November 2013 update/December plans

My S4

Do you take pictures with your cell phone? Yes? That´s what I thought, so I created a "Life on the Go" Facebook group! A place where you can find daily prompts and meet a cool group of people from all over the world, sharing their view on daily life. From the seasonal fruit to the buses, from the breakfast table for six to the take away for one, from their knitting to their moving boxes, from the birthday cake decorated with Angry Birds to the books on their side table. Life. Glorious, ordinary life. 








Here are my 30 pictures for November following the daily prompts:

Sounds interesting? You can still join for the Advent season. :) Advent is a veeeeeeeeery busy time but it is also a great "memory making" season. So I´ll keep this group open till the end of the month. 

How´s that for an Advent Day 1 gift? 
When I introduced myself for Art Every Day Month back in 2010 I had this long list of plans. I remember all of those projects. Now the time has come to let go of some of them to make space for new ones.

One of the projects that is coming to an end in its current form is my Creative Every Day challenge  led by Leah Piken Kolidas. I´ve taking at least a picture a day for the whole year for the past four ones and presenting a weekly update.  The update will now take a montly form, right in time to summarize it in numbers for the My month in numbers feature by Julie Kirk.  Here are some inspirational instructions on how to go about it. Yep, two-in-one, I´ve been known to multitask that way before. :D

My 30 pictures for November. You can read what they are about in week #44,  week #45, week#46  and week #47

I can also show you my working table each day of November. Those are 30 views of how I roll. 

And of course the 30 completed layouts.

Do you want to have an idea of how they look all together? Here they are. In fact there are 31 because I couldn´t stop. :D

Jamie Ridler from Jamie Ridler Studio is bringing Wishcasting Wedesdays and Full Moon Boards projects to an end and so am I.

From 6 creative projects to 3. That makes a lot of yummy, fresh, free, open space to play. Let´s pretend we are 5 again and at the Kindergarten playground. Do you want to play with me? What do you want to do?

By the way I´m joining Kat with Reverb 13 and Jamie & Shannon with blogging for December! Possibly not every day but back to my 3 a week schedule. Oh! I didn´t count my guests posts. My schedule might be a bit tighter than I thought it was. *w*

Merry Christmas! The fourth week of Advent

Four lit candles on the fourth Sunday.

 Our son Mati (in Cham, Germany) was present at the family dinner (in Buenos Aires, Argentina) through Face Time.

 During Christmas Eve the heat factor raised to 49°C. All cold foods dinner.

 Our niece singing carols with my in laws.

Hope you had a great time today.
Intention for this fourth week of Advent: Tolerance.

Week 51 2012

For Creative Every Day 2012, I´m taking a picture a day for the whole year. This is my third time around with the Pic-a-day project and at the end of each month I make a mosaic of the month´s pictures. I´ve taken 340 out of the possible 350 pictures for 2012 so far. 

Sunday, December 16th (341/351): third Advent Sunday, three lit candles, 16 "doors" missing from the Advent calendar. 

 Monday, December 17th (342/352): got a camera connection kit for the iPad Mati is taking to Germany so he can download his pictures. As you can see photographs are important in this family. ;)

 Tuesday, December 18th (343/353): packing for 10 weeks away. This is the second bag, mostly gifts for the hostess German family and "water related" elements like his swimming backpack and toiletteries.

 Wednesday, December 19th (344/354): Tati asked me for a "before" picture.

 Thursday, December 20th (345/355): Mati was the first in line for the check in desk. He was absolutely ready for his first solo trip.  By "solo" I only mean without us, as he was flying with 54 other students from our school and two teachers. He will be staying with a German family for ten weeks in Cham. He will be going to school with four of his classmates, the other kids will be staying in different cities.

 Friday, December 21st (246/256): a visit to La Revistería. My girl choosing manga books to buy.

 Saturday, December 22nd (347/357): friends for dinner in our patio. Perfect summer night to be outside.

{Sunday snippets}: is a collection of photos from your week. This way I can also add the pics that didn´t make "picture of the day" but are still significant to document our family life.  Stop by {tinniegirl}'s blog for more or to play along! I´ll be playing too. :) The tagline is: "No need for words.  Let the pictures tell your story."  Sitting on my hands here not to be too wordy. Please feel free to ask anything you want to know about them. :)

Closing 2012 projects

The "after" picture

Siblings

 

Part of the Year 5 group, some travelled, some went to the airport to say bye

Following the interactive Lufthansa plane

What do you wish for this summer? On the third week of Advent

Today Jamie asks "What is your Winter wish?" As I am on the other side of the planet I will adapt the question to my hemisphere. :)

Mati is leaving for Germany tomorrow for TEN weeks. This will be a very different summer for us.
My wish is to keep our communication fluid with both kids. To support and encourage both our boy who is leaving and our girl who is staying. To learn how to be together even while being miles apart.

Advent season:

Week 1 revisited:
Intention: Love
Decoration: door
Room: Kitchen
Christmas tradition: cards

Week 2 summary
Intention: Peace

Decoration: Christmas tree

Room: bedrooms

Christmas tradition: gifts

Week 3

Intention: Tolerance

Decoration: table

Room: common areas

Christmas tradition: ornaments

Week 50 2012

For Creative Every Day 2012, I´m taking a picture a day for the whole year. This is my third time around with the Pic-a-day project and at the end of each month I make a mosaic of the month´s pictures. I´ve taken 340 out of the possible 350 pictures for 2012 so far. 

Sunday, December 9th (334/344): last week I posted pictures of the kids with César Franco, the singer for the latin version of the Digimon and other animé series songs. We queued for hours for his autograph and it was totally worth it as he took the time to make each kid feel the only one. He chatted with everyone making eye contact and took as many pics as required. He even sang for somebody´s cell phone for a kid that couldn´t go that day! On Sunday we went to his main concert and were this close to the stage. :) He showed he is a really talented singer when the music went off and he continued singing a capella. Awesome stage performance.

Monday, December 10th (335/345): advent calendar.

Tuesday, December 11th (336/346): more advent calendar, this time a pass for a visit to a city centre animé shop (see a trend here? ;) )

Wednesday, December 12th (337/347): my son is soooooo like me, he called me to take this picture at his computer on 12.12.12 at 12:12am In case you are wondering, that is a Minecraft game on his screen.

Thursday, December 13th (338/348): WARNING TMI picture. :D New undies. Ladies, did you know you have to wear pink on Christmas Eve?

Friday, December 14th (339/349): Santa is early this year and coming from Singapore. Thank you Betty! It was such a delightful surprise! 

Saturday, December 15th (340/350): I mumbled and grumbled a bit because I forgot to take my camera with us today. Buenos Aires city centre is sooooooo beautiful! And we visited some cool shops too. ;) Best I could do was to take their cards and take a pic of those. :D We had wanted to visit Coketa & Coketo for quite a while and as it was Maxo´s birthday and they had a special Harry Potter sale (he´s a big fan) it was the perfect time. We also bought some gifts for the German family who is going to be Mati´s hostess.

{Sunday snippets}: is a collection of photos from your week. This way I can also add the pics that didn´t make "picture of the day" but are still significant to document our family life.  Stop by {tinniegirl}'s blog for more or to play along! I´ll be playing too. :) The tagline is: "No need for words.  Let the pictures tell your story."  Sitting on my hands here not to be too wordy. Please feel free to ask anything you want to know about them. :)

12:13 and the world is still here. Yes, I have a Miku Chrome background. :)

Second Advent Sunday

with 2 candles

 

My sweet neko at the animé convention :)

Second week of Advent

For each week of Advent I want to focus on 4 areas. I will keep the areas but change the focus for each week of the season. :) Want some organizative structure with good spiritual intentions? I´m your girl. :D

Week 1 revisited:
Intention: Love
Decoration: door
Room: Kitchen
Christmas tradition: cards

On to week 2

Intention: Peace

Second Advent Sunday

I have taken to lighting candles while I work on the computer and each night on the mantlepiece. I breathe deeper when coming towards somebody who is already stressed. Emotions tend to run high during the season. I bring my own Peace with me. ;)

Decoration: Christmas tree

Traditionally Christmas trees go up on Virgin Mary´s Day (December 8th) and stay up until the 12th Day of Christmas (January 6th) when the The Wise Men arrive with gifts for children (and young at heart) just like they brought gifts for Jesus so many years ago.

Room: bedrooms
TASK OF THE WEEK: make your room your sanctuary. A place where to retreat when the festivities get overwhelming. A place to rest and re-energize.
*Get your surfaces clean. Get rid of clutter on your bedside tables (Just throw everything IN it if need be ;) )
*Quick dusting of headrests, wardrobes and appliances. Get that energy moving!

Christmas tradition: gifts

Now my kids are older and Santa doesn´t get a long list of toys things can get tricky. This month for the Advent calendar they are getting "experiences" like tickets to the Animé Convention. :)


The images were taken this month and they are part of the December Views project.
Are you reflecting on 2012? Check these #reverb12 prompts out!