Let's go have Fun.

Internship is great. The whole feel of working at a company, full time, no school. It’s great. But I do miss something. I remember last internship feeling the same, but that one only lasted 10 weeks, not 5 months.

The thing I’m missing is going on adventures, to put it down really easily. When I think about it, I realise I didn’t really do that when going to school, eather, but I miss it. I miss having the time to do something fun. Going on ‘adventures’ is something I want to do a lot more of in the future, and hopefully school, after internship, will let me. 

Luckily I do have some adventures to look forward do. And even more luckily, most of those adventures will take place  in England. In London, to be exact, visiting my sister. I can not wait ‘till I can finally see her again, but also to be in The city that is London. I have wanted to go there again for so long now and knowing it’s finally almost happening gives me great pleasure. 

To this trip, I will take my analog camera, with a black and white roll in it. I will finally be able to photograph with it. That excites me. It’s analog, so you have to wait ‘till its done before you can see what you’ve made. You also have one go. If a picture goes wrong, there is no turning back. I really like this concept. I’m hoping to take a lot of photographs, not only on that camera, but also on my phone, for Instagram, so I can cherish as many memories as possible.

I’m also traveling alone, which makes it even more of and adventure. I can’t wait to experience this, it literally is a dream of mine to just travel on my own, so I think this is a great start.

Exciting times are coming, people. Every month from now on (October, november and december) I will be in London. This is a dream. So many pictures, so many memories. 

And in between all those times I will be at internship, sitting behind a desk for 40 hours a week. Designing things. Doing what I love.

Have a nice life,
XoxoWinnie.

P.S. If you want to see what I’m up to in my adverntures, I think it would be an idea to have a look at my instagram account. Maybe even follow. It is the plan to fill that one up quite a bit in the coming months. If it’s not with crazy ~cough~ adventures, it will be with knorrige day-to-day vieuws on things around me. So have a look, just an idea.

Silhouette. | DBTC 38

It was that time of the week again, last saturday. The day to be creative in my everything-is-possible-you-just-have-to-try sketchbook. And this was another week of being rather happy with myself in the end.

I got the rough idea for this from a picture I saw on pinterest, but it ended up completely different. In the picture it was a wood palette, where the silhouette was outlined with black, which left the silhouette itself filled with the pattern of wood. I really liked the idea of doing a silhouette inside out, but I didn't want to do it on wood, as that couldn't go into my sketchbook when done.

So I did a thing with watercolor.

I put some colors together on the paper, smudged them around a bit, splattered some more color on and let it dry.
When it was dry, I drew the figure on and got my black paint out. After outlining the figure with a small brush first, I started to fill in the blanks with black. I left it to dry and I was ready to feel proud. It came out as I wanted it to and there is no better feeling then that. May or may not make another one or two. Different colours, different techniques, different faces, this excites me.

Have a nice life,
Xoxo
Winnie.

~Ah-ma-zing photo quality. I'm sorry, I couldn't wait 'till i could take proper pictures for putting this up...~

What is all this about? Go to this blogpost and you can read all about the project I've started for this year!

Quote of the Day.

"Every life is a pile of good things and bad things.
   Good things don't always soften the bad things but visa-versa
   the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.
   We definitely added to his pile of good things."

- Doctor Who 
  S05E10


Xoxo.

Intern.

The new internship has started. This time I'll barely be at school for 5 months.

I'm an intern at a furnishing company in the marketing department to take care of everything graphic. My first week has given me excitement for the next 22. I can see myself walking around here as a part of the company. Pretty happy right now.

It is going to be a very busy period, though. I don't only work as an intern 40 hours a week, but I also have my usual job one day in the weekend and my last internship company offered me a job, which I will do in the evening hours after internship days. Not sure if this is a good idea and if it will work out, but only time will tell.

I'm excited.

Have a nice life,
Xoxo
Winnie.

Sziget '14 | 10-day journal.

>DISCLAIMER this is probably going to be a very long post. It is litterally going to be my diary from Sziget. I'm not expecting this to entertain you in any way. This is more just for me to look back to in some time. This blog makes it a bit more easy to find. So if you're not looking for a gigantic 11-day diary blog post, happily scroll along. Thank you, Love you Bye!<

Sziget 2014.

I think festivals are great. I went to my first full on (whole festival plus camping) festival last year with two friends and I loved it so much. I told myself I had to do this more. So this year I went to my second: Sziget Festival in Budapest.

Sziget Festival lasts 7 days and is held on Obudai Sziget (Sziget means Island in Hungarian) in the Donau. It doesn't only host some big music names but also has a lot of art shown over the whole island.

My musical favourited were, hands down, A Day To Remember, Bastille and Macklemore&Ryan Lewis. I enjoyed all those gigs greatly and they will be charished for a long, long time.
Jimmy Eat World was pretty fun as well and the little bit that I've seen and heard of Tom Odell was pretty damn good. On the last day I quite liked The Kooks and Calvin Harris, only I, sadly, wasn't able to see the big finaly with the fireworks.

The rest of the festival was greatly enjoyed as well. There was a lot to see ~for example the Luminarium a big balloon building you can walk through~, to do and to experience ~I bungee jumped~, there was great choice in food and the food was pretty damn good as well ~Zing Burgers are fantastically good~. The paying method they use here is quite handy, you get a pass you can charge money on and you just hold it in front of a scanner thing and you payed. The only things a not so cool about it were the charging, the lines usually were very long and the charging took quite some time, so you couldn't just 'go and charge your card' and it's a bit harder to keep up with what you payed and what's left on your card. Apart from that I loved it. Oh, and all the prices are Florint, so you do have to do the maths every time you want to buy something plus a lot of things in stands are only written in hungraian and a lot of the people working there aren't very good at english, so sometimes ordering something could be a little more challenging.

The festival is great. It's long, very long (7 days!!!!) (You can read about how tired I was here (you get a pack of Salted Caramel TimTams squished into your mailbox if you've read that whole blogpost) (Not really but I love you if you did)) But it's great. 

So much music, so many experiences. A lot of love from me. 90% would reccomend. ~You do have to be up for not too much sleep in a loud enviroment.~

Have a nice life,
Xoxo
Winnie.

A life lived for art is never a life wasted.

I'm not sure if you know this about me, but I have a fascination for Damien Hirst. One of my dreams is to go to a full on Damien Hirst exposition.

So when I saw some of his work was shown in the Netherlands, I had no choice but to go there and see it.

They were 'Photogravures' of For the love of God , other skulls and butterflies, all signatured by Damien Hirst. It was amazing. I got just this one step closer to seeing For the love of God ~I would almost go as far as saying my favourite Damien Hirst artwork (but I don't do favourites)~ in real life. 

This exposition was very small, so my mum, my sister and I chose to also take a look at the rest the museum had to offer. 

This was a good idea. We sawa lot of great things. One of them being an exposition on Mondrian & De Stijl, where we saw the Victory Boogie Woogie the famous unfinished Mondrian piece. 

There also was an exhibition that showed artworks from unknown artists. Regular humans could submit their artworks in the theme 'Light' amd a jury chose some works to display in the museum. This makes for a great variety in art. There was photography, normal paintings, mixed media art, sculptures, a little bit of everything. A lot of inspiration for me. I loved it. I saw some things I have to write down to not forget, for they maybe be useful later in time for school...

Have a nice life,

Xoxo

Winnie.

Ps. Please, if you have the chance and are interested in art, go to a museum. It brings inspiration and creativity and there is so much greateness out there. Something of every taste.

~photo's were taken with cameraphones, hence the quality. Taken by me and my mum.~