We recycle.

I have created these wonderful t-shirts for Recolamp, this past week. Their beloved green people that show us how we can take care of our world, the light bulbs and neon tubes which we can recycle, nature and confused giraffe finding out all about living responsible, they are all painted with bio water-based acrylics on organic cotton... a manifesto for a healthier life.

If you want to know more and have a fun time painting with me, you can visit ADfel this week.

It is good to be back, have a lovely week everyone!

The inside news...

... are about a lot of giraffes and green people and recycling. Here's a small preview of the project I am working on, I will be showing you the t-shirts at the end of the week. Until then can you guess what else is in the picture?

a. cars, sea, light bulb;
b. tree, light bulb, green people;
c. cat, light bulb, green people.

Answer correctly by making a comment and if in luck, you can win two shopper bags!

Hint: there's no cat involved this time, unfortunatelly.

Hi, I bike.

I lived for a while in a country where biking was not an odd lifestyle. There were serious laws protecting it, there were alleys making it possible and on the whole, biking was a normal means of transportation.
I wish it was like that in Romania and for now, until social and political big wheels turn to make biking normal for us too, we are rolling just to make people aware and show it can be done.

So, come have fun on the 29th and 30th of August at Bike-in.
We can make it!

Tell me...

... how many cool weddings have you attended this summer?
kittens have been to a lot of them!

DIY: Curtains.

I am not such a big fan of curtains, but I have always dreamed of having colored light in the room, changing throughout the day. Not finding the exact ready-made curtains in the store, I decided to make them myself and if you have two hours and the will to design your home, you can do it yourself too. So here goes...

Find the fabric you want and measure it correctly. I chose red, green and beige for a very soft fabric that can hang loose. Of course, you can create it in how many colors and pieces you wish :)

Cut a few pieces which will be the hangers. Fold each in half, sew then bring on the right side and close with a stitch. This will hide the raw edges.

I chose a strong stitch to give the edge a nice finish. I sewed along the edges of the fabric, then I got rid of the loose threads by cutting them out.

I added the hangers...

... and simply turned them into bows. Cute, huh? Then I continued with the other pieces of fabric...

... and hanged them as well by making knots...

... and now I have my colored ever changing light!
Like it... or love it? :)

Sometimes...

... I wonder what have I done so good to deserve all the beautiful things in my life... The joy of having the job that I love and being able to do it freely, the joy of meeting my old friends and feel like ten years only passed in a second, the joy of remembering past dreams and creating new ones and following them.

If you are able to dream, check out Trigwee, an honest and happy place where people write their dreams, inspire others and feel inspired to make their dreams real.
And dreaming is free...

Yaaaay!

This embrace.

I had a dream last night. There was my mom in it just like she was 18 years ago, oh, it's such a long time... I went and gave her a hug. I wanted to protect her and tell her she was not alone and I could come to her to give my love anytime. I loved her 18 years ago and I love her now, and in this embrace I recreated a moment among our best times, when I cared deeply although I knew things were so tough for her: the responsibility of bringing me up, going to work even when she didn't like it, waking up every morning and smiling through hard times.

In this embrace, there were all the holidays that she offered me above the difficulties, there was the abandonment of self in order to take care of me. Maybe she did not know how to take care of both of us, but she chose to take care of me and I know now she did her best.
In this embrace there were all the wrongs that we left behind and forgave.

I believe life was so hard for her, but the most important thing is that she never gave up.
In this embrace I told her I was on my own now and I could take care of myself.
And this embrace is the most beautiful thing and I am happy to be able to make it, then and now.
No matter what happens, we'll always have this embrace.

Last night...

... after the rain, everything looked colourful. There were light-blue thoughts and memories, there were golden stars to reach, there were pink feelings wandering through light.

And those purple kittens filling up the streets, last night.