Inspiration journal to set a mood

I love to cut out magazines, patch together images they speak to me and create moodboards at my walls. I need inspiration and I love to change the images that inspire me.
I figure out how I want to feel and then seek together all the materials that speak to me. I don't do this with my mind, it all flows and the less I'm thinking about compositon or else, the more in the end I like the sides I create. I have for all parts in my life and business journals and there inside I stick pictures to go together with my words.

Before I moved I had to go through all this magazines, I did not want to move them and it just feels so good to let go of old things. It is just time to become lighter and free me up from material posessions. It was good to cut all what I loved and my two little girls where making their own collections and sticked a lot of images in the journals of them.

Inspiration journal to set a mood

5 more things about me

- I dreamed since I was a little girl of my prince and fell in love over and over again, until I found my husband who fall equally in love with my. Calming and fullfilling my heart.
At his side I can exactly be who I am and never ever only have to think how to act. In some parts he knows me better then I know myself. We love each other in all our purity.
This gave me the braveness to be myself all over in my life.

- My parents procreated me while travalling mexico and beeing in the nature near the rio grande, for this I always feel attracted to mexico.

- I like organized things and for me it's more important to have things properly lined up in drawers or in hidden places, then to make a good impact and showcase a perfect home.
I feel the urge to order in the inside first to then let the outside shine.

- I'm very attached to material things and love their beauty or utility. I'm on the journey to learn simplify and clean from clutter.
I often see myself trying to replace feelings with things, which my intellect knows that it's not the way to reach a feeling, but still happens to me in some subconscious moments.

- I love to learn new things, but when I figured out how to do them, I often loose interest and move on to learn again and again. It makes me sometimes restless, but improves my skills.

5 more things about me

Selfportrait

Diving deep down inside my own self brings up all the aspects of my beeing. It is all about how we see ourself and makes the big difference.
A lot of us have some things about ourself we love and others we would change if we only could, but changing would not make any difference most of the times. We have to change our mind and see that it makes us to who we are to have one eye bigger or our teeth aren't in a nice row. They make us to exactly who we are. They make us beautiful, if we only accept it, we can shine in our brightest light.
In society there is an ideal that changes from time to time and everyone with eyes closed will try to follow this. If it means to be skinny, womens will not eat anymore and end up showing bones. Driven by fitting in and making part of the big everything.
If it means to have big boobs, doctors will invent to make surgery. We should look like an ideal that was constructed by photoshop, instead of embrass our unique and true faces and bodies.

I make my illustration with a pencil until my shape pleases me and then I often go on with my copic ciao markers. I love them and feel inspired only by looking at them.

Selfportrait

Kitchen

I love my kitchen and when we came to look at the appartment at first time, I fall in love with the tiles. They are original out of the seventies and aren't stylish at all, but they really give the soul and character to this room.

This was it of our home here in italy, we already build our new nest and next week I will show you a video of our old home, I made it for us, to remember this lovely place we lived in and love to share it with all of you. 

Kitchen

Basic top sewing

This period full of moving boxes, sofas and other posessions.
The really right occasion to have some very comfy and practical garments. I just feel much lighter in moving in pants and a shirt then in a lovely dress and I also don't want to ruin one of my loved dresses with dirt or stains.
So I sewed up a bunch of different shirts that gave me a feeling of beeing special and beautiful the same.
The pattern I used was the Basic top I've seen in a lot of blogs and I really love the shape and fit.

The top with the little swiss dots is made out of a perfect and very comfortable cotton jersey. I love to wear it. Simple and lovely.
The teal blue one is made with two layered fabrics, the under fabric is a lightweight white jersey and up on it I cutted a second layer out of teal lace stretch fabric. Then I edged all with fold over elastic in mint. Unfortunatly I felt the blue is a little to bright for me and gave it already away again.
It's all about letting go and have only what statisfy me at the moment. I so want to be free of material posessions and gave away tons of things during our move.

Basic top sewing