Weekend - By Rory!!

Well we had an eventful weekend, On Friday Rory and I went up North with the awesome Tim Pile and Dinah - also got to work with the talented artist Rikki O'Neil which was great!

On Sunday we went back up north to do some Urban Exploring with Shep and Garrie, also met up with the lovely Zombie Sazza and Mike.

Went to a whole host of awesome places and got lots of shots..

Here are some of my favourites..

As always I have loads to post about but these shots are here ready to be shown so here you all go!

Off out with Tim again tomorrow and have a few really exciting shoots next week lined up :D

Chrissie xxx

England Trip with Sarah & Rachael!

Well Sarah has already covered the weeks activities on her blog -

http://valentinavelvet.blogspot.com/


So there is not much call for me to re-say everything. I had a wicked week :-D
Was great to be away with 2 awesome girlies.


Not actually seen many shots from my time away to be honest so here is my favoutire by Christian Scott..

 & a nice one of me and the girls by Edd.

looking forward to seeing the shots from my shoot on  Tuesday, fingers crossed I wont be disappointed in them... My happiness relies on them turning out good.

Have other things to blog on - camping weekends and the likes, have a killer cold now and have 2 days to better myself..


*cough cough*

x

I'm surprised you don't feel like shit everyday.... (moan)

I do hate the sound of myself moaning but I can't help myself - grrrr!!!

As a model I have had heaps of comments from strangers before and I will have even more in the future. Most thankfully are nice comments, or at least constructive even if I have not been looking for a critique there will always be someone there to offer their expert knowledge (which is mainly ignored - If I upload something I need no other opinion on it unless I ask). I wouldn't go onto a photographers facebook page and leave a comment criticising the image - If I don't like an image then unless asked I don't tend to air my feelings on it. Just like I wouldn't go onto a models page and say "no offence but lay off the junk food you look fat" - Why don't I do that? well because its not my place to comment on someones body shape, if someone is showing off their body then they are happy with how they look it really is fuck all to do with me what a model chooses to eat or how a photographer lights an image.. Especially if I wont ever work with them anyway.

So yeah, I uploaded a shot recently there was a shadow on the image which made me look a couple of inches smaller in waist than I actually am. People felt the need to jump on me and tell me I was too skinny/unhealthy/ill - whatever. If I was overweight would "fat" comments be as easy for them to throw around? its not ok to call someone a fatty but its cool to say someone looks too skinny?

I have visible ribs, always have.. Even when I was 3 stone heavier than I am now. I have never been obsessed with my weight, infact other than a 1 day diet which I couldn't stick to I have never watched what I eat. I have never worked out in a gym or went jogging just to tone up or loose weight. If anything I have spent more time trying to stay the weight I am rather than loose it. When my anxiety takes a nose dive I constantly feel sick, I force myself too eat through such spells despite food being the last thing on my mind.

I used to always think the perfect weight is the one which I am happy & healthy with, not that its anything to go by but I played on the wii fit thing a few weeks ago at mums and on the scale of - underweight-obese I fit in perfectly to the "normal" section. My BMI could be better but I can work on that :D.

So I am happy with my body, I like my ribs showing, My hip bones, my chunky thighs and my almost hourglass figure. My body is ME and I LOVE IT!! I don't need some random internet idiot telling me they are surprised I don't feel like shit everyday due to not eating enough - the only time I feel slightly shit is when I have little tw@ts being rude to me for no good reason.


Signed -

The holocaust survivor
the anorexic on her death bed
and the girl who should feel like shit every day because she is so skinny..


(Not really)

Signed -

Chrissie - the curvy lass who loves her body and will continue sharing it to everyone who wants to view it..

Quickie

Well I went out yesterday with Rory and John Mcnairn!
Was a bit of a wild tour around Scotland, we had heavy rain and beautiful sunshine.. Bitter winds and beautiful clouds - I like a bit of variety :D

Here are some of my favourites so far by Rory :D

I realise 2 and 3 are very similar.. One was my favourite and the other was Rorys but the more I look at Rorys favourite the more I am drawn towards it!! eeek

Have a lovely photographer coming up tomorrow so better get the spare room all nice and ready for his arrival!

Adiosss

xx

Part twa!!

I had a sunrise shoot with Rory at the weekend, our body clocks went a bit mental with the changing of the time and because we had slept nearly all day on Saturday (lazy shits I know). One minute we were drifting off to sleep at 1am thinking we were doing good by having an early night the next thing we know Saturday has almost been and gone, we woke up at 4pm... Confused and disorientated and feeling that horrible way you feel when you know you have slept for too long!!  So yes, Sunday morning we were awake and I knew the sun was going to rise in the next hour so I suggested we go out... Anytime I have made that suggestion in the past its turned out to be a waste of time, it was so misty we couldn't see the buildings across the road but we went out anyway.

We headed up to Kinoull Hill, we have a nice view of it from our livingroom window and I knew roughly where the sun was going to come up.. We climbed, still surrounded by thick fog then just ahead we seen the most gorgeous sight - the sun breaking through the fog and lighting up this beautiful scene...

 We walked a little further up the hill and this was the view, usually there is a motorway and river down there.. We were pretty high up, I have never seen it like that before. Infact it was almost like we were in the clouds. We just sat on a bench and took silly pictures then eventually doddered back home again. I always say as long as there is one picture you are happy with then thats the main this...

 I was in Glasgow earlier this week, had such a nice time.. Got myself a new jumper and other bits and pieces! Only thing I didn't do was take some pictures, I did have the camera but was scared to take it out the bag. Since we got this new lens I have been afraid of dropping the damn thing, I know it cost more than a months rent and thats a scary thought for me!!

Anyway, i feel like I have been typing for hours. Must get some housework done, I really need to make my apartment look as perfect as it was when I moved in..


Ohh while typing my goodbye I just got a gorgeous dress i asked for from makepiece, its bloody beautiful!!

Cant wait to put it on :D

xxxx

Pheww deep breath!!

You know everytime I open up the text editor section of my blog I automatically open up "view blog" in another page so I can check what I posted the last time I was here. Now that I have re-capped I can officially say I have been up to loads since then :D

This might be my last update for a few weeks though, as some will know I'm off down South soon and have a pretty solid diary the week before and after my trip so I might not get much time to blog (I say that now but Im sure one morning at 3am I will not be able to resist the urge).

*posts come filler to break up all the chatter*
http://vimeo.com/21500419

Not sure how to embed videos onto blogspot so there is a link, its from the fashion video shoot I recently had with the awesomely talented Ian Gamester - You can see some more of his work on his website which is.

HERE HERE CLICK HERE!!

Seeing as I have time and knowing this is going to be a bit of a long blog I will chatter about my shoot with Ian. He said to me before coming up to Scotland that ideally he wanted some mist, when he said that I instantly thought *you would be lucky if its not pissing down of rain..no chance you will get mist*. He crashed at our place the night before the shoot and we went out in the morning and it was misty, I think he was praying to god before he went to sleep or something :D As always my feet got a little bit cold but by the afternoon the weather was gorgeous, we ended up out on a beach throwing the contents of a pillowcase around.. It was good fun. I really can't wait to see the "proper" video we shot, that one I just posted was just a short one for the sake of it and because Ian wanted to use 10 cameras, sadly 4 died so we were left with 6.

I'm really rather pleased with it, I usually hate myself on motion camera. If Ian is to believed I'm apparently not to bad at it! I enjoyed doing something different even if I end up squirming when I see the   proper video..

Anyway next up (that I can remember) was my shoot with Shepy, I was very much looking forward to this one. I first talked to Shepy years ago when I was trying to figure out how to get into an abandoned place I had seen pictures of online (he specialises in that type of thing).. Anyway we have kinda chatted since then and he came up from Newcastle for a shoot a couple of weeks back, we all ended up in the pub the night before the shoot though so Rory and Shep may have been slightly hungover... How very professional ayee!!

Here is some of the stuff we got up to :D Mixed it up a little - fashion, a little bit glamour *ohh err* and some artnudes on location! Shep is coming back up again at the end of April and we are all going on adventures together so very much looking forward to that!!

The home of Shepy!!

Ok this blog is looking mighty massive so I'm going to end this one and start a new one...
(I always find breaking things up makes it easier to read..)
x

A couple of other.. Seeing as I am here :D

 Well the first is a self portrait I shot last week, I was up early and decided it would be a good idea to shoot something including myself again.. Something more interesting than a white wall.. I know its only slightly more interesting than a white wall but I did use natural light :D

Here are a couple from last week at somepoint (although Im not sure what day it was).
Just a little 10 minute set with Rory in my new gold dress!!

Now thats all....

I think :D:D

xxxx