This is us at the costume museum trying on corsettes. This was a fashion museum that had all the styles and trends throughout the centuries. These were a bunch of town houses that were built in a giant U shape! It was really neat, but you can't really tell by this picture.

This is part of our group in the middle of giant trees!

One of our assignments was to find a random person and take a picture of them, and then find a piece of furniture that reminded us of them. This is to help us so in the future when we get clients and want to figure out their style and how they would like their interiors to be designed. We could change the furniture slighty to fit their personality better. So here is my lady. She was behind us in line at the London Eye. She was dressed all in black and had purply red dyed hair. She had dark eye make-up and gave off the impression of don't talk to me, don't look at me, she had a very cold feeling about her. Her clothing was very straight and plain, and she kind of gave everyone around her an uncomfortable feeling. So I figured the furniture piece I should find to suite her personality should be uncomfortable, cold looking, and not fancy at all. This is the piece of furniture that I found.
I changed it to be the color black because she was wearing all black. I also changed the seat color to be similar to her hair color. I named the furniture Dark Isolation because her appearance was very dark and she seemed isolated from the world. The text also fits her character because it is simple and gives a mysterious vibe.

Today we went to Bath, England. It was about an hour and forty minute train ride from London, but I am so sick of long train rides that it felt like it took forever! We went to the ancient Roman Baths. The water in the baths is still the natural hot springs. I didn't expect the water to be green, but I guess that is just the natural color of it. (It just looked gross to me!)

After the Roman Baths we went to a costume museum. They had all the styles of clothes throughout the centuries. They had a place where you could try on corsettes. I struggled with mine, and it pretty much just makes me look fatter than skinnier!

This is outside Robert Burns cottage where he was born. He is Scotland's famous poet.

This is a famous bridge called the Brig o' doon.

The next day we went to Culzean Castle. It was so incredible! We asked everyone in Scotland which castle would be the best to go see and everyone said Culzean. When we got there, we could definitly see why! It is right on a cliff looking over the Atlantic Ocean. I couldn't believe the view. This is our first view we saw of the Castle! We couldn't wait to get to it after we saw that!

We ate lunch at Culzean Castle. It was a really good meal and a really good setting!
This is looking out at the sea from the castle.

This is the place where the guards would watch. There is a little fireplace inside to keep them warm.

This past weekend me and three of my roommates took a trip to Scotland. It was the most amazing trip of my life! I love Scotland! It is so so much better than England! The countryside and culture and people and everything is awesome! One of the first places we went to was Edinburgh Castle. Edinburgh is the capitol of Scotland, and the castle was so great! This is us walking up to the gates!


Here we are sitting on top of a canon inside Edinburgh Castle!This is looking out over the city of Edinburgh on top of the Castle! It was such an amazing view!Inside the Edinburgh Castle, there was a war memorial building built to honor all of the Scottish who died trying to gain independence for their country. They had books with the names of all the men who died for the cause. I found two Bulloch names! This isn't the best picture of the names because cameras weren't allowed so we were trying to be sneaky! This is the Scottish Crown Jewels. Cameras weren't allowed once again...but we are pros at being sneaky now!
This is called the Scot Monument. It is also in Edinburgh.

Today we went to Kew Gardens. Because it has been unusually hot over here, most of the grass was dead...so it wasn't as pretty as I had hoped. But chasing the ducks was definitly fun!
They also has giant lily pads that were pretty cool.

The giant conservatory was neat too, but it was so hot and humid that I couldn't stay in it very long. I thought I was going to pass out!

These are mini sea horses! They were in the basement of one of the green houses.

This is my roommate Katie! After really long and hot days, sometimes we get really goofy and tired! This is at the end of a really long day and we are riding the tube home. (There is glass between them...don't worry)

Today was a free day for everyone to go wherever they wanted to. So me and some roommates decided it was definitly time for some rest and relaxation! We headed for the beach! We took a train down to the coast and then rode a ferry out to an island called the Isle of Wight. It was kind of an overcast day so we were kind of bumbed considering it has been so incredibly hot every single day we have been here! We got there and all just crashed on the beach....and we slept and slept and slept....and then woke up hours later...with really red skin! We didn't realize we had been asleep forever! So now we are all lobsters! The beach was pretty packed today as you can see!

Tonight we went and rode the London Eye. It was really cool! You could see out all over London, and it was such an amazing view of Big Ben (Parliament House) Here is us up in the air!

Today we went to Hampton Court. It was one of King Henry VIII palaces. He had over 80 different palaces and this one was his fourth favorite. In the kitchen they had a bunch of fake meat, but it was pretty gross because they made the whole kitchen smell like raw meat too. I don't know how they made it smell like it....but it definitly did!

Today we went to the Design Center. I absolutely loved it! It was full of modern furniture, fabrics, lighting fixtures, and so much more! This is one of the displays that was in a showroom. I thought it was the best way to show paint I have ever seen. You can actually see what it looks like on a wall as well as what it will look like in various shades of shadow. It was genius!
I loved this bedroom set! You can't really tell it in the picture, but the bed frame is dark brown leather! I love leather furniture!

This is also a really great chair. I like it because it was different and fun and a vibrant red... not a usual piece of furniture you would see.

This was the spiral stair case in the design center. I love the glass railings! They are my favorite and if I ever get rich and can build my own house I am going to put glass railing up the stair case.

This is me towards the end of the day. We were in a really cool store called Habitat but I was just too tired to care anymore. I found this chair and the line of furniture it was apart of was called Utah. So I figured I had better crash in it for a minute...just for names sake! :)

Another one of our assignments was to sketch out a new shape of a water bottle that was inspired by something we saw. The shape of my water bottle was inspired by the V & A museum. As you can see, the outline of the bottle is an upside down V, or it is also an A without the center line. The center piece of the water bottle (it looks like a pizza slice) is just for freezing. There isn't an opening to it, you just unhook it from the bottle and freeze overnight, then hook it back to the bottle and your drink is cold all day!

One of our assignments over here was to find a shape at one of the museums we visited and turn it into a carpet pattern. The shape I took was from the Science Museum, and it was inspired by the giant puzzle there. I thought this would be a fun carpet pattern to put in a children's room or a toy room. It is kind of a play off the traditional black and white checkerboard pattern...just a bit more spiced up and interesting!

This was the giant puzzle that inspired me!

As I walked to church today I took pictures of the V & A building where it had been hit during WWII. I thought it was really cool that they didn't fix the building, instead they left all the damage and marks to remind people of the war.

I also went to the British Library. These are some of the things I saw there.

This picture is of a letter from Sir Thomas Moore telling King Henry VII that he will not support him anymore. He was beheaded because of this.

This is William Tyndale's translation of the Bible into English. It had never been put into English before this and he was executed because of it.

At Hampton Court Conference in 1604 King James I approved a proposal that one uniform translation of the bible should be prepared by the best learned in both Universities in order to remedy the imperfections of current English versions. They preserved much of the wording of Tyndale to produce a book which in the historian Macauley's words, "if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of it's beauty and power." So this is the first ever King James Bible.

I also have pictures of the Gutenberg Bible which was the first bible to ever go to a printing press and have copies made of it. 180 copies were printed of it. But my blogger is being dumb right now and I can't get the picture of it to pop up!