Like Wine

There really is a time for everything. If I think of all the things I´ve been through the last couple of years; I´ve played, took risks, I struggeled, fought monsters (both real and imaginative ones) I flourished, I was frustrated, I was happy, I dreamed, I created and I cried. I am starting to see that it was and is all part of my unique journey. Al those times together helped me mature my vision on life like a good wine.

(1. detail of the painting I am working on currently 2. treasures from the marketplace)

Visual Organizing

I love it when I get my left side of the brain and my right sight of the brain working together :)

1. Wedding Photography Notes
2. Designing the decoration of my sisters wedding
3. Sketch I made 2 years ago, thanks to my improving time management skills, I finally got to the painting stage.

Evening

 

A bittersweet symphony is the best way to describe it, but the bitter makes the sweet so much more sweeter: enjoying the autumn evenings of long meals, good talks and painting.

More than Words

 

Some words from my creative journal that keep me focused

For lunch

I´ll miss those simple summer lunches

this summer was hot, beautiful and hard (*

one thing I will take with me into the next season

is the beauty of simplicity,

I think summertime was designed to remind us of that

 

*) my fathers started undergoing chemo therapy, intense times..

 

The Way Back

 

One of the things that intrege me the most is how we can stay in a place where we can hear that small soft Voice above all the other voices, screaming for our attention. Lately I have been very practical about turning the volume of those voices down by providing myself a surrounding of peace. I am not a minimalist but I´m starting to see how true ´Less is more´ really is. How owning to much stuff distracts me, keeps me occupied and steals my focus and above all my time.

Ever since the beginning of this year I´ve been getting rid of 50 items a week, wich is working for me very well. It helps me getting things done without being overwhelmed... and wow I´m starting to see results!

My goal is not owning next to nothing, but I do strive for simplicity.  It is a journey that requires a lot of patience, but small consistent steps is the way to go here. In the meantime these keep me inspired
about living a simple life in a tiny house/, videos about simplicity and minimalism, this amazing blog 

Spring Nights

 

Long and light spring nights turn my kitchen into a gallery  (a different context helps seeing it with different eyes). It´s been pure joy and pure frustration at the same time to paint again. But: some things work, some things don´t. I´m learning to accept that the things that don´t are just as an important part of the process as the things that do.