30s Crisis

My birthday is this week, I will be 30 and they say when you are about to get 30 you get ‘the 30s Crisis’…I don’t know if I’m going through that now but I changed by hairstyle, I get bored really quickly and I’ve had my hair red, blue, purple, black, blond. Now I got highlights hehe so here is my before and after :)

Also, I would like to share this great blog, http://dianarobledo.blogspot.com/, my friend Diana is a great and famous radio talk host here in Monterrey, Mexico so take a look :)

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was a strong woman who had passion for life and for love. Some people don’t understand her art, she was going through so much pain that the only thing she could do was to express her feelings in painting, she painted with her heart, not with her eyes, as they say.

Her love for Diego Rivera was unique; I believe her love was more like a mother, since she couldn’t conceive a child and that frustrated her. She protected him and forgot about his infidelities and it was strange because Diego admired Frida as an artist as well, he once said: “Her work is acid, sweet and hard like steel. Thin like a butterfly wind, kind like a smile and cruel like life’s bitterness…You see, I don’t think any woman has ever captured such a distressing poetry in a painting”.

But who are we to judge if we don’t know what she went through, right? That is why her paintings were so raw because that is what she saw and felt.

My husband gave me a great birthday present last year, Frida Kahlo’s journal, it is so amazing and it makes you understand a little bit more her life. It has everything, drawings, quotes, thoughts, letters, stories and things we will never know what they mean but it is something very valuable.

What can I say? I LOVE Frida Kahlo =)

My favorite quotes are:

“Pies…Para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar?”
“Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?"

"Me retrato a mi misma porque paso mucho tiempo sola y porque soy el motivo que mejor conozco."

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone and because I am the person I know best"

I’ve read tons of sites honoring Frida but this is, in my opinion, the best so far:
http://eluniversodefridakahlo.splinder.com/

Here are some paintings I took from the following site and a great Bio:
http://www.fridakahlo.com

BIOGRAPHY.-
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón 1907-1954

From 1926 until her death, the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo created striking, often shocking, images that reflected her turbulent life. Kahlo was one of four daughters born to a Hungarian-Jewish father and a mother of Spanish and Mexican Indian descendent, in the Mexico City suburb of Coyoacán.

She did not originally plan to become an artist. A polio survivor, at 15 Kahlo entered the premedical program at the National Preparatory School in Mexico City. However, this training ended three years later when Kahlo was gravely hurt in a bus accident. She spent over a year in bed, recovering from fractures of her back, collarbone, and ribs, as well as a shattered pelvis and shoulder and foot injuries. Despite more than 30 subsequent operations, Kahlo spent the rest of her life in constant pain, finally succumbing to related complications at age 47.

During her convalescence Kahlo had begun to paint with oils. Her pictures, mostly self-portraits and stills, were deliberately naive, filled with the bright colors and flattened forms of the Mexican folk art she loved. At 21, Kahlo fell in love with the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, whose approach to art and politics suited her own. Although he was 20 years her senior, they were married in 1929; this stormy, passionate relationship survived infidelities, the pressures of Rivera's career, a divorce and remarriage, and Kahlo's poor health. The couple traveled to the United States and France, where Kahlo met luminaries from the worlds of art and politics; she had her first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City in 1938. Kahlo enjoyed considerable success during the 1940s, but her reputation soared posthumously, beginning in the 1980s with the publication of numerous books about her work by feminist art historians and others. In the last two decades an explosion of Kahlo-inspired films, plays, calendars, and jewelry has transformed the artist into a veritable cult figure.

Cute Pics from The Dreamy Giraffe

Cute Cute Cute!!! Really talented girl!

Pictures taken from http://www.thedreamygiraffe.com/

Soccer Fever

What’s up with soccer? I mean, in Mexico, they need to place a big screen TV at work so people will actually go to work and not stay at home and watch the game. I like soccer and I really wish our national team will make it, but let’s get real, there are great teams like Brazil or Argentina, but I hope we do make it to the finals; it would be nice to win and forget that there are bad things happening in our country. Mexico is great, we have an amazing culture and Monterrey is an industrial and modern city, unfortunately there are a lot of ‘bad guys’ so we are with fear all the time.

Let’s forget about that for a while, I support my country in South Africa 2010, even though I’m not a huge soccer fan! Shhhhh!!! Please don’t tell my husband that since he lives and breathes soccer!!! LOL

Bye Bye!!

Welcome to my Blog

Hi! Welcome to Pink Fairytales & Nonsense by Nani!

I’ve been reading so many blogs I decided to open mine…yeiii!! So, the big question is, now what? =)

I spend a lot of time on the web so I usually see great pictures, quotes, blogs and I fall in love with so many things, I will be posting them here, so I can save them and well, if there is someone out there reading my blog, I will share with them too =)

I would like to introduce myself, my name is Angelica but my family and friends call me Angie or Nani and I’m from Monterrey, Mexico. I’ve been married for almost 3 years, no kids but I have a puppy, a Dachshund named Keko (cupcake in Spanish is also known as ‘quequito’ or ‘keko’). I work full time in a company and I also run a small cupcake business at home, I will be posting some of my work here or you can also visit http://cupcakesbyangie.blogspot.com/

I would like to thank Megan from Shabby Blogs (http://www.shabbyblogs.com/) for sharing great material and for helping Blog Newbies like me =)

So, here we go…welcome!!