Author: willyvanrooy

LET’S BLOG

Now the question is what to blog about? In my mind I would like to make a sort of Diary or “reality” blog and talk about all kind of things that come to my mind and share with you all kinds of things we do or did. I got really dizzy after being for hours in the Cyber jungle and learned a few more things but still need a lot more time and help. In the meantime I finished the necklace with the cross I started working on the other day. A while ago I made one and it came out quiet good so I made an other one.
I love crosses, great shape, actually the shape of our body with stretcht arms and that is of course why they have that shape so people could be nailed to it. It’s not that I like the cross for religious reasons, I just love the shape and there are endless variations, in gold,silver,nickel,bronze, with precious stones, with rhinestones, beads, filigree, very ornamented or very simple, its been around for centuries and has been in Fashion always. Coco Chanel designed some beauties and so did Nina Ricci and of course Yves Saint Laurent, not to mention the ones the Pope is wearing. Then Madonna has the reputation to have been the first to put a cross in her ear but that is not so. When we lived in Ibiza in the beginning of the 70-ties, Salvador put a cross in his ear and called it his “Cruz pendiente”, pendiente being the Spanish for earring but also for “pending”.

In the 80-ties the cross was very hot too and I even made shoes and boots with bejewelled crosses on them.

Anyway, these here are made of Fimo clay on a Plexiglas base but it can be anything that is thin and strong and cuttable, then sculpt the clay on it, set the stones to make the shape and take them out again, bake in the oven, paint it 14 c liquid gold and glue the stones in their place. I made a series of them when we lived in LA in the 90-ties, without backing, just the clay. The trouble is that like that they are more delicate and can break. I know Susan Sarandon got one and who knows where the rest went.

 

One of the boots with cross 1989

Ok, this is all the blogging I can do for today, going to see a movie and if it is worth it I tell you about it.

CLICK, CLICK..

Today was a day of a lot of clicking and did not get much wiser, rather more confused and sometimes I have to wait a while before it settles in my brain and all of a sudden, during dinner or something like that, I see the light and understand. Computers, at the same time that they are your greatest friend, can drive you mad! I am talking for me of course and I know that some of you are very savvy but I also know that many are not, so you all understand where I am coming from, you either have been there or you are like me, still in the dark. However it is, there is no hurry and with patience and a little help from friends we get quiet far! Then again, why does one want a blog? In reality I don’t have that much time to read a lot of blogs, some favorites right now are ” the Pilgrim” and Roshanda Gilmore! I also look up the blogs that talk about me and there are some great Blogs out there but who has time? I have the suspicion that we all like to be heard but don’t have time to hear that much, only if it fits exactly in some compartment of the brain, that’s why there are tags so you can go straight there. I think someone makes a blog because he or she feels that there is something to share, otherwise what do you do with all your knowledge, talent and experience? You no longer have to wait for someone to decide what and where and how you will be published but you yourself can show what you want with the possibility that someone likes it. It is also wonderful to see reactions and comments because it makes you feel good to know that someone thought of you because that person was reading your blog. In my case my interests are Art, particularly painting, I love Fashion and all that has to do with it: designing, illustration, photography and magazines. All these need links and sub-links and tags so we know what is where and where is what and we can go on clicking……

Latest painting by my husband Salvador Maron.

GETTING THERE….

As you can see there is a lot of progress here, spend hours again Skyping with Roshanda and with her help found what I needed for the moment. If you like to become a follower you get automatically updated ( I think) and if you have a link or a blog it gets there and my followers can become your followers or your followers may become mine, interaction, communication, messages, find friends, anything is possible.

Since a few days I exercise half an hour in the morning, first thing! My sister Nelly, who lives in England, was telling me that she was doing that before going on a 10 mile walk with the dog. Now, I have no dog so I don’t have to do that but the exercise is good I think, specially if you spend most of your time sitting or standing. First stretch a little bit and walk around on your toes stretching as much as you can, trying to reach the ceiling and after that a bunch of classic moves like reaching your feet or floor with your hands while your legs are straight and push ups and push downs, what ever you feel your body needs. When I feel I am done with that I get to the good part and that is to dance! I can’t imagine a better exercise, just 3 or 4 songs dancing as wild as you can. I like to dance to George Harrison ( cloud nine) at the moment but Micheal J is of course great to dance to and Prince! When we lived in Los Angeles in the 90ties I was for a while the private designer for Paula Abdul, will talk about that later, I just wanted to say what a great dancer she is and it was great fun to go with her when dancers came to audition for her, it blew me away how good some were. Dancing was my first passion and I glued pictures of Ana Pavlova in my “picture book” while most other girls in the orphanage clipped and glued pictures of the royal family because the only magazines we got to cut up or see were about Royalty and Ana probably had danced for the queen. So Dancing! any music you like will do and nobody sees you or if you want to be seen you can video it and put it on Youtube. So funny all that possibilities. OK then, today I was not only on the computer but I made a necklace from beads I had laying around, did not work on my coat for awhile because the computer has taken a lot of my time…

STARTING ALL OVER..

OK, I already told you I am new at this and the other blog I had before was apparently not the good one, the difference being that in the one I had first you are somehow not in total control but in this one you are! There are more widgets and Plug-ins too ( yes, I am learning)! The thing is that I am so lucky that my “daughter” Roshanda Gilmore has a website where she teaches just that and she knows a lot! As soon as I know how, I will put her link because it is really incredible, she sees my screen and I see hers and together with her guidance you go from one thing to the next. Honestly, after 3 hours I was totally computer exhausted but here I am. Still lots of things to do but you will see the progress!

What I have in mind is to make a sort of “reality” blog, you know, everyday something happens, either in your mind or in your daily life. We, my husband of whom I will talk later and I, live in Oregon, USA, in the country about 16 miles from Portland, in  a district called Sherwood ( like in Robin Hood) not to far from Mount Hood! The best Robin Hood movie is with Errol Flynn, the father of a friend but not for that reason. My husband, Salvador Maron, is an artist painter and we have a son, Alejandro, who is a Fashion designer in Madrid (Spain) and a daughter Alegria who lives in Los Angeles and is an artist and a business woman and a mother of 3 children. Alijah is a girl of 12, Dashaun is a boy of 5, Amara is a girl of 9 months.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alegria by Rory Flynn                                                        Alejandro by me

Ok,tomorrow is an other day and there are a lot of  things to do. Right now maybe look at a movie and oh, the other day we saw a really good one, “The Chess Players” directed by Satyajit Ray. The movie is from the seventies but it plays in 19th century India. It is so well done and such a gorgeous costumes and images, very soothing. Ray is an Indian ( from India) director and considered a master, which he is. OK, hopefully tomorrow I will be able to change the background colour and the letters and put some Links, URL’s,Plug-in’s,Tags, Widgets, Custom-fields, Ping-back or Draft-back ……….., wonderful!