Lamp project pt 2

Take one cool metal lampshade from a market in brick lane, one funky coloured power cord, one IKEA shelf bracket, and voilà:

Summer love

We missed you so much Shane!

New project

Seeing as i am back in London and, for now, jobless, I've got a couple of projects going! Firstly, making the house look nice after my prolonged absence, and secondly, making a lamp! It's going to consist of a board with holes through which I will poke fairy lights. Got the idea from an Internet article, and thus far I have painted the board a fun colour:





Updates to come when it's done!
In the meantime; a few snapshots of the living room:






I found this curious lamp in my mum's attic, and i love these mega-bulbs from ikea so much that I don't think I'm going to put a lamp shade on it!
The pictures are portraits of random people by my housemate Jack.

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Morning exercise and a praying mantis

Hello. I don’t really have anything much to write but I think it’s a shame that the blog has been inactive lately (and that I have been the most inactive blog-participator). So here are a couple of pictures and updates. I actually really wanted to tell you about last Friday because it was such a nice day. I have experienced some problems lately in regard to the structuring of my daily life. I only have one lecture a week and I’ve thus had a tendency to sleep a bit more that necessary and I’ve had a general lack of routine in my life. But my new project is morning exercise! My friend Maja invited me to join her for 9 a.m. yoga on Fridays, and I have become a great fan of this. So last Friday I went to yoga, where I also met Marte (our 0-year form MUWCI) and Kristian (who is Chris’ friend who Sofie has met a few times). After yoga Maja and I sat in the sauna, followed by a visit to a cosy café. After that I studied a bit in the library and then I had to go to a meeting to plan a photo exhibition about Western-Sahara that we are putting up next week (this is in relation SAIH which is the organisation I am part of: Norwegian Students and Academics International Assistance Fund; www.saih.no). After the meeting I went home and Christopher and I cleaned the whole apartment. I even tidied my bathroom cupboard, which has been subject to chaos. I made a little box, which i decorated with nice pictures of my good friends. When the house-cleaning project was over we made homemade pizza and watched a documentary about marihuana. I went to bed at 11 to get up for work at six (my “truck”-driving job). The whole day was filled with structure and efficiency and I’m still so happy about this day.

The other picture shows our new pet, the praying mantis named Hugo. He is mainly Christopher’s passion but I also find him quite cute because he washes himself just like a cat. We feed him spiders we find in, and outside of, our apartment.

To conclude I want to recommend morning exercise for everyone struggling with getting the day started. Tomorrow morning I am going to attend water-aerobics. It’s fun because everyone just laughs all the time since it’s such a strange activity.

most beautiful cover version

Click to hear Anthony Hegarty's version of "If it be your will" by Leonard Cohen...:

La Blogotheque

Now, because my French is confined to 'shettemm', 'shomapell sofie' and 'shesui un fromage' (excuse the phonetics, I simply cannot attempt to spell any of that properly), I am not able to tell you a great deal about the contents of La Blogotheque. I can only merely point you in the direction of the Concerts a Emporter (Concerts on the move?). This website is just wonderful and here in Studio 15 Napiershall, we are hooked, and repeatedly turn to La Blogotheque to get us through the day. Our favourite is Elvis Perkins, walking around in Paris singing 'While you were sleeping' - especially when he walks into the Place Vendome, just as the song reaches its climax.

Just wonderful.

Enjoy!

#66.1 - Elvis Perkins - While you were sleeping
by lablogotheque

The Inner Workings of an Architecture Studio, or, F**K, Only 3 weeks left!

Oh dear. I thought I knew what hard work was, sitting in the MPH studying for my IB exams.

I didn't.

Now, knee deep in things to be done, me and Naomi decided we had to make the best out of the situation. What better to do than set up a studio in my unused livingroom and invite all my best architecture mates for a three week long party?
Liam has announced his arrival, bearing computer, mattress and espresso maker, and me and Names (yeah, I like to call her Names) are already hard at work.

Here are a few glimpses:


My favourite little setup, with the Ant shelf and all our architecture books close at hand. Note the Lidl bags used to transport all our model making scraps from the Real Studio.


The wall is our friend! It contains all our ideas and scrappy sketches.


The wall is not our BEST friend though, that would be UHU glue (the solvent free kind. We don't want to go completely loopy after all.)


When we get bored, we put the TV on. Watching the news for example. We need to know a little bit about what goes on outside these walls! Note also the stock of emergency food (sugar puffs, jaffa cakes, tortilla chips, granola bars and bourbon creams).

But, the most important feature of our studio is this wonderful view, reminding us what NOT TO DESIGN (Notably the gorgeous St Georges Road tower blocks):


Who knew stress could be so much fun!