Flashes. Rumbling. Fortunately, it is more threatening and grumbling than a real full-blast thunderstorm. Like a while ago: suddenly a huge bang in the middle of the night. Between the showers and grumbling, glueing the broken tiles to the facade After regular guest / friend Astrid went home, it’s like that. Large low hanging clouds …
Last week Friday, March 18, 2022 at 11:28, spring broke out here. A few days earlier than indicated on the calendar, because spring doesn’t care what we humans think – if spring thinks it should break out, then it breaks out. And with a spring break in Portugal, everything is going very fast! As a …
“Then come around 11” I app, “’cause you do need a fair amount of time, and if the sun goes down at about 5, it’s no longer nice.”“Oooo soooo nice sitting in the sun making mosaics! What a life we have!” Paula would come and make a mosaic. In the sun, ’cause it’s a sunny …
I can still see her coming down the bathhouse path, with an unknown skinny black&white dog on a frayed rope, and her with a smiling face. “Oh no!” was my spontaneous reaction, “Nonono, I don’t want a stray dog anymore!” “But I do!” Irma replied cheerfully and unfazed, “it’s a sweetheart, and I call him …
In nature everything works together. Chickens, cats, cockroaches and snails So I’ve developed a few nice tricks together with the chickens. That is to say, with Big Mama and the Aunties, because the three others are still too young and too inexperienced to understand that I always come with good things. Evidently. The three elders …
Images say more then words. In this case more then true. You can’t catch mosaic in words. Another one ready. Made with a few friends who regularly come back. Unfortunately, we forgot completely to make pictures. Talking about images … clever! But we’ll provide you with an impression, don’t worry! It all began with a …
I had everything ready for the two unexpected guests who like to do a mosaic wqrkshop “I already know what I’m going to make,” he said enthusiastically, “the symbols for the elements.” Nicole makes a disappointed face: “Oooo, I wanted to do that!” They look at each other and laugh. Me too. “If you are …
If you’ve done as much with fairy tales as we have, you start looking at it differently. We have immortalized not only the most famous fairy tales or fairy tale themes in mosaic, but also the much less known ones. These are of course much more challenging to capture in mosaic “Yesyes, I’ll go. Don’t …
