Monthly Archives: January 2009

baby steps

19 Monday Jan 2009

Posted by in cancer, clothing biz, computers, food & drink, friends, home, hope, life stuff, photos, sevilla, tapas, teaching, work

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baby-stepsStarting off again one small step at a time …

My very dear friend Lizzie in Bristol – who has been running the very popular Folk House Café for many years and is now in the process of revamping family run Quartier Vert – recently sent me a list of ideas to research in order to turn a couple of my personal projects into money-making ventures. She thinks that both the Sevilla Tapas blog and azahar natural clothing have potential and so I now have a list of instructions to help me get started … except it turned out I have become so bad at thinking in even a remotely straight line that I also needed to enlist the help of another clear thinker and straight shooter, none other than my “hermana de alma” and international woman of mystery, Pipocas. We got together on Saturday afternoon for a lunch and brainstorming session here at casa az and here is how it went …

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hat

17 Saturday Jan 2009

Posted by in animals & pets, photohunt, photos, quizzes

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cybercat-crown

Today’s Photohunter theme is “hat”.
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I hope this isn’t considered as cheating but I asked my friend, the lovely & talented Anneke (aka mudhooks), to place this crown (aka very fancy hat) upon the cute little head of Azar (aka my wordpress avatar).

There is a bit of a story behind this photo, which relates to the weekly BBC News Quiz hosted by blog buddy Archie every Friday. The lowest scoring person of the week is given the dreaded Dunce Cap to wear, and anyone getting a perfect 7/7 score is awarded The Crown. After having worn the dunce cap more times now than I care to remember, I was totally gobsmacked when I pulled off a perfect score in the January 9th quiz. And so this week I get The Crown, which as you can see  here is a traditional Spanish one and not the poncy St Edward British bling being offered over at the Archives.  😉

photohunter

Also, check out a somewhat jauntier version below …

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reorganising my life

16 Friday Jan 2009

Posted by in health & happiness, home, teaching, work

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new-studio

This is what I did yesterday (with Nog’s help).

All the while I haven’t been able to work (since last May) I’ve been thinking about what I was going to do once I was able to get back to work again.  Which was something I thought wouldn’t come to pass for a few more months because of being on post-op chemo, but suddenly it’s now! And although I’m still not totally sure about what’s going to happen, this hasn’t stopped me from taking immediate action. And the first point of business was to create an “easy-to-work-in-multi-concept space” … as in, I have no idea what the fuck I’m going to end up doing, but I want to be able to do any or all of it as easily as possible. 😉

The biggest room at casa az is the livingroom. To the left of these tables are the bookshelves and my computer desk, to the right is the sofa, as well as the TV and exercise bike.  This is what it used to look like …

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