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

Islanders' Ballad We live from the sea, nets and knots Counting the blisters made from the oars and hoes  our eyes red from the nights and the tears our workers' hands as hard as stone We're beaten by the storms and the rains and every day bend closer to the ground and yet more than anything, more than any beauty we love the sea for as long as we live Our blue sea, you know all our desires You are our streght, our joy, our entire life We're counting the sails and the steamships, our days passing with northern and southern winds, the barren earth gives what it can give, Life on the island is both sorrow and joy... (*song performed by Vice Vukov, written in Dalmatian dialect, translated by me) Bodulska balada Živi se od mora, od mriža i uza Brojidu se žuji od vesla, mašklina Crljene su oči od noći i suza Žujave nan ruke su tvrde ka stina I tučedu nas nevere i kiše I svaki dan smo zgrbljeni sve više Ipak...

Ivan Galeb once said that he would like to die during a sunny summer day. Well, these photos that I'm sharing were obviously taken on such a day.  Don't we just feel at ease when the sun is caressing us? Ivan seems to know what he was talking about even if he wasn't an actual person, but a character in a novel. Having  been obsessed with literature and reading for the longest time, that fine line between reality and fiction sometimes evades me and the characters in the novels seem as real as the person standing next to me. Anyway, I have decided to translate a passage from novel Proljeća Ivana Galeba ( The Springs of Ivan Galeb, it's not translated as far as I know)  and share with you these words that  Desnica (the writer) or Galeb (the character) said :  "I want to die in a day filled with sun. The core of that little secret I have carried in myself since childhood. What scared me most about death,  is the dark it is associated with. I admire ...

Braids have been fashionable for a while. I already did one similar video, presenting one way to braid your hair and some of you asked for more, so today I'll share some photographs for inspiration. This classical and some would say traditional hairdo is suitable for almost any occasion. Plus, it is really easy to do. Learn how! Pletenice su u modi već neko vrijeme. Napravila sam već jedan sličan video, u kojem sam pokazala  frizuru sa pletenicom po strani, pa danas dijelim fotografije za inspiraciju. Ova klasična i neki bi rekli tradicionalna frizura prigodna je za gotovo svaku prigodu. Osim toga, jako je lako napraviti. Naučite kako!

 

There isn't anything particularly fun about four hours bus drive but the view alone would make it worth it. That moment when you leave the mountains and see the sea somewhere around Makarska...breath- taking view...Now, if only the window glass on the bus was spotlessly clean I'm sure I'd be really happy with these photos. Well, you cannot have everything right? Četiri sata u autobusu znaju biti naporna, ali onaj pogled kad se autobus počne spuštati prema Makarskoj. Samo to bi bilo vrijedno vožnje...ugledati sve otoke kao na dlanu...divan pogled. E sada, da je samo staklo na autobusu bilo savršeno čisto, sigurna sam da bi bila posve zadovoljna sa fotografijama...ali ne možemo imati sve, zar ne?

 All of these photographs were taken in the course of one long and eventful day on various locations in Herzegovina. I used the scarf in various ways, depending on what I wanted or needed...for example to be completely protected from the sun you can wrap your scarf around your hat as I did in the first photo. The possibilities are endless, you can tie it any way you like or even make a turban out of it. Every women should have (at least) one scarf she is crazy about in her closet. This is one accessory that can really be used in so many different ways. Različiti načini za nositi rubac...kao šal, kao turban...ima puno mogućnosti i sve možete prilagoditi namjeri...npr. želite li se zaštiti od sunca možete ga nositi preko šešira kao što sam ja uradila na prvoj slici. Sve su fotografije snimljene istog dana i jednostavno sam vezivala rubac tako kako mi je u tom trenutku odgovaralo. Svaka bi žena trebala imati (barem) jedan rubac (maramu) u ormaru koji joj se doista sviđa j...

If this dress looks familiar it is because you have already seen it in an outfit post just with different shoes, which I have exchanged for these as soon as I bought them that day. Let me tell you they have proven to be most comfortable and may have just managed to cemented my long time love towards wedges. I've also discovered that ideal summer wedges are those that are light as a feather and these are actually made of cork...cool, right? I'm thinking about getting some autumn/winter wedges, where could I look for them? Ako ova haljina izgleda poznato to je zato što ste je već vidjeli samo za drukčijim cipelama...toga dana sam kupila ove sa punom petom od pluta koje su tako lagane i udobne...i koje su učvrstile moju ljubav prema punoj peti...planiram kupiti i neku (punu petu) za jesen/zimu, imate li prijedloga? I've also did my best to find photos of my DIY necklace you asked about (made from beats, wire, fimo and one stone from the beach) but all I could f...