Adios My Love.

Hi guys, I'm now blogging from http://kittynwong.blogspot.hk where I'm hoping to post more original content with things that I make and things that I draw. Follow me on there. 

I will miss this blog dearly, it's been my little baby for the past five years but I'm a terrible blogger and could never keep up with two blogs.

xo.
All of luff.
Also, creep me on Twitter @kittynwong. #NoStalker

jubilee

“The Queen must never appear to be chic, for there is an unkindness to chic, and Her Majesty must never appear to be unkind” - Hardy Amies, British Vogue.

Happy Diamond Jubilee! I was in Taipei, my friends and I celebrated by talking in very inaccurate British accents for the day, and because we couldn't resist for a few days after as well.

green hands

 This is what I've been so busy working on for the last few months. In early March, I sent in my submission for the Redress Ecochic Design Awards and was chosen to be one of the 12 semi-finalists! I was ecstatic and got to work right away. We had just over a month to create from scratch two eco-friendly outfits: one from upcycled fabrics and the other using a zerowaste technique. That's my inspiration board at the top; my theme was 'Memory & Forgetting'. And then you have my sketch ideas for the two outfits and the proposed pattern for the zerowaste garment which is that greyish double skirted dress.

 

We just finished the semi-final judging a few weeks ago and we're still waiting on the results so very eagerly. In addition, we did a workshop at the K11 Art Mall to show people how to make upcycled scarves to generate some PR interest. But most importantly, to get people to vote for us for the People's Choice Award! Click here to check out my stuff and to VOTE FOR ME! It's open worldwide and you just need an email or Facebook account.

Painted Lady

Oh hai there. No time no see. I just came here to post this little nugget of gem. My two great loves are probably fashion history and Youtube makeup tutorials, the latter being an endless late night guilty indulgence and Lisa Aldridge just combines the best of it all in such an appealing and informative way. Also, isn't her dress darling?
Also, also, while we're on this topic --there's this makeup exhibition coming around to Hong Kong for French May, so if you're around these parts you should check it out. It's free and at Pacific Place.

So, tell me who are some of your favourite Youtube gurus?

 

youth

'Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. ' - Arthur Rimbaud.

sigh.

Let's get out of this country, I've been so unhappy.

Ai Wei Wei.

BBC: Ai Wei Wei - Without Fear or Favour.
File under 'inspiring'.
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attention

“ATTENTION IS THE RAREST AND PUREST FORM OF GENEROSITY” - Reitschule

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Ra

Current hat tip: Dress like an Egyptian god.

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observing

'I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.'
- F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby.

cool girl.

I wanna look like Anna Karina.

live

Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp;
Guns aren’t lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.

Résumé
Dorothy Parker

travelogues

Inspiring! Lucy Knisley on graphic travelogues. She does a great little tutorial on homemade sketchbooks special for travelogues too in the video.
I'm really getting into graphic novels lately, I asked for Alison Bechdel's Fun Home for X'mas, it's coming in the mail, I can't wait to read it!

Speaking of drawing, I'm still on that 30 Day Drawing Challenge, I just took a break for the holidays. I love breaks!

hey hermano

 Day 15: Family Portrait.

Shit just got crazy up in here, photoshop accident in the second one but I might keep it, is it ugly? I can't tell. I like that it looks like they are on gold foil. These are my parents although it doesn't really look like them. I'm halfway done the challenge (!) and Esther and I said we would get ourselves treats at Day 15, so tomorrow I'm gonna look for a Treaty McTreaterson for myself. I love treats. I might get this scarf I've been eyeing at this store by my work, if it's not too exspense.

Rah-Pump-Ah-Pum-Pum

Day 14: Favourite Fairytale.
I don't really have a favourite fairytale, but Rumpelstiltskin is a good one, by good I really mean weeeeird. The King in the story is all like I'mma lock you up and hold you prisoner until you spin me lots of gold, and when you're done I'll reward you by marrying you - some reward that is. Or maybe I'll just kill you, 'cause I'm a douche.
But here I've deviated from the original story, bitch is spinning her own gold, not that kook Rumps. Anyways, I've also included some other gold things as bonus! Gold pen I bought for today's challenge, so fun! Midas pen. And the new(ish) light in my room. It's a spinning diamond, it's very witchcraft-glam, richcraft?

snackables.

Day 13: Comic.
Just a little comic of what I did after work today, I got a very large box of salmon sashimi all to myself but now I feel pretty sick. I literally nom nom nom'ed out-loud in a scary monster voice down the street from the store to my house, good thing noone knows me in my neighbourhood.
NOM NOM NOM.

To Ramona

Your magnetic movements
Still capture the minutes I'm in.
But it grieves my heart, love,
To see you tryin' to be a part of
A world that just don't exist.
It's all just a dream, babe,
A vacuum, a scheme, babe,
That sucks you into feelin' like this.

flossy

Day 12: Most Recent Accomplishment.

I recently finished a spool of dental floss! Yayyyy, that never happens I usually lose the container or forget about flossing before I finish the pack. Also, yay for minute accomplishments, aim low folks, you will not be disappointed.

Jane

Ain't there anyone here for love? Like right now here in Hong Kong. I mean, whhhhere are all the hot uncomplicated lesbians, or like the cute ones who are really good at art stuff? Where are yous? I is tired of waiting. 
But yes, Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, so good and camp, right? I used to be obsessed with Marilyn Monroe movies in middle school, I still watch them when I'm feeling down. I'm all about Lauren Bacall and Marilyn in How to Marry a Millionaire, sigh.

beauty

Day 11: Turning Point in Your Life.
The Power of Beauty, Nancy Friday.

Enter my first* accidental foray into feminism. In my then-boyfriend's bedroom, I had inadvertently picked up a book I once saw the cool girl in my homeroom reading. But turns out in my naiveté I had misread the titles and the homeroom-cool-girl had actually been reading The Beauty Myth. That fact alone validates my homeroom girl crush, I mean, what kind of a tenth grader reads Naomi Wolf? It took me four years to finish it, embarrassingly enough. Eventually, both books would go on to have a huge impact on me, Friday's simply because it was anecdotal enough to draw me in and simple enough for a budding feminists to understand.

*No wait, or was this my first foray into feminism?