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Accidentally saw this animation and instantly fell in love with it.

Indeed I almost forgot to knit, but anyway I agree – it’s a fancy mania.

Few months ago an online inquiry caught my attention and i still think about it.
The question in this inquiry was simply “Do you read books?” and the maximum positive answer was defined as “1-6 books per year”. This, I admit, amazed me.

As a matter of fact, I couldn’t believe someone considering that nobody reads more than 6 books per year.

I had this opportunity and asked a person, related to this inquiry, about his opinion.
Well, he told me that book worms as me don’t count and in general the young people don’t read books at all.

I refuse to believe it. I think that too many people still read.
On the photo above are only a few of the books I “ate” during the last four-five months.
Well, it is true, that I am dedicated reader – I read everywhere and anytime.
But even so, I am sure that there are many people, who read six, and even seven books last year.

Please, help me prove that.
If you read this blog, just let me know, please, the titles of the last seven books you’ve read.

I’ll be happy if you recommend some.
(My personal recommendation is Dara Horn’s novel – The World To Come, as well as Blink.)

As a kid I tried few times to make candles by myself, with some help from my Dad. Well, they were never very good, mostly because I couldn’t make a good wick.

Last two years me and Michel didn’t throw out the remains of the candles we are using at home /and we use many candles / and he always says that one day we can make new candles from them.

I decide to try last Saturday and, armed with Google, I found many different advices for making a good candle wick.
Of course, I didn’t have all that I need for it, so I just improvised, but the good news are that it was very successful try.
The candles are just fine and not only they look nice, but they burn well. Our big joy and pride is the fact that the wicks are ok and candles burn better than some of the originals we ever bought.

If you decide to make your own candles at home, there are many places in the net you can find useful advices. Anyway, that’s how I made our wicks:

1. Thick cotton thread for doily;

5. Dip it in some molten wax and hold it under running cold water for a while, to harden.

I guess you’ll find the making of candles at home very pleasant, just like me.
And its surely useful, as you can use the remains of all candles, instead just throwing them.

Here you are, my Christmas cookies.
Sorry, only this picture left, we ate the models.

I spent two unforgettable days in the kitchen of my own home with my parents, magically turned on to be kids again.
Hours and hours we spent with sugar-coated hands and I was watching my parents, funny quarrelling who is supposed to decorate this or those cookie and why it’s made like this and not otherwise. It was…fairytale. Homey and Christmas-like. The way it always should be.
This Christmas I miss my grandma again. I often miss her, but on holidays I feel her absence in particular.
I am sure she would love these cookies.

I wanted to send this picture as a Christmas card to all my friends, but anyway, I didn’t, so I am showing it here.

Feel satisfied this way, or if you are not, better wait for remake till next Christmas.

2008is the year of the rat and is the first sign from the Chinese zodiac.
The rat is a creative problem-solver, imaginative, hyperactive worker respected for its resourcefulness.
It is intuitive, with ability in acquiring and holding on to things it values.

“Rats” are people born in 1900, 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996.

Personally, I like the mice. So much that I made one from plush as a gift for Michel:

Here again, in full size

I do hope that 2008 will be one lucky year.
An year in which things will go right and well and won’t fail despite of all the efforts.
Eight is my favorite number – it’s well-balanced and promises eternal harmony.

I wish “happiness for everyone for nothing and nobody to be neglected”*.

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* Arkad and Boris Strugatzki, “Roadside picnic”).

Did you ever heard about this:

Angels-from-pasta

It’s wonderful!

And here one wonderful girl posted a picture today.

And then, I liked the idea so much, I wanted to try it soon and make a few angels from pasta… And today, we started to make the Christmas tree.

This year it is artificial, a gift from two American friends, and they left us with the tree and some toys for decoration, and suddenly, in the plastic bag, on the bottom, we found a little angel from pasta just like the one here.

Well, our angel was a bit broken, so I had to glue the head to the body and also the crown is not intact, but whatever – it came to us the same day when I saw him for the first time!

What a strange coincidence!
Happy, happy me now:) Isn’t this magic?

A long time ago, almost year and a half or more, a friend of mine showed me this website, made by him.

My first thought then was: “Hey, I can make a better pumpkin than this”, and immediately told him so. He said: “Well, fine, draw me a better one” and that’s how this little guy here came to the world.
This friend liked my pumpkin, but anyway didn’t use it for his site. So then I sent it to my full ICQ contact list just to show to everybody what I did. /childish, huh? I know, i know /

Today in some parts of the world people are celebrating Halloween, so I considered it suitable to show you this doodle here.

Nevermind if this day means something for you or not, but I personally like the pumpkins, The Smashing Pumpkins and the warm orange color, which, I believe, is pretty obvious.

I am so far from posting here lately, but I want to, damn it!

I am trying not very successfully to gather and rearrange my thoughts.
To rearrange somehow the things I want and the things I have to do on the same priority level.
To show here so many things, that I have done so far, that are created by me and I believe you gonna like them, my very few visitors, to like it as much as I do.

I promise to post something for Halloween tonight.

Till then I wanna share what’s in my ears today:

and that:

Oh, and did I mentioned that I have a tablet already? No?
Well, now I need only some time to get used to it, but will tell you more later about my progress.

Well…it seems when I don’t have enough spare time for creating little stupid things from clay, paper or textile, when I don’t have time to doodle and draw….only the music helps me to find myself.

How is it for you?

…this rocking chair.

Simply prefect.

O, yes, and I will make one for myself .

And when I do it, I promise to upload here a picture of this chair in use.

(The original design is from Carlos Motta.)