Jessica Backup

I realised I never showed you the result of the bath pictures I mentioned in my creative monday a while back . (I stopped doing those, by the way. It didn’t feel right to do them anymore.) I had a very clear idea of the finished pictures, and the result wasn’t even close, so yeah. Not too happy about it. But I thought I’d show you anyway! These were my first candidates for Monthly Makers last theme – plants. You can see what I actually made here. I can’t decide how to edit these either. I had made them a lot more yellow and like low contrast before, but I didn’t feel like you could even see what it was? It was too bland. So I made them like this instead, but I’m not 100% happy. I DON’T KNOW. Anyway, it looked kinda cute, and inspired me to take a bath with the roses from our garden later that night. It smelled heavenly.

Half of Monthly Makers 2016 has already passed, and I can only say that it has passed INSANELY fast. I can’t even believe it, it felt like it was just yesterday we decided on the themes and planned for our new year. Anyway, I thought it would be a good idea to take a look back through time and see what I’ve created in the name of Monthly Makers so far this year! Just click the images to get to the original post! January: Imprint For the first theme of the year, which was Imprint (or Avtryck) I made a set of photo manipulations with scanned dried roses over some self-portraits! Still pretty pleased with these ones! February: Wood For the February theme, which was Wood, I made a golden necklace out of twigs! It was a bit of pain painting it, but it looks really cool so I guess that’s okay. March: Miniature Using pictures taken from the plane on my way home from Valencia, I finally tried an editing technique I’ve been wanting to try for years, where you add some...

I brought my camera with me through Gnesta (the place I live) the other day, and I found so many pretty roses. This time of year is too hot for me, but it is beautiful.   Like I just wanted to stay and take pictures of these roses forever.  And this door + roses.  And dark red roses against a pale yellow wall. Houses can be pretty too. But most of all the lake.

I’ve found a lot of great things in thrift stores the past few months and I haven’t shared any of them with you! Disaster! So since the best thing would’ve been to start a few months ago, I’m just gonna have to do with the next best thing – today. True wisdom. Alright, I’m gonna start with my two favourites – oriental rugs! Honestly rugs aren’t the best thing for me since I’m allergic to dust mites, but idgaf anymore and I’m gonna have some anyway because it’s pretty and nice. I found the first one (here featuring the cat toy Alicia gave Lumos) at the thrift store across the road from where I live. I was home alone but got help to carry it home from the nice people at the store, and then we had our first rug! I can’t get a decent picture of the entire rug, and it was messy and stuff so you only get to see this. Hehe. But it’s blue and super pretty and is now on the floor in our living room! We found the s...