A beautiful day

Some Sundays are better than others... My darling and I spent the whole day wondering around San Francisco. We started our day with a visit to the De Young Museum.
Relaxed under the warm sun in Golden Gate park.
Had lunch on the waterfront:
Found more art in the city:

Good enough?

Sharon and Judy Wise are carving new stamps and making templates every day. Inspired by them, I made a little stamp and used it as hair. Fun!

To dare or to not dare?

Change

Sorting through my feelings

Thanks for welcoming me back! As Norah guessed, I am spending days hugging and kissing my family. So happy to be here and still in an emotional overload from my visit. You can see a mosaic of people that came to see me while I was in Belgrade. Most are old friends, but there are some new faces and sadly, empty spots for people that now live only in memories. I am a natural loner, so being in contact with so many friends and being able to connect with them as we never separated was refreshing and wonderful.
I worked a little in my journal. This is a page I created night before returning home.
And this one waiting for a flight from New York to San Francisco. I was scribbling and sketching trying to hide it from other passengers. Although, they didn't seem interested... most were looking at their blackberries or notebooks. I felt pretty weird being all grown up and playing with crayons and pencils like a child....

Hello!

Going home

This is an unfinished journal page.

I need to add some more hearts that found me.

My parents have a heart shaped welcome mat.
I never noticed that before.
My mom wears a necklace with a heart pendant.
All friends I met after all these years seemed to have visible heart shaped auras.
As much as I am sad to leave, I can't wait to see my family.
It's interesting...
I wrote recently that I'm going home. I am writing the same thing today and it is true. I'm going home tomorrow. Home is where your heart is. That means so many places... I guess I'm rich :-)
The last heart I'm sharing is the little stone that my darling and I found one lovely day. He put it secretly in my luggage... so I couldn't help but smile and feel happy when I found it.

Autumn Leaves

Autumn is definitely here.
It is very cold, rainy and wonderful in Belgrade.

How is the weather where you live?

Dramatic story with a happy end

Hi! That's me after twenty-nine hours of airports, missed flights, numerous security checks, lost luggage etc. Happy thing is that I am a good sleeper and napped on every flight so I didn't arrive tired. I even refused to admit that there is a 9 hour time difference and continued my days as normal.
The reward was being hugged by my mom and seeing firsthand that she will be okay. My father left for a business trip so we have the luxury of spending all hours of the day together.... never enough time to talk about everything we want to.
I didn't start the long trip unprepared... I painted several pages in my new moleskin journal, packed my crayons, pens, pencils, water brush etc. Unfortunately, I'm too self-conscious to journal in public, so I had to find places on airports where no one could see my scribbles.

I was feeling nauseous on my first flight (I always do when I fly east, don't know why) so I was trying to remember to breathe and held my heart to help me feel centered. I secretly watched people and tried to sketch them. I would really like to know to do this better... but it takes a lot of practice and I don't remember to do that part. On the following page I used pieces from German newspaper and glued them with a glue stick (not messy, allowed on planes and functional).I have more pictures to share, but I will leave it for another day. Hope that everyone is enjoying October! I can't believe that half of the month almost passed...