Now in COLOR!
Yesterday I finally used my giftcard to buy ostuff at Kreatima. I had allready planned what I’d buy, some black pens with thinner tips, a drawing pad with glossy paper and some color-pens too. I came out of the store with alot more stuff than I thought I’d afford. Awesome! ^^
I’ve never really drawed with felt pens before, only when I was really small and there were some really dry awfull ones at school. When I got home I immediately started drawing with them, just to try them out. It turned into an image of a girl sitting on a branch with alot of stuff coming out of her big hair (?). It’s not done yet, I’ll probably upload new photos when it is :].
They used to call me..
I finnished seeing the movie “5oo days of summer” at about 01:00 yesterday, I luuved it :]. It was both heartbreaking, funny and beautiful. If you havent seen it I definately recomend it, and its definately not just a “chickflick”, guys can appreciate it too :].
Here’s yet another memorable scene ^^:
It’s love. It’s not Santa Claus.
Tonight I felt like cozying up to a real chick-flick so I downloaded a couple of movies, one of them being “500 days of summer“. So far it’s been really good, it does exactly what a chick-flick is supposed to do, make you feel all bubbly inside :D. However I kept pausing the movie and taking screenshots of it, I’ve been really inspired by tumblr images where people save little scenes in an image series like the one I made below ^^. This movie was great for doing this too since it has so many sweet scenes :].
Now I’ll keep watching the movie, nighty!
Inspiration
These are fabrics and photos found at the fabricstore Stoffochstil’s online catalogue..
Hey peeps! Today I had the day off and knowing I’d have a bunch of free time I thought I could sew something, at last! I allready had the sewingmachine out from when I adjusted a pair of jeans I had bought, and I took out the few fabrics I have left but I couldnt come up with an idea of what to do with it all. :/ I wanted to try doing some patchwork but the fabrics I have are way to boring, they’re all dark, blakck and grey. It should be colourful and with awesome patterns! <3 .. I just need the fabric.
So I started browsing around on a fabric site I found a couple of years ago, Stoffochstil. They always have such cute and fun patterned fabric. Once I know exactly what ‘d like to sew I’ll definately buy some funky fabrics.
Muslim Lula
Wieners are taking over
Wiener-dogs that is ^^.
A few days ago the IKEA-catalogue droped down through my mailbox. I hardly ever buy stuff from ikea but I like flipping through it to watch all of the beautiful interior design. I had Lula lying next to me in bed when I suddenly see a Lula-clone there in the magazine ^^. Another black wiener dog!
I love wiener dogs, and I’ve been seeing them more and more lately. When we first got Lula, about 10½ years ago I hardly ever saw wiener dogs on the streets. Now I see them alot, but usually I see the other wienerdog-kinds, the long haired ones, the ones with the beard-like hair texture, and usually brown ones. Lula is a short- haired, black midget-wienerdog, with smooth hair. The prettiest kind in my opinion :].
Eventhough the wienerdog in the catalouge seems to be the exact same race as Lula, I always think Lula has a special appearance. To me she has more soulful eyes than other dogs, kinder and sweeter eyes. Probably because I’ve learned to understand her expressions :]. <3
How OCD works, Part1
If you read the post “Awesome blog award” you might have read one of my facts where I explain that I have the diagnose “obsessive complusive disorder“. In Swedish it’s called Tvångssyndrom. I recently read that 2% of the population have ocd, and since i’ve been struggling with it alot lately I wanted to write a post about it.
To explain it simply: Sometimes my brain gets stuck on very unpleasant thoughts and I have a problem getting them out of my mind. Except just getting “stuck” on the unpleasant thought my mind also likes to question and challenge me alot. It tells me the opposite of what I feel and want.
The problems this causes is that I some days can spend hours trying to fight away unpleasant thoughts, causing me alot of anxiety and stress. Imagine one thing that you loove, and think “I love _ _ _ _” . Now imagine you getting an impulsive thought telling you “Are you sure you do?”, “I dont think you do..”.
Your reaction would be: “..eeuhm, yeah I do”, but your mind keeps going, “euhm, no you dont”. See the problematics? :] Well, to explain more on how the OCD might work I tried doing it in the best way i know, through sketches :].
Here is the How OCD works series, [Part 1] ^^:
Keiko had for the last 2 months been dating a girl from his class called Mira..
One day when they went out for a walk an ugly monster planted a horrible thought in Keikos mind..
Keiko didnt know what to do of this thought, how can you differentiate different types of joy?.. :/
Keiko started thinking that the ugly monster might be right.. but he certainly didnt want it to be true..
Keiko started thinking that maybe their common interests really werent enough for a relationship..
The ugly monster had succeeded to manipulate Keikos perception to the extent were Keiko wasnt sure about anything anymore
Ofcourse Mira didnt look like that at all, but Keiko just couldnt see her the way he used to anymore
Feeling confused and sadened Keiko couldnt bare to face Mira. The situation had changed, nothing felt right anymore.
Afterwork shopping
Hey everyone, I hope you’re all doing good :]
I’m on my lunchbreak right now, I actually brought a little lunch meal of my own today. I usually dont feel like cooking food when I get home after work. I usually just eat a snack on the evening, but I should make my own lunch more often. Its much cheaper >_<.
I’m thinking I’ll might head over to Kreatima after work too and use the money I have left on my gift card. I got it from my boyfriend on my birthday :], awesome gift. I’ll probably buy some more fabercastle pencils with a thinner brushtip, and a pad with glossy paper.. and perhaps colorpencils too if I I’d still have money left ^^.
Pug in blue
Yesterday I felt like painting one of the clay pugs I still had lying around. :]
Catynettes
Goodmorning people ^^
Yesterday as I was going through old photos of drawings I found these illustrations I made about a year ago. Yet another example of how my style shifts. During the time I made these I was very inspired by Fafi’s “Fafinettes” and so created my own girl-characters. Some sort of “catynettes” i guess ^^. These drawings were made in photoshop with added texture on top of the images to make it look a little more rugged and organic.
