° Sarasvati °

Hi guys, I haven't been updating for a really long period of time.
And I don't know why I'm doing it right now, but I'm doing it :)

Just wanted to share the photo of our new Sarasvati's altar with you. This tiny statue I brought last year from Nepal. Earlier she spent her time on the window but since we've got this cute handmade altar from my husband's aunt, she found her place!

° A new year's wreath °

Hi guys!

Here is me again! I haven't written for ages but yesterday and today I made up myself to create a door wreath. And finally I did it! :) I should say it's not a lot of technics or skills (although I made a few mistakes, but hey, it's my first one!), but I needed much time to make kind of pattern in my mind before finishing, 'cause I didn't know what my wreath would look like till I finished. I had no drawings, just some pictures for inspiration from the internet. All the stuff I used I have from the nearest forest and from flea markets :)

I pined the small pieces of the pine branches with special pins, then added pine cones with a glue pistol and on the next day (but just because I had no time yesterday) I added some deco.

° a harvest post °

So... the summer (and even the Indian summer) is over :( Last week I was wearing balerinas, but now you can walk only in rubber boots or trekking shoes. It's raining and raining and raining. The sky is grey, I haven't seen the sun since the weekend where I was lucky (and smart) to take photos of the rest of the cards, but unfortunately not all of them. Heh! I decicded to take my time and continue working on my Swedish. Wanna seen my progress? :D

According to the title the post should be about harvesting, and it's actually what we were doing on the weekend together with my husband's friend. We found really nice mushrooms in the forest nearby. Most of them were of this kind. After I have googled it, I got confused, 'cause I was actually sure that we picked up these mushrooms! *facepalm* Anyway we got many of them :D But not only mushrooms, we picked up a few kilo apples from the trees near the field there and took some hazelnut and walnuts from the forest. Hehe! So what's our harvesting was look like! The nuts-photo was done on the weekend, so don't be surprised that the sun is shining - it'not -____-

My Succulent garden *______*

A succuent's blossom

Some of the tiny balls didn't survive :( And I expect a couple more to die but one of them is blossoming now. I have no idea why... Is it a sign that the plant will pass away -_____- ?

Succulents

Today is Sunday and there's no post :) That's why I decided to show you my new plants. These are tiny succulents. I also bought a nice glass-house for them and added some stones. Hope they will do well here. And if sooo, I'm going to buy more of them, 'cause there are really many sorts of them and put them in another glass-house (which is even more interesting than this one) ^_____^

Sunday afternoon

Soo.. This weekend I'm alone because my husband went backpacking with his guys. The weather was rather good yesterday morning, but since ca. 14 o'clock it has been only raining and raining and raining... and it's windy and just nasty.. But I should say I have nothing against such weather when I can stay home :D I love it to sit at home and look out of the window when it's raining! And I often see a blackbird male on the roof in front of our house..I actually don't know if it's the same one but I think so, because I see him there many times a day. And now he's sitting there again and it's raining, he seems really alone to me and I'd like to invite him in our flat, you know, offer him a cup of tea with oat-cookies and present him a small and cute handmade scarf :) Don't think I'm crazy! Maybe he's there only to make his thing you know :D Have you ever seen such blackbirds? They run funny :)

So here he is (it's not a today photo):

But I'm not just lazy sitting indoors... I spend my time in handmade (finally). Now I'm creating a couple of cute Easter greeting cards. One is for my penpal from India and the other one - I don't know yet.. But the next one I would cross-stitch will be a blackbird. I found a nice desing of a redwinged blackbird (an American one), and after the Easter cards I stitch it ;)

At the end of this post I'll show you our beautiful candle house. I love him! <3 enjoy!

For today I've planned some yoga for my back and to hoover the carpet!

Frühlingsgrüße vom Fensterbrett ^____^

I got two new friends this week :) they are a gorgeous Hyacint and a gang of garden mini-daffodil guys! As there was no sun, my new friends were really dull on the windowsill (photo 1 - a couple of days ago), but as the sun came (now it's so pleasantly outside... ^____^) the guys got alive and blossom (photo 2). If you have a question about the onion, yes, it dares to enjoy the sunshine as well.

I have to separate and put the flower bulbs in different pots but now they are in the basement under a heap of heavy boxes. Hope they would wait till it's weekend and my husband will get all the boxes away :)

A wintery view out of our window.. :)