
Lieben Leben (love life)


I am able to finally squeezed in painting while my baby is napping. It has been a long time since the last time I did paint. Inspired by today’s very exciting moment that we are in (hope you get it that I am sarcastically saying this), I came up with this:

Hope you like it. Let me know 😉. Thank you and stay healthy everyone!
This week’s LAPC takes me to actually do the actual task (because before I just checked my photos and see if something will pass for the said challenge). I’m glad though because it encouraged me to have a walk around the Hood. Since it is Sunday, I brought the whole family with me. While my husband Jay is pushing the baby pram, I snapped with my iPhone (since I forgot my camera at home and I did almost forget about this task) the following photos:








It was indeed a nice and productive walk and I am glad that I took part in this challenge hosted by Amy If you are new to this and wants to participate, check out this link .
So goodbye for now and have a great Sunday and new week ahead!
Capturing “Symmetry” in your photos is a conscious effort for a photographer, especially for a hobbyist like me. Thanks to Pati for this challenge that I come to realize as I checked my photos that I have not been really conscious about “symmetry” at all. Haha! I have so many should-have-been-the-one photos for this challenge but it was not captured fully or symmetrically. Gottseidank I still have some that can qualify and here they are…



I see symmetry all over in old but magical cities in Europe like Paris


So that’s it for my participation on this week’s LAPC#116. If you are new to this and wants to participate https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2018/06/29/come-join-us-a-new-weekly-photo-challenge/
Ciao and keep safe everyone!
As a continuation to my first post on this: https://artsyfoxygracy.art.blog/2019/08/04/100-words-challenge-series-1-of-1-free-day/, here’s the next part:
“She was staring blankly at the wall for almost an hour now thinking of what lies ahead. She could not believe what she is about to face in the next months, in the next 9 months to be exact. Cara is pregnant! ‘That explains the puking and the sudden weight gain’, she silently exclaims. She wondered how could this happen! Her doctor explicitly said she is unable to bear a child. This must have been a miracle! A miracle indeed, even after all the many cocktails she and her husband consumed in the past weeks. And suddenly the doorbell rings.”
This 100-word-challenge is from Tara – https://thinspiralnotebook.com/2020/04/24/100-word-challenge-face/ and she instructs:
“Using “face” for inspiration, write 100 Words – 100 exactly – no more, no less. You can either use the word – or any form of the word – as one of your 100, or it can be implied. Include a link in your post back here, and add your story to the Mister Linky list. If you don’t have a blog, you can leave your submission in the comment section, or as a Facebook status post. Remember to keep spreading the love with supportive comments for your fellow Wordsters.“
So tickle your creative mind and dare to write your first 100 word challenge using the word “Face”.
Enjoy reading and writing!
TRAVEL. VACATION. WANDER. These words bring joy to the heart if only we are not facing this pandemic. And that although we have been longing to have finally a contagion-free travel wandering the streets of New York (for example), or discover old medieval towns of Europe, or be sun-kissed in a tropical island while sipping Peña Colada, etc.- it is still not 100% possible to date without being hassled with wearing masks, social distancing, and worse getting the virus itself.
So in the meantime, looking at old travel photos like below, will do. It somehow creates that promise that one day, all these chaos will be over and that we will be able to at last, travel free: to meet family and lovedones located at the other side of the world or just simply be lost in the marvels of places you have not yet conquered.




Lastly, I would like to end this post by higlighting the photo below. In the end, we will be triumphant against this pandemic and we can freely roam the streets shouting any cause we have to fight for.

That Kind of Bravery that Glitters
Very lastly, thanks to Tina for posting this week’s challenge. Check her post on this https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/2577833/posts/2920975075
If you are new to this and wants to participate https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2018/06/29/come-join-us-a-new-weekly-photo-challenge/
so this is it, after a year of hiatus due to pregnancy and now mommy-hood, I am back! Scouring over my portfolio of old photos, here is my response to this week’s LAC#114…




thanks for this challenge Amy: https://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/
and that’s it for now and looking forward to the next challenge…

It has been a long while since I posted something here. Motherhood has taken over my time and energy this past year and now I am thirsty for making art. As as a jumpstart into artdom, in between my kid’s nap and independent supervised playtime, I get to edit these photos (double exposure, thanks to snapseed) which pretty represents my life at the moment.
Motherhood is a mixture of all emotions – joyful yet tiring, rewarding yet patient-evoking and so many others. But all in all happy. It is amazing to see your own kin grow everyday or every other day or so. This Netflix Docu titled “Baby” said babies do not grow everyday but instead they have growth spurt here and there.
So that’s it for now. I have been also really thirsty to go back to participating the Lens-Artist-Photo-Challenge and guess what, this post actually is very timely for the #62 challenge – Silhouettes. So this is my entry to that….although late challenge already but anything to jump start back into art is good.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #62: Silhouettes
and finally, that’s it because my baby is crying now. Mamahood is calling…
Framing a shot is one of the things I learned in my photography class and it has become one of my favorite photography techniques ever since.





That’s it for now for me. Thank you Amy https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/12952901/posts/70119 for posting this challenge this week. If you are new to this and wants to participate https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2018/06/29/come-join-us-a-new-weekly-photo-challenge/
At thought at first when I learned about this week’s challenge posted by Leya https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2019/08/17/lens-artists-photo-challenge-59-angles/ – that I need to shot different angles of one subject. However, as I went through all my photos, I came to realize that in order to portray “angle”, I just need to show my perspective – or what I saw or how I saw the world around me through my lens. Here is my take on this week’s challenge:









These photos above are taken from different angles but all depicts “showmanship”, “taking the stage and owning it”, “I am the star”, “I am having fun”. And indeed People around her were affected from the fun-ness of her like a positive contagion to the spirit, which is the very essence of the Fasching (Carnival). (Taken at Fasching 2019 in Munich, Germany)
So that’s it for me this week. If you are new to this challenge and wants to join, see this link on how: https://lagottocattleya.wordpress.com/2018/06/29/come-join-us-a-new-weekly-photo-challenge/ and thank Leya for featuring me on your post.

I freshly made this painting depicting how I feel about tough love. I believe that it is one of the greatest form of love and care we can ever give to our loved-ones. It is needed from a mother to a kid so she can grow strong and resilient. It is needed from yourself to yourself, so we can be the best that we can be. It is needed from friends whose friendships are genuine enough to tell the other the truth about anything. And I hope that we can give this kind of love to our loved ones, especially at times when they needed it. Hopefully we can give this to ourselves also when we need it it the most.
In the painting above,at the surface, tough love seems to be dark, negative, rude, rough but if you examine closely, it is the most life-giving kind of love, it is the most growth-enabling kind of love, it is the purest and highest form of love one human can give to his/her fellow human being and to his/herself.
Cheers to tough love!
These are very familiar phrases, especially if you grow up watching Hollywood movies about the fairy tale of falling in love and getting married. There is nothing wrong with it, except the lavish notion people put into the idea of weddings but this post is not about that. I myself got married this year. So to the idea of something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue, here is my response to this week’s Lens-Artists Challenge No. 58:



As I said that I got married this year. I definitely got something new, my new marital status, a husband, a new ring and a new married life ahead of me and my family. Notice the golden horse shoe, this is my “something borrowed” as this was borrowed to us by our wedding officiator saying that if newlyweds hold this, this will bring prosperity and good luck! Inshallah! God willing!

That’s it for me. If you are inspired to participate in this weekly challenge and be allowed to tickle your creative spots regularly, stay tuned using this link on how to do it https://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/lens-artists-photo-challenge/ and this week’s challenge was posted by Patti https://pilotfishblog.com/2019/08/10/lens-artists-photo-challenge-58-something-old-new-borrowed-and-blue/