Well, I took my time but I finally made sure I am actually allowed to use a text from Project Gutenberg to edit and bind books with even if I eventually might sell them. At least I hope I have it right.
One of the things I’ve been wanting to do ever since I started trusting my skill in bookbinding is make an illustrated version of the brothers Grimm’s fairy tales. Of course I’m no illustrator but I think I have enough artistic talent to make something that will do. This will be a very long term project because there are a LOT of fairy tales and I have to re-read them again a few times so I can decide which to illustrate, then comes the dreadful task of doing the layout which is not something that falls within my skill set at the moment. I’ll learn, have to haven’t I?
Before I get to the entire collection I figured I’d do a test drive with one single story, one of the better known/popular ones, with possible selling in mind. My friends on Plurk helped me select three of the most well known fairy tales (partially thanks to Disney I guess) and now you get to pick the one I should start on:
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To make my life more complicated you could of course also tell me in the comments which is your favorite Grimm fairytale.
The first thing I did when my studio was accessible again wasn’t making something but taking pictures of things I had laying around.
A gray little holder for business cards. I’m still working on the design a little because the pockets in this one only hold a very limited amount of cards and I want them to have room for more, other than that I quite like it.
The world looks so much different through a new monitor…
-We painted the walls of our bedroom white, we put in a new wardrobe with sliding doors so we can now actually open them (we sleep in the smallest room in the house, if you don’t count the toilet) and of course we did all that after we first removed two layers of wallpaper. I’m very happy the job is done even though we sort of by chance chose two weeks in which it was mostly around 30º Celsius outside and my body is totally unequipped for any physical labor so I was actually sick for 2 days afterward and am still recovering. It was worth it and I’d do it again… ok well maybe next time if we spontaneously start doing some renovating we will spontaneously do that in fall or spring instead of summer but still I have no regrets (just a very very very sore body).
-I got to renew my mobile phone contract, I’ve always been a bit skeptic about smart-phones not because I don’t understand how they work but because I didn’t believe I would appreciate the added value of all the extra possibilities enough. However I am always curious and my partner had – through a rather unfortunate chain of events – a spare HTC desire which he graciously allowed me to use so I could try it out without having to get an expensive contract or buy one myself. And I have to say it’s growing on me, still the features I love most so far are not the ones smart-phones are being marketed for (I can for instance have 3 different audio players, the all remember where I paused, so I can switch between 2 different audio books and listen to music in-between, I Love That!). In a few more weeks I will probably never want to go back to a regular phone.
-After all the renovating we did during which I couldn’t do anything creative…. or any work at all actually because my studio/workspace was overrun with wardrobe-less clothes for almost 3 weeks I am now finally nearly ready to get back to bookbinding, proof reading, messing with paints and paper and beads and thread and wire and…
Oh and the main monitor I used behaved very strangely, when I turned on the PC it took anywhere between 2 and 10 minutes before I got to see anything, so my partner bought a new one for me and now you all look so very different from before… (something to do with LED says Lover…)
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The weather has been terribly hot in the Netherlands for the past two weeks, it cooled down a little over the weekend but the house is still like an oven and weather forecasts promise more heat pretty soon.
I don’t do well when temperatures get above 25 degrees Celsius, the physical discomfort is unpleasant to say the least but as long as I keep calm and take in plenty of liquid and essential minerals I can deal with that. What bothers me more is the effect heat has on my mind, of course that could just as well be caused by what happens to my body, very likely even but that is not the point. I get depressed, and I’m no cheerful person to begin with but where my usual moods are sad, melancholic or and full of doubt; they always have some hint of softness to them, a wish, hope, certainty that this too will pass and a streak of friendly compassion towards my own sorrow. But the depression that comes over me when it’s been warm for more than a day is… well different. It is everywhere in and around me like the heat, there is no escape, no comfort, no hope no nothing, it’s that muddy grey-ish colour you can only get when you mix too many colours together, it isn’t light nor dark, just forever and everywhere despair…
So if there is any weather god out there reading this; I really am ok with summer and if it has to be hot for a day or two every other week I won’t complain but please just keep it in the low 20′s for the rest of the time ok? If I wanted heat I’d spend my summers somewhere more south…
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Once when I was about 16 (I think, I’m not sure exactly) our school performed Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and I was in the choir. Now this is a very easy and catching opera and with all the practicing we did I learned almost all the solo parts by heart as well as the choir. Which isn’t very interesting in itself but… you know when you log in, almost anywhere, and there is the little check box ‘ remember me’?
Well each and every time I see that it makes me think of ‘Dido’s lament’, every time for what I estimate must be at least 15 years now… no one can say I don’t have a touch for the dramatic…
If you have no patience for opera or just can’t stand it than by all means do not click this, also I know this video quality is bad but this was the best performance I could find on youtube (subtitle is Dutch). The part I mean starts at about 1:00
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