counting stars

 Earlier this week my package from Chicnova arrived and naturally, I was super excited to open it. I'd never ordered anything from them before, so I had no clue about the quality of the clothing etc. However, I had high expectations as I think some of the stuff on the website is a bit on the pricier side. Anyway, I'm happy with everything. All fits good and seems a fairly good quality(apart from the belt, which I think will break soon, but it was a freebie anyway).
Earlier today when I was drinking my coffee, it started snowing. I got super excited and grabbed my camera immediately to take a few pictures. Christmas is my favorite holiday after all, and the only real Christmas is a white one, at least for someone from up north.
I've started youtube again properly, and I hope you'll all go and subscribe to my channel Melnatalks, where I'll be uploading anything from daily vlogs to short film-like things. A Christmas market vlog will be up later today, hopefully, and the sweater weather tag later this week.

I think I'm actually going to manage to finish my nano. I've got 9,900 words left to write and then I'm done. Or more like, then I can start editing like a crazy person.

Anyway, hope you're all doing well!
Until next time...

a look inside my sketchbook

A little look inside my sketchbook. No super exciting works, as these are only doodles I make whenever I'm bored and not usually planned. Whenever I create, I don't tend to have a plan on what the artwork is going to be. I guess I just let my mind wander and usually something pretty random comes out of it.

My favorite medium, as you probably can see is just ink on paper. However, when I feel like it I also do acrylic paintings. That rarely happens though, as I don't always have canvases laying around to paint on. pen and paper is just so much less effort, yet equally pleasing to the eye in my opinion.

I don't have a lot of finished works. This is because I have a hard time working on a piece for a long time. I'm one of the people who enjoy the process of creation more than the actual finished piece, so therefore I tend to start a new sketch before I've even finished the old one...

On a random note, I just dyed my hair dark brown, a few pictures below.

Tell me, where is Gandalf?

Found these pictures from Halloween 2011, when me and my friend Alina decided to dress up as Lord of the Rings inspired elves. I thought they had a cool feeling to them, so I decided to post them now in honor of The Hobbit premiering... 

I'm running out of post-ideas! Suggest something cool in the comment box, ok? 

This light is so obvious, I want you to see

Above rooftops, there's a place

A place nobody knows of

Where leaves are rotten from last fall,

And birds no longer live

Above the city, there's a place

A place only I know of

It's rotten leaves are my only love

And I replace the birds' songs

Today, I got tired of sitting inside my room doing nothing. However, I didn't really feel like studying either. So I took my camera and went outside for a 3-hour-walk with no destination. I've got to say that Turku is a much more exciting place than I'd ever imagined. Urban exploration brings me to these places, that I didn't even know existed.

This is the first part of three photography posts that I will be releasing the next week. Also, on next saturday or sunday, I will be doing the "ask me" post. You have plenty of time to ask me questions on the post that I'll link right HERE!

My ideas for these photography posts are different from things I usually do. I will write a short story or a poem that has been inspired by the pictures above it. For really long, I've wanted to make these super artsy posts, and I hope you don't mind me going in this direction, as this was the main point for me starting this blog in the first place. To express my creativity and hopefully inspire other people to do so, too.

I hope you'll enjoy these, they will be my thank you for all the support I've gotten(already 50 readers, thank you so much).