The next few blog posts will be mainly with pictures. I brushed out the dust from what I’ve got to show and take the big decision of not! procrastinate! anymore!
In my defense will say only that I didn’t have good enough photos and it was a shame to upload crappy ones here. Then we lost the hard disk and the few good photos are gone so far.
But three days ago I have success with catching the best light – late sunset, which is adorable, but hardly impossible to see in north apartment. So I made quickly part of the photos that I wanted to.
For a start, here it is, a snail-optimist, fruit of co-operative work:
Actually, Michel is always jumping around while I am making something, and he is repeating that he cannot do such things even in his dreams.
In fact, he was totally awake when he made this snail, and I think he did it just great. My touch are only the horns with eyes and the coloring, but from all the little things at home, this snail is one of particularly special! :-)
Half a year ago, my lovely and unpredictable better-half gave me such a greeting card.
I laughed out loudly, when I first saw it, and it is still on a very honorable place at home. Sometimes I look at it and I smile (mostly because of the comparison).
Edward Monkton’s cards are all wonderful, actually. Look at them closely.
My potatoes’ affection, though, won’t stop just like that. Here is one, adopted recently:
Just look at his placid face, but don’t trust him too much…
Turn my back for only two minutes, and he’ll probably eat the whole cactus… :-)
One need only to have nervous fingers and five minutes rest…to start doing something from paper. I’ve started to make these little angels last year in November in the office.
Few colleagues still have some to make them smile. And even artishock got one. :-)
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. :-)
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!:-)
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.
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. ;-)
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. :-)
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?
…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.)
