I'm in the middle of making a handmade advent calendar for the boyfriend. Anyone who knows me in real life is aware of how I'm not a very artsy person when it comes to handmade things. In fact, I'm the opposite. I'd love be good at arts & crafts but I'm so clumsy and just horrible with them. Whenever I try to make something, wether it's knitting a ( Read more... )

Shoes. Shoes shoes shoes... I want new shoes. Plenty of them. Yesterday I watched some document about high-heeled shoes. May I just tell you: watching that document was officially the worse idea ever. How can something so superficial and worthless be so tempting and lovely? Oh and when I say "worthless" I don't mean the kind of shoes you have so ( Read more... )

The weekend was nice (yes, I'm giving you a weekend update on Wednesday, that's how I work - slow & late) and we spent it at Toni's parents. I love the whole family and being there but for some unknown reason I always get somewhat annoyed by everything at some point. I think it's simply the fact that I'm not used to having so much family around, ( Read more... )

I've created myself a place where to keep all my artsy stuff such as icons, brushes, textures... You name it. Nothing's really ready there yet but coloratus is my new home. :) I already posted few icons and brushes and I'll be posting more whenever I've got the time and/or interest. I love creating all those artsy things but the hassle with uploading them ( Read more... )

I'm just posting the myaverageday photos for the November 11th project. I spent the whole weekend at dad's place so these from there. :)

12:00 - 01:00 PM | Eh. I'm not the sharpest pencil of the bunch and had promised my dad I'd paint some wall, so I decided to do it once I finally got up from bed. Here are the preparations.

01:00 - 02:00 PM | This is my ( Read more... )

I've been making Photoshop brushes like crazy during the past few days, which is kind of weird as the last time I got this sort of inspiration was probably something like a year ago. On the other hand I'm not surprised at all, this is how it always works... I get this sudden spur of excitement to do something and then I go all nuts - and suddenly ( Read more... )

Whee, the snow has arrived - it's actually snowing as I type. I love how the snow lightens up everything after a dark and depressing autumn. I don't know... I didn't expect to get this hyped up because of snow (after all, I'm used to it as I live in Finland) but I guess the thought of possibly moving abroad in less than a year has made me realize I ( Read more... )

Question: Why don't we celebrate Halloween in Finland? I wish we did. During the past few-ish years though some people have made lame attempts to imitate the American Halloween by throwing costume parties but aside from that, nothing. No 'trick or treat', no pumpkins. I don't really care about the pumpinks but I really would love the whole 'trick ( Read more... )

Some people say there is no such thing as 'stupid questions'. Ok, seriously? There is. Like, a homeless drunk guy asking some stranger if they can give him 50 cents so that he can go and buy more booze. That's stupid, and it's a question, therefore: it's a stupid question. I'm not sure if I'm having a point here but I just thought I'd let you know ( Read more... )

I've never posted icons to my LJ before but here we go. By all means, I'm not the most talented or creative icon maker around but I figured it'd make more sense to post these here for everyone to use than just keep them to myself and never have time to use them at all. Here's a preview:


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