Hey, guys! Happy Halloween! While a half of the planet is celebrating the day of the dead wearing cool suits, I do nothing extraordinary. Therefore I'll make here kinda fan-space. Nothing special, but my favourite fan-arts. And a good old song I lately became obsessed with.
Be brave!
P.S. Yeah, it may look like Lanapocalypse.
P.P.S. "THE CARRIE DIARIES" SEASON 2 HAS STARTED! I'm so excited! Have just watched the 1st episode, and it's so coooool!
Due to the fact that Ilya missed the Art and Culture lesson, I've bet him to write a post about the Palace of Versailles. And here I go.
We'd had to make a presentation about Versailles, and I decided to make exactly about Galerie des Glaces - the Hall of Mirrors. But here I'll try to get in touch with everything. Versailles was the royal residence of France for little more than a century (from 1682 until 1789) when the French Revolution began. Louis XIV of France just "expended" a hunting lodge of his father Louis III. Then Louises XIV, XV and XVI called the Palace home. Well, I'd like to have such a home too! Also, this place is connected with two great women I always like reading about - Madame de Pompadour and Marie Antoinette. The both women made a lot of mess in France, and they were gorgeous.
Galerie des Glaces
Le Vau’s plan called for an enfilade of seven rooms, each dedicated to one of the then known planets and their associated titular Roman deity (But building the Hall of Mirrors several of them was destroyed). Le Vau’s plan was bold as he designed a heliocentric system that centred on the Salon of Apollo. The salon d’Apollon originally was designed as the king’s bedchamber, but served as a throne room. During the reign of Louis XIV (until 1689), a solid silver throne stood on a Persian carpet covered dais on the south wall of this room. Thanks Wikipedia for the information. Our teacher constantly interrupted my presentation and told us that now all those silver and golden decoration, fabric wallpapers, chandeliers and furniture don't impress so much, as they did that distant past.
Telling in the nutshell, the Palace of Versailles is a complex reflecting the nature of Louis XIV - Louis the Great, the Sun King.
Here's my little architecture lesson, that's all for that subject.
Hello, guys! I'm happy being here to introduce you my special Halloween design. I guess, it's going to stay here for a week, till Halloween go out and everybody stops celebrating. But here in Russia we don't celebrate Halloween, and to somehow fill this whole, I've decided to bring a Halloween mood here, to my holy blog.
I didn't do it yesterday, but I've done it today. I've bought the headband made as cat's ears! SO CUTE HOLD ME I'M TURNING GIRLISH HULK WHERE'S ALL MY PINK STUFF. Also I've bought a hair clip with kinda rabbit's ears. Though I've got them for pretty indecent price, but I can't help loving them. My shopaholic nature is bourgeois.
Yesterday I never went to school, though the weather was ok, even pretty warm, not counting after-rain dirt everywhere.
In the evening I was watching the last episode of "The Vampire Diaries". Oh, I hadn't cried so much... since "Glee" episode about Cory... :C And there, in "The Vampire Diaries" guys told goodbye to Bonnie, although she'll be next to them anyhow. And Tyler came back!
Of course, all my free time of yesterday (not including watching the series and buying some stuff after the lesson - you're going to read about it below) I played "The Sims 3", and my sim even met some mermaids. Oh, so cute and aaawesome!
On having my English lesson I did some shopping. Here comes my favourite passion!
Have you missed me? I guess, no. But I've missed you with my blog. Today at my English lesson we somehow talked a bit about my blog and about my "undisclosed desire" to be a famous blogger. Yeah, why not?..
