Nothing else matters

Yule, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

Best wishes and happy holidays to all my friends and blog readers.
Wish you all peace and joy and lots of good times with the ones you love.

We had our celebration of the winter solstice last night.
It was a wonderfull night, together with our pagan friends. The yule ritual was joyfull and touched my soul.

I never know what I like the most; being with my friends, the ritual, the presents, the good food, the fire all night, the trance, the games we play, to see the sun come at dawn. So much to like...

The one thing I don't like is to always learn new songs, and the worst is that I have to sing them. My voice sounds like an old crow :-)
But I love very much to hear my friends sing.

***Wandering in the deep of the night

A thousand birds take flight
And our dreams are born on the wings of change
We are weaving the world tonight***

May all the weavers of the world be blessed and find joy in their work.
Love, Elisa

Nothing else matters - Metallica

Dreamer

Dreamer, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

Last night I had this dream about cupcakes in Paris.
Made this little collage to remind me.

I'm just a dreamer, dreaming my life away.
Oh Yeah!

Dreamer - Ozzy Osborne

Waiting for a miracle

Daisy, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

...but nothing ever happens.

Waiting for a miracle - The Comsat Angels

You move me

You move me, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

Sometimes life is more surreal than usual.

This week I had a visit from a sweet girl who saw my work and blog. She had a vision in church of a "little jesus" doll. She had big, wonder full plans, to make together with a group woman's from India a lot of them. Sell them, and give back a big part of the profit to people in need.
Sweet dream...

So optimistic and sure she's got help from above. To me, it was a joy to see, but I really wonder what the catholic church puts on 'the body of Christ' these days. Some LSD maybe? (not offending here, just a joke :-)

The surreal aspect was in the illusion of this world we live in.

She, a catholic, believing in heaven and hell. Dark forces, that can jump upon you if you do bad things like rotating a glass. Things jumping in and out of aura's.2012 as a year the world will change; energies on a higher level. Only see the light...

Things that sound like a mixture of church learned fear and buggery bullocks new age crap to me.

And myself, a so claimed pagan, member of a witches coven. Feeling divinity in all. Have a direct connection to it. Make up my own rituals,or even my own goddesses and gods. Draw down the moon. Not afraid of the dark more than the light. Both are equal valuable to me and to be found everywhere. I don't believe in a devil but I do believe in Pipi Longstocking. Use oracles and scrying whenever I feel like it. Protect myself on my bike with a pink chewing gum shield all around me. Meditate. Use a Egyptian Spell to make my own healing water.But most of all, do a lot of grounding practice. Roots down, branches up.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the strangest of us all?

We sure were two fine examples of the modern day spirituality.
I truly believe there are as much as religions as there are people.
I want to put my attention on the resemblance between people, not the differences. And we had some good laughs this afternoon, so I like to help her, by giving her design a shape.

The whole thing made me laugh like a Buddha, little silly humans.
Sweet dreams of dancing the global spiral dance to all wanderers.

You move me -The Comsat Angels

Shut Up

Pinocchio shadow, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

There is a big difference between inspiration and hard work and imitation!

My dear friend Sandra from Herzensart wrote a blog post about her designs being copied and sold on craft markets.
That makes me so mad. Her works are so sweet, wonderfully crafted, she gives them her heart and soul, her Herzensblut .

And then some stupid cow makes a bad imitation of it, and sells them.
That's so easy and cheap, surf a little on the Internet and copie.
This witch wishes the people who do this bad sex for the rest of their lives!

Just now, I'm busy to design some softies. And if you see the book with my design, you don't see the 50 little drawings I have made, the ten softies I have made before the right one is there. My attempts to write a pattern...
To make them for your own purpose is of course great, but to sell them... (remember: bad sex forever!#). This witch is one of my designs that is not going to be the one.

To all stupid copycats, get a life, make your own designs, or no more magic in the bedroom!

And to Sandra, please go on with your great work, and you're a real artist. May your life always be full with magic.

Shut up - Kelly Osbourne

Stir it up

Stir it up, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

Last night Paul and I had the best time in our favorite local pub. It's called Bluff. I visit it maybe once a month since I was 15 years old. So that makes like 250 great evenings (or more) in 23 years. Drunk a 1000 beers, smoked 10.000 cigarettes in there. (I like my numbers).

And had lots and lots of fun, cannot remember ever shed a tear in this place. It's small and friendly, with just the best friends. It's the place where I can go alone and feel safe and comfortable. And can have a nice talk with someone, great people, as colorful as we humans come.

Telling you about it brings back so many happy memories, I made a fool out of myself so many times there and did not gave a shit about it. And the people around me just smiled and liked me anyway.
Makes me feel really blessed to have a place and friends like this in my life.

Yesterday one of the best woman in town, my dear friend Anke was Dj SkankinAnk, great reggae and alike music.

I'll raise my glass high for all the people I had and have fun with, may you all be blessed and happy.
And shed a tear for Suzanne, know that your a shining star for ever in my universe.

Stir it up- Bob Marley

Staring at the sun

Opening night Kunstsupermarkt, originally uploaded by Tuttebel.

The opening of the Kunstsupermarkt was very crowded and it was really hot in there.So much people, which is of course great but not easy to see and get a taste of the works. Lots of different things, overwhelming for me.I'll go back later this week to have a better look. We walked round, met nice artists and saw my works in different places amongst the others. I really like to make a world of my own, have a little corner or room (or the whole museum space with my show, dream on...).
This supermarket is just to get first impressions of what the artists do. Maybe buy a piece you like and remember favorite artist names, do a little Google and then discover new worlds for your soul.

The first photo shows some of the space and my daughter, who never wants her photo to be taken.In the second you see my fun time clock end up on the floor of a living room white space - in the supermarket!?

The little painting is from Tanja Ritterbex, we met at art school, she had her graduation show in the room next to mine. She is such a happy, funny girl and I totally love her joyful work. And a photo from the sweet girl herself. www.tanjaritterbex.com

The last two are from a big painting being made during the show. If you liked a part you could chose a frame, cut out the piece you liked. Pay for it and take home. Paul got himself a part of the cursing driver :-), for 5 Euro, he is now the proud owner of a original Erik Habets. I liked this very much, great project from Toon Verwegen, Francois Salden and Erik Habets. Smart young artists!

If you live nearby, check it out! www.stadsgalerijheerlen.nl

Staring at the sun - Wendy&Lisa