Daily photos

Collecting lavender for dried bouquets. 

 Sleepy kitty - sorry for the quality of this one. I think it's enough pretty to share anyway.

The BEST pants I have - liking high waist

I feel very content when a productive day is over. Then I sit and think that I did all I wanted or even more, that makes me happy (just a sneek peak of a project I'm going to share).

 Autumn leaves

Sleeping cutey

Me - this one is taken by S.

(Taking daily photographs is my aim for this season as I want to develop my skills.)

Napping kitty sketchbook (DIY!)

This is my very first attempt of making sketchbook. It was almost obligatory - I wanted to have something mobile where I can try different techniques of drawing or painting. What is so special about this one? It consists of four diffenet types of paper. I've never seen a sketchbook like this, so I had to make it by myself!

What I did? At first, I found this bookbinding tutorial. It was something essential I had to learn. This tutorial shows exactly how you make a sketchbook. Of course, I made it a bit differently. I used (as I said above) four types of paper: watercolour 300g/m3, 250g/m3, 180g/m3 cardboard and standard paper for pencil drawings 90 g/m3. Now I know it was the best thing I could make! Second difference is the cover that I made of leather (don't ask me how I made it, it was quite complicated.... or maybe ask me, but it would need another post). The imprint of a napping cat looks lovely in my opinion. Another thing I made is a colour palette. I wanted to have a look on how the colour of my watercolour crayons (a gorgeous set of 72 I got from Szymon for my bday) look when used as paints.

So, once again, if you want to make a sketchbook, just follow the instructions from the link. Plus do something special to personalize i!:)

How do you like it? Did you ever make a sketchbook, book or album by yourself? 

 I'll share more works from this sketchbook soon!

Julia

Autumn for blogging: Quality does matter

Recently I've been rethinking my aims of blogging. You probably know it - new season, new university, the beginning of something new in somebody's life. I also want to create something new here. New quality. What is the conclusion? Less post is better if the quality is higher. I wanyt to create more regarding DIYs and write about varied topics. This is the first change and purpose for this season. Of course I was motivated by my 4 goals that I think of almost all the time, really. 

I hope you like the pictures above and below. It's a series of photos I took last autumn. Enjoy the colours and blurred areas.

Have a lovely warm afternoon, 

Julia

Wnen the kitty was ill...

...I used to hold him in my sweater, close to my neck for hours everyday. I can't deny, I was a little bit scared while he was shaking because of his high fever. Now everything is okay again and I'm very happy he's (so!) active again. I think I fulfilled (and am still fulfilling) the third goal. 

Have a beautiful and warm day,
Julia

4 SIMPLE GOALS before 2013

Hello! I decided to take part in a challenge Elsie created and shared on ABM. Her idea was to encourage people to write their four goals that they want to reach before the end of 2012. The main rule is that it should be simple goals focused on fulfilling, not the final result, it's not a competition. Already got it? Let's start with my goals...

1. Try new drawing techniques. Recently I bought a black 0,5mm pen and that was something completely new to me. My standard technique is watercolour and pencil but I don't want to make myself limits! I'm the kind of person that doesn't like changes when something is already steady, but I know this point on my list will help me to develop my skills and creativity. My aim is to try a big range of new techniques, it refers also to painting, collages etc.

2. Improve my blog. My constant goal, but writing it on this list will help me pay more attention to it. I want to write high quality posts with good pictures. Also the layout needs a few changes. Let's see what the next months will bring...

3. Be a good kitty mummy. That's more personal goal. I have my first kitty. It doesn't mean I didn't have a cat before (one is a member of our family for 11 years!). But now I bought my very first cat, I feed and take care of him. The point is that small cats inborn knowlenge about what they should and shouldn't do. It's me whose function is to teach him everything. That's gonna take a lot of time.

4. Take more pictures of everyday life. I want to improve my photography. By pictures of everyday like I don't mean instagrams, no. (I don't even have a camera in my phone!) It's about 3 years since I got my camera and I constantly see the progress in my pictures. Talking pictures day by day will boost the progress quickly. What's more, as a result I'll have a lots of pictures of little nice moments in my life!

I'll be posting regularly about my goals and and label all posts as '4 simple goals' so it would be easy for you to find them and at the end see progress (just in case you'd want to).

Did you write your list too? If not, I encourage you to do so. If you did, give a link under this post.

Have a beautiful and creative day,

Julia