Fashion Show!

Hey there!

Well, as ye all know, we have all been working extremely hard for the last three months to complete opur junk kouture outfits.. Well it has all come to an end!
                     We were all given one class to get ready for yesterdays fashion show. My group (Aisling, Shannon and myself) struggled a tad.. We had ta spray Aislings hair with over half a bottle of hair spray..It was unreal! We managed ta get it to stay up though.. We spent the rest of the forty minutes dressing Aisling and putting on her makeup.. This seemed like it took forever! We had to dran swirls all the way up Aislings arm and on the side of her face..
                    Alot of things went wrong on the catwalk.. First of all, the music was wrong. We were the only ones who had to walk to someone elses music. This completely threw Aisling off her mark! We managed to get through this though.. The next thing that went wrong was that one of the pleats came undone, and hung down.. This made the dress look unfinished, which the judges were not too pleased about.. It was quite a stressful day! But at least I got to see the rest of the dresses and take photos of each one :) 
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Cray8 Colour!

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               We have been working on our mini companies for the past two months! We have all thrown our ideas out into the open, and decided what groups we were going into.. There are a wide array of different kind of companies, such as; phone covers, a learning app, t-shirts and friendship braclets.

               I came up with our mini company idea.. We are called Cray8 Colour! Basically, we melt down old unusable crayons and recycle them into new crayons, using silicone moulds. We sell our crayons for 50c each, or three for €1, in all different shapes and colours! 

               We came up with this idea as my mam works in a Montessori and often recycles her crayons to make new ones. We are very happy with our idea, and hope to make it into the next level in the competition! :) 

                

Junk Kouture!

Hey there!

               Well lads, as i mentioned before, as part of TY design, Home Ec and Art, we are doing a project called 'Junk Kouture'! This project involves us collecting recycled materials and creating an outfit suited to a theme. I am in a group with Shannon and Aisling :) We work well together! Our theme is Irish Dancing.
               Basically, we collected two tutu's, one mine and one our friends. They are pink and yellow, which we decided our main colour scheme would be based around. For the first few weeks of the project, we began to make our bodice. We moulded chicken wire around our model, Aislings top. We then began to paste newspaper to it, to make paper maché.  Once this had dried, and we had made a bodice, we began to paint it! We had mad craic painting the design onto the bodice! Once again, we stuck to our main colour schemes, pink and yellow.
               After we had finished the bodice, we started to make the skirt. We sewed the two tutu's together using a zig zag stitch, which was a new skill I had picked up. We then cut out pleats from the bed sheet and Shannon painted a design onto each pleat. I sewed the pleats on. We then decided to sew some sequences onto the bottom of the pleat to give it a bit of a sparkle!
               Now we are half way through the shoes. We have stuck diamondy thingys onto the heels, and Aisling has sewn pink and yellow beads onto the shoes. We are going to sew some sequence's onto the sides of the shoes in art, so our shoes are extremely blingy!
               The catwalk is on next Tuesday or Thursday, so we are all looking forward to it !