EASTER BUNNY...

Draw this one today, after we had an egg hunt... It was hilarious....
I found 3 eggs just because I'm a clean person... Let me explain... I'm living in a house of lots of people and I'm normally the first one to get up and do the cloths.... So when I went to the Laundry Room there was an egg in the washing machine, one in the drier and another in a drawer (that nobody touches but it was a bit open and that made me suspictious... )...
It was good fun... Second time I've been in one... Love it...

Here's my Easter Bunny... Made of China Ink and Indian Ink (Pitt Artist Pen)

Hope you had a good Easter day with the one's you guys love...

POT MAKING, YMCA Carlisle

I'm in the process of recovering on of my favorite pieces... That broke down on one of my moves from houses...

The other piece I'm turning into a fruit bowl... and I'm adding other stuff underneath it...

KEEPING PROMISES

I kept my promise :D writing with sketch...

"Late breakfast...Although I woke up early... Breakfast in my room although its forbitten... There are some rules meant to be broken from time to time. 
How peacefull my drawing looks compared to the noises I'm hearing outside. Cars, even an airplain, people talking.
I need stillness today... So I look at my drawing.
I can smell the odor of coffee, true coffee on its making... from coffee beans... What a glorious smell....
My mouth is full of this taste, taste of my vice. It warms me up, this coffe makes me feel at home.
It's called Delta, it's from Portugal. Still feel the taste of a golden toast with strawberry jam.... Delicious. You can see a bit left on my plate, on my drawing.
Where did the sun go.... It was a beautiful morning, the sunshine was so strong that I didn't put my T-shirt on me....
I see the shadows shifting has the day grows gray every minute that passes.... I look at my drawing it's still warm... I look at the drawing and realize I have a book to read "Words for Wellbeing"...

Yesterday 5 minutes writing...

Yesterday writing... Prescribed by the writer pratictioner Carol ... Every time I feel anger or upset... To write: what i'm smell, seeing, hearing, tasting and feeling... to dooze off the negative feelings....

After Simon piss me off this is what I wrote:

Lipstick.. I smell Candy Apple lipstick that I just put on my lips. Protecting my cracked lips from the cold.
I can hear my husband preparing oatmel with butterscotch syrup. The fork mixing the oatmeal and hitting the bowl. It also remindes me of my mkother baking cakes. It was rare...because of my father.
I can taste this lipstick, my throught is still day from the other day cigarette... What a silly girl I am.
I can't wait to taste the oatmeal with butterscotch syrup...it's so yummy...reconforting....
I feel cold, my body shiveres although the bedroom its quite warm... Hope I'm not getting sick.
I see the notebook under my pen and hand. I see my son next door playing with the computer. I see the beautiful starts on the darkest sky ever seen. Back home the sky was prussian blue but never black has this one. I miss my sky. I see my husband going around the room. I await for him to speak... "What are you writing about?"... "Therapy" I answer him... He starts laughting....
Lipstick... I taste lipstick... I smell oatmell with butterscotch... I taste oatmeal with butterscotch... I feel warm inside....

Words for Wellbeing, YMCA

Every Thursday from 10am to 12pm for the next 11 weeks at YMCA, Carlisle... Please do come... You will surprise yourself...

WORDS FOR WELLBEING, YMCA

Today I went to the first session of "Words for Wellbeing" at YMCA Carlisle. I was blowned away. With the different methods of writings I was able to be more descriptive but less "cold" ... I have to thank Carol Ross, she is really fantastic...She made think of a different approach to my sketches... It really misses the writing description of the senses...
And I've promise myself that I'll do 5 minutes of writing everyday... Just the Way I was taught today...
Mindfull writing... Amazing....

This is one of the best texts of today... I wrote three (three exercises)... I had to choose an image and this is what I feel looking at it and also had to imagine myself at the landscape, present... So here goes nothing:

I feel the sun warming up my skin. Perfect I really miss it. The Wind, wild wind, caricing my body, not letting the sun overheat me. The flowers are beautiful... Everywere the sound of bees, bussy with their recollection of pollen. Green against the powerful sea. Oh..... the smell of sea... How I miss it... the saltness brought by the wind...it charges my being.
I hear the gravel under my feet breaking apart as I move forward. Can't wait to climb the staircases of the lighthouse. It's standing prowdly tall on top of the hill. I wonder what kind of landscape waits me when I reach the lighthouse. Is it a Cliff? A shore..... I hear the waves hitting the rocks... and there it is again the wonderfull smell of the sea.
The sky has some powerfull, floffy white clouds. Hope it doesn't rain...
The seagulls have nests nearby here. I can hear them calling for each others.
I wish I could live here were nature it's perfect, were the man didn't destroyed it. Here she runs wild... Were she's meant to be....

Sorry for any mistakes...
Hope you really like it.


Let's see what else can Carol take from me :D

DJEMBE DRUMMING, CREATIVE WELLBEING, YMCA CARLISLE

I had a lot of fun this past Saturday...
I'm still energized from the sounds of the drumms....
Here's some photos of the drumms...

"My" drumm

Official Blood Donor, Bone Marrow Donor and Organ Donor

Finally done it...
Was already a blood and Bone Marrow donor in Portugal.
My son is also a Organ Donor.. When he received his card, he looked at me and said. Don't need my organs if I'm dead.... Simple, clever and to the point

Give Blood it doesn't hurt. And is great for your self-respect...

www.blood.co.uk

CREATIVE WELBEING, YMCA

Please visit their site and if you are near come along and visit them or us (I'll be there, for sure).

www.creativewellbeingcarlisle.org

Be Happy. Be good to yourself.

Mono-Printing, YMCA, Carlisle

Another well past Saturday... What a brilliant taster session... What a team... Everyone makes you feel really welcome and they mean it...

Mono-Printing given by Pui Lee (great teacher, great personality, really sweet)

My works sucked (well that's life, can't win all)... I had Fun and allowed me to see possibilities for example, to use this technic in the backgrounds of my portraits...

here's the best of them all... Be kind :D

Urban Sketchers Portugal Madeira Sketches January and March

Being really busy like the bees... Here is some works that I've been doing...