strike a pose

lovely ailen doing me up.  this picture looks like the real thing. i'm a model!

 so the main inspiration for this little journey was the nothing new promotion put on by the salvos.  my lovely and talented housemate jess is making a video for me as my entry and today we filmed the last part.  the 'reveal' if you will.  so we'd already filmed me shopping in the salvos, cutting and sewing the dress so all we had to do was the bit where i'm wearing the dress.  we'd kind of run out of time to do this part, it's due on sunday, so we had to do it at work.  i can tell you i've never felt like more of a goose.  i was dancing around at the back of the studio with a good portion of my workmates watching.  we did a bit where my beautiful friend ailen zipped up my dress and one of the tradies happened to walk past at that moment and he copped a good look.  it really wasn't meant to look seedy but i guess the proof will be in the pudding.  i finally got a good bunch of photos too so at the expense of looking self indulgent and a bit up myself i'm including a few here.  it was actually pretty fun.  i pretty sure most girls have secretly wanted to be a little model at some stage so this was my chance.  pretty sure vogue won't be calling anytime soon.  guess i'll just stick to my day job then...

jess doing his thing

so this is the party fun time side of the dress.  pretty proud of this one as i made it from a skirt which required a lot of creative fiddling to get all the pieces together from the limited material that i had.



this is my blog so if i think i look half way decent i'm going to post it dammit...

and if i look like a goose that's going up there too.  my other housemate, lovely lisa, is a dancer and i don't know how she does it.  i danced for a total of about 3 minutes and i was frickin puffed out!