Priscilla Hernandez blog
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Bye my sweet Taika: Once upon a time... there were three fufunchis... In loving memory
Good bye my sweet magic spell Taika (16/12/13-20/11/15) My pirate princess... Mum will miss you so much. I hope you are reunited with your sisters Tuula and Ritva. Thanks for so much love... Every second of your life was a precious gift to mine. I love you. Esp: Adiós my dulce hechizo mágico Taika. Mi princesita pirata... Mamá te echará tanto de menos. Espero que te hayas reunido con tus hermanitas fufunchis Tuula y Ritva. Gracias por tanto amor. Cada segundo de tu vida fue un precioso regalo para la mía. Te quiero
I will always remember you together, happy, healthy... my ratty muppets
I love you fufunchis
Last supermoon of 2015... and it was so beautiful!
Dancing under the moon... last supermoon of 2015... what a glorious autumn night with white beams purifying our spirit... and I reached for it and she danced with me. Inspired to create more music!
Model: me (http://yidneth.com), photos by Héctor Corcín
Visit to Barcelona and Halloween Steampunk-Vodoo-Witches Photo shoot
Sigh, back from a week visit to Barcelona... Oh my god, How I miss the city and my friends there...! It was not long enough and I'm already yearning to return. It's been a couple of years I moved to Navarra, Spain, and though the Nature and forests here and gorgeous, still I miss my former home-town too much.... Said that I want to thank to all the friends that had time to spend with me in this brief visit :). As one of the highlights my friend Vany Miranda kidnapped me into this Steampunk-Vodoo-Witchy photo shoot, very fitting for the forthcoming Halloween... SO MUCH FUN! as you can see in the pictures :)
It was really darker and different set for me, to play a witch among book of spells, poisons and even a crystal ball to foresee the future... :). But don't worry, I won't curse you if you're good with me :) ;-) Happy Halloween/Samhain/All Hallows´eve
Credits for all the pictures below:
Photographer: Alassie from El Costurero Real
Props by Felix Goggles and Marc Zorrilla from Crisálida Creaciones
Models: me, Priscilla Hernandez (blonde) and Vany Miranda
Garments: Vany's by herself, all I'm wearing is from El Costurero Real
Taken at 274Km Studio (Barcelona, Spain)
As it is about witches I also share my cover of Come little Children from Hocus Pocus
Last picture: our assistant Felix Goggles from Factoria Goggles.
Hello October... Chant with the wind!
Hello October 15...
The leaves are turning gold, the days are becoming shorter, the twilight is now more golden and longer than ever... I welcome you and the changes you bring... I am undergoing myself a time of change and I turn the page only to dive into a new exciting chapter...
A couple of days ago I fixed my wind band (originally from tribal thunder) and went on a walk to welcome October. A wind band is an instrument that works like a bull-roarer a prehistoric instrument found in many cultures. It had broken and remained silent over a year so I took the first chance to climb a hill and spin it as soon as it came back to life and sound. In Britain and Ireland they were used in ceremonial thunder spell rites and it is also found in other cultures.
Héctor and I went uphill, to Guendulain, Navarra, through paths full of wild bushes and withered wildberries, into old discarded melancholic ruins. We found some honeycombs with buzzing busy cute bees making honey that buzzed along with our musical instrument.
Above: Guendulain´s ruins (Navarre, Spain) bathed in golden light on our way. Picture by Héctor Corcín.
Above: me with my wind band already repaired, repainted and with a new rubber band. It was spun and buzzed and chanted and resonated with the wind on top of a hill against the most glorious twilight. :) It was a very spiritual experience, also some kind of soul cleansing, all bathed in golden light. :) Time for new beginnings :).
All photos and video by Héctor Corcín
And HOW DOES A WIND BAND SOUND? So here there is a little video with a short improvisation, spinning it and chanting along, It was somehow very pre-Samhain :). hope you like it! :)
Delicious blackberries! a gift from Mother Nature!
Oh what a lovely afternoon! And what a delicious treat we got from nature! We had plans to go somewhere else but sadly the place was closed and we were forced to change our plans, so accidentally stopped by a lovely forest full of shrubs fully loaded of ripening wild berries!
And I return with half a box of wild blackberries, and I ate hands full of them. Vivid colourful and lovely little packages of health, antioxidants, minerals and vitamins... such a gift!. Thank you Mother Nature! Now I have some tough decisions to make... pie? jam? hmmm LOL a wealth of yummy possibilities!
Our purple stained hands revealed us guilty of gluttony! :) Nom! Nom! Nom!
Above: me collecting blackberries... sometimes painful but rewarding! :)
pd. All pictures above by Héctor Corcín.
La llave del tiempo: photographs taken by my friend Wui de Lue
These are some shots of myself made by my friend and fellow photographer Wui de Lue some weeks ago in Navarre, Spain. She just created also a facebook page for her pictures called “La Llave del tiempo” The shots are inspired in several fairytale concepts, including Rapunzel.
Estos son algunas fotos sacadas recientemente por mi amiga y fotógrafa Wui de Lue en Eugi, Navarra. Fotos inspiradas en algunos cuentos como Rapunzel y que forman parte de su proyecto llamado “La Llave del tiempo” para el que he hecho de modelo. Capa roja hecha por Linda Blankenship, corona por "Los tesoros de la Ayalga" Fotos y edición por Wui de Lue.
Taika in the garden...
She might be old already but she certainly knows how to enjoy fresh air and the garden. These are some delightful pictures Héctor took yesterday of my "fufunchi" in the garden. Isn't she precious?
Lurking in the wild....! Photo by Héctor Corcín (May 2015)
Oh the fresh breeze! hmmm it smells nice!
I'm so cute... and I know how to pose!
I'm enjoying this moment so much!
All pictures by Héctor Corcín (May 2015) Model: Taika :)
And this is Taika, all happy, after nom nom nom a delicious treat!
Good bye Ritva, my lovely sweet birch branch
Above: Ritva (October 2011-December 2014)
Ritva is gone... she left us last Christmas Eve and we buried her with her sister Tuula in Christmas day. She fought stubbornly and was a loving creature until her last breath. She covered me with kisses and groomed her sister Taika in farewell, and there she was gone... :( 3 years and 3 months my strong birch branch is flying now free in the wind (that´s what Ritva means because she was mostly white and light grey). We have dealt with a lot of sadness during this holiday season, we miss them both (our fufunchis Tuula and Ritva) so much! :( Ritva was so strong and she proved she loved to live and made her own decision to fight until the end. She showed us she wanted so and it's also a worthy lesson to make us appreciate the gift of life a little bit more. Taika is still here, mourning and really sad, she´s not coping very well to be alone and I really do not wish to grow old on her own, wondering if we must allow new "life" in, but missing my girls so dearly. I want to think of a place where I can be with them again, with Kira, with Toto and with my fufunchis. That´s all I long and wish for if it could exist, but meanwhile it can exist in my heart, my imagination and in my dreams, and they are indeed still around me.
Here me singing to Ritva "you'll be in my heart" I sang it to her in her last moments too, she was turning 3 in the video but though she was already frail she leaves almost three months more.
I love you Tuula. I love you Ritva... the wind and the birch branch. Mummy, Daddy and Taika miss you.
Your love lives in me and so you live too!
Here you can see many videos of my fufunchis 1.0 Tuula and Ritva since they were babies. I'm happy to think they had a happy life, they indeed were very loved.
In memory of Mark Lewis (1954-2014) a true STORYTELLER. We will miss you.
There are lives and lights that touch others and make them feel they're part of a whole where they are included. I meat Mark Lewis back in 2008 and my life changed accordingly to this enormous and very important event. Mark was a spark of magic and I cannot even relate what I felt the first time I listened to him telling a story. But I can tell they became real and tangible when he spoke, in a way that reality itself distorted to absorb you and even creating the most strange memories like seeing a forest waving and moving all its branches like a living wall when he was whistling like the wind. That imprinted in my brain, it really happened, and it was magic. The storyteller and his friend Billy (the Green Man) changed my life, and gave me comfort and friendship and a generous slice of their wisdom cake. I decided to write them both last night to say thanks, we cross paths soon, only to realize today that he´s gone. He´s off this earthly existence since Sunday and my heart just broke a little. I feel as if I have sent a message to space, but yet maybe there he can read it.
Above: Mark and me
Me and Héctor will miss you dearly and are grateful that we met you, and to read in the networks all the others also touched by your existence move me and gives me comfort. I don't know, but wherever it is the reason he´s gone there has to be MAGIC INVOLVED.
We love you and we will miss you, THANK YOU. Forever grateful.
Pris and Héctor
There is a memorial page here where you can read other testimonies
Expect the unexpected! Yayy I won an ORACLE FOLK Luna guitar!
My song "The call of the nymph" spoke of dragonflies... and I confess I have a little obsession with them! :). So a couple of months back I tweeted... oh I'd love an oracle folk dragonfly...! and some months later Luna Guitars held a contest all around the world giving away one guitar a week. All you had to do is to get a picture of yourself and where you would play your Luna. Of course I picked my favorite model (close after their lovely trinity bouzuki) These were my contest pictures :). I didn't make it several weeks but they decided to give one last chance.
Above: first pic, me as a fairy asking for the guitar to play it in the forests (Navarre)
Below: second pic, this time with my pet rat Taika (my lucky one).
Well now the good news... unexpectedly they decided to give away more than one winner I JUST WON a give-away contest held by Luna Guitars (USA) due to international participation and I'm waiting for it, perfect timing because my birthday happens to be two weeks ahead! Just when I had already gave up this chance, as I say, expect the unexpected!
such a sweet dream!
The guitar :) I hope I will take a "real" picture with it as soon as it arrives! :) Thank you Luna Guitars, you people for voting me and Taika for the luck!
and the banner from Luna that makes it official! :)
To be updated with the birthday/Xmas gift arrives!
