Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Photos taken in Volčji Potok.

Masters!

Escaping the Christmas-approaching craziness, I visited a wonderful exhibition, From Gauguin to Hopper, in Villa Manin, close to Udine.

 

My favourites were the self-portrait of Van Gogh, pine trees of Cezanne, Bonnard's sunset at Saint Tropez, Gaugin's Martinique, Monet's Antibes,  Courbet's wave ... and many more. Such masterpieces!

Of course no photographs from the actual exhibition. But some from Udine and Gradišče. 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas, everyone!

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 :-) 

Christmas is approaching...

... rapidly!

The town is already fully decorated, so it's time for me to follow. 

This year I've made a super simple but very Christmassy wreath.

I'm happy. 

Christmas card spoiler

I am super busy cutting, gluing, sewing ... :-)

 

 

And no, I'm not making little piggies. I'm making Christmas cards. 

 

I am just using pink to sketch and plan as I know that these sheets won't be used for anything else ;-)

Lego exhibition

There's a Lego exhibition in my home town.

 

For the kids and for those of us who refuse to grow old :-)

Merry Christmas :-)

Merry Christmas everyone!

And we've got six boxes of all sorts of home-made Christmas cookies.

Trieste in Advent

Last year we went to see Advent in Zagreb, this year we went to Trieste. Not as special, but not bad nevertheless.

Christmas cards

Almost all the Christmas cards have been posted, so I can reveal this year's mystery.

 

Folded 3D cards.

Not only did I change the colour for a bit of variety, every person got the mountains/town of where they live :-)

I am quite happy, especially considering that they are my plan B as the plan A didn't work. Oh well.

Christmas card teaser

I know I am tremendously late with this year's Christmas cards.

But I am slowly catching up! So the ones going abroad have already been posted, while the home-town cards are being made now.

And yes, my desk is a complete mess ...

December?

Whoa, December caught me off guard!

But I am catching up as quickly as I can.

First was the Christmas wreath.

Admitted, more in tiger than standard Christmas colours, but hey, I never was standard :-)

Mail!

I got this in my mailbox today.

TODAY!

I am used to getting Christmas cards in February, sometimes even March. 

But May?

That's a first.

So Merry Christmas everyone :-) 

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.

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...

Christmas cards teaser

This year I'm really short on time so the Christmas cards will be relatively simple. 

But beautiful nevertheless :-)