Color on Tuesday - Blanket and Nail Art

Tomorrow, when I am supposed to do blanket progress update post, never comes, hence let's grab today and live today. As you all well know, I have been crocheting a big blanket for the past few months, and I haven't finished it yet, lol. To disappoint you - no Ta-dah news today, but  a glimpse (or two or three) of the  process. 

One achievement I can be certainly proud of is that I have started joining the blocks! You can see a pile of them, which makes already 3 rows of 8 blocks in each (total 24 blocks). However they have been attached only length wise, width wise will come afterwards, when I have all 8 rows together. I had a chance to experience how much warm the blanket is, as part of it was lying on my laps while I joined the other blocks. Believe me, it IS warm, just like real wool, and also soft. 

I like the view from this angle, the repetition of the pattern in different colors, the way the blocks' edges are attached kind of makes me happy :) Probably it is madness, or excitement, or I simply love the colors of this yarn.

Imagining this blanket spread on the bed, and making our room bright at once! My husband likes it too, already. Lately he asked why didn't I do yarn shopping for so long, it somehow worried him (hehe). Last weekend I bought 4 colors which didn't seem suffice to finish the blanket purely for the purpose of removing all the worries from his head. I am relieved now, my D too I bet.

For those who might be interested I am using slip stitch joining method for blocks, and very happy with how it turned out - it is a neat and strong join I believe. You can notice the crimson line of stitches between yellow and lilac. 

Next  is just an abandoned hobby of mine - nail art. I am in a long nails phase now, and I have some pretty nail polishes which make up a great duet (though it is not that you cannot do nail art when having short nails of course). Some doodling with nail polish few days ago - nothing special, but made me immensely proud of my nails look. I used dotting technique tool - a ball pen, for making of the design. 

I became a little lazy with taking of the photos of our weekends and so, but we have an interesting event coming up this week - an International Coffee Festival! So apparently, I will be there for... a cup of the brew of Gods. Otherwise, the yearly Hindu festival hustle is more than a month away, so I am enjoying the cooling off of the weather, and quiet days, and of course getting ready for Autumn and Halloween.

Have a blissful day and be safe wherever you are!

Dreamy Monsoon

          It is a monsoon season over here. Finally. Yea, we've been waiting for the rain for the whole May and June and hopefully it will be staying with us till August. I love the rain. I wrote about it in this post last year and how it reminded me about dacha...

        The rain makes me feel good and dreamy a little. I feel like reading fairy tales these days. I really do and I have read! By the way, while scrolling the Blogbuzz I have noticed that many blog posts' titles have the word "Fairy tale" in them! Everyone seems to be dreaming :) I am also feeling cozy while monsoon and I like eating such breakfast: roti with butter and jam and tea! It's yumm, you should try it.

     The monsoon sky looked like this today evening, but it started raining only 2 hours later. Aren't you feeling dreamy looking at these clouds clubbing there so high?  I am.

    What am I dreaming of?  ... Of the forest and I have continued my crochet picture project "The Russian forest". This is going to be canvas for the picture. I thought orange and brown would look good as a background for a forest theme as these colors are natural. I am again using acrylic yarn, it is great for making crochet home decor pieces.

                This is the half of the canvas, however I have continued further yesterday.

        Oh yea... I am also dreaming of meadow flowers with bright petals and nice flavor. I made this floral nail art yesterday and I am quiet happy how it came out.  I had difficulties with making nail art on the right hand with my left hand, so the flowers didn't appear to be very neat. I preferred the better looking nail art to be posted in the blog :)

              *** Have a nice weather wherever you are and keep on dreaming!***

Go crafty this Summer

    We have moved into the month of July. Let's see what it has in store for us. My aim is to finish old projects and start new ones, learn new crafts (like decoupage and felt craft) and of course, enjoy the summer!

    Today's post is all about crafty ideas which I had started implementing in life in June and which were transferred in July. The first one is called "The Russian forest" which looks like this on the plan below. This is going to be a crochet picture with crocheted forest leaves, flowers and more attached to the crocheted background.

  Why forest theme suddenly? Because I am missing forest a lot here! Forest has been my favorite place to go to since my childhood when parents used to take me away from the city under the cool and fresh roof of the pine trees and birches :) We used to plug mushrooms and collect different treasures of nature like pinecones, some peculiar shaped branches, moss...   and of course we used to make herbarium from the variety of forest plants.

So here it is, the first necessary plant of a forest - fern. In order to make crochet fern flat I simply soaked it in the water and then taped to a newspaper and let it dry.

 These are the sticks I am going to use as a frame for a crochet picture. I also have made a tiny forest flower and going to make some more of them, may be of different colors. In plans is to crochet a forest strawberry! This is going to be fun :)

  Well let's leave crochet for a while and show you my renewed hobby - nail art. I'd like to say thanks to one of the bloggers Bonitabonbons who creates amazing nail art and who inspires me to do it too :)

  The designs I make are very simple and based on a dotting technique and my hands still shake...but I like it anyway! I have also bought a few nail polishes from a nearby market, and they are SUPER cheap what makes nail art so much affordable hobby! You would enjoy it for sure once you try :)

*** Wishing everyone a crafty Summer!***