Happy Easter!
We’ve made our eggs yesterday…They look nice, even if only few, but initially I thought they were a bit… too anonymous. So, finally, most of them received personality. Happy Easter!:-)
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Let me in!
Perhaps you already know this.
But isn’t it cool, huh? :-)
Here is the first one.
Obsession
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. :-)
Book Worm
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.)
Light My Fire
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;
2. You twist it twice or even four times, if for bigger candle, and twist it like for making a plait;
3. Soak it in solution of (in my case) liquid paraffin, vinegar and lime or lemon acid;
4. After 15 minutes or more soaking let it dry well;
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.
The three laws of blogging
1. The more you read other blogs, the less you write in your own.
1. The more you write in your blog, the more you want to write.
2. The less you write, the more you don’t want to write.
*Author – www.molif.com :-)
Thursday
I am waking up again because of the radio. I’ve been falling asleep and getting awake like this for years, but the last few ones my faithful Nokia 6210 did the same job for me.
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 ;-)
Belated for Christmas
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. ;-)
“Do not put off work…
…for tomorrow”. And why not?
After the warm and cozy holidays, spent mainly with family at home, I am again at work and feel awfully out of place.
Then I saw this and cannot resist to show it to all of you, who believe that work till death is something natural.
I do believe that everyone has its calling.
That he or she has to search for it without rest till the day when will find that the job is not only a job for money or prestige, but it could be a source of pleasure and satisfaction.
What I thinks is that there is no such a job, deserving to neglect yourself, your health, your friends and family or just to forget that work is not the most important thing in life.
*People who put the focus only on carrier will inevitably pay the price, now or later. And this price is always high.
Bad news are that one can realize this only after life slapped him in the face and almost never before something nasty happened.
*/Deductions from personal experience/
Cookies, Part Two
I am obviously culinary addicted lately :-) Indeed, I had a particular reason to make these cookies last Sunday, but then the reason was canceled and only the cookies left. ;-)
Maybe I have to admit that these ones were not so tasty as the previous, but they were good, too. In their own way.
I wondered if I have to decorate them and with what, but then I found some fluid chocolate in the refrigerator and I used it.
(It wasn’t very delicious and that’s why it was still there)
It looks fine and makes better taste, only next time I will use some really good chocolate, a kind that stays hard when cooled.
Well, they were beautiful at least, that’s why I am showing them. :-)
