Summer

Silence

I know it's been a long silence... I'm not feeling like myself lately and I have nothing to say... I'm hoping to come back soon and in the meantime, I'm leaving you with the lilacs from our garden.

Tissue Paper Flowers

From my sketchbook

Simple

When it comes to jewellery, I'm a silver-and-semiprecious-stones person. I like one of a kind stuff which you can find in art and craft shows and in small hidden stores. I also like to make my own.

Those necklaces are my current obsession. They are very simple, just a leather cord and some beads. It takes a little time to make them, like 5 minutes :-) and they are fun to wear and they go with almost everything. When I get bored with them, I can reuse all the material for something else. Can it get better than this ?

New things around the house

New sunbeds or sun chairs (or whatever they are called)...

New kitchen rug, it's a little bit thick(wool) for summer but I love the colors.

New salt-and-pepper shakers...

New deep-cleaner, I guess I have no excuse not washing the carpets now.

New sun glasses...

Flowers

(no... I didn't make this... )

Green

Quick weekend project. I was inspired by this.

Slip cover project

I bought this small loveseat second hand, then painted the legs and made this slip cover. The cream fabric is actually a bed spread from IKEA and red gingham is just scraps. I like the ruffles at the back more than the front, but, oh well....

Listening "The Be Good Tanyas" when writing this post...

Random Things

Today's color combination...

Doodling with embroidery.... Hey, look at this, my embroidery hoop and my tank top have matching colors...

A handfull of almonds. They are good for you...

A pair of new shoes which I completely forgot when I bought them.

Rosemary sprig, reaching for the sun.

I have favourite books and I have favourite "first sentence of a book"s. Here is one of them:

Commander Adam Dalgliesh was not unused to being urgently summoned to non-scheduled meetings with unspecified people at inconvenient times, but usually with one purpose in common: he could be confident that somewhere there lay a dead body awaiting his attention.

From "The Lighthouse" by P.D. James.

Spring, where are you ?

Don't get me wrong, I like Canadian winter... I like the snow, blue sky, sun and cold weather... but this year winter is going on and on and on... It's just dragging its feet and doesn't want to go...

I miss my plants,

sitting at the deck, listening birds and well, just hanging out...

buuut, here, how the deck looks like now...

Spring, where are you ? If you think that you'll be late, just send the summer instead...

Hello again

I'm back... I know it has been a long time since my last post... sorry... it was not intentional... I was rather upset, tired and uninspired... Now I'm feeling better and hoping that spring will help me to start blogging again.

Soo, what about cookies ? I think they are absolutely the best thing for a "first" post.

The recipe is from "Martha Stewart's Cookies".

They are Cream cheese-Walnut Cookies with a little bit modification.

They are yummy...Would you like some ?

Bye now

Hey all... I'll be away next couple of days and I'm hoping to get back next week.
Thanks for visiting my blog, bye now and take care...

Us

My husband is coming this weekend and he will stay until we go back to Ottawa. Yippeeee...

Five things that we love to do:

- going for a walk and talking about everything.
- watching weekly episodes of five favourite TV shows (that he taped during the week) on Friday night with home made pizza and popcorn.
- driving around and listening books-on-tape.
- sitting quietly and reading.
- taking photos of ourselves while sitting on a park bench.

Happy Valentines Day

Nothing much

I'm not doing anything fun and exciting last couple of days. The weather was/is miserable. It was too cold on Monday, snowed on tuesday and raining cats and dogs today. I'm just trying to stay inside(except going to the monitoring in every other day)...

reading...

doing a little embroidery...

watching movies and eating and surfing...

Oh yes, that's what I do...I'm feeling to tired to go out anyway...I'm hoping rest of the week will be better...

Passing time

"Waiting"... One of the most difficult things in the life... Waiting in a line... Waiting my husband to arrive home... Waiting for a call... Waiting for somebody to get better... Waiting for an email...

This is one of the things that I do, to pass time while waiting...

Walk by the park

I was quite sick last couple of days. But this morning I was feeling better, not as strong as I used to be, but strong enought to take a long walk by the Central park.

I walked along the 5th Avenue,

looked at the stones on the pavement,

and mish-mesh of the branches of the winter trees,

then went in to the park...

Isn't it beatiful, the contrast of the trees and stones of the Central park with high-rise apartment buildings at the background ?

I sat by the pond and watched the people around, it was very quiet and peaceful...

a young girl sitting at the next bench was asking for light, but no luck...

on the other side the benches were all empty...

I looked at the winter sky through the naked branches and thought how is it possible to find this quietness in the middle of this big crazy city ?

Home away

What do you need to feel at home ? I think I need a few favourite things. Like my favourite mug which my husband bought me from Paris. My pink soft blanket which I got when he was away and when I was feeling lonely and cold. My favourite slippers, which keep my -extremly cold-feet warm. Pictures of my family, books from favorite authors. Embroidery supplies and sketch book, and oh my laptop...

Since last November we were travelling back and forth between Ottawa and New York. During the Chrismas break we went to Turkey. And now, I'm in New York again, this time I'll stay couple of weeks. This is all good but I can't help feeling homesick... I love my home and being at home. When I'm away, even in a big and exciting city like New York, I always feel homesick.

My small studio apartment which will be my home for the next few weeks, is cute and warm and homely as it can be. But it still needs my mug, blanket, books, pictures and slippers to be my home. Of course it needs my better half as well, but he went back to Ottawa already. So his picture on my desk has to do it for now, until he comes back...