It's official, I don't want to leave! And I am beginning the process of making living here a reality.. woot! I have found a small group of people from Oaxaca and beyond and we are working on an Art Music Culture festival.. OAXACA EN VIVO. It is in 1 month so there is a lot to do but it is really exciting..
At the same time I have been meeting with my friend Jeronimo el artista de tatuahes.. He fell off his roof and broke his muñeca (the word for wrist - muñeca - also means doll, it is one of my favourite terms of endearment here.. my Oaxacan Grandma calls me her muñeca, I assume she means doll not wrist?) Anyhoo he can't work for a while and in the mean time I'm going to help him work and he is going to teach me to tattoo! We are making my very own gun.. and I have begun drawing my very own flash.. weee heee
You can look at his work too.. Search for Dr Lakra
A special note to Gemma Jones: there are so many VW beetles here.. more than any other type of car! My favourites are the old rust buckets that have been painted a million times.. Every time I see one scooting around the streets I imagine it is your pumpkin buns behind the wheel. Ah.. happy memories of you, me, your beetle and Melbourne.
Oh I must mention the manualidades.. The hand crafts here - as I am sure you can imagine - are blowing my tiny mind. Every day I walk past street vendors and tiendas selling intricately hand embroidered clothing, jewellery, paintings and more more more.. Everything here is bright, beautiful and just the way I like it with birds, flowers, hearts, skulls and more.. I bought a dress which was meant for niñas with bright embroidered birds, love hearts and ribbons sewn on. My friends have a baby boy and he has the most amasing multicoloured, hand woven rattle!!
Todo es muy bonita!!
And last but not least.. please leave me comments you goons! I would love to know what all my peeps are up to.. and to a lesser degree, if anyone is reading?!
4 comments:
Holy dooly!! Information overload... of the best kind!! My stinky little Dicey, it sounds like Alice has finally found her Wonderland :)
I must confess... I'm a bad bloggeree?! Anywho, only just finished uni for the year, needless to say the past weeks have provided seldom few minutes for the merriment of leisurely reading.
What a treat it was to catch up though! It's as if I've just swallowed a rainbow of lollies all at once and am skipping along with you in sweet, sugary glee!
My hairs are growing again, how I'd love to pop over for a quick snip and a little frolicking on the side!
I saw your mumma bear and little muppy over the weekend, nothing much changes here as you know, just trying to be the best mermaid I can be :)
Take care my naughty-but-nice little muñeca (wrist) :P Love your stinkin guts!!!! xoxoxoxoxox
Heya kiddo!
Know that you never have trouble finding the interesting side of life chickadee, but you seem to have struck gold! Glad you are loving it - knew that you would. Missing you kid, but definitely keeping up with the blog - so keep writing :)
That video mesmerised my anaesthetic riddled head - have just been let out of hospital from having my wisdom teeth done. So, numb and bleeding, but wanting tattoos! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with when you are needle in hand.
Only news is that am off to London for work first week of December - which will be nice, but cold. Free flights is certainly handy.
Stay nice little chicka, and keep chatting to ladies on street corners.
Talk to you soon - lots of love xx
Hi baby ..
This is my first ever blog comment, I'm getting right up there with technology.
It makes me so so happy that you are having this wonderful experience and surrounded by all the things you love.
Please don't come home looking like one of the tattooed ladies, you have lovely skin and cute freckles and I'd like to be able to see all of this.
We will talk again soon sweetpea.
Muchas Grande Love.
Mumma
x
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