Brincadeira

Doodles da madrugada

Enquanto os amigos não chegam...

Sunday Morning

Meanwhile, at the lab/kitchen...

urucum seeds ( Bixa orellana )

** This post should had been posted already, but ended at the draft files. Well, sorry for that, it hapens, I guess. As I intend to be posting updates from that, I thought it would be worth doing posting this now.

Fazendo experiências com tingimento natural usando sementes de urucum em banho solar.

Experimenting with natural dyeing using Urucum seeds. Preparing the bath under the sun ( after all I live in a tropical country right?)

Pausa / On a brake

reconstrução - rebuilding from scratch

Meus queridos amigos, como vocês provavelmente já perceberam, este blog está passando por um momento de pausa. De início, por causa de algumas questões pessoais com que tive que lidar ano passado e então, como resultado disso, a necessidade de uma profunda revisão sobre minha vida profissional, o que me trouxe ao uma reforma total.

Então, não haverão novas postagens neste blog por um tempo ainda, e perdoem-me por ter demorado tanto tempo para escrever isto aqui! Assim que eu tiver organizado e colocado em prática ( importante isso!) os novos planos ( em 1 ou 2 semanas no máximo) eu voltarei, e para aqueles que estiverem interessados eu prometo contar um pouco desse processo e dos resultados ( que já são muito bons), e, o meu diário naturalista finalmente pronto!!

Se você quiser ser avisado sobre quando isto vai acontecer, é só adicionar meu contato no Facebook ( Glaucia Burgi). Eu vou anunciar por lá.

Espero encontrá-los novamente e mais uma vez, perdoem-me por tê-los deixado tanto tempo sem notícias.

Obrigada por sua amizade, significa muito para mim!

Enquanto isso, Sejam Felizes e continuem criando!

Até breve!

My first attempt to papercut design, inspired by ElsaMora's

My dear friends, as you probably noticed already, this blog is on a break moment. First, because of some personal issues I  had to deal with last year and then, as a result, a deep review on my approach to my professional life which led me to a full makeover.

So, there won't be new posts in this blog for while, and I'm sorry taking so long to write this here! As soon as I have sorted out the new plan and putting it into practice ( this is an important part :P ) I'll be back here (in 1 or 2 weeks), and for those who could be interested, I promise bringing the results of this review moment and also, this nature journal finally finished! :D

If you would like to be warned when that happens, just add me on Facebook ( Glaucia Burgi). I'll announce there when I'm back to business.

I do hope to meet you again and once more, sorry for letting you so long without news.

Thanks for your friendship, it means a lot to me!

Meanwhile, Be Happy and Keep your Creative Mojo on!

baby Columbina talpacoti in my backyard getting ready to sleep after leaving his nest

See you soon!

Nature Journal - In the Making - Part 2

This handmade journal is meant to be my winter nature journal and at first had a simple plan to make it easy and fast, in order to have it ready for the winter solstice.

Well, thing is that new ideas came up while I was cutting and sewing the signatures and I couldn't help myself but complicating it a bit more ( Ha! Like if I could do differently!).

I thought a fabric cover would be nice, but which fabric? Hmm... a blue one, with a rustic feeeling.. Ok.. I don't have any like that in blue... let's choose one and paint. 

And so I did, cut a piece of natural cotton, middle weight, found a brush and some leftover blue silk paint from my stash and a blue fabric was done. Using this paint is part of a goal I set myself this year, on putting to good use the old supplies that are forgotten in some hidden place at the studio.

Cool! It's a beautiful blue, this one.. (although, it's not a good photo to show it, but anyway.. you've got the idea :)

Hmm..now.. it's calling for something else.. maybe a printed pattern? Yes.. definitely a printed pattern. 

Which one? 

Searched through my handcarved stamps.. none that suits me...maybe the ready made ones? Nopes.. nothing like what I imagined. 

Ok, let's make one, then.

I took a precious little german book on wildflowers, a small treasure that I won from T's grandma, got some inspiration, sketched a few little flowers, chose one. 

That's it. Let's carve it.

After some tests, I was pretty much satisfied with the stamp. 

So, time to print! The color choice was easy, I had it clear in my mind already, as I really like the effect of white on blue.

And there it is! Done.

I had a lot of fun doing all this and I'll probably repeat the process other times, to have some different and personalized fabrics prepared. I do like some of the beautiful designer's commercial printed fabrics, and I have quite a few, I have to say, but when I am creating from scratch I think the results I get translate much better what I had in mind and what I am able to create. (not to mention how fun it is to try out our skills on different techniques :P )

Now, what's next? Ah, ok.. making the cover :)

It's a doggy life!

                     Oh, it's a hard hard life ... :D                              Ô vida difícil! :D