- The Three-Cornered World by Soseki Natsume
- Spring miscellany by Soseki Natsume
- and on anouther different type of writing but oh so delicious, We could almost eat outside by Philippe Delerm a wonderful french writer. He writes about the trivial things in life that are just pure bliss...
Jouer - original mixed media artwork
1 Comments Published by Sofia Barao on May 20, 2008 at 9:55 PM.
available at my Etsy shop
Recipe here, enjoy :)
I love the shoes even if they are too big for me, I just couldn't leave them there, I'll be putting them for sale soon on Ebay.
brocante, originally uploaded by Sofia Barão.
Now, doesn't this cake looks delicious ? It doesn't only look but it is delicious...
Here's my recipe, hope you'll like it:
- 1 organic boiled beetroot
- 7 soup spoons of whole wheat organic flour
- 1 tea spoon of baking soda
- 2 soup spoons of organic cane sugar
- 2 organic eggs
- 2 soup spoons of organic olive oil
- a hint of cinnamon
Mix the sugar and the eggs together. Cut the boiled beetroot in tiny slices and add it to the eggs and sugar, mix it all.
Add the flour and the baking soda, mix again and for last add all the other ingredients.
Bake in a preheated oven for 35-45 minutes at 350°F degrees (180°C)
Uhhmmm, too good !!! Let me know if you have baked it.
It's been a few days of sun, green fields and blue skies. Temperatures rise and the sun is high in the sky, flowers are everywhere and I can finally put a dress without boots :)
Weather has been perfect around Paris, hope it will continue.
I've been working, working and making good food. I'm more and more obsessed about organic food, cosmetics and well... I guess anything organic.
I've changed all my "bad" cosmetics into organic ones, I'm trying to put all my family into this too, but, that's a little bit harder than I thought.
It's been a year without milk (cow milk) and my skin has changed, I have no longer any acne and I can't believe that I've suffered all this time because of milk.
I've been published in the summer issue of Artful Blogging but has I haven't received the magazine yet, I don't know what my article looks like. I've been receiving mails and comments from very nice people from around the world (I'll be answering you all very soon, sorry for the delay) thanks to this issue.
I'm really honored to have my very first paper press in the US with Stampington as I do love their publications. Thank you Stacie :)
As soon as I have the issue, I'll post pictures.
What have you been loving this days ?
As for me, here goes:
- to be out in the sun
- warm
- prepare organic and healthy food
- may, I like the month of may a lot
- to be published on Artful Blogging, yeah !!!
- I even lost some weight with all this good food
- no more boots for at least 5 months
- beetroot cake, delicious (photos soon and recipe too )
- organic fashion can also be cute
Today it's a holiday here in France, it's Labour day.
A very old tradition from 1561 is still alive in every french home. Every May 1st we give Lilly of the Valley to the people we love.
Lilly of the Valley is supposed to bring luck until the next year.
It's also the promise of sunnier days ahead :)
This morning my husband went to get me some Lilly of the Valley like every year, I love this tradition and this flowers delicate perfume :)
Have a wonderful day!
more here
Last thursday we went to the opening of Cimaise-Baby, an exhibition in a gallery in Paris where I have one artwork (you can't really see it well here because of the reflection, sorry I'll post a scan from the exhibition book soon).
It was really nice and after that we went to see beautiful Paris and eat at a wonderful restaurant (forgot to take pictures). It was windy that night as you can see on my face :) :) :)
For those of you who would like to make the recipe from last post, you can go see the recipe in french here (you will find wonderful recipes here, I used dried grapes instead of almonds), sorry, I have to translate it but I have no time lately. Promise I'll do it this week.
I've been cooking a lot lately. I love to cook but sometimes I have no time so this past weeks I've been trying new recipes and trying also to go deeper in the organic food world.
I already used organic products since I was little with my mom but now I would like to make my own cookies and cakes. Stop buying all those toxic all-ready made cakes.
I eat a lot of dried fruits instead of cakes but every aftenoon I like to take my tea with a cookie.
These are my Tahin organic cookies I made, they are delicious and I tasted sesame butter for the first time and I love it on cookies.
I'm also reusing one of my tea cans for the cookies, this way the cookies will be light free.
They are really easy to make.
I'll be posting other organic food I made soon :)
Started at the museum on saturday for 5 months, next vacations will be of 2 months long but only in late september. Oh well, there are good things and bad things in this kind of work, right ?
This morning (april 7th) I woke up to see that it had snowed all night, SNOW ???? This can't be possible, in April, in Paris ???? But yes it's true.... I don't know if this is a good thing !!!! I doubt it !!!
Not much to tell you today, oh yes I have been accepted for a group show in Chicago, USA in August at the Woman made Gallery and for the "Her Mark" publication too, which is a publication of artwork and poetry, can't wait to see it. I'm happy about this.
Have a nice day, hopefully with more sun and less cold than here.
Un matin pluvieux - A rainy morning
1 Comments Published by Sofia Barao on Mar 27, 2008 at 10:42 PM.
par ma fenêtre - from my window.
My holidays are reaching the end, one more week left and I'll be back again for 5 none stop months at the museum.
What I'm loving at the moment ?
- week of photographers here
- a photo swap there
- collected feathers of Jeana Sohn
Good night and good weekend everyone :)
How was your Easter ? Here it was raining and very cold.
I went to see my family and it was great.
Today it's still an holiday here.
As promissed here is the new Holga print "Un matin à Paris" - "A morning in Paris". This print is now available on my Etsy shop.
Hope you'll like it.
It's almost 12am here I'm off to the brocante ;-)
Labels: brocante, eiffel tower, flea market, Paris, print
some of my favorite Flickr cats. They remind me Balli Blue, the kittie I lost a year ago....already! I miss him!
1. Typefiend 2. lebonbonmulticolore 3. KristjanAunver 4. Heliotrophe
I will be having a new Holga color print available on my shop next monday. Tower, Paris, gold, champ de mars, blue sky.... does this give you any clue on what will be this Holga print ?
Have a lovely weekend, it's Easter. I have a flea market to go on monday :)
- to be on vacations :)
- that the postman brought me this dress and that it is perfect
- this wonderful porcelain
- Ivana
- this blog if you are looking for writing tips (link from Camilla)
- to be going to this hotel
- to take some tea and black chocolate while reading magazines (especially when it's raining and windy)
- this for the fashion (no I don't understand swedish)
- this for the fashion too and also for the beautiful drawings (in french)
- to have passed the first phase for this wonderful project (you are still on time to enter too)
New artwork finished.
I love to work with old photos of women, they mean so much to my eyes.
Maybe it's because I lost my mom at a young age and that I only have 2 or 3 photos of her.
I guess I keep searching for her (or pieces of her) among all the ancient photos I can find.
this week ?
- Aurore De Sousa, photographer
- this photo montage here
- this project here
- to be on holidays starting next week :)
- this house, wish I could go there during holidays
- to be featured on the dailies of designformankind and on the 2nd beautiful issue of Inspiration Zine. Thank you so much Erin you are great :)
- this store clothes but I think we can't order from abroad :-(
- Sia's blog , she introcuded me to a new group who's sound I'm loving :) :)
Guess this is all for now, hope you'll like the links :)
Here is my favorite song from the album "Velha Infancia" means old childhood and it almost brings me tears to my eyes each time I hear it (also because it's my language of course).
There are some voices like that, you don't know why but you fell in love since the first time you hear them, Marisa Monte is one of those voices for me, I follow her career from the first song I heard in 1991, "Beija eu" and that was it, I was hooked...
Please check her latest albums, they are beautiful, especially Universo ao meu redor which is an album about the roots of samba (even the collage artwork on the album is beautiful, artwork from Beatriz Milhazes of course).
Infinito Particular is her latest original album, a pure moment !
Hope you'll enjoy this musical journey.
- the sun that comes to kiss my walls lately, it has been a while since he's last visit.
- Erin's new e-zine called "Inspiration" a wonderful program, enjoy !
- apple compote with soya yoghurt and some cinnamon .... uhhmm, so good !
- make a vision board via artbizblog
- the diy contest at designsponge
- this, especially the ballon one's
- Emma Cassi's new jewellery collection
- the Rooibos organic green tea from Kusmi Tea, love it
January is finally gone and the days are now getting longer, I love to see the darkness of winter nights being chased away by the light.
I also love these darker days but 3 months only not the whole year :)
The other day while getting home from the museum I took some photos of this lightned trees that are on my way home, they look so wonderful in this cold and dark winter nights.
This is the latest song that I've been listening, makes my think of summertime :)
Yesterday I gave some new springfull colors and a new banner to my website.
Here is one of my projects for this new year. Holga prints .
They will look wonderful on a glass frame.
I'll be having different prints (2) for sale each month on my etsy shop, this first series is about time, an old chair and an old luggage, you can really see how the Holga adds that different feeling to the photos that I love so much.
Hope you'll like them.
