my little bears

it's carneval season again....

i knew i needed to keep the costumes simple. Ji usualy runs around with his friends the whole time and ends up taking off obstructive parts of his costumes, and little St doesn't enjoy any type of getting dressed too much...

 

the boys were watching the czech cartoon "the bears from kolin" the other day, and the bears look just like them - tall and slim and small and plump :), so i got the idea of having them dress as the bears. Ji liked it too, so that was that! :)

 

 

i ordered the fabric and picked out some nice fitting t-shirts that the boys had and Ji's baseball cap as patterns and used some helpful tips i found here and here... 

i was pretty pleased with the outcome, since this was only my second(and third) time sewing a

t-shirt, but i was also VERY reluctant to be finished, phew!

p.s. the cap is made from felt fabric :)

 

 

here are the boys trying their costumes on.....St took off his ears after about 10 seconds (lol!),

 

a wintery ray of rainbow

 

sorry for the smudges in the window(...this is from the boys' room),

but see the little ray of rainbow in the left corner? :)

PF 2013 - office/home calendar :)

h a v e   a   n i c e   r i d e   i n   2 0 1 3 !

download - en

download - cz

p.s. made for paper size A5, but you can use any size you like.
looks best on a little bit grainy cardstock(klasická čtvrtka).
hope you like it :)!

little hedgehogs

.....it's still christmas ;)

 

traditional christmas cookies that my family has been making for generations!

they have always been my favorite and they are my boys' favorite too :)

 

 

christmas fish :)

the traditional christmas fish...

 

  

...cut out of paper, colored, sprinkled with glitter, made by Ji :)

 

(we were inspired by the fish Ji and his classmates made at his preschool :)

wooden bead garland

 

just string them on and tie a double knot...

stick and bead tree mobile

cut sticks to desired lengths,

drilled a hole in the center,

and Ji stringed them

(altering with xl wooden beads)

 

 ...and St got to play

 

 zorro ? :)

stamped wrapping paper

we did some stamping with the boys :)...

 

 

...just some ordinary erasers, ink/paint and paper

i cut the tree out of an ordinary white eraser with my exacto knife, used a pencil eraser for the dots and stamped onto ordinary brown packaging paper

tip: make sure you have suitable ink/paint and paper - test it out first...so that the ink/paint soaks into the paper and doesn't smear. usually really smooth or glossy paper doesn't work well...
p.s. ikea has this really cheap brown paper, but i haven't made it to the store yet, so i can't tell you how well it works.

card gift wrap

a simple way to wrap a print/photo/children's drawing gift into a card...

 

 

cut out a simple deisgn,  then fold paper,

wrap gift in colored tissue paper and insert :)

 

Our anual St. Nicholas Day ride :)

 

 

...when we got to the station, the sun was just rising and it was so magical!

inside we sat next to a coal burning stove and there we 2 devils(St. Nicholas' "accomplices") with

guitars sitting behind us and the whole ride we sang carols and folk songs - it was so much fun!