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

Hello! Today I shall write about Split city, Croatia. If you're a regular reader, you know I'll be writing about my home city.    While we were walking around the old city centre this morning, I asked my husband to take a few photographs of me in front of this historical church. The reason for it being simply that I recalled that I have a post about this church in my blogger drafts. So, why not finish up this draft and publish it? I'll probably come back to this post in the future to add links and edit it. I'm typing this on my cellphone as I haven't brought my laptop with me.  My beautiful city, nicknamed the pearl of the sea, is a fascinating mix of the old and the new. Originally build as a summer residence for an ancient Roman emperor Diocletian, it has had an eventful and interesting history. SPLIT CITY GUIDE: THE PALACE     A SHORT VISIT TO SPLIT CITY, WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO DINE? HOW TO FIND PHOTO WORTHY LOCATIONS IN SPLIT CITY?  VISITING SPLI...

Hello readers and fellow bloggers! In this post, I'll show you what I wore today for a stroll around Mostar town. In fact, we'll explore the town together.  This is such  gorgeous town, isn't it?  Sure, I showed you all of these places before, but one cannot have enough of the good stuff. While we were strolling today, I knew that I just had  to take some photographs near these legendary trees .   I do live for that 'be a tourist in your own city' concept (check out  this post from 2015  to see what I mean).  It was a lovely sunny spring day today but rather windy. The solution for such days: a leather jacket! I paired this vintage jacket with a grey vintage skirt ,  mini grey bag, a scarf and a pair of high brown boots. Once again, I shopped my closet for this outfit. I honestly don't remember the last time I bought some item. I seem to excel at shopping my closet. All of the items I wore were featured on my blog before. So, this sprin...

Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! I'm not sure will I share my paintings online anymore, but I will probably continue to share my fashion sketches. Speaking of that, I do have a new fashion illustration to share with you. Today it's  Friday Fashion Illustration  so the timing is perfect. Fashion illustration is such a big part of this blog. I hope it will stay that way.   I drew this quick sketch with watercolour pencils on A4 paper from some random sketchbook. In fact, I'm not even sure the paper is suitable for watercolours. Anyhow, I had fun drawing this one. I used my own photograph as a reference. Scroll down to see more. This illustration was inspired by one of my recent 'stay at home' looks. Sometimes I like to get all dressed up for no reason. Another reason why I used one of my own photographs as a reference is because I wanted to draw a sitting illustration. Using a reference helped me to do it quickly!   SHOULD YOU USE A REFERENCE WHEN PRAC...