Kitty's Drawings

Omg – posting on Christmas Day. Who’d've thought! Welll……I am waiting on the darling boyfriend to return from work. My lamb roast is in the oven (shit, that reminds me, I have to put the potatoes on!) and the dessert is setting in the fridge – Vanilla panna cotta with raspberry coulis. Mmmm.

So in the meantime I got to browsing Etsy…which lead me via some tangents to other vintage sites…..and spying a pretty pretty dress which was alas, sold. Damn! So I drew it instead. There I was thinking I’d be too lazy to draw over the Xmas break – but sometimes the urge to pick up a pencil is too strong and a drawing just happens.

Now, it’s hardly polished or anything fancy – but colour sketches always turn out nice enough to put on the blog. So here you go – something to look at while you’re trying to digest all that Christmas food and trying not to fall asleep. Heh

Hope you’re all having a good holiday! I am

Yay!
Just in time too. I hope it is what was expected I’m quite happy with it too. Could have polished it a bit more but just didn’t have time.

No time to chat today! Gotta work on that harem girl.

Have a good weekend!

Hi All!

This week I will be getting my hair done. Red. The idea has been floating in the back of my mind for quite some time now…and I’ve made a few attempts to do the colouring myself. But after a few unsuccessful attempts, I’m going to the pros.
What finally cemented the idea was stumbling across this wonderful photo on wedding blog, Snippet and Ink (no….there are no pending marriages around here, I just like the dresses teehehe). What an awesome bride! How cool to have hair like that! It’s the perfect colour. I loved this pose so much that I had to draw it straight away. Of course my rendition is quite different. But you get the idea.

This:

Became this:

I’m really liking ‘eyes shut’ kind of poses right now. I like the serenity and calm in general. Something that can be hard to draw!

SO…Thursday my hair will be red. Hopefully just this colour. Or maybe a shade darker. I can’t wait! I promise you will have photos!
Ciao!

While I have not really been doing a lot of drawing this past week that I am in Tasmania, I have found the time to do a teeny bit of vintage hunting.

This means that I am going to be extra super duper busy on the drawing/design front when I arrive back in Melbourne tomorrow. I have a bazillion things to do. One of those being that I am FINALLY going to get some hosting and move to WordPress. So as of next week there will be a transition period at Kitty’s Drawings and I will be guiding you towards my new site….hopefully without any hiccups along the way. I expect to have it up and running by the end of next week so stay tuned for a new link.

But back to the fashion stuff eh?
I found the below shoes at the Huonville St Vinnies store…amongst a not very impressive collection of second hand shoes. These are Bruno Magli cream pumps – 100% leather and made in Italy. With brand new heels and not a sign of a scuff! For how much you ask?

$6

Yep thats SIX Australian Dollars! Heh! Score!
These will go nicely with the cream tights I bought the other week. Now I just need to find a cream coloured belt. I think I will be going on an accessories hunt when I’m back home as I am severely lacking in a few things. I have a bad habit of buying too many dresses and not enough accessories.

I hope you all don’t mind these fashion related posts. It is truly one of my biggest obsessions…and while I don’t claim to be a fashionista or anywhere in the league of Super Kawaii Mama, I do love dressing up and wearing pretty things. My style is coming along slowly and I’ve made a few big leaps in the past year or so.

With the new blog I will start to categorize posts and introduce a bit more routine for you all. With some of my clothing purchases included too if no one finds them too painfully boring. Hehe

And I haven’t forgotten about the letterpress photos. I will leave that til I get back as image heavy posts are a bit of a struggle on my Mum’s old Mac.