The Italian Job

We made home made pasta during our little beach trip, commanded by my dear friend who’s of Italian descent, and it was fun!

Even the kids engaged contagiated by our enthusiasm

We team-kneeded the dough for about an hour and left it to rest.

It turned out perfect and elastic and we were able to make very thin layers and cut professional looking noodles.

It was such a large quantity that we were in trouble for a drying space (you need to let them to dry separately). I have a talent for optimizing artisanal work production and the mental image of hanging noodles crossed with the sight of a drying rack that was around and we found a solution!

The sauce was also home made: puttanesca, one of my favorites: tomato, red pepper, garlic, capers, black olives and anchovy.

Perfect activity and perfect dinner for a very cold rainy day during our little beach winter vacation.

We joked that by showing these pics we should be immediately granted Italian passports :-D

Come the bees...

Al árbol vienen las abejitas

y trabajan entre las flores perfumadas

mientras bailan y se cuentan sus cositas.

Después se van a hacer la miel

y por su camino 

se van formando nuevos arbolitos.

Practican abundancia, comunidad y alquimia.

To the tree come the bees

and they work among scented flowers

while they dance a bit and chit chat a bit.

Then they go to make the honey

leaving new little trees on their way.

They practice abundance, community and alchemy.

With bees

One with bees is in the works...

With bronze

I’m working in these new earrings with great dedication and incorporating new materials. I’m also teaching myself how to use them. Bronze wire is a new element that got me struggling for several days until I learnt how to bend it in neat curves without straight lines and how to hammer it for a flat delicate look.

This involved funny-bizarre moments of being on my knees in a super cold and dark winter night to hammer on the hard tile floor in the little porch outside. You can’t hammer metal on any table or any regular surface. It has to be HARD and I don’t have a metal jewelry bench.

The combination of my porcelain and the nicely worked bronze turned out better than in my imagination. I’m very pleased with the result.

It’s July already, peak of the winter here. I’m super tired and wishing to enter hibernation mode. Counting the days until school winter break (one more week). It’s been an intense time with new school and everything.

Good night! May you sleep tight!

Gold

Crazy about gold spray paint...

I'm tempted to go out and cover my block in gold :P