What do you do when you travel and want to bring a T-shirt for your older kid, but they don't have the right size? Even the airport shops let you down?
Well, you copy the T-shirt design and have the T-shirt printed in your local T-shirt-printig-shop :-)
Spend these holidays with people you love.
And appreciate the precious time you're spending together.
And for the last time in 2022... I was away.
A true winter wonderland!
But not much of daylight...
All the Christmas cards are on their way, so it's time to publish this year's design.
The spoiler mystery is now solved: it was epoxy resin ;-)
I cut balsa wood in the shape of trees, painted them in different greens and poured several layers of epoxy, one including some pearl white powder.
And the magic behind it? There are also dots of glow-in-the-dark resin, which, well, glows in the dark :-)
I wonder how many recipients will notice this ;-)
MiniMojcek Nr.2 is taking extra cooking classes at school. The other day he brought home the recipe for a chocolate star. Which we of course made at home:
The next time we made it, we replaced the chocolate filling with cinnamon filling (you know, the cinnamon rolls one)
... and ...
added some cardamom and lemon juice.
Now THAT is truly delicious!
I found the images of this beauty on my phone, from the recent trip to Aquilea:
I am not a fan of business trips just before Christmas, but sometimes I don't have a choice.
So now that my mind is set to Christmas, I might actually enjoy this:
No, it's not the north pole.
But not that far either ;-)
Update:
this is the current webcam panoramic view of the city ;-)
Say a very good friend of yours is celebrating her birthday.
And she explicitly asks for a Nijntje/Miffy bunny.
But you just cannot give the bunny as it is, right?
So you sew the bunny a red silk dress ;-)
And yes, this is real silk.
Leftovers from an old dress of mine.
And yes, I made her black lacy underwear as well :-)
About I year ago, I was complaining about the Sufferfest takeover by Systm. What a disappointment.
Well, now it's time to complain again. This time it's Duolingo that's made some drastic changes. And by drastic I mean unforgivable. So I'm sticking to it for a few more days, to reach the 1000 day streak, then it's time to say goodbye.
Not all of us are linear learners, some of us want flexibility and choice. It's been nice knowing you, Duo.
UPDATE:
After abandoning the initial idea for this year's Christmas Cards, I've already got another one. Which seems too be working. But the utensils are ... rather unusual.
You want to hear something really scary for Halloween?
Almost 29 degrees in my country.
On the 31st of October.
But then again, if life gives you good weather, make the best of it, right ;-)
And maybe it's time for a music update, what I've been listening to recently:
Piers Faccini - Diamond in the Mine
Gabriel Bruce - All that I have
A lot of emotions and feelings in just about every single one of these songs.
The music that's playing in shops is usually not quite my cuppa tea. But there were some notable exceptions, as this for example is how I learned about Madrugada or Jardier.
But just the other day I went to my local Decathlon and there it was: Rammstein's Zeit album.
Now I'm not a huge fan of Rammstein but it's definitely a very different shopping experience when there is loud Rammstein echoing around the aisles :-)
You know you're grown up when you wake up on a Sunday morning and think: "Today is the perfect day to clean the windows."
Yes, I am that old.
And yes, I did clean them.
Well, first of all, I was away.
The coast was beautiful ...
one in Monserrate:
You know the summer is over, when:
- you have to put on your jeans in the morning. After about four months of wearing skirts, dresses and shorts.
- all the rain that did not fall during one of the driest summers ever, falls down in just one weekend.
- they are shooting Christmas commercials in the park nearby and half of the park is covered with (artificial) snow.
- and yes, I am already assembling material for a possible prototype of this year's Christmas cards.
Yes, summer is definitely over.
I do owe quite a few updates, don't I?
Yes, I feel summery. Joyful. Colourful. Almost like a parrot ;-)
Possibly you noticed (probably you didn't) that the far left and the far right dresses are the same pattern. That is because I bought the right one, liked the fit so much that I made myself a copy of it :-D
I've always been a fan of tiny puzzles. The cuteness of the pieces gets me every time.
However, a tiny puzzle needs to be of super high quality. And this one unfortunately isn't. The shapes are repetitive, sloppily designed and probably even badly cut. The contrast on the colours is poor. There are so many false ways these pieces 'fit' together that it's becoming frustrating. I will of course solve it but it is not the fun I was hoping it to be.
Oh well.
Aaand... we've been away again.
A family of "cinghiali" crossing our path in broad daylight!
I just realised I haven't posted for a while...
One of the reasons is that I've been away. Again :-)
Enjoying some classic Tuscany landscape... and some wonderful Tuscan art.
Another reason is that after successfully avoiding covid for over two years, I now tested positive :-(
No, I'm not complaining.
We've got about 15 kg of red currant from our garden.
And this year we ended up having a lot of cherries as well...
So red currant jam, red currant-strawberry jam, frozen red currant, frozen cherries, cherry strudel, cherry cake, cherry clafoutis, cherry-red currant jam...
And we haven't even started harvesting the sour cherries! They need one to two more weeks to ripen.
Is there a special club for people whose bicycles had been stolen?
Count me in.
And while I do wish Pax et Bonum to everyone, to you, who stole our bikes, I wish that the ebike battery explodes.
A lot of "aways" recently ;-)
This time to an interesting old town in Austria.
A few days ago I was reminded by a very good friend of mine of Cohen's Anthem.
It brought back memories...
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| Yes, this is a T-shirt I painted with the album cover. |
And I am happy.
