Look who is back...

¿Did you miss me? maybe. I have been blogging mentally but it looks like none of it has been recorded here...

The past days I have been working on some new pieces, took a short trip and got into a strange emotional state due to the winter.
It is not easy for me to live with only few hours of light specially if those hours reveal a gray sky. It makes me anxious to feel the night falling at 4:30 pm. Melancholy takes hold of me and I have to stop.

There's three months of this, 3, and if there is no snow, if the water crystals don't fill this vacum.... I don't know. If at least I would like to go skiing...

But no more crying. I will show where I was:

Cologne's Cathedral seen from a bridge

It was my friend Gregor's birthday and to celebrate we went to a very surprising exhibition that left us with a spinnig mind for several days and a sensation quite hard to define.

Bridge over the Rhein. New buildings.

On our way to Bonn, we had lunch at the Kameha, in Cologne, where a good friend of Gregor's cooks. Special dishes where prepared for this occasion. The lobster wontons with prune sauce and the progressively hot broth were fantastic.

The Rhein at Bad Honeff

We spent three days at Gregor's parent's house. A 100 years old house from a fairy tale in a pretty town close to the Rhein, full of vineyards and hills.

Drachenfels. The ruins.

There are castles all along this region. Some abandoned, some inhabited.

On the way back to Witten  we stopped in Cologne again to have lunch at the rotiseria Massimo, a small and excellent place. This was the dessert. My hands were shaking with delight...

Did you see how dark the sky is in all the photos? Nevertheless, the region is wonderful,so ancient and mysterious. There is nothing better than to scape and wake up in another time and place. I like to celebrate my friend's birthdays for three or four days.
Tomorrow I will show you what I have been producing and I'll tell you about some questions that have been lurking in my mind.

This is the exhibition we visited: Bodyworlds. And yes, those are real bodies!

Organic Friday

I love Friday mornings because they bring fresh food.

Germany is spoiling me. I just have to choose delicious things, buy them on the web while I drink coffee and wait for Friday when a very nice man arrives on his truck and climbs the stairs of my building with baskets of food. What else can a Dama de casa* ask for?

Ahhh, I know. Could somebody please wash the lettuce because it's the house of some little worms that make me very nervous?

My friend G has volunteered for this job; he finds it very amusing to scare me with the bugs.

* in Spanish ama de casa is housewife but I prefer the term Dama the casa. 

Dama: Dame. I just don't know how to make this game of words in English.

They are here!!

Let's welcome this immaculate bench block with a loud round of applause

And another round of applause to the hammer, so shiny and effective.

What else can I say... they are perfect. I will compulsively take care of them.

New earrings need a name

This earrings are ready. Except that they need a name. I don't know what name to give them.

But I do know that they look very elegant when worn. Simple and luminous. Modern and at the same time pre-Columbian. The soft and lustrous smokey quartz complements the hammered texture of the silver plaque. I want them!!!

What name do you think I could give them?

The Amethysts sprouted

Hola, Happy Monday!

There is a new pair of earrings in my Etsy store. They are called Amethyst Sprouts because I imagined how it would be if the amethysts begin to germinate.

They are very sober and comfortable to wear. I will make them in other colors soon.

A very good Christmas gift, don't you think? And... shipping is free inside Germany and half price to other countries during November.

it's this

Delicious bacterial process.

Please, write a color. The most popular color here and in Lirio y Lili will decide next week's mystery.

Extra challenge for me!!!!

Breathing white

If there wasn't so much to do, I would return to the woods to breath white among the trees.

I would find the druid of these old forests and ask him for some light; to see beyond my doubts. I would ask him for the brew that would let me fly crossing the ocean to the ever green country where my valiant women live, because today I need to see them and tell them some things.

What's this?

Tell me,what is this?

If you saw last week's answer, you have a clue.

The answer on Saturday...or Sunday...

Fall Mornings