Parents' dacha - the colors of nature

   Today I am going to present you a piece of my childhood, a piece of my culture and a piece of a land, where my parents grow amazing flowers and vegetables, and where you can enjoy the true colors of nature. Me and my parents spent a great weekend at dacha! Dacha means freedom, sun, fresh air, loads of space and beautiful plants for me and you have already "heard" this word from me here and here.

  A little dissapoinment was when my camera discharged right in the middle of me taking the photos. Hence I am showing all the things my parents planted in another post :)

  I took the picture below when we just arrived at dacha last Saturday. It was around seven in the evening but it was still hot and sunny. I loved how my parents made this flowerbed round the house. I feel so much cozy looking at it, though it's not perfect and our house needs load of care... I still love it all so much!

My Mum's pride is this Geranium. The flowers are like a bunch of tiny red roses.

The decorative bean plant grows on the strings, when you turn round the corner.

When you move a little further, there are bluetts, which are blue and light pink. Hope I took this flower name correctly in English. In Russian they are called "Vasiljok" (Василёк).

 These flowers below are pansies of  course, in Russian they are called "Anuta's eyes" (Анютины глазки) as seems like they look at you! Don't they? ;)

My parents grow not only cute flowers, but "serious" plants too! hehe

When the camera was completely "dead", I somehow squeezed the last drop of charge from the battery...  You see yourself, such beauty could't have been ignored by me!

The redcurrant berries are transparent in the sun.

                                 

The beans

A watermelon which will ripen by the month of September 

 A squash. My Mum always has loads of it and makes tasty dacha style dishes with it :)

Hope you liked being at dacha and I am going to take you there soon again :)

***Have a nice week full of positive colors!***

A Bliss of Being Home

    After the winter trip to my parents,  I am back home again and I am happy. Thanks to my D, the most understanding and caring husband I could ever wish for. This time I went to my home country alone... and now I don't want it anymore, but only with my D. Together Always..remember? I am missing my husband a lot ...

    I arrived in Kazakstan today early morning. I had 3 flights in just 32 hours and was in 3 different airports of three different countries: India, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Too tired to make a long post so I'm just going to share some moments of the trip with you. Me and my D flew to Delhi from Chandigarh day before yesterday evening and then...

    India. The teddy bear I took with me is ready to start her first long journey, at Delhi International Airport visitor's area. Here, my D left for the bus to Chandigarh after few hours and I headed towards the check-in post.

Ukraine. Boryspol' Airport is the biggest international airport of the country.  I spent 11 hours there waiting for the flight to Astana. There are good facilties for long wait: free internet, cafes, duty free, rest rooms, but not possible to purchase a local SIM card, roaming is the only option.

The area for the transit passengers. Someone left a book for others. Good choice!

                           

Looking out of the window. The sky .. oh, no words do describe, just look. 

 

 

The weather was nice, you can see from the picture.

Time pass with a book and a croissant.

 She was also eagerly waiting :)

Kazakhstan. Finally - a blissful early morning. It feels good to be back home.

   ***Have a great time with your families!***

Tiny flowers of my garden

       Yesterday I went out at the back yard and saw them, little blossoms of summer. Tiny beauties which grow in our wild garden. They create the whole world, where fairies live and hide among tiny leaves and tiny petals :) This is a magic of nature, it shows up itself everywhere, creates life everywhere, because no one planted these flowers, they appeared on their own.

       I love these pink ones, they are too cute and too tiny, but nevertheless, beautiful.

    What about this yellow flower? It is also gorgeous in its way.

Here I played with the camera settings and I loved the result. It looks like a small forest to me, where tiny fairies live and dance.

 One more tiny beauty, it looks like a small chamomile.

 

That's what makes me feel dreamy too. Flowers. I love them!

***Have a super week ahead and try to find tiny beauties everywhere around you!***

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!***