A book shelf

We still don't have much furniture so all the kids' books were lying around. Just about everywhere.

Now the kids have a new shelf! For all the comics and Harry Potters and books and board games... I'm sure it will fill up in no time.

And as much as I love working with wood, I dislike the painting, sanding, painting, sanding, painting ... part. It literally is like watching the paint dry.

Yusei costume

Mid-February and all the crafty mums in this part of the world are sewing like crazy. So am I.

MiniMojcek Nr. 1 decided he wanted to be Yusei from the Yu-Gi-Oh!

Picture from Yu-Gi-Oh Wikia.

 So I first embellished an old pair of trousers:

 Made gloves ...

... the T-shirt ...

 ... the jacket ...

 and the wig/hat.

It's not perfect (hey, it's a carnival costume for kids!) but good enough. And he loves it, which is all that matters.

More winter!

A lovely sunny day on the snow.

Slivnica. Without the rest of the family. And without my camera.

Winter

I love snow. I love lots of snow. And I was really looking forward to taking photographs of snowflakes.

But it was too warm. Not much, just a couple of degrees, but enough for the snowflakes to partially melt. Oh well...

Oh, and just in the height of winter our heating broke down. And although the workers responded really quickly, it will still take a week to get the new system up and running. A week without heating and hot water in February.

Oh well...

2015!

2015 didn't start quite as I hoped. I fell ill on the New Year's Day with pneumonia and am still not quite well. And 2014 didn't end as I expected either. During my trip to Lisbon my lens (Nikon, 18-200 mm) broke. Literally, broke. When looking through the lens, I could see some loose wires. However, as this happened just before Christmas, MrMojcek didn't have much thinking to do about my present :-)

RIP, 18-200

And the plans for 2015?
- publish 3 papers (must do)
- travel 3 times (hope to)
- finish renovating and decorating 3 rooms (want to).

Will let you know in a year's time.

Tigggerrrr party

Maybe it's time we start behaving like responsible adults. 

Maybe not.

So that we can still have tiger-themed birthday parties.

And cakes like this:

 And birthday presents like this (thank you, He, M&P!)

I was most impressed by what MiniMojcek Nr.1 prepared for me, illustrating my wishes:

That's me in my Peugeot, leaving the house and driving to the airport, where the whole world waits for me.

:-)

Moons of Jupiter

I've been playing a bit with my new camera and wanted to see if I could get a decent photo of the Lovejoy comet. Well, I could get photos of the comet but no really decent ones ...

So Mr. Mojcek and I turned the camera to Jupiter. And it turns out, not only could I get a photo of Jupiter but also of its moons!

And I should add: hand-held camera :-)

I sort of understand how Galileo must have felt when he saw the moons for the first time...