Mom's Children

kisses

Orchid, the favorite flowers of my mother. We have 8 of them I think...and recently I bought one for myself, but it's a small type of Orchid, like really small :))) I will take a picture, so you can see the difference :)
This is one of the 8 types we have
Here are 2 of the other:

Sweet Love of Mine
Spotty


Have a nice day,
Ani

Sky Dancer

Sky Dancer

Wouldn't it be amazing if we could walk ...dance on the clouds? What is it whit mankind that they always want the things the can't have? Instead of focusing and cherishing what we already have, we want more, always more...
This has it's good and bad sides, as everything else in this world. But I believe...that someday our grand-grand-grand-grandchildren will be able to do just that! Become Sky Dancers;)

First Autumn Rain

Oh won't you let it rain!

Picture was taken this fall :)
It was the first autumn storm :) That night I remember making a Stormplaylist =)) That was pretty awesome. The songs were in that order so they made a story :)
I love storms, rain wind ....they are all awesome!! Ah...and thunder and lighting :) Last day I watched a movie called Dream Keepers. There was an old Native American guy who was telling different stories, like that of Thunderboy.
You should watch it, it's pretty nice :)

Follow your Heart!

The key to ourself is our Heart!

    But what time was it now she asked herself? She opened it, it was  4'o clock. "Alright then, I still have enough time to figure this out before it gets dark." She looked back at the white gate in front of her. But she wasn't sure what it really was because of all the fog surrounding her. Carefully she stepped closer to it and touched it with her hand. "Brr...it's cold as ice!" She couldn't see or feel a keyhole or anything else... 

But then, suddenly her hands found the keyhole. Curiously she took a look through it. But there was nothing to be seen...it seemed like the fog was coming out of it, forbidding her to see anything at all. Not knowing what to do next, she stepped back. "I need something to open this big Ice gate, I need a key!" It started to get really cold and she was feeling it all over her body, trying to convince her to let go and just go home. But no! She had waited for too long for this to happen. How many nights she cried hoping for a little magic to ease her pain. Now that she has a chance to make a change she will not surrender! 

"Oh dear" Her feet started to hurt. She wrapped her hands around them. "No, this can't be it....I need to find a way in!" Tears were dropping from her face..."Oh no I can't cry...they will turn into ice..." But how amazed she was when she saw that they did not. Everything around her was turning into ice...her tears yet were warm and soothing. As they fell down on the white ground they formed a little pond. She looked into it...like through a mirror, her tears still falling from her hazel eyes. "Please....tell me...how can I get in? Where do I find the key to open this cold ice gate?" 

The pond moved....the tears forming words... and it said... : Look into your heart for the key to this new and yet so ancient  world! She didn't knew how she could find a key in her heart, so the only think she could do was put her hands on her chest, closed her eyes and prayed for a miracle. 

When she opened her eyes and looked into her hands there were a pair of 2 golden Keys! In one second she was on her feet, her mouth wide open starring at them...they were so bright! So bright that their light dissolved all the fog around her. Now she saw the Gate more clearly. How big it was....and shiny and sparkly! She took one of the keys and put it into the keyhole. It turned by itself....and the Gate opened....

the story will continue ;)

Special Tree

Merry Jule!

This drawing I had to do a couple of years ago for school. We had to draw our own Christmas tree, the way we would like it to be. :)

I wish you all the best and Happy Holidays!
Ani

Don't forget Yourself

She closed her eyes...and opened the eyes of her heart...of her very soul! In front of her there was a lot of fog. And when I say a lot of fog...I mean like really much of that white and thick thing...she couldn't even see her own shoes! Wait, shoes? she didn't have any on right now. The only thing she was wearing was a white simple summer dress...and her beautiful pocket watch around her neck. Smiling she took it in both of her hands and crossed  her finger over the metal surface...for every hour...there was a different zodiac sign...the hour  for hers, was 1 o'clock.

Don't forget me!

That's the first paragraph from my story :)
This picture is very important...for this story. You all know this flower and their name. Forget me not
It's very important that on our journey through our imagination we don't loose ourselves. Yes we have to let go...but we have to know how to find our way back, or we will be lost in our own world. (Psychological speaking....that is a really bad thing!!!!) It's a shame if we won't be able to return and create such wonderful stories like Alice in Wonderland. 
So! Go in there...but never close the door, always leave it a little open, that way when you want to return... you have where to :)


Have a wonderful day!
Ani

The Beginning of The End!

which way? right...left?...I will go towards the SUN!

"Will you let it rain
Let it rain
So won't you let it rain
Oh, let it rain
Won't you let it rain"

 (H.I.M. - The Beginning of the End)

Since December is going to be the month of the Wolves  (I'm still working on the first painting)...I decided to tell you, that they have arrived, the wolves (in this case inspiration, but all so...rescue from all the pain and misery I've been through all this year) Now ...starting from today I will try to cure my and a friends heart from everything we have been through :)
We have a plan and everything...and I can feel it already that it's going to be a couple of very creative months :D We will heal through love and find a way to ourselves together.


Hope you will enjoy our future stories/paintings/songs etc :))
I will link you to her work in the future :)
Till then, I wish you all a beautiful night! Rest well >:D<
Ani

Wonderland Chapter I

listen to them...they have a story to tell!

So I've started my journey and I already have a story to tell :) It's about a girl..well not really a girl but a young woman discovering a magical gate made purely out of Ice :) The story is all in my head for now I will only give you a couple of hints about it, like first of all..it's inspired from Alice in Wonderland and Nightwish's latest album, Imaginaerum :)
Then...she will meet the Mad Hatter (which in this case is inspired from Tuomas Holopainen -Keyboards- the mastermind heart and soul of the band :) ) But he's a little different than the one we all know from the story!
There are a lot of wolves and dragons and other weird creatures (witches) involved here and well...let's hope you will like it :)

"A way to taste the night
The elusive high
Follow the madness
Alice, you know once did"

(Nightwish - Storytime)

Eternal Flame

SummerLove

It seems that this years summer has decided t join us in celebrating new year...and oh Christmas too :)
It's not that warm....but what can I say...rain sunshine...the warm touch of the wind...it makes me feel like summer fall and spring in one :)))

So why crying after  Winter when he is right here...a little bit changed :)), but here!
So welcome new Winter! :* You must be in love with Summer, since you won't let Her go :)))

Cheshire

Cheshire

On my way to Wonderland ;)

This cat reminded me of Cheshire....
Picture was taken this summer...when they cut down my childhood tree and right before my eldest cat went missing :(
Thanks to Nightwish's new album ...I have found that door I have been searching for so much time!

"I am the journey
I am the destination
I am the home
The tale that reads you"

(Nightwish - Storytime)

Thank you! I will return here as often as I can, in order to tell you whom I've met next...the Mad Hatter, the Blue Caterpillar or maybe the Red Queen?

Or I may tell you everything I discovered when the journey is over.......( that would be when I'm dead...so no! as often as I can, I will post my adventures here - pictures, stories, songs, paintings...)

Take care ;)

Ani (Alice)

Rote Symphonie

roses...are red

Heaven's a place on earth?

old couple in heaven :)

Is it?
Some would agree and some would disagree....but still there are people who believe that on earth we can have our very own little piece of Eden :) A place where we feel safe and more than just at home. A place where nothing and nobody can harm us....is that true?

I'm still searching for that very special place...I believe it exists :) and soon I will find it :D

Bridge of Lies

Lies...all lies I tell ya! =)

Yup, that's the name of this beauty. Or I heard people call it the lovers bridge :) hmmm lies, lovers...I wonder what they have in common :D
Every time I was in Sibiu I had to go there, it's like a tradition.
Next time you visit Sibiu, make sure to walk over that beautiful bridge...you won't regret it ;)

Last White Cristmas...

pretty snow was pretty

yup, picture was taken last year somewhere in December....
Now...I don't know what this Christmas will be like...but it doesn't look like it's going to be white...at all!!!! It's freaking 8 degrees out here =)))
Someone give me my winter back!!! He is mine! I don't know what to do with this warm and fuzzy thing....called December...


Well...anyways...last night I started the Work on my Arctic Love project :) and here you can find the first glimpse of it :D

 Arctic Love I

Hope you like it :)

PS: I promised Ada i will scan it, so thank her ...otherwise I wouldn't have posted it :)) And I won't post the other ones if there is no request :)

Whispers

silent whispers...

...and now the story begins!
I'm not quite sure how the first painting will look like...hell I don't even know how to start it....
I have chosen the first song for it! => Mary-Lou

I changed the lyrics so they would fit the story :)

"Mamas put your babies to sleep, story too cruelsome for
them this is. In Junior high I said goodbye to my parents and ran
away with a dream. I left my family warm and kind, all of my friends said
"you're out of your mind". Life of my own I would find.... "

Seduced I was by silent whispers....so I followed them... fell in love ...believing, trusting them. Bu my  Magical Autumn  was soon over...loved started fading...cutting deep into my soul....leaving it bare and vulnerable to the freezing kiss of winter.

"Only a child, reckless and wild, needs to come home again."

Awaking slowly from my deep deadly sleep...touched by the warm rays of Springs arms....and again I was hearing them...these deceiving whispers...pure poison...but still my heart followed them...and so it fell in love again...
Strong and filled with new hope it was pounding his way through life...not knowing ....not seeing...it's danger...the cage that was waiting for it....and so...I fall head over heels into a vicious circle....called arctic love!

I don't know when I will start and finish my first painting...nor it's name :(....but as soon as I'm done, you will know :)

Here is the ending of the first painting:

"He promised the moon but won't marry you.
Nothing to do, eating for two, he's goin' out with
someone new. Sunshine or rain, it's all the same, life isn't gray
oh Mary-Lou."

Let The Battle Begin!

I know I should have announced the theme for this last year's month...December a while ago...but...
I had a pretty hard time and I didn't really get a chance to think about it...but last night I woke up somewhere around 1 am and then it just came to me....

"The wolves, my love, will come
Taking us home where dust once was a man" 
(Nigthwish - 7 Days to the Wolves)

This first moth of winter...last month of the year will be the Month of The Wolves!!!
There are a couple of songs that fit this theme...most of them are by Sonata Arctica :X

 I was thinking to create a series of paintings around a story inspired by their songs  :)
I haven't started yet...but I'm very exited about it and can't wait to begin to work!
 The series will have the name Arctic Love :)

However I won't be able to scan them :( since they will be way bigger than my scanner. I will scan only a part of them, and who knows maybe someday some of you will see them for real :)
Oh and this month will be also about battles and stuff...for the stories will be about fighting for one believes in and for freedom, love and wilderness!!!!

Me and Susi

Susi = wolf in Finnish