Week 7

First: another round of "365: a storyteller with a camera", week 7´s summary. If you´d like to see some art journaling, you may scroll all the way down. :)

Week 7 will be known as the iPod week, as we were "on the road" a lot and I used it for my daily pictures. Or the appointments week. Mati was 16 last Sunday so we are going to all the annual check ups plus a few extra ones. I just realized the iPod/apps thing. I´m easily amused.

Feb 12th (43/43): our birthdays! Mati had a single blue candle for his 16 and I got a single pink one for my 45. Weather was nice and we organized an outdoors party. That being said, the Wii is the best toy ever to entertain nine kids age 2 to 17. :D

Feb 13th (44/44): Monday, app to get Mati´s lab results. Yay! Everything in "normal" range.

 Feb 14th: playing hangman with grandma Lili while waiting for dermatologist´s apps.

 Feb 15th (46/46): waiting for the dentist´s app. Yay! Both kids are still cavity free. :) Quickest app ever for Mati as being 16 he doesn´t get fluor any more, just an overview and off he goes. Tati had her fluor but it was real quick anyway.

 Feb 16th (47/47): taking advantage of the mall´s air conditioning on a 39°day. Tati chose another Cathy Hopkins book and Mati got "How to make your first sale". He is looking for sponsors for his You Tube page with over 1000 suscribers.

 Feb 17th (48/48): eye doctor app. There were no other patients so Mati didn´t even have to wait and I have no waiting picture. Lol! We were just about to get into the car when I realized I was missing my pic and went back to take this one from outside. :D

Feb 18th (49/49): hubbie had to work on Saturday and I kept him company at the showroom.

A lot of the pics taken this week didn´t  make pic-of-the-day but were cool anyway. :)
For Paint Party Friday this week I showed my title page for a new quotes journal. Faber Castell watercolour pencils on Canson white paper.

 Would you call this scrapbooking? It has no picture as it is the title page for my Web section of my planner.

 Collage art journaling. Just as I´m back at painting and journaling, I´m back at completing my Wishcasting Journal by Jamie Ridler. It is a very powerful tool. The question I asked here was answered less than 18 hours later.

Paint Party Friday # 49

Honey, I´m hoooome!
After two months and a half, I´m back at Paint Party Fridays.
In fact after two months and a half I gathered my stash again. All of it. Just like it happens.

Dining-room table: painted art journaling on the left, scrapbooking on the right.

 Kitchen table: collage art journaling on the left, written journaling on the right.

 My word for 2012 is expansive. My iGoogle has a sticky note that says: Deeper than the ocean, higher than the sky. Yes, in English. I found it that way and loved it that way.
Now ... when things get stuck. My plan was to paint the title page with my word and use the journal for guide/intention quotes. Faber Castell aquarelle pencils on Canson white paper. You might remember the deep greenish/purple colour of the sea in Las Grutas.

 You see where this is going? If I wrote "deeper than the ocean" and then "higher than the sky", ocean would be written in the sky and sky on the ocean. And it just didn´t sound right the other way around.
One day I was telling hubbie about it and as I translated it ... it sounded perfectly the way I needed it to be in Spanish! Tan alto como el cielo, tan profundo como el mar. (We use as deep as the sea, not ocean.)
Voilá! My title page for this year´s art journal.

It´s my birthday! Week 6

Project "365: a storyteller with a camera" Week 6 of 2012.

Feb 5th (36/36): Sundays are lunch at my in laws. Both hubbie and bil go with their families (that would be the rest of us ;) ). My kids get to play with their cousins. Tati (12 1/2) and V (2 1/2).

 Feb 6th (37/37): start of the Full Moon series this week by buying the current issue of Oh La La.

 Feb 7th (38/38): get cracking woman, the Full Moon is here! My working table, making my board to participate in Jamie Ridler´s circle.

 Feb 8th (39/39): Ready!  Some explanations about my Full Moon board were given when I linked to this month´s meeting. 

 Feb 9th (40/40): the crafty boy of this crafty mama. Mati´s project planner notebook (*beam*), cell and his own hand made

 Feb 10th (41/41): the crafty girl of this crafty mama. A hand made birthday card for her friend. (*swoon* as in definition #2:To be overwhelmed by ecstatic joy) 

 Feb 11th (42/42): said girl, with said birthday girl and friends. :)

Next week you´ll see my birthday pictures. :D
By the way, for those of you who don´t know: it´s my son´s birthday as well!

Just a little teaser. ;) Here we, an hour ago, receiving our presents at midnight.

Full Moon Board

Which hemisphere are you living in? Is it the Full Snow Moon or the Full Sturgeon Moon? To download a full list of the Moons for your hemisphere check Jamie Ridler´s Full Moon post for February. 
My own Full Moon Board:
Side A: the dreams. Do you want to do anything? Trends for next season, reinvent your dreams, find motivation, direct to the cells heart. And a paragraph about starting projects in teh summer. Summery clothing and cute tiger pillow.

 Side B: physical wellbeing. My gaze looks luminous and rested, Plan for 2012 Paula suggests prioritizing our wellbeing (it was just like that in the magazine, cool), my little owl (my owls are back since mid 2011) and a few other sentences from beauty ads. The new collections for fall were presented this month. I really like the layered look.

Week 5

Jan 29th (29/29): our nephew T with his mom P and his godmother Tati.

 Jan 30th (30/30): Frida is back home!

 Jan 31st (31/31): another Wii championship, this time Tati with her friend E.

 Feb 1st (32/32): breakfast out (in our patio ;) ).

 Feb 2nd (33/33): Carrefour market. I´m not one to walk as an exercise, so to keep walking instead of walking 200 metres for a loaf of bread, we are walking 1.1km. to this branch. ;D

 Feb 3rd (34/34): planners and journals.
Upper row: project planner (a.k.a: a gazillion lists), daily planner for crafting and life (when to do each task of the plan), daily journal (what I actually did, it works as a diary).
Lower row: sketch book (B&W drawings and scrapbook layouts sketches), quotes to use as tools (painted journal), dreams (collage journal)

 Feb 4th: antiques fair at Barrancas station.

What do you wish people knew about you? / January update

A) I´m a multitasking type of blogger. I connect challenges, prompts and inspiring bits.

That could be the first thing I wish you knew about me. :D 

B) This is because I take part every Wednesday of the Wishcasting tribe at Jamie Ridlers Studios and today she asked "What do you wish people knew about you?

C) This is my January mosaic that you can click on to make bigger. It has the first 31 pictures of my "one picture a day for 2012" project. 2012 is my third pic - a - day project.

And now ... 31 things about us:

1) I stay awake every New Years Eve till sunrise. Ok, this year works, sun is out, everything is good.

2) Saco Viejo hotel. We go south every summer.

3) Going to the beach. We alternate beach and mountains.

4) BBQ in the balcony with a sea view. I have never started a BBQ fire.

5) Tati discovered her love of reading. I read all her teen books to be able to talk about them with her.

6) The four of us. We walk for miles.

7) The kids with their surf tablets. I use them to float around in the sea.

8) Patagonian sunset. I´m getting better at carrying a camera with me at all times.

9) Family at the pool. I don´t go to the deep end if I can´t stand with my head above water level.

10) Full Moon Board. I have been participating every month since 2009.

11) Pizzas. We eat pizza once a week since 1999. I´ll tell you the story some day.

12) Matu and hubbie by the pool. I´m not a good swimmer.

13) Matu. Nowadays both kids are taller than me. 

14) Reading at the beach. I dared sending author Patti Digh my picture to her Facebook page. She loved it. 

15) We had to move units (flats/appartments) for the third week. We played "10m differences" games with the two. We love that attention to detail game.

16) Grocery shopping with Tati. She is a more helpful daughter than I was.

17) Tati & hubbie. I like combinations. If you check carefully, you´ll see every two persons combos possible this month.

18) tati´s collection of shells and rocks. I only collect a max of  four rocks from each trip.

19) Caves. I like finding shapes in rocks.

20) Daniel and me by the tides board. Yes, I´m a precise data fan.

21) Family souvenir shopping. I collect magnets from every city we visit and we buy local sweets for the rest of the family.

22) Road trip. I can make up games to play in the car for miles.

23) Daniel. We have incorporated the patio as another room.

24) Mom visits every Wednesday, only this tiem she just couldn´t wait and visited on Tuesday.

25) Ice cream at the mall. The kids love going window shopping with me. We are very curious.

26) Ninja Wii games. Tati and new bestie S. I´m encouraging Tati to open her friendship circle.

27) Date night. We have date nights on Fridays while the kids have dinner with my mom.

28) The Kennedys. We usually watch History channel documentaries.

29) Our nephew T with his mom P and his godmother Tati. His dad is both my kids godfather.

30) Frida is back home! I never imagined I´d have a dog.

31) Another Wii championship, this time with E. I like sports games and not strategy games.

 D) This is the first picture I took this year. I´m terrified of fireworks but hubby & daughter aren´t.

There you are 35 things about me. :)
Tell me something about you!

Week 4

Summary: week 4 of my picture a day for 2012 project.

Jan 22nd (22/22) Road trip. 1100km from Las Grutas, Río Negro to Buenos Aires. We saw the sunrise by the sea, then the Pampa region (flat land), the Sierra de la Ventana hills, the sunflower fields and finally the city.  

 Jan 23rd (23/23): back home, working in the patio with cell phone and electronic diary.

 Jan 24th (24/24): mom came home for a visit.

 Jan 25th (25/25): icecreams at the mall.

 Jan 26th /26/26): playing Wii Ninja games and looking the part. Tati and her best friend S.

 Jan 27th (27/27): night out with hubbie.

 Jan 28th (28/28): final chapter of The Kennedys in History Channel. The four of us watched the 8 episodes, 2 each weekend in January.

No books read this week.

What do you wish for your health and wellness?

Hunny, I´m hoOome! :D
Back from our summer holidays and ready to play. :)

For my first Wishcasting Wednesday of 2012 we are asked about our wishes for our health. You can read what other wishcasters are wishing for by visiting the original post by Jamie today.

My wish is to keep my walking practice. Started by joining Quinn McDonald´s project in December and took farther (literally) in our holidays in Las Grutas, Río Negro, Patagonia region. We walked an average of 7km a day. When I say we I mean the whole family of four. :)

Held by the Patagonian wind.

Las Grutas means The caves. These are natural caves formed by years of tides, these rocks are very soft and easy to carve.

 
 The cliffs go lower and lower. These resembled the mayan Chichén Itza temple.

Chockle colonies on the rock floor. These are covered bu water twice a day with the tides. I took many pics to use later in my paintings.