More photos, less talking

Hello dears!You know, this post was supposed to happend sometime right after Easter. But however I look at it, mmm it's not right after anymore. As an excuse I can only say that I had a bucnh of end-of-term exams, brains last Friday, phisilogy of blood and breathing on Monday, and upper and lower limbs tomorrow, all of this was maybe an infor you didn't need, but still wish me luck for tomorrow!
But for now I'll quitt talking and show you some very random, and quite outdated photos:
First look at the awesome book Jo from Serendipitous Stitching sent me! Just like this, out of pure awesomeness! This was my mystery mail, as you may have guessed! I couldn't help but read a page (or two, or more) instead of keeping it straight to anatomy, and it's oh so good!
Thank you Jo for being so awesome!!!
 

Then I have some eggs . Home eggs, eggs and granny's, and street eggs. The first photo was taken after the first battle round, so the number of eggs is quite low compared to what it used to be. My battle egg was green with dots, and I had all chances to make it for a win, but you know what happened? Mom dropped it while packing the eggs we were going to take to grandma's to continue the fight there. That's a conspiracy!!  So anyway, there were no real winners as all the eggs broke. but it has a good side too, because it's really sad when you just whant to eat some eggs and yours all refuse to break! XD
 
 In the end I went on fighting with the purple doted egg

 








 
And now how about a very outdated phopo, featuring the tree I put my martenichki on, it was just a month ago, and right next to the zoo. I can recognize some of mine, but I can describe them only with "that red and white ones"and I don't think this will help you spotting them. I usually prefer  the pink of white trees, but first is first, so this year it's yellow

And now something more interesting, how about an add on to the giveaway? Just navy aida and some fancy pins. There are for days left if you're interested in enetering, you can do so here!



And what I have left... oh yeah, the Tusal piccy!


 
It's Daffycat is who's hosting thispiece of awesome useless fun, o you can alway visit her for more info!

Bookmarks!

My bookmarks officially arrived! *happy dance all around* Maybe you've seen them already at Tiki Stitches,and if not, you should still head that way, because her photo is way better than mine. The patterns are, one again, from "the wonderful world of sprites designed by Dork Stitch"
as Tiki says there, I really like the sound of it! So here are my gloomy photos, taken just before the package went at the post at the Uni corridor on my Repetitorium

I made some experiments with decoupage doing these, and I think they turned rather good!

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Книгоразделителчетата ми най-сетне пристигнаха и вече без всякакви угризения, че ще разваял изненадата, мога да ги покажа. Отне им месец и половина да стигнат (язък за мартеничките. Аз вече мартеници ще пращам с коледната поща) но много много се радвам, че не се бяха загубили.
Тези книгоразделители пристигнаха у Даян от Tiki Stitches, и тъй като нейните снимки са по-добри от моите, препоръчвам посещение и там. Моите снимки са правени в коридора на университета, малко преди да отпътуват, поради липса на по-добър фон - върху Репетиториума (= официални записки за тройка по анатомия, ама аз и толкова не мога да си напълня в главата). А схемичките са естествено от Dork Stitch :)
С тези книгоразделители на воля си поиграх с декупаж. Всеки е минат с тази техника. Последните два са магнитни, розовият беше планиран като филцов, ама.. не ми хареса как стана и в последния момент го направих и него на магнитче. Тези са малко по усъвършенствани от магнитния със Сиел, защото намалих броя на слоевете.

Благодаря на тези, които се записаха за кендито! Време има още доста, така че ако на някой му се прииска - тук ще го чака да се кендито до 30ти. Ако за някого не сработи приставката, а иска да се запише - нека да пусне мейлче или коментар, и аз ще го впиша :) Повечето, които коментираха за това каква наградка да ушия, се спряха на полезния вариант и избраха книжка за игли. Важите желания са винаги закон, а този път ще съм и законопослушна - схемата е избрана и се шие и с малко повече късмет до края на великденската почивка ще е готова.

А такам... някой случайно да е зарибен по Шерлок? А да си мисли, че от Бенедикт Къмбърбач би излязъл стахотен Доктор?
Я поггледнете картинките по-долу :))))
Сега какво ще кажете?
Шерлок е по Фокс Крайм, Доктор Кой май по AXN :D


Thanks for everyone who signed up for the giveaway so far! You have plenty of time still, so anytime you decide to join in, or to add and extra entry, you can do it -> here! If you have a problem with the widget, say it in the comment or mail and I'll add you manually from my side. And thank you for all the comments you've left! Lol I didn't mean you had to leave me full dinner report , although it was awesome to read them! Most of you voted for the Useful type, so it's set in stine now - it wll be a needlecase. Pattern picked and stitching, I hope to show it to you after the Easter break, that to say after Monday.
I got home for the Easter yesterday, and it seems I have a mystery package to collect from the post! But with the days out it will have to wait till the end of the holiday.. aww the anticipation! XD I don't know what it is, but the only thing from the international mail that I'm waiting for is a set of stickers from GetGlue. Do you know this site? I found it like a month ago, and I'm getting addicted to it! It something like.. oh well I'd say Twitter for movies and games and books, but I don't like Twitter, so! You can check in everytime you watch/read/do something and you can gather stickers which is pretty fun - and they can mail the real sopies to you!
View Topcho's check-ins on GetGlue

It's kinda scary to gather all the things in one place - when the heck I started watching all of these?!?

View Topcho's stickers on GetGlue

And as you can win stickers by watching trailers too, now I have so many titles in my wanna watch list!

The last thing that got me is Sherlock! I'm loveng this show, but I just can't help expecting to see the Tardis around the corner!
Ok, seriously, I want Benedict Cumberbact as the next Doctor.
Not that I don't like Math Smith, just
just...
And it goes well with the wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff!
Ok, you see where I'm going, right?
Look, there's a ginger version! The Doctor wanted to be ginger, right, so how about this?
And the 2 show are made by the same people, more or less, os pretty pretty pleeeaase?
Btw someone watched the DW new trailer? All looks cool but no River Song, at least in what I watched!
Ok, let's stop with the fangirlshipping. I hope you have a nice sunny weekend, Easter or not! Tomorrow we'll be painting the eggs, and if they look good I'll snap a photo :D

Giveaway time!

As promised, I took the photo, and knowing my skills (or the lack of skills) I think it's bearable!
I have planned to do a giveaway "justbecause" for some time now, but as I hit the 100 number, I decided to speed things a little - so now I'm showing you what I had for now, but I'll be adding more, first I want to stitch something for the winner, and second, add some more stuff, I have my eye on some beads for example, but whatever draws my attention. I want
So for now we have
2 squares of patterned felt
2 Forever Friends ribbons
threads
18 count navy aida
decorative pins
needlebook

How to enter
Use the widget below and check in for as many enties as you want. You can win max of 5 entries:
You get 1 entry for saying you want to participate - this first button unlocks the other possibilities
1 entry if you're a follower - with your blog, or by email, both count. The "follow by email isjust under the Follower widget on the left
1 entry if you post about this on you blog or wherever you like. It may ask you for link on this step. Just post the link on the blogpost where you mentioned it, or your home page address but only if it's posted on your sidebar
and 2 enties - just with one blog comment (cause it's on sale!). Tell me how you found my place on the internet, and say something about yourself. What do you like to stitch, what series do you follow, what book are you reading right now, what you had for dinner last night - as you wish! This option takes some thinking and writing, that's why you got two entries for this.
The giveaway will be running from now till the end of the month - plenty of time for you to enter. Yup, it's so much because I'm slow and I need to finish the stitchy thing!

I hope everything goes well with the Rafflecopter, I used it to enter giveaways on other blogs and it's very nice and simple to use. the reason why I'm using this way instead of the more traditional is (not because I want to make things harder) because of all the blogger changes that in my opinion made the communication between blogs and platforms more difficult and made many people lock their comment sections for users without blogger accounts. I don't know if there will be people like this wanting to enter, I just want to make it possible, just in case.


Now, one more question! What kind of a stitched item you would like to recieve? Something soft and stuffed like a little pillow or a biscornu? Something flat like and ornament or a flatfold? Something useful like scissor/needle case? Or something else? I'm curious to hear. I'll probably sit and stitch it this Easter weekend so for this you have time till like Thursday to say. I can't promise that the winner will get what we voted for tho, as she'll be picked after the item is finished.

Hmm this is it for now I think! Have fun and if there's something comment or mail me :)

Wipocalypse April

First, happy Easter to everyone whose Easter is today, happy Palm Sunday to everyone who is celebrating Easter next week, best wishes to everyone with flower names (I'm not sure if this is legit in other countries) late wishes to all medical workers for yesterday and hmm happy weekend to everyone who is not celebrating anything! A non- work day is alway worth the celebration. Unless you happen to be on work today. Then you poor poor thing deserve a big hug :(
Soo, with the way my Themalicious March went, you probably saw how most of the project on my Wipocalypse list

Storykeeper
One sheep open sleigh
Spring in Japan
Steam punk fairy
and the Hogfather

Lucky for you however, this post is not going to be links only, as I managed tp put some beads on my fairy. This weekend there was a lot of Grimm watching involved, and here's the result of catching up to the latest episode:
Finishing the wing does not seem so far now! At least somewhere this month, I hope.
What else I wanted to say... oh yeah! That you're all awesome! I mean, 100 followers. when I logged in and saw it, it made me WOW. Even if the count was close for some time now, I wasn't expecting it, especially as when I last checked it the number was going down, not up! XD So you got me excited, I'm now going to try and take something-like-a-decent photo of the giveaway stash I've been gathering and prepare the next post (that with a tiny lil bit of luck should be later today) so stay tuned!
And have fun!
And visit Measi's blog to check out more WIPocalypse!

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Такам... честита Цветница, и честит имен ден на всички с цветни имена, честит Великден, на тези, които го празнуват днес, на патерици честит празник на всички медицински работници, които празнуваха вчера, а на тези, които днес нищо не празнуват - честита неделя! Почивен ден, то не е ли за празнуване :D

Петък беше и дата за Уипокалпис на блога на Measi, аз обаче покрай Темалишъса предната седмица, показах почти всичко по списъка за Уипокалипса. Единственото ново, което имам да покажа, е прогреса на мънистената фея. Този уикенд имаше нещо като маратон по гледане на Грим, а това винаги е свързано с малко или повече пошийване, та ето го горе резултата. Вижда се края на етапчето, което си поставих за завършване - роклята и крилата.

Когато се логнах да пиша този пост днес - ме посрещна изключително приятна и неочаквана изненада - 100 читателя! Въпреки че броят им от доста време беше близко, не го очаквах, защото последно като проверих, имаше по-скоро тенденция да върви надолу, а не нагоре! Благодаря на всички, които са решили, че това блогче си заслужава четенето. А сега, стискайте палци да се покаже малко слънчицето, че да направя една поне относително сносна снимка, и да направим едно блог кенди!

Theme-a-licious March check in

Where did this mad, mad March go? I wasn't even able to stitch on every Wipocalypse project as planned. But it still was pretty mad, all of it, so let's see what I've managed to do. You've already seen what I stitched this month on
One sheep open sleigh
Spring in Japan
Steam punk fairy
and the Hogfather

Since then I worked a little on the Storykeeper. As I initially stopped working in that before finishing the page due to lack of threads that I'm still missing, I just went up with the black a few rows
And I'm almost there with the beaded dress of the fairy
I really wanted to work on TGE too, even picked it up, but in the end didn't find the time before the end of the month (and after the start of the next if I have to be honest). But still. only one missing, I think I was a good mad bunny this month, as I prefer bunnies to basketball (check origins of madness on It's Geek to me!)

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И пак е време за отчет по Темалишъс. За миналия месец темата беше Мартенска лудост, към която аз се включих с намерението да пошия малко по всеки от проектите по Уипокалипса. По някои вече постнах прогреса по-рано, това са
Oвчата шейна
Японска пролет
Стиймпънк феята
и Дядо Прас

След тях поработих малко върху Пазителката на истории, но само с черното нагоре във втората страница, тъй като ми липсват цветовете да завърша първата. С Аметистената фея имам малко повече прогрес като роклята и е почти завършена.
For this month it's
Amazon April

Dip your needle into the vast swath of fabric dedicated to your BIGGEST projects!

Right now I have a few projects I consider big, but as I don't want to ruin my puny try for rotation, I will stick with the Amethyst fairy as planned and if I finish the part I want to before the end of the month, I will pick my other fairy which is def my biggest project right now.

I hope you had a nice and stitchy March and even a better April!

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Темата за април е "Амазония" като привиква да се спуснеш из дебрите на най-големите си проекти. Аз имам няколко в момента, които считам за големи, но тъй като не ми се ще да провалям и бездруго жалкия си опит за ротация, засега си оставам на мънистената фея, а ако успея да и завърша частта преди края на месеца, ще се прехвърля на другата фея, която наистина е най-големият ми проект за момента.

Надявам се всички да се имали успешен и приятен март, и да ви очаква даже по-хубав април :))

TBR checkpoint

Hi everyone! I planned to post this the weekend, but I spotted the time limit for the checkpoint and didn't want to risk and miss it, so here I go - first checkpoint for the TBR challenge hosted my Bev of My reader's block. Here's what I read since the beginning of the year that counts to this challenge
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Смятах да поствам това през уикенда, но днес видях, че крайният срок за това е на 31, да - то си е уикенда - но за да избегна всеки шанс да пропусна, направо си поствам сега. И та така - ето го докладът за TBR предизвикателството (книги, купени или получени преди началото на 2012)

• Dark Days - Derek Landy (03.01.2012)/ Скълдъгъри Плезънт: Мрачни дни - Дерек Ланди
  
• Less Angel - Zotov (05.01.2012)/Епидемия в рая - Zotov
• Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan (07.01.2012)/ Синът на Нептун - Рик Риърдън
• Fragile things - Neil Gaiman (21.01.2012)/ Чупливи неща - Нийл Геймън
• Flyte - Angie Sage (09.02.2012)/ Полет - Анджи Сейдж
• Physik - Angie Sage (17.03.2012)/ Лечение - Анджи Сейдж

So this makes 6 of 12, half way to my mountain's top. Hmm what else to say.. it's pretty obvious that when shopping for books last year I armed myself with quite some ya series. here we have the Skulduggery Pleasent 4th book that was in cutest purple and gave us some curious hints about some of the characters'past and future, the 2nd book of Rick Riordan's new Greek Gods series that finally reveals what's going on with Percy, gives us cool new characters, an option for a little love drama in the final book, book-loving harpie and bloody sacrfices of plushie animals. Ok, maybe not bloody, but still there's drama. And I fought my way through the second and third Septimus Heap books. When I accused my mom that she was leaving these books on a pile, she said that given the name of the character, it's only natural. This series is going slower than I thought, even if it's very interesting and from chapter to chapter you don't know where you're going.
That's for the YA. We then have Zotov's Less Angel that followed the first More demon (or Minus angel and Plus Demon. Here the titles were Elexir in Hell and Epidemy in Heaven) that continues the adventures of our brave Kalashnikov and his right hand who after investigating a serie of soul murders in hell in the first book now have to check what's going on in Heaven and why are angels disappearing. This is the book that has been in my TBR pile for the longest time. A little more than an year - not that much but still the longest. It couldn't grab me like the first volume did and I read it little by little with long pauses, but in the end it awarded me with a happy ending and an awww scene when Kalashnikov met his wife.
And finally, the Fragile things selection of short stores by Neil Gaiman, that also goes to the Horror/triller challenge, so I'll have to make a review some time soon - stay tooned I guess!

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И така, от този списък какво може да се заключи... че перди началото на годината съм се запасила със стабилно количество многотомни серии от щанда за младежка литература. Имаме четвъртия том от Скълдъгъри Плезънт, който беше в очарователен лилав цвят, и който ни поднесе някои любопитни нещица относно миналото и бъдещето на героите, които трябва да се разяснят в следващата част. А после и втората част от новата поредица на Рик Риърдън за гръцките богове, в която Пърси най-накрая се завръща, придружен от книголюбива харпия и интересни нови полубогове. Освен това книгата предоставя лек потенциал за романтичен конфликт, ама не колкото да те разсее от факта, че накрая харпията и циклопът се залюбиха, и всъщност наистина са сладка двойка. Има и ритуални жертвоприношения на плюшки.
А после имаме и втори и трети том от поредицата за Септимъс Хийп, която въпреки че е много интересна, ми върви по-баво от очакваното, не знам защо. А наистина си е интересна, и от глава на глава не знаеш какво ще се случи и накъде ще те поведе.
Следващото, макар и вече не от втория етаж на Хеликона (т.е. детската и юношеска литература), пак е продължение - Епидемия в рая продължава детективските разследвания на Калашников и дясната му ръка (и ляв пантоф - това от коя книга беше?) Малинин. След като разкриват серията убийства на души в ада, те са пратени на командировка в рая, за да разберат кой стои зад мистериозните изчезвания на ангели. Тази книга ми стоя най-дълго на купчето. Не можа да ме хване като предшественичката си, все я взимах и оставях само след няколко прочетени страници. Пак, не че не беше интересна. Има си кримка, има си сатира, а накрая за моя радост и хепи енд - Малинит откри как да внася нелегално в рая алкохол, а на Калашников разрешиха да се види с жена си.
И последно имаме Чупливи неща на Нийл Геймън, но тъй като тази книга спада и към Хорър и трилър предизвикателството, и като такава и се полага отделно ревю.

But, since I'm making a TBR checkpoint, I thought why not check what's going on with all the other challenges?

For the Terry Pratchett challenge - I have no real progress to the books I set to read, although I did reread Night Watch. Does rewatching the Hogfather, starting to stitch him, and cooking one recepe from my Nanny Ogg cookbook count to this challenge?

Free reads challenge - 2 of 5 for now

The alphabet challenge - 11 of both alphabets, still different letters on some places, so that's interesting

Romance reading challenge - 2 0f 5 - reviews for these will follow

YA challenge - 5 of 12

Horror/thriller challenge - 1 of 5

Wodehouse challenge - 3 of probably 5

And in terms of total reads, my count says 18, including 5 Asterix comic books and 2 rereads. If you're interested in seeing all the titles, you may chack my total reading report

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Покрай подробния отчет за ТБР предизвикантелството си помислих - защо да не вметнем няколко думи и за останалите, като да не е без хич.
Относно Тери Пратчет предизвикателството по основната линия съм без напредък, но препрочетох Нощна стража. Също така гледах пак Дядо Прас, почнах да го шия даже, и направих една рецепта от готварската книга на леля Ог, по-точно картофени кюфтета по Ринсуиндски. Това брои ли се?

За предизвикателството Безплатни четива - 2 от 5

За Азбучното - 11 букви са покрити, независимо от коя азбука ги броим

Романтичното предизвикателство - 2 от 5 - и за тях ще трябва да направим ревюта или нещо подобно

Трилър и хорър предизвикателството - 1 от 5

Янг Адълт - юношеска литература - 5 от 12

Удхаус предизвикателството 3 от по всяка вероятност 5

И като цяло отчет - 17 книжни произведения, от тях обаче 5 книжки на Астерикс, и две препрочитания. А ако ви е интересно случайно кои са точните заглавия - пълният рапорт редовно се попълва тук

Challenges of varioius kinds

If your wonder what Tusal is, check at Daffycat's blog!


Aah, finally my Tusal! Well at least this time I found a nice jar instead that can to put the orts in. Not much new in here, as most of the orts this month went in the other town jar.

Now, on the other stuff. Hmm I know, I know, I'm a bad bad person, but it's so addivtive you know. Any of this I can do without changing my reading habbits and the books I planned to read; and without going out of my comfort zone - except for the King books, but then again, that was planned anyway. And actually, I can probably do all my challenges, just with the books I already have in my possesion. Sadly, I can't promise I can go on without adding new titles to my ever growing TBR pile. Like, I really want to buy The Hunger games, but... aah whatever.
But before that, I actually completed one challenge, you know! It's not exactly a reading challenge, but it's word realted - it's the Word Dynamo challenge! I'm not that hopeless, you see! It's site that counts the number of words you know, based on how you do various mini themed tests. And with levels you're becoming from screw to dynamo. Thank godness I didn't have to pass the test to explain the meanings of all the 20 so levels, because that would be an epic fail. There are tests not included in the challenge and I'll probably go on, just to make it at least 40 000


Nooow on to the bad girl part.
Here is what I got:
The rules of the Romance reading chalenge, hosted by Thebookworm blog are to read 5 romantic novels between January 1st and December 31st. As long as the there's romance between the 2 main character, it counts; rereads are also welcome (so good for me, because I reread Sence and Sensibility, after the movie bable that was inevitable!). Aaand book reviews are expected

Then we have...

The YA reading challenge by the Eclectic Bookshelf (btw - if someone is doing this, or have more info on if this blog is still active, if it had moved or wahtever, is welcomed to share)

I'm joining at the lowest level, The Mini YA Reading Challenge – Read 12 Young Adult novels.

Aaand after this we have
The Horror0 Thriller challenge, hosted by Sweeping me. I had one teen horror book for my bday, 2 S Kings waiting for I don't now how long - ok now, I'm not a fan of his. I don't mind horror, nor I think he's not a good author, I just don't like his style. But there are some books that are so well known that if you don't read them for yourslef, you'll feel like a bad, bad reader.
This challenge's lowest level is 01-10 – Carousel. I plan to set it for myself on 5 books and get on the Carousel

And why not a


This a Wodehouse, what do you expect me to do, just pass on?!? It's hosted by Andrea on Wodehouse Challenge. Her own plan is to read more or less everything Wodehouse and everyone else is welcomed to join woth their own plans and pace. I'll see what goals to set later

And now, my most favourite challenge of them all
READ YOUR OWN FREAKING TEXTBOOKS reading challenge.
I'm hosting it....

The Romance and the Horror challenge say that book reviews are a must. I haven't decided yet wether I'm going to post the book reviews here or on Shelfari (so if you really are against book reviews on a crafty blog, better speak now.) I will probably write the ones for the finished books since the beginning of the year that fit these the next weekend. Also I may do a reading wrap up post, as the TBR challenge said to stay tuned in March. Hmm if I make it through with the books I have planned for the Horror challenge, I will be done as well with that one Stephen King one.. but begone, begone you demons of challenges!

Hmm that's all I think. Oh and thank you all for the wonderful comments amd sorry I'm such a bad replier. The purple fabric is hand dyed and I received it as a giveaway present years ago. I call it my snowman fabric because snowmen are just perfect on it.

And let's make a Brandon fanclub! XD

I have some craftings to show from last week and non crafty weekend stuff, but that will have to wait, because now I plan to work on my last challenge