Thank you

I am really excited about Katie Kendrick online class. She's so inspiring and talented. It's like i have been waiting all these years the green light...and off i go. I have been in my studio with my hands full of paint and watercolors crayons feeling alive. I don't know where i'm going but i definitely sense that a new and exciting path is ahead.
i like to doubt
i like to try
i like to question
i like to explore
i like...myself each day a little bit more
Make something bold this week
xo

Being impatient...

I am very far from home and longing to come back. Last night i watch all over again Katie Kendrick awesome videos about collage and painting and i'm rather impatient to be in my studio. I love her way of teaching and sharing. I have to overcome the nagging fear of not being capable then, last night i was surfing and come accross Lynn Whipple blog. I knew her work already but haven't seen her tutorials videos nor her 100 bad paintings as she call them. There's the 8 steps video which is not only fun but inspiring where she acurately describes the process of creating with all our doubts, fears, wanting to gave up blabla but in the end we just have to keep on trying because creating is what makes us feeling whole.
We practice and practice and sometimes it seems that everything flows and then again we feel stuck. It's really an ongoing process, to know that it happens with all of us who have this need to create feels reassuring and comforting.
I think she called it step 4 where she highly advise us to show our art to someone we trust, who will not turns us down again my fan number one being my beloved husband and i know that he is always there for me to listen, to encourage, to motivate, to lighten up, to laugh... I miss him deeply, hopefully as we say in portuguese "Se Deus quiser"(if God allows it) tomorrow i'll be next to him.
Have a good sunday
xo

On struggling

Hope you had a nice week end? Mine was unsettling...I am doing Katie's Kendrick online class on mixed media which is absolutely great but very unfamiliar for me. One of her students share on our yahoo group that she feels scared to just let go which was odd because it was just plain paper. I do feel exactly the same way it's only watercolour paper not that expensive and that's part of the deal we have to make mistakes! I have this crazy idea that painting is not for everyone so of course I struggle but I do enjoy the journey. My faces look like an alien not friendly at all so i will not post them for now. I keep remember one of my dearest friend who is now more than eighties who started painting when she retired at the age of 65 who wanted to give up at every single class she attend but she didn't and I kept reminding her advice, step after step you will make progresses. I am definitely out of my comfort zone but it feels good because it means that i'm learning and challenging myself despite the fear of not making it, not being able too bla bla...the usual "saboteur" as my mom calls it.
Our worst enemy being our "dearest mental" who is nagging us all the time we have to be aware!
My husband is my GPS kindly bringing me to the right path again over and over knowing that i will doubt but never losing his patience. 
I feel blessed to have him by my side
Do something different this week...and tell me about it
xo

A new journey

I am over excited as i join Katie Kendricks online class. Starting tomorrow can't wait! That's the good thing with the net today, distance disappears and we are all able to connect with one another. I know i will meet wonderful and creative fellows who are eager to learn and share. I do feel a little isolated back here in Lisbon as the mixed media world as yet to flourish...so meeting art sisters truly makes me happy. I feel integrated and connected and that's a priceless feeling.
Have a good week
xo
 

On self esteem

 The school is about to begin...time to go back to my studio again. I had a whole and full summer with plenty of emotions(not all positive...) but that's part of the bargain. We know there's a path but are we on the good one? When we feel whole i guess it means something is working for us. I could say that my inner voice tells me to withdraw, to settle a little, to look inside myself and start working again on my self esteem.

 What about you? In a scale one to one hundred where do you place your self esteem? When i m working and starting new projects i feel always very enthusiastic then i doubt...am i repeating myself?
What do i want to say? How can i be more creative? bla bla...  on and on which is very confusing for those around me who look at my art  and really appreciate it. But then again are they just being nice? So the solution always comes from within because somewhere in the road i got lost again and i don't like being that confused. I had my studio reorganized, cleaned, throw away plenty of unwanted stuff so now it's time to just seat, breathe and look within. I am working on my site which comes out to be stressful but also highly productive as i am visualizing all of my work along the years. Realizing the progresses, what i want to improve, the workshops i want to attend, the art i want to create, what i love to do ...

I should imitate my cat Frimousse and surrender to LIFE once and for all...
In between if you any advice i appreciate any tips you may give me
Have a nice week
xo

About love

In the end it is always what prevails...
The love for a man
The love for our children
The love for our parents
The love for our friends
and one that we tend to forget
The love for OURSELVES


My deepest wish is to grow old with my man.
Know every wrinkle of his face
Know every scar inside in and out
Know what makes him cry
Know what make him laugh
To look back and be proud of what we have accomplished together.
The road is not an easy one, every couple experiences up and downs but
i believe that LOVE transcends it all.
Love is what moves the world
Love is what we all seek
and fortunately GOD blesses everyone at any given time.
Be blessed
 Have a good week end
XO

I love my life

After 3 days at "Festas de carcavelos" time to relax! Sunny weather here in beautiful Lisbon heading to the beach... The three days were great, very well organized, very good crafting with laughs and good humor. I was next to an artist who makes his own tee shirt each being different and unusual. What i like about him apart from his art is him being so available to share insights informations. Sergio is definitely on the giving an authentic soul which as we know tends to be rare on big cities! Check his site www.id-wear-com
I do love being in contact with the public. I am fortunate that they apreciate, recognize my work and my creativity. Now is time to go back to my studio as i am running out of necklaces, notebooks, kits and albums. A special thanks to Frederica who happens to be a stewardess like me who is not only beautiful inside in and out and was the one organizing this event. Check is site too at  www.cultodaimagem.com
Through my art i meet wonderful souls. I am truly blessed
I am still caring the Machu Picchu energy...
Wish you all the best

XO

Thoughts...

“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” - Robert Francis Kennedy

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- Frank Outlaw.

Love it...given yesterday by a friend had to share it with you

Have a good week

Xo

A dream come true

I had this huge dream for years to go to the lost city of the Incas: Macchu Picchu. I yearn for it, some go to Fatima others to Lourdes for me Peru had something that i had to do...sensing that this incredible and magical place possess something unique. And it sure does! 
I have been in beautiful places around the world but Machu Picchu is a journey in itself.
My husband by coincidence(if such exists...) had the same dream so there we went on our own personal pilgrimage.
We wake up at 4am took the bus to be among the first to enter and contemplate the sunrise. 
Wow! it was worth every penny of it! we were that lucky to be there the 7th of july exactly 100 years after the american Hiram Bigham discovered this sanctuary in the middle of the clouds.
I was speechless and still feel the incredible energy of the place.
We have experienced something unique and the results are yet to be seen...

If you have the chance go to Machu Picchu it will be unforgettable.

Wish you all a great summer...and winter if you are planning to visit MACHU PICCHU

Human fragility

I realize how easy it is to fly to " the land of victims" we all do it once in a while, some more than others but eventually it feels good to be the victim "poor me". I have just made a difficult flight, the crew were great, half of us went dancing till dawn which feels so good and then everything fell apart as one of us was robbed. She went frantic and completely out of control which in itself was rather scary. We felt completely powerless at first then our anger started to grow up as we realize that all her catastrophes
( cancer, broken teeth, death in her family....) was an invention and we felt cheated! She threaten us about suicide, that life was not worth living...i can tell you it was quite complicated to handle and the hours went on and on we were exausted so in the end we had to call for a doctor.
Now that it passed i realize how much pain and despair she must carry within her to invent so many dramatic experiences, to gain attention, to be the center of it.
She was a confident baby i am sure, what happened?
Heading to Paris
Have a good week
Xo