October Theme: "Autumn in Japan"

Hello my dear friends and newest group members!

Autumn is here and finally I can see it on the streets, in the gardens and I can smell it in the air. Time had come to create something beautiful and as we already had the Autumn theme last year, I decided ( and you voted!) for this year's autumn to be in Japan. So this month's competition theme is:

"AUTUMN IN JAPAN"

I am very excited to make something autumn related and Japanese autumn is an example of extraordinary colours, beautiful gardens, amazing Geisha's dressed in autumn coloured kimonos, red bridges, terracotta pained architectural objects everywhere, beautiful Japanese pebble gardens with Koi fish and red, orange and yellow acer leaves, leaves everywhere!

Here is a little collage I made for you to get more inspiration and some useful links where you can explore Autumn in Japan and get creative!

Please enjoy and I hope to see a lot of amazing colourful artworks by the end of this October.

USEFUL LINKS:

Competition rules

Pinterest inspirations

Thank you,

Happy New Year 2014!

We have passed the 2013 number and it wasn't easy for me at all and I am sure some of you struggled through this year a bit or a lot too.. But it doesn't matter! 

"New year - new me!" 

This is what I always say to myself every year. I always imagine these two days (31st-1st) as a time machine, star gate, changing period, the whirlpool into a different reality. Things from 2013 must be dealt with, house needs to be clean, resolutions ready, all bad memories left behind...

I know that we can not even imagine what is waiting for us ahead in 2014. Are we going to be all right? No one knows. But we should definitely try and stay positive and creative. Positivity and creativity are like the shield and the sword that protects us in overcoming life circumstances, dealing with problems and becoming a better person.

So let's learn two self defence moves:

1) Block/smile to negativity.

2) Strike back with creativity.

2014 is a year of a blue horse and is supposed to bring luck and strenght into our goals, our achievements and our aims. So let us jump on this horse and ride it to the "El Destinazione Felicità"! (Destination Happiness).

If we would put all these things through my crazy anime - orientated imagination we would look approximately like this (lol):

To celebrate in style and stay creative no matter what,  I am offering you to check out this amazing clay artist. He really does crazy stuff with clay! And he even made a blue horse! 

hontor.deviantart.com

by Hontor from Deviantart.com

Wishing you strength, luck, success, family warmth, love, health and happiness.

Thank you for being my faithful honey bunnies (and others)!

Always yours, 

Aniko