Music Intensifies

You are now looking at a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Fashion) student!! That's right! I received my offer/conformation email the other week whilst I was on camp (more on that in a bit) so I was madly refreshing my email on my phone all day and slightly panicking since it didn't look as though I got in until my mum texted me to look in the spam/junk folder! What a way to freak me out, having such an important email being in that folder.
My course it a little bit special as it is the first bachelor course for fashion in Adelaide and is over two different campuses, so I will get to spend half my time doing "prac." work in the city and the "academic" work in, I guess you would say, the suburbs (at least, this is what I am assuming haha. I go in and work out my timetable and get more info on Thursday.)

Now, on to the camp I mentioned before *warning: nerd alert*
So if you have read some of my other posts you may know that I am quite the music nerd. I was raised in a musical/arty family and my mum joined a brass band when I was 3 so this soon became my life, and now I have been officially playing in one for over 10 years. Anyway, back to what I was actually talking about.
At the end of last year my friend conned me into applying for a youth brass band camp (that was organised by my conductor). This week long camp consisted of three intensive days of rehearsals then three days of tour in small towns around the Riverland, SA. We stayed at a camp that was right on a lake, which we were able to swim in in our free time (as it is summer here in Australia) and it was so nice, there is a really cool sunset photo on my instagram.

       Look at us being really really lame on a train (ha that rhymed) at a historical village.

We had a blue tuba as our mascot (seen in the photo above) that was used to promote the tour and to collect donations in at out gigs. We also had a piece written for us, by a local composed, that was called "Land of the Blue Tuba" which featured some well known Australian/South Australian songs such as "Bound For South Australia". This camp/tour was so much fun and I am thinking about doing it again next year, and there has been talk of having it in a different location so that would be cool.

Oh, but wait, my brass band camp life didn't stop there, oh no! All of yesterday and half of today was spent at my band's annual camp where we intensively rehearse new music for the Australian National Band Championships, which is held in a different city each year, this year being Sydney. We have to play four pieces, one a test piece (where every band in you section, ours being B grade, has to play this piece), a hymn, a march and an own choice. We also have to do a street march and to turn the corners you have to do fancy things like those American marching bands at football? games, how they do fancy patterns and stuff.

                                       Here is a random photo of half the band in marching formation.
Not sure if any of this actually made sense but oh well. I won't bore you any longer with my band life as you will probably hear more about it around Easter time when we have the competition. If you read all this well done! I guess it wasn't terribly exciting to read but I got a little carried away haha. I did actually have an outfit post planned but this somehow happened instead oops.

Bye for now,
Chelsea
Also if you did read all of it leave a comment? maybe? :) I need to learn to post a a decent time, not a midnight haha

Can't Tell

Hey everyone! I thought I would update you on what's been happening in my life. The other night I went to one of my best friend's birthday party; I have been friends with her for about 13 years now and it is crazy to think how much has happened and changed in that time. Surprisingly going to different high schools didn't ruin our friendship and it was funny to see some of the other people from my primary school who ended up being at her party whom I have not seen for 5 years!

Anyhoo, I wore my Andy Warhol tomato soup dress that I decided to shorten (since I am only 5ft ha) but when I pressed the hem, like an idiot, I didn't check the iron setting and melted the fabric a little eep! Luckily it is only on the hem at the back and so far no one has noticed. (also sorry for the dodgy phone photos, I was in a rush at the time)

Here you can see where I melted the fabric.
I have however embroidered over it now so it is less noticeable.

In this last photo you can see that is says "Can't Tell" instead of Campbell's, it is so sneaky, you wouldn't even notice at first glance.

Dress: Revival via Dangerfield (old), Shoes: Novo (no longer available, similar), Phone case: Ebay?

I hope everyone is well and had a good New Year ect. it's 2015, whaaat?!

Catch ya on the flip