Spring is coming

Can you feel it? I think this is marvelous. And this brings fantastic opportunities with it. In about two hours I'll be at a watercolor presentation at my local artists supply and afterwards I will take advantage of the spring offers of the supply. The watercolor postcard block I use is considerably lowered in its price, which is good since I currently use up one block every two weeks or so. So I've decided to buy five blocks at once. I'll also buy some brushes, two pans of watercolor (purple and turquoise) for my box and most importantly I'll have a look at passepartouts for my pictures (photography and graphics).

In any case I'm delighted to attend this presentation, it should be interesting to learn more about watercolors and another artists process of creating art. I love to watch artists creating. I really hope to attend that watercolor class, but I won't sign up until the middle of next week for several reasons.

Anyway, I took these flower pictures last June in the Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. They aren't Spring flowers, but I like them. The color and petals arrangement are simply beautiful.

Enjoy your Friday everyone!

The ultimate park and some drawings

What a combination: the glamour of Sanssouci Park and the postcards I drew yesterday.

Postcard 16/366

Postcard 17/366 - My favourite

Postcard 18/366

Postcard 19/366

Postcard 20/366 - drawn with Copic Multiliner

Enjoy your weekend.

Contrast Program - Summery Green and Business Cards

Since the winter is starting to really getting on my nerves, I needed a bit of summery green on this blog of mine. The Roman Baths in the Sanssouci Park on June 1st in 2011. It was such an amazing day. I loved this trip.


And just because I can and I really like them, I have to show you my brand new San's Visual Art - Business Cards. Aren't they fantastic? I designed them and then printed them myself.

A no worries castle

The sun outshines it all

Sanssouci details

Good Morning. Isn't it fabulous? A new week has started. With possibilities abound. Let's make the best of it.

Thankfully I'm back on late shift, therefore I have more time on my hands to get my stuff done and check out your blogs.

How was your Sunday? I enjoyed mine thoroughly. Sleeping in, taking a looong shower, dressing up and going into town to enjoy Caffe Lattes and write down the epiphanies I had this Saturday. As a matter of fact I wrote so much, that I filled up my moleskine notebook and am now switching to my red knitted cover benetton notebook that Chris gave me as an early christmas present, one week early. Awesome.

Sanssouci geometry

Have a great weekend.

Feel the fear and do it anyway

Let me get this straight: Tuesdays SUCK! I don't know what it is with Tuesdays and me, but we don't get along well. Yesterday was such a crappy Tuesday again. I had no energy whatsoever and my mood was truly rotten.

Even though I was in such a hole I finally gathered the courage to do something that I had wanted to do for years, but I just was to scared in the last moment to do so. Sometimes I need a last push, in my case it was this blogpost: http://www.postcrossing.com/blog/2011/11/07/swab-your-cheeks-for-amit
I'm probably not a match for Amit, but there is a chance that I can save another persons life with my bone marrow or stem cells. So yes, I've registered yesterday at the DKMS. After I did it I felt quite enthusiastic about it, but in the evening I was having second thoughts. Which is my normal time to start to fuss about things that I've done that day. This morning I'm feeling great and am still proud that I finally took this step, even though I'm a bit scared. I think Susan Jeffers, who wrote the book titled "Feel the fear and do it anyway", would be proud too.

What about you? Are you registered as a bone marrow donor? Or do you donate blood? I did donate blood once. Afterwards I was always prohibited because of some of the prescription drugs I had to take or had taken months before the donation. Anyhow, I'm excited of the prospect to might be abled to save somebody out there, just by being who I am.

Oh, my Elle UK - Horoscope is also really good today: The planet of illusion and delusion {Neptune, in case you didn't know. I didn't know, until I checked some other signs.} is finally coming out of retrograde today. You’ll be delighted to feel a lifting of the spacey feeling you’ve been complaining about for the past several months. Yes, you can finally get back to your favored focus-and-finish mode. Distractions can’t hurt you now, Virgo.

Okay, now, since my world is getting back into the swing of things I'm off to finally post the birthday present of a dear friend of mine. Only one month late. Well, she knows why I'm late and doesn't mind. And she isn't the one who's getting it latest. I'm currently working on a birthday present for a friend whose birthday is exactly two months gone. Well, she gets it as a combined birthday-christmas present. Which leaves me still pondering the gift for Chris. Her birthday is next week and I'm pondering her present for three months now and haven't really come up with an idea that I really like. The real fun part is, she still hasn't gotten her gift for last year, but in that case it's our combined fault, we somehow don't make it to the shop where she is to choose her earrings. The one time we made it (9 months after her birthday, she got total information overload and couldn't decide what she wanted. Which was incidently my first reaction to the Perlentaucher too. Well, maybe we finally get this done next week.

The picture is from the Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. It was taken around 9 PM. Gee, I wish it was summer again.

Castle Sanssouci + some new art of mine

seen from the fountain.

Being on the late shift is pretty good for me, enough sleep and creativity leading to this:

By the way my friend said he would join the better the world project for which I had the idea yesterday. XD

Have a wonderful Wednesday everyone.

The open door to a new chapter of (my) life

Well the door that I will go through at this very moment when this post is posted isn't as beautiful as the one above. The one above leads into a house in the Park Sanssouci and therefore into utter beauty. However my door leads to fitness, a new experience and ...

Have a nice day everyone.

Sanssouci-Weeks: Squares

Sanssouci-Weeks: The windmill

Sanssouci-Weeks: The way to the fountain

Sanssouci-Weeks: Hidden architectural treasures

Isn't it lovely?! It's almost fairytale-like.

Sanssouci-Weeks: The chic-ness of flowers

I just loved the colors of these and I'm quite happy with the pictures.

Sanssouci-Weeks: The shadows of the bridge

Sanssouci Weeks: Straight vs. Round

Sanssouci-Weeks: Stairs and shadows

Sanssouci-Weeks: Natures bosom

Off onto a much needed vacation, therefore 1 1/2 weeks of Sanssouci Park on this blog

Yes, finally a  longer vacation. The last "long" vacation I had was 2 years ago in hiking in Ireland. So don't get mad at me if I don't answer or comment on your blog, my Mac will stay offline for 1 1/2 weeks. But since I'm such a nice person I've prepared posts for you, all of them with pictures of Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. Which is quite fitting, because Sanssouci means Without Worries and that's what these two weeks mean to me. No worries, only good food, time to read, walk, draw and taking pictures. 

See you all again on 25. September.