Music, again

Let's finish the year with some music that currently comes up on my playlist more often than everything else:

Zaho de Sagazan - La symphonie des éclairs

Laurent Voulzy - Jeanne

 

Jean Schulteis - Confidence pour confidence

 

Keen'V - Outété

And the guy with the strangest haircut:

Aime Simone - Shining Light

 

Hm, I just realised that all the music is French.

Well, I could add some new Mika, Vianney, or M83, perhaps Brassens, Delpech or Sardou.

Oh, wait ...

Happy 2024!

La bûche de Noël

I wanted to do it for a couple of years now, and this year I finally managed to do it.

Plenty of recipes online, I took the Paul Holywood's one. 

Didn't have very Chrismassy decoration in my local shop. I could chose between pink flamingoes, trucks or these flowers...

It was super delicious and I will definitely make it again. 

The only downside was that after making it, the next day I tested positive for Covid  and lost all the sense of smell and taste :-(

Christmas decoration

This year I also made some Christmas decoration: dried oranges in epoxy resin.

Oranges were grown in this garden:

and dried under the Provençal sun.

Actually it was Côte d'Azurian sun but this is doesn't sound as poetic as Provençal :-)

Anyway, working with the resin was quite messy, especially as i didn't have a rapidly dying one - this one took about 2-3 day so solidify.

And of course multiple layers were needed as the oranges floated...

We also made some glow-in-the-dark glittery letters for a Secret Santa.

The decoration is quite heavy, but pretty :-)

It brings a bit of Côte d'Azurian sun into your life :-)

Advent in Zagreb

This year we finally managed to see the famous advent in Zagreb. The decorations and festivities are indeed wonderful, but I was surprised how damaged the place still is following the earthquake in 2020... Plenty of galleries and museums closed, and the cathedral as well.

I'll start with the most magical place - the etherically decorated tunnel. Just stunning!

 

Is this the most stylish postbox or what?

And the cathedral towers...

Winter time

If the winter won't come to Mojcek, Mojcek must go to winter.

So I did.

 

MiniMojcek Nr.2 took snowboarding lessons and we went for a lovely walk to Lake Jasna.

Christmas cards 2023 edition

This year I was/am short on time, so the cards are quite simple.

 

But shiny :-)

 

I got glittery shimmery shiny watercolours and painted baubles. Not two are the same.

 

But they all have the same hidden message :-)

In Morse code.

But of course.

Colour of the year

Pantone chose the colour of the year 2024:

Peach fuzz.

Probably the worst colour of the year ever. 

It's not even a colour, it's ... what is it?!?

The only thing it reminds me of are old Hansaplasts/Band-aids.

It's even worse than the Rose quartz/millennial pink.

And those were bad.

Next!

PS. Haha, I googled peach fuzz not knowing the meaning of the phrase - and all I get is how to ged rid of it... Well, yes, please, get rid of this horrible non-colour.

Christmas is approaching

The Christmas cards are all made, about half of them already sent.

Most of the Christmas presents are wrapped, some are still on their way.

On top of this, I made a Christmas wreath! I didn't have a solid straw or styrofoam wreath to build on, so it's not as rich as it could have been... But hey, for a start...