My Paintings And Tales

Fresh And Easy

2013-05-18T12:43:00.000-07:00

Hello lovelies! Here's a way to get your water in that tastes great and helps with a bunch of other stuff too!

1. It aids in digestion.
2. It makes your breath smell better
3. It helps balance out the pH in your body (no diseases can live in a balanced pH environment)
4. It aids in Liver health and oxygenates your body
5. It has a lot of antioxidants that help keep you healthy
And it's easy to do!

All you need is a pitcher of filtered water, 2 lemons, 2 limes, dice them up toss them in and let it sit for a while so the juice can infuse the water and voila, fresh lemon-lime water.

***add a little honey if you a a bit of sweatness

Moroccan Palace Guard Painting

2013-05-16T09:13:00.000-07:00

Hello readers, First I would like to thank you all for following up on my posts and for your loving comments. Today I would like to present a new oil painting I made yesterday named " Palace Guard ", requested by a friend of mine to hang it in her grandma´s traditional Moroccan style house "Riad". She told me that modern art dose not match with the Moroccan style furniture's and decor therefore she should find something match with the Moroccan folklore. So I offered to make her a painting that will fill up the empty space and fit in with the interior design they have.

Making this painting I learned a new skill while drawing the details of the guard clothing in golden color as you see above. Matching the colors was a bit of a problem but at the end the painting found appreciation and looked nice in the space it was made for.

This week I finally learned how to make my own canvas using white fabric, wooden sticks and stapler. I didn't know it would be this easy. I might add that in one of my up coming DIY posts for handy people.

DIY: Home spa tricks

2013-05-14T05:16:00.001-07:00

Exfoliate with a sugary scrub

Hello dear readers! since there isnt any new travel tales I am writing to pamper you with this DIY glamour treat. Isn't it nice to make your own products, there is many creative ways to make easy and natural masks, products and creams by yourself. So to make your skin feel like baby´s bottom try this sugary scrub. Here’s what you need:

1 cup brown sugar,

1 cup raw oatmeal,

1 cup olive oil.

Mix all the ingredients together and then apply on dry skin, using your hands. You want to perform slow circles—this treatment is to be enjoyed and not rushed. (The real key is standing over a plastic bag or towel to catch the remains.) After scrubbing gently all over, step into the shower and rinse off. Your skin will be like butter.”

Enjoy!

DIY: Linen and Lace Pillow Cover

2013-05-12T08:06:00.001-07:00

Hello lovelies, I am back with a new DIY house project just for you. This is a great way to rethink grandmas doily's. If you like sewing this going to be very simple! otherwise you can buy a ready empty pillow cover in your favorite color. Preferable size 40cm x 40cm (16” x 16”). Pillow cover made from linen and cotton fabrics and we will mix it with handmade bobbin-lace doilies as follow:

On the front side: used a natural brownish-gray linen, delicate white doilies and carefully stich it to the front.

Backside: use white cotton and close it with white buttons or use zipper on the sides as shown on photos above.

You can also use burlaps, the combination of soft elegant lace, with the rustic look of burlaps, creates a wonderful juxtaposition to fit in with any shabby chic decor.

ENJOY IT!

Great Detoxifier

2013-05-09T15:21:00.004-07:00

One of the great benefits I am having now while being here in morocco is enjoying all fresh and cheap fruits and vegetables.I would like to share This MIRACLE DRINK, we often make it here and I was amazed to see it on one of the health care and weight loss sites. It has been circulating for a long time. It is worth your while to take note.

MIRACLE DRINK :

You need one beet root, one carrot and one apple that combine together to make the JUICE! Wash the above, cut with the skin on into pieces and put them into the juicer and immediately you drink the juice. You can add some lime or lemon for more refreshing taste.

This Miracle Drink will be effective for the following ailments:

1. Prevent cancer cells to develop.It will restrain cancer cells to grow.
2. Prevent liver, kidney,pancreas disease and it can heal ulcer.
3. Strengthen the lung, prevent heart attack and high blood
pressure.
4. Strengthen the immune system
5. Good for the eyesight, eliminate red and tired eyes or dry eyes
6. Help to eliminate pain from physical training, muscle ache
7. Detoxify, assist bowel movement, eliminate constipation. Therefore it will make skin healthy & LOOK more radiant. It is God send for acne problem.
8. Improve bad breath due to indigestion, throat infection,
9.pain
10. Assist Hay Fever Sufferer from Hay Fever attack.

Highly nutritious and easily absorbed. Please make sure to drink immediately from the juicer for
best effect.You can drink this everyday if you want.

Enjoy!

Fresh recipe for a hot day

2013-05-08T09:02:00.001-07:00

Strawberry Avocado Kale Salad with Bacon Poppy seed Dressing. ( 2 SERVINGS, 10 MINUTES total time ).

Try not to love this salad! I dare you!

INGREDIENTS:

6 cups baby kale {prewashed kind}

2 cups sliced strawberries

1 ripe avocado, sliced

for the dressing-

4 slices bacon

1/2 cup mayonnaise or sub plain greek yogurt

2 tablespoons stevia

2 tablespoons white vinegar

1/2 teaspoon poppy seeds

salt & pepper, to taste

DIRECTIONS:

Place kale, strawberries and avocado into a large bowl and set aside.

For the dressing, cook bacon until crisp. Remove from pan and drain bacon on paper towels. Crumble into small pieces and whisk together with remaining ingredients. Drizzle over salad and serve

Among Olive Trees

2013-05-07T05:02:00.001-07:00

Thoughts of olives on a pizza or olives in a salad make one think about Greece, Italy and even Spain. However, Morocco is second only to Greece in exports of olives to the world market and are one of Morocco's primary exports. The increase in olive production in Morocco has in many cases served farmers well, yet it seems to simultaneously have environmental impacts. The degradation of the land in Morocco, caused in part by increased agricultural production, is an important issue to be cognizant of when entering a discussion of Moroccan agriculture and her olive subsector.

The olive branch for centuries has been a symbol of peace. The olive is a small, naturally bitter, oily fruit that contains a pit. It also requires a distinct curing process before it is edible. The olive curing process is one of the most fascinating aspects of the olive. Every country has its own way to cure olives. In Morocco, there are hundreds of ways to cure olives. The ripening process of an olive is also quite remarkable. The fruit passes through a spectrum of colors from pale green, to tan, to violet, to brownish-red and finally to black. Yet, before the ripening and curing stage comes the development of the olive. In May, flowers emerge from the olive tree and these give birth to tiny beads. These beads fatten and harden until September. In September and October, the olive is usually fully formed and can be picked and cured. However, olives usually do not completely ripen until winter. While this is a cursory introduction to the olive, it does not begin to portray the regal nature of the olive and how its existence and presence has defined the essence of many civilizations.

The olive's history in Morocco can be traced to Greek colonizers on Sicily. The colonizers brought the olive to the island and took trees across on to the mainland. Eventually, as trade routes developed, the olive was brought west. The Romans were responsible for planting huge groves in North Africa and by the tenth century, olive trees covered the islands of the Mediterranean and ringed its shores in southern Europe and northern Africa. Thus it is not surprising that the olive is one of Morocco's most fabled, and recently has reemerged as one of its most important, crops.

Info, research source : TED Case Studies

Roots And Wings

2013-05-03T17:33:00.001-07:00

" Blessed be that which gives your children wings and roots."

Roots : There is a place in the world where we are born, where we learn our mother tongue and discover how our ancestors overcame the problems they had to face. There always comes a point when we feel responsible for that place.

Wings: They reveal to us the endless horizons of the imagination, they carry us to our dreams and to distant places. It is our wings that allow us to know the roots of our fellow men and to learn from them.

Chamomile For Well Being

2013-05-02T05:42:00.001-07:00

Chamomile is one of my favorite plants, and ohh! I love its smell. I had it written in my DIY list long time ago to self-prepare this natural flowers and make home-made products out of it like : shampoo, toner, oil and tea ext.. These plants are best known for their ability to be made into an infusion which is commonly used to help with sleep and is often served with honey or lemon, or both. Besides the beautiful smell, Its also a great cure for the oily hair problems, the reason I am preparing these flowers today for my personal use as a natural way to get rid of oily hair.

Before you try this, you should be warned that it will lighten your hair. Most of your hair lightening products have chamomile in it. If you don't mind your hair getting a little lighter, then try this:

DIY: Home-Made Chamomile Hair Care Recipes :

Chamomile Hair Shampoo

4 teaspoons dried chamomile

½ cup boiling water

½ cup baby shampoo

Steep the chamomile in the hot water for 30 minutes

Strain and stir in the baby shampoo

Shampoo your hair as usual

Chamomile Leave-in Hair conditioner

4 cups boiling water

½ cup chamomile dried chamomile

Steep the chamomile in the hot water for 15 minutes

Strain and set aside to cool

Meanwhile, shampoo your hair

Massage the chamomile tea into your hair

You may leave this in or rinse it out under cool water

Chamomile Hair Color Enhancer for Dyed Hair

1 cup boiling hot water

2 heaping tablespoons dried chamomile

1/2 cup plain yogurt

7 drops lavender essential oil

Steep the chamomile in the hot water for 15 minutes.

Strain. Stir in the yogurt and lavender oil.

Mix thoroughly.

Apply the mixture to dry hair, massaging it in from the roots to the ends.

Cover hair in plastic cap for thirty minutes.

Shampoo your hair as usual

Enjoy it*

Sleeping sickness

2013-04-30T14:04:00.002-07:00

Today was one of the most wonderful days I ever had in Morocco . I spent a beautiful day out in the nature reading and giving my inner voice the space to be heard, away from the crowd, technology ext.. Now days I am trying to include more useful travel and culture information within each blog post of my personal travel diary. So today I found this interesting topic in a book I am reading at the moment and I got very curious to research about this subject " sleeping sickness" since it was first found in Central Africa, And I guess I was once effected by it, Unfortunately!

The topic in the book says "´ We´ve heard about an illness in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. What we should also know is that a similar disease exists that attacks the soul. Its very dangerous because the early stages often go unnoticed. At the first sign of indifference or lack of enthusiasm, take note! the only preventive against this disease is the realization that the soul suffers, suffers greatly, when we force it to live superficially. The soul loves all things beautiful and deep.´"

Well, I confess that I was effected with such thing when I was in places where I felt locked up and tightened by uncontrolled circumstances. In general and from my own experience I must say that I only get that sickness when I am incapable of being productive, find nothing special or exciting I can do, being around negative company and people who are living to die one day. Not to forget the lack of creativity, muse, joy and love.

Traveling has been the best cure for my soul from intense depressions, it made me feel free. The desire for discovering, knowing, experiencing new things awaken me mind and soul. Being independent and capable of doing , creating making and controlling things by myself made my soul alive, happy and free. As said in the book: " The soul loves all things beautiful and deep". So be aware, and never let your soul sleep inside you..

I Cant Be Trusted With A Time Machine

2013-04-29T13:10:00.002-07:00

Hello loyal readers, I hope you are all ready for the end of April. May is going to be my 3th month here in Morocco, and the last ( I am hopping ). I tried my best to make use of my time on this trip and make every moment count and be pleasant as much as possible. So I am trying to do a bit of time management and fill up my days with useful hobbies and important tasks at the same time. For example, and as I mentioned before in my every new year resolution that I wanted to break one of my biggest fears and learn how to bicycle. And the good news is that I finally did it just yesterday, I also made a promise that I am going to workout with a bike ride every morning.

The second activity is working hard on learning Swedish. I learned many new verbs, everyday, and I am happy for that . I know that verbs are the key to every language. but the thing is, just by mentioning the verb äta or skriva I know I will be understood. (but I wouldn't be looked upon as a very intelligent person though.) So I guess the grammar is my biggest difficulty which I couldn't learned alone.. specially when I have no one to correct me at the moment. But at the end of each day I have to feel that I did my best, even if the results are not very brilliant at the moment.

On the other hand stands the usual local life style that I am in, which I try not to make a habit of and let it effect me, and only take what is good from every culture / country I pass by. And that goes on the traditions, as well as all my social life in general with my people and the close ones that I belong too.

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. ― Nicholas Sparks

New style of drawing : Moroccan Key

2013-04-25T07:00:00.003-07:00

Hello lovelies, Today I would like to share with you a new drawing with watercolor paint, amused by the Moroccan art and design which picture the flower of life ( Moroccan key stencil ).

I created this little form you see above to use it to have the exact shape of the ( Moroccan key ) design as seen in most ceramic and other objects in Morocco. If you would like to have more DIY ideas for home projects here is a link for more shapes and designs of the Moroccan key Stencil .

Them Maze´s Gates

2013-03-16T08:04:00.000-07:00

Worry is a delusion my mind make at any point It feels it has a no clear vision of the coming days. I passed through many stations and I am well skilled to pass any crises. In the country of great gates everywhere, most ways closes at ones face. I found it quite bad to start this topic with a none optimistic spirit as I used to while telling all my travel tales. This one is quite special, its about feeling I am at exile in my own country. I am trying hard to relate myself in a way or another to anything that would make me feel home. Yet I don't feel I am even close..

Today especially. It's hard to keep my mind on my present when my mind keeps wandering back to old life status I been in. Only sometimes my day dreams would start presenting unusual things for me to do while I am here, like going to our own farm land starting a herb or vegetable garden. Settle down, find a job, break the limits and do all the things I thought I would never allow myself to do and see how it feels like living someones life for a while, or maybe the life that was meant to be for me from the beginning when I was born here. I wish I can only stop criticizing things for a moment.. things that seems normal to everyone here and make me feel odd instead. I am in the middle of two worlds and I can not pretty much make sense of which one is truly right..and to which one I truly belong. I have lost my life time values, identity between the cultures I passed by, I can not define what is normal anymore..

What being normal/civilized means?

2013-03-04T06:56:00.000-08:00

Berber girls, Marrakech, Morocco, 1986

A list of normality :

1) It is normal for anything we do forget who
we are and what we want, so that we can work to
produce, reproduce and make money.

3) Spend years making a career in college to
after not finding work.

4) Working from nine am to five p.m.
something that does not give us any pleasure, provided that the
After thirty years the person can retire.

5) Retire, to discover that no longer has the energy to
enjoy life and die within a few years,
boredom.

6) Use Botox.

7) Understand that power is much more important than the
money, and money is more important than happiness.

8) Ridiculing those who seek happiness rather than money,
saying it is a "person without ambition."

9) Compare objects like cars, houses, clothes and define the
life in terms of these comparisons, rather than trying
really know the real reason for being alive.

10) Do not talk to strangers. Speak ill of his neighbor.

11) Believing that parents are always right.

13) To criticize everyone who tries to be different.

14) Waking up with an alarm clock next to the hysterical
bed.

15) To believe absolutely everything that is published.

16) Use a colorful cloth tied around his neck, without
no apparent function, but it serves the pompous
name of "tie".

17) Do not ever be direct in the questions, although the other
person understands what we know.

19) To think that art is worth a fortune, or not worth
absolutely nothing.

21) Follow the dictates of fashion, but this is ridiculous
and uncomfortable.

22) Be sure that all celebrities have
lots of money accumulated.

23) Invest heavily on external beauty and care
little of the interior.

24) Use all means possible to demonstrate that even
being a normal person, you are above others
humans.

31) Attend a charity event and think that it already has
worked enough to eliminate inequalities
social in the world.

32) Eat three times a day, even without being hungry.

33) Believing that others are always better in every way:
more beautiful, more capable, richer, smarter. Is
risky venture beyond their own limits, better
do nothing.

37) Marrying the first person to provide you or na
status. Love can wait.

39) Let the most interesting things to life when
no longer have the strength.

40) Avoid the depression with daily doses and dense
television programs.

From Novel : The winner stand alone

State of mind

2013-02-12T08:35:00.001-08:00

Faraway places with a mystical air about them is calling me. My head is too far up in the clouds to go back to deal with the societies of third world cultures. As I broke away and I rose up, I am trying to keep at high, but I am afraid that my feminism and freedom state of mind will not keep a good temper as I enter the gates of the 6th century ( if you know what I mean). I worry that there are some aggressive actions on the part of others who might find fault with the way I am handling my personal life. Even tho it is the other parts's set of tradition issues that needs to be dealt with, not mine.

When it comes to misunderstandings and criticizing that leads to irritating behaviors, one must remember to keep distance and respect in such environments. Positive thinking is flooding my mind and its what kept me going in most of my previous travels to odd areas with none secular system. I always try to look at the world through optimistic eyes. I will wear my heart on my sleeve and let my humanity emotions guide my actions.

Traveling to some certain countries you need to realize just where the line has been drawn in terms of certain unwritten rules , and how much further the boundaries could be extended for freedom and human rights. One must opt to adapt and to refine some of the ways to interact. .

Burlap Family Quote Pillows

2013-02-07T07:32:00.000-08:00

Hello readers! its been a while, I been busy making a new collection of text pillows as the first one has been sold and found appreciation. Shopping for new materials for my shop toke most of the time. So here is a little idea about the new items: I love burlap fabric and how it can fit to all designs and colors. I choose burlap in my recent pillow collection to print text/ quotes on them in both black and white, using a special textile (waterproof) paint. This photo collage right here is one my recent items. You can check the 3 recent listed items on my Etsy shop : Our Nest , This Is Our Happy Place, Family Quote. For those who love to create and do house projects this can be a good DIY tip for you . I hope I will be done very soon with taking photos, listing, branding and making packages for the new sale.

And finally the good news is... I will be rewarding my loyal readers with a GIVEAWAY! Yes Yes ..as I said a giveaway.. I am working on it at the moment and I am preparing the next post where you guys can try your luck to win Frimoo Designer Glasses until then, you guys should have a wonderful weekend..

Everything is better handmade

2013-01-29T06:03:00.002-08:00

Hello lovely readers, Thank you all for the sweet comments on my new painting Happy Mask. As you might have seen in my previous posts, I started making DIY projects (Home Decor) last few months besides painting. I also made some framed posters and handmade cards. I am planning to add these new items to my Etsy shop apart from art works. So here I share with you some of those mentioned handmade projects. Most of these items has been sold already because they were seasoned with the Christmas Holiday , as the winter animal prints, and Family ( Home sweet home ) quotes, Greek-key and now I am about to start making new designs.

I see now days that the ( text-quote ) pillows are becoming very popular, as well as animal or shapes prints (like the two animal prints pillows you see above here) because they fit to all type of interior designs and are flexible anywhere in the house and can be given as gifts with nice notes to remember.

Apart from supporting women´s small business, they always say "everything is better handmade!" original and made from the heart :-)

New Painting

2013-01-21T12:19:00.000-08:00

Hello buddies! I hope you are having a wonderful week.. Last week I made my first sale on Etsy, The Flamingo Party painting was sold and shipped to U.S. All went smooth, perfectly on time and the painting found appreciation of the buyer which is a big thing for me. Now I am glad to announce the new born painting of mine Happy Mask. In this work of art I choose only bright and happy colors, inspired by the so called law of attraction and positive thinking.

I am planning now to focus more on my painting and creativity skills and try to organize and grow My.Paintings And Tales the shop, associated with the recent decor style, holidays and the up coming events such as valentines ext.. I will be creating a collection of valentine cards this year to help share the love with an original artistic touch. Cards will be originally handmade of watercolor and will be frame-able, signed and dated by the artist.

Looking forward to hear your opinion!!

ZUCCHINI BREAD

2013-01-18T06:11:00.001-08:00

Hello dear readers, I hope you all had a wonderful week and looking forward for the weekend relief. Here I have this lovely recipe to try for Sunday breakfast, afternoon tea time or to be served with warm winter soups. If you love baking in the weekend this post is for you. I hope you enjoy it ..

Ingredients:

1 medium zucchini, grated
2 eggs, beaten
2 tsps vanilin sugar (alternatively, normal sugar with 1 tsp vanilla extract)
1 cup self-raising flour
2/3 cup crushed walnuts
A pinch of ground nutmeg
1 tbsp demerara sugar (coarse sugar) – optional for toppings

(Note: Less liquid will be generated from the zucchini when you coarsely grate it – which I have done. And because of that, I added 2 tbsps of milk to moisten the batter; On the other hand, if you finely grate it, more liquid will be generated and therefore longer baking time.)

Method:

Preheat oven to 170 degrees C / 338 degrees F
Combine all ingredients and transfer into a greased loaf tin. Refrigerate for 5 minutes.
Just before baking, sprinkle the loaf with walnuts and demerara sugar.

Bake for 35 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
Allow to cool before serving.

Habits

2013-01-12T03:44:00.003-08:00

Hello buddies! I hope you all having a wonderful weekend. Today Is the second SUNNY day in row, what a bless. I often get depressed when its foggy and gray. Its been two months exactly now since I moved here and started establishing a new life style to adapt.

Speaking of life style today I wanna share with you some pieces of a book I read few months ago called the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I learned a new concept and a perspective from the book that I am putting to action at the moment. Changing your habits means changing yourself and if you have a plan to become the ideal you, you gotta start from your habits to achieve that goal. Personally because I like challenging myself always, I added changing habits and considered it a hard task I am going to get done. So I changed my daily routine few weeks ago as follows ; working out everyday, having my last meal ( dinner ) at 5 pm, drinking coffee only once a day without sugar, drinking lots of water and milk (Newly), drink only herbal tea in the evenings, I already don't drink soda. I no longer have cakes and unhealthy snacks (Fika) between meals. I study and keeping my goal to read two books every week.

Now the habits I am still struggling to change is the sleeping and waking times. For useful fun activities I am starting from today to practice piano and guitar in my free time instead of playing Sims or other computer games...ex.. Its so easy to learn anything from the web now days, no need for teachers or trainers. All you will need is your good will..

If you wanna have an idea about the book, here is a summary for you! Enjoy

Från min svenska dagbok

2013-01-07T10:10:00.000-08:00

Jag är glad att jag kan gå till gymmet varje dag. när jag börjat träna för då mår jag mycket bättre. Denna vecka planerar jag träna varje dag. Jag kommer också att måla igen.. och göra lite andra kreativa saker.

Jag försöker studera några timmar om dagen, men nu jag kommer att skriva ner ett schema för att organisera mina studier tiden för att lära 20 nya ard per dag.

*******

This is a small part of my my Swedish diary for today. I am starting to challenge myself by writing full paragraphs as a summery of each day so I can manage to remember the new verbs and words I learn . As well as the spelling..I am still very shy to speak, I try that sometimes but I was told that its better to just listen more, read and write at the moment. Apart from studding I watch movies with Swedish subtitle, And write down notes, I listen to the local radio and all conversations of people around me carefully. Its only a matter of time..

DIY: Greek-key Pillow

2013-01-03T02:23:00.002-08:00

Hello lovelies! I am finally done with this challenging home project making Greek-key pillows. I adore how the Greek- Key design make the spaces look very luxurious and classic. The project was harder then I thought. I've searched the web and saw that some people use fabric tape to create this type of shapes easily, but I guess I have done it the hard way using water proof color for fabric to fill up the space I designed before on plastic paper, draw and cut the needed lines and stick it on the fabric. It was very hard to make the exact needed line on the fabric and not having some color drops over spilled on the corners. So it took me a while to adjust the lines. Here you can take a look at the second photo, it shows the steps I toke making my DIY Greek-Key pillow!

Do you like to challenge yourself and make new things? craft projects, sewing or embroidery ext.. I would like to hear your ideas..

OXOX

2012 Goodies

2013-01-02T05:05:00.002-08:00

Hello dear readers! I hope you all had a great holiday and celebrated the new year in a wonderful way with your families and loved ones. I am glad to welcome the new year with gratitude for the grace and the attachments I made in the last year. I am proud to announce that I completed my reading goal for 2012, to read 30 books about mixed subjects. It was done just in time and I finished the last book right on 30 December. Reading is always my same goal for every new year because to me its like installing new data or software to the brain..

2012 was very challenging for me, but above all I found my way to joy, balance and happiness.. I squeezed myself, I tried new things, I learned how to quit bad habits and replace them with good ones, release my fears and phobias and focus on what is good for me. I had to make hard decisions and make no room for regrets. I confess I made some mistakes but life doesn't come with instructions, we all learn from mistakes. After all I only count the goodies of each year, And now I found a new creative way to keep track on my achievements and great moments in my life by making a memories jar;

Start the year with an empty

jar and fill it with notes about good things that happen.

Then, on New Years Eve, empty it and see what awesome

stuff happened that year. Good way to keep things in perspective.

Begin with your jar today!

Happy New Year 2013

2012-12-31T02:58:00.002-08:00

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

~Neil Gaiman

Replanting myself in a new ground

2012-12-30T03:39:00.002-08:00

The new year on doors and I wont be talking resolutions this time because I already started ticking of things off my list week ago. As you read in my previous post, Mexico trip was just a dream and I am still in winter wonderland. Sometimes it feels like living inside a snow glass ball, only the trees reminds me that I am still on earth, as I used to know it! Well, I shouldn't really exaggerate because as a true believer of the evolution ( theory ) I have always dreamed of moving to new parts of the world and experience how is it like to replant myself in a new ground :-) . See even animals grow more fur when they are moved to cold places.. I tell myself if the nature has it, so do I.... excuse my geek thoughts!

I know very well that the first few months in any new place is always very challenging. No one likes CHANGE except small babies... Its not new for me and I remember the DEPRESSION days I had when I first moved to Turkey. I remember very well how awful I felt the first months and how my mind kept resisting the idea of excepting new things.. language, people, food, even the atmosphere had a new smell. And instead my senses was reminding me of old places, habits and all the things to miss from my home town. I gotta admit that I passed that stage very long time ago and I am at whole process of radical change. All I need is patient..

Happy new year, And dare to follow your dreams..