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

Never underestimate the little things in life. Nemojte nikada podcijeniti male stvari u životu.

watercolour/ vodene boje The girl with the green hair/ Djevojka s zelenom kosom

Today's DIY project is a brooch made of faux leather. I have sewn every single plastic bead by hand. The back side looks quite messy but it won't be visible anyway so who cares, right? At least I'm pretty sure that the beads won't fall out. I'm not against gluing as such  but I do love old school ways. That would be all. No long essays today....;)  Današnji napravi sam projekt je broš od eko kože. Svaku sam plastičnu perlicu ušila posebno. Zadnja strana izgleda dosta neuredno, ali neće biti vidljiva pa koga briga? Barem sam sigurna da perlice neće ispasti. Nisam protiv ljepila, ali volim neke stvari raditi na starinski način.  To bi bilo sve. Danas nema dugih eseja....;)

  I don't think anyone would call me a painter. I don't even consider myself to be one. However, I do paint and today I will talk about why I do it. I don't benefit from it financially, quite on the contrary it is a hobby that is costing me both money, time, effort and energy.  If time is money, I lost a lot of money painting. After all, I never sold a painting in my life. However, I  do produce painting in large quantities. I did gave away dozens of them to friends and some I even donated to charity. Recently I made a decision to invest  more energy into painting, even if brings me nowhere. I'm writing about it because people are often afraid to do what they want and sometimes we're the only ones holding ourselves back. I have worked hard in many areas of my life and for years it has been one failure after another, so why should I be worried about spending time on something that I genuinely love? ....even if I don't always enjoy it (because painting can be ...

Time for another Inspired by feature on my blog.  For those of you that are not familiar with this feature and what it is about, I can say that it is usually composed out of my fashion illustration (or illustrations) and links to the blog (or blogs) that inspired them. You can see my last Inspired by feature here. So, basically I draw or paint a fashion illustration inspired by an actual blogger and outfit and post it here. Today I painted an illustration of Len from Fetish Tokyo blog . I'm fascinated by her style that is at the same time modern and timeless. She always look so sophisticated and elegant and yet there is something unique about each one of her outfits.  Vrijeme za još jednu Nadahnuta s rubriku na mom blogu. Za vas koji niste upoznati s ovom rubrikom i o čemu se radi, mogu reći da se obično sastoji od moje modne ilustracije (ili ilustracija) i linkova na blog (ili blogove) koji su in nadahnuli. Možete vidjeti moj zadnji "Nadahnuta s.." post ovd...

jeans: Amadeus ( Croatian brand), rest: non branded/ Traperice : Amadeus, ostalo nije markirano Well, these photographs are actually from last summer. However, this is pretty much what I'm wearing these days. My hair is slightly shorter and that's the only difference in my appearance. I haven't started wearing hats yet, but I'm considering it and  I'm doing my best to dress accordingly to the weather. The weather is very hot and it is safe to say that the Summer has arrived here. The river you can see on the photographs is Neretva. It may look like I'm in some exotic place but actually this is Mostar city, a rather green place, especially in the areas near its rivers (yes, there is more than one river in this city...there are five of them actually, but Neretva just happens to be the most spectacular one) where you can see lots of ducks and birds. Dobro, ove fotografije su od prošlog ljeta, ali doista ovo je otprilike što nosim zadnjih dana....

I never underestimate sketches and doodlers. Sometimes they have a life of their own. They capture what I'm feeling at that moment. Sometimes they turn into paintings. Most often, they're tiny oasis of peace, composed of seconds but powerful enough to stop the time for on heartbeat and remind me ...Remind me of how hungry my hands are...burning to create, to wonder across that piece of paper free and inhabited.  Nikad ne podcjenjujem skice i škrabotine. Ponekad one imaju vlastiti život. Hvataju ono što osjećam toga trenutka. Ponekad se pretvore u slike. Najčešće su pak, male oaze mira, sačinjene od sekunda, ali dovoljno snažne da zaustave vrijeme na trenutak i podsjete me koliko su  zapravo  moje ruke gladne stvaranja, žudne slobodnog lutanja po tom komadu papira.