IF: The Blues (1)

(Atc, done with Sharpies)

Illustration Friday´s topic for this week ("The Blues") was suggested by ecm. I think I have posted this pic before, but as I really like it I´ll show it again.

Amsterdam - Day 2 (Part 2)

Houseboat:

3-D letters at the Museumplein behind the Rijksmuseum:

House along the Grachts:

I found a little bottle of ink and I was inspired by Stefan G. Bucher´s Daily Monster to this (I made two more in the journal):

Amsterdam - Day 2 (Part 1)

NEMO is a famous science center right next to the Central Station in Amsterdam. The word NEMO means "nobody". Inside the NEMO visitors believe themselves to be in no man’s land, where fantasies seem to become real. The building resembles a giant green boat.

The I amsterdam Card is great for visitors who plan to see some tourist attractions. It is also for public transportation and restaurants. I liked the two canal rides most of all the free offers.

Van Gogh Museum. I drew it way too dark. Have a better look here:

The only thing at the Van Gogh Museum which you didn´t have to stand in line for, was this staircase. It is beautiful and all black and white.

I was surprised by some of Van Gogh´s pictures and motifs. Check this one out.

Search Terms 6

Another set of search words which led to my site.

• paris love hot fight (I guess I should spend my next holiday in Paris. ;) )
• nude babysitter (There must be something about...)
• babysitter tiedup (... babysitters... )
• nude tied to tree (... and nudes tied up.)
• erotic vampire girl (These words lead to my blog. Cool!)
• what double urethra looks like

Amsterdam - Day 1

The first day I was quite tired - going to bed at 2 am in Munich and getting up for Amsterdam at 3 am. Still I enjoyed walking around the city and had 12 hours of sleep my first night at the hotel.

I went to a famous coffe shop. It used to be called Chocolata and they used to make wonderful chocolate pralines with a kick ;). But now the shop has been taken over by Abraxas. They do not have all these pralines, bonbons and chocolates anymore, but at least they did have delicious brownies and muffins.

The most important item on my to-do-list was to go to this comic store. It is Europe´s first antiquarian comic shop and it has a great selection of comics in many languages. The Lambiek Stripantiquariaat is as great as I had expected it to be. I could have spent hours there and it took me a long time to decide which comics I would buy for myself. They had so much more phantastic books, but I just didn´t have the budget for that.

These are the 3 comics I got for myself:

• Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan
• Rusty Brown by Chris Ware
  
• Alberto by Daniel Bosshart

So far I have only had a look at Alberto. It is a beautiful comic without text. Only in the beginning you can read a page of the journal of the only character of the story. I´ll update that later.

Moo MiniCards Promotional Discount

Moo is one year old now! So they are having a 25% discount.
You can get 25 % off MiniCards, if you order by September 30th.
Simply enter this code on the payment page: BIRTHDAYMOO

I posted about my Moo cards here. And I can only recommend these great little cards to you.

Amsterdam Moleskine Journal

Finally I managed to scan in some pics of the Amsterdam Moleskine journal I filled with sketches and some text. The pics I´m showing here do not have the same succession as in the journal and sometimes I just drew on any empty page (which I felt was the right one). So the posts here do not show the exact chronology.

Here´s the first page of the journal (The last one is similar.) :

The hotel (Thorbecke hotel) I stayed at:

The surroundings of the hotel with a lot of sights and places to visit (Rembrandtplein, Thorbeckeplein, etc.):

Red, Red, Red

After the last post I thought it would be fun to show you

my red skirt and my red pullover on the red sofa. Can
anybody see me? :)

Red

Did I ever tell you that my favorite color is red?
While I am writting this I´m wearing a skirt in exactly the red shown in the pic and my pullover doesn´t look different either. I should actually take a pic of myself lying on the red sofa. I guess you wouldn´t see me.
Well maybe you would see my huuuuge belly. After each and every holiday I feel like 10 kilos heavier and I can´t see any food any more. At least I´ve got 9 days to recover from all the feasting. Then the next holiday starts with another 10 days in a row of eating.... errr ... celebrating.

Happy New Year!

I went from waist long hair to shoulder length hair a few days ago and changed the color from blond to copper. And today I finally bought myself a Bonsai (the first of my collection ;) ) which I´ve been wanting to have since more than 15 years now. Two of the first changes for the new year. Seems to be a good start for a better year.
I wish all of you a wonderful Rosh Hashana - specially to Mim (who I´ve been neglecting a bit the past weeks)!

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