I am the worst.

Things are really really good, I'm keeping busy and making things and planning things. I've missed you all.

I am coming to LA on the 10th to the 17th of April, alone, SO. If anybody is around and wants to hang out or shoot or whatever, let me know. My schedule is starting to fill up a little but I really want to meet some of you LA dwellers, so just send me a message or something.

Some photos:




Soon.

Wow, four months. These four months have been full of fruitless endeavours, a lot of american television and baking, but we are fast approaching Christmas and I am very excited!

Here's what I've been upto:


















I have missed you all, tell me how you are!

Hallo beauties, I've finally had a chance to stop to catch my breath, and tomorrow it starts all over again!

Berlin was incredible, I walked until my feet bled, it is such a beautiful and rich city. Tiredness is increasing my inarticulacy even more than usual so I'll be brief and stick to visual aids.





I went to the beach and I went to a pretty place called Matching Green and had some lunch and got very very sunburnt.



I also bought a cute dress:



I finally finished my whole apartment:







I'm off to Athens tomorrow morning for my father to explain to me our current state of financial affairs considering the circumstances of the semi collapsed economy and state. See you all when I get back!!

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Wow, SG. It's been a long time. The last few months have mainly consisted of drawing, eating, sleeping and moving house. I passed this year of my degree, not long now! And I got a first, which sets me in good stead for the future. I'm tired and I'm not quite sure what direction my life is going to take this summer. I had to leave my church; I became very close friends with the pastor's son, maybe inappropriately close in retrospect but I didn't see that at the time, and he was engaged. Nothing happened of course, but we'd play cards into the early hours of the morning, text all through the day, speak on the phone four or five times a day and he would say things that I suppose friends wouldn't say. Of course, he hid this from everyone so the congregation (including his fiancee, parents, brothers and best friend) didn't even know we were friends. Needless to say, the truth came out; his now wife decided I was a manipulative bitch and was to blame for seducing an engaged man and they both said they never wanted to see me again, along with the people who run the church. Sucks. So, now I am on the search for a church in the Essex area. I'm sure I'll find one soon. Apart from that, I cut my hair relatively short:



gained some weight (which is good)

finished a book about Alfred the Great, one of my double pages and a rogue image from the book. It won't let me upload the others for some reason:







I went back to Athens with my friend Ellie to visit the fam:



And that's all folks!



I'll be in Berlin from the 21st of June to the 24th, if any of you lovely people are around let me know and we will meet up! xx

Things are insanely busy at the moment, trying to get my life together and semi succeeding. Here is some recent work, pop over to http://lyviaillustration.blogspot.com/ to see the rest!












aaand a photobooth picture to balance it out.

I'm 21. I'm happy. I'm working my ass off to be successful, and my friends are wonderful.





I fed the ducks on my birthday



and I wear this jacket too much.

Things are so much better this side of Christmas. Always.
I'm 21 in five days, someone pause time for me to:

Learn how to do at least one extreme sport
Fall hopelessly in love
Cook for a whole dinner party
Read every book on the guardian's top 100 books list.
Finish all of my work for university and my 2500 word essay.

Hmmmph.

In other news, I have been working quite hard, some results:







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You know you have these months where your life is turned around? This has been one of them. There has been kangaroos, and beaches, and snow, exhibitions, two protests, redundancy, a break up, a make up, a break up again, a make up with an old face, a reunion, a loss, some health news, the knowledge that i've gone up a jeans size, there's been debt, and tears, and revelation, conflict with two friends, photoshoots, driving into oncoming traffic in a one way system, some mild theft, the realisation that I am the owner of twenty vanilla ice tour posters (message me if you want one, please.) confrontation, honesty, stress, pride, tattoos, too many timezones and nowhere near enough christmas shopping.

I'm not unhappy, just wavering.


In case the list was too dull, here's some photographs to sum it up.

























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First things first, generic post-Halloween photo of my costume.


I think I've been drawing more than i ever have, by living alone, I have so much free time on my hands, and there is only so much daytime television that my fully functioning brain can handle.

I'm off to Australia for two weeks on tuesday, Sydney to be precise, so if any of you lovely people feel like meeting up, send me a message and we'll sort something out. I have to go do MORE work now, so i thought I'd leave you with a bunch of recent work I scanned in, there are some rogue bits of paper floating about, and a nice picture of me and my friends in Barcelona somewhere in the middle to break up all the drawings. Feedback is always appreciated.

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Things are good, like really good. I spent the week hiking and drawing and singing and reading in the South of England, I have some incredible friends and an amazing future ahead of me. I have direction, I have clarity of heart. I have everything at my disposal, and for once, boys don't even factor into it. p.s. pythagoras is alive and well, many thanks for the concern.













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