nesting

oh what a start in the day! this morning i went outside to enjoy my first cup of coffee, to water the plants and to be heavily shocked! i almost stepped on some little half naked bird baby, soon to be grilled by the burning sun. i called for j, who jumped out of bed, very alarmed (guess i had my"eek big spider"-voice) and still sleepy, but he saved the little fellow and put him back in the nest, where we found three other hungry guys waiting for worms. the poor bird parents, they freaked out! they look quiet anorexic, while the babies grow fat and fatter. no wonder one dropped out of the nest! but mombird and dadbird calmed down then and went back to the nest feeding. phew! i hope i pray they'll make it! it's the second nest in the garden, the first babies, born and raised in the elder tree, are teenagers already and steal all my strawberries! let's all hope they will have a happy and worm rich bird life ..

they can have all my strawberries.....


...and dip their toes in the minipond. i hope they can swim. no drowning please!

work sleep work

it's been quiet a while since my last post - and phhhew, i wonder where i should start now, so much stuff going on !! my shops keep me busy, i'm producing like hell and creating new and more new things everyday. today i can feel it in my bones and i am soo tired. i don't know weekends anymore...

here are some 'old news' from the studio:


thats a new couple of hey bunnies collages! i loooove the gray tones combined with the coral pink. i call them 'raindrops/waiting for'. will list them on etsy later on...


a new style of small moleskines! i have used beautiful japanese papertape on these, comes out really nice! already listed on dawanda.



to make life even more complete, the sun was shining bright the last few weeks, so i spent some time in the garden, planting, watering, seeding, i love it! and the garden is superbeautiful, a real pleasure to wake up every morning and go outside for a cup of coffee between the blossoms and birds.
no need for umbrellas. they are patiently waiting for in rain in front of the door.

the house was already pink and blue when we came there. i can't imagine it any different now. through the little window you can see the lilac tree hugging the elder tree. they are guarding our little house from bad spritis ;)

so far so good. now i'm off to the studio again, working on a big multi-layered linocut print, a comission work for a calendar. my hands and shoulder are already wrecked and hurt, but i enjoy the challenge and I can't wait to see my first test print results! but patience first- and lots of work.

in my garden

i wish it would be so warm outside, that i can sit underneath the lilac tree, listen to the bird songs and watch them bees nipping on pink plum blossoms... sigh

SUN OR SNOW

ahhh, dou you see this? it looks nice, right? its the view from my desk into my little garden .what you don't see are the little icy crystals called snowflakes flying through the air from time to time. they give me a bad headache! no inspiration at all.... maybe i should fill the little birdhouses with seeds and just watch them go picky picky..