A home for the jewels / Una casa para las joyas

Saved from her 'rubbish-life', I gave her today a new meaning...
She will embrace all my new jewels I am creating now
♥
Salvado de una vida como 'basura', le he dado hoy dia un nuevo destino...
Ella va a cuidar mis nuevas joyas que estoy haciendo

'La Joyeria del gato' / 'The jewels of the cat' ...

Although weekends are times to visit friends or family, I couldn't resist to use my spare home-time to paint more earrings and beads...Finally bought good 'porcelain' paint and baking the polymer clay twice doesn't seem to bring troubles. I'm happy with these ones, it's a beginning of something new for me, but I feel that it touch me and I can find a big pleasure in it while creating them. Tell me how you like them ...
♥
Aunque el fin de semana es un tiempo para visitar amigos o familiares, yo he usado cualquier minuto para pintar mas arretes y piedritas...He comprado una pintura especial que tengo que hornear también al igual que la arcilla que uso, y no puedo esperar para experimentar y buscar la mejor forma de trabajar con estos materiales. Estoy feliz con con el resultado pero esto es sólo el inicio de una experiencia nueva para mí. Me da una satisfacción muy grande y me encanta crear estas joyas. Cuéntame cómo te gustan ...

Trials

The first trials...time to buy new acrylics and start seriously...

It feels very nice to work again with polymer clay and doing it just in another way so many years later. It tastes very very good and better results I will have soon!

Materials : 2 self-made pendants on a page of the book ' Orbis Terrarium'

Working on...jewellery / Hacer joyeria

As I did in my teenagers-days, making jewellery of polymer clay (Fimo) but this time I dream of something ...more. These are ready to bake and then the painting can begin.

How wonderful is life if you can find the time to do that things you dreamed of since decades!
My time has come!

Hacer joyeria como cuando estaba niña, de polymer clay o Fimo. Pero esta vez quiero crear mi propia colección . Ahora estos estan listos para hornear y luego pintar.

Que linda es la vida si encuentras tiempo para lo que has soñado hacer.
El momento ha llegado!

Materials : Polymer clay (Fimo) & metal pendants.

Strong / Fuerte

A drawing for my story that has to become a book...'one day'. Just have to find the right publisher!

It's all going about an old woman called Blackbirdie and she lives her whole life in the shadow without any sparkle of sunlight. One day a couple of jackdaws will change her life forever...

Materials : Acrylics on paper and pencils

My first / Mi primer : Bonsai

Never had a bonsai-tree but finally here is growing one. He is already tree years old, let's see how many more years I can enjoy him.

Materials : Watercolour/ Aquarel, collage, white ink

Feelings in color / Sentimientos en color

Materials : Pencils, watercolour and scrapbook paper

Hungry or other feelings? / Hambre u otros sentimientos?

Orchid with love / Orquidea con amor

Material : Scrapbook paper, aquarel and pencil

Magnify / Augmentar

If plants could speak to us.
Someday, she will become a huge eucalyptus tree but for now she is stucked still in a baby-plant.
Material : Aquarel, pencils and 1 Eucalyptus leave

1st of September, a new start / un nuevo empiezo

I'm BACK...from Peru, back into my Belgian rythm...after exactly one week today. The first schoolday for millions of childrens here.
It took me some days to fight back on a huge jetlag...still he is playing with my body and mind but it seems to become all normal again. My blog suffered a little bit as I couldn't post my last days in Peru and the first days here again.
Let this drawing be a new start after a huge vacation that I needed very urgently!
It feels very good to start with a new spirit. I'm curious for all the other bloggers...how you are doiing. I visit your place very soon and I hope to meet you here again very soon!
x kathy

Crazy sky / Cielo loco

Homesickness / Nostalgia

HOME IN BELGIUM

My gifts for my Peruvian parents / Mis regalos para mis papas peruanos

In the beginning of our vacation here in Perú I made these two watercolours. Each one especially for my parents-in-law Soledad and Pedro...today they choosed a border for it to frame them and so they will live forever here embraced with the love of my Peruvian parents.

Beans and Quinua

Inspired on the earrings of the 'Señor de Sipan'...worked out in all natural materials from Quinua untill red-coloured rocks

2 years!!!

This delicious cake was baked by the mother of my husband and painted with sugar and flowers by his sister. All for our two years of wedding on this beautiful day!!!

GRACIAS CHIO y MAMA SOLE!

My second love!

Mariposita

An extraordinary butterfly near the river in the cordillera negra

Chirimoya

After some more then 2 weeks we are totally back 'home' with a lot of new knowledge and adventure that passed us on that little journey. Here you see a reflection in waterclour of a Peruvian fruit. I hope to find time to draw some more impressions these days of those days :) although, we have only one week left to enjoy our Perú, and I really don´t want to waste my time these days by working on the pc :)...Once back in Belgium there will be time enough again to refill my blog 'every day'. I'm so sorry, but I´m still in vacation, hihihi...
Hope to hear you all again...
x Kathy

To the north!

I will come back in more than one week with drawings and pictures, we are heading to the north of Peru to discover a new piece of this magnificent country.
Soon my impressions.
x Kathy!

Artesania

I bought this bag made from natural-coloured wool and I am so happy with it!

Pisco Sour

Felices Fiestas Perú!

Sellos / Stamps

La Ñusta de Caraz

Every year the village of Caraz has his election of is own 'Miss'. It's more than that. The girl that will be elected as the Ñusta of the whole valley represents a whole tradition and history. With a big ceremony just like it went some 1000 years ago she got all the traditional clothes and things to wear. She is like the witness of history, art and tradition of the valley for one year.

Elk jaar wordt er een nieuwe soort 'Miss' verkozen hier in Caraz. Ze is meer dan dat. Ze is het gezicht van de hele vallei en representeert een eeuwenoude traditie en geschiedenis. Via een traditionele ceremonie wordt ze aangekleed en uitgedost met alle nodige attributen. Voor één jaar lang is zij het boegbeeld van Caraz. De Ñusta.

Perro Yungaino

Maiz morado

I dedicate this drawing to another very good friend : Sofie. She asked me to bring some packages of 'Mazamorra morada' with me. The origin of this more than delicious dessert is black corn or ' maiz morado'. The peruvians make a drink of it by boyling the corn and filter the juice of that and mix it with sugar, what is called 'chicha morada'. If you add some fruits and make the juice a little bit thicker then we call it 'mazamorra morada'. Or just by this bag above ;) and ready it is.

Deze tekening draag ik op aan een andere goede vriendin : Sofie. Ze vroeg me een paar zakjes 'mazamorra morada' voor haar mee te brengen. De basis van dit heerlijke dessert is zwarte of paarse maïs. Hier maken ze er een drank van door de mais te koken en het sap daarvan te filteren en zoeter te maken met suiker. Dat noemen we 'Chicha morada'. Als je dit sapje aandikt met maizena en een beetje ananas of ander lekkers ingooit bekom je 'mazamorra morada'. Of nog makkelijker, gewoon een zakje kopen hier of bestellen bij mij ;), 't komt eraan he sofietje!

Mi chinita Claudita

Since I know my husband I know this sweet girl Claudia. She is our niece and is so happy to see us back after a lot of time. Meanwhile I was drawing this one inspired on her she made her own drawing with my pencils and dedicated it to her father who lives in another city. Her heart must be made of gold ...we call her often Chinita, because she has those sweet thinny chinese eyes...that are ready to discover this world.

Toen ik mijn man leerde kennen, ontmoette ik tegelijkertijd dat kleine lieve meisje Claudia. Ze is ons nichtje en is nu zo gelukkig ons terug te zien na al die tijd. Terwijl ik dit tekende geïnspireerd op haar, maakte zij haar eigen tekening met mijn materiaal en droeg het op aan haar papa die een eind verderweg woont in een ander stadje. Ik geloof dat ze een gouden hartje moet hebben...we noemen haar vaak Chinita, omwille van haar kleine spleetoogjes...die blijkbaar helemaal klaar zijn om deze wereld te gaan ontdekken.

Orange-mondaysmile

Out of the window

My everyday view out of our window in the sleeping room. The cordillera negra in front of us and beneath the window a little wooden heart that Leen, a close friend, gave me before setting of to Peru,...for all the luck on this journey. It's doing his job very well !

Mijn dagelijkse kijk vanuit onze slaapkamer. Recht voor ons de cordillegra negra en beneden op de vensterbank ligt een klein houten hartje dat Leen, een goede vriendin, me gaf voor ons vertrek naar Peru, ...voor al het geluk tijdens deze reis. En blijkbaar doet het zijn werk heel goed!

Chavin de Húantar

I LOVE paneton

La Cholita

Brussels waffles in Peru!

In 2007 I brought an old waffle maker with me to Peru to prepare these delicious sweeties for our family here. Today I tried the brussels waffle, very crusty when fresh baken and more delicious with some sugar on top...and if they liked it?
In 2007 bracht ik mijn wafelijzer mee naar Peru om deze heerlijke lekkernij klaar te maken voor onze familie hier. Vandaag probeerde ik de brusselse wafel, lekker krokant, versgebakken en nog lekkerder met wat poedersuiker erop...en of ze het lekker vonden?

Laguna 69

A turquoise glacier lake among snow capped peaks in the high Andes. Laguna 69 : my most favourit lake!

Andean colors

La pileta de Caraz

Spotted on the Plaza de Armas of Caraz, 'La pileta' with the huge Huandoy in the back.

Out of the window

A view to the south of Caraz, with the moutains of the Cordillera Negra, the 'black' moutains because there is hardly never snowfall on the peaks in big contrast with their neighbours on the other side of the valley : the highest snowed peaks of Peru.

La huerta / The backyard

Pataclan

Finally finished. A watercolour I started last week for my Peruvian father. Painted from an old photograph telling about long time ago ...when he was used to drive his horse Pataclan.

Feliz Cumpleaños!!!

Claudia and Milene, my peruvian nieces helped me decorating the cake for the birthday of my sister-in-law, Rocio. It's just so much fun to do and those colors are so brilliant...and the cake was delicious!!!

Print arrived in Italy

My dear blog-friend Snezana received my print this week I sended her before leaving to Peru.
She is a serbian artist/fashion-designer living in Italy.
We made a deal as I really like her drawings and so I received the drawing 'Impossibility' from her in change for my 'Viva Mama'.
It was the first drawing of my blog that crossed the borders of his homeland.
That gave me just a greet feeling, also because it is received with a lot of love.

Hoping this will happen more in the near future :)

Cántarito

This little 'cántarito' in watercolour I filled up with some Bougainvillea that you can find wherever here in Caraz, our small city in the Andes.

Cause I don't have any scanner overhere I'm trying to make some nice pictures of my drawings with typical things from here to frame my drawing. Hope you like it...

Our children

A mural somewhere in the valley...

Mis flores

The flowers that I had in our room in Huaraz-Perú in 2007 are still alive! With many thanks to my peruvian family who treated these ones like angels. Therefore I painted this watercolour as a gift to my peruvian mother-in-law

Huandoy