Week 21

For Creative Every Day 2012, I´m taking a picture a day. I´m Happysnappy, a story teller with a camera. This is my third time around with the Pic-a-day project. I´ve taken 144 of the 147 pics for 2012 so far. 

Sunday, May 20th (139/141): autumn at my in laws garden. iPod picture.

Monday, May 21st: While rallying the pics for the week, I discovered I had none for the 21st. Days are rolling so fast!
Tuesday, May 22nd (140/143): happy treats. I went to Jenny store (books/cds/dvds) in the Unicenter shopping mall to buy music cds. Went for coffe with hubbie afterwards.

 Wednesday, May 23rd (141/144): ouch! I broke a tooth. Emergency app with the dentist.

Thursday, May 24th (142/145): Art Thursdays. I´m working on systems to be able to put all I want/need to do into my days. 

 Friday, May 25th (143/146): Bank Holiday. We went to the movies. We usually go to Unicenter shopping´s theatres but this time we chose Showcase cinemas, which are on the other side of the motorway (highway).

 Saturday, May 26th (144/147): homemade bolognese sauce. :)

{Sunday snippets}: is a collection of photos from your week. This way I can also add the pics that didn´t make "picture of the day" but are still significant to document our family life.  Stop by {tinniegirl}'s blog for more or to play along! I´ll be playing too. :) The tagline is: "No need for words.  Let the pictures tell your story."  Sitting on my hands here not to be too wordy. Please feel free to ask anything you want to know about them. :)

PPF #11 v.2

 I´m taking part of Ayala Art 29 FACES in May project, so it´s been all about portraits this month. I sketch a lot while waiting for the kids at the school doors. 29 doesn´t look as it is going to happen, let´s say "about half of the 29 faces". ;)
Loved how different these two look.

Tamara Laporte posted this video on You Tube showing how she made one of her faces in 20 minutes. Inspired by her I made my first male portrait. I was trying shading by applying black pencil and then rubbing my finger over it. It worked well in the first case but my girl looks as if she has a stubble! Lol.

 Another first: Can you notice this girl is tilting her head up? IRL you can see the shading better, it suggest the light coming from upside.

Another first: first time using real color on these sketches.

Week 20

For Creative Every Day 2012, I´m taking a picture a day. I´m Happysnappy, a story teller with a camera. This is my third time around with the Pic-a-day project. I´ve taken 138 of the 140 pics for 2012 so far.

{Sunday snippets}: is a collection of photos from your week. This way I can also add the pics that didn´t make "picture of the day" but are still significant to document our family life.  Stop by {tinniegirl}'s blog for more or to play along! I´ll be playing too. :) The tagline is: "No need for words.  Let the pictures tell your story."  Sitting on my hands here not to be too wordy. Please feel free to ask anything you want to know about them. :)

Sunday, May 13th (132/134): Tati & our nephew T (her godson). I know I could have edited the picture and centered it, but I decided to include a bit of their grandparents home. I know they will treasure those memories in years to come.

Monday, May 14th (133/135): new bed linen.

Tuesday, May 15th (134/136): hubbie needed a new ladder & carrier for the business and I tagged along. Who knew the hardware store could be so much fun?

Wednesday, May 16th (135/137): my working table. It is really the dining room table so I put what I need out and then put it away afterwards.

Thursday, May 17th (136/138): finished art journaling pages. Quote by Pablo Picasso: when inspiration comes, let her find me working.

Friday, May 18th (137/139): drats! That building is becoming much, much taller than we expected. :(

Saturday, May 19th (138/140): Tati got new gym shoes.

PPF #10 v.2

Thanks Kristin & Eva for another round of Paint Party Friday!
I´m taking part of Ayala Art 29 FACES in May project, so it´s been all about portraits this month. I sketch a lot while waiting for the kids at the school doors.

This is the face I was working on two weeks ago. Now I worked on the background adding some stamping, bubble wrap colouring, watercolour pencil, marker border and a quote by Pablo Picasso: When INSPIRATION comes, let her find me WORKING.
The final stage of these art journaling pages.

Want to see my table? Here it is:
P.S: my "desk" is our dining table. That means I put stuff out, work and put stuff away. My working space isn´t like that allllll the time. ;) And yes, I´m verging OCD when placing my materials in a line. :D

Now, there is something I want to say to you:
If you are coming from the PPF link, let me tell you this: YOU are one of the most interesting peeps in this world, that´s why I keep going back there. :)
 If you are coming from Jamie Ridler´s Wishcasting Wednesday: my truest gratitude for your loving & continuous support. I´m wishing for you too.
 If you are coming from Sunday Snippets: it´s sooooooo cool to get to know you and your vision of the world. Thanks for being my eyes where you are.
 If you are coming from Creative Every Day: keep creating my dear! You are making this planet a better place.
Yay for International Internet Day (May 17th)!

I love my local community too. That being said, I haven´t been able to form a local art/business tribe. I think I haven´t been asking the right questions. In a place this big there must be some "same wavelength" women. :)

It is great timing that Jennifer Louden is offering a "Learn to Create your own Mastermind Group" course! She will teach topics like the different styles of groups and how to determine what style you want, the  structures, finding the right people and how to manage the group. Groups are formed by humans, and as such they evolve and change. Lots of useful "how to"s about that too. :)  If we have met before you will certainly recognize some of the cool interviewees names and jump for joy. If we haven´t: check them out! They are awesome! Danielle LaPorte, Andrea Sher, Tanya Geisler + Rachel Cole + Kate Swoboda + Bridge Pilloud + Julie Daley + Jamie Ridler, Fabeku Fatunmise, Elizabeth Marshall, Mark Silver + Michele Christensen + Molly Gordon + Michael Bungay Stanier + Eric Klein (Louden´s group).

The dates: May 22nd & May 29th (4 pm Pacific / 7 pm Eastern) ~calls will be recorded~

 Finding the right people is nowadays the one point I need to master the most. The "more than one" group comment got my attention as I know there are people I like that have some points in common but not others and mixing and matching is an art. :D
After reading about Jennifer´s offering I met with a new mom from my girl´s class. I might be on my way! :D
 

Week 19

For Creative Every Day 2012, I´m taking a picture a day. I´m a Happysnappy, a story teller with a camera. This is my third time around with the Pic-a-day project. I´ve taken 131of the 133 pics for 2012 so far.
Sunday, May 6th (126/127): hubbie repairing my in law´s car with our niece.

Monday, May 7th (126/128): Oh, noooooooo! Soo busy I forgot to take a picture! :(
Tuesday, May 8th (127/129): cooking for two solid days so I could freeze pastries & pies. I used Suzie the Foodie´s Halloween super tasty recipe for the meat ones. There were also chicken & corn ones and ham & cheese ones.

Wednesday, May 9th (128/130): I still like the paper diary so I can check things off my list with pretty colours. One colour a day so I can keep track.

Thursday, May 10th (129/131): talking about colours: double rainbow. By the time I got my camera only half of the second one was visible. I chose this picture of the single side one as you can see the colours best. :)

Friday, May 11th (130/132): One "just my luck" moment. I parked my car in the last good spot ... just  to have a cement truck block my way. Fortunately it moved before I had to.

Saturday, May 12th (131/133): my first visit to the Dot Shopping Mall.

 {Sunday snippets}: a collection of photos from your week. This way I can add the pics that didn´t make "picture of the day" but are still significant to document our family life.  Stop by {tinniegirl}'s blog for more or to play along! I´ll be playing too. :) The tagline is: "No need for words.  Let the pictures tell your story."  Sitting on my hands here not to be too wordy. Please feel free to ask anything you want to know about them. :)

Full Moon Board:

 I joined the 29 FACES challenge.

What do you wish for your home?

Yay! Jamie is back from Paris and we got the Wishcasting Wednesday rolling again. :) As usual you can go to the original post to visit other wishers in the circle.

What a timely question. I was revisiting my Wish from a year ago to see what I had applied action to and what was still on the list.

Now we want a change in our colour pallete, so I´ve bought a local magazine that came with the decoration version and I´ve also been asking my friends for links to decoration sites and blogs.

If you have a favourite one, please share! Think House Beautiful meets Homes & Gardens. Basically traditional, a lot of wood and bronze, colour touches here and there, very comfortable, no picture perfect array of pillows & throws.

I wish to find inspiration for our new version of our home, to find a palette that resonates with us, to joyfully plan, to smoothly put into action, to delightfully add decorative touches, to be on top of housework with love and a sense of service (working on that, I´m keeping up with house chores but still grumbling about them ;) ).

Week 18

For Creative Every Day 2012, I´m taking a picture a day. I´m a Happysnappy, a story teller with a camera. This is my third time around with the Pic-a-day project. I´ve taken 125 of the 126 pics for 2012 so far.
Sunday, April 29th (119/120): we turned the fireplace on this weekend. Frida has already claimed the warmest spot in the house. :D

 Monday, April 30th (120/121): Monday was a Bank Holiday. Daniel was in charge of the BBQ.

 Tuesday, May 1st (121/122): as the first 4 months of 2012 had been so pants I decided to declare May 1st as New Year´s Day and start over. Celebrations were in order, like lunch out (in our garden ;) ).

 Wednesday, May 2nd (122/123): it seems this New Year is better. I won a copy of Raw Art Journaling on line at Quinn McDonald´s (the author) blog. Thank you Quinn! And also thanks to her cat who chose my name. :) Are you interested in the post? You can read it here.

 Thursday, April 3rd (123/124): I joined the 29 FACES challenge. My working table.

 Friday, April 4th (124/125): May the 4th be with you! Lol. I had to, I just had to. ;) I bought Elle magazine to have some different input for my collage and specially to have the Deco magazine that came with it. We want to refresh our colours at home.

 Saturday, April 5th (125/126): Mati´s 2 years old cell phone stopped working this week so we upgraded him to a smartphone.

Thanks to Anne from My Giant Strawberry I discovered {sunday snippets}: a collection of photos from your week. This way I can add the pics that didn´t make "picture of the day" but are still significant to document our family life.  Stop by {tinniegirl}'s blog for more or to play along! I´ll be playing too. :) The tagline is: "No need for words.  Let the pictures tell your story."  Sitting on my hands heer not to be wordy. Please feel free to ask anything you want to know about them. :)

For the 29 FACES  challenge (more on Friday when they are painted):

 I discovered what wasn´t totally right about Face #2. The proportions were a bit off base. SO I copied an ad to learn the proper ones.

 But she looked a bit (actually a lot) zombified.

Softer version. I´ll keep working on her. :)