a little place to call my own (art and fashion blog)

Today I was thinking about something that my husband once said to me. 'You have an unfair advantage. For you it is so easy to express yourself', he said. There was this implication that  I was able to put everything down in words. I can't deny it. For me, expressing my views and thoughts requires almost no effort. If you start me on a subject I'm interested in, I can talk for hours. I can share my emotions and thoughts eloquently. However, it is not something that I was born with. Expressing oneself clearly, either in written or in spoken form, is a skill. This skill is something that we develop all our life. Everyone can be good at it. The more time we dedicate to it, the better we become at it. It is like every skill. It would be really odd if I wasn't able to put two sentences together, considering that I spent five years of my life studying language and literature at University level. During that time I wrote hundreds of essays in two languages and gave dozens ...

If this outfit looks familiar, it is because I wore a similar one a while back (I wore it with a black blazer then). In fact, these photographs were taken last Spring, but I haven't shared them yet. Tonight seems as a good time as any, so here it is: one colourful outfit (gold, purple, caramel and blue). Lately, I haven't been wearing colour as much, so a nice little #throwback might help me get my groove back. I do love colour. If you have seen any of my fashion illustration, you know that I have this thing about colour purple. Ukoliko ova kombinacija izgleda poznato, to je zato što sam nosila sličnu prije dosta vremena (tada sam je nosila s crnim blajzerom). Zapravo su ove fotografije nastale prošloga proljeća, ali ih nisam još podijelila. Večeras se čini kao dobro vrijeme, tako da evo ga: jedna šarena kombinacija (zlatna, ljubičasta, karamel). U zadnje vrijeme ne nosim boje tako često, tako da mi mali povratak u stare dane možda pomogne da povratim svoj stil. Doi...

 The story of sketch is (kind of) interesting. I'm saying kind of because it may not be of any interest to you, but I'm going to tell the story it anyway. Originally I just drew the owl (for practice and for fun because I love owls), but somehow the drawing looked empty. I fixed that by adding in a woman. I remember watching a documentary on Croatian TV that said that in middle ages, women were the best when it came to hunting with falcons. So, maybe they kept owls, too? It is just a quick drawing really, but I like it. I might make a painting out of it someday. Which makes me think of something....Margaret Atwood. I know I mentioned Margaret Atwood and her novel   Cat’s Eye   about hundred times on this blog, but I will do it again (and if you really know me it won’t surprise you). The protagonist of this novel is Elaine, a painter who paints women. When one young female journalist assumes (during an interview) that she paints women because she is feminist, Elai...

Last post ( here ) was ( at least partly) about how to dress for late Autumn/early Winter sunny days. So, it was basically about dressing up for those cold (but not too cold) and sunny days. Today I'm going to talk about dressing for late Autumn/ early Winter days that lack both sunshine and warmth. It is interesting how much colder we feel when we can't see the sun. I'm sure that it is partly psychological, because the absence of sun doesn't mean that the weather is freezing, but hey we need our comfort not just facts. I think that 'keeping warm' is relative, so we should dress according to how we feel, not only based on weather reports. Let's get back to the topic of styling our clothes for colder days. My solution is simple...Puffer jackets! The longer, the better because it will keep you warmer.  Under a warm and long puffer, you can wear whatever you like, even shorts and mini skirts. Well, in my case I wore a denim skirt that is just above the knee. S...