Isaiah 43:18-19 (King James Version) Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Wishing you much joy on this very Special day! “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”- Isaiah 9:6
I'm glad the lady that sold the cactus wasn't there because I would have gone nuts!
The HUGE and gorgeous Peña de Bernal can be seen from all over town.
One of the secondary squares. I loved that building with red & blue tile.
The bright Cathedral of the main square. On another note: I was extremely happy when Stephanie Levi invited me to make a Christmas-themed guest post for her Artist Advent Calendar. Oh! And Turbo asked me to please tell you he wishes you a very merry Christmas & New Year!
I recently had the pleasure of working with Melanie from Storey Publishing on the cover of their Spring 2010 book catalog. You can download the catalog at this link to see all the wonderful books they publish. I'll show you the company holiday card I designed for them tomorrow. *Thank you so much for the warm welcome, I really missed you!
After two weeks of packing/unpacking boxes, organizing and living without internet (the horror!) we are now enjoying the new place. First order of business was to put up the inspiration board in the studio.
I just found that empty nest on the ground on my walk with Turbo this afternoon. I thought it was quite fitting since what has been our nest for the past year and a half will be empty soon as well. I'm taking this empty nest I found with me to fill up the next one we'll be calling home . That is what my desk looks like right now. Daniel's spelling list, a list of orders I need to ship before we leave, little things that haven't found their way into boxes yet. Tomorrow is the final stretch of this crazy race. The next time you hear from me will be from Queretaro. I hope I have a working internet connection soon. Thank you so much for all your words of encouragement, I wish I could personally hug each and every one of you.
So far, so good :) Some 40 boxes ready...around 80 more to go. whew!
***News: I'll be rejoining Habit during this month. I was honored to be one of the guests in July. During December all 33 lovely guests of '09 will be sharing peeks into their days. There is a link on my sidebar with the word "habit" that will take you there. I hope you come and visit!
The beautiful yellow birdie photo is by the talented D.S. Brennan
I am so honored to be included in Issue 3 of Uppercase magazine! Janine Vangool did an amazing job designing the beautiful six page spread & the very talented Victoria aka sfgirlbybay wrote a really great article. I am BIG fan of both of these talented ladies so I couldn't be happier! Uppercase is offering a weekend special offering 10% off subscriptions this weekend through Monday. ***I was finally able to snatch up a gorgeous address file from my friend Sharilyn's shop, I get happy just by looking at it :)
I want to share this wonderful video I saw today at my good friend Graça's blog. The video shows french artist Nathalie Lété painting live in a shop in Tokio. A woman after my own heart. *le sigh...
We are back from a wonderful time by the sea. It's great to be home even if it's for a very short while, I'll be savoring these last days at this beautiful house that Manolo built for us, but also looking forward to the next one he'll make.
My watercolor Birdalope & Snowy Owl are now available on these beautiful feather filled linen pillows at Urban Outfitters! I will go check them out in person this week and maybe take some pictures in the shop :)
...that the next time I set up my inspiration board it will be in a new town :) I took time off to organize our things and get ready to move once again, whew! We recently sold our beautiful home and we'll be moving to a rented place while Manolo builds our next house starting January 2010. We are moving to the outskirts of the beautiful colonial city of Queretaro, located 160 miles northwest of Mexico City.
I'm really excited to share this new adventure with all of you. I will probably re-open up my Etsy shop the first week of December if I have the internet up and running at the new place. We will be taking a one week vacation at the beach starting tomorrow and I'll be blogging all about it from our destination. Thank you so much for all the lovely comments on my previous post, I'm so happy you liked those birdies!
Inspired by my turn of the century family photo mats. Watercolor, acrylic in and pencil on handmade cotton paper. 9 x 12 inches. Experimenting with my family photos. This dandy gentleman here is my maternal grandfather from Chile. I missed you guys!
I will be going offline for a few weeks and I just wanted to pop up and say thank you for your continued support & for all of your lovely comments. You always make my day! I will be back with lots to share and a big surprise. My Etsy shop will be on vacation mode as well. See you soon! Photo Booth self-portrait.
I busted out my old Prismacolor pencils today to do a little drawing of a plant featured in an article called "Desert Beauties" in the October issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine. I immediately fell in love with it. I must find out more about this caudiciform and be on the lookout for one to add to my collection. And maybe make a hand carved stamp too.
I am making a series of watercolor paintings based on dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History for my son Daniel's birthday next month. Shhh...don't tell him.
Here's something fun to make with hand carved stamps...personalized stationary! Any type of paper will do. I used a really nice speckled banana fiber paper stationery writing set that I got at my local organic produce store and embellished it with my own carved rubber stamps.
Glaucia Bürgi from Piracicaba, Brazil. Parabens!!! *Please email me* Thank you all so much for participating and for your super nice comments :) That lovely ceramic dish was hand made in Sweden by Karin Eriksson at Manos
There is a new print in the shop today. To celebrate I want to do a fun & super quick giveaway.
I will send the winner this new 6 x 8" signed print with a little (2 foot-long) recycled paper bunting similar to the one displayed on the photo. Please leave a comment with your full name, city & country I will randomly select one of you later today at at 7 pm CST (which is Greenwich Mean Time -6).Comments will be closed at that time. I will announce the winner tomorrow morning.
*Comments are now closed. WOW! Thank you so much for participating!
A nice way to use up all of my scrap paper and discarded prints from my shop. The beautiful book on my desk is called "The Boy Who Drew Birds" A story of John James Audubon. It was illustrated by the super talented Melissa Sweet. It is one of my all time favorite illustrated book.
Sewed them together with a zig zag stitch on my sewing machine. Easy peasy.
This little bunting would look great on an inspiration board, don't you think?
Better late than never they say :) It took me for EVER to edit and upload these final videos so you are just getting part 1 tonight. I'll post the rest of them this weekend. Hope you enjoy them as much as I loved making them. Music: "Querencia" & "The Music Box" by Ottmar Liebert
My desk at night. *Oh, I almost forgot to tell you...I began filming this video with the camera on my right and noticed after a while that my hand was blocking the action a little so on Parts 2 & 3 I changed the camera to my left hand side and it was much better.
Isaiah 43:18-19 (King James Version)
