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søndag 29. juli 2012

-my pretty home-

Today, the sun was shining when I opened my eyes, and I had just woken up from a dream that made me both happy and quite melancholic. Short to say, no energy to do anything really...

So, as the day came upon me, I thought I´d take some pictures of what our house currently looks like... 
Since my mom is the kind of person that loves interior, she often buys little oddities to fix up here and there.

As a result, our home has become a big mash of old and new, with everything from homemade things, to antiques, and some brand new stuff. The fun thing is that everything has its own story attached to it!

It is said to be pleasing for the soul to be surrounded by beautiful things, 
so with no further nicknack, here is some of the pretty things to be found in my house...











I was able to borrow a camera, which is the reason why most of the pictures are a lot better, qualitywise ^^ 

If you feel down one day, it feels really good to just walk around and snap a few pictures of what is aesthetically pleasing around you! It helps you focus on positive things and it also kind of opens your eyes more to what kind of beautiful and nice things you might have just beside you,
 that you don´t even think about on a daily basis!

It made me happier for sure today :-) 


see you soon again

lørdag 16. juni 2012

W. d/p: part 3


Back, for more art updates! ^-^ 
Today I will update you about another one of my favourite deviants! :)

Not only is she an amazing artist, she is also my very best friend! ^^





todays deviant is:


INFO:
Real name: Silja 
Country: Faröe Island 
Tools: watercolour, copic markers, pencils
Programs: Paint Tool SAI (sometimes does digital)

She is an artist that works mostly traditionally. Her style is defined by realism, but with cartoon-ish details :) Amazing with colouring, and incredibly inspirational. Her art is full of fantasy and she has the most fantastic details you could imagine! 
I feel so proud knowing her (I have since I was 10 years old! ^-^) and I always feel so happy looking at her art :) 

I will always root her on, because I love her a lot >w< ♡♡♡ She has always been there for me and is the kindest person you could ever imagine

 

Here is some of my favourite pieces that she has made! :D
 !DON´T STEAL HER PICTURES!






I love the moomintrolls, and she potrayed their characters so lovely >w< 







Can you believe that this is hand painted? oAo







!DON´T STEAL HER PICTURES!

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT NONE OF THESE PICTURES ARE MINE AND I DON´T TAKE ANY CREDIT FOR ANYTHING OF THIS BEAUTIFUL ART!

I SIMPLY WISH TO PROMOTE A WONDERFUL ARTIST, AND I WANT TO SPREAD HER BEAUTIFUL ART AROUND FOR EVERYONE TO SEE, AND BE INSPIRED! 

Isn´t her art just AMAZING *A* I love it so much ... she is simply awsome :3 I get super inspired by her use of colours, the details are amazing, and I just love the gradient colours! 

I added all of the links to the original post pages on deviantART, so please go there and give her a comment or favorize her artwork if you have a profile :3

Or just go directly to her profile!




I hope you guys found this amazing art just as inspirational as I do ^^ It makes me want to  draw beautiful people with long lashes :3 It also makes me want to learn realism more! :D


Please let me know what you think! ^0^

See yah later, aligator :3

Josephine

søndag 3. juni 2012

International lolita day!


Thought I´d make a small entry today about what I did yesterday, on the first International lolita day this year! ^-^  I also wanted to show you an outfit I wore last weekend, for my parents 25th wedding anniversary :) 



I´ll just start up with last weekend. I wanted to wear something refined and a bit more elegant, since it was such a classy occation. So I went a bit "old school sweet lolita" :


This outfit is called:

☆Classy sweetie
Jsk: Baby, the star shines bright
Shoes: Baby, the star shines bright
Blouse: Baby, the star shines bright
Tights: H&M
Headbow: Bodyline
Accesories:
Glitter, Chocomint

 I didn´t want to wear any wig, because I wanted a more "toned down" look, so I simply brushed my hair straight :) 

  This is acctually my first jsk ever ^^ Got back in 2009 :)


I love the pretty lace on this dress! It is so lovely! >w<

It was a lovely evening! My parents had not invited any "children", so I were the youngest one... that part was a bit boring, but all in all I had a lot of fun, and the food was delicious!   (´ ▽`).。o♡


Moving on to this Saturday!

Basically, yesterday was a rather shitty day... I don´t really know why, I just felt bummed out for some reason... I think it was because I finally had the opportunity to relax after a lot of school work, and it felt kinda.. empty :-/ 


I did, however, dress up a bit, to celebrate the special occasion! ^^


I´d like to call this outfit :

Memorial Hime ☆

Jsk: Angelic Pretty
Shoes: Björn Borg (with shoe clips from trift store in Scotland)
Tights: H&M
Blouse: Bodyline
Wig: Prisila
Pearly-ribbon-chain: Milky-chan jsk
Accesories: Angelic Pretty, Chocomint, Glitter





Because I never find a suiting necklace for this, I use the brooch ribbon-chain with pearls from my Milky-chan dress! ^^

♡♡♡Look at the beautifull print on this dress ♡♡♡ 


Memorial cake is my favourite print of all *v* It is my ultimate nr. 1 dream dress! :D I am so happy to have it >w< I dream about having it in light blue as well, since that is my absolute favourite colourway! 

So, because this dress is so special to me, I veeeery rearly wear it! Because I am so afraid of ruining it XD haha... I know its silly -.-" Another reason is that I never find any good outfits for it... I have such a small amount of things in my wardrobe as of yet...   


The rest of the day, I spendt sitting by the computer, really... I read some manga, updated tumblr and checked out DeviantART for its daily update. It was not really until the end of the day that I thought about drawing a bit. Recently I have been taking a lot of requests on DeviantART for practising, and yesterday I finished the last one! I am very proud of how it turned out also!^^

It is a "princess in distress" :) I was asked to make her dress either white or blue, so I chose white, and made the shading blue/purple-ish  (。・ω・。)ノ♡ Basically, the shade reminded me so much of a night sky, that I decided to draw a rough, fantasy looking night sky in the background! ^^ (I really need to practice my background drawing =_=) 

I hope you like it! 

please let me know

thats all for now! ^^ I hope everyone had a good international lolita day! 

Did you do anything special?

I am off on other adventures now!

 BYE BYE UNTIL NEXT TIMEEEE!!!

Josephine   

fredag 1. juni 2012

.。.:*・New art series・*:.。.

 Hellow peeps

It has been a long time, and I am really sorry that I have not been writing anything lately, but I have been really busy with midterms and projects at school, but yesterday, I finally had my last test! ^^


So, after resting a bit, I decided to write the first entry to a new series I wanna start on this blog. 
As some of you might now, I am very interested in art (especially drawing), and I have been my whole life. It has always been a very important piece of me. It has made me laugh and cry, be excited and relax. Really, it is a wonderful way of self expression it makes me really happy >w<
I wanna make this series to spread my love for art, and maybe inspire you as well!

Without any more delays, I will herby start the new series:


(。・ω・。)ノ♡

Basically, in this series I will, once a week, be promoting an artist, from the famous DeviantART or Pixiv art community pages, that I find inspirational! ^^ If you are familiar with these web pages (or atleast one of them) you might know that they are great online art communities that features a lot of wonderful artists from all over the world. DeviantART might be the more known one, internationally, but Pixiv is a really wonderful page as well. This one is japanese based (opposed to DeviantART which is America based) and even though there is mostly japanese artist there, they are welcoming international artists as well (*°∀°)=3 Basically, you can publish all kinds of different art that you make, and get feedback from others, do collabs, arttrades and get great friends! ^^


This time, I wanted to talk about a particuilar "deviant" that I really like! and that is

KAZE-HIME
INFO:
Real name: Holly
Country: Canada
Tools: Wacom Intuos tablet
Programs: Adobe photshop 7/CS5, Adobe image ready 7, Open canvas 4, Painter IX, SAI

She is a fulltime student and a freelancer! Self taught artist, born in 1990.
She is specialized in digital art and has an extensive knowledge of photoshop. 



I decided to write about "Kaze-Hime" today, because I think she is an amazing artist and has a really wonderful and super inspirational style! :) I also wanted to promote her, because I just recently got her new art book in the mail ヽ(;▽;)ノ


Here is some of my favourite pictures that she has made: 
!DON´T STEAL HER PICTURES! 













  






!DON´T STEAL HER PICTURES!

All of the pictures has click-throughs to their original posting page on DeviantART, so please click through, to comment and fav if you have an account at DeviantART :D! 

In my opinion, she just draws the cutest faces ever, and I love all the details she puts in her drawings >w< I am truly a detail freak, so its almost like  "the more the merrier!"


I thought I´d also show you my new book that I got from her! :)
Recently she launched her new art book :

(or RMR) 

(if you like her art, please support her by buying this book! ^^) 

This book is a collection of drawings that is related to a LiveJournal community with the same name. (this community is no longer active, but still excists). In this com. the members get together and share their artworks and roughs. Basically, this book was made to celebrate the fourth year anniversary of the com!
The theme is red :) 





A little teaser to see some of the amazing art you can find inside! :D 


This was drawn by Kaze-Hime herself! ^^

...


... 
And this is drawn by two of the incredibly talented artists in her community!  ^^




PLEASE REMEMBER THAT NONE OF THESE PICTURES ARE MINE AND I DON´T TAKE ANY CREDIT FOR ANYTHING OF THIS BEAUTIFUL ART!

I SIMPLY WISH TO PROMOTE A WONDERFUL ARTIST, AND I WANT TO SPREAD HER BEAUTIFUL ART AROUND FOR EVERYONE TO SEE, AND BE INSPIRED!

So, please go and support this amazing artist and look at more of her art ^^


I also hope you got inspired to either draw, or maybe create a really cute new outfit! :D

Please stay GENKI until next time ^0^


Josephine