Christmas flowers

 My Christmas time isn't Christmas time without flowers.

I love the smell of cinnamon, clove and ginger,

but I am able to live without them.

But flowers - specially hyacinth - that is a total must.

No matter how much I am sneezing, 

when they are in bloom.

Turquoise Christmas, first decors

 I usually start Christmas decoration early.

Not everything at the time.

It starts from Kekri 

and during the weeks till Christmas 

I put up more and more...

Something for Easter

Even though Easter isn't a greatest feast at our house,

I use to put up some decor for it.

Sometimes more, sometime less.

I guess this year is less.

Shiny Christmas tree

Little Princess was visiting.

As well as two of her cousins, too.

They decorated the Christmas tree.

And it turned quite shiny.

Silence and first Advent

Still without laptop. 

Driving me crazy.

Writing with phone just isn't for me.

Maybe later.

My Advent home is almost ready, though.

Decorating papercups

Spring is progressing so fast.

Liverleafs are blooming in the back yard.

They are so beautiful.

Spring also means Supermoto.

Season will start in no time.

And I will be spending several weekends in race track.

Cooking. Making coffee. Tensing.

Tiny changes in living room

Kittens are growing fast,

and they are not climbing in curtains so much anymore,

so I finally was able to hang my nowadays favorite curtains up again.

I have been waiting for this from Christmas,

when we got new TV as Christmas present.

Cottage boudoir...

My cottage boudoir is finally done!

We started with wallpapers during last weekend,

and today I put last candle on the dresser.

Anniversary and Valentine's

When it came time to take Christmas decor down,

I couldn't pack away all of it.

Maybe because I couldn't put up so much decor as I would like to

- just that the house would be safe to kittens.

So I left some,

but made few changes.

Christmastime starts

It is 1st Advent,

I am not ready.

Lately weeks have been filled with little things,

which seems to take a lot of time.

And I find myself using Instagram more than writing a diary,

Decorating cottage porch

Now, when trees have drop leaves,

from the road there is open sight to cottage porch.

So, when I come home from work,

it is the first thing I will see.

I want it be nice during this darkest time of the year.

So I use to decor it for Christmas time.

Table centerpieces in test

In a hope,

that kittens will "get used to" decor on the table,

and will leave them alone,

I also put something up on the table.

Blue, white,silver.

Looking for kitten safe Christmas decor...

I have been surfing in Pinterest during last weeks.

Looking for decor ideas,

that wouldn't be destroyed by kittens right away.

I have found tons of lovely pastries.

Table was set...

Yesterday night we had Kekri dinner.

To celebrate harvesting.

And to light the candles for the ancestors.

Not ready yet...

I am not ready yet to say good bye for summer.

Not even close.

Not ready for fall 

- nor even close to say hello to winter.

But Kekri will be next Saturday.

Wreath for cottage door

The cottage door had also stuck in spring time.

It sure isn't any spring anymore,

so it really was the time to do something.

Feeling fall

Wind is screaming in corners.

Virginia creeper is turning in colors.
Fall,
It it definitely here.

Cottage porch

I finally got cottage porch cleaned up.

During the winter months it uses to be a place,

where we just walk through with wet, snowy and muddy shoes.

It is cold,  but dry,

and unfortunately we are lazy enough to throw in there things,

that are waiting for decent place - like landfill.

Lilac in bedroom

During Saturday it was a great weather:

sun was shining and temperature got up to 15C.

I spent hours outside

- but got not so much done.

But in the evening I made some changes in bedroom.

Peaceful Palm Sunday

It is a week until Easter.

Hard to believe, that it is spring, because weather has been like in autumn:

wind, snow, water, cold.

But you cannot skip Easter, can you?