Welcome to the swamp! Here, lurking in the muck, where creativity spawns, you'll find Mrs Crocodile, aka Colleen Dunkel, a costumer and teacher based in Basel, Switzerland.
"I was kind of thinking maybe I might like to try my hand at art. Oh never mind!" Just throw your hands up and realize that Resistance is Futile. One day you wake up, and all your friends are doing some kind of art or creative job and you have to jump in too, even the children rope you in there. I have tried to get Alla and Kazam to clean up their messes, but the "messes" just keep getting more creative. When Alla was 12 months old it started with spaghetti sauce in circles on the wall next to her high chair and has continued till I realized last night that Alla had a roll of masking tape in her hand and was taping a paper towel to the bars on the balcony. Once she finished she stepped back form her work and declared, "Mommy, you are not allowed to clean this up, you have to watch it blow in the wind." The tone of her voice was the thing that brought me back to the here and now and I was able to respond, "Oh! How perfect. It's almost Art Basel."
Yours,
From the balcony,
Mrs Crocodile
"Can you say crak-a-lakkin whoop? This blogger is a whirlwind. Whenever I need an extra shot of energy, she's the one. Single mom in Switzerland snips and sews. But watch out for her bite." Christine Gerber-Rutt
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She used to run a play-group, but she ate all the kids and kept two. These days Mrs Crocodile is shedding her skin and coming of age as a single mom in Switzerland, which is an island somewhere between here and 40...
"Mrs Crocodile grabs life by the fingers, dresses it up with a pair of dangly earrings and delicious shoes and dances away down the cobblestone street. Join her if you can." Christine Gerber-Rutt
Mrs Crocodile: Chomping up pieces of life and finding a wall to hang it all on. She writes, reads, teaches and stitches and a lot of other stuff in between
YOu go girls....
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