Trouble In Paradise - Deluxe Box Set

Incase you've missed me harping on about it for the past 100 years, La Roux's sophomore album will finally be released THIS Monday (21st July).

Elly has always intrigued me because of her refusal to conform to the image/behaviour of a conventional pop artist, and her new album Trouble In Paradise really sets her apart from anything we've heard from this generation before. The nine-track LP is a lot less geared towards Top 40 singles; instead the focus is on the overall tone and feel of the album, which in my opinion presents you with 45 minutes totally immersed in this sort of sexy, calypso paradise where nothing is quite what it seems.

A large aspect of this is down to the David Hockney-style artwork featured, and this aesthetic is carried throughout the deluxe box set, a package deal I ordered from the La Roux web store. It's classy as hell, and you can really tell that Alexander Brown, the designer, Elly and the rest of 'La Croux' have poured a lot of focus into creating visuals that correlate to the vibe of the music. Take a look, isn't it the best thing you've ever seen?! I want these photos blown up as wallpaper.

1 x Vinyl LP
1 x Signed CD
1 x MP3 download link
1 x Album artwork T-shirt

Also...am I listed in Elly's thank yous?!

Home improvement.

Now that I'm back home for the holidays I had a chance to begin personalising my new bedroom. Just little things, I'm hoping to get some framed artwork on the walls soon. Etsy is so great for handmade stuff, absolutely recommend a browse. Last night I spent about 45 minutes window shopping. Sigh. I miss money.

001. Coloured paper bunting from Tiger. £1 for 10m is great value, I was able to go around the whole coving.

002. Inspired by artwork I'd seen on Etsy, I used acrylics to paint eighteen Twin Peaks-styled illustrations. I painted an existing frame white and used brown paper as a border.

002. Varnished wooden frames painted white perfected my shrine for Laura Palmer. Munchkin (the hamster money-bank) certainly agrees.

Pinboard.

I'll be leaving Halls in a few days and I'm actually pretty gutted! Lyme's been pretty great and I wanted to do something that would always make me remember my time here. So, I decided to create a mix-media collage of the massive pinboard from my room! It's full of little scraps that I've collected over the past few years; tickets, posters, wristbands, polaroids, notes. I used Nina Chakrabarti's "Wallpaper" as inspiration. Check her out, you'll probably recognise her illustrations!