Life is a mystery

I wonder what my future holds, curiosity sends me insane. A deep thinker is what I am although some may say I take thinking a little too far, what do you think? I wonder.

Photography by Jordann Watson - © Copyright Images 

End of an era!

I know I keep apologising but I promise that this is the final apology! As university has finally come to an end, so there will be no more projects to take up all of my free time. However I figured it would be pretty ideal to share some photographs I took for my final major project, A journal inspired publication with a boho theme.

Styling a Jewellery Look Book

Hi guys,
Hope you all had an amazing Christmas and New Year! I certainly did however I've still had lots of work to do which has lead to me neglecting Crystal Prophecy! It also means that I haven't had chance to write about everything I've wanted to. So with all this work I've been doing I figured it was about time I shared a snippet of my work with you. These are some images that I styled and photographed in a studio for a jewellery look book. All of the jewellery was designed and handmade by students from my university, UCA. Getting to know the amazingly talented girls and seeing what they got up to kind of made me a little bit jealous and wish that I was getting a degree in jewellery. Although if I did that I probably wouldn't be sat here sharing my Fashion promotion, styling and photography skills on a blog. Thank you to Hannah Troy the make-up artist and Lauren Murphy for being my model couldn't of done it without you girls, Hope you like my work!

Photography and styling - Jordann Watson ©

Paris.

Apologies guys, for the HUGE delay on updating Crystal Prophecy. However I do have a pretty good excuse, I've had a ridiculous amount of uni work to get through and I have been to Paris, Twice.

After all the hard work my trips to Paris was AMA-ZING! The first visit was with the girls for my friends 21st and the second was slightly more romantic and extremely christmassy with the boyfriend.

Whilst in Paris I visited Disney Land...

Both times of course.

 

If your an adrenaline junkie like me, then you might be a little bit disappointed to discover that the theme park has no more then 3 big rides and is slightly ruined by everything being in french unless you can understand the language which unfortunately I can't. However the Disney theme made the day magical and brings all the childhood memories flooding back. 

The first time I went to Euro Disney, I was 7 years old. It was my birthday and I genuinely believed that I was going to Blackpool with my Mum, Nana & Great Nana. The little witches told me that Grandad was going to drive us to Blackpool from home in Manchester but he had to work so we had to fly there instead. Which I believed, Even though Blackpool is an hours drive away from Manchester. Gullible much? Nothing changes! Anyway when we got to the airport my mum gave me a luggage label to wrap round my Tinker-bell suitcase and I cried with happiness when I realised that I was actually on my way to Disney Land Paris. 

This was the first time I had visited disney land since I was a little girl and I discovered that the park is nowhere near as big as what I thought but it was still worth every minute. If you ever visit Disney Land in Paris, make sure you stay till the very end to see the firework display and show that is projected on to the castle - its the best part of the day and only started this year for the theme parks 20th anniversary.

Whilst in Paris with the boyfriend, I also became the biggest tourist and visited the Eiffel Tower, The Notre Dame, Champs Elysees, Arc De Triomph and The Louvre Museum - The home of the original Mona Lisa.

Before even getting to the hotel me and my boyfriend ended up getting on a bus and got off randomly to find something to eat. When we got off the bus we turned around to find that the eiffel tower was right behind us so we sat on a bench and had a chicken and cheese panini, definitely the best way to start the trip. But of course we couldn't stay long, we had to somehow find the hotel and check in (the transport system is a little hard to get used to at first). A few days later we visited the Eiffel tower for the second time and went all the way to the top. The views up there were something else, even if you don't like heights it's worth it. I was quite surprised to find it even has a cafe, shops and a toilet up there! But make sure you wrap up warm because its extremely cold at the top, in fact paris in general is COLD.

When we came down from the eiffel tower it turned dark and down the road there was a christmas market where we had a good giggle at the ice skaters and a few mulled wines all in perfect view of the tower. The Champs Elysees is also another area that is packed with christmas stalls. Paris really is a great place to visit at this time of the year.

Whilst in Paris my boyfriend and I decided to give each other some of our christmas presents as it is our first Christmas together. I was given a gorgeous black fur coat from Topshop and some boots from Office as well as a Pandora Charm, A Pandora Ring and a padlock that he had made especially for the love lock bridge (I didn't know he had it in him). If you don't know what the Love Lock Bridge is, it's a bridge in paris where people write on locks and leave on the bridge to lock their love forever more. The lock my boyfriend had made was engraved just for us and had no key so once that it was locked, it was locked - forever. 

Emslie Creative Press Day 2013

At the beginning of this year I had the great pleasure of being an intern at Emslie Creative PR and was kindly asked back to help out with their press day at Hush in Mayfair, London!

MANIA MANIA.

You may or may not of already heard about Mania Mania but they're new to me, so I thought I'd add them to the category of jewellery obsession. 

Another Australian Jewellery brand inspired by cultural references Mania Mania definitely carries an essensce of magic and guess what, I've fallen in love. The journey began 4 years ago in 2009 when Australian art director and stylist Melanie Kamsler & Tamila Purvis joined forces and created some beautiful works of art. Pricey but what do you expect when its worn by celebrities like Cara Delevingne and Alexa Chung. Time to jump on the band wagon and select some pieces for the box of jewels.

Taking crystals to a new extreme! How cool is this soap?!

Completely inspired, A little bit Obsessed.

Well I recently stumbled across Shop Dixi and Spell & The Gypsy Collective and I have literally become obsessed. The products are amazing and have really inspired me to want to make my own jewellery and have my own boutique. Not even kidding I want my own boutique when I finish university - wish it was that easy. Have I mentioned I'm a little obsessed with jewellery before?

All this silver, turquoise stones, feathers, crystals and driftwood is making me feel really inspired. I don't know what it is about australian brands but they just seem to have something that we don't here in the UK and if we do then can someone please hook me up? Apart from Shop Dixi of course, who definitely have the whole magical australian vibe going on right here in the UK. The brand themselves informed me that part of their look book was actually shot in Australia as I honestly didn't know much about their background but maybe thats why the brand feels so mysterious? Definitely plan on stocking my jewellery box up with Dixi jewels!

Urban Outfitters is probably one of the closest things we have on the high street that stocks australian brands however I would love to visit a Spell store just because the interior and presentation looks amazing, its such a shame that we don't have one in this country. We do however stock Spell & The Gypsy Creative in some UK boutiques Amelie Boutique, The Pretty Junk & The Native State and there is also the option of buying online. I wish I wasn't a student because I just want every single product!

If you don't already follow these guys on Instagram I would 100% recommend that you do.

@shopdixi

@spell_byronbay

 

(all images were taken from the brands Instagrams)