So I have never been as busy as I have been last week! Firstly it started with 9 storyboards for the monday, then starting of a new storyboard on that day, wednesday we had to to a drawing of a fabric landscape and design a logo for our third year collection.  And friday I get home and just work the whole weekend on a wedding dress I am busy making! and the bridesmaid dress and the flower girls...So hold thumbs for me, this all has to be done before the 30th of April.. But I'm off to go carry on with work at a new week at Fedisa
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So the first picyure is my smocking dress I'm wearing and the other three are of the black dress I made for a client.

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So this weekend I worked on a dress for a client, a wet look black dress with a very low back and diamante buckles.  Very pretty I must say...I will put a picture up now now.  Today I've been busy on my 6 samples that have to be in Friday.  These 6 samples have to all be refabricated in some way, and we must use at least one of them in our third year range.  I'm doing dip dye, tye dye, pintucks, smocking, coffee dying and beading.  I'm using at least three of them in my range.  The pintucks I'm doing will have top stitching running over them in parallel lines going in opposite directions to create the look of waves.  Most of my designs consist of beading in some way, especially the neck lines of the dresses, I love little pearls and glass beads.  Smocking is also one of my favourite techniques to make a simple dress.  I'm actually wearing one of my smocking dresses now while I write this, I will also put a picture up now now .  Smocking is so simple, you take a piece of rectangle fabric, and with the grain you will start smocking horizontal lines across the fabric.  You will do this to about the waist line, and I will then round the dress off by doing a french seam, this will also secure the smocking ends.  And there you have a simple boobtube dress.  So now go try it out yourself!
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So for tommorrow I have to have had 70 designs, front and back, drawn, leading to my range.  And what a process, somedays I felt as if I cant stop, but I'm done and Im really happy with some of them.  But wow, Im really feeling 3rd year now, the work doesn't end.  I feel a bit overwhelmed by it all, but I'm doing what I love so why complain..a little inspiration for the week is a picture I found that suits the colour scheme of my 3rd year range.

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Another week of pleasure

What an amazing day today, just got back from the beach, koegel bay.  Stunning weather and friends.  The sun and beach make me feel like a new person, and I can carry on with another busy week at Fedisa.  We making a pencil skirt tomorrow, with a vent.  On friday I went to the Design Indaba at the CTICC, a highlight of the year, I really love it.  And I found a new designer that I have fallen in love with!! She's a jewellery designer, and the range is called "Papillon Belle".  Its a range of butterfly pendants, encased in a thin layer of glass and rimmed off in silver.  She uses real butterfly wings, from dead butterflies that come from Madagascar.  They are amazing, and they stay as beautiful as they are the day you buy it.  The real beauty about it is the fact that the wing is different from the bottom to the top of the wing.


So just a little something to keep you wanting it as much as I do!!
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http://www.papillonbelle.com/

Art week just passed, we busy finalising our 3rd year range designs, im so excited, being able to make what we like, but now when I have the chance, I'm not sure what I actualy want to do.  But I will get back to you on that.  So during the December holidays I had a little market day for all my designs I had made the holiday.  It was mostly swimming costumes and dresses, but I loved everything.  And actualy as I'm sitting here Im wearing one of the dresses, a little white triangle shaped dress, with a delicate black lace hem.  Im adding a few of the photos of the day, I even baked cupcakes and had some champagne, to make a day of it. Often people ask me what I do and if I study? and I say I study fashion at Fedisa, and I feel proud to say it, because firstly not many people know about it, and Its an amazing place to be.  To wake up every morning knowing I'm going to learn something new in a practical field makes every day a great day.  I've been at University before and I dreaded sitting in the classes listening to people talk, but now I know what I'm doing and I wouldn't do anything else.  I am defiantly in the right place and loving it at Fedisa.  

Birthday week

It was my birthday on Friday yet another year older, but what an amazing end to a hectic week.  We just finished a tailored jacket, mine was of a light tan colour, with shell buttons.  I will put up a picture at a later stage.  So as I said it was my birthday Friday, and I celebrated it on signal hill with sundowners and some amazing friends.  And of course with birthdays, come the gifts.  And something that was very inspirational was actualy a gift bag that had a cute quote on from the stunning designer Coco Chanel, and she said "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different".  I do think this is a quote to go by.  And its my inspiration for the week, to just be unique.
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