Today's guest blogger is named Björn Svantesson, Who recently graduated from high school. He likes crooked houses, drab atmosphere and to subscribe. You can find his blog here. http://bjornsvantesson.blogspot.com/

Sometimes, you may wish that something in your neighborhood looked different than it does. It's something that bothers you, but you know you can't change it. Or can you? Yes! Of course you can. With pen and paper, you can improve what you don't like. It can be anything that you aren't happy with; your clothes, your garden, your boss, your dog or maybe your house. Believe it or not, it can be extremely reassuring to float off into a fantasy world and decide what things around you should look like. If deep down you would prefer to wear circus clothes everyday, but don't dare to, you can draw it that way. If you always wanted your house to would be built together with a lighthouse and have funny small rooms that really don't have a purely practical function, but that look nice, you can have it that way, for a while anyway. Because does everything have to be functional all the time? Can't things just be funny? If you want a room that isn't really good for anything else but to lie down and look at the view from the window because the ceiling is too low, isn't that okay?

All you need for this activity is a piece of paper, a good pen or two, and most importantly: your amazing imagination. Then it's just to start. You don't need to know what you want to do before you start and you don't have to listen to anyone else. It is both cheaper and more fun than the real thing and you don't have to take the laws of gravity, building codes or anything else for that matter, into account. You can also make changes as many times as you want. You won't hurt anyone, not even your poor neighbor. 

If you don't like to draw, there are lots of alternative materials to use. You can build with cardboard, gingerbread, sand, cloth, sticks, ice cream, or why not even bath foam? 

Best of all is that it's your world you're creating, and there things are the way you want them to be.