buttons and algebra

My page in a button deco. It's grey. I really should have used more colour, but I didn't dare too. I was afraid that my page wouldn't blend in very well with the others (they're really elegant with vintage pictures and faded colours and sepia - which is really neat, but not at all my style)



This one is in a letter deco. It says algebra, doesn't make much sense to me (which really is true.

I'm so glad that I'm done with maths. Sometimes I wonder whether algebra and all that exist at all: it's all made up by us. What if I choose not to believe in it? Then it might disappear completely. At least I hope so :)

late

I'm late again with the self-portrait challenge. But there's still a few hours left until next week begins. I guess I'll post anoher photo tomorrow then...


Hello, I'm Lina, and I'm ugly. These are from yesterday. I didn't feel like showing off my greasy hair and gloomy skin.

Even though I wasn't very pretty myself, I saw lots of beautiful things. We took a walk in Bergianska trädgården (a botanical garden in Stockholm). It was a pleasant afternoon, the weather was okay and we had a nice lunch at the café.


Victoriahuset, there are giant water lilies and lotuses inside.




Check out the details! So lovely! Ca me fait penser à la France, surtout Paris, ca me manque! :(


A lotus inside. I like the reflection of the ceiling.


We had lunch sitting on these pretty chairs.


They had planted a violet sun.

marble pictures

Right now I'm not in the mood for making things. Or doing anything at all actually. So this fun little project was quite enough yesterday.


It doesn't take time and it's not messy (apart from some glue on my fingers - which I love pulling off once dried). I like flipping through magazines looking for small colourful pictures. And I love the effect the marble has on the picture :)


These are from a Gudrun Sjöden catalogue. I love their clothes, especially the patterns. So colourful, full of energy and happiness. My mum has lots of Gudrun Sjöden clothes. I'd like to wear them too, but I'm feeling too young somehow.


I'm not quite sure what to do with them. I just like looking at them. I could put magnets on them, or just put them on my wall (I already have others like that). I've seen lovely bracelets, like this one. But I think they'll just end up on the wall over my bed with the others.

graduation dress

This is me, trying out my graduation dress. I found it at Judiths (a great second-hand store close to where I live in Stockholm). In Sweden there's a tradition of wearing white when graduating from high school. But I don't like following stupid traditions just because you're supposed to, cause everyone else does. So I chose yellow :)


I can't believe I'm about to finish school (well, at least my first twelve years). I'm a year late, because of spending last year in France, so I've had more than enough, at least of high school (I'm continuing my studies right after summer with gender studies - I'm sooo excited!).

But it's kind of scary too. Now I really have to make up my mind about my life. What do I want to do? What am I good at? Will I make it? And since Friday I'm no longer a teenager (turned twenty). Does this mean that I'm really grown-up? Will I ever be?

Studio Friday: Sounds

Sounds are interesting. They're all around me all of the time (almost), but I don't really think about them (unless everything suddenly gets very quiet). The only real silence I know is when you go to a concert (classical, with a big symphony orchestra). Then, right after they've finished a piece, there's real silence for some seconds, before the applause. Sometimes, I love that silence even more than the music.

In my room (or studio I guess... I live and create stuff in the same room) I can always hear sounds, though I generally don't listen to them. If I want to listen, I put on a CD book (right now I'm listening to Juloratoriet, by Göran Tunström), or some music.



Otherwise, there's sounds coming in through my window (I always keep it open). We live next to Årstabron (Bridge of Årsta - actually there's now two of them, though you can't see the new one from this side, which is good cause I prefer the old one), and there's trains passing at least every 15 minutes, even at night. As I've lived here all of my life I'm used to it and don't really hear them. But I like them, hearing them means that I'm home.



Now in spring, there's also the birds singing, which is lovely, unless it's 4.00 and I'm in bed trying to sleep. And there's the children playing at the court too. We have a kindergarten in our house, and the kids spend lots of time outside, especially now in the nice spring weather.

I love all the spring signs (both sounds, visions and smells). I wish the weather would never change (at least not get cold and rainy again), and that there could always be spring flowers and buds on the trees. I really shouldn't be sitting here. I'm supposed to study, but I'd rather go out to feel the sun on my cheeks and smell the spring in the air.

self portrait challenge

I really thought Self Portrait Tuesdays was a fascinating project, though I never participated myself. Partially because I never have time to post on Tuesdays (idla training), but also because I'm not totally comfortable with posting lots of photos of myself (don't like most of them). Still, self-portraits are interesting in many ways. So I joined self portrait challenge.


This is me in February, playing with the camera. I don't remember what I was doing (I think it was in the morning, before school), or why I was wearing my beret indoors.

The May challenge is introduce yourself so I guess I should do that too...
I'm Lina, and I'm turning 20 in a week :) I'm a student in daytime, and in the evening I'm training (idla: dance with balls sort of), spending time with friends, sleeping, creating something or just wasting my time (that's my favourite pastime). I'm a feminist and I love travelling, languages and different cultures (j'ai passé la dernière année en France).

And that's pretty much it. I don't really see the point in telling everything about me, I'm not at very interesting person. Go on and ask a question (I might even answer it!) if you want to know something else.