New tee and new office

Hey everyone!

I’ve been a bit absent on the blog for these last couple of days because Ive been super busy. Remember the post I wrote before about me being extremely happy? Well, it was because we had just found a new office space, and now a couple of days later we’ve just moved in :D.

This doesnt have anything to do with the pictures above tho. This was just a t-shirt I bought yesterday. Some times I stumble upon tee-prints that I feel like I could have done, cus they are so ”my style” :D. Well, this one was one of those so I had to have it ^^.

I’m going back to work now. I’ll try to organize my blogging again  from now on. It doesnt feel right to not blog :/.

Have a nice day everyone!

Happy mothers day!

Today it’s mothers-day in Sweden so I thought I’d make a post for my Super mom. I love you mamis!

Working with headphonez

I always work best when I have my headphones on.  Or well, it depends on what Im doing. If its mindless design job it increases workflow, but If I need to write something I’ts impossible to concentrate. >_<

Wednesday sum up

Hello peoples :].

I’m currently watching Efterlyst on tv (A swedish crime investigating program) while drawing, trying to sketch a new double-faced head ^^. I did take some photos during the day today so I thought I’d do a wednesday sum up.

First of all is a picture of my new doublefaced head, in progress! I dont want to reveal too much of it yet.

The second image is a shot of a bean-shelf we passed  in the grocery store. It’s a strange thing to shoot but It really caught both me and my boyfriends eyes as we were passing by :D. I loved the minimalistic design and how they were all lined up so nicely, very swedish!

The forth photo is of the sunset thats currently beaming through my window. :]

I’m feeling pretty tired now, I’ll probably just look at the new episode of The City and then go to sleep. Nighty folks!

Back pain

Ih, my lower back has been hurting really bad today :(. It’s been a bit soar since a couple of days back and Ive just kept stretching and bending trying to loosen up my spine but today I can hardly sit down without it hurting. Thats what I get for working by the computer all day and not excersizing my back :/.

Since the back pain has kind of been the theme for today I thought Id do some images expressing what I’d like to do. >_<

Would you do irl what you do in your blog?

This is something I’ve thought quite a bit about regarding my blog. Would you do in real  life what you do in your blog, if not then why do you?

Bloggers who show and tell Everything

I love personal blogs, bloggers who put up alot of photos of themselves and uninhibitedly show every little aspect of their life, but Im not sure I’d like that for myself. I know that when I read these type of blogs I often end up feeling like I know that person, as if its a friend of mine, but in reality she has no idea of who I am.

In real life I’m a very private person, I don’t like telling everyone my business, exactly what I’ve done throughout the day and whats going on in my life. If I’m not even telling my closest friends and family these things, then why would I write it on the blog?

Sharing your life to strangers – When we blog we are sitting quitely by our computers just ranting on about ourselves as if we are writing a diary or telling it to our best friend, but I think many people forget the fact that their blogs can be accessed by anyone from anywhere in the entire world.

Usually I dont even think this matters all that much. I dont think that you over-exposing your life will haunt you or cause you problems in most cases but I am still not at ease with the fact of sharing everything to total strangers.

When I’m blogging I am often aware of this and sometimes filter out what it is I actually want to show on my blog. In this post I have used a holiday photo of me as an example, where I’ve painted over myself as a type of censorship ^^.

Do I really want the entire world to see me in a bikini? This year I might put up one bikini-shot tho just because my new bikini is so awesome :D, but you get my point. I also often think of how I am presenting myself, how I am being percieved. If I blog about my work and what I do it feels very out of context to suddenly have a bikini shot of myself. The only exception for me regarding this is if the photo would be artsy in some way, then it’s nolonger about me as a person, but as a photo itself.

Am I fake for filtering what I put up on my blog? – Now you might think that If I censor myself and filter what I want to put on my blog I’m not being real, but I am! I am trying to be like I would be in real life. Instead of showing every aspect of my life I try to keep it real by telling you my thoughts and showing you what I do. If you now one day see me put up personal photos of my life on the blog it’s because I’ve allready approved them as being appropriate to be seen by anyone.

Privacy was lost when Facebook blew up

Facebook has also been a huge step in the new trend of showing every aspect of our lifes. People load up pictures of everything, sometimes even so private that I feel awkward watching them :D.

As I said previously I dont think there actually is very much harm in over-exposing your life but I think its important to actually be aware of the extreme reach you have trhough your blog and facebook account. In these times when even new born babies get Facebook accounts people are giving up more and more privacy all the time, often without even thinking of it.

On the second image you can see a friend of mine with her tiny baby, both ”censored”.  This is a photo I took a couple of weeks ago and I recently asked her if it was okay for me to put up the photos from that day on my blog,  she said they dont want their baby to be ”online” yet and I fully understand and respect that. Some things are just meant to be kept private.

What are your thoughts on this over-exposing Blog and Facebook trend?

Do you filter out what you put up on the web? If not, then why dont you? :]

Toon boom, the animation software

Goodmorning everyone!

These last couple of days I’ve been a little uninspired regarding my arts, crafts and the blog but It always comes and goes in short phases. Sometimes I try to use every freetime I have to work on my own projects but that results in alot of working, so lately I’ve been trying to use my freetime to actually chill out a bit too. Allthough I’m allready getting restless by not creating anything :D.

This morning I started tinking of creating an new animation and I thought I’d share this software I’ve read about with you:

A couple of weekes ago I asked people at grafisktforum (a swedish web/graphic forum) how artists usually do 2D animations and they told me about this software called ”Toon boom”. Apparently many famous animated series and movies have been animated with this software, series such as Family guy,  Sponge Bob square pants, The rugrats movie, The Simpsons movie etc.

I havent tried it out yet but I sure want to, soon!

The day after

This morning It was still sunny and hot outside so we definately had to go out for a while ^^.

Me and my boyfriend went off  to get some burgers and then headed straight to the nearest grassfield were we could chill out.

Im now starting to realize how difficult it will be to stay focused on work if the weather continues like this :D. I instinctively want to run out barefoot as soon as its 21 degrees+, how will this work out? :/

The night before

Yesterday I organized a little BBQ with a bunch of friends at Tanto, a nice little park in Stockholm.

Eventhough the clouds seemed to be gathering up just as we were getting there they all seemed to pass just around the Tanto-area and the sunny weather remained ^^.

I didn’t take many photos last night but I’m hoping my friend took some, in that case I’ll update this post with more photos later on :].

UPDATE 26 maj: I just added some photos my friend sent me yesterday :D. Regarding the close up on me on photo number 3, what can I say.. If I’m happy I like to show it!

Fashion cat

This is a little drawing/collage I made months ago. There was alot of magazinebrowsing, cutting and pasting involved when creating it :]

Lulas existential pondering

The 5 signs of complete excitement

Hello people! I hope you’ve had a wonderful day, I sure have^^.

Today I went out on a little business assignment which resulted in something wonderful. I can’t tell you what it’s about yet, but It’s hade me excited all day!! :D

I was so excited that I had to take a photo of my excitement. I know it looks more like I’m terrified or really-really need to go to the bathroom, but no. This is just me being extreeemely excited :D.

Bigger is better!

I love big photos, the bigger the better! Thats why I just widened the blog posts with 57 pixels.

It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now. Eversince I first started thinking of making my own blog I’ve been inspired by white, spacious blogs with huge pretty photos.

The only things that bugs me a bit is that my previous posts now have images smaller than the new width >_<.

Summerbreeze, makes me feel fiine

This morning I went for yet another long walk with my doggie, on yet another beautiful day!

During the walk I realized that its not appropriate to be wearing so much black anymore, it made me feel gothic  and sad :D. It works during the winter but now it just looks depressing.

Bikini love

Yesterday when it was so hot and sunny outside I started browsing through online shops for a new bikini, and I found this one!

I wasnt sure if I liked it or not so I went out to the store earlier today, tried it on and loved it :D. So now it’s mine.
I have however gained a few kilos this last year and I’d like to get rid of them. I’m gonna try real hard to work out alot this month.

I got extra inspired by looking at the american tv show ”Biggest looser” where some of the contestants loose up to 13 kilos a week(!). If they can loose 13 a week I should be able to atleast loose 1 kilo in 2 weeks, right? Im trying to be realistic here :D. I might try to get a bit tanned before the summer too, after this long dark winter Im now as white as a ghost. Some color wouldn’t hurt :]