Blue umbrella with happy silver drops

A commissioned umbrella design I did right before leaving for the U.K. The most painful umbrella painting experience ever...my knees were hurting like hell -.- even though it looks very nice when the picture is finished, the process of painting on an umbrella is rather tiring because of its particular shape. Anyway, the woman wanted a playful and funny design, that would be connected to the sea topic. I came up with this, I hope she liked it ^^

It's actually already the 6th umbrella I painted, wow. The first one I painted was for my awesome friend Noru-chan almost 4 years ago and omg, honestly, what was I thinking...why painting a face when I'm so bad at drawing people? Anyway, so the first umbrella here (lol at my English...but I remember how happy I was to give that umbrella to my friend) , then there was the red umbrella (here), no clue where it is now, a yellow one I made for another awesome friend of mine Simona (here),  the blue one that someone destroyed a little bit during one of the street markets (here) and which I quite like even now, and then my baby with the Chinese style birds (here). Reeeeally love that one. I think I still have it back home in Lithuania. Wow, time really flies. Sometimes I love looking at my old old posts and laughing at all the horrible stuff I used to make/draw. It suddenly struck me today too, that it's been 6 years since I got my first photocamera. Waaaaah.

I'm slowly wrapping up my university project, only some last touches needed and the painful part - printing and binding. I hope that I'll be done by the end of this working week, so that I can have the weekend without worrying about printing. I've been also planning quite a few new projects and photoshoots, so stay tuned for updates~  

A reminder abour my 'I dream here too' project which you guys can see everywhere in this blog and also my tumblr and facebook page that I update often!

P.S. Winter tomorrow!!!

Sleeping doggy brooch

A sleepy doggy brooch. This was sold during the street market in the summer, but I still wanted to show it to you guys. Really liked it myself :)

Made from fimo clay, leather, beads, fabric. Can't wait to go home and start making things again!

I'm finishing up my university assignment of this term, so a few more days and I'll be free. I will still have almost a week of free time here in London, not sure what I'm gonna do...maybe some nice and cozy Christmas parties with friends...? Need to finish the work first though :)

I dream here too. Week 6.

36/365

Yuto, 23 years old, wants to become a bird.

London, U.K.

Week 6 - my 365 project 'I dream here too'. Follow the project's tumblr here - a new picture posted everyday! 

37/365

Marie, 23 years old, wants to learn how to play the guitar.

London, U.K.

38/365

JB, 26 years old, wants to be a good father when he has his own family.

London, U.K.

39/365

Jieun, 23 years old, would like to have a boyfriend.

London, U.K.

40/365

Sam, 19 years old, wants to be able to fly.

London, U.K.

41/365

Qinyun, 21 years old, wants to travel around the world.

London, U.K.

42/365

Jungwon, 20 years old, would like to have a successful life.

London, U.K.

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Reflections: Traditional art fair in Nida

a bored guy making a boat (LOL)

As the cold wind has started freezing all the Londoners, including myself, I found these warm pictures I took in summer during my lovely month at the seaside. There was an art fair of all the traditional Baltic things held in Nida. Everything from food to boats...It was super nice since the whole surrounding area was made into an ancient looking village, the craftsmen were all wearing traditional clothes and there were lots of things for the people to try out, e.g. archery. I am really in love with the ancient Baltic art, because it's very pagan and raw...in a way very natural, I feel that it truly is what Lithuanian spirit is all about. Can't explain properly, sorry, let's just look at the pictures.

the lid for the furnace. How cool is that.

this guy was really cool. You could tell that he KNOWS what he's doing.

me in the stalker mode

aaaawesome

making the traditional beer. Even though I usually find alcohol disguisting, this was pretty good! More like a bitter type of a lemonade though.

some traditional ornaments

traditional musical instruments

Just sharing some happiness

So I guess it's not really a very important and artistic post, but I just really wanted to share. 

When I posted the SHINee pics a few weeks ago, one random Korean girl wrote me asking if she can re-post the pictures to a Korean fan site. I was very nicely suprised because almost nobody has asked before re-posting any of the pictures and the e-mail was very nice, so of course I said yes. Later on she sent me another e-mail where she thanked again for the pictures and translated some of the comments about the pictures that the Korean fans made. I was soooo happy to read those comments....She also asked me for my address because she said she wanted to send me something in return of the pictures. I was like whaaaat, I really don't feel like I deserve anything for some pictures I took, but she said it's okay and so I gave my address.

And then I came back home today and found this HUGE box with my name on it!

After I got over the first shock about the size of the box, I unpacked all the stuff that was inside and OMG, she has sent me 2 SHINee albums, a huge poster, some pictures, some jewellery, some other things and LOADS, I tell you, LOADS of Korean candy and snacks!!! She even wrote me a very sweet letter!!!

That's definitely not something you'd expect from a person you don't even know in real life! I'm so so so happy with everything and soooo amazed by how nice some people can be! Seriously, ever since I started taking pictures, this was the kindest and the most awesome 'thank you' I've ever gotten. Aaaah, I totally don't deserve this, THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Since I completely forgot about dinner because of the package, I should get something to eat before I die. But this has definitely inspired me to put more effort in everything I do. Will do my best-est-est-est from now on! Fighting!

안녕~

안녕 everyone, a post about some little bits of Asia in my life and uni recently. Soooo, two weeks ago I officially started learning Korean! Officially, because I had my first informal lesson ^^ My coursemate's boyfriend wants to improve his English and is teaching me and Heymon Korean - it's pretty much a language exchange. It started almost like a joke, but JB (our teacher) takes things pretty seriously which I'm happy about! We had our second lesson last week, learning Hangul now and bits of random phrases with which we scare the Korean speakers during the lectures, haha. 

The first time we came JB made us lunch which was really good! I even ate meat, even though I haven't really eaten any for the past 5 years or so. Sorry again for food pictures, but since all this Asian food is so unusual for me, I just wanted to share.

This was a little bit too spicy, but still good~

The cutest couple on Earth, Se Yeon and JB.

JB선생님! ㅋㅋㅋ

Haha, I loved how JB explains everything by drawing things. So that's how we were learning the different parts of the face. LOL.

Most of you guys probably know, that I'm obsessed with all things Japanese too, including the language that I've been learning by myself for quite a few years already. I met some Japanese students who are, again, learning English, and they're helping me with my Japanese. It's different from the Korean lessons, since my Japanese level is much better compared to my non-existent Korean, so I basically try to speak Japanese to them, even though I sometimes get lazy and switch into English...-.- Should force myself more. I definitely will.

あのさ、最近はLang-8でBlogを日本語で書きます！こちは読んでください～

Marie. I love that she calls me Ieva-chan! Makes me feel small and young at least for once, haha.

Tetsuya checking if the flower is real. とげとげ （笑）

Yuto and I. Pardon my gloomy face, I was really tired that day.

勉強勉強！！！

Marie looking pretty.

And then university...lately I really enjoy it. Got to know people better, the lectures are very interesting recently and I'm finally doing something for my assignments, which feels great. However you put it, I'm one those weirdos who enjoy working. Learning new things makes me happy. InDesign also makes me happy, when it listens to me. But hey, first time working with this programme, I already have around 50 pages of my catalogue! Still need to write an essay, finish a few art projects that should go to the catalogue and polish the design of the whole book (which is gonna be hell loads of work). Still almost 2 weeks left, so it's okay. 

2 weeks, seriously? I'm going home in a little bit more than two weeks? ありえない！でも本当に嬉しいだよ！

Heymon took a picture of me with Movember's moustache that Julie drew. I failed to put it in the right place though, haha.

Heymon also took a picture of my beloved shoes but the funny thing is that they're falling apart and the only hole in one of the shoes is like in the center of the picture! I was convinced that Heymon did that on purpose, but she denied, haha.

Justin being bored.

Jungwon and Ting-Lin with their moustaches.

Vison and Jieun. Just to show that Asians are always Asians, haha.

I'm recently posting so many pictures, but it's because we have to take our cameras to university every single  day, so I end up taking random pictures of people...But it's nice to have some photographic memories. Ok, back to work, need to write up some more of my essay today. Yooosh!