Today is ‘CSS Naked Day‘ — the day which promotes Web Standards!

This ‘CSS Naked Day’ is 24 to 48 hours long, and will show, that a blog or website with well written HTML+CSS can look pretty well even without its clothes (without its CSS styles).

So, if you see my blog without CSS today or tomorrow (without its design), don’t be puzzled by this fact — we ’stripped of’ our CSS styles for a good cause — and, as you can judge by the photo above (which we made together a few hours ago), not only of our CSS clothes, but also of our real clothes!

Long live Web Standards!

PS You may also read a story about CSS Naked Day in the Blogherald)

I love to remind to myself, that life is not only work. I left this cup with stars in my ex-office, only completely full.

These are very easy to make…if you like them, see how-to. Warning: once you start, you may never stop.

One very special and fairy girl recently showed to me how to make this flower:

There is more to show, but next time.

I like them, very very much. Again Iceland. I feel so atracted.

More.

But isn’t it cool, huh?

Here is the first one.

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.

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.)

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.

2. The less you write, the more you don’t want to write.

*Author - www.molif.com

I have forgotten how pleasant is to open eyes because of the nice song playing at the moment and without even expect which one it will be. It’s just not the same to wake up with Winamp playlist on the computer, then you’ll know the songs and it won’t be a surprise.

This morning the first song playing was a very old and almost forgotten one, “All I Wanna Do is Make Love to You” - Heart.
As a girl I never listened more than the refrain of the song and I couldn’t recollect the video, but today I just checked Google for the lyrics and it’s quite obvious that the kid in me is still here, because it was impressed. I still love when a song has a story to tell me.

Enjoy this small return to the past

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.