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søndag 2. august 2015

+ romanticing summer : nostalgia feelings +

I thought I write a little entry about my general status and life at the moment, for those interested.
If you are following my instagram, you might notice that that is where I post most often. 
I have this tendency to forget about this blog, or feel like my life is to event-less to write about.
But who says there is a rule to what you can and can´t write about? It is my blog after all, and my goal was to create a space for me to express myself, and talk about things that inspire me and that hopefully will inspire you! 

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 This summer I had about one month of freetime, and a couple of weeks, before I started my summer-job at the same library I´ve been working at every summer for the past 3 years.

It felt strange, being back in my hometown after having lived in Oslo for about a year now! I am actually working at the local tourist-information this year, since our local town is very small and the library doubles as a tourist-information. I felt really eager to promote my homeplace to the tourists this year, and my mom says it´s because I´ve been away for so long. You get a different view of things when you return after having been away. It´s probably good for my social anxiety as well... I feel happy when I can help people get good experiences when they visit here ^^

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When it comes to my personal health, I have become lost in a deep rift of bad-selfconfidence, which basically renders me into a pattern of dressing in the same clothes over and over (having them be oversized and boring) and trying to stick out as little as possible... This is a part of my disorder, and it always becomes worse when I am really sick... 

Another reason for not posting pictures of myself is because of that. 


So! I wanted to summarise some events over the past few weeks/months,
all presented to you by some of my recent instagram-posts:
 
When I came home, one of the first things I did was this jigsaw puzzle, featuring flower fairies, and 1000 pieces in total! It went remarkably fast, as I downloaded the Audible app from Amazon, and listened to exciting audiobooks while doing it ^^! I would reccomend this to everyone, very calming and it makes you feel pretty accomplished finishing a jigsaw puzzle with this many pieces 

 



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My oldest sister came home from South-Africa this summer! She had these white fabric shoes, that she didn´t really use, and as we can use the same kind of shoes, she told me I could borrow them for the summer! I of course was very happy, as I only had shoes with ties on them, and these were so easy to wear since I could just slip them on. Later on, she actually told me I could have them if I wanted, and that she originally bought them to draw on them, but never got around to it! That was my idea also, so I ended up with this cute little egg-design that says "tamago tomodachi" in japanese, meaning "egg friend" haha ^^



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When I was down in Oslo, I desperatly wanted proper drawing-things and as quality can be sort of pricy, I actually asked my parents for a favour, helping me get a new artbook and some good drawing pens.... The nice thing was that they actually said yes, so after coming home for summer vacation, I started my brand new 240 page A4 size drawing-book/sketch-book, determined to make every page count ^^ This was a hair-study I did that I was quite happy with!



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Another page in my drawing-book, showing off my brand new OC that still lacks a name... if you have a good idea, please let me know ^^ hehe



 
(don´t mind my oversized outfit)... And that brings me up until last weekend. My family, at that moment my next-oldest sister and her boyfriend were joining us, and my oldest sister had gone back to South Africa, took me with them on a trip to another island, about 5-6 hours by car from our own island to join in on the 50th anniversary of an old family-friend of ours. This consisted of driving in a 5-person car that was quite heated due to the weather and having it be completely full.... We slept in a small camping-hut that we rented on a local camping-place in the area, and because I´m a light-sleeper, I could hardly close an eye the day before leaving, and almost not at all on the night we spent there, as my roomates were a bit ... ehm... nosiy in their sleep.... 
BUT it was a lovely experience through and through! I haven´t gone on a trip like that with my family since my childhood... there was no connection to internet anywhere and everything was just nature, clouds, wind and sun, grass and ocean *sigh*



Just look at the beautiful sunset on the night we stayed there!
 

And lastly, I wanted to mention that I went to a wedding this week! The first ever wedding I´ve attended, being able to remember it! My family says I was at a wedding when I was about 3 or something, but I only have vague memories from it, so this was basically a new experience for me!
Me, my mom and my dad arrived rather late, as all of us had work to attend to before being able to go. My sister and her boyfriend however, are still on vacation, so they could go directly and experienced the whole seremony. 

I was a bit scared of going because of just having finished that trip with everyone, and it´s really stressfull for me having social events scheduled to go to...( needless to say, I became sick afterwards... brain overload) I had a hard time finding anything I could wear that wouldn´t be revealing at all, and ended up with a white, foot-long maxi summerdress, with some pink details!
 


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So yeah, decided to brake the "don´t wear a white dress in a wedding"-rule on my first wedding-attendance! Well, it wasn´t a very big deal, since they were the kids of family-friends we´ve known since before I was born ^^ hehe


And that pretty much is the things I wanted to mention up until now.
Other than these events and my current summer job, I haven´t been doing very interesting things this summer. Spending a lot of time outside in nature, climbing the local hills and mountains, working my way through interesting looking movies from all kinds of categories, and preferably around the 80s. Playing some games, and also drawing a bit ofcourse! 


It is now 31 days until I leave for Japan!

 
 and I must admit I am quite eager to get back into business! This is by far the longest summer-vacation I´ve ever had, being a university student, it´s about 3 months! 

I want to write an entry about some of the movies I´ve seen lately, so I might do that in a not too distant future ^^ stay tuned! I hope you enjoyed this entry!

lørdag 10. november 2012

@ Instagram lately


I am a terrible, terrible blogger >.< shame on me!
Last weekend, I was determined to update, but, I went on a movie marathon and had to recover
the rest of the weekend (more details on this further down!)

Also, I have been super duper super duper super duper busy with school work...

and the main reason for not updating.... it is becoming darker and darker outside, 
and the lighting is far to poor to take pictures! And I don´t want to bore you with only text post upon text post, because I don´t like those very much...


Anywhoooo, I have been updating my instagram regularily over these past few weeks, and thought it was time to share a bit of my everyday life with you again ^^


Starting from the oldest ones...


I started watching Adventure Time recently! ^0^
What an amazingly cute, weird and silly show! I just love it x3 
Especially, I like princess bubblegum and Finn a lot! They are so adorable :) 
I just had to doodle them in my moleskine <3





I didn´t take a full outfit picture that day, but for Halloween, I was dressed as the tooth fairy! ^0^
I wore my Twinkle Costallation skirt from Baby, the star shines bright, and a wand and my teeth necklace, with my black Angelic Pretty blouse ^^ Quite happy with it :)





I went to a Lord of the Rings marathon in my local cinema, since the "the Hobbit" is coming around shortly! ^^ I was to young to watch the movies in the cinema when they were shown the first time around, and this event sounded so amazing that I just had to go :D 
In the program, it was listed that it would be 10 1/2 hours in total, but when we came there, they found out that they wanted to show the special extended edition instead @____@
 basically, 13 hours!
and only 10 min. brake time in bethween the movies!

....

so yeah, I didn´t sleep AT ALL! I was awake through the intire thing, drinking energy drinks and eating candy to keep myself awake... by the time it was over, my eyes were crossing eatchother, and I was seeing double! Still, when I got home, I didn´t go to sleep until later that night, because I didn´t want to turn my rythm around.... It was a bad idea >.< I felt terrible the next three days, and my neck hurt like mad... pain killers and relaxation was my medicine really... 

so yeah, it was an amazing experience, and I liked it,
but sometimes you get a bit to much of the good stuff XD haha... 
Atleast I can say that I have done that once in my life now ! ^^




(It has been a really long time since I updated about anything art related on this blog,
 so I will try to do that as soon as possible >.< )
 
I also recently started watching this anime show called Futari wa Precure. It is super duper cute ^-^
I found this amazing artbook on Ebay, with pictures from all the seasons with all the characters
(I am still in the beginning of season 1, but there is loads of them appearantly!) and everything looked so cute that I just had to have it :) 
I love artbooks, thinking about collecting them, I allready have ... like... 7 or 8 of them, so why not? 
Loads of inspiration right in front of you! :D 


The best part about this book is that it is a doujin (fan-made artbook) that used to be sold on Comiket in Japan, and it had a poster inside! (I allready put this up on my wall offcourse x3)
Again, I love supporting smaller artists, and getting unique items is so amazing *w* 





This is the closest I came to a halloween drawing this year, sadly >.< Every year, I always try to draw atleast one halloween picture, but this year, it just turned out to be a doodle.... 
and it was to late also XD haha
I am practicing using Paint Tool SAI <3 





... I was a bit late with ordering halloween stuff this year,
 so two days ago I got my halloween stockings ^^"
I ordered two pairs, one orange and one purple, so I could wear them together! :) Made sure to order from the same place, to make sure the lines were evenly thick... maybe it´s just me, but it kinda bothers me when they aren´t >.< 





... as you can see, the lighting doesn´t really get better than this at this time of year >.< 
And it is only going to get darker! 

Here is an outfit I wore today with my new stockings! ^0^ Halloween inspired yaaay x3

I really like them a lot :D Can´t wait until I find a really good outfit to wear them with ^^
The shirt I am wearing is from Taobao, socks from Ebay, skirt and cardigan from H&M, accesories from kreepsville 666 and slippers from my sister (bought at avalon)




What did you dress up as for Halloween? 
Did your outfit arrive late also? x3



I am thinking about writing a tutorial or maybe a recipe sometime soon... I wanna do something creative anyway x3 What do you guys think about that?


Thanks for reading! 

lørdag 11. august 2012

Peculiar thoughts of odd whimsy

When you live your life with a mental disease, it is almost like having a second person inside of you... 
There is this one person that is focused, resonable and healthy, while there is another sort of crazy, loopsided person that has completly turned right into wrong and vise versa... 

Presently, I am quite confused over the current situation of what I am going through in my life, and therefore I am finding that every single day becomes an utter pain to endure....
I feel tired from simply thinking, which might sound far from as exhausting as it currently is... 
It kind of feels like I am being pulled in several directions at once, because my head is telling me to do this and that, and not this and that because it is wrong, but acctually it is right, but still totally wrong :S

Not only am I experiencing getting worse, thinking of my health and all, but a depression is growing inside of me, that just won´t let go... It is all very silly and confusing, and mostly I just feel like everything is one big movie and that nothing is for real... like a dream of some sort... not one of the really good ones, sadly... 
It is partly due to the fact that I am extremly bored and have far to much time on my hands...

Yesterday, my sister , who is home for vication, gave me something which I believe might be a vintage belt! 
I quite liked it, and thought of an outfit almost imediatly, so I had to try it out today ^^ 


Shiro elegance
Shoes: ???
Tights: Amazon
Skirt: H&M kids section
Belt: vintage
Blouse: Bodyline
Accesories: Glitter, H&M, Kreepsville 666



I quite like the details of this one :) The necklace really is a great contrast to the feminine and cutesy blouse, which gives of a creepy cute look ^^ 




I have another outfit that I recently wore to work, with the same skirt! It is very different, acctually one of my best fairy-kei atempts (in my opinion anyway xD) and gives off a totally different wibe,
 so I decided to post it also:


 Playful Lilac
Slippers: (only worn while at home) H&M
Tights: HolleyTeaTime
Skirt: H&M kids section
Sweater: Milklim
Accesories: Angelic Pretty, Chocomint, Milklim, Glitter





But really, these days I am so worn out that if I get out of my jammies it is really a miracle, so most days, I acctually just look like this, when I am at home...

( you can´t tell, but the sweater has wine-red letters that goes with the tights xP)



As  a kind of interesting add, for some of you, I can say that I finally managed to finish all of the pages of my comic! ^^ YAAY <3 I am so slow with things like that XD I was acctually planning to post all of the pages a week ago, but I forgot, since I was so busy with work and such >.< ughhh...

I hope you like the result!








(The text was just made up as I made the pages, so I appologize for the poor quality :S ehehe...)

I am otherwise really pleased with how it turned out, and proud to say
that my first comic pages made professionally turned out ok! ^0^ 

I would really, really appreciate to hear from all of you what you think about it :D

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 A couple of days ago was my last day at the library for the summer, and even though it felt good, it was almost a little bit sad walking out of there for the last time in a while ... I will most lightly work there later on, when they have the need for extras, but currently, I am finished. 
Yesterday, I also got my salary for the first 3 weeks of work and FINALLY I could order things again! ^^ YAAY! I am so happy about it :D I have been pretty much broke for a couple of months now
(I am not counting the hairdresser money, since money sat aside for a particuilar purpose
really is the same as being broke to me
) 
Hopefully, I will hear from the shopping service I contacted about it very soon,
and quickly get my new taobao items :3  
 
I hope everyone is enjoying their summer vication, or the start of the new school year
(whichever it is for you) 
I don´t have any plans for now, other than reading "the hitchaikers guide to the galaxy" with my sister, and since we are just about done, it seems like the next exciting thing to happen won´t be until I get my packages, or letters from my penpals x3 
 
Thanks for reading!