Eddy & Edwina

facades

Collecting green on facades in Pforzheim.

Thank you all for your sweet birthday wishes!! Enjoyed reading them.

Vibeke Tandberg and Thomas Wrede, both photography

39

It's my birthday today.
When I think about being 39, so close to 40, I remember turning 29.
Did get a real little 30-crisis.
Well, nothing like that happened this time so far :)
But I still have the same feeling like ten years ago: there are lots of
things I want to do and so less of them I really did till now.
So many ideas and always so little bit of time.
Am I impatient? Yes, perhaps.
But to be true, it happens a lot in my life and I love it.
It's an exciting and wonderful time. So, let's go on!

coffee

Want to wish you a relaxing weekend with time for enjoying coffee.

Here are two weekend links for you, an absolutely funny video via here
and oh so beautiful jewellery.

out of the office

I'm guestblogging today over at Kristi's blog.
About our power lines project.
Please visit me there.

winter-sun and aquarium

A blurry rose hip and a hiding winter-sun.
Photos from yesterday. Today's sky was grey and cloudy most of the
time.

Inspired by this I made a ball-pen drawing of a woman visiting an
aquarium.

Moleskine-pleasure: Hollis Brown Thornton and Irina Troitskaya.

Familie Foef

YA-LYNN

Today I want to introduce somebody to you I met
through flickr and who's art I find very interesting.
Want to share it with you.

Her name is YA-LYNN, she's from Taiwan and
studied Visual Communication Design.

Show you a few examples of her works
and she'll tell you a bit about it.

"I like to create happy and interesting atmosphere
in my works and especially prefer Japanese
design style and hand drawing approach.

Also, I love natural subject matters, such as plants
and animals since there are too
many images made by computer nowadays."

                                     

"There is no specific artists or designers I prefer.
Usually, I just pay more attention on some special
works or pictures rather than the designers."

"Also, I change my favorite style with time casually.
I think drawing is the reflection of
one artist. There is no bordering and specific rules.
Both of drawing and photography
are kinds of records. Do whatever you want."

 

bag tag and a parcel

Was tagged by Ashley, to show what's in my bag. Well, won't believe
it, but when I'm on the run without kids I usually have a very small bag
with exactly two things in it: my keys and my money and that's it.
Very minimalistic :)

And following Ashley I'm going to make my own tag and want to ask
a question: "Do you have any long-time wishes or heart-projects?"
Mine is making a children's book.
I'd love to know this from (quite many people :) Heather, fliss, j,
Hanna, Kristi, Natascha, Dessa, Liivia and Line. You're tagged!!

Another wonderful parcel was in my letterbox today, this time from
Dessa. The "heartbroken wolf man and his lucky tree". I so love what
she writes about them: "They're made for the purpose of inventing
stories, so please use them carefully." I will, they are great!

at the station

Taking some pictures at the station today. Wires of course...
Wonderul clear winter sky and a sun that made dramatic shadows.
After that we went for a very refreshing walk :)

Two blogs from young illustrators: kiddet and faces in the clouds.
Made me smile:
"Where are they now?"-gallery of Debi's knitted beasts.

in the mail

Got two wonderful things today: The book from Maira Kalman,
"The Principles of Uncertainty", for a while on my wishlist now. Guess
you know it, cause many bloggers posted about this jewel :)
And joyful letterpress postcards arrived from Heather. Thank you, they
are amazing!

"The first day nothing special happened"
New moleskine drawing and collage.
Looking at the two photos of today's post I notice they have both a
similar beige/brown colour, well, a nice colour anyway....

Two lovely posts about my work make me so happy!
One on happy cavalier about the jewellery and one on the beautiful
new blog bloesem kids about the prints and the kids stuff. Happy me!!

Hedwig

That's Hedwig. Agnes calls her "Wiwi".She came to us a few weeks
ago. Didn't tell you, cause we were not sure if the real owner would
contact us. Nothing happened, no cat like her was posted as missing,
so I think we've got a new pet now :)
I'm curious how she gets along with the goldfish. They are still caught
under the ice, but when it melts, fishing season starts!

Photos, that I enjoyed a lot recently:
Ashley's early mornings,
this room,
cocaine lights,
and these old ladies.