It´s been busy, busy, and I haven´t felt like posting much. Sorry.
One thing that has been on my mind is the (long overdue) portfolio website redo. Oh dear. I wonder if I´m alone in this, but just thinking about having to change it makes my heart shrink a bit. It´s not that I don´t think it needs to be updated - it´s just that working on something that I can´t control (because I don´t know enough when it comes to web design) and therefore takes me three times longer than it should makes want to jump off my 49th floor balcony. Ok, not so literally, but you get my drift.
Other than that, it´s still kind of weird not to have four seasons, but only two: it´s still pretty much rainy, terribly wet all the time. Not too hot, though, which is fine. It´s almost the end of the year and I don´t feel it around me. No yellow leaves on the floor (as during my northern hemisphere days) nor purple jacaranda trees (as in Buenos Aires), so sometimes I must check the calendar just to be sure. It´s November. It´s chestnut and fireplace time in Portugal.
Anyway, enough about this. Here´s some of the things I managed to do on my breaks from my design projects:
This is my third attempt at knitting a Christmas present for someone mysterious - can´t say that person´s name as he or she does not know he or she is a recipient of a knitted gift.
The first finished sweater was too small (but too cute to frog); the second one was rightly sized, but not well designed; therefore, frogged.
This is the third go. We´ll see how it goes.
We use cloth napkins at home and needed our stocks refilled, so I bought some native kuna design fabrics (100% cotton, unfortunately not organic) and sewed a pretty simple hemline on them. There´s a learning curve in sewing, people!
And I finally started painting again. This time, there´s no class, no studio, no model, just me, my brushes and the beautiful view from the balcony. We´ll see where that takes us.
What have you been up to lately?
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I have been feeling the same thing with the weather this year too. This is my first year in Beirut and while it is definitely always warmer than NYC where I came from it is apparently unseasonably warm this year. It's 84 degrees here today! While I'm not really complaining, because I do love warm weather, it really doesn't seem like December is just around the corner. It still feels like summer.
It´s amazing how weather changes are so much of a time reference, right?
I find it difficult to get "in the mood for Christmas" when all I can think about is how hot it is and how I want to be near the sea.
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