My day is Friday

Friday, September 11, 2009

Friday is my day: Stemellina

Today we will hop to Greece and meet Meli from stemellina.etsy.com She creates yummy jewelries from felt, earrings, brooches, necklaces, bracelets... and she runs a felt supply shop too at StemellinaSupplies.etsy.com

Have a good Friday and soft felt shopping :)

Plum Earrings
by: Stemellina

My name is Meli which means honey in Greek and I live in a suburb in Athens with my hubby Harry and our kids Johnny(9) and Georgina(3).

8.30 - Hubby leaves for work so I wake up and the first thing I want like crazy is my coffee.

In the summer time I like to drink a cold Frappe with lots of ice cubes.

9.00 - With my coffee in one hand and the mouse in the other I visit etsy.I really love that time!

It's 10.00 already and the kids are still sleeping so I decide to wake them up!As long as I'm in Georgina's bedroom I heard Johnny who is already in the bathroom.As you can see my princess sleeps with 3 stuffed golden retriever .First we bought the mom. Georgina named her Maximina and then we bought the 2 kids Max and Maxi.

They dressed and the first thing they love to do is to feed the fish.

10.30 - The breakfast is ready.Little breads with cheese and ham,cucumber,grapes, juice and milk.Oops !! Johnny just took a grape from Georgina's bowl.

11.00-1.00 After breakfast the kids go to their rooms and play.

As for me this is my fun time.I finish cleaning and cooking and then I start felting in the kitchen

Then I taking care of all the mess and go to the balcony to play the model as I am the one who poses for my creations.

1.30- Lunch Time! Today I made rice with cheese,salad with lettuce,tomato and cucumber and grilled meat balls.

2.30-5.30- These days I organize a small space in my living room to a studio. It's not ready yet but Georgina loves to help me out.She also likes to sit next to me and watch me working on my creations.Hopefully one day she can make her own accessories.

6.00 and Hubby is here! The moment that Johnny and Georgina hear his keys in the door they start screaming and jump on him when he comes in.

As its Friday we decide to go to the Mall of Athens for shopping.

Kids have fun there as Johnny runs with his Heelys ( shoes with wheels in the heels) and Georgina try on some shoes.

10.00- We are back at home and we are all very tired so the kids drink their milk and goes to bed.

Hubby serfs the internet. As for me I go outside in the balcony ( which don't forget I use it as a fashion runway ) and I work on some pictures for etsy.

1.00- Meli ! Meli ! Are you coming? Oh ! Hubby is calling me to go to bed! Sorry I have to leave you.

Good Night and Sweet Dreams......with no naughty thoughts ♥

Friday, September 4, 2009

Friday is my day: Glasfaden

Jaa

Today we will meet sweet Devi from Germany. She has an etsy shop called glasfaden.etsy.com where she sells her pretty glass, felt and paper art pieces. But first let's follow her day and after that shopping :)

First Berries Brooch - Off White
by: glasfaden

Monday, August 31st, 2009

6:46 The garbage truck and neighbors are so loud! They wake me up, but I go back to my dream again, as I just have slept for 3 hours...7:30 My alarm clock is ringing (well, rather 'tüt tüüt tüüüt' than 'rrrrring'..). I stil feel like a zombie, so I snooze for a while before I finally get up

7:42 Preparing my breakfast in the kitchen. Then I take the beads out of the kiln (I don't know, how long I've been working on torch yesterday, but I've heard Down Below, back and forth a million times and was really in a great mood :)) and put them into a glass of water to make them easier to take off of the mandrels

7:45 Breakfasting in front of my laptop. Reading mails, browsing the blogs through my reader and take a peek, either it's time to grab a treasury - nope, I would be already at work *sigh*

Now I need a long and hot shower to make me feel less like a zombie.

9:37 Just had a phone call with my dad, took the beads off of the mandrels and cleaned the holes from the bead release using my grinder. No time to inspect the result closer though. It's time to get ready to work now.

I have to go earlier than usual today. I first ride to the culture center to pay the summer activity of my boy there and then off to the B&M store, where I work twice a week in the city10:44 It's only a step away from the city, so I still have time to take a quick view of the lake a bit closer.

Time to move on. I pass the theater studio. The windows are standing wide open, so I take a glaze. I love the atmosphere in such studios. The machines, the racks, the high ceiling.. OMG.. isn't the lamp stunning?!!

10:55 I was just opening the door, when the first customers were already coming in. Normally Mondays are quite quiet, not today it seems..I always take my doodle/sketch book with me. When all the work, e.g. dusting the shelves, is done and nobody is in the shop, I start to doodle or write. Today e.g. there was a woman, who looked very interesting to me in her profile and pose, so I simply have to sketch her after she's gone and no one else's around.

14:50 My boss finally sent me home, as I don't do it on my own *lol* I love to have customers, so I forget the time. From the bridge I can see the Alps.

15:11 At home I take a quick glaze on my garden. I have neglected it during the summer. I can't stand the sun burning my skin and also the mosquitoes love my blood, so I prefered to stay away from the garden. One rose plant is still blooming beautifully, but I really should cut all the other withered roses and weed again. The bind weed are taking overhand everywhere. Also in the back garden, where the zucchinis are growing very well. Maybe I still have a little time to weed later...

16:56 After checking the treasury opening time again (I could have a chance or two in the evening - yay!), I prepare two packages and take them to the post office.

17:10 Having a small talk with a neighbor and weeding a bit in the back garden.

17:22 'Franklin' (not sure if that's the cat's name, but that's how we call her/him - and I thought, it's a she, but I might be wrong..) runs towards me. I try to take a photo of us, but I should have lied on the grass, I suppose :P

17:25 She gets attracted by my backpack - sniffing at the skinny shawl my boy has made for me and then she decides to lie on my backpack *lol* She's so cute!!

17:50 High time to make dinner. It should be ready in 20 minutes, so I cook some pasta with yellow pepper, onion and tomato. Tataa...

18:29 Time to swing my back on the bike again to go to the choir session.

19:12 The room, where we normally sing, is a construction site at the moment. So, we first stay outside singing. We're preparing ourself for the concerts in December (it'll be our first tiny 'tour' - two concerts in Switzerland and one in Constance), so we practice the first Christmas song and another new song.

I ride home right after the session, as I don't want to miss grabbing a T or TW (what a freak! *lol*)

21:59 Sitting in the darkness, in front of the laptop again. I'll try to concentrate myself answering some mails and prepare the poster sketch before I grab a T, watch Dexter on TV (I think, I can only watch this series because I watch it on my B/W TV :)) and finally go to bed. My son will come back again tomorrow after having two weeks holiday with his father. So, I'll say goodnight now, even if I won't be in bed before 1am, I think.

Thank you for joining my day!

Friday, August 28, 2009

Friday is my day: Starrybluesky

Jaa

Exciting! Today we are lucky ducks and are invited to Scotland! We can follow Rhiannon's day in Edinburgh. She is a professional photographer and she runs an etsy shop called starrybluesky.etsy.com

After visiting her please go to her shop, you'll find something dreamy and pretty I am sure!

Parisian Cafe
by starrybluesky

About 6.30 – far too early to get up so I have a cup of tea first . Bedside reading at the moment is Tallinn book ,for the last city in my “12 City Project”.

Quick look out of the window. It’s been raining overnight but has stopped. Last summer and this summer have been so rainy that even a dry day seems like a bonus.

I’m going for a swim before doing any work , so just a banana for breakfast – well ,along with another cup of tea.

Finish my tea while having a quick check on my Etsy shop

Finally ready to face the world – just leaving to go to swimming pool.

On the way to the swimming pool – It is the other side of town but usually I’d walk there. Have so much to do today that I decide to get the bus. Also think it might be good to get a photo from the top deck. Realise that photos taken from moving bus usually blurry and worthless. Try anyway. Get blurry photos.

From pool walk down the Royal Mile to studio space. Have to check on my stock for exhibition next week. These are the biggest framed Polaroids I’ve done so far.

Now I have to walk home. Its August and right in the middle of the Edinburgh festival. The Royal Mile is absolutely jam packed with performers and tourists. Usually if I wanted to actually get home a bit quicker I’d take a parallel street, the Cowgate, or walk via the New Town. But I wanted to let you have a glimpse of the festival , so I bravely marched up the hill.
Bottom left is a view of the whole street with St Giles in the background. Top left and bottom right – fairly normal outfits for August in Edinburgh. Yes, that lady has got an origami bird for a hat. The musicians were making a good sound – I was intrigued by the wok type drum.

Past the castle at the top of the Royal Mile and another 15 mins or so to get home passing all of these places on the way. The street is William Street and one of my favourites.

My goodness, still only lunchtime. Cup of tea and a duck wrap for lunch. I can see I’m drinking far too much tea here !

Time to do a bit of work at the “card factory” I’m preparing a batch of cards to take to the exhibition. They are rather labour intensive but I know it will be good to have some for sale there.

I’ve been so busy ( or away) that I haven’t gone to much at the festival this year.
( Apart from Alicia Devine;s wonderful “Loving Burns) But today I’m going to a talk at 5pm given by Silviu Purcarete. He’s a very well known Romanian director whose production of Oresteia made a big impression on me a few years ago. I often find these “artist’s talks “ amongst the most interesting parts of the festival.

But on the way there I am in plenty of time so I have a cappuccino at my favourite Italian café. And its even sunny so I can sit outside.

Talk was interesting. The audience was equally interesting - full of people showing each other scripts and saying we absolutely MUST have so and so bring this to New York.. There were so many men in rumpled linen suits it almost looked like a uniform.

Home again and time for tea ( what Scots call their evening meal and not yet another cuppa ! ). Its just me today, so I whip up a quick omelette wrap with avocado and smoked salmon and a little bit of salad to go with it. Strawberries for after.

A little more work on the cards and then its time for a final check in with the virtual world with a nice glass of wine and then bed.

Goodnight .

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Autumn colors

Jaa

Unfortunately today we don`t have "Friday is my day" post, but we have some lovely Autumn colors. I so wait for the strong spicy colors. yummm. Enjoy!