September!

September is my favorite month of the year for various reasons:

1) It's my birthday on the 15th :)

2) It's Mexico & Chile's birthday month.

3) The cosmos flowers are blooming.

4) My favorite season begins: Autumn!

 Hope this September is a great one for all of you sweet friends.

Time to change your desktop calendar :)

Click on the small image below to make it larger and download from there. Enjoy!
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Radio Silence

Market Run

I love Wednesdays because I get to go with Manolo to my local market to buy beautiful fresh produce and freshly made blue corn tortillas. The market is a wonderful source of inspiration: the colors, smells, textures and the smiling faces of my usual vendors :)

Whittle Birdie

As my sweet friend Sonia told me at Instagram: "It was inevitable" :)

Hand carved & wood burned mahogany birdie. 

1) Carved with this knife. 

2) Sanded progressively with coarse, medium and fine grit sandpaper.

4) Wood burned with my pyrography pen

5) Finished with this wood salve.

Obsession

This new hobby of mine has become a full on obsession.

I've made a second spoon, a butter knife and a pebble brooch.

 I want to be holding my carving knife and a piece of scrap wood all day :)

My First Spoon

Ever since I saw the beautiful spoon Arounna made for her daughter Piper I've been dying to try my hand at it. She's carved more since then and even made a few Instagram videos.

I already loved wood carving and spoon carving was every bit of fun that I imagined. Very meditative & relaxing. 

This one is made of cedar wood and I finished it with a salve made of oil and wax.

The beautiful eggs were a hand made gift from Margie.

Journaling the Days

 I was leafing through my old journals yesterday wondering why and when I stopped doing it. I will start keeping my days again next week. This is my favorite brand of blank journals in case you were wondering :) I own several in different colors and formats. The weight of the paper is really good for watercolor & collage.