Arting...
Pattern Therapy
Gouache and graphite on paper
by Kim Bellamy
2014
Cranium Fog (detail- post coming soon)
Burning tool on paper
By Kim Bellamy
2014
(sorry about the picture quality)
Work in Progress
Crafting...
Butterfly cross- stitch free gift from cross- stitch magazine.
On soluable canvas...looking forward to seeing it dissolve.
I'm going to make it into a clasp purse for my sister's birthday present.
(I can't get the underline to not underline...so annoying...must be a gliche)
Anyway, I'm crocheting my friend Emma a heart motif blanket in black and red squares.
Her birthday is 10th May and I've only done 5 squares...don't think I'm going to make it for her birthday but I'm plowing on.
Reading...
I went charity shopping recently and found a couple of the Goosebumps books- a huge nostalgic kick in the heart made me buy them and devour them immediately...***
I Live in Your Basement...****
Point Horror are basically the teen edition to Goosebumps. I have a couple of these on my shelf too.
The Accident...***
I'm currently reading The Farm and it's quite interesting, especially since one of the sisters in Autistic. As I was browsing Amazon for this link I discovered that there is a sequel... The Lair and a prequel...The Before. I'm not far enough in the book at the moment to judge whether I will be picking up these two, but we'll see. It's always nice to discover there are other books to devour if you like the book you're currently reading.
Aswell as The Farm I am also reading this GORGEOUS edition of Pride and Prejudice! Look at it! And would you believe I got this for free from a charity shop because I bought so many books! BARGAIN!! There's not a scratch on it.
I watched the BBC series with my friend Emma, who is a massive classic fiction fan, and now I'm picking up the book. I feel more confident about reading the book now because I know the story. So if I get lost in the complicated dialogue I can relate back to the television series to work out where I am.
I've only read the first 30 pages because I only started it last night but I'm really liking it so far.
Watching...
Forgive me...This week was the first time I watched this film.
Kevin Spacey is sooooo good at these types of characters...really made me want to watch American Beauty- one of my all time favourite films!
I found this film a little confusing at the beginning but it all panned out in the end.
****
Loved...loved...LOVED this film! And a big plus for me is that it's got Alexander Skarsgard and Ellen Page in...two of my favourite actors! I love the contrasts in this film, from strict spies to hippy loving activists.
This film made me really want to travel and join a love cult...sounds dodgy I know but watch it...it's brilliant!!
****
I've been on an Ellen Page high this week and watched one of her more obscure films, An American Crime. This film was based on true events and OMG I was glued to the screen. I can't believe the brutality of some people....sad film.
****
One of my favourite films by Ellen Page has to be Hard Candy. It seems to be a love it/ hate it kind of film but I love it! Ellen plays this psycho roll flawlessly and I have to give Patrick Wilson (another favourite of mine) a HUGE round of applause; his terror is so convincing that most of the time I'm wandering if he even knew in the script what was going to happen...if that makes sense?
****
Another film I should've seen years ago...American History X. Edward Norton (for me) was such a strange choice for this type of character but bloody hell does he deliver in this! I found this a little trying with the amount of swearing there was in this film...I'd be interested to see if anybody has ever counted them- it's up in the hundreds I'm sure. I found this a little bit predictable and some of the characters one dimensional but the way it was delivered was awesome.
*** (because of all the grating f- bombs...they wore me down by the end of the film)
I wanted to watch Kick- Ass 2 but thought I'd better refresh my memory with Kick- Ass first. And I was happy to discover how I'd forgotten how awesome this film is!
So onto Kick- Ass 2 as soon as possible!!!
****
Loving...
I mentioned these in my Pattern Therapy post so they deserved to be glorified by my questionable photography skills...
My precious-eses....
I sometimes babysit for my Mom's friend and the little boy (Alec) is basically my child. He loves the same films as me, loves to draw like me and could talk for England (like me- if you haven't noticed my rambling...).
One of mine and Alec's favourite films to watch when we get together is Coraline so he decided to draw me a picture of her.
Sigh...the 5 year old talent...
For my sister's boyfriend's birthday we went to an ice cream parlour in Stratford- upon- Avon called Hooray's:
36 flavours of ice cream
In a vintage style cafe with my family...
Dad eating a forraro roche sundae
Little brother Carl (my brothers are twins but for some reason I didn't take a photo of Jake. But since they're identical if you've seen one you've seen the other :) )
Little sister Melissa eating rasberry waffles!
I didn't take a photo of my Mom but she was there tucking into a strawberry crepe.
Close up of Rob's (birthday boy) strawberry waffles. He hates his photo being taken.
And I had...
Calories were killed....obviously... but it was bloody worth it!!
Right I think I'm done.
Pretty long winded AGAIN and with some technical difficulties.
Hope you enjoyed!
Kim xx
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