LIFE

When we are kids, even the smallest and simpliest things are like big adventures... But what happens when we grow up? Why does all this disappear and everything become so serious? Why do we become busy and stressed, complaining about everything and forgetting to enjoy the little moments that count the most? Why we forget to be happy?

Everyone chooses one's own path. I chose to smile at the bus stop when it was dark, cold and snowing. I chose to go stand in the heavy rain after weeks of heat. I chose to learn from the mistakes I have done and the storms I have gone through. I chose to be happy. 

Life is a tricky thing, though. You never know what is gonna happen tomorrow and you never know when the next storm is coming. However, you can always enjoy the moment now. You can always be a little child in ur heart...


From these thoughts I created the collection I wrote about earlier in the summer. It took lots of time and effort but finally finished it. I enjoyed every moment of this process - hopefully it shows. Here it is:

VACATION!

It's been wayyyyyyyyy too long time since my last post. DAM. 5 months! However, I do have a good explanation. I been extremely busy this whole winter, spring and summer (so far) with school stuff, exams and research project. Positive thing is, though, that I also advanced lots in my studies. Graduation is much closer again!

Now I feel so free. I won't have to studystudystudy 100% until the end of august and I am sooooo excited about this! I will finally have time to do some paintings! And I already have many many ideas... I did do one painting already in april or so when managed to get one day off from everything else. Perhaps it's describing how I felt sometimes during the spring: trapped in my small room with the books and papers...... 

Or not. I really had lots of fun, too, even though for sure it was tough. About the manymany ideas then.... I will start working on a quite big project in the coming days. It will be kind of an art exhibition project, a collection of paintings but it wont be on walls in some space for certain amount of time. It's bit different. It will be some 20 paintings with one big theme and all of them will be size A4. They will be done on canvas but they will be put in a folder that I will be carrying around then like models do with their portfolios. I will also post the collection here in my blog.

But why this? I been dreaming of doing this kind of bigger collection of paintings with one theme for long time already but always there has been two problems: time and space. This summer I then decided that I WILL HAVE TIME but the place was still causing me some worries. I already do have paintings in a coffee place but I didn't think this collection would fit there. So I got this idea of portfolio. I already did have a portfolio that had pictures of my paintings but those photos never catch the colours in original way. Moreover, the photos always lose bit of the emotion that is caught in the painting. So I decided to have a portfolio with original paintings. This I will then carry with me when I travel and meet people so that as many interested people as possible will get to see the paintings. I don't know how all this is gonna work out but I for sure am excited about it.

My room - DIYs

In my previous post I described a dream makeover to the appartment I live in now but didn't mention anything abt the current design - only said it changes a lot since the people change regularly, too. Moreover, didn't wanna post pictures or so from the space I share with my roomies. It is their home, too - not only mine. However, I can and will share pictures from my room. I thought I should show how interior design and my ideas show in real. I'm not of course able to do makeovers or anything like that in real but little tiny things are fun, too and might change the look of room completely. I love to do little DIY projects! 

In the bag I've hidden my hair products and hairdryer....

Like you could already see in the makeover and for sure can see in my room, I looooooooooooooooove black and white. With different kind of shapes and patterns, the space stays still interesting even though it doesn't have lots of colour.

In my most recent, bit bigger DIY project I only needed white and black paper, postcards, scissors, tape, pens and patience. I love to travel but this didn't show yet lots in my room. So, I got an idea to add this somehow to this project. On the sides I put postcards I've bought from the places I've visited and the names of these cities I wrote behind the different objects. On first one, there is a text "I love". Overall, the whole project took bit more than my usual projects but not longer than couple of hours. And in my opinion, those hours were well spent.

Before. This light blue didn't quite go with the rest of the room....

After. And like you can see, I also love bags and purses...........

My usual DIY projects are more like painting some shoe boxes or giving some objects new purposes. For example in the next picture you can see a lot of my little projects. First, there is a black n white box with white dots - this used to be a pink shoe box. Second, one part of the desk is painted black. It used to be covered with lots of paint marks: from yellow to blue, green to red. It did NOT look good. The fabric with stars is a pillow case, btw! I didn't need it anymore but instead of throwing it away, gave it a new purpose. I do that a lot. Third, the garbage can had some disney pictures on it and this didn't really represent my style anymore..... Didn't wanna use money on a new one so took nice plastic bag, taped it nicely and voilà!

There are also many little boxes and stuff that I've just painted. One time, for example, just got an idea to use toilet rolls. Painted them (surprise surprise) black and white, glued together and used as "storage" for little light things like paperclips. However, paint isn't only thing I use. Another place where I've used pillow case for different purpose is on little "nightstand". Is made of wood and is same light blue as the DIY project I introduced earlier (both are self made.....). However, on this one paper would've been more difficult and again had a nice pillow case that I didn't need anymore....

So, this is how my room looks like NOW. It changes all the time as I get new ideas every week. I am quite happy with it now, though, so might be it stays like this for a while now. Moreover, won't have lots of time for some weeks as studying will keep me very busy. However, I will keep posting some DIY projects later on and share my ideas....