play date

Christmas,time to play! 

Having fun with css3 animation 

(code from here)

Click on the image to start!

Have a good last weekend of the year!

Happy holidays!

Wishing you a New Year

 filled with great stories and 

lots of treasured moments!

CLICK on the image :-)

Frozen Friday

It's freezing outside...

You better have a hat on, or you're frozen.

Have a warm weekend- if you can.

Time for crafts: Environmentally-friendly Dreidel

Cropped image from Jeremy’s Dreidel, Kar-ben Publishing, 2012.

Holiday season, ready, set, go!

 Happy Hanukkah & Thanksgiving (late)!!

 I love that here we have the (good) excuse to set up 

the Christmas tree sooner :-)

 

 

fading color

 

Fall is gone.

All the colors gone.

Cold like we were in the Midwest.

Oh, we are?

Luckily Fa la la time is coming :-)

Weekend maximum -4C.

Have a warm weekend! 

Children's illustration at the museum

Last week at  the Art Institute of Chicago: Play, Pretend, and Dream: Caldecott Medal and Honor Books, 2010–2013

 

Children's Day

Children's Day. 

Let's celebrate!

Philly blues

Missing Philly. Again.

Fall.

(Another 1" x 1" vintage sketch)

Me Time measured in inches

From my old sketchbook.

1" x 1" illo.

1" x 1" of Time.

Friday!

Have a good weekend!

(Today is Marc's 18 months birthday, time goes by, bye-bye)

raining cats

It´s been raining cats...

Crazy cat from my (old) sketchbook...

Have a great weekend!

happy halloween!

Homeland

 

Homeland. 

A letter in the mailbox. This line in elegant type:

"Welcome to the United States"

Green card.

 

*****************

Do do do do do do do do

Do do do do do do do do

Walk on the wild Side, Lou Reed

And how I arrived here: 

It feels sooo long ago.

(pictures from the Chicago Botanic Garden, model trains)

fall, pumpkins and kids

Pumpkin patch weekend, adding traditions...

And Marc is not a baby anymore, when happened? He is 17 months now...

Spooky sweet bugs

- Hi, Lady Bug.

(Not close to my reaction to bugs...Now I developed a new phobia: arachnids!

Recently I had to protect my family from one whose body (without legs)was peanut- sized!)

Freckled project

Old sketch for a (failed-)project. Guess who?

I am Pippi Longstocking.
If you say it fast it's funny.
Pippi Pippi Longstocking,
how I love my happy name

Have a good weekend!

* * * *  

Please, remember me happily
By the rosebush laughing
With bruises on my chin, the time when
We counted every black car passing
Your house beneath the hill
And up until someone caught us in the kitchen
With maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank
A vision too removed to mention

IRON & WINE, The trapeze swinger

that (roasted) dark side

The Constant.

And then, those naive plots...

Like somebody banksying coffe pots around the city...

It makes me laugh every time it comes to my mind.

Thursday.

the magic of reading

The magic of reading...

It always calms their bunny soul 

after and exhausting day.  

Those vintage paper things still have that magic. 

Yoga in Stress out

-Let's get rid of stress with a yoga class, friends!

Soap

Have a good weekend!

And Baday Soap to clean a bad day...:)

Sticky identity

Identity sticks with you, you don't decide.

Can't run away from identity. Sticky identity...

* * * *

“In Spanish añoranza comes from the verb añorar (to feel nostalgia), which comes from the Catalan enyorar, itself derived from the Latin word ignorare (to be unaware of, not know, not experience; to lack or miss), In that etymological light nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become of you. My country is far away, and I don't know what is happening there”
                                  ― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

Have a la-la-la weekend!

In desperate need of a la la la time 

- we've been chaining different types

 of viruses and bacteria 

since arriving one month ago.

Soooo tired.

 

* * * *

I am a passenger
I stay under glass
I look through my window so bright
I see the stars come out tonight
I see the bright and hollow sky
Over the city's a rip in the sky
And everything looks good tonight
Singin' la la la la la-la-la la
La la la la la-la-la la
La la la la la-la-la la la-la

Iggy Pop, The passenger

Fall-ing in love with fall : )

 Fall in Love

Wait!

Work in progress -fast or we are not getting there...

Fresh air

Finally some fresh air for the teenager mind

(Missing Philly Fall )

back

Back.

 I am back from one month in Spain, 

with some unfortunate health issues, but a a few days at

 the beach cured everything.

Already missing that mediterranean light. 

Cloudy heart

 Instagraming my favourite manimal pets crossing the 

Atlantic sky at their own chosen speed...

Have a good Summer weekend
 

* * * * *
Go lightly from the ledge, babe
Go lightly on the ground
I'm not the one you want, babe
I will only let your down
You say you're lookin' for someone
Who will promise never to part
Someone to close his eyes for you
Someone to close his heart
Someone who will die for you an' more
But it ain't me, babe
No, no, no, it ain't me babe
It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe.

Go melt back into the night
Everything inside is made of stone
There's nothing in here moving
An' anyway I'm not alone
You say you're looking for someone
Who'll pick you up each time you fall
To gather flowers constantly
An' to come each time you call
A lover for you life an' nothing more

 

on what is NOT love: lovely duet version Joan Baez &  Bob Dylan, It ain't me babe 

2nd edition : )

Noticias refrescantes desde Spain:D

Segunda edición de La fabulosa historia del secador mágico de J. Martín Piñol.

baththime

 

-Every day, bathtime!

the 4th

-Happy 4th of July! 

Sketch, no time for color...

Imagine white,red and blue.

Spontaneous sketch, familiar to me...

Let's pray we can make it real soon...

june the 19th

Another free ride around the Sun!

 Do you still remember those big expectations the night before your birthday?Then your are probably safe:)

Welcome Summer.

let's color again

Welcoming some bright color to the blog with a Friday yummy healthy picnic.

Have a great weekend!

Ma triste patrie: le Métèque

I woke up with a chat message from a friend: ¨Moustaki¨

 

Le Métèque is gone.

La Méditerranée est un peu plus loin aujourd'hui. 

Moustaki made loneliness pure white...

Pour avoir si souvent dormi
Avec ma solitude
Je m'en suis faite presque une amie
Une douce habitude

Elle ne me quitte pas d'un pas
Fidèle comme une ombre
Elle m'a suivi çà et là
Aux quatres coins du monde

Non, je ne suis jamais seul
Avec ma solitude

                           

                         Ma Solitude, G. Moustaki