After sending in my final manuscript for my book and being done with loads of “secret” stuff I will share in the next months with you, I needed a little break and I took a week off to recharge.
My husband and I went for a couple of days down the Jersey Shore and spent some time with our family close to Sea Isle City. You see my awesome niece and nephew in the photo above. We had a really relaxing time, celebrated big birthdays and anniversaries and the beach was just so beautiful! Love my family!
On our anniversary we stopped on the way back to Jersey City at Ashbury Park. I love the old convention building and there is a lot of awesome street art around there.
Including the above by Dylan Egon a Jersey City artist.
What an inspiring walk down the boardwalk.
And a Shepard Fairey also not too shabby -love it!
I spend one day at home and then headed out to Boston to visit my friend Julie Fei-Fan Balzer . We had a crazy fun time. We went to the Museum of Fine Art – and finished the Art Stroll with some sketching (the art stroll is coming later)
Here is our model and our friend Jen on the left and Julie’s sketching on the right bottom.
I bought a Picasso – Top and was totally stoked about it – this is my fancy modeling pose – always great when you crack yourself up
We spent some time in the beautiful Boston Common Garden
We had an insane amount of food ….yes that is my kind of vacation and so yummie-. High Tea – chatting, laughing and having a good girlfriend time- now if that is not vacation *wink
Can you tell how much in love I was with the food? I was like “common Julie, hurry up with the photo, I cannot wait any longer”
We took a stroll through the Greenway – and admired Ai Weiwei‘s Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
and other art installations and parts
And ended the day with some bowling – oh man…I really stink at bowling- so here is Julie- she did really well and looked good doing it
We ate even more – here I am in a fancy bib and two new shells -and hey – I don’t care- eating lobster is super duper expensive in Europe – so this is special and funny in a plastic bib – LOL
And this was pretty funny in a cafe in the morning.
Essentially I could have summed up the days with Julie in the collage below – hehehe.
Now I am back in the n*Studio and recharged for new fun things to come! There was so much inspiration in the museum, the chats, the sightseeing, the beach, the food. It feels good to have a brush in the hand again and let see where the inspiration from my summer vacation leads me.
What did you do for your summer vacation this year and what did inspire you on your vacation?
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Jackie P Neal
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So great to see you out and about having fun Nat!! I would love to hang with you and Julie- what great companions you would be!
Thanks so much for sharing hugs,Jackie
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nathalie-kalbach
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We are a bit crazy- LOL- but overall tame ;) Have a wonderful weekend and huge hugs back!
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SAM
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N., loved the art walks, and I have another small world — I was raised on a chicken farm in Vineland, New Jersey — In the back of everybodys’ farms, for miles and miles around; Campbell Soup Company rented our land to raise tomatoes for their famous tomatoe soup — I absolutely started salivating as soon as you mentioned eating South Jersey tomatoes– I still have mouth sores for eating millions of tomatoes every summer — Nat, thanks for the memories !!! love this vacation of yours —SAM
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nathalie-kalbach
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How fun – I loooooveee Jersey tomatoes- they are the best :) Have a wonderful weekend!
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Joi@RR
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As always – I just loved seeing you having some free time Nat. And seeing you and Julie always makes me smile big. You are both so darned cute!!! LOVE YOUR PICASSO – for sure! Someday – I believe we will see YOUR art up on one of those walls. It just seems like it should be there. Glad your book is done and can’t wait to hear the secrets soon!!! Xj.
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nathalie-kalbach
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Awe- thank you Joi! I will spill some beans …well the first set of beans very soon …I think …in about two weeks :) Cannot wait. Have a wonderful day!!!
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Sandra L.
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I couldn’t help but laugh when I read about your vacation. What a small world we live in. When I first moved to NJ I lived in Sea Isle with my sister and her family and then moved to Cape May where I live now. Sea Isle was nice but barren and CM is just gorgeous. Sounds like you had a fantastic vacation and then you headed to one of my favorite places..Boston. My daughter went to Boston University of the Arts and I loved going to visit. Sadly not much of a vacation for me this year as health is a issue.
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nathalie-kalbach
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Hi Sandra, fun – hope you were safe and sound this weekend with the storm at Cape May! I wish you all the best with your health !!!! have a wonderful week!,nat
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Sue Clarke
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Love your new top Nat!
High Tea is always fun with cucumber sandwiches and desserts.
I had a wonderful summer with 2 camping trips and one week in a cabin on a lake. Inspired by nature I made a painting of birch trees when a painter at the campground gave me a one on one class.
Now back to school for my son and I (lunch lady with a hair net) and the fall with pumpkin muffins and cooler days ahead with (hopefully) some pretty leaves to draw inspiration from.
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nathalie-kalbach
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thank you , Sue! That sounds like a wonderful summer camping time and I love that you had a one on one with a painter and made a birch tree painting. So cool!!! Have a wonderful start at school again – I am not ready yet for pumpkin and fall – LOL :)
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