Creative day

Today I was quite busy..and creative! I did manage to get some nice flowers on the market and started to make our balcony nice again. The weather has been quite nice yesterday and today and soon we will spent much more time outside again. The trees are still bare, but if you look close, you can see the first green leves coming out.

But I have not only been busy outside...;-) I was working on a new cane today. I made some beads and some other small things in the color range white-yellow-light orange. I am very pleased, that I finally did this work, because most of the beads I made are for a piece of jewelry, that I had promised to make a long time ago!!! In fact it should have been finishe a long time ago already! But now I have done quite a good bit to get this ufo ( unfinished object) off my desk!! So I am quite pleased with myself.

I also was very busy today, because my hubby is gone on a day trip for work to London ( I wish I had these kind of trips...especially to London!!) and so I had to get up much earlier to get the kids ready for school and everything what normaly gets shared at least in parts.

creating without fear - week #2

...okay, here we go! this is what I did for this weeks exercise. I am not sure if I like it....but I definitly will have to sleep one night to be able to answer the question to it...LOL...to find out what this is all about, please, go to kellys blog here:
http://creativecollage.blogspot.com/2006/04/week-2-our-weaknesses-are-our.html

Okay here are my answers to the questions of week#2:
-Did the exercise seem worthwile?
To me it did feel a bit strange to have such specific rules of what to do. It felt more like cooking ( but then again cooking is creative, too). I was not sure if it would be worthwile at all.

-Did you gather your supplies together before beginning the exercise?
Yes, I did, i always do ....IF i know what I am going to do, but that is not always the case...;-)

-Were you able to move through the steps effordlessly?
Yes, but as i said, it did not feel like doing art...more like cooking. I am not used to work like that, normaly I do work much more intuitivly.

-What was your first reaction to your complete exercise?
It looked much too simple to be complete. And I was wondering if this is a good way to use the chosen colours. But I also was happy that I did do it and finish it, did make the time to work on this exercise.

-Overall, how did you feel about the process?
It felt more like I was playing a game, you know all those quize games? You just do them, so you know the result and can have a laugh about it. the execise did feel a bit like that, not like making art at all...! To easy to efordless...and I am still not sure if I like what I did.

....I will write more...;-)

Time always seams to fly by.....I feel like the older I get, the less time I have. There is always tons of things to do and soon the evening is here and there is still tons of things to do....I promised myself to write more again and I think writing is a good way to see how much you actullaly do and experience. So I decided not just to post pictures in my blog, but to write more!

Spring is here now at last! We had a very long winter this year and I am looking forward to see more green leaves again. I did clean our balcony a bit over the weekend, but I still need to get the rest of the old earth down to the compost and clean the pots before I can put in new earth and flowers. This year I will not have any vegetables, but only herbs ( I can not go without those!) and flowers! I want to try to do a bit more with all the inspiration I got from travelling to my beloved English Gardens with my parents last year!!!

I did finish quite a bit of art work on the weekend, too. A whole bunch on ATC ( but still more, I need to make) , the last but one Ooplala bag and Susans "Diary of a travelling Goddess" finished. I did some organizing work for AlteredArtEurope and set up the first goodies for my etys shop at last. Have a look here:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=24302

I will do my next exercise for the "Creating without Fear" project , that Kelly has set up... after the first task I have done, I know this is a road with many surprises!! To see more go to Kelly´s wonderful blog:
http://www.creativecollage.blogspot.com/

Yesterday I did do some cleaning away from stuff in the cellar and found some shoe boxes full of old letters. The first box is full of letters, I got during my time in England. I wonder what happend to all the people I knew then. It is really sad, that I did loose contact with so many people, that were importrant to me once! But what surprised me most, was that I got really upset reading my mums letters .... after twenty years! can you belive that! I don´t know if I will ever be able to work out what kind of relation ship it is, that I have with my mum, but its not an easy one, I know that much!! But I think I need to try to track at least some of my old school friend down! And there is still two more boxes to got through!!!

countries at war 2

countries at war 2
Originally uploaded by huana.

...my spread in Lindas "Peace and Hope" Alterd Book ( a project on ABEurope)

countries at war 1

countries at war 1
Originally uploaded by huana.

...my spread in Lindas "Peace and Hope" Alterd Book ( a project on ABEurope)

Happy Easter to all of you from our rabit Ix Chel

Happy Easter from our rabit Ix Chel
Originally uploaded by huana.

I will take an Easter Break and hopefully be back soon with a new computer...;-) Wish you all happy holidays!!!

ATC Set: April Fools 1

ATC Set: April Fools 1
Originally uploaded by huana.

All made for a swap on AlteredArtEurope and europeanatcs (yahoogroups).

ATC Set: April Fools 2

ATC Set: April Fools 2
Originally uploaded by huana.

All made for a swap on AlteredArtEurope and europeanatcs (yahoogroups).

Crazy moderator hat

The hat I made for Mika. These hats are for the moderators of my newly founded yahoo group: AlteredArtEurope

Peace and Hope: Jaqueline´s book 2

Peace and Hope: Jaqueline´s book 2
Originally uploaded by huana.

my spread in her book . RR on ABEurope

vollmöndchen Patches

vollmöndchen Patches
Originally uploaded by huana.

two patches for two colaborated quilt spreads I am taking part in: for two friend who are expecting babies very soon. It´s ging to be for the lil ones...;-)