Angélica

Finished ^__^

So, I’ve finished my scarf! I really love it, it’s so pretty and thick and amazing. The colour is pretty in real life, more yellow, mustard yellow. It looks a bit orange in the picture but it’s not :) However, it still smells like old lady’s perfume, so I need to get that out first before I can wear it. Even though the weather’s not been that nice lately, it’s still too warm to wear big scarves.
I have been taking lots of pictures lately so I’m afraid this post will contain mostly selfportraits.
Only 2,5 weeks left till high season ends, yay! :) Although this way I can really make money and hopefully I’ll be able to buy a new camera soon!

The first was a testshoot for the lightning for the other shoot. Yes, that’s flour, and it made a hell of a mess! Anyway, I like the testshoot as well, although it’s cheesy as hell, I look like Paddington Bear, have no neck and horrible fried looking hair.. further than that I like it!

My outfit today! Again the infamous pug shirt ;), my favourite skirt and new shoes!

I’ve bought Osis+ Dust It which gives your hair amazing volume! I’m not sure if I love it yet since it seems like it’s more made for longer hair but the result is amazing! I’m not sure if it lasts long though :P We’ll see :) And yes that hand is freaky and does not look like that in real life!

Mm I thought I had to post more pictures but apparently I haven’t! I could upload every single selfportrait I’ve taken but that would be a bit too much ;) There are more pictures at my Flickr though!

Thrift store findings & over edited pictures, hurray!

Today I had a day off and went to the thriftstore. There I found this Olympus Pen! (This and the other picture with cameras is edited with Toycamera Analogcolor, which is a little program I’ve recently discovered. It’s amazing :D) It looks so awesome and retro. Sadly it’s not one of those awesome SLR pens, but just a compact camera. But still awesome! I also really want the digital one, sigh, but it’s so expensive. I’d love to have the 7D (or 5D for that matter!) AND the Olympus Pen since it’s so small! But yeah, dream on ;)
I also bought mustard colored wool :D It’s really pretty but it really smells of old lady’s perfume :P And today my new phone arrived. It is so pretty, I love it! It’s still a bit confusing sometimes though ;) Here are some pictures.

Confusing picture, but these are all my analog camera’s! I sort of collect them, for no reason at all :P I still have tons of film though, but I just hardly use it. Anyway, I have 3 SLR’s, one Pentax K1000 and MX with tons of lenses, a lomo camera, 2 polaroidcamera’s and just a lot of random camera’s I found at the thriftstore.

The wool is so pretty, it’s really coarse and tickle-y though, so I think it’s real, handmade wool :) I’m already knitting even though it’s summer, today was a rainy, cloudy day anyway :(

My amazing phone! (This picture is really green but I like that :P)

Mini update

Hello, I’m still alive but I haven’t been able to update the blog sooner. My life right now is all about work, and hardly about any fun! Although I do enjoy my days off, I don’t really do much, not even taking pictures! So I haven’t got much to post, actually. In 4 weeks I will get my life back, but for now it’s all about work. I don’t really mind though, that way I can save up money for a new camera. I really want the Canon EOS 7D, but it’s really expensive. If the 60D comes out soon, I’ll probably go for that one. I’ve been waiting for it for ages though! I have also bought a new phone, a smartphone so I can actually use it for internet and apps. It should arrive Thuesday, I’m very excited!

My hair is growing fast! As you can see the roots are gigantic and the shaved part is already tons longer. I still really like it! I haven’t dyed my hair for almost 3 months now! I’m proud of myself ;)

Here’s an ‘artsy’ picture I took out of boredom :P

That’s it, a mini entry! :)

A little dead bird and a pug t-shirt, yes really.

Today I finally had a day off, I spent the day reading and shopping. I bought an amazing pug t-shirt (people who know me, know how much I adore those little ugly creatures ;)) and way too much other stuff as well! When I went home I found this little dead bird on the pavement, it was so tiny! I picked it up to put it in the bushes, afraid that it would be crushed under someone’s feet otherwise. Sure, it will most likely get eaten by a cat or dog anyway, but still, I couldn’t bare the thought of seeing it crushed on the pavement! It was so soft and light, and still warm too! It had probably died 30 minutes or so ago.
I haven’t been doing much interesting, only work work work!

The amazing pug shirt, gotta love sale! Also bought the denim blouse, it has a flower print. Not sure if I’ll keep it though, it’s a bit tight at the arms, but it was the last one (sale again, yes). I keep buying tons of clothes while I hardly have the time to wear them! I wish I had a job where I could wear my own clothes :(

And yes that pug is wearing a tiny hat and a bowtie :D

Bought new headbands for 50 cents :D Yes my hair looks unwashed, that is because it’s in desperate need of a wash ;) It looks really fried as well but I also bought a new conditioner today! Hopefully it will look better soon ;)

I have tons of those headbands, I love them so much. Too bad they make my head hurrrrt though :( And I also got new glasses, they were really cheap as I bought the frame at Claire’s for only 2 euro! (Glasses were 30), it’s ridiculously big though! And really reddish.. but I still like them! Not sure if I’d wear them often but still :P (And yes I look like Quasimodo on that picture, it looks so weird haha!)

Big party at work last week, wasn’t very exciting, but I took some pictures. I liked this one :)

Using Christmas decoration as a headband is the best thing ever ;) I wouldn’t go outside looking like that, but it’s still nice on a picture. Been wanting to use it since.. Christmas, really -_-

A last picture of the little poor bird! That’s it for today guys, see you later ;)

New headband and stuff

An update earlier than planned! Today I received my camera’s remote in the mail: superfast! I ordered it about a week ago, and it has already arrived, all the way from Hong Kong. It costs 3 euro, that is including shipping and batteries, crazy! My old remote costs 30 euro, and I spend 10 euro alone on new batteries. If I had known this, I would have ordered the ‘fake’ one from eBay immediately. Now I’m stuck with expensive batteries I can’t use! Oh well, at least I have a remote again :)

Also bought a new headband, which is ofcourse a good reason to take pictures ;) It’s so pretty!

It’s still really hot here, although it’s thundering and raining right now. It’s not raining that hard, but I do hope it will cool down a bit. It’s getting unbearable! :( Thank god I have a fan!

I’m loving my hair right now, I can’t wait to grow it all out for a few months so I can finally have healthy hair in my very own haircolour! After that I’ll bleach it again, ofcourse ;) But it’s fun :)

Testing out the new remote. As you can tell I really love hair accessories! It’s also too hot to wear glasses, but contacts are so annoying sometimes. I have also bought a new dress. And new shorts, shirts, glasses.. I’ll make a post about those soon :)

Fresh strawberries are the best thing ever!

I cooked myself some dinner and it looked (and tasted) so delicious that I had to take a picture of it! I need to cook more often, I wish I didn’t hate cooking so much (or that I’m so lazy ;))

I’m downloading True Blood right now, I need another cheesy tv-show now I’ve finished all the Glee eps :(

I’m still here

I would like to inform you all that I’m still alive! However, the last couple of weeks it has been really, really hot and humid here in the Netherlands. It’s almost unbearable :( It’s not really the weather to take pictures or be active, plus I had to work ofcourse! My camera’s remote is still broken, I have ordered a new one but it will probably take forever till it’s here. I’ve been busy a lot and haven’t used my camera much, so that’s why I hardly updated. I will have to work A LOT so don’t expect much updates soon ;)

What have I been doing the last weeks? While, like I said, I worked, spent lots of time at sea or at friends, watched a lot of Glee (so sad this season’s over, I want to watch more!) and read a lot. That’s it, basically. Right now I’m reading Twilight (yes, that Twilight!) and it’s so boring I’m not sure if I can complete it!

I also got a haircut, as you can see it’s REALLY SHORT. That’s my natural haircolour, ladies and gentlemen! The other side is still ‘long’ though :) It was a bit of a shock, it wasn’t my intention to get it cut that short, but the hairdresser basically buzzed half of my hair of. I really like it now though, and it’s really nice with this hot weather!
(and yes, my hair so short/light/thin even that you can see that huge mole on my head, do not want! it’s growing really fast though :))

Picturedump

Look at me, I’m a polar bear: hear me roar! ;) That is the most warm and softest vest I own, I love it! It immediately reminded me of a polar bear.
Anyway, I’ve been wanting to post a lot more the last week, since I took tons of useless pictures! But I had to work the last couple of days so no blogging. Till now! I really like blogging with a certain theme, but this time it’s just tons of pictures scrambled together.
Tomorrow one day of work left and then I’m 4 days off! I want to go to school, going to look at the graduation show (it’s not officially opened yet, but I just can’t wait! it’s a 5 minute walk from my house anyway), desperately need to clean up my room, need to catch up with Glee (I’m hooked!!), see friends and also make a plan for the future. Lately I’ve been working only 3 days a week, so I figured it would be a great time to make steps towards a more ‘creative’ career :) We’ll see how it goes!
That being said, I miss my camera’s remote control dearly :(

Lately I’m really into big, oversized shirts! They’re amazing, although I don’t exactly know why. My style is a bit of everything: at some days I like to wear a cute dress or skirt and look all feminine, on other days I just like to wear pants, hats and oversized shirts! I even bought short pants (like shorts, but longer ;)) at the thriftstore! It has flowers on it, which is the only reason I bought it. I’m not really into short pants.. don’t think it’s my style ;) But then again, what is? Will post pictures soon!

My dad’s glasses, I decided to take an artsy picture out of boredom ;D Those glasses have the same prescription as mine, as you can see it’s a bit crazy :P That is the biggest reason I hate wearing glasses: they make my eyes so tiny :( I love glasses though!

My brother has graduated high school so we went out to eat! It was really nice :)

My mom and I made pies (I know, very interesting ;D I took pictures of every single thing last week!)

Om nom nom!

Now I’m off to bed, I’m tired!

Changed my website!

I took this picture just to show off my good hairday, but really liked how it looked in black & white! I decided that it needed some text, but didn’t know what.. so eventually I put this on it and decide to build a new website! Well, not totally new.. just added some photos, changed the font/frontpage and a little bit of that. Also changed ‘illustrator’ to ‘illustrator/photographer’ and put the photography part on top, so it’s the most important thing on the website! That’s part of the choice I made: to profile myself as a photographer, not really an illustrator. I also put everything in English now ;) As you can see I like websites clean and simple! Tell me what you think (and if you find an error or anything) :) Funny thing is, hardly anyone looks at my mainwebsite: they all go to the blog. Anyway, check it out! I’ve been busy with it for 2 hours, it’s crazy. I keep finding tiny bugs, sigh.
Typography really isn’t my strongest part, but like I said, I’m only a ‘photographer/illustrator’, not a graphic designer ;)
Now I’m off to bed, it’s 1.15AM here and I need to get up a bit early tomorrow to prepare dad’s birthday party! (I use ! too much, I’m just an enthusiastic writer ;) Does it come off as aggressive? I hope not ;))

Tons of books (and tons of pictures)

Today I went to my grandparents. My grandfather is a huge collector of books: he has two big sheds full of them! Books are his life, his passion, and he loves talking about them and shows me the most random books :) However, he is quiet stingy, in a weird way. When he can’t sell a book, he’d rather burn it than give it away! There is a place in the meadow-land that I’d like to call the ‘book mortuarium”.
Anyway, I always love taking pictures there, so many photogenic things around! Talking about pictures, I’m saving up for a new camera. I really want the Canon Eos 60D (okay, if we’re talking about cameras I’d really want I’d really like a 5D II.. or a digital/non-digital Hasselblad or a Leica or… let’s just talk about things I can sort of afford ;)). I know it’s not out yet, but I hope it will come out soon. I really like the features the 50D has, but I really want a HD filming function, just like all the new cameras nowadays have. Can’t wait!

The pictures are a bit differently edited here and there, I’m sorry if it doesn’t look like a ‘whole’.

My brother :) He has such nice hair!

There are books in those bananaboxes, what you see here would probably be.. idk.. 1/10th of all of his books? Or even more!

So many they’re falling down!

Didn’t alter anything, the knight was already standing in the dollhouse, just thought it was funny :D

Cliché flowerpictures are cliché! But I love taking them :)

Bright Star

From the first minute I watched that movie I KNEW I had to make a post about it! I really loved it and the cinematography is just so stunning. I made a few screencaps, and although the quality is crappy and there aren’t many, but I still thought they were worth posting.