The Golden Compass

Now, some may know that I am an avid reader of (almost) all things fantasy. And three of the books that I discovered in the past few years, and which I heart and love and have read twice already, make the His Dark Materials Trilogy.
These books are now being filmed. Film no.1 will be shown in cinemas come December. And to celebrate it all, they have made a homepage (with trailer!).

If you know the books, you will know about daemons. And this page also allows you to generate your own daemon. But! To have it reach its final form, you need your friends' input.
So, if you want some fun, go here, make some guesses concerning my personality, and watch my little daemon transform.
I've already gone from hare to ermine to ocelot, and I'm really excited to see what it will be in the end. :)

I made things!

Well, I have no pictures to prove it, but last week I both finally put the finishing touches to the scarf I finished knitting ages ago...my first self-knit scarf, btw - AND I made myself a skirt. A skirt that is no good at all for cycling (I tried), and not so good for my usual (fast) walking speed, but...a skirt. A nice, summery, non-black (hooray!) skirt. With elastic band inserted. Wohooo! Now, if I hadn't managed to break the needle on my mum's sewing machine when trying my luck with denim, I might have more to post. But alas, that is the fate of the unlucky sewer. More skirts soon, hopefully. :)
And pictures, too...once we finally get over this computer crisis that hit this household in the last two months. :P

Etsy Post: T-Shirts

Soooo, since I still don't have any crafting or refashioning news (though some may be posted soon), and I don't want to go on blabbering about how nice spring is, and I have been wanting to do this for ages - here is my second post about the wonders of Etsy shopping! The first one, if you remember, was on earrings, this one will be about T-shirts. Because I love t-shirts, and people on Etsy make lovely T-shirts! :)

First, here are the ones I bought during my autumn shopping spree (all pictures taken from the respective shops!):


















This is the wonderful Biorythmic Tee from Supastarr. It's white and pink and very cool. ;)
Supastarr are a lovely couple who, afaik, own a bookstore, and make these great screenprinted shirts in their spare time. And boy, what great shirts (and other stuff) they make!














This second shirt here is called the The Darkest Tree Tee. It is nice and long and short-sleeved like the first one, but I wanted to show the print in detail...isn't it simply amazing?
The shirt is black and the print is a sort of metallic pink, which just looks amazing. If I could wear it all the time, I probably would!

This final one...yeah, I have no picture of the shirt itself. But this is the fantastic print that is on it! I found this one at Lushbox.
For a literature student like me, this has got to be the best shirt ever. ;) I wore it to uni once...you should have seen the face of my prof when he noticed. :D
It's also white and nicely long and short-sleeved.






Now, after these three shirts, it seemes I caugh the t-shirt bug, because my spring shopping spree yielded the following:

Three more from Supastarr, because I just loved the first two so much! Plus, just look at them. They're fantastic. ;)


















This one is called Curly Tree, and I love all things spirally and curly, so I had to make it mine!
I also like trees. Trees are nice.
Unfortunately, the shirt arrived just when our weather turned warm, and I haven't had a chance to wear it yet. Maybe soon, when April turns nasty (as it should, being April).


















This is, obviously, called Read to Me. Can you guess how much my fellow bookreading and bookcrossing friends loved it? Can you guess how much I love it?
Also, yesterday someone read to me. (Without any prompting from the shirt.) Can you guess how much I really really like it now?


















And finally, my very much loved "Be a hero" shirt. What a great colour! And of course I like the print. Dare to be different, I say. ;)

But, I did not only buy shirts from Supastarr. I also bought a couple from another shop I had been lusting after, namely Ahpeele. Another lovely couple that makes the most amazing shirts - with Asian inspired designs, this time.
I can honestly say that, if I had the money, I could (and probably would) buy all the shirts (and hoodies) they have on offer.


















This one is dark grey with black print. The print wraps around the shirt...I have no idea how they do it, but it looks amazing. I love the length as well...and am very thankful that I can get shirts in this wonderful length from Etsy whenever I want to. The ones they sell at H+M etc always are sooo freaking short! :P


















And here, the last one (for the time being!). I ordered this one in black, but received a white version...which turned out to be great! The white one is soooo much better for spring. :)
The print on this one is really colourful! <3
(And also wraps around the shirt, and amazes me every time I look at it!)

So, of course there are other things I bought on Etsy that I haven't posted yet, but still, the next post should be about something I made myself, right? Well, fingers crossed and all that. ;)

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Oh, and because someone asked - I probably should buy myself a cat, yes, and I would, but, eh, for all my love of cats etc, I am allergic. So I live off cat pictures on CuteOverload and the two tabbies my best friends call their own. My own cat...well, if a miracle happens and the allergy disappears. But right now...sadly not.

Huh

So, another two weeks and more have passed, and I didn't post anything new.
Well. Crafting is down to nil at the moment. Swapping also. Refashioning also (although I am not buying anything new either).
What is up is reading. What is up is meeting with people. What is up is cleaning up my room and throwing old stuff out.
Not too bad, I guess.

I had my big exam last week and I passed. Only sort of average grade, but hey, for only one week of studying, and that in a very hole-y way (none of the three books necessary for the exam were read completely), and being dead tired (exam at 5.30pm after a day of working, and getting up at 6.30am, ugh), I think I did ok. I expected much worse. ;)

So now, Easter holidays, and on Tuesday I made my flat look more like a flat again, and less like a battlefield. I did my ironing. I threw some stuff out that should have been thrown out ages ago. I cleaned the bathroom. Wohoo!
Yesterday I started reading. Yesterday was for fun, tomorrow I will start reading for uni, and as much as possible. What about today? Hm. Well. More reading for fun, I guess. ;)

The most remarkable thing about the past week? Saturday. Where I spent about 9 hours talking with someone I didn't know very well. I guess now I do. At least a little better. ;)

Well, no pictures is no fun, so here another lovely kitty picture that I found on Cute Overload. Enjoy!