domingo, 19 de dezembro de 2010

A Winter's Break




The cold started to freeze my disposal... At leat for now. But i already wrote some posts.
My only problem is to come here, sit down and write this wills that i have been writing.

I just want a couple of restful hours in a day that is not the weekend... Let's wait and see...


VI!

sábado, 27 de novembro de 2010

It´s His Birthday

Friday night didn't end too badly, could have been worse.
I managed to leave an hour early from work and so i took the boat to the southern shore.... The panic I felt with all that undulation.
I met with David and we were  like....2 hours (something little) waiting for Mauro and Diana to come and catch us.
We were only 4 to Azeitao, Sandro and Chico ended up for not appearing, Sandro, cus he went to Viseu, his grandmother had fallen into a ravine (who the hell in this rain goes in these places?) And Chico because he was too stoned to find out the access.
I was very happy when I saw miguel, but with the other guests, the thing was something else....  The other guests were mostly older people and a group of young people can't be completely free to speak and do what they want next to the elderly.... fortunately someone offered a game to Miguel and we went to a tiring-room to play it.
A little before midnight we said good-bye and i ended up getting  sleeping at David's house, where i met his mother, a very dear person. The next day I packed my things and went back to my home´s comfort......
... Unfortunately i must have eaten something bad, which made me feel sick the rest of the weekend.

My intention now is, whenever I get together with friends, to take loads of photos .... but there are some people who simply don't cooperate and this time there was no good pictures at all.







VI!

quinta-feira, 18 de novembro de 2010

Keep Me Here!




A few more days of work.... I think im starting to have a routine.

Day 10
Complicated morning. The work has been almost nil.
But it's Friday, which means WEEKEND.
There was no movement during the morning, i know the courier is out for a couple of jobs, but only that for the day??I’ll die!!!
***
Yep, i died of boredom.... I don’t have anything to do, only to unmold those arrived works.

Day 11
Well, I spent my Monday writting, so here I have a will, but there is much laziness, I'll try to summarize.It was a bad day, i started the day with a desire to weep.It seems that i made some shit, I have changed work out of place.  F. forbade me to fix things without first viewing.
Thumps up for my incompetence.
F. also doesn´t look very well today, i might be completely wrong but it seems to me that she is super sad and has eyes who looks like she spent the whole night crying, or else, she simply smoked before coming here ... But hey, i’m just saying.... The morning was super BORING. It is the saddest thing ever!
Today I was on the train and I came across one thing that annoys my spirit, but making a scene in the middle of the train isn’t good, so it’s like Shut the Fuck Up or Die (I prefer to shut, my  health insurance isn’t that  good), but still, I think is a tremendous lack of education, especially when the train is crowded, a person comes and leans against the post, where are the others suppose to grab?
***
It's after 12am, but my job is nil, at least mine, because all the others are in an uproar .
... Au Revoir Simone is on the radio, the soundtrack from  my  drawing class. Lord!!!! how I miss drawing nudes.
Today was a dentist day... Long life for anesthesia. It must have been the highlight of my day, again, the girl Susana (my dentist) and girl Silvia (the assistant) always cheer me a lot.
Ah yes, I made great shit in the afternoon. I changed a date from a work, which was for an earlier day.
Thumps up for my incompetence ... again.

Day 12
Worst day ever.
I made a lot of crap, I changed works, i booked the wrong remittance dates, whatever, it was a psychologically whimper this day.

Day 13

I got late to the lab.
The NATO summit got Lisbon in a reverse caos...

There wasn't almost any work today, which makes me upset, really, i kinda feel bad for not having things to do.
Today is a "The Walking Dead" day, my new Tuesday night addiction.
Last night I ended my pins, they got super nice, but i'm running out of lace.

Here they are!!!!




Day 14
The day has gone well, it's almost 1 pm and the work hasn't been much.
I know i've been careless with the blog, but I got home really tired...
***
 The rest of the day was a brave shit ... shit behind shit...

Day 15
I started the day by having a conversation with Ana about my performance, this week was very bad and i needed to know what was her opinion on my performance.
I must say it calmed me and i think i improved my work (i'm just sayin').

Day 16
I know this day will go wrong, and the fact that it's going well, make me suffer for anticipation.
My work has been very little... Or this afternoon will scold or Miguel's birthday will be an authentic disaster. And it is from public knowledge that things never goes as planned  back at Azeitao, and normally i'm the one who gets burn, believe me.




VI!

quarta-feira, 17 de novembro de 2010

Is There Room For One More Son # 2





Day 4
The amazing dentist.
I'm more awake than yesterday. F. let me took the plaster from the mold and after I cut them, I had nothing to do. F. went out, maybe for 10 minutes, which seemed like hours. I feel pathetic here without her, I don’t know what to do or how to proceed, is like the first day in kindergarten, when your mom leaves you and you stand alone trying to figure out where to go or whom to talk. When she arrived (yes, I looked like a puppy wagging its tail) we went to the office, where I organize the bills book, which i would love to say it was easy, but it wasn’t. Luck was not on my side and all the paperwork got to the ground, but at least it didn’t took to long (just a little) to get everything back in order...
So the dentist, i left a little early at lunch to go to the dentist.
Major flaw.
Even after two anesthetics, the pain persisted and i was remanded for a next visit. Eat after was out of question (I ended up not lunching) and I'm here at the eating table with them, and they are eating  and i’m cursing this anesthesia ...
Just an aside, these people speak very little... i just want to scream to break the routine course.
I would talk, but my lips are weird, and before I can open my mouth, I’ll laugh my lungs out and I’ll be embarrassed, cus, seriously, my lips are weird because of the anesthesia. It is very boring when those around you don’t speak the same “language” as you do.
Where are the gossips about your colleague’s life? The props materials list for the next project? The smell from the fabric room? Where are this things?


Day 5

Awsome rain is back and my parents left me, they were so nice, a rain hat with broken rods...Luckily i had a bonnet with me. The day was from worst to best  ...
The sleep did me captive until noon, so i didn’t work any better, my income was below zero. After  lunch, I got trim and F. put me in the drill ... Awsome!!!!!!!!!!


Day 6

Amazingly, I managed to get out of bed, she was my friend and left me out ...
It was a good Monday, I felt very useful, it was very productive for me.
I learned how to use the drill and I must say that so far, that is my favorite part of the job, it’s just me, alone with myself, somehow it calms me, is not that genre of work that has to be done fast, that must be why i like it so much.
But i leaft early to the dentist.
Maximum power in anesthesia .... Sweet.
I suffered greatly in the previous query and I was in heaven when the drill reached my tooth and i didn’t feel anything.
Happiness!!!!
And then, and I was so hungry, I couldn’t eat anything for 5 hours .... Despair!!!!
Day 7
Horrible. bad morning, i broke two molds when i was trying to unmold and F. was always correcting me and becuase i hate being correct (who likes????), i got upset. The afternoon went better and i met the post office boy.
Day 8
I've been noticing that my mornings are to forget. It’s all ok when I leave home, but when I got to the lab, it’s like all mourning fell on me, and this morning was the worst. I was in the same room from 9am till 2pm, just running plaster, there were so many entries and when I thought I had some free time to go to the loo, something else camed. Of course, with the abundance of entries, I ended up changing some ... I depressed a lot and i almost had to shut myself up in the bathroom to weep....I missed a lot my rags, my metric ribbon,  the sewing threads and the needles, the chalk and the sewing machine, the fabrics, their texture and smell. Don’t get me wrong, I'm enjoying the lab, but i’ts impossible to apply my creativity at all.
It’s the artist's death.
I just hope this inhospitable feeling wont last.
Now i’m going to do my chocolate cake for lunch tomorrow.
Gluttons.



Day 9
The day is getting FLAT!!!!and I say this because there is no work! The flood of yesterday has given way to a decent today.
It’s almost noon and my work until now was: cut a mold and enter a work that reached in the mid-morning.
I sang ahead of time. A half hour lunch, comed 11 works, and I'm about to faint from hunger.

***
I felt my lunch in my stomach drop like a striker, we only eat after 3.30pm. LMAO
After lunch more work camed, but more work to me means more work for them tomorrow.
We had tea at 5.30pm, I must say I don’t really like roasted chestnuts, but my chocolate cake was divine.






Vi!

domingo, 7 de novembro de 2010

Is There Room For One More Son


Day 1
I got in at 9 am.
Ana introduced me to Patricia, she has light hair and is a dear, to Monica, friendly but quiet (even more than me), it seems to me that she is the latest addition to the lab (before me) and Ricardo, the only guy in the group, is tall and stout and frightens me a little... Oh Ana is the boss.
All the girls seem to be nice and all speak softly, it doesn't bother me, but its like i'm back to kindergarten with my teachers. I also met a courier ... despite being nice and having a playful tone, he didn't captivate me. Monica and Ricardo work on a bench opposite to Patricia. Ana works mostly in another room, where they put the false teeth look like real teeth, occasionally Ricardo is also there.
Excuse me but i haven't yet memorized the technical names.
Ana showed me the plaster and I did some molds, but I'm always very afraid,  i also learned to use the  plaster "shaper", which I have to be careful for not getting a finger cut.

Day 2
Today i met Filipa, the girl who is leaving and who will "transfer" her post to me. It's her, who is teaching me things now. She is very accessible and she seems to be very balanced. She was a saint, in having such patience with me and taught me things over and over again. I just liked she smiled a bit more, despite that, she's like the other girls, but i'm always afraid to bored her with my questions, i know some are a little obvious ... I punish me later.
But I learned a lot from Filipa. I made a new clients list and  F. taught me to make the entries log and one thing or another from accountancy.

Day 3
Bad day for me.
I woke up with tons of sleep over, super tired and more apathetic than a dead one.
I stayed in bed until 7:30, which wasn't good. Because of sleep and tiredness I felt a genuine useless. F. spoke to me but it was all a blur in my ears and because i mostly saw her work, my constant yawning and closing of eyes, put me in a bad mood.. F. taught me to make the bills to other clinics in the super weird computer program.
I found myself moving very slowly... what a shame.
Ricardo took a girl to the lab, she was also working but i didn't understood her presence there. My sleep, coupled with my colleagues weak vocal power, didn't let me hear anything.
After lunch, while being more alert, the work was, again, looking only at F's work, so i returned to my  dead center ....
I could leave early and i went to meet Sandro. The highlight of my day definitely.





quinta-feira, 4 de novembro de 2010

Alginato e Elastômero

A semana está a chegar ao fim.... A minha primeira semanita de trabalho....Sábado é o relato dos dias, que têm sido muito interessantes, apenas tenho pena de agora me parecer tudo muito alienigena....
Não sei se vou conseguir fazer algum bricolage. Apesar da vontade, também há muito cansaço ao chegar a casa...Vou esperar pelo fds e ver o que dá...

VI!

domingo, 31 de outubro de 2010

Doctor, I Have A Cavity Plus Rag Flowers Or Ashamed Padesca




Here are the brooches flowers i mentioned in the previous post.
These were made with pieces of tissue that were at my room consummating some space, and because i dont like to throw things away, i couldn´t discard some rags i had without giving them a good final destination.





I must say i wasn't very interested in doing more things this week...But i did....















Sooo....on Tuesday i went to the dentist and tantan tan tan...A great opportunity fell on my lap. Despite only having gone to this new dentist 3 times, it seems that i gave a good impression to the girl ( my dentist ). She refered me to a dental laboratory, where i'll do the administration and when my formation is completed, the molding part....and i apologize if i'm bragging, the schedule is beyond excellent, but the payment is even better....
Let's keep our fingers crossed so that everything goes well and i can save some good money for my studies !!!



***

 
Continuing with my colleague story from the last post.

Before the second year ended, our IAC group was already formed (6), while the CenFA group were only 3. We all got together and formed one of the five groups...during the holidays, we invited a fourth memeber to the CenFA part, supplementing the large group with 10 elements. Despite knowing that this fellow had a very dubious work conduct, we also knew that he was a well of ideias to explore, therefore, we decided to give him a chance....
....BIG MISTAKE....-.-'

We started the 3rd year full with ideias and references and didn't took to long to reach a basic ideia. Perfect And Imperfect.

I must say we were the group with most projects and almost from the beggining, this colleague, Paulo, missed, classes, meetings or group research...
During the first trimester, we warned him several times about this same faults, but the thing continued and with explanations that surpass the intelligence of anyone and because there were to many precedents, the apologies were very dificult to accept. We are talking about a 25 year old male who love to sleep.
Toothaches and headhaches that lasted for weeks, improper disposal of days...i mean....go to the damn hospital...there were weeks when he only appeared in just one afternoon. Things weren´t bad, were awful and from the moment he missed a group research because he thought that some other colleagues wouldn't appear,we, the CenFA part stopped to count on him. It began to be impossible, always explaining the creative process and the reasoning line that the whole group followed.
Halfway through the year, we realized that the topic under development, no longer applied to what we wanted....Therefore we decided to bet on the dimension theme...
So...blá blá blá.... time passed and he keept missing and we returned from the internship, where he got expelled...yes...because he didn't appeared....with this, together with an extensive list of faults, he was FINALLY  "asked to leave and come back in the next year".
Ohhh...free at last!!!!!!!
... but before he totally disappear from the scene, he had the nerve to say that despite no longer being at school, he would continue to support us... Sweet... if a person was never there before, how could he be after??? The nerve!!!!!!

Yes, it is true that Paulo lent money to the first materials purchase, but it is also true that after his departure, he made no attempt to recover his money, so after his pathetic attitude, there are many reasons  for him to be ashamed...besides, he didn´t even came to see our final show...Bad luck for him....



VI!

sábado, 30 de outubro de 2010

Someone Shoot Me In The Eye

Estes dias poem-me a pensar na merdinha de vida que tenho e se vale tudo a pena... parece que é um habito isto das pessoas me deixarem........
Amanhã há o verdadeiro post...hoje estou apenas triste e isto foi uma pequena pausa das lágrimas.

segunda-feira, 25 de outubro de 2010

Brooches With A Trip To Invicta Or Ashamed Padesca



Another busy week...
I have had many things to show, but it has come a continuation of last week's problems.

For the first time in 3 1/2 years, i saw things get really ugly between me and my boyfriend. After a few days without us talking, the speech wasn't very inviting to a better relationship and in a death fear that the best thing i have might disappear, thursday morning i put myself on a train to Porto... For those who don't know i live in Lisbon and he in Porto....My biggest fear, when i arrived, was that he might not even be at home, but at that moment, any non pleasant ideia haunted my head, luckily, he was there. still sleeping in his bed...we talked for a while, or at least i did the most talk, but we made up...=)

So...during this week i finished my first cameos, they aren't quit perfect, but they aren't that bad either... I'll continue doing some experiments, the thing could be better if i had molds.... At the same time i did other brooches with hairpins on it...i'll show them in the next post.



As i said in the previous post, i got a wrong final grade, so this week i went back to school to receive my new diploma...sadly, it wasn't able yet...
But returning to a place that was our "home" for 3 years, allows us to see some familiar faces again, this time was a former classmate and PAP member, who turned back when i appeared...sweet!!!!
At the time i thought that the cut of relations could be because, this colleague, Paulo, borrowed money, when he was still a part of our PAP group, to purchase materials and that same money has not yet been handed to him.....
...But then things become clearer.
I'll explain...in the next post.

VI!

sábado, 16 de outubro de 2010

They Ate 2 Values In My Final Grade



I know i've been missing, but only because i had some lack of internet, lucky me, this post was already written.

The rain has been coming, although these days the weather was wilder, the cold is here to stay, particularly here where i live, there's more fog, but i don't mind, i really enjoy the cold.

So a week ago was the School Presentation/ Start of School Year, but instead of the usual ceremony in the Tend, this time the reception was at the pier, where 1st year class were introduced to the school, the 2nd and 3rd class made some performances and to students who completed the course (ME), were handed diplomas.
I think that's a common habit to wonder about the newbies, who will be really up to the end and who in a few weeks will give up, and because the school is small and harbor few students, we know this kind of things quickly....Yep, we gossip a lot....
But the truth is that those who now leave, will always miss their first time at that school. That little pride in having been selected to attend in that place, find those who shared with us the bittersweet taste of he admission process...the latent enthusiasm in the eyes of those who are already there.
I can afirm that i was very lucky with the colleagues i've found, even in a large class, always existed a great complicity between us. Of course, as in all families, there was always one or two black sheep, but generally, we were good neighbors to each other, in fact, i made great friends, some i believe, for the rest of my life.
Despite the bustle, it was unfortunate that some of my old colleagues didn't appeared, but it was good to see the faces of the few who were there, both colleagues and teachers, people who supported me a lot and were a great help to my personal and professional growth.
After the diplomas delivery, where i noticed they were mistaken in my note, 2 values below from the real one, i went to Joana's home, a PAP fellow, where we were watching our year's end show, among other school things.

I photographed basically those who i was with, cuz i really don't know when i will be with them again.




People here - David, Ruben, Camilla, Marcella, Me, Chico, Sandro, Foca, Joana, Johnny, Nico e Mauricia.


So last saturday was a workshop day!!!!
I ventured myself in the biscuit and here's the result.





For a begginer, it's not that bad. I must say that what gave me the most pleasure to do, were those details in the dress, the flowers, the curly hair...now im just anxious to start making my own stuff, although it will not look like the things i did in the workshop...but its always exciting to learn new work techniques, but who knows me, knows that i don't specially do or like this genre of things...but thats for the next post.


VI!

domingo, 3 de outubro de 2010

Even If I Cann't Find Your Vagina



I promise that the title has a purpose.

I brought some images from the Zombie Walk. From inside it doesn't look that bad.




A few days ago, i went to lunch with a friend. Because he lives about 30miles away, whenever he comes to town i try to put him on my agenda. He and another friend were super flawless, when i lived in Porto, phoning me every day, and taking into account some not so pleasant factors, it was good to count on them.
So we went to a Chinese restaurant and i must say that in the few i went of this genre, i never had such difficulty understanding what they were saying, i mean, they sounded like they had bread in their mouths.

At 4pm, there i was, entering through the tattooist door,who had this lovely anchor heart tattooed on his forehead. He was really nice and i enjoyed his work, so now im crossing fingers so that finally i have found a decent place to tattoo. I mean, for my first tattoo, the guy was great, but then the next year, he wasn't  at that place anymore. For my second, the guy would only be at the shop for 2 weeks and for the third, i just didn't like his work on me, the tattoo was ok but it could be better. So now i have a cool key and a beautiful spider's web and i'm hopeful that next year the artist can be the same.
One of the things i enjoyed about this tattooist was the fact that his work didn't have that typical appearence you normally see with other tattooist work. I dont know, it's just different, see for yourself, i leave the link to the store´s myspace ClockWork Tattoos.




I bring now my second flower.
It was made for my final year's show.
Our drama was based on a trip to the 10 Dimensions and our scenery, the inside of a boat. Our costumes had colors from sea and space and as expected, the stripes, a tribute to sailors.
In spite of myself and 2 more colleagues being from the backstage, on show days, we combined our clothes with the performers. White, black or blue and stripes.
So i made this one to use in my hair.
I used:

  • stripe fabric;

  • a black gem;

  • hot glue;

  • scissor;

  • round mold;

  • chalk;

  • bobby pin.
Just need to follow the steps from the previous post.
This was actually a little bit easier, cuz i didn't used the tulle. That simplified the process.

Usually what i do when using the safety pins, is to glue them on the back of the flowers and put some tissue on top of it so it won't come out ugly, but with the bobby pins, i just glued the two ends of the tissue, so there's a little space for the bobby pin. I hope the images help.




About the title... I saw this movie recently Away We Go and it is absolutely beautiful. Its so unbearablee cute. And i thought how funny and adorable it was when he whispers "I will always love you, even if i cann't find your vagina".

Thats it. Enjoy.

Vi!


quinta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2010

Zombie Walk and Flowers



Nothing to do i know, but before showing the not so good tutorial i tried to make, i'd like to share a little of my day.
So, with a friend and her girlfriend, we arranged to go and see . SEE, NOT PARTICIPATE. a zombie walk that would be in Lisbon, which i did not know until a week ago. I have no damn ideia how is it in the rest of the world, (well i do a little cuz i google it) but here was just horrible. I must say that in the not so many that were present, only a few were actually decent.
I really thought that they would take things more siriously, i mean, they were (almost) dressed and characterized like they were going to a bad Halloween party, the screams and grunts were ok but the rest...OMG....not so good.
Of course, while waiting 3 hours for them to REALLY WALK i had the pleasure of seeing and talking to some friends and collegues from the course....

So now the flowers...

This was actually the first one.
I only made it because i was going to a wedding and although the dress was cute, there was something missing and because i had nothing to apply, i reminded of some flowers in tissue  i had seen, so i put my hands to work.

I'll try to explain the steps.
Firts, get your materials. This is what i used:
  • some random black tissue;
  • pink tulle;
  • a transparent gem;
  • safety pins;
  • hot glue;
  • scissor;
  • a round mold;
  • chalk, to mark the tissue.












With the chalk and the round mold, mark the tissue. Try to use well the tissue for future use.
With the scissor cut 5 pieces from the black and pink fabric, two for the base and eight for the petals.
Put both tissues together, fold in half two times, until they get the cone shape. If you prefer, glue the fabrics so the petals wont disjoint.
Then place the petals in the center of the base with some glue, not much because it sticks well without major portions.
Glue the gem in the middle of your flower.
On the back of your flower put the safety pin, if you prefer you can apply some glue to the pin.
I hope the images help.




Vi!

quarta-feira, 29 de setembro de 2010

Welcome to Me

So, this is my first post, the first of many, or at least thats what i hope.
I would feel ridiculous if in a few weeks i have nothin here and this would be just another forgotten blog.

I just got out of a course in a circus school. No im not a clown. My course was mostly about props, scenery and costumes.
So now im just trying to find a nice place to work while im waiting to enter college next year.
But while that doesn't happen i discovered that i actually really like and im some kind gifted enough to DIY and have done some things that fortunately have been sold and that is what i come here to show...among other things...

Vi!