because I can’t wait to share. Haha!
New scrap pages and journal pages!

some pages from my autumn journal- eep!

FISHEYE LOVES!

And other ‘catch-up’ photos and posts here.

The last few weeks, Jon has been working like crazy on the Sixth Form Production (he’s the director!) and I made some posters for it.

The play is this Thursday and Friday and I can’t wait to see it come to life!

I’ve uploaded some of the better photos from my 18th birthday onto flickr!

It was so great- everyone was so well dressed and the atmosphere was brilliant, the classic house fancy dress halloween party.

it was also the start of a beautiful month of my life. November has been amazing. And on my to-do list this week is a little box that says ‘remember- I AM LUCKY’.

Family. Friends. Art. Oh. Oh. Oh. I am lucky.  Maybe lucky is the wrong word. Blessed? Privileged? They all sound so… stiff and spoilt. I guess what I mean is Happy. I need to remind myself that, actually- I have it pretty damn good.

Mum, Dad and I made our holiday cards the other weekend, which was actually fun. I always dread it because mum and I have a clash of design ideas and dad wants to put everything into a spreadsheet. But actually, I like this.

And I took some self-portraits.

I have been living in scarves, ever since they cut my hair really really short in the back and the weather has been freezing! Geeze! Anyway- it gives me a good excuse to keep knitting!

So- stay tuned my blogging friends, this week is going to be awesome! kxo

today i fell in love.

with england.
all over again.
this time of year just steals my heart.
i did a frosty photoshoot this morning. it felt so good. i haven't been 'working' for a long time now.
i feel so full right now. it's incredible.

this doesn't change the amount of school related deadlines and stress that are coming up.
but it has formed my thoughts into manageable pieces now.
perhaps i can start functioning normally again, now that it is mandatory to wear a scarf and extra socks to leave the house.
perhaps the puzzle pieces are falling into place and i will be put back together soon.
for the people who follow my blog and read in-between the lines, i've been struggling with tiredness (it's thought to be CFS) since... julyish.
it's been ruining my creative flow a lot of the time and limiting my activities. i can't seem to get enough done.
and if i push myself and go-go-go like i like to, i get grumpy and horrible and uptight and controlling and sometimes i have no idea how to act or what to do with myself. i've been keeping my journaling up- but i haven't been sharing because i'm embarrassed. they are simple and personal. but i am planning a post for you, to share some of this.
it feels good to admit that straight out there.
but scary too. because if i admit it- then... is that it? have i surrendered? or is the battle just beginning?

ew. enough of that. all of this 'drama' is making me want to slap myself in the face.

today starts a new chapter. it is called: 'just be'.