Just the way playas play, all day everyday...

This weekend I have been a pretty busy playa, as all my pals will  know I function on not very much sleep pretty well and I literally can't lie in which isn't a bad thing, it means I can fit a lot into a day. So yesterday began with some Pattern Planning.

I found a few competitions online to enter so had a massive brainstorm with some help from my main playa Liz over text we came up with some basic concepts to explore. I spent a couple hours working on that and experimenting with different colours and pens resulting in a few solid ideas to work on this week. It also happened that Liz and Steve were coming to London so I headed to South Kensington to meet them for some coffee and Ice-cream and a big catchup; I'm not used to being away from my pals for long so it was so nice to see their friendly faces and I forgot that we don't live down the road from each other anymore.

After stuffing my face with a a delicious cadburys nuts about caramel (I am now) ice-cream I left the Begas and took myself to the V&A for a spot of inspiration, The V&A is probably my favourite gallery as the have amazing exhibitions but also the art, textiles and objects that are there all year round are great to have a mosey round. Everytime I look I find something new to fall in love with, the time I obviously had my playa after a pattern head on and found this absolute treat. It is Iranian tiling which instantly reminded me of my friend Shok from work as she is 1. Iranian and 2. always shows me these kind of treats. It is actually large tiles which appealed to me even more as all I had running round my head was the pattern brief ''Tiled and stepped out, 12 colours...'' so when I saw this I thought perfect example of a pattern tiled out, literally!

Left the V&A feeling pretty hyped and inspired and quickly popped into see some old pals at Carhartt, was so lovely to see them and sing about ''NEALLL STREEETT'' with Silvia and George again, I think they were expecting me to whip out a hip hop baked treat out of my bag but have promised to pop back in with some this week. I had previously popped into see my lovely lady Laila in the Shoreditch store so had some real nostalgic moments this week. After having a good sing along in Neal street and a massive catch up I headed home to work on my patterns. 

I was a tired out playa by 8pm however thought I have done pretty much all my favourite things today so should probably finish it off with a late night hip hop bake and they didn't disappoint. I shall pop the recipe up later this evening, one for the chocolate lovers the DMEggz Brownies are a sugar filled gooey chunk of heaven. 

So today I have been back on the work flex with the patterns and some research for the next week at school, but not without making some paper pom poms this morning...I was up at 6..what else is there to do hey?!

The big soundtrack to a playa weekend is of course...