Tuesday: Spring! Letters, cards and butterflies! ~ Пролет! Писма, картички и пеперуди!

Happy Spring people!!! 

The mood and aroma is in the air. Although here there is no winter season at all, I mean no cold, no snow and no beautiful white mountains, it is noticeable that the weather is getting warmer. The trees are greener, some of them with first flowers. the sun is really warming and invites to go outside. The birds are going  crazy in the mornings and the first insects are showing. 

Talking about insects...Is there a person in the world who doesn't love butterflies? I surely do. Along with my all time favourite dragonflies. So when I got a wonderful letter with some hand-drawn butterflies I got my muse and created these cards. I hope that you like them.

The letter... :")

...and the cards I made. The figures are cut by hand with normal cutter. It took me quite some time... the cardboard is really thick.

And I am still looking for home for the cards in this post. If somebody wants them they are still free and come with four themed gift tags. 

Photos: me

Tuesday: Las Fallas/ Les Falles Introduction

So... it is the time. The biggest party will be held in Valencia. Today I was going for a walk in the city centre and I saw for the first time some of this year "fallas/falles". I shall say that those are beautiful, hand-crafted to perfection, detailed sculptures from paper and wood that will be burned to ashes in The night of Fire /Nit de foc/ of 19 of March.

For brief description of this Valencian Phenomenon I will cite Wikipedia:

The Falles (in valencian) or Fallas (in Spanish) are a Valencian traditional celebration in praise of Saint Joseph in Valencia, Spain. The term Falles refers to both the celebration and the monuments created during the celebration. A number of towns in the Valencian Community have similar celebrations inspired in the original one from the city of Valencia.

Each neighbourhood of the city has an organized group of people, the Casal faller, that works all year long holding fundraising parties and dinners, usually featuring the famous speciality paella. Each casal faller produces a construction known as a falla which is eventually burnt. A casal faller is also known as a comissió fallera.

The name of the festival is thus the plural of falla. The word's derivation is as follows: 

falla ← Vulgar Latin *facla ← Latin facula (diminutive) ← Latin fax, "torch".  

And some photos of the marvels! Enjoy!

A small boy with a paper plane...

The joke of marriage. Quite sarcastic. down there was written mortgage...

...check Lady and The Tramp Italian dinner :")

The little helpers.

This one is my favourite... the hair is unbelievable. And the colours...

Scare Crow...

Really cute with those paper cranes

The oficial Falla at the City Hall Square. The theme here is "sports"

Detail of the girl.

And Mascleta: a show for pyromaniacs during the day. Check the multitude.

All photos are mine with no colour correction or effects :")

Wednesday: Art, Blogs and Fast ride down the endless abyss?

Ok. It is the middle of the week already. The projects are  going slow, painfully slow...and all I do as always is surfing in the World Wide Web, reading my mail, reading some nice blogs, learning new things which I do not need right in the moment, but who cares...after all to be an architecture student is whole new way of life, an abundance of new feelings and things all the ride down to the abyss...

As I was reading diagonally over some nice pages in the net and some books I own, I got these new interesting facts:

• Wednesday is actually named after the Norse God Odin.(the same one who is Chief God of Asgard, God of War and Victory, Skies, and tends to get angry easily). His other name is  Woden or Wotan. It  is related to the word "odr" with the meaning of rage, agitation but also means mind and poetry. The middle day of the week is also referred as "hump day". So if the work week is a mountain, this would be its peak. And what comes after it... yep, the downfall!
  
• Numerology! My favorite number is 6, but as I was searching trough one old book I found that my number is 5. And it is not only 5 because my birthday date, but for my name too...it was quite interesting to find that my beloved Nev also has the same number. The meaning of it is "Freedom and Discipline"  and it bears these qualities: multi sided and expansive nature with quick reaction towards the outside world. It is SO we!!!
  
  
• And for end of the post check this out! I found it really interesting and they have collection of "how to" craft guides...my latest passion is screen printing and they have the nicest explanation for newbies like me!
  
  Photo by: leonard-art
     

Страхотно време за разходки

Навън грее слънце, всичко е прясно измито от дъжда, птиците пеят... пролетно е! А аз съм закопана пред чертежите си и правя планове как да се измъкна за пет минути в парка. Наближава края на седмицата и пропорционално с това се покачва моя пословичен мързел. Понякога това ми качество ме побърква.

Единственото положително за днес е, че отскочих до един художнечески магазин и закупих 10тина нови четки за рисуване, малко акрил в ярки цветове, дървени мъниста и... воала...ето го резултата:

Дано ми остане малко време събота, за да допълня колекцията.