DAY 4

Second day of our trip was about visiting the Seville cathedral, witch is an amazing example of the mudejar architecture. After that we were walking around the city's narrow streets, discovering small parks with orange trees, little antique shops... For a couple of minutes we stopped in a bigger alley and I saw these two men standing by the door, talking. I thought they looked interesting so I wanted to take a picture. When they saw me, they wanted to move away so I could take a picture of the building. I just shook my head and gave them a thumbs up. They smiled to me..and I smiled back. Its not some major thing but it felt really sweet. Just communicating through nothing but gestures and mimic, sharing a smile with a stranger.

DAY 3

The first day in Seville was amazing. The sun was shining, temperatures were over 20°C... Some of us got together (with our Spanish hosts) and visited Plaza de Espana. A huge beautiful building made out of red stone, decorated with hand painted tiles, relief ornaments..., around it artificial river, amazing park... It really felt like a vacation in the middle of summer even though it was only March.
<-- the best way to eat ice cream! :D

DAY 2

Woke up to a sunny Saturday morning. Everyone still sleeping and me eating breakfast before leaving for Spain.

DAY 1

Today, I spent most of the time sitting in my bed with my dog and reading reading an amazing book by James Dashner, The maze runner. I haven't read a book that would really pull me in in a long time. I'm slowly realizing how much I miss reading, imagining, creating new worlds in my mind ... This book is currently the main focus of my free time and I can't wait to read the other 4 books from the series....and watch the movie that is coming out late this summer. Actually the movie trailer is how I first got introduced to the book. The main actor Dylan O'Brien happens to be a part of the Teen Wolf crew, playing one of my favourite characters from that show. Anyhow, now when I'm reading the book, I have kept myself from watching the trailer again (even though it is really tempting) , since it would ruin the image of the fictional world and characters in my head (like it happened with HP). I would prefer to read the whole series without having the movie adaptation constantly in my mind...that would just ruin it in my experience. Well goodnight, see you in a week with more happy moments from Spain.

100 Happy Days

On facebook, I have come across this interesting project called 100 Happy days . I checked it out and really started to like the idea. I agree with their thinking. Sadly we get lost in our own world of stress, responsibilities and worrying all to often, especially myself . The task seems simple enough so I decided to try it out. I'll be posting a picture, a drawing or just a quote of what made me happy each day. I will try to post every day, or at least make a weekly update. My school trip to Spain starts tomorrow morning, hence I won't be posting daily. Well I'm curious to see how I do and if I can make the 30% of people who make it through the task.

I dressed up as a wall

First, let me explain what pust is. It’s a holiday that represents the end of winter and the arrival of spring. Its dependant on the date of Easter, but every year we have the pust-Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday. People dress up in costumes, a lot of different mask festivals take place, and children go around houses for candy… It’s similar to Halloween, but it is celebrated for a different reason. The most recognizable, Slovenian pust mask is kurent. In the city of Ptuj, men dress up in traditional costumes, made out of sheepskin, with lots of heavy cow-bells hanging around their waist and a special head piece with a big red tongue and two colorful horns. They jump around, producing loud noises in order to scare the winter away.

Other people however dress up in different costumes for fun or just because they can. Well the latter would be me. When I was in London for a week in February, I bought this simple short sleeveless white shirt with a Banksy print and a pair of 16 cm high night-walks (heels without an actual heel). Well when the time of pust was approaching, and idea of me being a wall with graffiti (the shirt) popped into my head… And I really wanted to show off my shoes and not be too scary (with the shoes on I was almost 195cm tall).

The first thing I did, was transform a pair of my old white pants from a bell-like shape, to a more modern kind of tight-jeans look. I then took a sharpie and started drawing on the pattern of a bricked wall. In the beginning I wanted to use acrylics, but when I tried them on the actual fabric, it broke when folded and it just didn’t look good. The second idea I had, was using sandpaper for old or damaged bricks, but in the end I just went with more unified less costumy look (so I can wear the pants on a normal day sometime). The sharpie didn’t last long so I switched to an alcohol based marker. I was drawing from top to bottom, so even when my marker was already dying it slowly faded to a lighter shade, that didn’t break up the look of the pants. The whole process took about 3 and half hours to complete.

For my makeup I decided to go with a simple version, because I didn’t want to overdo it and take away from the shoes. I painted my face white with regular local store face paint, no eye makeup, and then colored my lips black. It was actually totally black only on the edges, towards the middle it faded into dark red. My hair was in a tight bun with some of the paint going over my hairline, unifying the look of the painted face. First picture from myschool site.

 

I think my look worked. It was original and I really had fun planning, making, and in the end, wearing it to school. I did turn some heads especially with my height. But sadly not many people recognized Banksy’s graffiti even though, it was the main inspiration for my look.

BONUS: My sister got dressed in a skeleton costume. Everything except the gloves has been painted by me, using acrylics for the clothes and face paint and regular makeup for the face

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