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Here is one of the best surprises I’ve got for my birthday from a friend.

I love the books of Tove Jansson and these strange heroes.

The cake was not only perfectly made, but also very, very delicious piece of kitchen art.

My brother gave me this big pencil.
It’s a joke with the name of this website, which sounds like the word “pencil” in Bulgarian.

I guess he is just trying to tell me, that is time for me to give drawing more space in my life.

Yes, my day. I love the whole October – best time of the year.
The day is so bright with all the kind people smiling and calling to wish me nice things, that I would like to ask if it could be like this every day.

Feel happy, so i wanted to share few music greetings from me to all of the nice people out there:

So classic:

(and the same with High Quality, only not loud enough)

Something from The 80′s

and another, modern one:

Thanks to all of you!

This is the best time of the year concerning colors.

I am very fond of pebbles. Sea ones, river ones, rounded or edgy, every little one with its own from and personality.
Recently I found something wonderful online – alphabet from pebbles.

ClotildeOlyff probably made hard work to collect all of these, but her efforts were worth while.
Her alphabet is nice and well-done, even if not the only try with this idea (here is another try that I found, only not so good).

Meanwhile these days I miss very much the sea. Suffering from the usual nostalgia, I will show off few of my pebbles’ photos.

Probably not so interesting from a typographical point of view.
But let’s say they are iconic.

I know, that my next sentence is a big cliche, but whatever, I mean it – Nature is a true magician!

That’s it. Even nowadays I just cannot go home from somewhere without at least a handful of pebbles…

(The inspiration for this guy came once while spotting some Sony commercial posters with rabbits.)

This flower is here only to add color to the post, and here you can also see a bunch of rabbits just waiting for the “Start!” signal!

Another one from the same series, made in February. Still not really finished, but I like it even now, without colors…

There were different opinions what kind of animal it should be, but it came to be a fox. His tail should be a head of a cobra, but I’ve change it a bit, because Michel was not very fond of it, didn’t like the symbol.

When he was a kid, he used to sing in the choir,

but nowadays he is dreaming for opera. Plays old gramophone records and sings with them.

He has read “The book for the opera” and knows all the Giuseppe Verdi’s librettos by heart. But he is too shy and prefers to sing only at home. When he feels bold, he opens the window.

The neighbors are not angry, because he actually sings very gently.

I guess there are subjects and things that just gets me obsessed from time to time and something is making me going on in the same direction.
About fifteen or sixteen years ago, when I became friends with the clay for the first time, who knows why, but I started to make fairy dwarfs and small wizards. Most of them I gave to a friends almost immediately, but still have half a score at home, which i considered not good enough for a present.

In the last few years I have less and less free time and the needed serenity to do such things, but having this site made me realize that cats have ensconced themselves in it permanently and comfortable and for now they don’t even think about leaving.
On paper or from clay, it seems to imply that they know well what am I in need for – exactly not-being-in-a-hurry, more home life, even a bit of laziness.
Here are two specimens, that I love much.

First this charming one. Because he is always thinking for food, I gave him a magnet – to be close to the refrigerator.

We can learn many things from the cats. I admire their natural strength and elegance and the amazing ability to relax. Anywhere. Anytime.

And here it is the little pensive wanderer, who misses adventures and new lands:

He read a lot about the places that want to visit. But home is taking him back and it is getting harder to break the habit and go on the road.

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He is also a big retro-fan and is born with the sense of good style. Always wanted to be a ship cat. He has heard that in the ship holds is full with rats, who knows the taste of rum and salt sea water. But he is not afraid, only curious to meet them.

Terribly curious.

Here’s what happened with this guy after dyeing. I’m not quite sure If I like it more now or before, but however, it’s too late to hesitate.

Indeed, it’s likeable now, in its own way somehow. It was year and a half lingering, till finally I decided to finish it. Not bad, actually?

The next few blog posts will be mainly with pictures. I brushed out the dust from what I’ve got to show and take the big decision of not! procrastinate! anymore!

In my defense will say only that I didn’t have good enough photos and it was a shame to upload crappy ones here. Then we lost the hard disk and the few good photos are gone so far.

But three days ago I have success with catching the best light – late sunset, which is adorable, but hardly impossible to see in north apartment. So I made quickly part of the photos that I wanted to.
For a start, here it is, a snail-optimist, fruit of co-operative work:

Actually, Michel is always jumping around while I am making something, and he is repeating that he cannot do such things even in his dreams.

In fact, he was totally awake when he made this snail, and I think he did it just great. My touch are only the horns with eyes and the coloring, but from all the little things at home, this snail is one of particularly special!