Helena-Reet: My new art style, comedy theatre in Aruküla, Alphaville in Kehtna and a lot more! + PICTURES!
NordenBladet – Is there anything new and then what’s new? Yess.. For several years I liked doing acrylic paintings. I mostly painted flowers and created so to say illustration paintings for the children’s book “His Highness Mouse the First” that is planned to be published. But now I have discovered watercolor pencils, watercolors and grease chalks and the combinations of those. Super cool!!!
Right now I have two wonderful cat portraits ready and in my mind’s eye I see a naive and childish cat series “Whimsical Ct Art“. More pictures and more talk about the process of making them is available in my ElishevaShoshana.com art blog HERE and HERE). I really like drawing dressed animals!!! I am an unfailing fan of children’s books and fairytales!
One fine day, it would be awesome to give more life to the best of my drawings, illustrations and paintings – for example to use them on a pot or box, on clothes, postcards, stickers, etc just like Hannag Dale does with their brand “Wrendale Design” (see wrendaledesigns.co.uk) or like Jess Polanshek with their brand (see ofthehills.com).
Also Ivanka Shoshana (16) loves art. Since Ivanka has autism, our lives are tightly knot. We do everything together every day.. She drew her own pictures based on my pictures. I’m such a fan of her “signature” and style!
Together we have also created several pieces of ceramics. Actually, several collections. I love such a slightly rough and “imperfect” result. The clay needs to play in the oven and art needs to be unique! And what is more – you must like it yourself. I never understood why people buy art based on labels and names (except when you resell it). You must like the painting on your wall and the plate on your table 🙂
What else has happened during the past week? To cut it short… A LOT!
– Every day I study Spanish on my own. As of today I’ve been studying 165 days in a row and according to Duolingo I have obtained a vocabulary of 840 words. Currently I am still at level A1 but soon already at A2 🙂 Practice makes perfect. The plan is to start speaking Spanish in a year (in 200 days I plan to be at level B1…B2)
– I keep an eye on the stock market and trade. I moved most of my portfolio to Lightyear* (ad link – use the code to join and we both get free stocks worth 10EUR!).. LHV’s huge service fees are not worth it. IB (Interactive Brokers) is also in the creation process, we soon want to do most of the trading via code, and it’s necessary for the platform to allow API. Oh yeah, and what more… does anybody know what’s happening to Yahoo? Their data is flipping big time lately, crazy.
– I try to take Ivanka swimming at least once a week. This week me and Allan went to Mustamäe 21+ SPA on a Monday night.
Also I have been knitting, I completed three tiny rag rugs and also I did embroidery and sewed. (more about those in some other blog posts).
Ivanka and Estella have camps in August and as is usual with women – there’s nothing to wear.. hahaaa. We added things to our wardrobes in Ülemiste center (clothes and footwear) and dined at O’Learys.
On Thursday and Friday we enjoyed a short trip to events after the working day:
June 18th we went to the Aruküla Song Festival stage to see the Comedy Theatre play “The Three Musketeers“. Cast: Marika Korolev, Henrik Normann and Marika Barabanštšikova.
… and on June 19th we went to Kehtna where there was an 80s live concert! Featuring Alphaville, F.R. David, Marju Länik and DJ Allan Roosileht. I’ve liked several of Alphaville’s songs for years. “Big in Japan”, “Jerusalem”, “Forever Young”, “Sounds like a Melody”, “Summer Rain” and, crop of the cream, “A Victory of Love!” OMG how much I have been crying while listening to these songs as a teenager.. icccc 😭🤭🥰
Marian Gold (lead vocalist) who is already 70 years old today, was super fit.. We were thinking to ourselves if we would be able to jump and sing so much during even just one song.. iccccc. And their synth guy Carsten Brocker is super cool too. The way he cheered along to the music is already spectacular.
Until the next blog!
Happy weekend and stay awesome! Hugs! 
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