Nickelback - This Means War

Why can't Nickelback just make these kind of music if it sounds good? T_T

Linkin Park - Castle of Glass

Linkin Park's new album "Living Things" came some days ago, here's another new song!
Think I'm going to buy it tomorrow :)

I'm here, at home

I came home 2nd June without telling anyone in my family except my little brother, who came to train station to help me get my stuff home. The train journey was about 18hours, it went pretty good except the sleeping part. I found it hard to relax when you are laying down and the train is leaning right or left, it feels like you gonna roll over like a cartoon movie :D

It really feels good to be at home, too bad I don't have a summer job. I feel kind of restless. However, I got my tax money back so I have little to do stuff with. I bought a 3 month gym card at the gym in the same street, where my brother is working out. Been there a couple of times, I used to run a bit before I came to back to Stockholm and I really feel it when I warm-up with 15min either running (about 10km/h) or cycling without resting or dying afterward!

I went to see a couple of movies at cinema. Started out with Prometheus, The Avengers and finally Snow white and the huntsman. All of them are really great!
I need to loan a good camera to take better pictures of my jewelleries, I'm going to put prices on Etsy, Facebook and DeviantArt so I can sell them :)

The Gazette - Pledge

Here's a re-post of a song I really love.

Week 21

Haven't posted for a while, mostly because I've been busy with a lot of homework. There was a lot of stuff for this week and for next week. The ones this week went ok I think, so there's only three tests left for next week: practical gemology (how to identify different gems with tools), gemology theory (a test of different words used in gemology) and last is the final book chapter in gem-a foundation.

I have also started to make a pair of earrings with sappghires and a pendant for a friend.
 I don't know why but my blog changed the site from blogspot.com to blogspot.se so my videos doesn't work anymore.. So I might re-post some because I like them really much :)

Here's some work I finished yesterday. First out is the one I call "Mother's Lost Pendant", it's a labradorite cabochon and a faceted blue/green sapphire.
Unfortunely this one will not be for sale! Click on pictures to enlarge them.

The second one is called "Carnelia's Bracelet". I know have might have bad fantasy sometimes about names but it's seven carnelians.

 Next up is a faceted amethyst pendant and a pair of earrings.

Soundgarden - Live To Rise

Can it be better? Soundgarden making soundtrack to The Avengers!

Kent - FF

Eminem - Space Bound

Linkin Park - Burn It Down

I just found out that Linkin Park is making a new album that releases 26 June 2012! I'm really already longing to buy it :) Here's the first single from the coming album "Living Things".

TSOPhotography - The Aurora

A really amazing photographer making some short movies from different places around the world. Here's one about Aurora.

Mt Eden & Kaleb

Mt Eden - When Will The Storm Begin, Mt Eden - Frozen & Kaleb - Dreaming

Week 17

The workshop was open 17-21 this week, although that I should've been there more I was quite tired. Started on every labradorite, almost finished with one and started on my carnelian bracelet :)

Here's a picture of my unfinished labradorite pendant. The smaller stone is supposed to be a star sapphire but with this angle you can't see the star :/

No, I'm not gone :)

Sorry for not updating for a while, it's because I had my second Gem-A foundation test this week and I got 32/33 =)
I also still have some stones to grind for my stone course :/
Tho I have sketched a lot. As soon I'm finsihed with those and got into my new courses I will make more jewelry :)
Also got 4 on my metal course (U G 4 5 as 5 is best).

Been buying a lot of gems, so I should stop now when I got plenty :)

PS. Work work!

Lisa Miskovsky - As Daylight Fades

Think I already posted this one once
It's a really good song so I had to post it anyway

BOND - Homecoming

Amaranthe - Amaranthine

BOND - Elysium

Kaoru Amane - Stay With Me

Foo Fighters - The Pretender

Foo Fighters - All My Life

Lostprophets - Bring 'Em Down

Christian Walz - Never Be Afraid Again

Linkin Park - Leave Out All the Rest

Foo Fighters - Best of You

Week 12

I just finished my last exam works yesterday. I made a new signet ring because the original one was a bit bad when I tried to fix some stuffs but it got worse instead.
I didn't find my half round ring so I decided to make a new one earlier this week, it feels quite good because I'm happy with the result.
Probably getting the results at the end of next week.

Two new courses starting next week, some kind of economy and gemology course.
I still have the stone grinding course left, so I gotta finish it off as soon as possible.
Otherwise I'm little bit tired of being here. Don't misunderstand me because I'm happy here but I kind of miss being in town, where I can choose to do stuffs around more.
Like being with more people, meet more people. My classmates are nice but you know, you sometimes just want to be with other.
It seems like I want to be with some people more than they want to be with me. It feels like some kind of unfair connection, when they can do whatever they want but when I do the same I get shit for it. It's sometimes like that, but I'm little tired of it.

Somehow, I have decided to move to a smaller house with two rooms, a shared kitchen/living room and toilet with a classmate. It's cheaper and you can have the distance to people and when you want to be with them you can just go back to the bigger house living room or invite them to you.

Today we had a snow scooter outing with a lot of people from the village invited, we drove like 15min away to a lake and grilled hot dogs, burgers and other stuff.
It's really nice with such happenings instead of sitting in the room doing nothing, the weather was clear and we had a really good time :)

Lost Prophets - Sway

I used to listen to them long time ago, somehow I forgot about them and randomly found them today.

Linkin Park - Numb

Mastodon - Just Got Paid

Evanescence - Sick

Almadine Rose

I forgot to post about my newest creation. I don't know what to call it so I just call it Almadine because of the stone plus rose because it's a rose. Almadine Rose sounds quite ok.

It's my last work, I just have to finish my signet ring and.. I lost my half round ring, so I have to find it or make a new one T_T

Evanescence - Erase This

Forgive me for poor video but I couldn't find any better video on youtube :/
But it's great song! :D

Evanescence - Lithium

Week 10 Part 2: Weekend

I went to dinner with some class mates at another class mate house. We splitted up the making so one made the meat, two made the potatoes and I made the dessert.
The dessert I made was blueberry swiss (I think it's called so) which is crème fraiche, cream, chocolate and blueberry that you put in random layers.
The dinner was pretty nice, five people eating and talking about anything. We also drank red wine during the meal.
We went to the house to prepare the food around 17:45 and it took longer to get done than I thought.

We started to watch swedish eurovision after we were done, we started to eat the dessert about half way into the contest because we were so full. The right winner won which is Loreen with her song "Euphoria", I was a little bit scared when Danny was so close before the final scores was announced. Not only because I don't like him but his song wasn't better than Loreens.

After the song contest I went back to our house with a class mate to leave some stuffs and take some other stuffs. We loaned "Jurassic Park" from another class mate so we could watch it at our friend house which we did.
But as soon as we started we got company from a class mate boyfriend and other class mates, so we watched movie and talked, the sofa got kinda full XD

Evanescence - My Heart Is Broken

Week 10 Part 1: Aventurine complete

My aventurine necklace is finally completed, it took my around one week of work to get that done. I modified a little bit here and there, so it's a bit different from the original sketch. But I believe every change have been good.
I think the leaf was too big for that design so I decided to use it later for another jewelry instead. The necklace itself gave me
a light look which I wanted to, therefor I changed to a smaller leaf with a style like those 2 ones on each side of the top.
The settings really messed with me, they just didn't wanted to work, so I will need to fix them to make them 100% but the stones are there..

So now.. I will start with my last exam jewelry, which I started to make a flower (looks like a rose) with couple of smaller parts I will solder. Afterward a tube setting will be placed in middle with a garnet.

I don't know if it gonna be a necklace, pendant or ring yet.

Another thing, I don't have a name for my aventurine necklace yet, any ideas?

Lisa Miskovsky - Call Me Anything But My Name

Incubus - Adolescents

Paramore - Monster

Another "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" soundtrack :)

Week 9 Part 2: Workshop

I have been at the metal workshop from wednesday to friday from 8-17. This week made me feel like I'm very slow at working, it feels like I get nothing done although I'm working nonstop.
I haven't really continued my signet ring, I choosed to make a small signet and seems like it's harder to make plain than a big signet. Because the corners is so easily touched and pushed, then it goes down a little at the corner..

I liked my last cabochon work "Forestwalk at night" but I don't feel like it's even close to my current potential so I decided to make a new cabochon exam jewelry.
It's a necklace with 6 settings with 3 different sizes of aventurine. I like the forest, it gives me so much inspiration so I'm starting with some jewelry with that concept.

My last exam work for this metal course will be a jewelry with self chosen amount of tube settings (rörinfattning), I was thinking about making a St Bernards Lily or Calla Lily. Let's see how that turns out.

Week 9 Part 1: Theory at LTU

My class had lab lesson in metalworking at Luleå University of Technology. It's about 4-5 hours by car and the lesson started about 13.00 on monday, so we were on our way to Luleå at 07:00.
The car I went with wanted to go off a little bit earlier so we could eat lunch calmly, and maybe do something else. The lesson was from 13.00 to 18.00, those who was going to stay at hostel over the night hooked up. We went to the hostel afterward to put our stuffs there and went to later to a thai restaurant for dinner.
It was a really nice group, really enjoyable dinner.

We started 08:00 next day and ended about 14.00. The lessons we had these two days was really interesting, we saw by eye and microscope, we also saw real laser printing and sawing.
After that those who wanted went to a shop who sell everthing but the owner was a stone collector once and still had a lot of stones/gems for sell. I bought a couple a agate and moss agate (I love agate), blood stones and a rutile quartz.

Came home about 19.00, these two days was really tiring. Sweetly enough we only have these days once or twice a season..

Theory Of A Deadman - Head Above Water

If you didn't know yet.. I really like Transformers :)
Here's a soundtrack from Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Loreen - Euphoria

Another great song from swedish melodifestivalen.

Lisa Miskovsky - Got A Friend

Live version to the left and music video to the left.

Lisa Miskovsky - Why Start A Fire

I really hope you win :)

Hans Zimmer - Now We Are Free

Soundtrack from one of my favorite movies, Gladiator.

Forestwalk and Imperial Amethyst

Two of my latest creations.

This one is called "Forestwalk at night" and is inspired by the feeling of walking along a road at night beside the forest.
The lamppost lightening in front of where you going, you can see the trees and fallen leaves.

Next one is "Imperial Amethyst" because of the fantasy empire feeling.
I actually designed the the pendant without setting with amethyst at first, for another my first metal course. Then we learned at the new metal course how to do a stone setting, suddenly I felt my old work being so empty.
I was mixing with couple of ideas and amethyst suited this design well.

Monoral - Kiri

Opening song to one of my few favorite anime "Ergo Proxy".

Lisa Miskovsky - As Daylight Fades

Evanescence - Lost In Paradise

Week 6

Been having cleaning week in both metal workshop and stone workshop this week, haven't much to do tho since other people actually bother cleaning after themselves.
I have been at the metal workshop a lot this week, still haven't been in the stone workshop yet..
But I'm done with a lot in metal, I've finished my halfround ring, simple stone setting pendant and own designed jewellery (I made a pendant) with a stone setting and 5 solderings. Still have to do another ring, setting with faceted stone (straight-sided setting) then I'm done with the metal and got to start with the stones.

I will hopefully take some pictures today and upload them here later.

Loreen - My Heart Is Refusing Me

Bond - Diablo

Lisa Miskovsky - Last Year's Songs

It's not cold.. it's only snowy?

I have been here for so long and yet I haven't said much about the weather. There's a lot of snow up here in the north and it's pretty cold, I might get a shot so you can see how much snow it's here :D
Well, here's a screen from a weather-site.



Although it's around -30 the cold is dry in the north, you can more or less have normal winter clothes.
I did say that -10 in Stockholm is worse..

Rurutia - Arabesque

In Time

In Time (2011)

Society have always been unfair, one of the reasons is taking the "best/strongest" to make the society stronger. The cost of this have always been life, something like "for a greater good needs sacrifices" because of fast changes makes societies to develop faster.
Someone will always fall behind in "value" because the societies need different skills during different times, although we can even the differences a lot more, we don't.
What if everyone had the same access to everything, why would someone do something most people don't want to? They do that today because they must, because our society is formed to be like that.
If you compare us with rest of the world where people have better and worst than us, the global difference can easily be changed aswell. But it doesn't because of every person individual "value" for the world.
As long you don't let people choose, the equation of "act -> consequence" will be easier to predict.

It's exactly the same in our society as in this movie, the only exception is that we die slower when we run out of money.
In the third world "time = life", if someone in the family gets sick, we need to invest time to cure than work.
In our society we just put money into this to confuse, it makes us blind by "giving" us power that the ones in the top controls anyway. When people starts to get more money they make things more expensive to keep it balanced.

"No one should be immortal, if even one person has to die."
Will Salas - In Time
There's a sacrifice for luxury.

Lisa Miskovsky - Lover

Kent - Mannen i den vita hatten (16 år senare)

Linkin Park - Rolling In The Deep (Adele Cover - Live)

Warrior

Warrior (2011)
A close-to-heart movie about how life can be, how things comes around. When you are forced to do things you unlike to save your family, when you need to fight people you love because of how our world works.
There's mistakes we make in life and it's never to late trying to fix them while there's still a chance to. There will always be enough space for forgiveness, it will never be simple to but it will always hang around until you decide to.
We are not only fighting for our own survival, we are and will always fight for the ones we love.
Great actors Joel Edgerton (The Thing) and Tom Hardy (Inception), and great filming by Gavin O'Connor. (9/10)

My Chemical Romance - The Only Hope For Me Is You

The hardest part of ending Is starting again

What was left when that fire was gone?
I thought it felt right but that right was wrong
All caught up in the eye of the storm
And trying to figure out what it's like moving on
And i don't even know what kind of things I've said
My mouth kept moving and my mind went dead
So, picking up the pieces, now where to begin?
The hardest part of ending is starting again

//Linkin Park - Waiting For The End

Linkin Park - Catalyst

Within Temptation - Faster

Lisa Miskovsky - Acceptable Losses

Aurora

We heard them sing through the night
I looked at you, could you feel me?

You played with the only light
I didn't look away although I was blinded

I'm trembling as you look at me
My heart is moving, can you feel me?

I want you in my story
What if I took away all the worry

I can feel something but I can't tell what
Hold me, hold me so I don't break
I'm waiting for you to look back as you go
What if we already in same places?

Nowadays I find everything so empty
But you're filling me so easily

Where's your lovely smile?
I hope I didn't scared you away

I think you believed in me
I got something and it's simple to steal

Maybe you got what you came for
Lonely winter is coming

I can feel something but I can't tell what
Hold me, hold me so I don't break
I'm waiting for you to look back as you go
What if we already in same places?

We looked up as the sky continued to burn
A road of light was made, I will learn
This breeze can bring us through
I will follow your footsteps if you want to

In this reality, I won't let you blow away
I have stopped running but I might fade
With your beautiful eyes, you will find me

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Lisa Miskovsky - Mary