73 % successful!

As 2013 is coming to an end it's time to see how successful I was with my resolutions:

- move (100 % success),
- publish two books (47 % success),
- travel more (50 % success),
- sell a house (0 % success, complete fail!),
- finish reading Agatha Christie (100 % success),
- get a bit of my old self back (40 % success).

73 % in average.
Not too bad, right?

Candle making

This year I decided to make some candles.

I've never made them before but it looked easy - and so it was! Just melted paraffin wax, added stearin and colours and poured them into molds. I didn't use ordinary molds but Moroccan tea glasses, which are tremendously pretty :-)

I made orange ones in red and orange glasses:

And blue and green candles in blue and green glasses, respectively.

White Christmas!

Well, we have no snow but we still have a white Christmas!

And for the first time, we have a proper Christmas tree, with lights!

And of course home-made Christmas cookies!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Christmas Cards 2013

Now that all the Christmas cards are on their way, I can finally write about them. This year I played with cut-outs and made multy-layered snowflakes. All the designs were based on photographs of real snowflakes!

The colours were my choice, of course, but I tried to keep them ... wintery.

I just wish there was some real snow!!!

Home-made rowing machine

Just to make things clear - I did not make a rowing machine.

MrMojcek made it.

I just helped with the design, ideas, details, and execution :-)

 And I use it!

Penguins!

... and more curtains! These were made for the kids' room.

And I love the continuous pattern - you can hardly notice where one curtain stops and the other one starts.

Enough curtain posts for now -  I'm off to watch a film.

Poirot's Curtain :-)

Lego Advent calender

This year I decided to make advent calenders by myself. I even asked the kids what kind of calenders they wanted - sweets, toys, or activities.

They chose toys.
Of course.
But the old one added that he didn't choose activities because he would be getting those anyway :-)

So ... I bought two Lego sets, distributed the bricks into 24 packets (and cut the instructions accordingly) and now they're opening one packet at a time.

Surprisingly, they cheated only once so far :-)