It's time to leave baby

My life is lately on the rush. I am working long hours, even on weekends, I am leaving on Saturday for holidays on the amazingly beautiful island of Skopelos (my father's birthplace) for five days, then Berlin for one day, Stockholm for four days and Berlin again for one day, then back to Thessaloniki and then Halkidiki to the student camp-that-is-almost-for-free!
That was vacation. End of September I am leaving for My Master, oh yes! Such a big change in my life. Leaving behind everything I love and treasure such as my sister, my friends, my family, my life, my house,my clothes :P. I am going to the Netherlands, Eindhoven. I really like the subject of my master - I don't want to reveal now more about it, the only I can say is that it is considered a Professional Doctorate in the Netherlands, it last two years and it takes place in Eindhoven. I am really excited, but sad that I have to leave all I love behind. And my deepest fear is maybe that when I come backmany things may have changed...I would have spent two years of myself there, being out of my favorite people lives, talking with them on the phone and missing them..
But still on the other hand, I want to go. Because I believe that this particular Master is going to open for me new paths to explore and widen my career options.And since this choice seems to bring me closer to what I want to do professionally in my life, I feel that I want to go. As I say to my profile, I crave for hapiness. Of course, that might seem obvious, everybody does. But I have set it as a purpose in my life. So, I was thinking that work is about 8 hours a day (a normal work on a normal day). Plus 1,5 hours to go and come back from work and prepare for work (that is the minimum amount I could thought of. I need much more for the time being). That is about 60% of your time. Then you have another 40% to eat, drink, bath, put some clothes on and see friends or your kids or the ceiling if you are bored. But leaving out all the necessary things, only 20% of your day can be used for fulfilling my inner need to feel complete, happy and self-conscious. That's too little. I don't have the time to stare at the ceiling any more as I am always on the rush seeing friends in my 20%. And I miss a lot of things I don't have time to do. Being crafty and creative for example. Or meet new people or go dancing! SO, that's why I am going to the Netherlands!To advance this 60% of my daily routine in the future!What do you think?
And if you have any idea about how is life up there, in Eindhoven,Netherlands, don't hesitate to leave a comment!

A dreadful morning that had no reason to be dreadful

Hello :)
Have you ever lived a day when the circumstances work together to make you believe something that cannot be true? For example, if your door's room got closed by the wind just after a scary thriller movie wouldn't pictures of ghosts cross your mind? Well..

I was sleeping in my room and my sister woke up in order to get dressed to go to her job. I was almost awake since she is always too noisy, she shuts and opens again the door,the closet and throws things on the floor :D. I think I 've watched a documentary about sleeping and noticed that when you complete your night's sleep you cannot remember your dreams. On the contrary, if somebody wakes you up during the dream you can remember it (although you miss the end!). So, I had many small dreams that I remembered afterwards.



Firstly, it was this serial killer dream. And... the serial killer was me! I would kill strangers using toothpaste in this awful way: I would put some toothpast in their nose and eyes. Weirdly I was helped in my crimes by a person I haven't seen for some ages.






Secondly, there was a dream about an area somewhere in africa where some wild rhinos lived. Those rhinos were eating meat, one kind of meat that cannot be easily found. And there was a conspiracy to feed unaware people to them. I happened to be there doing some research and I didn't know anything about this disgusting conspiracy. And I remember that somebody was ready to feed me to those frightening creatures when I ran away and hid to avoid becoming a lunch.


And so... after some minutes I woke up around 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I opened my eyes quite lazily and turned from the other side. And first thing i see in front of me is a knife with its sharp part looking at me! Well..... and that happened only a little after my dreams!!!

During the day it proved that my sister had forgotten (!) the knife on the bed while struggling to cut something!!!




After all, it's profound who is responsible for this whole freaky experience: my sister!

Making summer jewels

Hi again! Since the last post, I returned from work, cleaned up a little my bedroom and then devoted myself to make these 'summer jewels'. The bracelet is going to serve as a 'goodbye gift' to my friend and colleague Vagia, because she is leaving Thessaloniki to continue her studies at a University in Switzerland.

The necklace is for my friend and colleague Xenia. I should have made it long ago though. She waited a lot for it, I hope she won't get disappointed. The beads on the top that seem not joint to the necklace were later joint with silver wires.
Making jewels is like a puzzle, you never know how long is going to take to match all colors, shapes and textures of the beads... And this match is kinda random and magical. Sometimes it's just not going to happen.

Hi all!

It's Saturday morning, it's 40 degrees outside and I am at work. Today I am going to lose two graduation parties that will take place in two campings in Halkidiki. And I know I would have loads of fun if only I could convince myself that I am not tired enough to travel one hour till the bus station and then two hours till one of these wonderful campings, then stay for one day and then come back tomorrow in such heat, completely exhausted and sweat..Even if I managed to go, I wouldn't be able to swim because of obvious for women reasons (easy!)...:S
But at least my office is air-conditioned, and we have youtube and facebook and twitter, all nice services to kill time when you are bored or in between work and breaks. And I am listening to my favourite Johnny Cash's song. When man comes around.

Abstract photographs in Xanthi

Today I remembered my life 2-3 years ago. When I was a little tired and wanted to rest, I used to sit in my totally blue room in Xanthi ( I am going to show it to you once, it's actually too blue to be true!) and stare at all the things that surrounded me. I was really busy then, I had exams and during my breaks I liked to take abstract photographs of the things I stared! I also tried to take a picture οf a little sparrow and put some bread in my balcony in order to attract it. Isn't it very cute??? I was hiding behind the curtains so that I wouldn't scare it :)


This is Ms Lucrecia the cat spying on us :)


Delicious strawberries... mmm!!!
Some dead flowers in our living room

Plastic Bags r.i.p

I woke up today at 9pm. I got dressed and rush to the bus station because I had to meet a friend to arrange some insurance stuff! Actually we needed the European health card because we are travelling abroad in a couple of weeks.In our way, we found a bakery and bought something to eat. I usually try not to eat out. But most of the times I can't resist to a nicely baked croissant! Bakeries and morning are my favourite place and time to eat out .:) So I got my croissant and a juice and in 10 minutes I was done.
And then I saw the plastic bag carrying the juice and the croissant, the plastic bottle of the juice, and the little sachet containg the croissant. And I thought that I should throw away all these stuff, that were made in a factory and waited patiently long time on the shelf of this bakery to be used for their 10 minutes of publicity and then thrown away!Energy that spent for the 10 minutes of my devour!

I think that there is no creature on this planet that has only ten minutes of life!I have once heard about an insect that is born,breed and die in one day. And maybe there are also some bacterias with life expectancy a couple of hours. That happens because Nature is wise. An amount of energy is spent for every new creature, to be born, grow up and fulfill its purpose. Each creature on earth has a Purpose. Darwin says this purpose is to breed well and protect your offsprings.And then the creature dies and becomes one with the earth, soil.

People on the other hand, are dump. We create things without being able to manage their disposal. These things usually take a hundert or more years to become one with the earth. During their production, nature is destroyed and life cycles are disturbed. We call them trash when we don't need them anymore even before they lose their attributes and their usability. We show absolutely no respect for things if they are old-fashioned or not technologically updated. The volume of the trash increases constantly, poisons water and ecosystems and threatens even human life.
But yes, I know, we can always recycle.:) Recycling helps our creations to have a second life (most of the times in a lower caste) by spending some more energy on them. That's a solution. The problem is first, that in Greece we think that this solution is optional. Second, we need to pay a second thought before kill something that can be used a second and a third time. Like the plastic bag that contained the little sachet with my croissant and the juice bottle. I will carry it back home but I'm afraid that there will be one last use for it ; to carry the trash to the trash bin.:(

A Calamity Jane Outfit

Well, now it's time for the first confession. My inspiration for this blog came from lopi, a very talented -to my mind- fashion blogger who writes about clothes she buys or is willing to buy. Her posts have caught my attention lately, because I am mad about clothes! And because of her down-to-earth, nice and mild writing and photos!:)

Although this is not a fashion blog, a cycle of love in my life is fashion! Actually I don't like this word : fashion. Maybe I won't use it again in this blog. It brings to my mind the current trends that all magazines write about. And then I see girls at the street, all wearing proudly the current trends!(for example silver cork shoes matched with almost everything,what a nonsense!). I don't want to be mean, but I find that kind of fashion boring.

As I said before, I am mad about clothes!That doesn't mean I am a shopaholic. I think I consume clothes and stuff quite reasonably and after serious thought. But I really enjoy going downtown and wandering all along Tsimiski, searching for treasures!Especially during sales!

now that's enough with words!

I bought these boots today -yeah in the middle of the summer- from Pull'n' Bear, bargain!cute, aren't they?



And that's an outfit with the boots, ideal if you are Calamity Jane!
lace shirt, earrings by Mango, Skirt from Zara, boots from Pull 'n' Bear, hat from Accessorize, all of them bought some years ago except from the boots.
I find the shirt adorable, although it's not nicely ironed in the pic.

Tiger Lillies

During the last month I had the chance to watch a Tiger Lillies' show, the Freak Show.

During the show a man with the expected eccentric appearance of a circus-man (and that was Martyn Jacques) was presenting his "colleagues". The Carnival of Circus Freaks included everything. It was focusing on people who were born different from others, like 2 dwarves, a pair of Siamese twins, a "snake-woman" and a man with three hands. Realistic or not they all gave a stunning perfomance and I should definitely mention the 2 breathtaking acrobats (they were women!).
Cynicism, decay,emotion
Miserable madness...


The carnival of circus freaks is a really freaky,theatrical show.

Here are some photos from the stage. They are a little blur but if you try you will see 5 wagons :)




"cds please, buy your cds!!!"
Some links:

information on Tiger Lillies' history
a nice funny song: Start a fire
video from Freak Show Rehearsals

A gesture with a flourish

And so it's cycles of love.

A name wide enough to carry all of our "confessions". It could be a pretty piece of clothing, a remarkable scenery, an exciting concert or a beautiful piece of art. It could be a fascinating idea regarding vacations or hobbies. These all are about to be put in the cirle of the things that interest us both (so come they, the cycles of love!).

Just like the rainbow comes after the rain and recieves all of the admiration, the cycles of love contain the things that make our lives more colourful, but the essentials in life will always be health and love. We like and not crave for money that help us afford everything is circled by the cycles of love.

this paragraph was a teaching one :)

The cycles of love are the motif on a line, the rainbow after rain, the flourish in a discussion, a smile on a face and anything that brings us and you inspiration and happy creative moments.


My beloved sister and I will have together this blog, which happens to be my first one. So, I wish us a good start!

Konstantina A

First of all

First post, third blog, or I've lost the count. I start by expressing my deeper will to have this blog and the enthusiasm for it for long time and be creative with it, at some point. I mean, do some work for it, develop my photography skills, learn to write in an amusing way, give me some motives for creativity.
I won't introduce myself because I find it pointless for now. If this blog lasts, you gonna learn a lot for me, if not, who gives a penny about me? :P
Konstantina, brand-new blogger, my sister and most-beloved friend : now it's your turn!