Randomized birthday week

A moment ago I was enjoying the last of my seafood chocolates, my favourite type of pralines!

(Sorry for making you hungry.)

I've got them for my 21st birthday last Sunday, from my sweet boyfriend.

Unfortunately it resulted way too soon in this. Sad face.

Another birthday gift was a polaroid camera! I have to thank my friends this time for this truly awesome gift. First selfie: Check.

On Monday I went buying some presents for some others, and I stumbled on a large blanket scarf! That's my word for a huge scarf, it has similarities with a blanket in my opinion. I found this one at the Pieces store, and on sale!

Just love this colour combination. Difference in colours, patterns and texture, and still a neutral entity.

The series I'm watching at the moment. Unfortunately the dvd-drive of my laptop isn't responding anymore, so I have to get that fixed first. Hopefully it won't be too expensive. Sad face again.

Making a still life for school. Kinda surrealistic.

And this is my interpretation of the still life. Still working on it. And just for the record, it was a different plate and bowl in the lower version!

Prince Charming

I've been enhancing my creative side a little lately and started drawing. It started with a few doodles of portraits and continued with thinking about creative gift ideas. That how I came up with the idea of sending my boyfriend greeting cards for his birthday that's coming up! A little bit humor never hurts, so I choose for a cliché prince charming. In Dutch there is the proverb: "He is my prince on a white horse." (Not sure it's a proverb in English too) So I decided to draw a prince on a white horse.

I wasn't feeling like drawing a proper face or hand, shhh, nobody notices!

The result! (above)

A quick sketch to try out the colours first. At the moment I'm writing this I'm still doubting if I should choose this one to send! I kinda like the goofy shape of the horse.

The first sketch. The horse kinda failed, but it's still handy to try out the colours.

Funfact: I used prince Charming from Snow White as a model here!

And a little doodle of the boyfriend while studying. I didn't had a picture with me so I drew it out of memory. And I must say I'm quite pleased with the result, it looks a little bit like him! Or otherwise it's just wishful thinking, that's possible too..

Present section

The Swing by Fragonard and another favourite of mine, Ophelia by Waterhouse.

A couple weeks ago I visited Ruby again. It was time to exchange some very late Christmas presents and an enormously late birthday present for her. Yeah, sorry again Ru!
We had -like always- a great time together. And oh I wish I could see her more! But I see her tomorrow, that's something! Tomorrow on my birthday we're gonna dance and dance and dance until the morning light!
Now back to the present section. I wanted to show you some of the adorable things Ruby gave me! Some deliciously smelling candles, a perfect gift for a candle-person like me. A watercolor version of one of my favourite paintings, The Swing. And a beautiful floral dishware set. Thanks again, Ru!