Self Portrait Tuesday

Playing at the beach with my brother.
This month theme is Personal History.

A new year

Happy New Year to everyone!!! Feliz Año Nuevo a todos!!!
I wish you all a wonderful year!!

I'm the bear.

Next Friday I'm going to see my parents...I'll stay for one week with them. I'm happy to see them again (and my brother).
I´m happy to see the sea again, to listen to the waves, to feel the breeze and the sun in my face...
When I come back maybe some of my "gifts" have arrived: Mav's letterpressed cards, Surprises from Sarah, Camilla's calendar...
Oh! and my Amazon order with two great books:
"The Creative License" by Danny Gregory (Danny Gregory's recommendation) and "Picture Your World In Applique: Creating Unique Images With Fabric" by Margaret Cusack (recommendation from Myra).
hmmm..I can smell the books already!

Surprise

"Surprise my sweet baby!!: your first peas!"
For Illustration Friday, this week theme: Surprise.
And...I love peas.

Christmas Garlands

I want to thank you for all the kind and warm comments about the Christmas Hang-ups. This week end I finished these garlands. Very easy!!

I make this tutorial for you.

Art show

Last Friday I was in an Art show in an hotel in Madrid. The hotel name is Hotel de las Letras, the translation could be: Letter's or Word's Hotel. That's because in each room there are poems written down in the walls.
The show was in the second floor. Each artist had one room to show his work.
There were different disciplines: photography, design, illustration, video installations,...
I was not very impressed with the show. It was more interesting to see how a hotel can be transformed in a gallery.
My attention was caught by 4 or 5 artists. They are not many because there were 20 or more in total.

I enjoyed the photography itself very much, Tomás Miñambres, that the most and Julieta Alvarez's room (photo here to the left). She was there and I spoke to her. She was so nice and she said she was happy because she had sold one of her designs to a paper company. Good for her!!
Here you have a few photos of some rooms. Sorry but I forgot some of the names of the artists.



The postcards from Carly for the Morphe Exhibition arrived on Monday. They are great Carly! Thank you!
And we have a new member in the family! Miguel's upright bass! They are in love with each other! Now I have live music at home!

Postcards

I'm so happy with my new postcards from: Ana Ventura and Penelope