Made by Wooni

Tis the season to be busy

I am unfortunately one of those people that tends to do everything last minute. I am not sure if it is because I thrive under pressure or if I am just a procrastinator. So with Christmas day quickly approaching I have been painting, making and buying my gifts all last minute and hoping I will be able to finish in time.

The painting above if for a little December girl. She has a love of horses and a very sweet face.

We have finally taken out our few Christmas decorations. And after several broken ornaments we we able to decorate our larger than life Tree.

Little # 2 of course had to help make it perfect, and our dog thinks the tree is her new chew toy.

Hopefully our tree will survive the season.

 

A little thing

I just wanted to wish everyone a Guten Apetite today. I hope your bellies will be full, your hearts content and you eyes sleepy from that juicy turkey meat. Have a lovely day !

Lets play catch-up

It has been a lovely and hectic couple of weeks, as per usual. I have been able to find a nice rythm between my daily duties and my moments of day dreaming and watercoloring.

There is so much inspiration to be found online. Thousands of artists, ideas, pictures. It is wonderful to be able to share and add more to the collective-ness of it all.

I have realized that life changes according to your perception. The same moment, occurance, can either be so easy and wonderful, or difficult and horrible.

The other day I went to visit some lovely friends that had just welcomed their third child. I imagined myself in their situation and I would have been overwhelmed. However, when I arrived The mother was upbeat, happy, and feeling great. There was peace in the house, a child driven chaos, but a peaceful one. It made me realized yet again how it is up to me to make my life wonderful or stressful.

 

They're coming

Here are just a few of the Winterlings. Some bears, a dragon, and soon a lion and a unicorn will be added to the mix. I have to reading Game of Thrones, and these creatures most definitely were inspired by the wonderfully frightening world of the Starks.

I was also able to finish last night my cat angel, Felingela.

I am amazed by how productive I have been...

today

With two bored kids cooped up in out little crooked house, my imagination can some times be limited. And not wanting to turn the beloved TV on, I decided to let them play with potatoe scraps. I gave them some almost empty spice jars and they loved it.

Cold weather..Christmas thoughts

 

And for today a happy festive pig. I know its not even December, but with such cold foggy weather I can't wait for Christmas.

Dreams

I have been drawing almost daily, whenever the chillens are occupied with their worlds of fantasy. It is not because I have deadlines or expecting clients...It is however, because I need to. I am in such an indecisive moment that I find peace through drawing. So, despite the mountains of laundry, and the the shinny clean plates readily waiting to be put away; I sit at my kitchen table and paint. I forget about having to make decisions.

Nevertheless, within my paintings my turmoil comes to show. It always happens. Humans, even though we try to hide are despite our efforts quite transparent.

So here is my latest, Reaching, becuase I want to.

Coloring the grey

As the skies remaind grey this weekend, there wasn't much left to do except have a Movie night with the lovely neighbors. I only had my horrible phone to take these pictures...so bare with me.

Little # 1 was a bit of a party pooper, since he did not like the idea of eating at the table and then watching the movie with the lights on...but as soon as the Golden lady Columbia appeared he quieted down, as he informed everyone, that that is where his Tata lives (Colombia, not Columbia....either way).

We watched the very entertaining

The title doesn't really roll of the tongue in German for me. However, everyone loved it.

The next grey and rainy day was spent at a near by craft event for children, and the children center. Again, I only had my phone to take the one picture. It is not very fun for the only grown up when trying to withhold a two year old from trying to make things with hot glue guns, pointy sticks, and saws...There were a lot of tears and every one there heard as she clearly yelled to my lovely neighbor "Mama sag NEIN!" Mom says no...How lovely, her first full sentence.

Either way, Little #1 had a wonderful time creating tea light holders, pea and tooth pick constructions, a felted flower and an origami star.

The pea and tooth pick idea was quite clever. You soak dried peas over night in water and the next day you simply cunstruct whatever you want with tooth picks. The kids built some lovely things, a church, a house, a tower, and little #1 make an airport....unfortunately on the way back home the airport suffered a calamity and is not unrecognizable. His response "nicht schlimm Mama." Literally meaning not bad, but in my mind its more of a "Don't worry 'bout it Ma." I'm weird.

Next outing...must take camera, regardless if I am a walking coat rack.

 

It was lovely, and free.  I must bring along my better camera despite not having any room.

 

a quick hello...

In order to deal with all the icky bugs that have been flying around here, I have, in my five minutes of down time, been crocheting like a mad woman. The grand majority have been bears, for some reason.


But now a little lion has shown up. My son informed me that it did not look like a lion, but instead a flower...Lets call it a blossoming creature.

photographical kick

I have had photography on my mind. I have always loved photography. I studied it for  bit in Bogota, but that was ten years ago...so I have forgotten a looooooot.

Either way I love it.