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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Break needed

Dear friends and readers I need a break.
I feel worn out and need new strength. I've felt blue and a little depressed lately.
Not even my crafts have lifted my spirits.
I want to take better care of me I want to pamper and treat myself.
I am taking steps to improve my diet, my health in general my state of mind and my spiritual side.
Not that there is anything wrong, but just as preventive measures.
I know is sounds too dramatic, but I also know I will be fine and this break won't take long I am sure of that.
Don't get me wrong I still count my blessings.

Love,

-Claudia

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Featured Artist from a sailor who weaves

Hello readers and friends I hope you are enjoying your Sunday.  Today I bring to you this interview from 'A sailor who weaves' It is indeed a fascinating interview, he is a sailor, multilingual and he weaves.  I am really happy you are here today :)
 
1. Tell us as little or as much as you would like about yourself.
I come from a family of artists in Colombia. My mother has been a weaver all her life. And my father was a painter. He never sold a painting but he was the last renaissance artist. When they worked together, they created the most fascinating woven painting I have ever seen

I am a sailor. For more than 30 years I have been at the sea. During my free time I like to read. And I like to learn. I like to learn many things and I think I am still a kid, because I have not lost my curiosity. The life, I think, is full of things to be learned. And learning is a pleasure.

I also have time to my second and most loved language: Esperanto. This language has enlightened my life in a way difficult to be described. My mother language is Spanish, my second one is Esperanto. I speak English quite bad and this is my third language. But I am a sailor! And after three or four beers I can speak other languages. In fact, we all can!! :)

I also like to write. In Spanish and Esperanto. Very bad, I have to confess it. But if you have time, here is a sample: www.loscuentos.net/cuentos/link/466/466478/

And I like to weave!

2. What do you sell?
I sell woven bracelets. I use an antique technique called “card weaving”.
Tribal Bracelet

3. Why handmade?
Because weaving by hand is like magic. It is relaxing. It brings peace and happiness. Handmade things are not only things. They are things with life. Handmade crafts have a part of the craftsman. The dreams, the sadness, the hopes of one person are in his/her creations. My handmade bracelets can be tiny pieces of fabric more or less well woven. But not for me! For me they are a very important part of my life and they have a lot, a lot of me inside them.

woven bracelet
4. Where does your inspiration to create come from and/or your inspiration in life?
My inspiration comes from the perception I have from beauty. I think that, after all, the life is beautiful. I try to see that beauty in ordinary things. I have to say that the ocean is and endless source of inspiration, but also the normal things in life. Nothing in life is so absolutely bad that it does not have something beautiful.

5 Besides creating what else do you do? Do you have a full time job?

:) I have answered this. I think I am answering this very bad!!! :))

Woven bracelets
6. When did you start thinking you were an artist?
I am not an artist. I am simply a man who thinks the life is beautiful.

7. Who has been most influential in your craft work?

Perhaps my parents. I didn't realize it during many years, but now I feel that their influence has been essential. And there is another "who". The ocean. (sigh)

8. Where would you like to be in five years?
In five years? I don't think about that! If I am still alive tomorrow, that will be a gift and I will be happy. The life is like a butterfly: Beautiful, delicate and ephemera. Five years? Not for me!

9. Is there anything you'd like to try doing that you haven't done?
crafts, sports, life in general?

There are many, many things I would like to try. I know I will die and most of the things I like to do will remain only in my dreams. But meanwhile, I am going to try to get two pure notes in my clarinet. If I achieve that, I am going to try another thing. Perhaps I am going to learn a little more about crochet. After 10 days learning it, I am fascinated with that art.
US Flag Bracelet
10. Besides online where else do you sell?
The web is the only possibility for me. If I would not have Internet, in the middle of the sea I could not sell anything.
 
ways to find you:
*etsy shop*
*facebook*
email  rdtorresa@gmail.com

Thursday, October 3, 2013

October skies Week 1



"Just when the mountain looks too high, the obstacles too great between you and your goals you suddenly see the beautiful blue sky, the very presence of The Great Spirit, which gently reminds you of the limitless possibilities ahead. So, reaching out to absorb that amazing energy, you find the will, the strength to keep climbing, for you know in the end the view will be worth the effort. Even more amazing, you may not even remember the effort later, only the limitless field of possibilities and beauty that now lay before you." - Author Unknown

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

ordinary turns extraordinary

or·di·nar·y

[awr-dn-er-ee]
of no special quality or interest
turns

ex·traor·di·nar·y

[ik-strawr-dn-er-ee, ek-struh-awr-] 

beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established
 Breezy morning are now a blessing.

 A babysitting session.

Xavi dressed up as storm shadow.

 Xavi requested blue eyed monkey cupcakes for his Birthday

 The Birthday boy.

 Oh I just love the clink, clack and ding of my vintage typewriter while typing my etsy business cards.
 

and a visit from Thor...
do you spy Diamond Lola?  by the way she is fine now after a round of antibiotics.

Yes lots of Ninjas and super heroes lately that make ordinary moments turn into extraordinary ones :)

 
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