the 69 Eyes!!!

Not very makingthings related, but I am so excited I just have to do a post on it. The 69 Eyes are playing in Norway! Finally!!! I have been waiting for this for quite some time now, and now I have tickets. Squeee! I just found out last night, and my wonderful Mum got me the ticket cuz I got so excited. Bless her!
So, on the 14th of January I will be rocking my little fishnet stockings off at John Dee in Oslo with these hunky looking Finns.



Life is good after all :)

Lady Gaga inspired hair bow, with a lolita twist.

I am not a big fan of this Lady Gaga's music, but she's got a funky style! I saw a picture of her in a Norwegian tabloid newspaper, and got inspired to try to make something like what she was wearing. I wanted to make it a tad smaller, and with lenghts of hair flowing down as ribbons in your hair. Kind of gothic lolita-ish.

So, this is what mine looks like:



I know you can buy these sort of bows online, but they are expencive and often not very well made. So, I made a tutorial so you can give it a go yourself.

Todays outfit :)

Purple hat I found on the bus once.
Skull scarf from eBay
Purple and black oversize shirt from h&m
Long sleeve cotton jumper from h&m
Tights/leggings from a flea market years ago
Legwarmers with satin ribbon from Cubus
Polkadot hi tops from American Vans

Early morning chillout time!

I got up at 5 this morning, just to find out half hour later that my morning lecture was cancelled due to illness. Hooray! I could have slept for another 2 hours! But, I am up, dressed and ready to go, so I decided to have a nice and slow morning instead. I got a fire going, bread cooking in the oven, and it's actually quite nice.
So, what has she been up to? Actually not that much. School is really slow in the start, I kinda wish it was more to do, but then again I guess I should be happy for the easy start. It will get worse! But I like it. On the weekend I had dinner with the family at our cabin, then went out to the local "moose" festival! What a shockingly redneck event, but hey, it was fun. My sis in-law and her sister had a blast, and it was well worth it, if not just to watch all the funny people being uber rednecks :P
i did a bad thing yesterday. I bought another pair of shoes! But I so wanted some Vans, and they are great for school, comfy, yet still funky! So, here they are! My super-fun happy-make-feel-nice polkadot Vans, that I got on sale, for next to nothing.





Aren't they cute? I know my blog is getting a little shoe crazy, I also added 3 other shoe related videos on youtube. They're not really any makingthings material, but what the heck. I like shoes!

Check them out :)







Have a wonderful day!

How to paint your shoes

Short video on how to paint shoes. I'll update more shortly. Have a great day!

First day of autumn!

Ok, I've been a busy bee this week as well, but I just had a few moments to sit down and enjoy making a new video. It's just a short, and a little messy look at what I have made over the past week.

Here it is!



Anyways, I have so many things going on right now. School is getting serious next week, and I already know what is gonna be my favorite class. My typography lecturer is just plain amazing! He really loves his field, and I know this is gonna be a really inspirational class. Also learning some binary math is quite interesting. Not sure what I'll use it for yet, but I'm guessing the unknown world of webdesign and programming is opening some doors later on in the degree. All in all, I like it! There's some really nice people in my classes too!
Other than this I am currently working on the secret project, and I got asked to make a couple logoes for a friend who just started his own company.
My Wacom Cintiq is playing up tho, to the point where reinstallations and everything else is not doing anything. It just wont recognize the pen. So, I wrote a mail to Wacom, and actually got a reply. Got a few things to check out tonight before I reply. If this doesn't work, I want a new one! Damn it, it's only a few months old, and I have hardly used it. Just tried it out a few times, other than that it's been stored in it's original packaging for when I moved down in my house. Fancy tech stuff don't like me. it just seems to be broken all the time, even tho i don't do anything wrong!
Ok, enough rant, back to the surfing ebay under a blanket with a hot cuppa in my hand.
I kinda love this time of the year!