What I am up to lately

I love the High Line in New York City. If you are visiting New York City, I definitely recommend checking the High Line. You see the city with a different eye. It is really cool.

On the background here, you can see the Empire State Building. How cool is that!!!
Currently, I am knitting a poncho. Not like planned with the original lace pattern but it will be still cool.
I bought the epattern from Bit of Whimsy Dolls and bought all the fabric except for the feet at Purl in Soho, New York City. Isn't she adorable?
Myself with the new wallpaper from Phillip Jeffries. It is grasscloth. A dream come true!!
One of my favorite new movie, A Lonely place starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Graham.

Worth checking it out!!

The winner of the felt necklace is.....

Digital Misfit !!! according to random.org

Congratulations!!!! Hope you will love your necklace!!!

Thanks to everyone for participating in my first giveaway ever.

I will be out and about today, this is why I did before noon today as I did not want to keep you waiting any longer.

Digital Misfit, please email me at shimmerstolz@hotmail.com with your address so I can mail your goodie.

There will be some other giveaway coming up, so stay tuned!!!

Happy Summer to you all!!
My favorite window display. Bambi is so cute!!

Pictures taken of the artwork at the Moma in New York. The trees are made of newspapers; a collage.

Giveaway felt necklace

This is my first giveaway ever. This necklace is made of eye candy felt balls floating in a colorful net. It is super light and fun. The winner will be selected on Friday, July 17th via www.random.org

Good luck!

Recipes + New felt necklace

I am into felt lately. It is super fun. Thanks to youtube, I teached myself how to do the eye candy felt. I basically put the felt in a panty hose that I tied and put all of them in a pillow case that I tied also then I let the wash machine do the work.
I did this recipe last night with the Italian chicken and it was a great success.

I did some steamed broccoli on the side. I feel that you can never eat to many vegetables.
Voila, I hope you find this post somehow inspiring. Have a good weekend! I hope it will stop raining. My mother had her bone narrow treatment. She seems happy about it. Although, it is not a cure, we all hope in the family that it will put her disease (which is unfortunately ALS) to remission. At this point, since there is no cure, we can only hope and pray.

What inspires me

I love Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Brigitte Bardot in God created women

Goldfinger of course with Sean Connery, my favorite Bond.

In Dr. No Ursula Andress She was born in Switzerland.

Haute Couture dresses

My favorite label of all time, Lyell

I love also Mayle. Unfortunately, Mayle does not exist anymore. But I have a cardigan and one of her catalog to cherish.

Inspiration behind BUBBLE of JOY

I went through a folder that I call Inspiration and I found the original drawing for my painting Bubble of Joy. It's amazing. I forgot all about it. I just wanted to share with you all my sketches. I got inspired by the fish shagreen so when I saw a while back in 2001 an article in the Vogue magazine about shagreen bags and when I found some plastic tubes in a store, I got all excited and went ahead in the making of Bubble of Joy. I drew also inspiration from my childhood seeing my brother creating a painting made of colorful silk paper, like a collage.

I originally called Bubble of Joy, Ray of Sun as you can see below but come to think of it, I decided to call it Bubble of Joy because I love bubble bath, the more bubbles the better and if the bubbles come in color then I am in heaven.

What I like in no specific order and dislike...

Josie, the bear made by Jennifer Murphy wearing proudly one of my handmade necklaces.

My dog handbag; whenever  I wear it put smiles on people's face.

I love the colors of this blanket that my great grandmother on my mother side crocheted.

Adorable Christmas decoration made by my grandmother on my father side. I got from my grandmother the creative bug. It is in the family.

Aren't they cute those marzipan animals?

I love sunset. There is something magical about capturing this moment.

I love exotic flowers.
My first lucite pair of earring in color pink of course and heart shape.

Hand painted porcelain cup with saucer by my grandmother on my father side.

As a tradition, I used to make for each Christmas pillows in the shape of fruits for members of my family. This picture was taken at my aunt place. I am glad to see that after all those years the pillows are still there and in a good shape.

The Alps.

Chihuahua make me laugh and put me in a good mood. 

They are so cute. I love them.

Additionally I like:

Swiss chocolates (chocmel, rayon), mimosa on Sundays, 

lying on the beach, vintage, 

champagne, dogs, dragonflies, filet de perche, hiking, skiing, 

hero jam, the Alps.

I dislike: brussel sprouts, moskitoes 

(and also the ones you can't see by the beach), 

sunburn, alarm clocks,umbrellas, cigarettes, pigeons, 

remote controls.