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My one month old "New" artwork

YAY!!! May is here and summer is around the corner!!!!
We might even see some sun here in England for a change..lol:D

So!! Where to start from..?? Hmmmmmm
....let's  see....Have you seen my new artwork???  hmmm....right! n when i say *new*,  i actually mean "almost a month old" new.....
!hah! Time flies SO quickly my lovelies....!
Anyway, i need to present you my -one month old- "new" artwork so that i can then show you my  "really new "new ones!!!
So! so!.. after your extremely positive response to my "Mom, this is the friend i've told you about" artwork, this cuty came:

He says he can hear the Forest whisper  -- Print

It's called, "He says he can hear the forest whisper" ..."I can only hear his big heart"
...nnnnn so the story goes.....After a long mushroom-picking forest stroll, the cute ebony hair girl and her friend Mr Bear, take some time to rest before they take the long n extra wavy road back home.
Wouldn't a simpl-er- short-er- n staight-er-- road to home do just fine ...you say? NOPE!! The wav-i-er- the bett-i-er- :D
Can such a small basket of mushrooms fill both a tiny stomach and a huge? .....NOPE!
Will Mr Bear fit through that tiny doorway...?!? NOPE! Unless there is a good dinner  waiting inside for him!
...but only Mom is waiting inside....
"I can hear his BIG growling stomach too....ohh you promised you'll behave Mr. Bear!!"

xxx Sending many many hugs everywhere around sweeties xxx

...Come!..I'll take you meet my parents!!

...hhmmm...Don't you just love the first day of Spring when, after many long n sleepy months of cold n waiting, you dare to wear that pretty, apple-green, airy dress you bought and take a berry n merry stroll to the nearest park or forest, just to celebrate the coming of Spring, greet any new born squirrels you don't know already and above all prove to your self that indeed Spring is here to stay.... ??

....but then you passionately n whole-heartily regret it, since the chilling cold is here for a while longer, so you take the long way back with eyes pleading for a warm hug from any good Sir or Madam passing by, a kind offering of an over-sized woolly coat or a chance to fall upon

a) a friendly,

b) generously hairy,

and c) still slightly sedated from the long winter sleep,

Mr Bear to snuggle into his big arms and get thoroughly warmed ..? :)

I know, the last case would be a wee bit difficult to happen, as wonderful as it sounds, especially since the particular Mr Bear has some long term late-night bad habits so you can hardly ever find him awake during the day.
It would most probably be his poor third wife that you'd fall upon, the Misses Bear No 3, the one that fetches food for all the Bear family and does all the chores for Ms Bear No 2 and her little ones. ( Ms Bear No 1 has left with another male 2 summers ago...shhhh don't tell, Mr Bear is still quit sensitive about this)
...Anyway, it would be quite easy to fall upon Ms Bear No 3 and plead kindly for a warm hug so you can reach home without a terrible cold, but I'm not sure if you would really want that, since most of the times she runs frantically in the forest with a big trail of vengeful bees behind her.......yep!!...exactly! ...you guessed right, that's only for Ms Bear No 2 's  little n quite mischievous ones, to devour peacefully the golden honey!! Poor Ms Bear No 3...! she so deserves a hug herself such times....:)

I've always wanted a chestnut brown bear friend...yeah I know, didn't we all? :)
Inspired by this desire of mine, I made my new artwork, “....Mom..., this is the friend I told you about!..”

Mom, this is the friend I told you about  -- Print 8 1/2 x 11 inches --

Mom, this is the friend I told you about -- Print 5 x 7 inches --

It embodies many of my childhood fantasies for taking beautiful strolls and making new forest friends (however dangerous or huge claws they'd have) :)  However, it seldom happened except in my mind or my drawings.
                                          ♥ So enjoy ♥

Earthquake ..!?!!

  !!??!! What on earth??...ok ok it might sound a bit pointless making a post for an earthquake, especially when the humble 4.7 M_L  of it's intensity would be like the equivalent of a rocking crib or some weird n jittery massage chair for any Japanese or Mediterranean accustomed to earthquakes,   BUT ......here, it's England!!!

We don't have earthquakes! You know, as we don't have sun n proper food n stuff, we D O N 'T have earthquakes!

It was about 1 am last night when some “moderate” shaking n trembling woke me up. Was it my first one?...sort of.... Did I panic? ....yep!

My first experience with an earthquake was exactly when I was born. My mother says she tumbled down the stairs of the hospital with me on her arms which might explain my current disposition....:D Anyway, that experience does not count, so it was practically my first one! I was looking through the window for that “zig-zag-shaped crevasse” that moves rapidly from the horizon toward your home..you know which one, thinking right or left, left or right??? Luckily it never came!

I think, that the fact my Spanish neighbours mumbled loudly something about “terremoto!!” and then went back to sleep, might explain how little familiar I am with earthquakes compared to them!

Even my partner, Michael, said still half sleeping “who's shaking the house...?” !!??!?!?!..??

When he finally woke up, he still couldn't believe that an earthquake could be the answer to what he previously and in his dreams thought as the doing of a giant mischievous otter, that for some reason decided to “rock” our Victorian-built  ( meaning, NOT quake-proof )  building....yep...you know those giant otters! Now the image came n stuck in my mind.....I think I'll create a special illustration about it!! Until then, enjoy the super cool photo I took of the incident!!!!! lol -with my Photoshop camera- ;)

Any peculiar otter activity to share? Lol :)

Birthday in wonderland

This birthday, I had a full all day  schedule, so my grand plans were to..... .basically celebrate   in front of my pc working for Hide n Seek..... I've dreamed though, of taking off the following  Saturday and after many years of celebrating this day for others, to   have my very first personal and esoteric kind of celebrating....My   plans included to make my own colourful rainbow-forest cake, like the   ones I nostalgically recall from my childhood, with different   colourful layers of sponge and fruity yummy cream in between and all   kinds of edible flowers, icings, animals and trees on top of it!

I thought that a forest made of chocolate moulds and icing, a bisquit-y squirrel, a deer, a red fox, a grey stripy mouse, a white owl and a dark chocolate crow -my fave animals- would be just perfect to be on top of my cake!!!

After “successfully” completing it, I'd start picking all the icings n embellishments one after another, like I used to do when little, until the cake was left with only traces of what it had before...I'd then blow the one candle out and I'd spend the rest of the day reading a book, drawing and planting in my favourite red pot some spring lilies n yellow pansies I bought. BUT a surprise came, that changed my plans after all.

Michael, my poor partner, the one for all the dirty jobs..had just returned from the post office or at least that's what I thought he did, cause instead he entered the door with this cute chocolate cake with lit birthday childish candles, a pretty burgundy red tulip and presents on his hands.

  He had been   secretly planning this entrance of his, of which I was totally   oblivious ans was caught on total surprise! I LOVE SURPRISES!! But I was afraid of something unexpected coming exactly at the same time  when I was and still am desperately trying to regiment my plan..However, I found the idea so comforting, since everything I do for the past months, even the entertainment I have, is in strict   schedule. I knew my plans had to wait for another day. We both   grabbed a huge piece of cake, which by the way was far better than   anything I would ever manage to create myself! I dreamt of making a   rainbow forest cake, but instead I got this rich n dark chocolate   black forest cake with black n red berry moist spongy layers!!   Seriously yummy!!

Michael thought he should buy me this cute little plastic train topper which I though was very cute but eventually   didn't use cause there was no space left on the cake for more toppers   n such. He had bought all sorts of birthday candles,  some of them   were those cute little horses or whatever they were, that I found   particularly sadistic to watch them burn :((

I later indulged myself in a mellow   evening of reading -again- my favourite story of all times...Alice in   Wonderland. This time it was a publication of 1949.

I have this small   obsession of collecting all kinds of old n odd publications of the   “Alice” books.

I even got to plant some beautiful lilies n hyacinths of which I'll be posting their progress:) The lilies are not much to look at yet but the hyacinths look n smell soooo perfect!!!!!!I thought I should post the cake's progress too, but it got vanished pretty quickly...lol LoL!!

Soon I'll get to make that rainbow-forest cake of mine and of course I'll share with you how was it...although there is a slight problematic detail that I did not mention....i don't know how to do it or have any similar recipe:( I'm   dreading of an awful failure...So...any recipes, suggestions or ideas   are SO welcome!! Till then....
  ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥My sweetest wishes to all of you my sweeties!!!!!!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥