project 365, take two

moved to @nienque

moved to @nienque

and this was my evening setting for some half-hearted attempts at studying

the finished postcard, a ballroom from War and Peace and a quote from Tolstoy, and the evening sky after finishing my lectures

today was not as productive as i'd hoped, because i was ill, but i managed to finally make a new key page for my bullet journal and i worked on this drawing of a ballroom (reminiscent of Tolstoy's War and Peace). later i added some colour as well and now it's almost finished

this week's spread in my bullet journal and some more on reading on Michelangelo and his Pietàs in particular. the little bookmarks were actually left in there by another student, plus a receipt from 2013 (which did make me slightly nostalgic, to be honest)

didn’t have any lectures today, but i went to uni anyway to pick up some books for my essay and get some work done (semi-successful). i was feeling rather low when i got home so my mum and i watched call the midwife, simply because we both love it so much, and that definitely helped. i'm going to do some more light reading for my essay tonight so i'm (hopefully) well prepared for tomorrow

A year in (mostly) photographs and some bits of text. I really enjoyed making these posts and even though I've missed some days, I'm glad I've kept this up for a whole year and I think it will be nice to take time to actually look back on 2016. If you followed or read this blog, thank you, I really appreciated the messages you guys sent me. (if you want to see what my year was like, just scroll through this blog)

2016 in selfies/pictures of me ✔ tagged by @korenbloemen, i tag @ivanaxoelle & @ilmiomaestro

Morning light on our floor and me being ready for a movie night with my friend Sarissa

My thrift shop finds of today - a blazer (terrible photo, I took this one in the fitting room because there was no mirror??) and four books, including a beautifully illustrated version of Gulliver's Travels

(i’ll be back with a proper post later, i am too pissed off right now)

1: The book I referred to yesterday (the one my grandfather wrote and illustrated) 2: Winter light creating interesting shadows (with a little help from my hand) 3: My room, this is where I spend my days

I don’t celebrate Christmas that way - I live in the Netherlands and instead of Santa Claus there’s Sinterklaas (celebrated on December 5th), but Christmas is not about presents (for me at least)

on a side note: I didn’t delete them, just put them on private (so I could publish them again, would I ever want to, but I don’t see that happening soon)

Feeling tired but grateful after this day. My grandmother came over for dinner and we talked about so many things - she taught me little tricks she used to cheat in school - and we also spoke about the book my grandfather had always wanted to write, which lead to me rereading the book on our family history he wrote and illustrated (which is so nice, I am grateful we have something like this)

hi Ivana, yes of course i remember you (good old youtube days haha)! thank you for your lovely message, this is so nice and i'm just trying to let your (extremely) kind words sink in. i hope you have a good time this Christmas and hopefully the new year will bring you many good things. once again, thanks for your lovely words (still quite surreal to hear i've inspired someone) and i look forward to your blog posts, definitely following!