This is my second brick stitch experience.
I usually make such beadworks using 2 needles, but this time I had only one needle with me and Diane Fitzgerald's Beading With Brick Stitch book helped me to make the first row around the central blue bead. I realized that lack of supplies could be useful somehow. If I had 2 or more needles with me last weekend I wouldn't explore this new technique (=
I like the result.
This girl won Miss Unsorted title 2 months ago. Unsorted is the name of our local online forum, a place where young people living in my town share interests, blog and so on. I shared the second prize with a girl temporarily living in Tokyo, Japan. Miss Unsorted is very cute, you can see it in the picture above. They say that we both who shared the second prize are smart and have interesting blogs.
I don't know what happened next, but I suppose that someone has told this girl aka Miss Unsorted that I don't like her and think she's stupid and ugly, and that the first prize should be mine, and so on. As a matter of fact, I was happy with my second prize and I didn't even think about her. Anyway, a few days after that competition I received a lot of unpleasant words about me. In fact, there was a great scandal after that contest. I was very surprized and frustrated with that all.
Well, to make a long story short, I don't like her since that event. But I'm tired of this disintegrating feeling and I decided to make something that could help me to get over my dislike of her. So, this is how this piece was born. A Farewell to Arms is my try to forgive and forget. I'm going to present this collage to her. I don't want to meet her or talk to her, I think I'll just put it into her mailbox with a couple of words. But I'm not sure what I should say her in my letter. . I'm tired to hate you? How stupid. I really want to get rid of this feeling.
This is my last piece which was created in December. I think I have an artistic block (or I'm too tired to make something after a day spent in the office). Every day I apply gesso to another page in my sketchbook and I draw nothing, I just leave it blank. This will save my time in future (=
Well, I think this is my best work, lol))
My second photoshop collage is about my happiness.
About being together.
Well, I've finally received some books I ordered at amazon.com in November. Yesterday I was reading Collage Discovery Workshop by Claudine Hellmuth and I was so inspired that I created this self-portrait. I couldn't make paper collage because I don't have enough supplies, but I was sooo exited that I decided to make my collage in Adobe Photoshop. Voilà! Here's my very first creation. I'm going to buy paints next weekend and create something real.
Downshifting. We studied this new word at my English classes this Saturday.
Later on Saturday evening I received the December'06 issue of Bead&Button. I can't find right words to express my astonishment when I saw 'From the Editor' column. And that article about Larry Scott in the middle of the issue, it amazed me a lot. I'm very imaginative person. I see signs everywhere, you know (%
These signs scream something like 'Don't be afraid! You can change your life! Stop killing yourself. Everything is possible.'
It's no wonder I started to think about downshifting - I've fallen into a swoon last Friday and since then I feel sick and tired. I'm going to a doctor tomorrow, 'cause I don't like the way I feel. Stress or overfatigue or whatever. The only thing I want is to lie on a bed. Today is only Tuesday, but I feel totally exhausted.
Guess what I'm going to do on my December, 4 - December, 12 annual leave? I'll spend these days working on my graduation work which must be finished by December, 13. Then I'm coming back to office work.
Well, better stop whining (%
Great. Everything will be great after a while.
I've made this piece a year ago. It is called Summer Bracelet. It was the worst summer in my life because of the endless reflection and that gnawing lonely feeling.
I'm glad it's all over now, and my autumn depression has gone as well, because of a new brilliant idea.
After graduating from Russian Academy of Economics I plan to go to British Higher School of Arts and Design. I don't want to be an economist and I'm tired of risk analysis.
Design is my real passion. I like making things, I like reading beadwork books, I like browsing designer's websites.
In January, 2007 - May, 2007 I'm taking an access course at British Higher School of Arts & Design. During that period we'll make my own portfolio under the direction of their teachers. I hope I'll pass the entrance examinations after that.
You know what? I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. It's never late to change everything. Especially when you're 22 (=
I can live again.
It's me beneath the sky of St.Petersburg.
It was the best weekend I had this summer.
I was sooo happy.
I was in love.
I am in love, as a matter of fact.
Just need a vacation, I feel a little tired.
Hi, my name is Tanya, I'm 22 years old and I want nothing.
I missed my English classes today. Music irritates me. I don't want to read. I even don't want to bead. I want nothing, as a matter of fact. Just apathy and all.
Hahaha, girl_of_fall hates fall (%
I'm waiting for the winter to come, I want to feel the snow on my face. I want to go snowboarding and once again feel that terrific feeling when you ride, and a gentle wind blows, and the snow falls, and nothing really matters.
I feel alive only on weekends when I'm not supposed to go to the office. Last weekend we took a train to Podolsk. There's a deserted XIX-century limestone quarry, very large and very dark, and the strangest place I've ever been to.
Yesterday I was so fed up with everything that I even deleted all entries at my Unsorted blog.
So here I am. New blog, new life, yeah.
New life, hah..
It's very frustrating I don't have time to bead, I spend the greater part of my life here in office. I hate sitting in office, I hate answering telephone calls. This girl sitting at reception, she's not me!
I want to explore my creative side, I don't want to sit on a chair all day long. I just go crazy.
Can't wait for time when I store up enough money to pay for floristic classes. To buy a ton of beadwork & collage books. Then I'll quit this job to begin new life.
