2 August 2014

august calendar

Hello there!
Here I am again posting my calendar one day late.
This illustration is based on myself and how I face summer those long summer days at the beach. I'm this really pale girl (like a vampire) who you will always find on the shade when I'm at the beach.
Hopefully some of you can relate to this too.
Enjoy your summer days and your vacations. I will surely enjoy mine.




2 July 2014

July Calendar

Hello there!

Just a quick post to share this months calendar. It was inspired by the hot july days but also by the days that were spent in Barcelona, where there was a lot of sun but less icecream than expected.
This month I did something I don't usually do: I created this illustration today, usually it takes me a little more time, two days at least, on and off, as I like to take my mind off it and come back later to see if I still like what I did.
But then I remembered why I started this project. It was to try different things and this month was different, so it's all good.

Hope you enjoy it

23 June 2014

Book Haul - Book Fair

Olá,

decidi voltar a escrever também em português, percebi que escrever só em inglês estava a bloquear-me, e eu, que já de mim não sou muito dada a grandes conversas, estava a escrever cada vez menos.

Ultimamente tenho sido muito pouco produtiva, a quantidade de coisas para fazer é cada vez maior e a vontade de as fazer é inversamente proporcional. Mas quanto menos faço mais triste me sinto, por isso estou numa espiral.
Partilhei isso com uma pessoa que me disse que podia tentar começar por fazer alguma coisa de que gostasse, que não parecesse uma obrigação e talvez assim conseguisse voltar a produzir.
Sobre esta última parte não sei, mas a verdade é que no passado sábado olhei para a pilha de livros que comprei este ano na Feira do Livro e que ainda não tinha arrumado e decidi fazer um vídeo para mostrar os novos tesouros que fazem agora parte da minha - ainda pequena colecção.

E foi divertido.


Hello,

I decided to restart writting in portuguese and translating it later because writting originally in english as it's not my main language and it's rusty so I always ended up writting a lot less than I wanted.

Lately I haven't been that productive. I have so many things to do that my will to them is close to none. But the less I do the sadder I feel, so it's a spiral, really.
I shared this with someone how told me that I could start by doing something that didn't feel like an obligation and that maybe that way I could restart being productive.
About that last part I still don't know yet but the truth is that last saturday I looked at this pile of books I bought at this years Book Fairand decided to make a video showing the new treasures that are now part od my little collection.
And it was fun to make.


3 June 2014

June Calendar

Hello there!

I really shouldn't blog only when the month begins and there's another calendar to share. In the last month I had little internet access, so there's that. Hopefully june will be better post wise.

Anyway, about this months calendar I totally forgot about it till may 30th, but here it is!
So it's june and half of the calendar illustrations are done. It actually feels great to realize that I was able to do it for six months, only six more to go. 
What is also great is the feedback I've been getting, there is a lot more people using my calendar than I ever expected, so that makes me happy...
Hopefully you'll find this calendar funny and it will make you happy too.
Enjoy!  


2 May 2014

May Calendar

It's that time of the month again.
April was a very special and busy month and flew by so fast. May promises to be busy too, let's see how it goes, also, I currently have no internet connection at home which is new to me and is the reason why this calendar comes two days late.
If you follow me on Instagram you may notice this months illustration is based on an illustration I did to give my mother on Mother's day (I'll post about it later). Mothers are so important that one day to commemorate them is not enough, how about a full month?

Hope you like it.

13 April 2014

36 days of type



Hello there!

This is a post to tell you about a project I'm participating in. It's called 36 days of type and it's just what the title says, you're supposed to create a different letter (and after that, the numbers) every day.
I only heard about it the day it started and since one of my goals is to train my typography skills, this seemed like a good idea. Not so much when I think about all the actual work I have to finish but I'll keep doing it until I can't. This is supposed to be a very busy month, not the greatest time to start a new project but we'll see how it goes.














You may notice the D letter is missing, that's because I didn't like what I created, maybe I'll go back and redo it latter.

6 April 2014

sunday is take-photos-of-your-pets day

Hello there!
Today I had the rare opportunity to be alone with my pets all morning and they were so quiet - which is ever rarer, believe me - that I could photograph them, something I don't usually do because they hate it.
They never appeared on the blog though they've made a few aperances on instagram, so let me introduce them. These are Dori, a two year old completely out of her mind beagle, and Rafa, a 9 year old stray cat.