Private view, friends & wine...

If in London this weekend why not pop down to visit Candid Arts Gallery ?. My friends and fellow students from University days have a fabulous exhibition of their work subject matters. Jane Ross, Dan Green and Amelia Sheperd have put on a great show of their work and it is definitely worth the visit! .... As you can tell from the quality of the pics we had a great time catching up :-)

Book recommendations..

The Boss of you

The Boss of you by Lauren Bacon & Emira Mears is the book I'm reading at the moment and finding it very difficult to put down!!

I highly recommend this read to anyone thinking of running their own business. A DIY start up, marketing, financial, expanding..it is all there & brilliantly written... - I can't recommend it enough!!

The Creative Entrepreneur

A DIY Visual Guidebook for Making Business Ideas Real. Written by Lisa Sonora Beam. Artist, teacher and business woman. You can check her website & blog . This book is for artists, crafters, and creative individuals from all walks of life who desire to make a living from their creative work. ..This book is on my "wish list"...

Simple Sewing with a French Twist

by Celine Dupuy

I love this book although I haven't had anytime yet to try out some of the lovely projects...Beautiful photographs with comprehensive illustrations to create delightful gifts, creating fashion accessories and customizing home furniture...a great passion of mine-some but argue and call it "interesting..it will look great when is finished..." :-)

Xmas everywhere...

Carnaby st

Regent st

For those that are going to to be in London this wknd you might see xmas has hit town already ! - and for those of you that live miles away you can have a tiny idea of the street lights in the West End...more later..

Online shop NOW OPEN

I'm pleased to announce my online shop is now open with no closing times, open 24/7. There are also promotional goodies on offer. Why not have a peek here & my full website.

My Sunday Movie...

Hoping you all had a fabulous weekend I'm back to my regular posting of Sunday Movie. Contrary to my personal choice we decided to watch Oxford Murders. Matt had read the book and raved on about it, so I got convinced. Written by fellow Argentine, Guillermo Martinez. Set in Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols. Unfortunately the movie was not as good as the book having gone straight to DVD missing the cinema showings. I personally thought the performance by Elijah Wood was pretty poor and not convincing, although John Hurt as always a great actor. I agree with the reviews , although not a film critic myself but I can't personally recommend you this one :-(

Have a fabulous weekend !

I'm now officially taking the afternoon off to celebrate my birthday and enjoy the weekend with boyfriend, friends, family and cat...I hope you all have a great weekend too :-)

Online shop launch 17th Nov 08

Dear readers...I would like to announce to you all that my online shop will be launched on Monday 17 Nov, so watch this space as there will be promotional goodies too!

Papa Noel in the city...

Last week in London I couldn't believe to see the Christmas window displays already up and running!..Every year it amazes me how early the displays appear. It is fascinating to see the rivalry between High Street shops. Who is it going to be the first to display and have the more eye catching window display? as we all know, it is part of the stores competition. I always like to check out Fortnum & Mason, Liberty and Selfridges -the later two stock my images, I thought to mention.... :-)

Selfridges this year have got an urban feel to the display which I found very original and contemporary... I couldn't help it to snap away a few pics to share with you all, although I was one amongst many with the same thought! And- yes! definitely, they did get the eye catching concept of their brief!

My Sunday Movie...

It was the perfect Sunday to stay indoors : Beautiful Autumn colours as a backdrop view from my windows, windy with a lot of heavy rain and homemade cookies. Being a little bit homesick, I decided to watch a film I had been meaning to for a long time but somehow never managed to. Belle Epoque was shot in 1992 wich won an Oscar for the best foreign film by Spanish film director Fernando Trueba. An original storyline, beautifully shot with great Spanish humour that I was so much missing...

Coming soon- Online shop !

It has been a couple of weeks of non stop work, but I'm pleased to say that it is not long now for my new online shop to be launched. Lookout too for my website as it is having a makeover by the wonderful and very talented Dani who has designed it all and that I can't thank enough! So watch this space in the next couple of days...

My Sunday Movie...

Some of you may know I have a regular spot of my Sunday movie...& for my love of Woody Allen. This Sunday I saw Cassandra's Dream. Not one of his best, but I still think he is brilliant at script writing with original dialogue and plots. There were mixed reviews in the media, but personally I loved it...call me biased ;-)

Thank you to Florist Wholesale Buyer Magazine

Just want to thank Florist Wholesale Buyer magazine for a lovely article !

I'm Back .....

Well...here I'm back after months away from my little cyberspace journal due to a sad tragedy in my life. Life has its moments that hit us from nowhere and have to deal with it consequently making us stronger, is part of our make up. What it's important is how we get to deal with it, which is with the love and support of family and amazing friends ( you all know who you are) that's when you get to realize what life is really about, the rest is quite irrelevant. So a little thought for the weekend, think of those that are important to you and the little things they do for you and enjoy them and their love , sometimes we get to forget and just focus with everyday mundane things, I one- guilty.
Have a good weekend and see you here next week with postings of new designs and finds.
xox

My Workspace

Thank you to all your lovely comments and emails about my previous post with reference to other work spaces and thank you for letting you share with us your lovely creative places, which I thought it only had to be fair to include mine, where I seem to spend most of my days in there at the moment...in the sofa you can see my lovely cat, Pasha, that keeps me company in his own way that is as he sleeps 24/7...Bless !

Work Spaces

Dear Sukie, yvestown, veronica TM, Los ojos

malinmaskros , Camila E, creationsbykris

wren'snestcottage , judyofthewoods , yosemite610

Hi, I'm back to my Blogging at last! ...It has been a couple of manic weeks with my work at the Studio. As I was working all the long hours on my own in the Studio with the company of my lovely cat now and again wondering in and music in the background to keep me sane, I thought of other people like me that are in other parts of the world working from the studio on their creative projects, so after a long search in Flickr I thought I'd share with you a compilation of lovely images from other work spaces reflecting the work and personality of each individual. I hope they bring you some inspiration too and make us realise we are not alone ! ;-)

My Sunday Movie...

For my Sunday movie at last I got to see La Vie en Rose. An outstanding performance by Marion Cotillard giving a great homage to one of France's most beloved singers, Edith Piaf. Visually stunning film about an amazing life story of a great woman with such a sad life.
I personally loved this film and highly recommend it. A well deserved Oscar for the best actress of 2008.

Street Photography

I must tell you all that after writing the last post I've been looking through some of my old photos to submit for the Street or Studio at the Tate in collaboration with Flickr. So far I've found this image that I took in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia a year ago...I remember I was strolling through this busy area when I saw the cyclists with the caption on the bus going by " free flow of friends", it was one of those moments of quickly looking through the bag to find the camera and do an instant touch on the button, all I can say I'm glad I managed to get it time!