Happy Christmas everyone!

The best (early) Christmas gift

I'm starting to wonder if you've lost your way

"I don't know who you are

Don't even know your name

I wish we could talk

but I don't have a number to call

So hold your hand out if you hear me

I've been searching but all that I found

Is everywhere that I go is standing alone in the crowd

And I need you now."

Olly Murs: I Need You Now

Aperture wide open

The pupils were not photoshopped, nor are they fake. I have iritis in my left eye, so I went to the eye doctor today and got two kinds of eye-drops. The other ones make the pupil dilate, so I have crazy eyes at the moment. :)

You've gotten into my bloodstream

Stateless - Bloodstream

Make-up with Photoshop

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you my thought process of tonight:

Hmm...I feel like taking a self-portrait... 
I could test out what kind of a lighting I can get with my two lamps... 
I really wouldn't want to put on any make-up, although I look like sh*t... 
No worries, I'll add some in Photoshop!



Music: Petteri Sariola - Prime

My imagination stopped working as soon as I'd set the lamps to their places. The final photos look as if they were taken at school, but it was good practice. And it was fun to play with PS after a little break.

You don’t know what you do to me

Paramore – Stop This Song (Lovesick Melody)

I've gone too far to come back from here,
but you don't have a clue
You don't know what you do to me
I've come too far to get over you,
and you don't have a clue
You don't know what you do to me

Can't someone stop this song,
so I won't sing along
Someone stop this song,
so I won't sing

Your lovesick melody
is gonna get the best of me tonight
But you won't get to me if I don't sing

It creeps in like a spider
Can't be killed, although I try and try to
Well, don't you see I'm falling?
Don't wanna love you, but I do

Bazinga, I don't care.

My new favorite t-shirt.

Rainy day's games.

Sweet dreams in black and white

Sonata Arctica - In Black And White (Live)

I've had a whole new inspiration in my Photoshop work after the product photography course I attended a week ago. My use of layer masks has become so much more efficient. I first worked on this in color, but then realized that it actually looked better in b&w. Even though my damaged hair is more obvious....I wasn't made to be a hair model (or any kind of a model for that matter).

Btw, this is my first proper SP with my new camera. It's still quite difficult to get my eyes in focus if I want to 'free' my bangs, but in close-ups like this one it's easy to repeat until you get the results you wanted. 

Or am I a fool who sits alone talking to the moon...?

BRUNO MARS - TALKING TO THE MOON

So I drove to the furthest supermarket last night and bought myself new expensive shoes. I'm quite in love with them. I also have new glasses, new gloves and I got my hair dyed and cut this morning. 

It's been a long and boring Friday evening and I'm in a bad-ish mood. I'm totally feeling this Bruno Mars -song right now. I received his album today in the mail and I'm loving it. 

Dead-end

I feel like I'm in total dead-end in my life. I don't know what I want, I don't have motivation for anything, especially school, I have no idea what I should do with my life. Well I know what I should do: finish school, get a degree and get a job. *Sigh*....so much easier said than done. Especially when considering that the field of work I'm supposed to be graduating is anything but interesting to me. 

Oh well, let's move to a happier subject. I'm going to get this cast off my wrist tomorrow! Hopefully that is...I'm scared that they'll tell me that it's still not completely fixed or something horrible like that...fingers crossed. And I have an appointment to the hair dresser's on Friday. I'm super stoked about that. I'm finally getting rid of this dreadful root growth and getting a decent haircut! Yey...I'm going to be pretty again :) Kinda-sorta.......

I miss my blond under-hair-thingies...they were dyed black last time I had my hair dyed and I don't know if my hairdresser would think dying them blond again is such a great idea. I also miss my long hair and I wish my hair would grow faster. Too often I find myself looking at old SPs where I have long and perfect hair. I am getting proper bangs again too, like in this photo. I wish it was Friday already!

I know, I'm so vein...but hey! Try not to be after you've gone through six weeks without being able to do your own hair the way you'd like to! Making a simple ponytail has been completely impossible till these last two weeks and even now it's quite painful with the cast on my wrist.

So yeah. I can't wait to have my arm back and my car back (six weeks without driving.....horrible! I've started to remember why I hate using buses so  much...) and have pretty hair again....*sigh*

And, finally, here's a Christmas song for you:

J-P LEPPÄLUOTO - TONTTU
(ELF)

The Wool Socks (a cool band name? vol. 2)

I went to the gym this morning. I love being there all by myself with just my mp3-player filling my ears with sweet sounds of heavy metal music.

I've started to exercise much more. Even though I'm not what would be considered "fit" by no means, exercising makes me feel much better. So good in fact that I actually looked into the mirror at the gym and thought, "I do actually look pretty good".

And that is very rare, my friends.

How does any of this concern my socks?

No idea. But there they are.

India Arie - Ready For Love cover song
Paramore - My Heart cover song

More treasures and more Cain's Offering

Cain's Offering - Into The Blue
The falsetto isn't really Timo Kotipelto's thing at all, but otherwise this song is truly beautiful.

I made a new Me, Myself & I -page and took this photo in the side. 

The camera isn't real (I wish it was, though!).
Neither is the car, in case you were wondering ;)

Cain's Offering - Stolen Waters
I'm so in love with this song too. The whole album is just pure perfection.

Just me and my guitar

   

I wanted to go to the Lost In Music festival tonight, but I couldn't get anyone to come with me in such short notice. So I stayed at home. Because I'm such a loser who can't go anywhere alone. No...I don't think I'm a loser, but I don't like going out alone. I become very self-conscience.

But something good did come out of this evening! An excellent (if I may say so myself) self-portrait.
This doesn't happen too often when I can say I'm really proud of a photo. So here it is!
(Plus an outtake. The one with the clock.)


Now if I did know how to play that thing properly, this would make an excellent artist-portrait.
But no..I'm a piano-girl myself. :)

I've always wanted to know how to play the acoustic guitar and I have tried...my fingers just don't seem to be able to go where they're supposed to and as quickly as they're supposed to.

I admire greatly everyone who can play the guitar and I'm an acoustic music junkie. The most amazing acoustic guitar player I've ever heard is Petteri Sariola.

This is my obsession

Have I mentioned I have an obsession with clocks?

My latest catch. 

The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali

I have a feeling that this clock will be used a lot as a prop...

The Golden Record by Karlsson

The Choco Lab by Karlsson

This one was on sale in some little antique/decorating shop that was closing down.

My parents gave me this one. I love it. It's hung over my piano.

This too has a great prop-potential.

A book clock

Betty Boob old fashioned alarm clock.

I don't keep it ticking because the noise is very loud.
But it's pretty.

A station clock

My famous book clock by Karlsson

 

 And last but not least my HOPE-clock.  

Danny Elfman - The Little Things