KRISATOMIC

The yellow room

2009-07-16T13:08:02Z

Painting for fun

2009-06-28T00:04:11Z

The mega update

2009-06-20T20:16:14Z

Hello, hello, I’m alive! I know some of you are following me on twitter, but here is a recap for everyone else who wanted to put me on a milk carton.

Life has been pretty busy and I’m woefully bad at blogging under pressure. I’m happy to say that all my uni work is done, submitted and marked and I find out my grade on thursday (eee!). We’re now in the midst of one degree show and preparing for another, so there is still lots to be getting on with, but the end is finally in sight!

In may I went to NY for my birthday. I ate many amazing meals and went to a lot of museums and shopped a bit, though everything seemed mighty expensive because our currency is practically worthless. The weather was terrible, but otherwise it was great. I also met up with Gala, Jazzi and Cynthia who were charming.

I did a lot of work on my children’s book (I showed you some sketches here and here), above is one of the more finished pages. I still have a million more things to draw and re-draw because I’m not quite happy with it yet.

Another of my degree projects was this handmade and hand embroidered jumper.

It was a project about memory and nostalgia, the words are from my diaries when I was 16. Like a memory quilt, it’s basically a memory keeping exercise.

I also submitted a stack of big prints (120 of them!) from my trip to Russia last summer, which will be up on my soon-to-be-launched new portfolio website (there I am in my red check coat with my pals when we lived in Russia).

The fruits of my labour will be at our degree show This Will Kill That, in Shoreditch 2nd-5th of july. It’s free and open to the public from the 3rd, so do come along if you can.

If all that drawing and stitching wasn’t enough, I’ve also acquired some project managing duties. My parents own a tiny flat in Brighton which they’ve rented out for years and is in a pretty decrepit state. It needs some serious renovation, so I’m organising that for them, then taking over the rent and moving in. I’m super excited to move, but it seems a really long time away and a ton of boiler fitting, tile laying, wall painting, and furniture buying needs to be done before then. Everything takes absolutely ages! But it’s coming along and I can’t wait to get to the fun bit (choosing paints, rather than organising gas connections ZZzzzz).

So since I’m moving in to the world’s smallest flat, I’m having to downsize my possessions pretty considerably. I’ve started selling some of my stuff on ebay, the above and a few more items are finishing tomorrow.

Phew!

Sandra Freij

2009-04-26T21:59:09Z

Wow wow wow.

Red and blue sketchbook

2009-04-16T12:21:12Z

10 things to love

2009-04-15T12:35:57Z

Perfect DIY beaded tights from my new favourite blog Park & Cube.

Polaroids from my polaroid blog.

Incredible business card by Marian Bantjes.

Pre-fall ‘09 collection from Proenza Schouler.

Definitely don’t need it, obviously I want it : Happy Tape.

Caitlin Sherarer’s new blog Pink Bedroom and underwear by Hopeless.

Amazing calligraphy from IAMPETH.

Frida editorial from Dujour magazine.

Pom poms! Photo by Eric Broms for Russian Vogue.

Jewellery from Marquis & Camus by Sarah Kang.

Yesterday in Davos

2009-04-13T10:26:24Z

Treehouse of amaze

2009-04-11T19:55:04Z

Not sure what random googling led me to looking at pictures of tree houses (the mind does strange things when procrastinating) but who cares, because I found these amazing ones. I’m dying, I want one, omfg etc.

source.

Sketchy day

2009-04-10T10:22:03Z

Daily drawing

2009-04-09T09:46:06Z

“The sugared almonds were in a box and wrapped in cellophane and tissue paper and had three different coloured ribbons tied around them in a bow. Lewis had never seen anything like it in his life.

‘Happy Birthday,’ said Alice, then, conspiratorially, ‘It’s sweets.’

The only sweets he’d seen were in paper bags and smeary jars. There were no boxes, there was no having fun about them. This box was shiny and joyful. It was like a thing from another planet. The cellophane alone was extraordinary.”

- from The Outcast by Sadie Jones (which I’m currently reading)

Part 2

2009-04-08T10:08:30Z

A bit of history

2009-04-07T20:34:20Z

Continuing my millions of photos from Hong Kong, this is the Hong Kong Museum of History. Though it’s a bit dry at the start (lots of rocks, many many prehistoric rocks) it really livens up around the ethnography section and The Opium Wars. The last part of the museum shows replicas of 1960s shops which were my favourite and I’ll post pictures of tomorrow.

Daily drawing

2009-04-06T09:17:57Z

I did this one for Illustration friday, the prompt this week is “talisman”. When I was a kid I had a little peter rabbit toy and a silver necklace with a rabbit charm on it, both of which I was absolutely convinced were lucky. I guess I had a bit of a thing for rabbits.
Unfortunately the ginger hair is entirely fictional.

Daily drawing

2009-04-05T11:48:19Z

Let me overwhelm you for a moment

2009-04-05T11:34:05Z

Yesterday I found the best flickr photostream ever: superbomba scans in old found photos which are hilarious, bizarre or just plain charming. Each one of them tells a story though, which is what I like best (and there are some pretty banging outfits and haircuts too).

This is the most image-heavy post ever, but I couldn’t edit it down, there are too many gems. I got a bit carried away and went through all 95 pages believe it or not. Hope you have broadband!