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Hope this email finds you well-rested or, if not, on the eves of a summer vacation! Here, I haven’t had any illustration work, so I’ve been reprinting my maps and the coffee guide, which involves a lot of cutting, folding and stapling. I quite like the repetitiveness, though. It's a bit like meditation.
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I’m also using all this free time to refresh my French. I’ll be going to the MA in Brussels (long story short: I didn't get any scholarship but decided to go anyway! I'm equally happy and scared) in September, and thought it would be nice to remember some of what I learned in school.
I picked up my old school books and I’m also listening to a podcast called Little Talk in Slow French. I highly recommend it! She speaks slowly and about interesting topics, so I'm learning a lot about history and science aswell. I just listened to an episode about the death penalty that was very shocking. Did you know France only abolished the death penalty in 1981?! And that, until then, the executions were still by guillotine?!! :-O
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Moving away from gruesome trivia: earlier this month there was a party at the sewing school and everyone had to come dressed with something they made. After weeks of procrastination I somehow managed to make a dress in the morning before the party!
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(I think the cats fighting in the back add to the glamour.)
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I was very proud of myself and excited to start another quick project.
I have two new pieces of fabric and am deciding what to do with them.
I’ve realized that fabric is so expensive (whyyyy?) that it’s easier to buy random stuff on sale, when I find them, and decide later what to do with them.
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It would be fun, one day, to try printing my own drawings in a fabric. But I'm still too green to trust myself with that.
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Finally, a work related thing:
I'm teaching a workshop at the public library this month! I have no idea if there are still vacancies but, if you would like sign up your kids, or yourself, send them an email.
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Before I go, last week I went to see Minta and the Brook Trout's concert in Porto and I still have one of their songs stuck in my head, and I will leave you with it:
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