What’s up, guys! 🙂 I know I promised to write a review about this series like a hundred years ago but I seem to not be able to gather my thoughts about it properly… I simply adore these books so much and all the feels they give me, it’s too much to handle verbally. Usually when I am trying to describe TMI to other people it gets real weird like I’m talking about some freaking bad-ass guys with lots of tattoos, weapons and leather, who believe in angels and kick demon’s butts like nobody’s business. 🙂 So yeah, I don’t know how to recommend this series to you adequately. Then I’ll start with that the author of TMI (The Mortal Instruments) Cassandra Clare actually wrote two series, one TMI in which all the shit happens in our current time and second one TID (The Infernal Devices), which takes place in 1878. And today I’ll talk about the first one, so this post wouldn’t be too long. And later I’ll post second part about TID and other related stuff.
As I’ve mentioned before TMI story takes place in our time, in 2007 actually, that’s when first book was published. The genre of these books is urban fantasy. This series tells us about Shadowhunter’s world, which is totally shielded from the eyes of normal human beings (Mundanes). And Mundanes only can see through the shield when they believe in this world or when they were introduced to it directly.So this world was created cause of demons who broke in our dimension from their dimensions and that’s when Shadowhunters (Nephilims) were created by angel Raziel who mixed his blood with human blood in the Mortal Cup. So Shadowhunters are half-angels, half-humans, they use the magic of runes and weapons to fight with demons, fairies and other bad stuff 🙂
So our story in this series takes place in NY and from the first book we find out that our main character Clary Fray, ordinary high-school girl with her extremely ordinary friend Simon Lewis decides to go to this strange night-club and there she becomes a witness of a horrible murder – young people dressed in leather kill some guy with strangely looking weapon. She gets scared but it seems that only she can see those people and others just didn’t saw anything that happened. Confused she rans out of this place to her house. And after that accident she starts drawing some weird symbols meaning of which she couldn’t figure out. And when she finally sees one of the “murderers” in the alley she decides to ask him about those symbols and the murder she saw before. Of course that murderer guy turns out to be our Shadowhunter named Jace who will tell her about this dangerous world and will help her find her missing mother. Along the way Clary will learn a lot of crazy secrets and mainly the important one – that she belongs in the Shadowhunter’s world.
So yeah, as you can see I struggle to describe the plot mainly because of the spoilers. But I want to give you a little advice, if you decide to read this series don’t stop after the first book, keep going. I know a lot of people gave up reading after first book cause it seemed very strange and boring to them, but it’s fantasy books for Christ’s sake, it always takes a lot of world building and explaining in the first book. And I promise you after finishing the third one you’ll want to read the rest. Cause in second and third books you’ll see a lot of character’s development, you’ll be able to relate with some characters for sure.
And one thing that is the most important about these books is that everybody can find in them something they’ll really like. If you love art and all that jazz, you’ll love Clary. If you like bad-ass characters especially gorgeous girls who can kick butts wearing high-heels and mini-dresses, you’ll love Izzy. If you consider yourself nerds or hipsters or just simply normal people, you’ll love Simon, cause he’s very related character. And of course if you love, and let’s be honest here – we all love- smoking hot sarcastic guys with cool weapons, you’ll definitely fall in love with Jace like I did myself 🙂 Yes, there are a lot of fight scenes, weaponry, trainings and gore stuff but along with all of that there are a lot of humor and feelings too.
Well, consider I described the plot of first book perfectly 🙂 And I can’t really tell you more, especially about the other ones cause spoilers.
But I can show you the books and we all can drool over their prettiness 🙂 I don’t know how they do it but the covers of this series are just gorgeous! They shine, they spark, they simply mesmerize. I love every single one of them especially the spines, they look so pretty on my shelf 🙂
So let’s take a look at first one “City of Bones”. And by the way I watched the first movie back when it was premiered and was slightly disappointed by it. I mean, I loved actors, obviously, cause I adore Jamie Campbell Bower and I liked all the pretty shots and CGI but script was so chopped and storytelling was so confusing I was pretty sure that those who didn’t read the books were not been able to understand what a hack was going on in that movie. So yes, I have very mixed feelings about that book-to-film adaptation.
But moving on, let’s see the books, shall we? 🙂 This first book features, we all can guess, Jace’s torso, very naked one I might add 🙂 Not that I’m complaining, don’t get me wrong 🙂 But I doubt that a lot of guys will but the book with such a cover especially if they don’t have torsos like that themselves 🙂
But look at the colors! Those greens are so nice, they shine perfectly. And when you look at those colors the torso is already forgotten. Don’t know about you but I can’t tear my eyes off this cover and not for the reason you think 🙂
But that hideous blurb right on the torso! I mean come on, why would they have to put it there? I don’t have anything against Stephenie Meyer and I am grateful to her about mentioning this book at her blog back in 2007 which got me reading it immediately but there are a lot of other places to put her blurb.
Look how it sparks! 🙂 I like this mix of colors and how they shine at certain angles. Just beautiful!
I should’ve prepared you for the ridiculous amount of photos cause I went crazy shooting them 🙂 I wanted to catch every perfect angle and every nice spark. But my camera is too old and the lighting was pretty bad that day so here we are 🙂
And my favorite quote from this book is this one. I know, I know it’s so mainstream these days, but we who’ve read it before all the hype and popularity can fully appreciate it even now 🙂
“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he’d learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed”
And this song forever and always for me will be the main theme to this series. I have my own soundtrack list for these books so I’ll share it with you.
Btw, this book was re-published with new movei-tie-in dust-jacket and of course I had to get one for my collection. This one is without the tors…those colors sadly but still pretty.
This cover has that pearly shine too but because of such dark colors it doesn’t spark so much.
Here you can see Jace’s letter to Clary which was given with limited edition books but I couldn’t find those editions so I made the letter myself and I think it turned out pretty cool, I like it even more than the original one cause mine is hand-written 🙂
I don’t even know how many times I re-read this book 🙂
And of course if on the first book there was Jace it’s only logical that on the second one it would be Clary 🙂 And yes it is 🙂
It’s also beautiful in blue scheme.
“If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.”
Ok, so we’re now on the third one and it gets more complicated here, firstly because who the hell is this guy on the cover? I mean as for me that’s probably Alec but a lot of people say it’s Sebastian. Well, who knows… And secondly, this book was supposed to be the final one in trilogy. But then Cassy decided to write three more which was such a good news! And that’s why this particular book is so good and well written and a lot of fans like it the best from all three.
I noticed that the more brown and red is on the cover the more it shines.
“There is no pretending,” Jace said with absolute clarity. “I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I’ll love you then.”
Moving on… The fourth book is not so loved by most of the people cause they say it is just a buffer between the third and fifth ones and it’s boring and nothing happens there. But I disagree because I personally had to wait for it the whole year or even two years and when I finally read it I was so happy, I literary devoured it in one whole day, which is not something I normally do with Cassy’s books cause they are too big to swallow at ones. Yes, Jace in this one is kinda annoying but I still like it 🙂
That’s what I’m talking about. More reds and browns and it burns with fire! Gorgeous!
Here’s definitely Alec cause he has bow 🙂
“Sometimes, Clary,” he said, “love just isn’t enough.”
“I love you, Jace Wayland—Herondale—Lightwood—whatever you want to call yourself. I don’t care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other way is just a waste of time.”
So the fourth one is probably my favorite! There is just that atmosphere charged with danger and emotions! And I really like that our “trio” is stuck together in that moving house. There were some moments when I was really scared for Clary!
And finally our lovers are together on the cover 🙂
“Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.” “Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.”
“”What have you done to my cat?” Magnus demanded… “You drank his blood, didn’t you? You said you weren’t hungry!” Simon was indignant. “I did not drink his blood. He’s fine!” He poked the Chairman in the stomach. The cat yawned. “Second, you asked me if I was hungry when you were ordering pizza, so I said no, because I can’t eat pizza. I was being polite.” “That doesn’t get you the right to eat my cat.” “Your cat is fine!” Simon reached to pick up the tabby, who jumped indignantly to his feet and stalked off the table. “See?” “Whatever.””
And the last but definitely not least, the monster of a book with which I can totally defend myself in a dark ally. It is ginormous! That’s for sure not a purse-friendly book. But it is stunning!
So Clary was like with everyone in combo on the covers and now it’s Sebastian 🙂
Just look how big is it! It could be easily divided into two books. It has almost 750 pages! Holy cow!
And it has spoilery dust-jacket. The inside of the jacket is a poster, very cool one but it contains spoiler so don’t look at it very closely before you read the book.
Чтоб не увидеть спойлер, не рассматривайте слишком внимательно это фото 🙂
“Family isn’t blood. It’s the people who love you. The people who have your back.”
“There are a hundred trillion cells in the human body, and every single one of the cells of my body loves you. We shed cells, and grow new ones, and my new cells love you more than the old ones, which is why I love you more every day than I did the day before. It’s science. And when I die and they burn my body and I become ashes that mix with the air, and part of the ground and the trees and the stars, everyone who breathes that air or sees the flowers that grow out of the ground or looks up at the stars will remember you and love you, because I love you that much.”
And of course the naked books 🙂 I know you want it 🙂
Okay, guys, that’s it for today 🙂 I can’t believe I did it, I wrote this post 🙂 Maybe it was not so perfectly composed but let’s just pretend it was cause I really love this series with all my heart and it gives me so much emotion that I can’t see straight sometimes 🙂 I like Cassy’s writing, I like her sense of humor, her characters, her world. I like how she can make you smile and laugh, cry and be so devastated, fantasize and believe. And I love Jace so much! And for that I am very grateful to her.
I hope this post was helpful and interesting for you! Maybe someone will decide to read this series now and if you’ve already read let’s discuss in the comments down below! I would love to chat with you but remember that our blog is a spoiler-free zone so keep it in your pants 🙂
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And as always guys thank you so much for you support, for staying here, commenting and giving me some love! Thank you for your awesomeness!
Love you all!
Hugs and kisses!***
Laters, babies!!!***
P.S. Pancakes was trying to climb into an empty box when I got all of the books from there. It was hilarious! I wish I could film that 🙂
Hi guys!!! Finally I’m here 🙂 Missed me? 🙂 I definitely missed you and blogging and so so so happy to be home, be able to do photos and write posts again! I have some news about my blog but they’re mostly for my Russian audience except one – it’ll probably be more book related posts here from now on, but don’t worry, I will not abandon journaling topics, just add a little more book reviews. Hope you’ll like it, cause I promise I will recommend only books I really like and enjoy, there will be no crappy ones just for quantity of posts.
I’ll try to do all of missed “weekly somethings” from the past two months, probably will organize them in groups chronologically according to my reading them and of course the big series such as “The Mortal Instruments”, ” The Infernal Devices” and “Lux” will get their own big individual posts as I always do with the series. Oh well, I’m pedant like that 🙂
Let’s cut to the chase. As ya’ll know that heartbreaking tear-jerking story of my life when I read the last book of TMI and then got hangover and decided to re-read TID (I know, you’re sick of me saying that so often 🙂 ), but after that I was so afraid that I might end up in a huge reading slump so I grabbed a bunch of new releases hoping for the best 🙂 And it worked. I was lucky that the first book I picked up was “We Were Liars” by E. Lockhart cause it was amazing! Despite the little size of it that book surprised me in a good way. I really enjoyed reading it and that twist in the end took me by surprise, I didn’t expect it at all. It took me three or four hours to finish it and after that I was just sitting in the middle of the night thinking about what have I just read, teares were involved. But then the next day I continued thinking about it pouring coffee in my tea instead of sugar and throwing teaspoon in garbage can instead of used tea-bag. Even now writing this I want to re-read that book so badly cause I know that now it would not be the same, I will see it with another eyes and pick on some details and clues that I’ve missed reading it for the first time. So I might give it a re-read soon 🙂 I know it’s that kind of book you either really like or hate it and I’m definitely one of those who liked it a lot, if you can’t tell already 🙂
Probably someone will freak out right about now and splash coffee on monitor or give a real hard kick to the keyboard but I will not tell what this book is about 🙂 I’m a wicked one 🙂 Not really, no… It’s just that you should go into this book blind, that’s the best way to fully enjoy it and feel all the feels. You don’t want to be spoiled on that one, I promise you! So you can just skip all my writing, look at the photos and go read this book 🙂 Even the author said on the cover: “Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE”. But I won’t lie to you. I simply will not tell you anything except that this book is about very big and rich family, members of which spend every summer on their private island but one summer something goes terribly wrong and after that no one remains the same. It’s hard to tell which genre this book is belong to, and I think that’s for each of us to decide. And if that is not enough for you to go pick up this book, I tell you another thing – John Green blurbed this book and he said that it is “thrilling, beautiful and blisteringly smart. We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable”. Here you go, John and I will not recommend something bad, that’s for sure 🙂
Okay, I need to calm down because this book is doing something to me 🙂 Let’s take a look at the design of it because that book is not only beautifully written inside but it is pretty outside as well. First off, the cover. Simple but very mysterious and summer-ish too which is a good combo, I think. And the title looks cool, textured on the glossy surface of the dust-jacket.
We like it when the photo is placed all over the cover continuing from the front to the back of the book:)
And there under the dust-jacket is simply a book-porn 🙂 I mean, look at that spine! That is gorgeous!
It doesn’t show on photo but these blue pages have like perl finish to it.
Truthfully I didn’t expect to see cool stuff like maps and charts in this book ’cause it is not a fantasy but once again this book surprised me big time 🙂
There’s a map! The map of an island with all the houses and buildings and stuff 🙂 And wait for it, wait for it…
That’s not all! Wanted genealogical tree? There you have it 🙂 And it was pretty handy when I started reading and got a little confused about who’s child who and all that jazz.
Besides chapters this book is divided into parts because we are dealing with not just one summer but several of them, before and after the bad accident and each part has it’s own whole starter-page. By the way, just want to throw it out there that even though this book is pretty short, like 225-pages short, still by the end of it you get really attached to the characters. And that kind of deal usually happens with big books or series even but this shorty accomplished such a hard task.
And even if that all is not enough for you (John will be disappointed), I give you my favorite quote from this book which appears in the beginning and after reading it I was convinced that I will definitely enjoy this book.
“That June, summer fifteen. Dad announced he was leaving and departed two days later. He told my mother he wasn’t a Sinclair, and couldn’t try to be one, any longer. He couldn’t smile, couldn’t lie, couldn’t be part of that beautiful family in those beautiful houses. Couldn’t. Couldn’t. Wouldn’t.”
“He had hired moving vans already. He’d rented a house, too. My father put a last suitcase into the backseat of the Mercedes (he was leaving Mummy with only the Saab), and started the engine.
Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound,
then from my eyes,
my ears,
my mouth.
It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps to the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
Mummy snapped. She said to get hold of myself.
Be normal, now, she said. Right now, she said.
Because you are. Because you can be.
Don’t cause a scene, she told me. Breathe and sit up.
I did what she asked.
She was all I had left.”
Great metaphor, don’t you think?
And I even found a song that in my opinion is very suitable for this book.
Okay, want to say no more about this book. Just go read it and come back to discuss it with me 🙂
I decided to show you my current journal today which I started at the beginning of spring and looks like it’ll last till the end of this year, or maybe not… it depends on how often will I be writing because usually I write a lot in autumn. So my current journal is Daily Moleskine and I have a great pleasure writing in it. The paper is so smooth and nice and I think my handwriting looks even better on Moleskine paper 🙂
So I show you some pages with doodles, clippings and calligraphy. I don’t have a lot of them but here it is.
I always tend to cover up all that standard information that comes with planners and for that I use big hand-made stickers which I make myself.
And of course I like to write lots and lots of my favorite quotes in different styles.
I have a special guest in this journal who keeps all my secrets safe and it’s my beloved Jace whom I drew at the beginning of this Moleskine.
I write a lot, I can write pages and pages of only text without any decorations and doodles. But sometimes looking through my old school diaries I get inspired to try some stuff again like drawing tattoos and calligraphy which I’ve been really into in school years.
Sometimes it gets really hard to make photos and not to show a lot of personal text so lighting on some photos is pretty bad 🙁
Clippings from magazines are always appear in my journals. Can’t help it, love ’em 🙂
As I mentioned in previous posts I don’t really like drawing in my journals, I prefer my sketchbook for this kinda stuff but you can see some small drawings here and there in my journals nevertheless.
I used mostly black liners and colorful gel-pens here.
Found pretty good colorful gel-pens, they work decently on Moleskine paper, not excellent but I can work with it 🙂
You’ve probably seen some stuff from this journal on my Instagram already 🙂
Well, here goes my attempt on drawing tattoos again after so many time without practice. I was kinda good back then but not now.
Some John Green related clippings 🙂 Couldn’t resist after I bought my collector’s box-set with autographed books by him 🙂
And of course I can’t live without my Korean rabbits stickers 🙂 I put them everywhere and they look so good on anything 🙂
I will be posting some more interesting pages from this journal once I have enough of them for another post.
Well,guys, that’s it for today. Here you have it. I hope you enjoy this post because I am really stoked to be back and talk to you and make photos finally 🙂
I will be happy to see you in the comments here and chat with you especially about books. You know me, I’m always up for a good book chat 🙂
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And as always guys thank you so much for you support, for staying here, commenting and giving me some love! Thank you for your awesomeness!
Love you all!
Hugs and kisses!***
Laters, babies!!!***
P.S. Pancakes doesn’t want to be photographed these days cause of the heat. She’s really suffering in this hot weather. So I ended up with only old photos of her. She quickly deletes from my phone all her selfies which she makes when I’m not around 🙂
Guys, so I gathered myself together and decided to write this post after all, in honor of two year anniversary of my little blog and I wanted to thank you all for your awesomeness, for sticking around in hard times. You are the best, most understanding, creative and attentive people in the whole world! I got real lucky when those Bookish Gods kicked my butt in order to start my own blog and I did. And without this little blog I wouldn’t get to know you, wonderful people!
Those of you who are here from the very beginning, you know that I had good times and bad times. There was too much work, then there were health problems but you all were always with me, even when I disappeared for a whole month. And I hated it, despised the fact that I couldn’t write here for so long because of my work and health conditions. In a well-ordered universe I would’ve written posts three times a week, I would’ve answered your comments immediately, it would be a lot of giveaways and there wouldn’t be a war in Ukraine. But here we are, in this messed-up world and we have to deal with it. So I want to thank you guys once again for sticking around, for the amount of followers which is crazy high to me! When I first started this blog I thought that even if 10 people will read my posts that would be great. But today I see that the amount of people is getting so big and 500 views is a normal number for a day, which blows my freaking mind! I still can’t believe that so many people like my photos and that stuff that I write with my fucked-up brain. And for that I am very truly grateful! And I love you guys so much!!! Don’t even question that! And if I will disappear again for some time, don’t think that that’s because of you, that I abandoned you, ’cause noway! I will never give up on my blog and you, the only two reasons for my future disappearing could be my health problems or some technical difficulties and that is all.
I hope that war in Ukraine will be over soon because it hurts so much seeing all those reports on TV, I can’t deal 🙁 And I hope I will get better soon too, at least I hope I will feel more alive to shoot some photos and write more posts 🙂 I have so many ideas guys! I need to do a lot and I finally have a big opportunity for my blog to be more involved in the book industry with publishers. So yeah, I really need to get well soon, like yesterday 🙂
Decided to make some fun collages with all that inspires me lately 🙂
You know, I was thinking a lot lately about some stuff… mainly about the fact the we are all gathered here by one big topic – books, journals, movies, music… And that topic is pretty huge but we managed to find our common tastes somehow here, we share our hobbies and that is so fantastic! 🙂 I think it’s amazing that we understand each other in this stuff like reading a lot, keeping journals, liking actors, music, stationary. Cause there are a lot of people out there who don’t understand, who won’t understand, even some members of our families, even some friends which is so sad, but what we can do about it… And here we are in this little family of ours, here everybody understands our crashes on book characters when the whole wedding is planned, names of future babies are chosen and a house is build near Hogwarts for kids to go to school 🙂 Here no one would judge a 30-year old who still writes in a pink fluffy diary with cute bunnies and kittens on the cover. Here we can drool over those hot actors from that cool movies and recommend each other series to watch and books to read. Here we are all cool and talented artists and professional book and movie critics 🙂 And because of all this I love you and this blog!
So that’s why I want to thank you a millionth time for everything!!!! You are really the best!!! Thank you for your awesomeness guys and for giving me some love!!! Love you all!
Hugs and kisses!***
Laters, babies!!!***
P.S. And of course without Our Highness Pancakes this blog wouldn’t be the same 🙂
P.SS. And if you had some doubts about my insanity so here is proof of my full and total craziness 🙂
Well, here we go again 🙂 Long time no see, guys 🙂 I think I forgot to mention last time that I will be absent pretty much the whole month, but I’ll try to post two or three more times during July, hopefully. Okay, lets jump right in then. Past few weeks my “bookish life” so to speak was revolving around TMI and TID ’cause when I finished “City of Heavenly Fire” I was afraid that I might end up in a huge reading slump. That’s why I decided to re-read TID right away and Oh My God…THE FEELS came rushing back again and the epilogue of “Clockwork Princess” left me devastated. So my plan obviously backfired right in my face – I ended up with a huge book hangover. Desperate I decided to pick up something familiar, something that I knew I would definitely enjoy and not fall apart again, so I re-read “Stolen” by Lucy Christopher. And wanna share some thoughts about it with you guys 🙂
Stolen Book
When I read this book for the first time I was really hooked because of the writing style – the book itself is a letter from a girl to her kidnapper. That was disturbing but really interesting and refreshing because I never saw anything like it before. And usually I prefer books written in a form of journal or letter so that book was right up my alley 🙂 Main character Gemma was kidnapped by young and attractive guy Ty from airport’s coffee-shop when she was suppose to be flying away with her parents. Basically that’s the main premise. He took her away to the Australian desert, practically into wilderness without a single human soul nearby. Which sounds more like Gemma was in bigger danger of that wild nature than of Ty himself.
I really enjoyed the descriptions of desert, its animals, flora and all of that got me thinking about the way I see Australia. This book changed my point of view on it. Yeah, sometimes long descriptions can be boring but not in this case. They were vivid, exciting and not gonna lie, sometimes really scary! When I read this books it felt like I was watching the movie, every sunset, every star and grain of sand mattered. Without them this book wouldn’t be as atmospheric and beautiful as it was.
I can’t say that Stockholm Syndrome was deeply revealed but it’s there and it has a big part at the end of the book.
I can definitely say that after reading a bunch of kidnapping books this one stands out as a unique and has its own atmosphere and beauty.
And of course this book is beautiful not only inside but outside as well. It has simple but very appropriate design which I like. It may look boring at first sight but when you read it then you realize that this design is very suitable to the plot.
And as always they had to ruin it all with that award sticker which can’t be removed 🙁 I’m glad that book won this award but that doesn’t mean that they have to put it in front on the cover…
The snake at the back of the book is very symbolic.
And now the main reason why you are here 🙂 You want to see the book naked 🙂 I know you want to, don’t even try to deny 🙂 So here you go!
I think it’s beautiful even without the dust-jacket! Black and gold and that cool font and the butterfly…Really nice 🙂
I like how the first pages look like. Those big words and almost nothing else.
And the snake again…
Cute butterfly at the beginning of the chapter.
I think it’s nice how they separated Gemma’s thoughts with this pattern so the text of her letter is not just one big mess.
All in all I liked this book as much as I liked it reading for the first time and it saved me from landing in a big reading slump so I was able to move on to another series which is crazy guys! I don’t want to spoil you right now about what series I’m reading but I can say that I already addicted to it and I don’t wanna stop 🙂
Sorry that I can’t share my favorite quotes from this book, but I am not at home right now 🙁 We are renovating our apartment and I am currently living in another house so I don’t have all of my books with me which is so depressing 🙁 And of course I don’t remember all of my favorite quotes, I’m not Will Herondale you know 🙂 So today we are left without quotes but here’s some music for ya’all. I don’t know why but this song seems appropriate to me for this book…
I decided to show you this old journal of mine today ’cause it’s kind of goes along with the style of the book I guess 🙂 It was difficult to shoot this particular one because there are a lot of personal photos of me and my friends in it, and I don’t know if those people would be comfortable with me showing their faces to you. So I tried to cover up as much as possible and show you only the most interesting parts of it.
I wrote in this journal back in my high school days in 2005 so there are a lot of memories from my first prom.
I want you to know that I was crazy about tattoos back then. Me and my step-father were planning on doing tats for us in summer so I was obsessed and draw a lot of tattoos, pasted in a lot of clippings from tattoo-magazines 🙂 So be prepared about what you’ll see here 🙂
This notebook is from ErichKrause as a lot of my old journals are and I really like this company and their products, they’re cheap and good quality and look pretty cool. Of course this one is kinda old and started to fall apart at the spine but it survived a lot so I’m not complaining.
I put a tag from one of my teddies in the spot for the photo, because I love love love Me To You Teddies, I have a big collection of them, around 50 or something 🙂
When open this journal you’ll see a big photo collage which I covered here and some superman tats which look pretty bad-ass as I say so myself 🙂
First entry 🙂 Which was written with the purple pen and here goes my advice to you guys! – do not write in your journals with purple pens because after some time it starts to bleed-through.
All of the drawings in this journal were made with gel-pens and nothing more, cause back then I didn’t have anything special like I have now 🙂
By the way, this notebook has a very good paper which allowed me to write on it with gel-pens without a problem. It doesn’t get wet too much and it’s pretty thick but not too thick.
Look, there is Kurt peeking out from the corner 🙂 Of course we didn’t plan to get portraits on us, me and my poppa, I just glued them in because I liked them and couldn’t draw them myself.
I went real crazy on this one 🙂 Probably used the whole black pen on it 🙂
Don’t know why some of the clippings from magazines faded away a little. Probably old magazines were not as good quality as the ones we have now.
Once again I realized that looking through old journals can be so inspiring…all those old ideas are pretty cool like these black-pen frames 🙂
As I said those tattoos that I found in magazines and couldn’t recreate myself I just pasted in.
And of course I love tattoos now, I like to draw them in my journals and sketchbooks but I don’t do this very often now as I did it back then, and I don’t know why exactly.
So this is where part one of my journal ends and starts part two – summer part, which I’ll show you some day 🙂
Okay guys, that is all for today. I hope you are not upset with me being absent here but I’ve explained already that I’m in the middle of apartment renovation so I can’t take photos of my books and journals for this month. I really hope you’ll understand 🙂
Here is where you can stalk me on other social media: Instagram: coopik Twitter: @kcoopik Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/coopik/ (haven’t uploaded most of my photos yet but I will soon)
And as always guys thank you so much for you support, for staying here, commenting and giving me some love! I really appreciate it!
Love you all!
Hugs and kisses!***
Laters, babies!!!*** P.S. I miss my little Pancakes so much it hurts 🙁 I see her only once a week and that is so not enough for me!
