deliciously dismembered

luz

Let's not mention I have been an elusive ninja, should we? Let's not point out Easter has been colder than Christmas this year (meteorological fact), should we? Let's also ignore the fact I am home feeling bleh the moment we have four days off and the sun is gloriously shining out there (icy cold but shiny and bright). Should we ignore that too?
Okay then. Let's just talk LIGHT. Yes. Welcome, welcome, we have missed you. Are you here to stay? Are you? Splendid.

Here are a few random snippets of light and reflections taken in the last couple of weeks. Even subway stations are beautiful right now.  
SPRING! Bring it on.

 

malenconia, heimwee, morriña, homesickness, saudade, mal du pays...

SUMMER BARCELONA from Pau García Laita on Vimeo.

I have no time to post the promised Portuguese & Mexican pics at the mo. However, I do not want to abandon this space for too long so here is a fab tilt-shift video that nearly made me cry yesterday. That nostalgic yearning sometimes, ei...

wanderlust

Some travel pictures coming up soon. I spent last weekend in Lisbon. Utter ♥.

(Image via here)

esos cielos otoñales...

More skies. 
I have not been doing much more than working, writing and observing lately. So here is what I have been seeing in the evening out of my living room window. 
I looooove those skies. I do not love the fact autumn (and by default winter immediately after) is on its way. But the skies, the skies I adore.

 

Another two I just found. Also taken in Amsterdam (different bit of the city) in August.

ay, autumn (+ belated tomareness)

Well, hello there. 
Should I say it? Go on then: "long time, no ninja". Ah, this ninja never tires of repeating herself.

Right, what has happened lately? Lots and not much at the same time, I suppose. Like in everyone else's life, right? Ups, downs, ins and outs. I had a pretty rough beginning of the year and it has taken its toll in many ways but it is onwards and upwards and... What do you know? Autumn is already knocking at the door. That sneaky bugger.

Here is some proof.

I have also been on hols in Mexico lindo y queridooooooo, which I seriously needed and which involved attending a friend's wedding, which was a blast.

Just before I left though, I got a lovely package from a lovely knitting geologist from Italy. It was the corner to corner tenugui. Unfortunately I was packing a rucksack and had no time right then but I have sent my pressies on now. Joanne's tomare tenugui made it safely to the north of the Netherlands this week to a fluttery, airy, light household.
On it goes, around the world.

Thanks so much again. I loved the parcel. The only thing is that being the stressed out ninja that I was before the hols, I never properly posted about it. Here it is now. Better late, 'ey.

it's so fluffeeeeeeee

go. now.

Seriously. Leave whatever you are doing and hit the nearest cinema.
I am not telling you much as I hate helping build up the wrong sort of expectation (plus it opened Cannes so, it is not exactly a secret film project).

Go. Now. What are you waiting for? All of you: big and small.

work and play

How cool is it that I was about to post this vid I got from the boy (and he, in turn, via wimp, a favourite of his) when I thought I had not checked what the theme for c.v. this week was.

"Work and play", it happens to fit perfectly. Hooray.

I really love the teacher's attitude throughout the whole thing. Particularly at the very end. Class (and this pun was really not intended).

Ms. c.v. hostess lives here

if only...

... one did not forget.

Those last two. Bloody hell, so highly applicable.

Fab illustration by Wendy MacNaughton.

hindsight

A print I bought as a present a few years ago and still love every time I see it hanging on the wall, which is often. (Print by Keep Calm Gallery)

More hindsight -or not, at today's cv. Rest of entries to be found at fuoriborgo.

(I am a very fickle participant... Just stating a fact :)

stuff & things

 

A couple of bits and bobs for this cajón (de)sastre.
I very much dig the design for these Amsterdam fish restaurant's business cards, as well as the packaging for these Ethiopian matches and chewing gum.

icy wonderdam

Finally some icy pics. Hoorah. I was planning on posting them much earlier (they were taken a fortnight ago) but hey, ninja time flies.

Will you look at the shadows everyone is casting (on a frozen solid canal!) It was gorgeous. Overexposed and unedited telephotony does not do it justice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was just a quick snap moment from this privileged vantage point (not my apartment). I love the sound of klunen (walking on skates off the ice) on the city cobblestones.
We also stayed well clear of the winter wonderland circus that formed in the city centre and headed to the North of Amsterdam. Following pics taken around/on the Ij.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next post, Barcelona in February. Winter sun from another corner of Europe.