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Good day for washing. As you may see the lace is in fashion for girly T shirts (mine on the left, dd´s on the right)

Check Point: week 1

Disclaimer: I´ve joined the Finding Water project but as that book is not available in Buenos Aires yet I´m really working on "The artist´s way" (which uses the same tools: morning pages, dates with artist). I´ll also add some FW comments from what I can gather from other blogs. :)

1. I´ve done my daily pages every day.

Aha, you´ve noticed that I wrote "daily" and "day" instead of morning, right? I only had one "early morning"set, most were mid morning and even had an afternoon set. But they are getting me somewhere and that´s what this journey is about.

Unfortunately the first three days only brought me nightmares. I was doing the "divide your life in 5 year segments and identify the negative statements" task. Each night I had very vivid and detailed dreams that I could actually remember a whole day. Then life got in the way and the present didn´t allow time for the past.

2. The artist´s date. Kind of. I got a couple of surfing sessions getting to know some amazing women doing cool stuff. Not leaving the house though.

3. Other meaningful stuff. I´ve read the chapter three times now. First to know what it is about. I did all the tasks in my head. Then read it again to see if I had missed something and refined the process. Read it today for the third time to jot down some note about the tasks. Every time I read it I come closer to accepting some things and affirmations.

On to week 2. :)

Tears of joy

I got all teary eyed when I saw my friend Clare had sent me a birthday card. She is a wonderful scrapbooker and her altered stuff is to drool for, so elegant with a touch of magical.

So far, so good, big smiles all around but then I turned the card and found the "Handmade for you because you´re worth it" note and totally lost it!

Thanks Clare. :)

unexpected craft

We were at my in laws´ garden and dd said she wanted to make a basket to gather lemons. The only material available were palm leaves. Would a tray do?

Your Power Level is: 57%

There's a good chance you feel pretty powerful, and with good reason, you're already fairly successful.Keep developing your goals and skills, and you'll be surprised by what you can really achieve.

How Powerful Are You?

I think I´ve done it before with a different result. It all depends on how you are feeling at the moment you answer the quizz.

Yesterday´s party was a success, that much is true. With less people than usual (many on hols) but more than I expected, everybody was delighted by the ... power cut. Aha, the whole neighbourhood lost power right at the beginning of the party. Fortunately we had a gas camping light that dh put hanging from our living room lamp and loads of pretty candles around the house.

The kids had a blast with hand held lights and spy lights.

It´s today!

February 17th, 2007

My first day on the Finding water project, based on the book by Julia Cameron.

It´s my 40th birthday party today, so good food and company can be checked on my list. But good sleep, that´s a whole another matter, lol.

BTW girls, thanks for all the birthday wishes!

Birthday pics from phone

I´m 40 today!

Got some cool presents, many phone calls, loads of cyber greetings and the best part: lunch with my friends.

I had never had a birthday gathering just with girl friends. Pictures will follow as soon as I can figure out how to upload them from my pretty little new phone (Sony Ericsson W300i) to my ...


ready?


This was the surprise present from dh.


NEW LAPTOP!!! :D

It´s a Sony Vaio, black with bronze borders that I called Virginia. First for the Virginia Slims ad (you´ve come a long way baby ;) ) and Virginia Woolf. Instead of "A room of her own" I have "A laptop of her own" but it is the same concept. :)

On the other hand, if my phone has Bluetooth, it should be called Bloo in honour of Blooregard Q Kazoo. Ever watched the Foster Mansion from Imaginary Friends?. Maybe the laptop should be Madame Foster.

That´s it: Bloo and Madame Virginia Foster. :)

Happy 40 year old bunny.

Train, underground, taxi & bus

We rode them all yesterday!

Took the TBA train from Villa Ballester to Retiro and there the line C underground to Pellegrini and changed to line B till Uruguay.

After a quick visit to the library we took a taxi to pick some documents for dh up and then the line 152 bus to my mom´s place.

It was a great adventure for the kids. :D

Ready to hit the ground running

At least, it feels that way. :D Four pages in 24 hours. Cool, hu?

I´m back to my scraplift or tuck things in corners style (except for the first one, but I was having a redhead moment then,lol! ;) ).

Here´s my take on Sketch #11 from Pencil Lines

I have a lot of catching up to do as they are on number 18 by now! That will
teach me not to stop scrapping for two months. :)

All KI papers and embellies. Chatterbox alpha.

I wanna be a redhead

and my family won´t let me!

Dd started sobbing and said she would "ink" her hair too. And I know she is very literal. :D

Ds said "I don´t want to have a red head mother".

Dh looked at me as if trying to see if I was joking or not before expressing an opinion. "Maybe some highlights" he suggested.

I know I could be a redhead this afternoon but I don´t want to come back home to wrinkled noses and a dd with ink on her hair. So I made a layout instead.

Have you ever changed your look radically?

Storm

1week till I´m 40

You Are Noon

You are upbeat, ambitious, and never at loss for energy.You have a lot that drives you in life. The desire to be the best, and a secret hope of fame and power.And while you definitely have a Type A personality, you are still fun to be around.You have a ton of charisma and a genuine interest in others. You are adored by many.

What Time Of Day Are You?

Ok, this is it. My last quizz of the "40 weeks till I´m 40" series.

Some were on spot, some have bits and pieces (e.g: never at loss for energy? No, not me), only one was waaaaaaaaay off.

Maybe you got to know me a bit better, maybe you agreed or not with the results, maybe you tried them yourself.

My last week till I´m 40.

Time to run like a headless chicken while I think of all the "Things to do before you are 40" lists. :D

Finding water

Some time ago Ali Edwards mentioned this book by Julie Cameron. Has anybody read it? It´s about creativity. Any opinions on it?

There is a new book by her called "Finding water" on starting new projects and keep going. :)

Being a week away from the big 4 - 0 the "start new things" has been on my mind a lot! :lol:

A couple of girls have set the Finding water blog as a project to follow that book starting on Feb 17th.

I followed Leah´s blog with the ART EVERYDAY MONTH project back in November. She is a fab young artist. Her paintings are elegant, creative and very much my style.

I hope I can follow this project, even if I don´t actually have the book. :)

Play

Picture taken a few minutes ago.

There is a whole city on the floor.

It is called Sertora and is the Capital City of the planet Eraklion. It has it´s own flag and I can show you a map of the planet if you wish.

Many, many stories take place in Eraklion and it´s colony Pokner.

Ds is the Master of Eraklion and dd of Pokner.

I got myself the title of "Empress of This Universe and Subsidiaries" ;) My mom did not raise a fool. :D

Four years ago

We said Farewell.
Design by Clare Brown for a UKS crop.

Tagged by K3

Thanks sweetie! :)

I need to find 6 weird things about me.

Let´s start with one:

For the past eight years we always have pizza for dinner on Thursdays.
As a matter of fact it was originally on Wednesdays. Ds was three years old and I was already expecting dd. I attended a course on medieval monasteries (Hey, I found weird thing #2! ;) ) and dh picked me up after that. We had to pick ds up from my mil´s and by then was too tired to cook. That´s how our Pizza nights started. Not weird really, the weird part is that I finished that course seven years ago and we still have pizza!

Tonight´s pizzas. :)

2 weeks till I´m 40

You Communicate With Your Ears

You love conversations, both as a listener and a talker.What people say is important to you, and you're often most affected by words, not actions.You love to hear compliments from others. And when you're upset, you often talk to yourself.Music is very important to you. It's difficult to find you without your iPod.

How Do You Communicate?

I´m back!

Just back from a month in the Patagonia. Loads of penguin pics to follow. Now don´t you all go waving your arms in the air and running away! :D

I updated my "so many weeks till me birthday" quizzes. Have fun trying them out. :)

3 weeks till I´m 40

You Are The Star

You represent the ultimate in truth and purity.Insightful and illuminating, you provide guidance for others.You also demonstrate unselfish, unconditional love.You posses many spiritual gifts, including the ability to heal. Your fortune: Your future is looking brighter by the day.The near future will be a time of both hope and healing.Luck is about to come your way, perhaps the best luck you have ever seen.Life is about to get a lot easier and much better!

What Tarot Card Are You?

4 weeks till I´m 40

Your Hair Should Be Blue

Wild, brilliant, and out of control.You're a risk taker with an eye to the future.

What's" Your Funky Inner Hair Color?

Something is VERY wrong with this. Me? A risk taker? No way!

5 weeks till I´m 40

You Are 68% Lady

Overall, you are a refined lady with excellent manners.But you also know when to relax and not get too serious about etiquette

Are You A Lady?

6 weeks till I´m 40

You Are 60% Psychic

You are pretty psychic.While you aren't Miss Cleo, you've got a little ESP going on.And although you're sometimes off on your predictions...You're more often right than wrongSo go with your instincts - you know more than you think

Are You Psychic?

With these magic words I begin my spell

Happy 2007

Merry Christmas!

The table for 18. Everybody brought something to share and as usual the was toooooo much yummy food. Delicious.
Santa came at midnight and brought all that mountain of presents. The were piled up high and you had to be here to believe it.
Daniel, me, Matias and Tatiana.

Please remind me not to stand diagonally to the camerra ever again! ;)

7 weeks till I´m 40

Your Dominant Thinking Style: Visioning

You are very insightful and tend to make decisions based on your insights.You focus on how things should be - even if you haven't worked out the details. An idealist, thinking of the future helps you guide your path.You tend to give others long-term direction and momentum.

What's" Your Thinking Style?

I´m a Speshal girl!

This week I´m the guest designer for the Speshal Dares Blog.

It´s number 10 in the UK BLogs List and I´m thrilled to bits to have been invited. :D

I fiddled with papers for weeks and finally sent this page. It is my title page for Christmas 2005. My theme was Lists, so I created a list of the things I record every year: the decorations, the tree, the letters to Santa, the presents and the cards we get.

A little secret about those two red ribbons that everybody liked so much: they are there to cover the black cable that goes from the tree to the socket by the chimney, about shoulder level. Lol!

All the papers are this year Doodlebug Christmas collection. I also used the same collection stickers, chipboard stickers and ribbon.

Merry Christmas 2006!

A two day party for 18 persons and 3 dogs

I´m so glad we decided to ensemble the long table inside as it is raining right now. It has screws and bolts and we wouldn´t have been able to move it afterwards. It´s the first time we are ready 24 hours before the event. And we kept working as we are also getting ready to leave on Boxing Day (December 26th) for our summer holidays.

Guess what I was doing at 11pm today? Baking almond cookies! Lol!

More Yummyness

The girls at work. :)

Sabine, the other girls mother, brought pretty stuff for decorating. We had pretty cookies. Yes, I´m sure you noticed the past tense. :D

8 weeks till I´m 40

You Are 2: The Helper

You always put on a happy face and try to help those around you. You're incredibly empathetic and care about everyone you know. Able to see the good in others, you're thoughtful, warm, and sincere. You connect with people who are charming and charismatic.

What Number Are You?

What number are you?

Peter Pan

Nicolás, my cousin Alexandra´s son played Peter Pan at the Kindergarten end of the year play. Each class danced a song for the boys, one for the girls and then a third one together. The two year olds were Peter Pan and Tinker Bell.

Our Peter Pan is the one on the left following his teachers instructions with such a concentrated look. Third from the right in the group pic.

Bringing Tango Thursdays back

Click here for today´s selection

If in fact you are listening to them today, try Jueves (Thursday) . A lovely instrumental piece.

Delicious yummyness

Tatiana invited Sol home today for a baking afternoon. :)

We made cinnamon cookies and walnuts ones. While they waited for the cinnamon dough to rest in the fridge they played and I prepared the walnut dough. After that we all worked on the "Nussringen" and put them in the oven. Just in time for the cinnamon to be ready to be cut with the cute shapes.

A visit to Santa

At 10am as soon

as the Unicenter shopping mall doors opened we were skipping and hopping along the corridors towards Santa´s Grotto. It is placed at a different spot this year, so many were wandering around to find it while we made a bee line.

Mati has a "ok, one more year I endure this staff" look and Tati has her "picture smile".

P.S: Missy I thought of you when I chose dd´s dress for today. I know you love the sleeveless Christmas pictures. :D

9 weeks till I´m 40

How´s your karma?

You Have Good Karma

In general, you like to do the right thing when it comes to others.Your caring personality really shines through.Sure, you have your moments of weakness - and occasionally act out.But, all in all, you're karma is good... even with those few dark spots.

How's" Your Karma?

The tunic

This is how dd´s tunic looked on stage. *fits of giggles*

Decorations are up

Summer Holidays

Wooooo Hoooo !!! Classes are over!

Both kids got brilliant report cards. The final play was nice (pics later :D ).

No more homework till March 1st 2007. *Big grin*

10 weeks till I´m 40

You Are Balanced - Believer - Empowered

You feel your life is controlled both externally and internally.You have a good sense of what you can control and what you should let go.Depending on the situation, you sometimes try to exert more control.Other times, you accept things for what they are and go with the flow. You are a true believer in luck, fate, and karma.You believe that life is a game of chance - not a game of skill.You either consider yourself very unlucky or very lucky.No matter what, you don't feel like you can change the hand you were dealt. You have a good deal of power, but you also know the pecking order.You realize that working the system does get you further.You know who to defer to and who to control.When it comes to the game of life, you play things flawlessly.

The Three Dimension Luck and Power Test

UKS Harry Potter crop

Class 1: Notions & Potions by Nat Adapted the big pic with two ordinary size ones. With the digi I am doing more of the big sized ones as I have to pick and choose what I want to print. Before that I used the 6x4 that I got directly from the developing envelope. Stamping on transparency. Fun note: I got a comment complimenting me on the wonky title, I will confess it´s just a mistake as words in Spanish are so %)696##/%# long. ;)

Class 2: Magical by Lynz. The glitter sneeze is supposed to be the magic wand wooooosh! I really liked this class. It was the level of difficulty I was looking for.

Class 3: Spellbound smiles by Tracie. The class was with a Lippy CHick Book. As I didn´t have one I created a smaller version out of a 12x12 white cardstock. I loooooooooove it! I´ve been toying with the idea of sending it as a Christmas card for a scrapbooking friend but I don´t dare yet.

Music

Sorry I´ve been mia these past days. I should have just got a tent and camped at school!

Monday: open class for dd. We had to go and work with the kids for a couple of hours.

Wednesday: usually I´m out from 9.15 am to 5.15 pm. That day I had to leave at 8.15am for parents & teachers meeting for ds plus open class. The kids have tables for four and each parent had to be at their kids table and work with them. Whew! And at 5 I discovered I had forgotten my home´s keys, I had to go all the way back to San Isidro to fetch dh´s. Add another couple of hours.

Thursaday: 9 am to 10.30 am First cycle (years 1 to 3) music exhibition. Dd was a doll at a toy shop for her expression workshop and then was in the "musical gloves" number with Year 1 (very funny that one). 11 am to 1 pm Second cycle (Year 4 to 6) That was ds with his flute and the sikuris (traditional native Southamerican instrument). My mom came to see them so she stayed for lunch and then all afternoon.