Bat and James Bond

I decided to be a bat. Just some black clothes, black wings (I used the fabric that was left from the Harry Potter cloak) and some ears. Simple!

MiniMojcek Nr.1 wanted to be James Bond. Well, who doesn't want to be James Bond, right?

Luckily for me I found a black tie suit and shirt in H&M combined for about 30€ :-) So I only had to make a bow-tie, a holster and a gun. Well, I did the bow-tie and the holster, MrMojcek carved the gun (PPK something) out of wood and then painted it black.

And why do I always run out of black thread on a Saturday night? So everything was sewn with dark-blue, dark-red and dark-green...

Dumbledore costume

One day before the carnival my working table looked like this:

Thirty minutes later, the hat was made, without a pattern, just a slightly distorted ellipse and a rectangle sewn together.

All that I needed to make was the cloak, the beard and the glasses. As I was really rushing, so no time for taking pictures.

The glasses were simply made of a wire, the beard of felt and the wand used to be a wireless antenna :-)

5th of February

Today is the fifth of February.

I have seen a field of blooming snowdrops.

And a field of lilac crocuses.

A cyclist wearing shorts.

And two shops full of Easter Bunnies and Easter eggs.

This is so wrong.

This is actually an older photo. But it looked just like that.

Another 'adult' book

It's quite difficult to get English books in Portugal. As my Portugese is ... not even bad, it's non-existent, and yet I wanted to buy a book, I got one without words.

Just numbers :-)

I love it!

A great book when you have to spend long hours at the airports.

A violet skirt

Just before I flew to Portugal I made a very simple - yet pretty - skirt.

A wintery violet fabric, black elastic waistband and some cyan ribbons.

The cyan ribbons match my cyan fleece jacket, cyan soft-shell jacket, cyan T-shirt, cyan umbrella, cyan earphones ... scary :-)

Coming home...

After a week of almost constant rain, the sun came out.

Finally!

So no wonder I started shooting like crazy. I came home with over 2500 photos. 

Oooops!

I was able to get some panoramic shots of the riverfront. The originals are about 15000 x 3000 px :-)

 

Oh, and I have to mention the hotel I stayed in: the Grande Hotel do Porto.

Charming.

And then came the long way home. For the first time in my life, I missed a plane. So I had to spend the night in Amsterdam. And - the next day I missed another plane. So I had to spend the day in Vienna. I visited my aunt and came home with a 22-hour delay.

Oh, well.

2016!

Wow, I can't believe I haven't posted anything in 2016 yet. Well, I have a good excuse. I was working really hard to get everything done before ... leaving on a jet plane :-)

I've only been here a couple of days and have already way over 1k photos! It will take me ages to sort them, but here is a sneak peek.

It finally stopped raining after a couple of days so I could make some decent photos.  Oh, did I say I quite like it here :-)