Summer trousers

I've had this colourful light fabric for quite a while now, but now was the right occasion to make a superlight superwide superflowy trousers. So I made them :-)

Some days...

Some days are more special than the others.

 

Thank you all.

Christmas cards

All the Christmas cards are on their way, so I'm revealing this year's mystery.

I'll start with one of the initial designs:

By pulling the first string, the pattern folds into two separate presents:

By pulling the second string ...  

... the other paper piece folds into a decorated Christmas tree!

Pure Christmas magic :-) 

Time for more science!

 I mean, what can be prettier and more fascinating than science?

Glass of water acting as a lens and reversing the image :-)

Crossed polarisers show birefringence in standard school rulers :-)

Droplets on phone screen acting as magnifying glass making individual RGB pixels visible :-D

Another lovely day

The achievements in road cycling are usually measured in distance or elevation, that is in kilometres and metres.

What about the achievements in mountain-biking? The hours of cycling? The falls? The injuries? The bruises? Sore muscles? Mosquito bites? Hmmm...

Two sides

Apparently there are two sides to every story.

There are also two sides of one's house.

This is on one side - my garden.

And this is on the other side - neighbours demolishing the old house.

It was such a lovely wooden house, now they will be building something ... well ... different.

Seriously?!?

Just look at this:

And then at this:

They are both size 39-42.

They were bought in the same store and have not yet been washed.

Happy 2019!

Happy 2019 and all the best to you all!

Ad 1) There were many twigs left from the history school projects, so I used them to make a wreath.

Ad 3 & 4) I've always been a fan of candles and I had these from the Escape Room we organised not so long ago. You can still see one of the clues on one of the candles :-)

Oh, and I finally managed to read the Hygge book.
Well - it's not worth reading at all.
300 pages to tell you to light more candles :-)

And telling you the obvious - that the best thing you can do is spend time with people you like, doing things you like, eating food you like and be comfortable. Or should I say ... hygge.

Union Hotel

 My absence is excused.

I'm spending all days behind these wonderful Art Deco windows.

 In Hotel Union, Ljubljana.

But I will make it up.

One day.

I promise.

Update: some more pictures of the hotel.

 We're having poster sessions here :-)

Vienna

More pictures from Vienna...

Basilisk

Yes, this is a cow with glasses, playing Backgammon with a wolf.  But of course.

A lovely dome...

... but completely fake, just an illusion :-)

Aliens landing

615 € ?!?

 

 

Really?

Oh well ...

You know you're old when you no longer understand current fashion.

Well, I'm officially old.

Because I cannot possibly imagine why anyone would want to wear these camel-toe cloven hoof boots...

Or this, for that matter. Seriously? Project Runway challenge gone wrong.

Whoa..

How many times in a winter can weather change from +12 to -5 C in a day and a couple of days later change from -8 to +12 degrees C in a day only to change back a few days later?

Update: here are the official data. Not for my hometown, but it's similarly crazy here. Notice the timescale!

Picture stolen from ARSO

I mean, I love crazy and windy and cold weather but come on...

On a different note, ultraviolet is the colour of the year!

When I first heard it, I was amused, perplexed and really wondered how one can make something invisible the colour of the year.

Well, it turned out this was just a name. The colour is a plain normal violet. Nothing ultra about it. I'm not yet sure I like it, but I surely don't dislike it as that millennial pink that still lingers around.

Oooh, but I really do like the Desert Sunset combination!

I'm just looking ...

1. No, I'm not SUPing. I'm just looking.

2. No, I'm not swimming. I'm just looking.

However, Mr. Mojcek did swim.

 And won silver medal in his first open-water swimming event :-)

3. No, I'm not cooking. I'm just eating.

We stumbled upon a potato festival, organised by the  

Society for the Recognition of a Sautéed Potatoes as a Main Dish.

No, I'm not joking.

4. No, I'm not fighting. I'm just looking.

Did you know that the first documented boatmen's fight 

on Ljubljanica river took place in 1092! 

I also learned the distinction between Krakovo and Trnovo: 

in Krakovo, there were fishermen and in Trnovo boatmen.

5. But I am taking photographs :-)

Whales!

Well, we decided not to go to Garda this year but rather to explore what's in the neighbourhood. So we started with Arboretum, where an exhibition of whales took place.

The crazy clouds (slightly exaggerated by Gimp) looked ... heavenly.