An unexpected happiness

Hi everyone!

When I think about a memorable birthday, many come to my mind, but I think that ironically the best one yet have also been the most stressful.

It was my 17^th birthday and I had everything planned, but things didn´t go my way when the same day my cousin invited her friends over to my great grandma’s house. We had to improvise and move everything to my aunt´s yard; there, we went from one problem to another and finally decided to connect everything from extensions and made this kind of outdoor cinema, and of course, in between my friends arrived and helped with the arrangement.

I remember that my friends gave me many “wearable” things like a necklace, a cap, and sunglasses; they even brought me a paper crown! (Because I told them jokingly once that I wanted to be a queen for my birthday) I was so happy at that moment that I putted on everything and spent almost all day switching form the cap to the crown. With that weird look we decided to go pick up a friend who was late (the problems he had are for another story), and celebrating the fact that on the same week one of my friends finally got his driver license. I think that on the road back home I realized that I was having a good time, laying on the back of the pick-up truck, chatting and laughing with my friends, feeling the wind on my face. We came back just in time for the cake and I already had forgotten all the trouble we went through the day, I was just happy to be there with the people I cared about.

From there everything went nicely, we watched movies, played videogames, and because my birthday is on summer it wasn´t chilly even though we were mostly on the yard.

A sister for an only child

Hi there bloggers!

This time the topic is about a family member, and I would like to talk about my cousin Camila (Cami), she´s 24 and is currently studying agronomic engineering in Valparaiso.

When we were little, she moved with her family to La Serena, but that never meant that we didn´t see each other often. When they came to our hometown Cartagena for the summer, we would meet almost every day, and even once I tagged along to their travel to Villarica. But weirdly enough I remember that by the time I used to get along better with her brother Cristobal, because we were the same age and used to play together, but as time passed by, we began to talk and get along just as well, spending entire afternoons talking about  everything and nothing, she became sort of a role model to me, like a big sister I could talk to about my problems knowing she has gone through similar things already.

She’s very cheerful and relaxed but with strong convictions and beliefs. She liked animals and nature since I know her, and now combines that with her passion for nutrition and cosmetics creating her own creams, oils, bath salts and soaps, everything organic and eco-friendly. She also owns a fluffy rabbit called Pacha.

Thinking again, I’m glad that I could count on her so many times in my life, in all of them. I’m an only child so the fact that I could spend the summer going to their house and even traveling with them instead of being in my house all day was incredibly meaningful to me.

Gabriel Picolo (not "Piccolo", that's a DB character)

Hi! fellow bloggers

Today´s topic is someone I'd like to have a one-on-one conversation with. Needless to say that it’s not easy to just talk about one, but if I could meet and have a conversation with anyone in this very moment, I would most likely say my favorite artist, Gabriel Picolo. He’s a comic artist from Brazil, well-known for his original book “Icarus and the Sun” and his drawings of casual Teen Titans, which first started as just fanart and now is an official comic published by DC *throws confetti*. He also seems like a nice, approachable person, the type you would meet on a café to talk about music and series on Netflix (or at least I think so).

I remember the old days of Deviantart (a page for sharing art) around 2014, when I first stumbled upon his art, he was doing the 365-days of doodles challenge. But he wasn’t drawing just doodles, he uploaded such amazing pieces, traditionally drawn with ink, fully detailed, EVERY. DAY. (little me was shocked)

I think he was my mainly inspiration from then on (still is!) and I always wished he could come to a convention or event here in Chile, but that haven’t happened yet. If I meet him, I don´t know exactly what I would want to ask but I wanna know about his journey as an artist, what are his inspirations? what did he study? Does he have some tips for developing such nice skills both in paper and digitally? What is his next project?