Lucy’s coloring book

It’s got really busy with preparation for Christmas and doing art. I am bravely keeping up with #carveDecember. Until now I haven’t missed a single day and I plan to keep it that way until the end of the year. Here are the stamps 21-24; the light is bad again – these days we don’t see the sun at all, so even during the day it’s not possible to make a decent photo. Besides, I carve the stamps usually early in the morning or in late afternoon, so it’s the lamp light for photos. I will make a video once the month is complete, so I hope to capture them all in better light.

Anyway… The first one is a garbage stamp, double-sided, of course:

The second one is the same:

And then I decided I need another snowflake. It was a bit difficult to carve those thin bits, but I am rather happy how it turned out. I am still on that same defective piece of rubber, you can see that it does not stamp perfectly.

And the fourth one I carved today. This is the last piece of that same rubber and here it looks fine, probably I carved out all the bad parts. This was quite time-consuming to carve, but I am really happy with it.

That’s it for today’s post. We will be preparing a nice dinner (Mother is just putting the meat to roast). I made a carrot cake yesterday. Christmas is one of rare occasions for baking cakes (the other two being New Year and two birthdays). When the meat is done, we will put our dinner in front of the TV and watch Netflix until we can’t keep our eyes open. And yes, we will also drink a bottle of champagne and get a bit tipsy. That’s the big plan for tonight!

I wish you all a Merry Christmas!

And yet another snowflake. I finished this  one tonight, hence the low quality photo. It was impossible to get it done earlier because I was in the office and there was anyway almost no light today.

The weather is just awful and temperature under zero. I went this morning to pick up my driving licence. Tomorrow I take Mother to the doctor and that’s all errands done for 2016 I hope.

Another little double-sided garbage stamp. It will make for a nice background.

I am back half-way. Was supposed to drive to Hungary, but it was too long, so I decided to stop in Slovenia and continue today. My cold worsened yesterday, and now I am starting to cough. The weather is bad: cloudy and cold and I saw a few snowflakes fly by. I hope it will not worsen, because driving in the snow is not fun.

This is another double-sided garbage stamp. And this is my last morning in Munich for this year. I will definitely come back in summer because there are so many things left to see.

Last night we went to this Brazilian grill place and I must say I was not all that thrilled. It was ok but nothing special, too much meat too much salt and very expensive. I am not sure if I would like to go again…

Now, packing awaits me. We will drop by to my friend’s place for breakfast and then leave. It’s a five hours drive back home…

I love this one! It’s another garbage stamp, really small but I  made it double-sided. One side is square frame and the other little flower. It makes really happy pattern with these inks, I think.

Our third day in Munich. Last night we met a friend of mine and went for a dinner in a classical German tavern where they brew their own beer and serve great local food.

This morning I woke up with sore throat again at 5 am. I managed to go back to sleep and when I finally woke at 7 I was ok. So we went out to have a breakfast and cake and coffee in the center and then met my friend and went to visit the Olympic complex from 1972 Olympic Games. The weather was good, even sunny and it was a pleasant walk. 

We are now back to  the hotel gathering energy to go out for dinner. We will digress from the local food a bit and go visit a Brazilian  restaurant. I have never been to a Brazilian restaurant before and I thought it might be fun. Let’s see.

This piece of rubber is defective – see the white lines on the print!? It got creases from the packaging foil which is really bad because these blocks are not cheap and if someone is looking to make a perfect print they may be disappointed. I am not though this is good enough for art journaling.

We are in Munich and it’s very cold. We spent most of the day in the city, looking around and entering shops to warm up a bit. It was exhausting but the city is nice. Look:

Here are three garbage stamps done over the last three days:

Garbage stamps are carved from little pieces of leftover rubber that would otherwise be tossed away. Most of time they make surprisingly nice patterns.

I made it to Munich! The drive took 5 hours and it was ok. Now I am lying in bed contemplating how to get up and go to the centre and find Christmas market and get some food and wine. I am getting hungry, so no point in delaying it further. My throat is much better but the nose is stuffed and my head heavy… I hope a short outing will not kill me…

Two more snowflakes, what else…

This week I am working from home for three days and then going on holiday and we are traveling to Munich to visit a friend (I hope it will be that way because Mother has got a cold, and it does not look good at the moment).

It was a nice warm day today, but I did not go out. I decided to have a juicing day to clean up my liver a bit because my cholesterol results last week could have been better. It’s been fine until now and at 7 pm I am allowed some cooked vegetables. Before that I will go quickly to the post office to pay electricity bill and send one more happy mail. I may drop by the Art shop too… 😉