Colour challenge: Colchester

Journal, Life & Creativity, Making, crafting & artist dates, Photo Challenges, Photography

There are some brilliant communities for photographers around, and one of these is Lisa Devlin’s Photography Farm – open, supportive and actually useful. So when she suggested a collective challenge, run across 10 cities at the same time on the same day,...

Monster High Twyla cosplay Part 3: Making the accessories

Cosplay, Costume, Journal, Larp & Cosplay, Making, crafting & artist dates, Self Portraits, Tips, tricks & tutorials

The last of the series of posts showing more details of how I made my Monster High Twyla cosplay – let’s go! Choosing what to make While accurate cosplays are very satisfying, I did not have a lot of time to pull this one together, and put most of my...

Monster High Twyla Cosplay Part 2: Making the Book of Talismans bag

Cosplay, Costume, Dolls, Journal, Larp & Cosplay, Life & Creativity, Making, crafting & artist dates, Self Portraits, Tips, tricks & tutorials

The second of the promised more detailed posts about how I made my Monster High Twyla cosplay… this is the Book of Talismans, which I turned into a book bag! By far my favourite of Twyla’s accessories is her Book of Talismans. It’s a book, it’s...

Cosplay: Monster High Twyla

Bounding, Cosplay, Costume, Journal, Self Portraits, Style & Self Expression

Introducing Twyla Boogeyman… I am so proud of this one! Sitting somewhere between bounding and true cosplay, it feels like the essence of her, and the only thing I’d add is face & body paint, I think. How I decided on Twyla I hadn’t made an...

This is 38

Journal, Photography, Props & decor, Self Portraits, Studio

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t take photos of myself – I’ve always been the most convenient model, and photography’s been a huge part of rejecting what I’m supposed to believe about bodies & faces & hair, and...

That AI thing – thoughts and experiments

Experiments, Journal, Self Portraits

It’s probably about time I weighed in on the AI thing, I guess – it’s been everywhere for the last few weeks, and has come up in conversation with the most unlikely people. Which I guess means it’s hit the mainstream. Hmm. Me. Having thoughts...