tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10396416724004783702024-03-19T12:25:29.573+01:00Dark Smile StudioThis is the blog of Dark Smile Studio and Brigid's Whispers Mystic DesignsBrigittehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15374852472622588362noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039641672400478370.post-76409092843824277482012-06-16T21:40:00.000+02:002012-06-16T21:41:57.483+02:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for visiting my blog!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since I'm a very slow blogger and keeping my website updated is a challenge of its own, I moved my blog to <a href="http://www.dark-smile-studio.com/">www.dark-smile-studio.com</a>, my home base. Thought, keeping everything in one place won't be that overwhelming... ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You are most welcome and heartly invited to visit me over there at <a href="http://www.dark-smile-studio.com/blog.html">http://www.dark-smile-studio.com/blog.html</a>, I'll do my very best to be more entertaining in the future! ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hope to see you soon, thanks for stopping by!!!</span></div>
<br /></div>Brigittehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15374852472622588362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039641672400478370.post-1116273906873157352011-02-12T21:26:00.001+01:002011-02-12T21:51:04.707+01:00Keep bleeding, Heart...<span data-jsid="text"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_4d56e505cbde88e42179505" style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Mourning Magdalen, Banshee Of The Broken Hearts</b></span></div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_4d56e505cbde88e42179505" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_4d56e505cbde88e42179505" style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">She cares for all, who died of a broken heart. <br />
Guiding them safely to the other side, she's singing the most beautiful lovesong.<br />
Unfortunately the living are not able to stand the cruel beauty of this unearthly sound- it would smash their dr<span class="text_exposed_show">umheads.<br />
Only the dead, loving souls are able to hear the Banshee's voice,<br />
and so she rewards their loving hearts, showing them, <br />
that every love is worth to be loved.</span></span></div><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_4d56e505cbde88e42179505" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTESprChGX__5Y44YrGk_cJgMzBm87Txij-zVaopMi7gkNUAvicojfCuAIxw1AQyD5FaHzhjPDxpD0uQnlDEFoy0wnFyxQMJiUzzpsIkLFzJzbXRhCZyPZpzysyRNlA5_1_0CuKa-etOOS/s1600/Banshee_05.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<div style="color: #666666;">There are places in the world, where you know immediately that you are in a good one, one, where good people doing good things.</div><div style="color: #666666;">One of these places is Mirek Trejtnars workshop in Prague, where wonderful classes in marionette carving, manipulating, animated film, etc. take place once or twice every year.</div><div style="color: #666666;">And so did I. Doing something good by taking part in Mireks summer carving workshop in Prague and with me 11 other fellow carvers from 9 different countries all over the continents.</div><div style="color: #666666;">This was the time of my life. Nothing more and nothing less.</div><div style="color: #666666;">And Vlad The Pale One is the living proofe, that it wasn't just a dream...</div><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">He immediately became famous (ok, not only he) by his legendary interpretation of the bloody, cruel, creepy, scary story of Snowwhite and the 7 Dwarfs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The Czech Version of Snowwhite - for adults only ;-))</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">And here they are, the wonderful fellow creatures of Vlads:</span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The studio of the muse proudly presents:<br />
</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Dame Joy Fuller</b>, full of joy, passion and... well, to be honest, her voice is not her biggest talent ;-))<br />
</div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But she refused to stop singing under the Queen's balcony, so, there are many different ways to gain a title...<br />
And when she sings that is an eruption, nothing stays at its' place ;-)<br />
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</div>Brigittehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15374852472622588362noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039641672400478370.post-72595372507697712712009-11-19T02:40:00.003+01:002009-11-19T02:59:16.261+01:00On Wings of Desire...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoh7YsKEq3N-O0wyNTiV7vQRr_g9n4uxkoQ2E0M1ENSZvKTWJ9uCK58nO8wlFHDfPOaUOsOSWkZ6KExrOHKNrdqf9_p4f2qqKyMi1dinXGrQReG1DytvW0ESHlEH_vhTLMIfTl8UWxAC5I/s1600/follow_your_bliss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoh7YsKEq3N-O0wyNTiV7vQRr_g9n4uxkoQ2E0M1ENSZvKTWJ9uCK58nO8wlFHDfPOaUOsOSWkZ6KExrOHKNrdqf9_p4f2qqKyMi1dinXGrQReG1DytvW0ESHlEH_vhTLMIfTl8UWxAC5I/s320/follow_your_bliss.jpg" /></a><br />
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<div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">What is bliss? If your desires show you the way to happiness? If you follow your dreams?</span><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Or if your dreams show you who you really are?</span><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Who knows. But whenever bliss is involved everything you are doing feels completely right.</span><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And when you are in the right place at the right time things like that can happen:</span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The same time I've been in my beloved city again, the good fairies - of ADO - cared for me and my work. The next morning after I returned home, I found this among the blogs I'm following:</span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://artdollsonly.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-member-spotlight-brigitte-b-doerner.html">New Member Spotlight</a> </span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, that's actually me!</span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #666666;">What a bliss!</span><br />
</span>Brigittehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15374852472622588362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039641672400478370.post-63220030698733599832009-10-05T23:36:00.017+02:002009-10-08T14:26:21.400+02:00Work in Progress<div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, there's something creepy going on...<br />
Don't want to let the cat out of the bag, yet, but here are some tiny peeps, stolen from the studio of the muse...<br />
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</div>Brigittehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15374852472622588362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039641672400478370.post-4633249619271996472009-09-11T01:21:00.013+02:002011-02-12T21:47:43.067+01:00Prague in September<div style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>A Gift:</b><br />
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</div><div style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The city always cares for me, is guiding me to make sure, I'm finding the places, I ought to be. Drawing me to the right place at the right time. Always.</div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">That's, why I have to walk each and every cobblestone instead of taking the metro or the tram - everytime, I'm there. Otherwise the magnets underneath the earth wouldn't find me.</span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leaving my beloved city in a sentimental mood this time. Days full of magic and joy were about to end, and I was praying to my city for a sign to reassure me, that I'm always welcome within her ancient walls.</span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I sat on a bench under a tree on a very special place, just waiting for a traditional Czech marionette store around the corner to finish its lunch-break. Watching the people around me, listening to the stories these old benches are telling the one who was able to hear, it was too peaceful there, so I was about 30 minutes later than the shop was opening its door.</span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The moment I arrived a young Asian woman was wrapping herself into a weird looking costume - the Golem, maybe? Any tourist-animation?</span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Not long after I entered the store a wonderful medieval music started to play, and the freaky creature on the doorsteps began to move. Very slowly.</span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Heading outside with my camera, I was present at one of the most beautiful pantomimes.</span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A game, a dance between young and old, yin and yang, life and death, horror and joy, love and hate, man and woman took my breath away.</span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To win and to lose, to find and let go.</span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I had to fight the tears in my eyes facing that timeless, beautiful and neverending story.</span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Staying vulnerable enables you to embrace life to the fullest... </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The guardians of this old cemetery in my beloved city appear in a variety of guises. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I didn't notice that, when taking the picture, but the word written on top of this tomb is "Friede", the German word for peace. Waiting silently underneath its crown of Ivy until I was ready to find it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Is it a gate that we can simply walk through? Waiting for us patiently? Just to be discovered between the layers of heteronomy, unfulfilled dreams, fears, daily sorrows, it invites us into our personal, individual kingdom of inner peace.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Follow.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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finally got my Merman for the ADO challenge finished!<br />
If I only had found it earlier...<br />
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Stop by at http://artdollsonly.blogspot.com<br />
and enjoy the creations of all those wonderful artists!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHktrWn3_GhsmrARw393CDgQaFTS9NGyrnnttIX0z3EhuE5cuJqPavzt_5ZZQu2pbtZk092vMtg_V-IZA_T6WqSDG9b_XriVGTQDVPFHZanEAimcccTlZDVyPYJyHsit_JzBrO5RYY2UJT/s1600-h/Merman+8.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359632201734030546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHktrWn3_GhsmrARw393CDgQaFTS9NGyrnnttIX0z3EhuE5cuJqPavzt_5ZZQu2pbtZk092vMtg_V-IZA_T6WqSDG9b_XriVGTQDVPFHZanEAimcccTlZDVyPYJyHsit_JzBrO5RYY2UJT/s320/Merman+8.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 214px;" /></a>Brigittehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15374852472622588362noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039641672400478370.post-65276039001814593612009-06-27T22:36:00.005+02:002009-12-16T02:12:30.205+01:00Hello World,<span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" >...I will try to keep this blog in English, so my international friends out there may enjoy it a bit more.<br />
But I have to ask you to be a little generous and patient with me, for this is not my mother tongue...<br />
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My little secret garden hopefully will soon become a place for everything that has to do with dolls and marionettes, arts, poetry, thoughts, secrets, myths, legends, vampires, dreams, crazy things, kitsch, music, spooky stories, ghosts, dragons, nice and sweet people, friends, angels, cats, bats, phantasies, fairy tales, animals, nature, spirits and spirituality, rituals, believes, wishes, good energies, creativity, ancient times, books, symbols, Prague, tarot, nostalgia, magic, and manymany more...<br />
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I hope, you will find here some entertaining and crazy little things from time to time and share your thoughts with me!<br />
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Brigitte<br />
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