shoes

a vintage ballyslingpomp found at the costumerental last week
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my own "belle de jour" patent leather pomp by bally.
i took that picture last april. now she would never ever wear a skirt, pink (apart from her old pajamas from the last post) or a shoe like that.

light at home

we had nearly a whole day at home, in the middle of the week, bathed in sun.
it came unexpected, lice epidemic at school (not the first time,it is so common in berlin!). but even all the washing and treating that was demanded was worth it, a good excuse for not working all day long.

it is her last day being six, tomorrow she will turn seven! i hope i will be able to keep all the memories of this special year, i know it`s selfish but it somehow hearts, seeing how fast she is growing up.

she interviewed L today and made this characters for a book she's planning to make. a story about this girls in front of a photographed city, she wants me to take pictures of facades for it.

yesterday night

oh i enjoyed it so much, being backstage during the theatre premiere, watching the play on bad black and white screens, getting short impressions from the actors backstage inbetween, enjoying the last evening with my fabulous and talented assistant H who helped me so much, drinking and talking with the director, the stagedesigner and the wardrobeladys.

and afterwards, the whole ensemble and all of us, being really welcomed by the audience.
i will keep that precious moment to remind myself that there is some work, worth all the endeavours it takes sometimes.

oh how i will miss that, I'm in love with theater now!

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but i can't wait coming back to a more regular life and later in april even back to real life.

a real weekend

it felt like a clearing in my workingjungle:
a wonderful and lazy saturday afternoon with all my cousins, a sister finally returned from canada and our children, organized by my aunt S.
sleeping long and sound, trying to get some housechoires done, me and L., Lou hiding meanwhile and reading under the finally hung up horses.

me being a little bit more confident about the next three weeks with:
a theaterpremiere at saturday
a new film to be prepared until the end of march
a lecture to be held briefly before
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the fortune cookie i got with my takeaway dinner from my L's said: allow yourself to be spontaneous

neighborhood

the fittingrooms of the berlin opera in my neighborhood.
thats where we do the fittings for our theater piece this days. I like the huge whitepainted building and feel at home with this accidental mixture of GDR furniture and leftover theaterprops.
The whole atmosphere reminds me of haute couture workshops and yes, the seamstresses all wear white workingcoats.
I am sure i will miss the impressive knowhow of the dressmakers there. their patience and will to make everything perfect, after i have to go back to film work in the middle of march.
I try to spend some time in the tailor's workshops to do things like above, listening to the chitchat of the women and just doing something by hand. It's satisfying even with knowing that half of the dress will be covered by a coat.
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our first picknick this year at the french dome with my favourite girls today, my daughter and her best friend M. Another too short weekend but the time we spent together was good.

The Glitter Horse at School

the costume was ready today, very last minute but we all liked it, unfortunately it was too dark this afternoon to take good pictures, perhaps there will be better ones soon.
but the carneval celebrations have been too short, Lou said, i wish i would have time to held a costume party for the children this week end * * * * * *

Facettes

just back, very happy to have made that short trip and impatient to report more soon.

pictures taken at cite de l'archirecture & du patrimoine, the first one by L.