Johanna Lievemaa PORTFOLIO & CV

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Tiny Dolls and Big Plans.
Jan 1, 2010

Happy New Year! I've been a good girl and so I got the best yuletide present ever. See pictures of my new tiny doll at my Flickr account. This is also my new years new start at a new LJ blog and I've established my own watermark referring to this site. You can also follow my developing photography skills at flickr.

But now I need to start thinking about school entrance exams and pretasks. Exciting and scary! What will I be when I grow up?

Caffeine and candy
Nov 23, 2009

Okay I didn't update anything after that last post, I've been busy being a non-desperate housewife and doing my doll stuffs. ^^; But now I feel like putting that portfolio together and finishing my essays. Maybe I've had enough caffeine these last few days to keep me awake on the computer for long enough. I bought my husband a small coffee grinder for his birthday and as I had hoped, it started an avalanche of interest and acquiring information about how nerdy coffee making can get and finally new investments in that area of breakfast delights. We got a real grinder and an Aeropress coffee maker that takes caffeine intake to a new level and makes me purr with pleasure. It takes a while to get used to coffee that isn't bitter; I still frown after a large sip but the acidity just isn't there.

Umm..
Oct 5, 2009

Still updating and migrating and stuff.. But here are our photos from the 3rd wedding reception (...we're having 4 consecutive parties) and our 1st honeymoon! (Yes, there will be more. ;)) *goes back to updating*

Married.
Sept 18, 2009

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Taking a break.
June 29, 2009

Unfortunately, the site is currently migrating from one service to another and is slightly under construction at the time. Welcome back soon and I hope you'll enjoy your stay.

EDIT: The site has moved and information is on its way to new locations. In the mean time, check my Picasa Album of bjd pictures or try to find me somewhere else on the Internet. Alternately, keep surfing elsewhere and return later, I'll try to be right here waiting.

 

Onward
June 23, 2009

It's been two months of selling buttons and ribbons. I've learned a lot. Today I'm going to sort out some papers to continue selling buttons and ribbons for another month, so that in August we are free to book some cheap flights to some distant location. Call it a pre-honeymoon or simply a well earned vacation, I'm ready to go. Then I hope there will be time to sew the dress and do other last minute wedding crafts. We'd like to paint some walls in our home, too, and finish our interior decorations before we've lived here for a whole year! But that is something I'm looking forward to. I'm thinking of buying my second doll today also. It's like Christmas!

New winds blowing
March 31, 2009

Soon I've been a repair seamstress for six months and it's time to move on to new challenges. I have really enjoyed this practical internship at Etappi but I should try other occupations too while I still have a chance. I have no idea what I will be when I grow up or what I even want to be, other than a happy and balanced human being. I doubt that I will be returning to the computer world anytime soon, as I enjoy customer service and "real work" meaning work which has immediate, palpable results. I'm even tempted to try and start my own business, but right now that needs a lot more thinking and analyzing and anyway I'm preoccupied by my slowly solidifying wedding plans..

But I promise to fix this layout today! To work with Internet Explorer. I've forgotten since they don't make that browser for my OS of choise. :)

The only thing I talk / think / dream about
January 12, 2009

Ronja.

Dear Santa!
December 4, 2008

I've been good all year, except for some tantrums and sulking and neglecting my friends and obligations.. But I don't need you to bring me anything, because I've ordered an Asian Body Jointed Doll for myself as a present. ^_____^ I can't wait for her to come!

Although, I would like a pin cushion that isn't a cushion but a magnet, like the ones we have at work. It suits my bohemian workflow / habit to hurt myself to be able to throw the pins somewhere to the general direction of the cushion and still keep them in a neat stack. :D Then I'd like another doll and wigs and a new computer and a desk and and and GoreTex boots and.. But really I'm totally happy just the way things are. Merry Christmas everybody!

New stuff!
November 9, 2008

Well, nothing new on the site. I've stopped developing it and basically haven't even toughed the computer for a while. I got the training position at a textile workshop and feel like I've finally found something I really LOVE to do. Don't know how I've been so blind. I guess I thought work should not be fun, only hobbies could. :D Anyway, I'm loving it. Here's a picture of one particularly hard day at the shop! I'll get back to the portfolio issues some day when I start missing the cold glow of the computer screen on my weary eyes.

Updates..
October 14, 2008

I've been working on the portfolio what little time I have spent on the computer and not watching ImagineFX videos. I'm thinking about the navigation, about the subcategories on some of the main categories and on what to base my categorization anyways. Should I stick to different mediums, as I tend to use various methods expressing myself, or to base it on genre or purpose? Now the navigation is a bit confusing as there are assorterd subcategories on some topics and the first list of galleries is grouped by the tools of the trade and the second one is losely based on purpose.

My iBook is, again, starting to say goodbye, even though it has been working quite fine for a few months. I tried to paint with Painter and after a while all I got was the beach ball rolling every time I tried a new stroke. A few weeks ago when I had it with me at my aunt's summer cabin I reallized the power cord really can't bear any moving around anymore. It's a pain to get it to load when it's been disconnected for a while. *sigh* I hope I'll find a place to do practical training in so that I'll be able to start saving for the glorious iMac 24".

IE6.0 </3
October 8, 2008

There was a rather "amusing" incident with one of my "favourite" web browsers and this site. I say "amusing" instead of amusing! because I have had just about enough trouble from IE in the past and here we went again. Every other browser I try works, but the one that I can't test on my own (mac) computer fuc*@%ks it all up every time. :D Anyways, I have replaced a partly see-trough .png with an ugly transparent/opaque .gif and gotten rid of the grayness on older IEs. The funny part is I thought I'd surely replaced it earlier and was puzzled as to why the problem persisted.. :D

Ready to rumble
October 2, 2008

I'm happy to report that I have breathed life to the Online Potfolio and will be updating it regularly, but am now ready to send out job applications with this site as the base implicator of my skills.

Finishing up
September 24, 2008

No longer rainy but plenty foggy these days, the scenic view I have from my computer in our new home. I'm determined to have this new site published any day now, with only some minor adjustments to the graphics left to do and the assembly of the portfolio well planned but not really started. The house is coming along nicely after we got the rest of the missing furniture last week, only need to get a permit to paint a few walls and to rearrange the kitchen cabinets.

Doodling
August 7, 2008

These pages are still under construction! But feel free to browse and email me (until I find the energy to make a guestbook) if you have any notes, ideas or opinions. They would be very welcome!

I'm in the middle of packing my life into boxes and saying goodbye to the city I've lived in for the last 9 years. Still, I've had time to update some parts of this site and I've been sketching the background / layout pictures eagerly. I think there is light at the end of the tunnel! But I really need to find a job first thing as we move to Tampere. One can't just keep drawing fairies all days till the end of time, no matter how nice it might sound. :)

New sightings
June 21, 2008

Oh, hai! I've been spending this rainy day inside specsing my new layout. I'm posting some of the content from the old site and making most of it up as I go. Having an anti-web2.0 approach to me means drawing the layout by hand (and making up all the html+css by hand), so this will probably take some time. And that's the only way to go right now, anti-2.0 that is. Though I'm confident it'll be quicker than the earlier layout (which was never finished). I've started on the "mei-chan" section, which is about me, and worry about the portfolio when this site starts to have some kind of a look and feel. I'm so sure this will be beautiful some day! <3

To tell you the truth I'm sick and tired of my age old iBook 12" with its shattered power cord and so I'd rather just go out, play, or even wash the dishes than sit at the computer. But a new iMac 24" would cost about an arm and a leg, so here we are. Editing pictures and storing them gets more difficult by the day but I'll have to endure this until I have a job / know what I want to be when I grow up (the choice of the graphics card depends a lot on 3D). I think I'll forget about being a perfectionist and won't stress about putting up my old pictures on this site at first, even though they might be of a wrong size or lack the proper borders, as the background images are all still placeholders as well.

Info
June 11, 2008

I'm now a Bachelorette of Business Administration / Business Information Systems. I'm also moving from Jyväskylä to Tampere in August and at least until then unemployed. Time to polish the new site and make a smashing portfolio.. And to enjoy the summer!

New Layout On The Way!
April 1, 2008

I've started working on a new layout and basically a whole new site. I'm drawing backgrounds and designing easy navigation, but I won't be able to concentrate on this now that my thesis deadline is coming so near. I'll launch the site sometime this summer depending on my schedule. A new and improved portfolio, both inside and out, will be my main motivation. After the thesis and graduation I'll be looking for a job and how would I get one without a nice portfolio? In the meantime my current flash portfolio and online gallery will be available for viewers.

 

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