Cards, cards on the way!

I started my week at 6.30 am with a hell of a schedule, so before I continue going through with it, I wanted to show you 3 cards I made last week! I added the glitter effect of the branches on the card and I love how it came out. It’s very simple, but I…

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Notes from the sketchbook: Part 2

Here is my second favorite sketchbook- a Barnes and Noble 8.5×5.5 sketchbook with white acid free paper! Yeah, by the look at the water stain on top you can’t say I’m not using it 😉 So, here we go! Study of hand movement Hand movement again( as you can see I didn’t get to finish…

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Notes from the sketchbook: Part 1

I was thinking about what I said the other day, how I won’t show you the sketches I am working on. I thought it would be boring for people to see, but I got 5 e-mails where people were asking me to actually show them what’s in my sketchbook. So, I thought about it and…

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“Outside the Matrix”

This is the title I chose for the last pyrographed piece I made. Well, among other things, I was watching the Matrix 1, 2 and 3 while I was making it. :-))) It seemed different from the others I thought that it would be a good title, because it doesn’t “fit” with the other pieces…

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Sunday lunch: Roasted leg of lamb

What is a better way to spend a rainy afternoon at home, than with your family?What is a better way to have your family over than to have a nice lunch?And what is a better way to have a family lunch than to serve warm comfort food made with lot of love? Roasted leg of…

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Great!

So, here is what happened. Typical Wednesday, waiting for my son to come back from school. My phone rings. The neighbor ( an elderly lady) wants to remind me to trim the bushes on the side of the house. Great.  I was 100% sure we cut those bushes last Fall.It turns out my husband thought…

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Food for the soul is not enough! – Magic Meatball Soup!

As I mentioned yesterday in my post ” Food for the soul or food for the mouth“, I prefer food for the soul, but that unfortunately is not enough, so here is a nice, warm “feel good” recipe for a meatball soup that I call “magic”!Why magic? Because according to my kids, once you eat…

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Food for the soul or food for the mouth?

– “Food in the Art and Craft section?! She must be going mad!” No, my dears, I simply had a dilemma what to post first, because I have tons of pictures and stuff that needs to be uploaded and I ….well I don’t have the time to do it, honestly. Sometimes I dream of an…

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Some cards and some good news!

You know how regularly I post on my blog so you are probably wondering what happened the last week! Well, a couple of things happened actually! First of all I am working really hard on my anatomy sketches, I am learning things about drawing and painting, reading a lot of  art books, but I wasn’t…

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Do you eat with your eyes or your mouth first?

I love good food, what I love more is to see it well presented in the plate!I can be compelled to try a recipe just by the look of the food! I respect very much people who can arrange beautifully the food in the plate, I respect even more the people who can take a…

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