In FHM - On Emily Atack!

As in my gilded spider ring is in FHM (April 2012) on the finger of Emily Atack "She's Tv's sexiest girl - and here's the proof"!

I have basically given up on blogging at the moment because my dissertation is genuinely making me feel genuinely ill but I was pretty excited to see my ring on the cover of FHM so I'm going to share a few pictures. And much thanks goes to the stylist Hayley Forester for picking the ring!

Front cover! Whoop!

And here is a clearer image of the ring. Sterling silver with gold plated body, clutching a black diamond and with teeny little diamond eyes!

I do find the poses for the editorial quite funny: Here's Emily sitting on some stairs wearing trainers, a denim jacket but no trousers! Now she is standing in the livingroom...Now she's hugging a giant bear wearing even less! Blowing bubbles in the kitchen, lying on the floor eating fruit, reading a book in the denim and trainers ensemble, back in the kitchen wearing suspenders and drinking milk from the carton!

And finally stretching her hamstring on a radiator! Bizarre.

Though this final one does have a brilliantly clear shot of the ring!

There is also a pendant version.

All available from here.

Lad's mags are so silly!

I'll be back when I have written 11,000 words.

xxx

Kitten Goes to the Manchester Museum

Ok it's pretty much official now. I only seem to be able to post every 8 days. Ridiculous.

Anyway this is what was working on last week. I handed it in yesterday so hopefully I won't be done for self-plagiarism but if some Important University Person is reading this... I am just posting some work that I already handed in!

Also I owe an awful lot to two books in particular so I want to post links to them to make sure they get the credit they deserve:
1. Ottoline at the British Museum by Sally Craddock

2. Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt

All drawings are my own, photographs are my own or taken from 'Ancient Faces' (or other publications cited in the bibliography). I have not requested permission to use the images I do not own but have used them purely for research and will taken them down if required.

Ok, on with the project!

Having been given the assignment ‘How can we reconstruct the lives of ancient people using papyri?’ I have opted to create a book designed to appeal to a younger audience. This is in keeping with the aims of the forthcoming exhibition at John Rylands Library Deansgate to make the artifacts featured in ‘Kitten Goes to the Manchester Museum’ more accessible.

The End.

xxx

(I will do a separate post, perhaps on Friday, with the full bibliog because there's no room here and also some pictures I took behind the scenes at the Museum!)