Angélica

359 days left!

The ’365 days’ project is going well! I’m on the 6th day today, I took this picture for today! I went to the Ikea to buy some bookshelves and also bought this beautiful fabric. When I got home (quiet late) this idea just popped into my head! Sometimes it’s hard to make something creative everyday, even after 6 days. I mean it’s really hard to create something every single day, 365 days long. Some days you just don’t feel like doing anything, or you’re just tired, or you just don’t have any inspiration at all. Yet you do have to take that inspiring, creative selfportrait. I don’t think every selfportrait will be very creative, but I do love the project. I love it because this way I keep productive and I really like the stuff I’ve created so far. :) I probably wouldn’t have made some things if it weren’t for this project, most of them turned out suprisingly nice.
Also if you want to keep track of my project, you can look here everyday! :)
This week is going to be busy, tomorrow I might go to Amsterdam (not sure yet though), Wednesday I have my exams resit, which basically means that if I finally get a good grade on my project, I’ve graduated from artschool! Needless to say I’M SO NERVOUS OMG! So, Thursday my parents and brother are coming to my town, so I can finally show them the city after 4 years. On Friday I have a birthdayparty of a good friend of mine and hopefully Saturday a small, last mine graduationparty for my family? But ofcourse I’m not sure about that.. Can’t wait for Wednesday to be over D: (If I pass, that is, if I don’t I never want it to be Wednesday lol!)
Also my hair is freaking greasy, I haven’t washed it in a week.. well not with shampoo that is. Like I said in my previous blog, I’m on the ‘no poo’ diet, which basically means you’re only washing your hair with conditioner. But it’s looking so gross and I really need to get my roots done.. ugh. Might just wash it in a few days anyway, can’t handle it anymore :P

Yesterday’s ’365′ picture!

Working on schoolstuff in the middle of the night! (2AMish?)

I could start an animal shelter, I think. This is Ming Shu, a kitty of a friend of mine! Right now I’m babysitting Mao, an other cat from another friend ;) But now I’m babysitting Ming Shu AND Dunny (a bunny!) too. Boy oh boy, I do love animals :P

I have lived here at Mao’s place (the kitty, obviously :P) for 2 weeks now and have cooked almost everyday. I feel so healthy.. except today, I ate fries at Ikea.

I’m so tired right now but I need to get more schoolwork done! I need to finish the typography of the pictures.. I suck so hard at typography, I hate it with a passion :(

Hello!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here! I haven’t got that much to say, I’ve been busy with my school assignment (only a little week left!) & I’m just enjoying summer, going out with friends, sitting outside with my housemates till 1.30AM, taking lots of pictures, you know the drill ;) I’m also still babysitting the autistic cat, still haven’t touched her! That cat is kinda weird.. I’ve also started with the ‘no poo diet’, which sounds like I can’t poop or anything. Thank God it doesn’t have a thing to do with real poo! It basically means you’re not using shampoo anymore to wash your hair and just use lots of conditioner, with natural ingredients! My hair is already reaaaally greasy so I’m curious how long this ‘diet’ will last, but it’s interesting to try it out! Hopefully my hair will be less dead in a few weeks or so..
I’ve also started a ’365 days project’ on Flickr, which means I’ll take a picture of myself everyday for a year! That way, I’ll always have to reinvent myself and will have a good excuse to take some lame selfportraits! I stayed up all night so I could take pictures at sunrise.. although they didn’t really turned out the way I wanted them to be.. I still like them! So here are some of them..

cliché, but whatever :P

Feather pads! <3

& some schoolstuff

There are more at my Flickr :)

De Parade @ Amsterdam

Lots of stuff have happened lately, but I’ll just keep it short! This Sunday I came back to my dormroom, with my parents helping me with a new closet! So now I have two closets for my clothes, that’s how bad my shopping addiction is ;) I’ve also cleaned up my entire room like crazy, I’m not even finished yet! Hopefully by tomorrow, it’s taking days! But it feels nice and fresh :) Anyway, I came back because I have to babysit a kittykat for a month. Right now I’m at the house of my friends (of the kittykat ;)), it’s really nice to be in a bigger house on your own! :D Although the cat’s very shy, I’ll try if I can take a picture of her this week ;)
On Monday I went to the Parade at Amsterdam, which is a theatre festival! Although we hardly saw any theatre, it was still really fun :) I took lots of pictures, it’s always fun to take pictures of other people!
Yesterday I had a photoshoot with Niqi and Richa. Niqi is a friend of mine who is a photographer, sometimes I ‘model’ for her. I think modelling is totally awkward and I kinda suck in it, lol. It’s really weird, I always feel ridiculous while taking a pose! Maybe it gets better if I’d do it more, idk. Anyway, it made me realise that I actually want to do that to: organizing photoshoots with models, not myself, not just random photographs like in this post, but a real shoot! Than I realised that I actually want to follow an education, to develop myself as a photographer! So right now I’m looking at parttime photography educations, I might follow one next year! Doing a parttime education will give me the chance to also work a few days, so I still have the money to pay for my rent and food ;) I’ll work a year first though, so I can save up the money for the education! I think it’s a really good idea :D
Anyway, now some random photos from the festival!

This is Niqi, by the way. Check out her website!

This makes me miss my long, red hair :(

Lol at his expression :P

We’re looking for this man! ;)

I ate too much meat today

I’ve been busy lately with my school assignment, but not really sure about it. I tdo like the pictures, but I just don’t think they’re good enough! They’re good enough on it’s own, I love them, but not for my assignment I think! I’m not sure yet :x I’ve been at my parents for more than 2 weeks now, but tomorrow I’ll be heading to my own city again! I’ll be babysitting a kitten (okay cat, kitten just sounds more cute ;)) from a friend, who’ll be leaving to Greece for about a month! That’s a long time, yes! My parents are so sweet to bring me there by car, since I have so much stuff to carry along: all those new books, new clothes, new bags, new cameras, my jars! And I’m also getting an extra closet, so I’ll have more space for my clothes! Yay :D I do hope my parents won’t collapse by seeing the mess that is my room D:
I also had my bankaccount verified at Paypal so I started buying things. First of all I’ve bought myself a Flickr Pro account, amazing! I love it, I also came across some really old photos, like these! It’s a bit embarrassing sometimes, but I’m too nostalgic to actually delete them :P
I’ve also made an account at Etsy, finally! I’ve bought some feather pads, which weren’t that expensive! I’m so excited, now I can make my own feather headbands very easily!! :D

I love this shirt :)

I have pink nails! :D

I love (braided) headbands! Also, my roots are showing, I know. Although I just saw “I’m Not There” and Coco inspired me to grow out my roots :)

Feather pads <3 I’ve bought one identical to the red one! Prettyyy <3