It is amazing how simple joys in life undo small nuances! Leo is starting to talk, saying B words like baby, ba-ooon (balloon), boool (ball), and this evening while he was eating a banana, he screamed out b-nana!!! These moments overjoy me and become memories I will treasure ...

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. {from the television show The Wonder Years}

Inspiration: origami paper crafts ...

I spent a good portion of yesterday evening folding colourful paper into origami hearts. I know it's a little late for Valentine's day, but I thought it would make for cute garland if I strung them, or perhaps incorporate them into wedding favours or decorations ... a little premature, but if I can get it done early I might as well!

{image courtesy of Paper Source}

Paper Source's How-to: recycled origami hearts offers some great ideas. Click here for their tutorial.

Some of my next origami projects ... These are all how-to videos, if you want to give them a try ...

Cherry Blossom Ku-Kusudama
Kusudama Flor
Flores de revista
Cherry Blossom Plate
Origami pouch {part 1} Origami pouch {part 2}

If you care to read the article I wrote for UPPERCASE magazine, Issue 8, you can find it here.

Check out ChrisJay's song CRUSH ...

This is Limbo brings art to the public, in the streets of Tel Aviv and worldwide ...

{Bless this Mess}

His art makes use of so many different techniques - sticking, cutting, sewing, painting, the precious link to the location, and interaction between the imaginary and the world.

My favourite sets are: 3-D Instillations and 3-D 2-D and Post Winter Lanterns

This is what he says about his Post Winter Lanterns ...

"before the winter over here started i handmade a series of about 200 lanterns out of paper, and lit the images stencilled on them with candles lighting them up: www.flickr.com/photos/thisislimbo/sets/7 2157600304155485/. but as the rain got more and more frequent, i thought i would postpone it until the weather was more sympathetic. now that it is, i thought about trying to make it a little more developed and the attached pics are what came out of it. all the brighter spaces are the candlelight shining through rice paper applied to a cut-out hole in the cardboard."

{Like Pigeons in the Rain}

"what i like about the lanterns is that it deals with the frail temporary aspect of putting up art in street. if i take the best case scenario (that nobody takes the piece after a short while and there are no extreme winds or rain) then the longest life span of these pieces will be that of the candles, which is probably just a few hours. therefore, when someone runs into it on the street they know that it was placed there not so long ago and they, by coincidence, got there in the small time frame that the piece was "active", hopefully giving them the feeling that it was placed there especially for them, and maybe guiding them, following them home and subtly lighting up their way."

Some more from This is Limbo ...

{To Retreat (Treading Through the Discarded Leftovers)}

{Bound Like Broken Birds (We All Go Down Together)}

{Feebled (With Humbled Hearts but Unable Limbs)}

{Confessing Currents}

{Know Hope - A Minor Bottle Rocket Set Out To a Minor Place}

Inspiration: the sleepy sweetness of the hellebores - I love the nodding cup shape of the hellebores which begs to be looked at more closely. The natural beauty and antique colours of these flowers lend themselves as the ideal flower for vintage or loose garden arrangements and bouquets ...

I brought home a wine colour hellebore and took a few photos of this beauty ...


I scanned the hellebore as well, another for my botany set ...

Cold days are dreary, but can be creatively productive ... I painted at home this morning ...


This is why I love my job - We had a bit of a lull at work yesterday morning, so we made these cute mini-signs for display in the shop, mostly props to handwriting genius Lauren ...

Some tulips in bold colours sitting on our front counter, which made the cold day a lot brighter and spring seem a little nearer ...