Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Knitting & Rainy Afternoons

 I don't know if it's the volcano from Iceland or just coincidence but in last month we had only three days of sun. Temperatures are the same as they were in March, so I started to be little bit desperate to get warm and decided to learn knit. Well my mother used to be good at it, but she was never willing to teach me. 
I turned on my computer and found some YouTube tutorials how to knit and found some show where very crazy girl teach young kids to do that and guess what, it's actually pretty good. Next day I went to buy bamboo needles and some wool and started pretty big scarf to warm up my upper body. Don't worry I will post result, but when I'm finished. Unfortunately I'm very slow, so it will take a time. Check my blog in September... 


Look what I did so far. Well stitches are pretty random, but this is a first time, so play nice, people...





Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Gift

In our lives we have to deal with situations. Sometimes, they are pleasant and sometimes they are not. But they both have something common - they gives us a lesson. Last couple weeks I had to deal with both cases and believe me I'm glad I have a day off and I can just write...


The pleasant part is, that I have my man much closer than over the ocean. I was a little busy showing him my country and being rude to him (mostly in the mall and I apologize for that) but now he went to travel and I'm in the mood for doing something. 


Well Tereza, stop writing personally and tell what you want to tell...


My dearest gave me a gift. It's not just a gift to me, it's THE GIFT. If you have read previous posts, you might noticed, I've been applying for art school in Prague and yes, I wrote about it a lot. Anyway I found that the main artist in the studio, leading professor of the studio wrote a book. Well not novel or anything, it's just cut of his work, with opinions of other people in the art field and my dad promised me to give me this book if I'll be accepted. Well I was, but my dad is going through the hard times now so I didn't even want to remind him, he promised that. Well it's an expensive book and as a reward for being student again I'll go to Canada for a summer, got another experience. Anyway when I came home after weekend, I found a wrapped gift on my bed and go figure, it was The Book.
Something I really really wanted for a long time. First of all it's important for me to read about work of my professor soon to be, don't you think? Second it's pretty well made book with beautiful prints and third - the cover is heat sensitive, so when you hold it for a longer, you can see your hand printed on it. 
You have no idea how happy it made me, silly I know.



Well I took some pictures, so I can at least partly share with you guys, but some pictures are crappy, it's getting darker outside...





Highlighted parts are made by local painting transparent paint.  




I admit I've been playing only with a cover for two hours...