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.
As the title says, I started drawing again today. Most people think I graduated in Photography, but I didn’t! I studied Illustration but I hardly draw, or hardly post any drawings. I haven’t touched a pencil in about 9 months, it’s crazy! I’ll always love photography better, but sometimes there’s nothing better than making your own world with crayons and paint! I’ve never been a really good drawer, my drawings always look a bit childish, but I guess I like that :) Well, I didn’t always like it, but I just have to accept it! That’s also the reason why I like photography so much better: you don’t have to draw things, people, they are already there and you only have to adjust them, you know? My inability to draw has been really frustration during those 4,5 years I studied illustration. But since I’m on a Flickr/photography hiatus right now, I just felt the urge to draw again!
Anyway, I’ll be updating soon again. Have to work 3 days in a row now, after that I’m 5 days off :D Hopefully lots of updates then! Now I’m off, going to hang out with a friend, wine will be involved. I hope I can wake up tomorrow at 7!
I used to be a total Ecoline (sort of waterpaint, or ink.. it’s really intense and pretty!) addict, I think I have about 30 bottles! I’m also a colouraddict, so when I see something in a pretty colour, I just have to buy it. So that most of the time results in me having way too much paint I don’t use.. but at least the colours are pretty ;)
Uhm yeah the drawing, I know most people like my photography way better, but just thought it would be fun to post a drawing for a change :) Years ago, way back into the schooldays, I made a picturebook about Coraline (yes that Neil Gaiman novel), long before it was turned into a movie. I made it with woodcuts and although I like it, I think it could be better! So I decided to make that my new project!
I actually really liked how this turned out, because I can’t draw, I just have to make it prettier in other ways ;) I love photoshopping my drawings to death ;)
Well, at all good things comes an end! My most beloved polkadot headphones died, unfortunately (to be honest, they are really cute but they hurt my ears :P) so I had to buy new ones. Turns out that my camera’s remote has died as well, so I can’t take any proper selfportraits anymore. I’m a bit sick of taking selfportraits/lame pictures anyway, so I’m thinking about quitting my 52 weeks project, or going on a Flickr hiatus for a while. I only want to upload pictures that I’m proud off, that I really like, you know?
Anyway, I haven’t posted in a while and I haven’t been taking really interesting pictures. I will do my utter best to take some interesting ones soon, I promise! I’m also thinking about posting more themed posts, it’s all a bit too random for my taste now!
Now onto the things that do work: my new wacom tablet! After studying illustration for 4,5 years, I finally got one. Not sure how much I will use it, but it was really cheap and it’s just awesome to have one. It will come handy one day, I can feel it!
New boots I found at the thriftstore for only 3 euro, such a nice catch :)
A new dress (one of the many I’ve bought lately) that I looooooove and a part of my room! It’s only 15m2 and I live in small space, as you can see it’s a mess and I have a lot of stuff. I can’t wait till I get my own apartment, but that will probably take at least 2 years :( I’m trying not to think about that!
Last week I was at my parents and I found my dad’s glasses from the 80′s! The funny thing is that’s exactly the same prescription as my own glasses. So I can perfectly see through it, such a coincidence, isn’t it? My parents wanted to throw it out but now it’s mine. Not that I wear it in public, but it’s always a nice accessoire for a party or anything ;)
Also bleached my roots, it looks so much better now! I really like my hair atm :)
Here’s my dad wearing the exact same glasses at my parents’ wedding! I just found out that those are the same glasses :D
That’s it for now ;)
I promise you that this blog will soon wake up and that I’ll be active again! I just have a huge creativity block but as soon as it comes back I’ll show you! :)
Meanwhile I’m looking for a new layout, I hate this one. Why are WordPress layouts/themes so limited? I wish I had the skills to make one of my own.
Edit: I changed the layout, I really like it! Took me a while to change it a bit… do you think the size of the text is too small? I really like small text but I don’t know if it’s easy to read. Let me know! Now I’m finally going to bed, it’s already 1.30AM and I need to work tomorrow!
I haven’t blogged in forever! I actually have no idea why, probably because I just didn’t take many pictures the last few weeks! Also, nothing really happened. I really like my new job, I got a new haircut, went out, visited friends, and mostly: saw a LOT of kids. That’s what happens when you work at an amusement-park ;) Oh and I also bought tons of clothes, as usual. Thing is that I buy tons of stuff, but I hardly get the chance to wear them :( I miss the time where I could wear my own clothes every day! Now I feel like I’m buying all these nice clothes for nothing, which I probably do. I really need to stop buying clothes and also throw a lot away! Thinking about selling some old stuff :)
Anyway, today me and some friends went to de Efteling: the amusement-park where I work. This time we didn’t go for work but for fun! I also went on a rollercoaster for the first time in my life and I have to say it was kinda traumatizing, haha. I never dared to get on one and today I just did and I don’t think I’ve ever been so scared in my life!! Needless to say I’ll never ever set my foot in one of those rollercoastercars again!
Here is one of my friends I was with, just to proof you guys that I do have friends ;) (I feel like people are thinking I don’t since I always post selfportraits! :P)
Cute deer :D
Baby Greattits at work! :) (yes those birds are Great Tits and I can’t help but laughing! :P) They are so cute :D
This is a very vague picture but here you can see my new raincoat! :D It’s a trenchcoat with pink, red & yellow polkadots :D Always wanted a cute raincoat and now I have one, finally. “Too bad” it didn’t rain all day ;) I also bought at least 2 shirts, 2 cardigans and 2 dresses in the last 2 weeks :x Most expensive things were 12 euro though! And I got H&M giftcards so I guess it’s okay :P But I can’t buy anything until I’ve cleaned my closet out, I definitely need to get rid of a lot of things! I’m really glad the new job pays a lot better, so at least it’s not THAT bad to buy lots of stuff :P But still, I’d better save some money!
This post is quiet random, mm.
I collect lots of things, I really am a collector. It’s no secret I’m a huge fan of thrift-stores, I visit the ones in my area at least once a week and I’m a huge sucker for flea markets. However, at one point I grew up and realized that I couldn’t bring everything with me! If you’ll stand in my room, you’ll definitely notice that I have a lot, A LOT, of stuff! I collect all kinds of different things, and one of those weird things is: hairproducts! I love buying hairproducts like a crazy old nerdy man cherishes his post stamps! Today I bought some new products (again) and decided to take a picture of the things I use at the moment. Yes, at the moment. I have to admit that I have at least 5 other shampoos, hair masks, conditioners.. and styling products! I have tons of styling products left, and hairdye! It used to be much worse, I’ve thrown so many prodcuts away in the past. I could go on forever. Here’s a picture of the things I use at the moment..
When you have platinum hair, you’ll soon learn that it requires A LOT of upkeep! When I dye my hair a different colour (like with henna!) I only use a simple shampoo, conditioner and like one bottle of styling product, that’s it! But with (damaged, ouch) whiteblonde hair? Well then I use: two different kinds of purple shampoo (one is less harsh than the other.. one is better for my hair than the other etc.), a purple conditioner, a hair mask (two this time, a ‘normal’ one and one with purple dye in it, to cancel the yellow out), a deep repairing leave in lotion, coconut oil (best thing ever, makes your hair soft and shiny! and.. greasy? ew!), hairvitamins (which I always forget to take!) and last but definitely not least: bleach! I use expensive bleach this time, normally I use really cheap bleach. Platinum hair, it really is a huge investment :P I want everyone to think it through thoroughly before bleaching your hair ;)
I can’t help it, every time I see something that smells nice, has a nice package or just promises me to heal my hair.. I just have to buy it! I’m also addicted to anything that says ‘de-yellowing’ :D
And if it’s not a hair product, than it’s dye! I have no idea why I’m so obsessed with my hair, but I just am! :P
I also loooove hair accessoires! One of my favourites are feather headbands! I buy the feather pads at Etsy and glue them on a headband myself. They’re so pretty :)
And now for something completely different, a small outfit picture! (I know this post has a lot of Myspace selfportraits going on ;)) I bought the jacket at the thrift store, I love it!
Now I’m off, going to catch up with a friend with a nice glass of wine. It was such nice weather today, so I’ll finish the day in summerstyle ;)
(and yes I still like to make my pictures look really blue/purpleish.. it’s just a phase ;))
It seems like a lot of blogs are into fashion nowadays. People are even getting famous because of their fashion blog, it’s crazy! Anyway, I do not intend to get famous, but it seems like people are showing interest in my fashion choices. So today I tried to take a picture of my outfit so I could upload it to the blog ;) I hardly dress up anymore, most of the time I work, work, work :( Yet I keep buying stuff, mostly dresses! And if I dress up, I’m way too lazy to take pictures. Plus there’s hardly any good space here to take pictures and I don’t want to show you my messy room ;) So here are a few pictures, and yes I wear that jacket way too often.
Hat is from the thriftstore, dress & jacket from H&M! I know I cut off my legs but otherwise it would look odd in the blog’s layout so yeah.. sue me ;) It’s the perfect summerdress!
New glasses, also from H&M :) And new hair! It’s lighter now.
New hair and a new lipstick! It was a pain in the ass to get my hair even, the ends on top even turned out orange! This time I used a different bleach than usual and it got really light and not so yellow as usual! I cut a lot of ends of though, because they were dead and orange, lol. Now I need to leave it alone and grow it out, since the ends are still dead, I’ll probably have to keep it really short like this for a while though. Oh well :P It wasn’t even my intention to go this light but it just.. happened? :x
The lipstick is from Rimmel and is called ‘Fever Red’. I’ve been wanting to buy an ‘expensive’ red lipstick forever, but always thought it would be a waste of money since I hardly wear lipstick. I had cheap ones before and they always turned out pink and washed out after only 20 minutes or so! But this one is amazing, definitely worth the money, plus it was 50% priced off :D What more do I want? ;) I also bought foundation, lately my skin looks so red! Might be the new hair, although I never had this before when I had platinum hair :x
That is also a new dress that I’m wearing, by the way. So many clothes, so many useless days I can’t wear them!
I also saw Bright Star last week and I really liked it, the cinematography was so gorgeous! Will make a small picture post about it soon :)
I’m proud to announce you that my blog is featured at the blog of one of my favourite online magazines, N.E.E.T. Magazine! There’s a little interview and some pictures from the blog, be sure to check it out, as well as the rest of their stuff! :)
A cherry blossom tree nearby my house is in bloom and I couldn’t resist taking pictures! I just had to take a few selfportraits, if only for the pretty pink bokeh! I know, I’m kinda bokeh-addicted ;) It’s finally starting to get a bit warmer again, not for long though, we still live in The Netherlands :(
These pictures are quiet cliché and all that jazz, but I just wanted to upload something pretty ;)
Yesterday I watched The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus and it was really good! I can definitely recommend that movie, specially when you look arty movies. I also saw Alice In Wonderland (3D) and it was nice, not very special, but I liked it! The 3D was a bit disappointing though, so I say: save yourself some money and go see it in 2D ;)
Now I’m going to watch the new episode of Lost :D Only a few episodes left and then it’s all over :(
This is a weird and non flattering picture, but it shows my favourite jacket which I can now wear again <3 And my favourite shirt! This is also my favourite combination haha. I love combining prints, I’m a print addict!
Also, what are your favourite blogs? I’d like to read some more blogs!
Hope you have a nice Easter! I love Easter, I love eastereggs and the chocolate bunnies! My mom still gets me one every year and it makes me happy like a little child :D Lately I’ve been quiet boring, besides the happy news that I got a new job, I’ve got nothing to say. I have nothing to blog about, besides some random things. That makes me a bit sad and since I’m already a bit down this week, here’s a post with some random things that made me happy :)
My old iPod got broken so I got myself a fancy iPod Touch! It’s sooo amazing, I love the WiFi on it and all the apps you can download! There are some amazing games you can do :D
My headphones, I love them. I always get nice comments when I wear them in the city! :D Last week a kid wanted to steal them, it was hilarious.
I like playing with my food and I like drawing faces on random things. Tonight I found a red hat in my dinner and decided to play with it and put it on my finger, to much of my mother’s dismay. It looked like a little goblin!
Out of boredom I started to draw on this picture too. I just noticed that it looked just like there was a tiny fox lying in my hand! It even already had the whitish tip at the end of the tail, so funny!
So it’s a Saturdaynight and I’m sitting alone on the couch, updating my blog & watching New Moon. It’s so bad it’s hilarious! I have no idea what’s happening though, I’m not really paying that much attention. But it is freaking hysterical, lol!
