Angélica

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 :)

A lot of random things

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 ;)

Winter part II

Here are some more photos from this week of snow! Yeah they are all edited differently and stuff, but they’re not a set so don’t sue me! :P
It’s been almost a week full of snow, it’s ridiculous! All public transport has been one big drama, the trains are hardly riding and if they are, there are tons of delays. Same goes for busses, we’re not used to that much snow here in The Netherlands. The snow’s slowly melting though, and I have to admit that I’m glad! I hope the trains will be normal again on Thursday, since I’ll be heading to my parents for Christmas. I’ve downloaded all Ugly Betty episodes I haven’t seen yet and bought lots of wool, so I can knit like crazy in the train and at my parents. I have to admit, I’m not a big Christmas fan, I actually find it quiet boring. But now I’ve find something to kill the time: knit! Right now I’m working on a huge neon pink scarf, hopefully it will be finished after Christmas. I’ve knitted the purple scarf below as well *proud*

We had to blow bubbles at a wedding last Friday, and I took pictures of my brother blowing bubbles like a 5 year old, haha :D

Oops, this picture is a bit smaller! Anyway, there has been lots of snow here, as you can see. I’ve been wanting to buy snowboots for months now, but never did it. Now I really want them and ofcourse they’re all sold out!

I love my new polkadot headphones! <3

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! ;)