Gosh. What a week it's been. The Pirates 2 costumes for Keira and Jonathan Pryce have been shipped off to California, and the third film which we might have been working on has been cancelled for the second time. *headdesk* . On the bright side, we were given wine at work on Thursday night to relieve the pain of having to work late, and it would ( Read more... )

10 Things meme (ganked from vulgarweed )...

10 things I've done that you (probably) haven't:

1.  Worn nothing but red lacy underwear and high heels at a racecourse
2. Sat on a train in front of Tony and Cherie Blair for an hour and not even noticed they were there
3. Witnessed Pete Docherty composing a Babyshambles song
4. Been dragged to a Portugese Midnight Mass in ( Read more... )

It's been all go at work today. Alex nearly cancelled her Oscar frock because they were going to send all the costume designers to LA from London on an economy flight (the Academy are so tight!) and then I had a totally ludicrous accident. I was hand sewing some embroidery onto a coat cuff, and stabbed myself in the finger with my needle. Nothing ( Read more... )

Everyone at work is mad. The workshop manager alarmed me greatly when she suddenly shrieked:

"A boy! There's a boy in the cupboard!"

Apparantly, this is costume maker speak for:

"Goodness! I've just found a bag of fabric which we need to use to make a costume for the boy who is playing Elizabeth Swann's son! We haven't done this yet, and the ( Read more... )

So. I had written about three or four intelligent posts in my head to do with politics in the UK while I was at the gym trying to get my knee to bend properly again after two years (HINT: If you ever have to do this, Don't hop about trying to do stretches for 5 minutes going FUCK! OW! FUCK! OW! and then announce triumphantly "It bends! It bends! to ( Read more... )

I met Alex Byrne today - she designed the costumes for Phantom of the Opera and has been Oscar nominated for Finding Neverland. She came to visit us at work today, and she seemed lovely, despite the fact that I didn't get to see a lot of her because she was talking to my boss and I was in the corner having a fight with an overlocker. Anyway, it was ( Read more... )

 So. I realised that the reason I totally spazzed out on Saturday was because I've actually been anxious about the whole moving house and finding a new job thing for a while, but I haven't actually been able to talk to anyone about it. Most of my closest friends are in pretty much the same situation as I am, and while we're not exactly fighting ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, poppycocteau !

(OK, I'm actually crap - I didn't know it was your birthday till I saw it in c8kesniffer_cor 's journal).

Hope you have (or have had) a great day! *hugs*

Oh crap. At age 22, I should be competent in doing the things listed below. As a result of today, however, I have realised that they either terrify me or I have no comprehension of how they work and what I am supposed to do in order to make them work. They are:

1) Reversing a car

2) Getting Freelance work

3) The housing market

4) Dating etiquette, ( Read more... )

Open letter to Mr Robert Kilroy Silk; MEP, perma-tanned talkshow host, racist, egomaniac ( Read more... )