Lazy Days

My absolute favorite part of summer is being able to draw in bed all day.

Funs,

-Deena

Laced

Improv shoot with my sister to welcome in summer of 2012. They're inspired by this old postcard I had when I was a kid.

Back in UAE

So we left Malaysia last night and arrived safely in Dubai. It was a pretty awesome summer overall, spent a lot of time with the family and one of my bestfriends, Megan, came to visit for three weeks. We fasted during Ramadhan, and then she left to Thailand, and I celebrated Eid with my family. Had a couple of shoots with my sister.

Did quite a bit of writing, have loads of essay drafts about art and other related topics saved in my notebook and laptop. I'll probably brush them up and post them to the blog one day. I realized that one of the most important things I should work on this summer was actually my writing and increasing my vocab, so I worked on that. Finished reading a book with no pictures, 'The Windup Girl' by Paolo Bacigalupi, which is a sci-fi book set in 23rd century Thailand. It was a great read, highly recommended if you're into that kinda stuff. The author's insights into South East Asia are also really accurate and eye-opening, I appreciated the honesty although some parts were completely made up and the author admits that, so please don't take too much offense if you do read it.
I'm now reading 'The Help' by Kathryn Stockett, which is awesomely fantastic so far. I'm on a complete roll with that one, can't stop thinking about the characters either, as if they're people I know personally in real life.

Hope everyone had a good summer.
-Deena