Back to blogging

I missed blogging, but due to recent rearrangements in my job I just couldn't find the time and/or energy to do it. It's been a long winter and I missed my sunshine. I mostly run on solar power. Also, I have more and more problems with blogger, so I started to experiment with Wordpress. I may move my blog there. I will let you know if I do. Here is a brief recap of important things that happened, told mostly in pictures. 

DD's masterpiece

Just in time for the last Harry Potter movie, I present to you my daughter's drawing of Professor Lupin.

Yes, she is drawing werewolves at seven. It is clearly my fault. I am fascinated with these creatures. I play mostly worgen in WoW, my favourite RPG is Werewolf: the Apocalypse and I generally like the idea of beast within man. The only reason why I don't have a Team Jacob t-shirt is that I think Twilight is not only rubbish but atrociously badly written as well, but I wouldn't think twice about choosing a ww instead of an undead.

Maybe I will write a longer entry about this when I figured out the reasons. Until then just enjoy my daughter's ability to present the basic idea of a fairytale monster.

Mandala design

I spent the weekend with my baby, so I couldn't be bothered to blog. Partly because I was having such a good time with my girl, and partly because she was camping the computer. She has a bunch of games she likes to play on the Nickelodeon website and a Hungarian site. She also loves drawing on the computer. For a six-year-old, she is very good with the mouse. I spotted a mandala maker on one of her favourite sites and decided to play around with it. I'm sharing the link in case you want to give it a go. The buttons speak for themselves, so I don't think you will need instructions. I just wish I could hold the mouse a bit more steady. Some of my lines are too shaky!

Horseland

Horseland is one of Tamara's favourite cartoons ever. Mainly because of the many horses in it. 

Girls will be girls

I bought a whole bunch of toys for my baby for Christmas, but I thought that the real girlie thing to do would be to go shopping for clothes together, like girls do. I only had money for one item, but she was very understanding about it. She chose this pretty lavender ballet skirt in H&M and she's wearing it every day. Obviously, given the weather that is unusually cold even for winter, she can only wear it indoors, but she loves it and won't stop dancing in it. She even drew a picture of herself in this skirt. Please observe how much care she took to add sequins to her belt. Yep, she's my girl, and she's multi-talented.

My gal

This is a drawing by my dearest six year old. In case you were wondering, it is a patched cat where the patches for some reason are are flower shaped. She has a little striped baby cat, because no living creature in this world should exist without an adoring and irresistibly cute offspring. So mommy cat and daughter cat are walking on the field of flowers and lollipop trees. She's been watching a lot of Strawberry Shortcake cartoons recently, hence the candy flora.
She also wrote DVD on the picture just to show me that she can. It is not part of the picture, she just didn't find another piece of paper to write on. Yes, she is due to start school next September, but already knows all the capital letters and most lower case ones. And she wrote her very first letter to Santa in crayon. I don't have it on me now but I will definitely scan that too. I'm planning to design a piece where I use her various drawings and then I will stitch it for her. Not sure of the end project yet, maybe a few pillows. She is very fond of drawing and so I have plenty of material!

She also likes to help me with my stitching. Please kindly ignore the 20+ years old T-shirt I'm wearing in the picture, as well as my obviously unwashed and unkempt hair. Focus on the undivided attention, concentration and dedication on my baby's face. Thank you so much.
Below is the photo of her progress. It's the brown dotted line in the top left part of the project. She has finally figured out that one is supposed to punch the needle into the bigger holes on the fabric and that one must always advance to the next one in a neat row, she just doesn't do crosses yet. So she is doing a semi-finished Holbein stitch. Whatever. She's my daughter and whatever she does is perfection to me.