I have for the time being moved to another blog, still tumblr, but I felt like I needed a change away from this one. 

You can find me at Huldra’s World.

First month of liver destruction…

… is over for most of the students. The first month of introduction courses, and partying every evening to do networking is finally over. I’m not in uni, but we see them and read about the accidents in particular in September and in May. This year someone decided it was fun to fall out a window while being drunk from the 3rd -or was it the 4th?- floor. Though things are calming down a bit.. one can’t help but to remember that Halloween is soon upon us and people will march through the streets wearing costumes. Though I am fond of dressing up in costumes, I wish we didn’t have to celebrate Halloween, it being an american tradition rather than anything else. It seems with the modern technology world we live in, other people’s tradition is taking over and our own is drowning in-between. However…

I will take this opportunity to show you a really awesome pillow. Which fits the theme of alcohol and partying. At least, in the more geekier sense. 

I found it in my etsy.com news letter, and thought, hey.. this is kind of cool! if you click on the image you’ll get straight to the seller’s page.  The yellow bug boutique got some other cool pillows made from the periodic system as well. I am so tempted! Especially since I am studying the very basics of chemistry right now. 

I think I’ve decided I want to learn to draw and paint a mix between both fine art and art nouveau. I still haven’t drawn anything today. 

I know I’m bad at taking photographs and posting them on my blog. But today I think you’ll be quite pleased that I didn’t. Because, I want to share with you my happiness over finally managing to find green nail-polish in the stores. So yesterday, when I was supposed to shop for new shoes and clothes for this coming autumn, I ended up buying a new hair-dye and green nail-polish. The thing is, I can only paint my toenails, as I can’t wear any nail polish on my nails at work. Due to all the bacterias that loves nail-polish. Anyway, I put on some nail polish on my toes, and I can’t help staring at them. I love the green colour on my nails. Ah! It feels good.

I used to be able to do these sort of things.. I doubt I even remember how to these days.  One of those many things you wish you had never quit doing, and in after thought don’t remember why you did. 

Lazy Sunday

Well, it’s not all that of a lazy Sunday today, I have a lot of things that I need to get done. Amongst them is finishing some homework, finishing some Christmas presents and see if I can fix some new trousers I’ve gotten so they aren’t 20 cm too long for my short legs. There’s cleaning involved on my schedule as well. And drawing. I hope I can get two more drawings done for the sketchbook project. I’ve got a few up now, not many. Hence I need to make many, many more! I’ve drawn from The Book of Lost Things and Ronia Robber’s daughter and from a really good trilogy named The Deed of Paksenarrion. I’m trying to come up with a more original view for Frankenstein. I want to draw from the tale of King Arthur, of The Historian, and of White Bear King Valemon. There’s a lot more, though not all of them are easy enough angles to draw ‘popping’ out of a book. 

But I’m digressing; I wanted to tell you about my little adventure I had this morning. I quite often go for walks these days. Usually I just walk down to the park and walk around there one-two times. It’s not a big park, but I usually spend an hour or so walking down there. Today, however, I decided to try this path really close to my house where I’ve seen people coming and going to ever since I moved into this new place. I haven’t picked up the nerve to go down there before, mostly because it looks like you’re going down into someone’s garden. I had decided that I was going to go try go down there once it became dark, but man am I glad I didn’t! I quickly found a path that led me into the forest! I thought the area here was filled with houses, not that I had a forest in my backyard, not even 2 minutes to walk to get down there. Ah, I’ve missed a lot of forest walking trips. There were several paths and I took one after the other, not really knowing where I’d end up. I knew roughly where I was, but… Ahh! The wind was blowing roughly and the leaves would fall off the trees and swirl in the air. And I was alone, not interrupted by other people walking there. So I got to feel the magic! Then suddenly I found some stairs walking upwards and I thought: Well, why not? and ventured upwards. I always wondered where the Stave-church actually were. I knew it was close to where I live now, but I didn’t really know how to get to it. And…today I found out how. I came up the stairs and I saw the church tower looming over me. Thankfully there was no tourist massing there then. Once again it was just me. And the view was fantastic. I walked around the church, and up on some hill nearby. I sadly didn’t bring my own camera, but I found this one on the web to show you how amazing it is now, with all the autumn colours. Ah, how I wish I could live in a land with eternal autumn colours!

Production fear, food and friends!

I have a fear that sometimes takes too much control over me, and that is the kind of fear of that I wont be able to achieve the goals I’ve set, or the expectations of others. It becomes paralyzing, and makes me completely unable to do anything productive at all. I’ve had this about math, I like math, I’m not extremely talented in it, but if given some extra time I’ll come around. Besides it’s like solving a puzzle! Who knows what the answer will become. I know it’s not my strongest subject, so I’ve spent a lot of time to prepare my head mentally to be open about math, and not shut down immediately once I don’t get something. So after class yesterday, I had a talk with my math teacher telling him about this. And he calmed me down quite a lot by saying I should just focus on those things that are manageable, rather than that which seem like an ancient dead language to me. So now I’m more inspired to continue. We have a test on monday, where we wont even be allowed a calculator! I don’t think I’ll do that well, my head-calculating isn’t fast, so I might be using too long time on the questions. We shall see! I’ll do some later today, and a lot tomorrow! (Hopefully)

There is a lot of talk about food these days. How important it is to eat, and what is good for you and what vitamins, minerals and such you need to give your body so it wont become sick. It’s getting a bit too much really. Though, I have re-discovered an old vegetable I used to love as a child! It’s the perfect autumn vegetable. Red beet! It’s rich in colour (especially if it’s pickled!) and will spruce up anything you put it on, and the taste is quite rich as well. As well as it’s rich on minerals that you need, it’ll even help prevent heart diseases. 

Friends. Oh how I love my friends. Dearly and deeply. I don’t always talk a lot to them, and some not even regularly. Which is a shame, but when we get together it’s so lovely. No matter what the weather is, we’ll have fun. Either by watching a movie, running out into the forest to read ghost stories. To sit at an café and debate whether we should allow our selves a delicious looking bun. Talking about work, and family and things that goes on in the world as well as our thoughts. And I have to say I especially appreciate Emmy’s friendship. It’s sad that we can’t be with each other, even in the week-ends. In fact we’ll be lucky if we get to see each other once a year. I got to see her for a few hours when I went to Stockholm. I cannot praise her enough, she’s also the same person I told you all to go spend loads of money in her store at etsy.com. She’s my closest friend, despite the distance. 

I’m emotional today; but in a good way.

Have a nice week-end! 

For some unknown reason I’m avoiding to start drawing. It’s been like this for a week or so now. I sketched some during natural science class yesterday though. However, that’s slightly off topic. Because… In my not so productive time I ended up stumbling across the net, and came across this page featuring the most awesome cupcakes I’ve ever seen. Let me show you an example:

How incredible alluring and fantastic isn’t this?! Click on the photo to see the rest of the other inventive cupcakes. Seriously, you’ll get hungry. Even if you just had a huge dinner! 

Bitter-Sweet Enmi’s Etsy Shop

Doesn’t this cute little avatar make you think: candy!? It does for me. Though I’m not here to talk about candy, I’m here to talk about Bitter-Sweet Enmi. A swedish friend of mine who has recently opened up her shop at etsy.com ( which is a fantastic web-page, and I’m so happy I know about it! ). Right now she’s selling silk-screen patches of cute and adorable things like this one:

You can use them to patch up your ruined clothes and make them look cute. Or you can frisky up some clothes or bags that needs a face-lift! She put one on her jacket like this:

I think her idea is brilliant, though most of the screens up there right now are mostly on pink background, I know that she’s intending to put up patches with other colours. And what’s also nice, they’re not expensive! Plus you get to support a really fantastic girl, with a lot of talent! Even if you don’t think you’ll be wearing it, perhaps you know someone who’d think it’s awesome? Or someone who’d think it’s great! ( It’s also a fantastic birthday/Christmas present to nieces! ) Say what you want, but I love them. And they are unique. 

I urge you to tell all your friends about it! I most certainly will! 

Her shop can be found here as well as clicking the pictures. If you want to get to know her better, perhaps check out her blog?

Sketchbook project

Yesterday I got my moleskine-sketchbook for the art project I signed up for. I chose the theme “the greatest story”, Though now I am a bit in a dilemma. I want to make it a good one, filled with nice drawings. And I have a few ideas on what to do, but I don’t know which to pick.

• Draw from books and stories which I love
• Draw creatures and monsters from all sorts of stories
• Draw things coming alive from a book
• Draw people telling stories
• Make a story of the drawings

I don’t know which to choose! And I should choose soon, because there’s a lot of pages, and a lot of drawings to be made! Which one would be the best?