the process...

Taking photos of an unfinished painting... it´s great to see the progress! I was always afraid to do this, I thought I would be sad in case I couldn´t finish the painting. This is hotel Hrušov again.
Yesterday I nearly drowned myself in the lake... along with our daughter Marie. I was really stupid to go swimming with her, suddenly the lake was too deep and I couldn´t do anything - she was holding my neck and I couldn´t keep myself above the surface. Luckily my husband jumped in the water and saved us! Huh, terrifying experience. 

In the wood

My new painting is finished! I´m always so happy to finish a painting - it takes me more and more time it seems. This one was inspired by our Ikea couch slipcover (made by me) and by our friend´s cabin in the wood. The pink bubble is a motive that was already in my painting before this one; I want to connect few more paintings with it (like I did before with red hair and red colour...).

black knight

Hahaha, I´ve seen this black knight hoodie on the net somewhere (I couldn´t find who makes it or where it comes from) and I love it! Isn´t it sexy? I imagine it would be expensive (and out of stock, and too small for my tall husband...), but what about diy black knight? :D
Also, my 4 month old baby can turn herself from her back to her stomach (I´m definitely using bad english terms to describe this) already!!! Her older sister, who was just lying and sleeping all the time as a baby, did this two months later. I´m so proud of this active little one :).

 

I love this summer

Traveling for short trips, being at home, playing in the garden, bathing, swimming, wearing skirts and linen pants, eating tomatoes, sewing, painting, I love the summer this year :). It just feels so relaxed and easy. I love being with the children and watching films in the evening. It´s great to have a small baby, you don´t have to travel to any "holidays", you just stay at home and "do nothing". That´s what I like to do :D.

With my lovely friend Anna at the zoo in Prague.

bring something pink

Pink, that´s what little girls love! If I want Marie to wear something, it better is of pink colour :).
I made her new leggings (at last I was succesful at making legging - I made a pattern with her old pair) and I made a cord skirt with knit waistband. One of the legs in leggings is off-grain, but I don´t really care, as this is the first trial pair. I love the fabric, they look really cute on.

apples, apples

Apples are everywhere! We are flooded by apples and therefore I´m baking apple desserts all the time. Good apple is baked apple :).

linen pants

Few days ago I finally hemmed my new turquoise linen pants. I wore them twice since and I like them, despite the fact that the design is not really my style. I kind of had to get used to these trousers. The colour is refreshing and I love linen for summer pants. I think I want to make some more linen pants... some easier style maybe, as these ones are more on the "formal" side. I thought I could wear them to playground etc., but that wouldn´t feel comfortable.
I´m quite proud of the sewing I did on these trousers.
Photos from our great trip to castle and park in Průhonice. Such beautiful gardens.

baby pants

I love my new overlock! I made these baby harem pants for our friend´s little girl, size 74, approximately. I hope they fit her this autumn! There are still some things with the overlock that I need to work out - mainly what to do with the threads´ ends. On normal straight stitch machine you can backstitch easily, but with overlock you just let the ends long and finish them afterwards. But beside that, I´m pretty excited and so far I´ve used the overlock almost every day :).
I love the little floral "tag" I´ve made on the side. I would also like to add some tag with my name "janul" somewhere... maybe next time, if I figure how to do that :). It would also great to be able to put a lable with a size there.

mirror mirror

Found this old picture of myself in Ikea. Mirrors are so magical.

doll for a friend

It´s finished! It took me ridiculously long time to make it, but to defend myself I have to say I had a baby in the meantime! :)

evening in the living room

sleeping? no, thanks...

I can sleep, when I´m dead! Or that´s probably what my baby thinks :D. She´s sleeping for short periods during the day and waking up continuously during the night. Exhausting! But I´m definitely loosing all my baby weight this way... and something more I guess.

Also, I´ve threaded my overlock machine (whoa! this thing is quite compicated! but I hope next time this process is much easier...) and been practicing a bit. So far I haven´t mastered everything and don´t understand how to do some things, but I guess that will come with time and practice.
Also, muy husband was cleaning his office and gave me a table, so that I could use it for my sewing machines! Isn´t that great? Now I have two tables, but I´m still not really sure which one of them is more suitable for machines... Anyway, I have more place for working now :).

men´s boxer shorts

So, let me tell you a story... about a nice, huge shirt (a caftan, maybe). It was a handmade shirt, made by my husband´s exgirlfriend.

I really love the fabric, nice colour, pattern, and very soft...

omg it´s my overlock!

Sooooo, after much thinking I decided to buy an overlock. It´s Brother 3034D. I´m excited, but at the same time afraid I won´t learn how to use it. So many buttons and numbers and it just looks quite complicated! But I hope I will... somehow :D. I´m writing this at 10pm with a headache after a night of short sleep (most nights these days), so I don´t think I´ll get to use the brand new overlock today (it arrived this afternoon). And it seems my table is kind of small :D.
Also, could someone PLEASE help me with the pictures setting in Blogger? They always appear quite small on the site, what can I do to make them bigger?

life

Life sometimes brings wonderful things.
Bathing in the river... and friends.
Woody Allen makes the greatest movies, I can watch them over and over.
The VERY naughty comic book Pascin written by Joann Sfar about jewish painter Julius Pinkas called "Pascin".

And the like :).