Heart spoons...

A good way of giving new life to old spoons!  
Add any photos of the ones you love along with their nicknames some resin...and voilà! One of my christmas gifts for mom who certainly like yours got everything!!!
Have a good week end
Remember to dance laugh share hug kiss...
xo

You and I deserve the very best...

Yesterday, was cleaning day in the studio which is a good way of rediscover all the material i left apart but mostly it clears my head. New ideas, new projects a "nouvel élan" in the beginning of the year comes up. I was rearranging some old photos and surprise myself thinking " I was cute in my twenties and thirties" How come i didn't realize that at the time!

I felt too fat too short too....not intelligent not clever enough bla bla bla....Is it something that we have to experienced? All of us? because I see it in a daily basis, beautiful and clever young women disliking themselves, hating either their nose their chin whatever crosses their mind! My point is that with aging we all have our griefs and wounds but could we have avoided some rough experiences, had we loved ourselves? I deeply believe that in the years to come a new awareness on the importance of the mind will prevail. I read this amazing book by Lynne Mc Taggart called The Field" she has been researching medicine and its shortcomings, quantum physics and what it means for you and the world we live in(quote from his website www.lynnemctaggart.com/) Read it and tell me about it!
So in the end LOVE is what matters the most and now scientists can prove it, for those who still have doubts!
Can you look yourself in a mirror for at least 5 mn without self depreciation? 
Have a good week
Xo

Keep loving yourself...

An artist friend suggested me that I should give another dimension to my craft so it could become art. She's a talented and gifted artist and sees me like a crafter. It left me unbalanced... as I am  an admirer of her work then I replied that what really excites and fulfill  me is creating my life albums. She was suggesting that i should add them into huge canvas and kept saying it would give them a dimension....Why does one give any advice that is not asked? What is the hidden purpose?  Why humans tend to compare over and over? I am that lucky that in my world of crafters i don't sense "bad vibes" only encoragements and positive attitudes.I sense that she lives in a world of fierce competition which is definitely not mine and thanks God i know myself well enough not to be blocked in the future trying to give ...a dimension of my work but one has to be aware as Julia Cameron point out in her extraordinary book "the vein of gold, a journey to your creative heart"of the well intended so called advices!
I have a duty to protect my inner child he needs caring, support and most of all LOVE
Have a good week end
Be wild

A gift from the heart

What to offer for christmas? I like to offer something special that was made out of love and tenderness...

My husband loved it! He's always a big fan of my work..inside i add his father watch, love letters that we usually send to each other, a small bible, earth from sacred Machu Picchu...

Heading to the north of Portugal as i have been invited to present my work to a talk show "praça de alegria"so very enthusiastic about it...
Will tell you more afterwards.
Have a good week
Be blessed
xo

My Shanghai

I have read quite a few books about Shanghai...and my imagination flew to those flamboyant and cosmopolite days back in the 19th century so it turned out a huge disapointment to see that most of the olds districts had just been erased but i guess to an arquitect is the place to be! The soul and the taste of Shanghai where the beauty of the women were known throughout the world along with huge parties does not long exist...now what prevails is well ...is not something that i like that much! So whenever i go to Shanghai i run to the fabric market where about anything can be made out in 24h and then my steps lead me to Dongtai market if you are into "old" things" then to Xitiandi with is good and fancy restaurants. Unfortunately, comunication is quite ackward because is rare to find a chinese who speaks english so when you are lost, which will happen sooner or later is best if you have anticipated with the names written in chinese otherwise it turn out a living nightmare! Trust my experience...

Have a good week end

Be bold

Be inspired

Be intuitive

Love yourself

xo

HAPPY NEW YEAR...2012

It took me a while to integrate the feeling of GRATITUDE. My life as yours without doubt is not easy, more than often we just want to quit and run away but we don't...Day after day the wheel changes for the best i believe because our experience and our wisdom grows. I am a better person today than i was yesterday. I am more compassionate, tolerant, open minded than i was last year. Today I LOVE MYSELF with all my demons and flaws. I could have choose the path of bitterness or anger because being grateful for what we have instead of what we think we should have is definitely not an easy one!
 I know what is to love and being loved.
I know how to give and receive
I know when to listen and when to speak
I know that i know nothing...used to said Jean Gabin
because despite my wanting some people will love me others don't
some will stay with me forever others only for a dinner but i feel grateful to be able to connect...
I wish you an open heart for 2012
I wish you to dance and laugh
I wish you to hug and make love
I wish you to embrace LIFE
xo
Be inspired
Be creative
Be bold

Enjoy your Christmas...

I love Chrismas! This year though, with all the buzz of the open markets i didn't have time to make my usual christmas decoration which usually goes on for several days... but it's ok  as i have learned in 2011 to just let go, not an easy target but one that in the end will bring you peace of mind!  
The most important thing that i have learned this past year is to FEEL BLESSED, truly blessed!
I realize how lucky i am to be alive, to be in good health, to have a bed where i can sleep and a warm home, to have food in my fridge, to have a job, to have heart friends, to be able to create, to have a studio  full of vintage stuff.....and most of all TO LOVE AND BE LOVED. I don't take anything for granted, I cherish my family and my friends and hope that I give enough. My endless questioning about who I am, what is my mission will never cease i guess but now i wake up everyday with a sense of gratitude towards LIFE. I'm ageing and...it feels good! I would loved have those insights in my twenties...didn't we all? I hope I can age as well as my mom or my husband who don't care about their wrinkles but are concerned about the giving. 
I wish you a Merry Chrismas full of joy, laughter and good homemade food! 

Obrigado... Merci...Thank you

 My stock is becoming thinner! THANK YOU for your trust, confidence and...good taste! Just arrived yesterday from Bangkok pretty exausted as always and was talking with one of my colleagues who ask me if i had bought gifts for christmas in the "mecque" of shopping! Well no i replied because i create what i offer so they are heart gifts! I sense that my clients recognize that, my art being one very emotional and personal which maybe explains the major success we're having despite the crisis here in Portugal.
THANK YOU
MERCI
OBRIGADO
GRACIAS
GRAZIE
DANKE...

Have a nice week
Remember to laugh, dance, smile, hug

What can you bring to the world?

Blogging turned out to be very stressful lately! I started with a free spirit, enjoying the ride and  hoping of course to be read by others fans of mixed media. My mom as been doing a blogger pro course and started two blogs, sos-stress.com and lescheminsdelintuition.com and kindly started to explain me how it all works....because blogging is an art in itself and out of a sudden i lost interest. I'm not using key words or podcasts or tutorials because it takes a considerably amount of time to learn how it combines and to tell you the truth it's boring! I love searching at dawn in flea markets "the object" and bring it back to the studio where he will join others objects still full of dust! But...there's always a but isnt'it? I do want my blog to have success which means being followed and read so ultimately i have to take time to understand how it works. My mom told me who cares about your life? People want to learn new techniques, discover new things...What can you bring to the world? Wow! My mom is a specialist she's a top psychotherapist she knows it all. What can i bring to the world? Is there others girls like me who have an alimentar job, who have a dream but still no guts to live out of it, who struggle not to drown between the day to day life, the grocery store, the kids(if you have them...i have a cat! ) oh!!!! i forgot being always good humored available for your friends sexy for your husband! Okay we are millions outhere... This year who is about to end (thanks God) is being very challenging i dare say a bit too challenging...for my taste because i fail to have the awnsers yet! Last night i hear Deepak Chopra in the tv questioning the audience:
 Are you happy?
 Who are you? 
What is your purpose in life?
 Do you feel blessed? 

Hope you like my new necklaces?

They have a story these pocket watches...bought them in Chor Bazaar, Mumbai, India.

Will tell you in the next post!

  

Happy thanksgiving to my heart friends across the atlantic

Amanda

Adeola

Amy

Stephanie

Jessica

Michelle

Xo

A working girl...

I realized over the months that i'm struggling to keep up with my blog. I feel that i have lost my voice and have turn it into something politically correct! The true is that i am not a full time artist, dreams to be though, but in the meantime my life consists mainly in traveling around the world. In a month, I fly to 3 countries like Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro and Bangkok, multiply by 11 months plus the holidays it sounds crazy how i can still find energy to create something in my studio! The truth is that i am pretty exausted and can only imagine my friends who have kids because they cannot rest at all.
So my blog till now wanted to related more about my art than the rest of my life and that's where the problems arise! I am a working girl who dreams to become an artists! Like thousands of girls outhere who struggled to keep up with a passion despite the lack of time.
So from now on i will post about my whole Life! Because i only spent 1/4 of my time in my studio.
I have just arrived from Bangkok and cannot tell you how mad i am about the medias. One as to be aware about their lack of credibility. Downtown Bangkok was completely safe. So there were no need for tourists to cancel holidays, the streets were empty, sales up to 80% in the malls... the flood was indeed impressive when approaching by air but it was in the suburbs. Journalists are interested only in the sensational and they don't care about the consequences among the population. I took a thai cooking workshop in the famous restaurant "Blue elephant". Check their website, they have 12 restaurants from Paris to Dubai. Unique! A 10/10.
Have a good week end
Xo