Happy New Year

Hello dear friends!
This weekend I received Jenny's Moly (=
It looks so vivid in flesh! G-R-E-A-T! I would do my entry in new 2009 (=
WISH YOU ALL THE BEST THIS NEW YEAR 2009! Let's meet the next year with our lovely Molies.
Dearest Kathrin thanks for the package and lovely BEAR))) so many bright stamps on the envelope made me feel wonderful :-*

Sorry, Heidi.

Some kind of inspiration came over me, and I made an entry into Anna Denise's book. So, I will be sending it to you sooner than I thought I would. AD, it's kind of clumsy, and it doesn't flow beautifully with everyone else's, but I hope you like the story, the rise of a great American artist.

Kathrin's entry in Jenny's Moleskine

The theme of Jenny's book is "Carnival". In the north of germany we don't celebrate carnival, so I drew the carnival of animals.

Olya's book.

"This artwork begs to be colored, but I'm not goig to do it. I have six other books to do and I'm crabby tonight.......Hey, if you would like to color this in, feel free."

Olya, I hope that this amuses you. Heidi, here it comes. I have another book from Lau, but I will hold it for a while so we can catch up.

Kathrin's book

Whittling away at the pile of books I have let grow at my house. I hope you like this entry Kathrin. Now I'll hop on my eagle and make a delivery or two.

I am back!

Hi! I am so sorry for my delay, (my new life are started and I had lost my self a bit!)

It was hard to me to find something to draw in Heidi's Moly so I draw about "global warming" cose I always hear talking about it and I am really worry about warming........


:)

good day
Jenny

Sorry!

I am officially a delinquent. I am officially holding up the works. I have three books. I have for days off starting tomorrow, so I will start drawing and send a couple off next week.

Such a bad boy. I actually have five books and two more to begin at my house. Guess I'm not joining any groups for a while.

Love.

‘What’s in your Moleskine’ Contest Deadline 11/14

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Anna's entry in Jenny's Moleskine

Happy Halloween everyone!

For Jenny's lovely and light 'carnival' Moleskine, I did a little Carnival/Halloween drawing of partying student-style. Hope you like it, Jenny! I will send it out to Kathrin on Monday (I have to work tomorrow). Have a great evening (or day, for those of you in the Americas)!

I'm back..!

Yes! After a couple of trips and a loooot of work I could finish Anna's Moly.., I'm so happy..!

The second good news is that Marty's Moly arrived 3 days ago..!!

All the best for everyone..!

lau.

Jenny's Moly on Holiday

Jenny's 'Carnival' Moly arrived in Holland today! She's sending you all a big hug!

What's up?

Hi folks,
where are you? Missing you and a few new lovely entries!
Love,
Kathrin

Lau's Moly is Finished

Hi ladies and Marty!
2day I finished my entry into Lau's Moly. Bears bears bears))))

I counted the sheets left and it turned out that the Moly will be finished by Lau herself-so two entries only are left. Sad =( are we going to buy new Molies and have the second rotation with our group?? I'd love to.

Jenny's entry in Marty's Moly

Hi! Finally I did my illustration to Marty's Moly!
The subject was neighbor, so here is what I done, hope it is ok!!!

all the best
Jenny

It's slumber-style carnival time - Jenny's Moly!

Hi guys!

Must say, the entries in this journal are FANTASTIC!!
Here's my carnival entry in Jenny's journal... thought I'd include some pesky, mischevious slumber-party faeries for the Faery Pyjama Carnival :)
Might still be tempted to add a few details before packing (you know how it is!)
I'll send this to Anna-D next week!



Love! x

Lau's Moly on its way to Olya

I posted the letter Friday morning. This time I didn't forget the airmail-sticker and there are enough stamps onto the envelope. So I hope it will reach you soon, Olya!

HELP!!!!

Actually, printmaking class is over and I can start focusing on the moly's. Give me two weeks, and these will be in the mail.

Love.

Kathrin's Spirograph doodles in Lau's Moly

I really don't know what came over me, but yesterday I wanted to draw into Lau's Moly; I had no concrete idea, and I didn't want to think about it until I would be blocked by my thoughts. So I drifted and doodled with my spirograph.

I received 2 moly's on one day!!!!

Hello! How are you?
so, I received Marty's Moly and Heidi's Moly and some lovely surprises!!! Yay!!!!

I received 2 books from Lau.

Let's see....I have Jen's and Kathrin's books. I have 4 books total, at home right now. I am am a little behind. Sorry. Please be patient with me. Thanks.

Lau's Moly arrived in Germany!

Just want to tell you that Lau's Moly (sent by Anna Denise) arrived safe in Germany! It looks so great live!

Anna's entry in Lau's Moly = Finished

Here's my entry in Laura's Moly!








And here's the whole thing:
















Isn't it pretty? I'm sending it out today!

Going to Marty's

Update from 2008/07/08

Thanks Lau. I got Olya's book.

Sorry that it's taken me a while to acknowledge its arrival. Cool book! It came to my house while I wasn't at home. Then, it took days for me to get the post office to pick it up. Then, I packed it and left town. moly_x rolls on. I am looking forward to starting this book during the next couple of days.

Love to y'all.

...and quickly finished!

Marty's Moly is now ready to be sent to Jenny!
Here is what is written on the back page of the picture-short description of the situation over my nearest neighbours))

That's turned to be fun-the neighbour who lives next door to me hates dogs but in the picture-Kathrin's dog is located in his room)))) HAHA)
Will post the Moly on Monday.
Jenny, wait for it)

Marty's Moly has been started ...

Hi all! Here is my piece in progress started in Marty's Moly. I keep his book toooooo long and feel ashamed ^_^
This is a piece of my room (too empty in the pic I'd say)))), in reality it's full of polar bears and different drawing stuff, like canvas, plain and with paintings on), plan to show my neighbors around. Well, I added colours, couldn't control myself!
Hope to finish this weekend and send it on Monday-Tuesday.

Exciting Day!

Hello folks!

SO... you haven't heard much from me lately but here I am with exciting news.
First of all, the moly from Marty-land arrived today. EXCITING!!!
Have to say, the contents are amazing! Talk about pressure to perform!

Second thing is that FINALLY i've completed my entry in Lau's moly.. it didn't go exactly as hoped (doesnt fit in so well with the previous entries) and i 'accidently' managed to get my favourite subject of overheard convo's in there at the same time as seasons.... ;)
The convo's are from Glade Festival in July last year where we experienced floods and torrential rain (lots of mud, and cars being towed out by tractors etc)... during the worst rains i sat in my tent eavesdropping and making notes, like a good little reporter!



I'll post that to Anna D on Monday.

Hope you're all doing fantastically well :)

Jenzbook II

I'm really liking this book. Heidi, I'm going to hold on to it for a few more days, so I can share it with the folks in my printmaking class. I will use it as a recruiting tool. BTW, the type was printed on a Showcard letterpress during a printmaking demonstration at my last class. I kinda dig it. So, I will mail the book on Friday.

Jenzbook: Work in progress.

A little preview to assure you all that I am still alive.

lau's entry in olya's moleskine

Hi everyone!
late.., but sure.. :D

I got Jenny's book today!

Thanks, Lau. The art is delicate and sweet. Very finely done. I will need to be on my best behavior.

WooooHooo! Marty's Moly is Finally in Russia!

I rushed to add some new details to the previous update! I received Marty's Moly today!I even screamed seeing it in my mailbox!

Kathrin, thank you soooooooooooooooo much for the bears on the envelope! I recognized Knut at first sight, can you believe that (Oh, God, totally crazy 'bout them)?

Oh.. I am scared to start.... the drawings are so graphically great!
Hope to get inspired soon.
See ya soon
XXXO

Where are the Moly's?

Hi folks,
here comes the actual update.

Heidi's 'Overheard' Moleskine is at Jenny
Anna Denise's 'Story' Moleskine is on it's way to Lau
Jenny's 'Carnival' Moleskine is on it's way to Marty
Olya's 'Travelling' Moly is at Lau
Kathrin's 'Paperchase' Moleskine is at Lau
Lau's Moly is at Heidi
Marty's 'People in your Neighborhood' Moleskine is on it's way to Olya

Love,
Kathrin

Kathrin's entry into Marty's Moly

Sorry for the delay. With every day I didn' start drawing my bad conscience grew and grew and grew. Today I couldn't stand it any longer and I just did it. Hope that nobody from my neighbors will find this here. My drawings has no likeness with my real neighbors.

one come - one go

I have to say "I'm sorry" because two things:

. The Jenny's envelope is too much beautiful than my entry in her moleskine.., I'm feel shamed..

. I have a lot of work and I'm too much late.., I'll try to improve it..!

Jenny! Wait for Heidi's Moly to come soooooon (=

Olya's Entry into Heidi's Moly Finally Finished

Hi everyone! Finally I prepared my overheard stories. This is collage with Smiley. All the details (pre-history of each story) are written on the back side of the Moly (= ).
PS sorry for keeping it too long-there was too tough 2 weeks at work! Hope not to delay any more.
PSS Heidi's Moly will be posted on Monday (we have 3 holidays in Russia)
XXO
Olya

Jenny's entry in Anna's Moly!I did it!
I will ship to Lau very soon!

Received Marty's Moly from Anna Denise

Just wanted to tell you that the Neighbor-Moly arrived safe! Thank you Anna Denise for encouraging words and this very nice envelope... I have to admit that I'm nevertheless a litte bit nervous, because I have only some woolly ideas. Btw: This Moly is so great! So much better to see it live than here in the blog.

Flickr Re-Visioned

The raccoon posed for this illustration in the fashon of an earlier illustration I did for moly_x_1. Lau said that the only rule is to have fun. SO.....I had fun. Messy, but that's the raccoon spirit.

I went with a northern hemisphere spring thing to follow Lau's southern hemisphere autumn theme.

A lot of work is coming..

Thanks Jenny, beautiful package, amazing drawings (yours and from Ollif!) and so sweet candy (I've taken one, the rest continue across the world)!

Finished (?): Anna's entry in Marty's Moly!

My entry in Marty's 'People in your Neighborhood' Moleskine. Since I don't really know my neighbors (and to be honest, I'd like to keep it that way) I wrote the things that I do know on a map of my small 'block' of houses. Not sure if I'll keep it like this, might just be the 1st version. I think I'd like to add some shading perhaps.

I felt a little strange about adding color, since neither Marty or Heidi used any color, but I added some tiny green details to Marty and Heidi's drawings (hope you don't mind...) to make it look more coherent.

Well, still working on it probably, but just wanted to show you what's going on!
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UPDATE: I added the shading and I think I'm done. Will send it out to Kathrin sometime next week. See the picture below for Marty's entire Moly!

THANKS LAU.

I received your book. DHL tried to deliver it two days ago. Second time was the charm. It is lovely, so pretty and delicately drawn. I am inspired to try something light and springy, a northern hemisphere response to your southern hemisphere autumn theme.

Ready to USA..!

My entry in Marty's journal

Apologies for the delay... been trying to sort my life out since my laptop died (taking much artwork with it!)
Here's my entry in Marty's moly 'people in your neighbourhood'... it will be flying over to Anna Denise within a couple of days :)



Happy doodling!

Finally!

My new moleskine arrived today early.., incredible but I can start..! :)

The Bezalel Stamp

Hello colleagues ! I'm sending Kathrin's Moly to Lou tomorrow , but before I would like to tell you a story about the stamp that I put in this illustration!



So, maybe you know (or not), but I'm finishing my studies in Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, This Academy was established even before Israel was set up.

About two years ago , Bezalel celebrated 100 years anniversary, and there was a competition , for designing a stamp for our Academy. A friend from my class won!!!! So this is a real stamp made by my classmate , and it was printed to celebrate 100 years to my Academy! (The stamp is real and it was sold in all local post offices).

Jenny

Heidi's Moleskine on it's way to Olya

Hi ladies and Marty,

yesterday I posted Heidi's Moleskine to Olya (you can feel reassured - I made a check list before posting the letter: Enough stamps? Correct address? Airmail sticker? All done, nothing forgotten ;-)

Love, Kathrin

Finished: Jenny's entry in Kathrin's Moleskine

Hi! How are you?!
Here is my entry to Kathrin's Moly, Hope you will love it!