As I mentioned before, on Monday night I spilled some ink on orange/pinkish wall in my computer nook and  naively wanted to wash it out with water making an ever bigger stain. You know how it goes, the more you try to clean it the bigger the stain so I thought well, I might just remove all the paint and repaint the wall.

Removing the paint was pretty tedious and messy but, I believe, totally worth it because white suits my little corner so much better and makes it lot brighter.I also rearranged art pieces and put them above my desk, I have quite an Alkaline collection, 6 original pieces by Alkaline Samurai, photo print by Isidora and two of my own pieces.

Also, I repainted my little cabinet white and painted some pink flowers on it, now I call it  sakura cabinet hehe.

Recently I made a little drawing of a bear on a round piece of wood so I thought it would be appropriate to display it as well.

Once I refreshed my computer corner I moved on to the living room and repainted my old wooden wall white. The whole room seems bigger, much brighter and more pleasant to be in.

I have a big, really old closet in my living room that I plan on kicking out very soon so I thought it would be fun to paint on it before it gets moved out. Years ago, on one part of the closet my Mom applied some flowery decoupage that I never liked so I decided to remove it. And I learned a valuable lesson, decoupage is hard and messy impossible to remove but also nothing that 4 coats of white paint and strategically painted blue flowers can’t cover up.

The rest of the closet got some new, blue flowers as well.

After that I painted my kitchen cabinets white as well and did A LOT of cleaning and I’m still in the process of cleaning and rearranging stuff just at a slower pace (it’s weekend after all).

Last weekend I felt like doing something fun yet simple so I played a bit with white watercolor and blue, lined paper getting subtle and understated drawings.

Before that I experimented with dying plain, white paper with coffee and spices to get interesting textures to scan and use as textures for layers in PS. I found my old high school biology homework and though I might scan it as well to get some “objects” to use as PS layers as well.

I also made some simple notebooks to fill with photo ideas, I’ve been writing and sketching so much I already have 4 little notebooks overflowing with ideas!

I rediscover how fun it is to paint on brown paper!

Other great things happened as well in first 2 weeks of new year. I got great news, my partner in crime art and all things awesome is coming to visit in early February and we’re planning to have amazing time together as always. I started looking for props for my soon-to-happen photo shoots and scouted some very inspiring locations. I went to much needed shopping for clothes as I realized my sartorial choices could be described by this. I started working on a wonderful commission and even though I’ve been seriously sleep deprived I’m having a blast! I have a feeling 2012. will be the BEST YEAR EVER!

How did your year start?

Happy holidays everyone! I hope you have amazing Christmas! I’m taking a little blogging break until next week or so, until then I’m sending you loads of xoxoxoxox…

You see, the photos I find most inspiring are not technically perfect, polished, carefully crafted images but the ones that push boundaries of conventions, bring new and refreshing points of view, flirt with kitsch and cliches, the ones that make you wonder if they are brilliant or just plain terrible.

(I’m not suggesting that SP you see above is any of that, that’s just bad photo but it triggered this line of thought, so I’m  grateful for that )

So, one of my art projects for 2012. will be to create series of photos (mostly portraits and self-portraits) with emphasis on experimenting and  making  fabulous, magnificent delicious mistakes! Yay, party time!

I’ll start shooting in January 2012. and continue all through the year allowing myself as much time as I need to make pics I’ll be happy with.

My other plan is to shoot more videos. I got a new video camera few moths ago but  still didn’t find time to start playing with it. I would love to shoot short videos of everything and anything,  just have fun. I haven’t had a working camera  in years and when it comes to video making I’m very rusty so I’d like to change that.

I will continue drawing, doing illustrations and blogging but my main goal for 2012. is to spend as much time possible behind camera(s) as I can, hehe.

Do you have any creative plans for 2012.?

Since I love, love, love to journal, I ordered myself a custom notebook, an official 2012.  journal (In other words I’ve just reached a new level of stationery snobbery, hehe.)  Yay! It arrived yesterday in mail, timing couldn’t be more perfect since I’ve been sick for last four days and I needed something to cheer me up.

I titled my journal Everyday is a holiday because that will be  my motto for 2012. I want to remind myself of living each day fully, being grateful for all I have and celebrating every single day like it’s a holiday!

I used two of my old photos for front and back page of the notebook:

The notebook has 200 pages total, most of them lined and some of them have my photos printed on them, pictures I like and which remind me how my life is beautiful and how lucky I am.

2012. is going to be one big party non-stop:

This is second (and last) installment of the photos I took over the Summer, Autumn photo projects welcome!

Autumn arrangement.

Autumn love.

Magic carpet ride. Weeeeeeeeee!

Autumn buddies.

Autumn friends.

Autumn coffee.

Gnome has many friends.

Shocked little acorn.

Let’s all have fabulous season!

And a little bit of shameless self-promotion: )