red wine and olive trees

for a good start a few details...

little villages lost somwhere between clouds with angels flying around...

some cities between vineyards and cypresses...

...little fox strolling around...

this was our day in Goriška Brda!

It was long weekend. Very nice long weekend. The weather was blessing and it was the sunniest beginning of November I remember. We decided to have a little trip (I really like this nice custom of our little trips and I wish to continue that in the future also with our Little One). 

The time my Mum visit us in Slovenija (I wrote about that HERE) we wished to go to with her to Goriška Brda. Unfortunately because of thousand things we didn't manage to go. But the wish stays:) Goriška Brda is known as Slovenian Tuskany. I have never been in Tuskany before, so I have no comparison but I am in big doubts if Tuskany can be more beautiful than this what I saw last weekend... It was so, so impressive! 

I've fallen in love with that region and already found a house to buy and live in. My absolutely favourite is little village Šmartno. So tiny, so cute and so amazingly beautiful! Almost all houses are renovated and what is more, they are all renovated in one, orginal style! My art-restorer's heart was very happy, and for the first time I have nothing to complain about when it comes to renovations of bulidings ;-) And it is forbidden to build new houses- wow! Litte Šmartno is full of surprises and cute , hidden corners. We found a nice soap workshop- all soaps are hand-made from natural materials, all based on olive oil. We spent relaxing time on strolling around, making photos, admiring views, already planing our life in Šmartno, drinking good, red wine. I bought a olive liquer for my Love (birthday is coming:)

view from sveti Križ

 this small village in "my" Šmartno

old houses, old doors and those colours! ah...

Husband, sun, fresh air, good coffee, glas of red wine, olive trees, medieval streets, kaki and kiwi trees growing by a sidewalk... What to wish more? 

Cypresses...they are so powerfull. I love them. 

Especially the middle one ;)

I want that love

I want that love that moved the mountains.

I want that love that split the ocean. 

I want that love that made the winds tremble. 

I want that love that roared like thunder. 

I want that love that will raise the dead. 

I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. 

I want that love that is the silence of eternity

- Rumi-

nothing like...

Nothing like good book in good company and a cup of good coffee...

sometimes it's just too much...

sometimes it is just too much...

sketchbook

Some drawings from my sketchbook. Enjoy!

around the blue couch

The blue couch I've already mentioned here(click). 

We definetly didn't expeced that we will have our living room mostly in blue. For sure it wasn't our hidden plan to have the blue couch. When we moved to our tiny appartnemnt it has already been there.

THE COUCH. Huge, dark blue couch.

Now, we want this or not, IT is playing the most important role on the stage of our living room. 

And we have blue living room even if the only one blue thing is The Couch. 

A lot of things is happening around the blue couch. 

And it is nothing better then to fall asleep on the blue couch while watching Tarantino movie*. 

* I'm in doubt if the value of this moment is a matter of the blue couch. I rather think it depends on my Husband's arm under my head:)

“Everything in the universe is within you. 

Ask all from yourself.” 

― Rumi

Proud to be daughter of my Mum

Probably not all of you know that I was born in "a crazy artistic family". I mean - both of my parents are artist and they both finished Academy of Art in Wrocław, Poland. My Mother is a specialist from ceramics and a painter. And my father is a sculptor. So in true I have "no choice" when it comes to art - I was growing up among paint, brushes and clay...:-)

My Mum. 

She is a really a  g r e a t  painter.

And this what she is doing, she is doing with all her heart.

I am so pround of her! Her painting has changed a lot through years of working. Lately she gave a short interview about what she is currently doing. You can read it here (click).

The interview (to be precise they make kind of artice based on the interview) is in english so you sholudn't have problems:)

And also you could have a look on a few of her works. 

What Happens After What Was “Supposed To Be”

“Things didn’t work out because, well, greater things were in the works. It’s so difficult while we’re blind and hurting and don’t know which way is up. But, if you have faith in anything, have faith in the fact that the universe has a beautiful way of straightening things out far better than we ever could. You may not see it today or tomorrow, but you will look back in a few years and be absolutely perplexed and awed by how every little thing added up and brought you somewhere wonderful– or where you always wanted to be. You will be grateful that things didn’t work out the way you once wanted them to.

-What Happens After What Was “Supposed To Be”

tree outside the window

Sometimes in my life I feel like a real nomad. Lately with my Husband we were trying to count how many time we were moving from place to place. The result was: too many times. Only during my studies I moved every half of year. Not becaue I wished but mostly because the situation forced me to moving (crazy landlord, mold on the walls, too high expenses, etc). Not even talking about moving after 24 years from a "home-flat", or moving from Poland to Slovenija....

I have all reasons to feel like a nomad.

In that time I was leaving in very different places and areas. But they all have at least one thing in common- green nature outside the window. I did't appreciate that. I didn't know what a great blessing it is because I was so used to it. Green outside was just normal and obviosu for me.

Until I lived in very centre of the city where big and busy streets crossed... Happily I moved. Now I appreciate this little green square outside my window and a tree growing so near. 

It is so good to sit on my tiny balcony and drink coffee with green view. So much nicer then listenig to buses moving at at traffic lights.

Do It Yourself

Not so long ago I made a cleaning in my jewellery box. I found some pices which I like but I don't wear anymore. It was perfect ocassion to experiment and to change some old pieces into a new one:)
I made my own bracelet with a map of Ljubljana. 
It is really easy. All you need is some piece of jewellery you wish to change (I used quite big, wooden bracelet and earrings), a little bit of patience and:

What to do step by step:

• cut map into smaller pieces (I use an old city map of Ljubljana- the one you can get in tourist information). 
• with a brush apply glue on the surface of bracelet/earrings (I used non-toxic, all-purpose glue)
• glue pieces of the map  to the bracelet
• wait for glue to dry (I waited few hours to be sure it was completely dry)
• with your brush apply transparent varnish on the surfece of your new jewellery (I applied 3 layers of the varnish)
• wait that your new jewellery is dry
• enjoy wearing it! :-)

Here is how it looks before:

And here after:

european championship in basketball

Oh, it's almost ten days sice I wrote last time... 

Days are passing by so quickly lately. I have this strange feeing that it is some magical connction this year: December nearer the faster time passes. 

In Slovenija they use to say: happy December.

I have already experieced this special "happines" of slovenian December two years ago while moving to Ljubjana in a winter time. Unfortunately t h a t time it was maybe too hard to believe in happines. Luckily now I can clearly see that this was just a part of my Way to The Real Happines. Now I find this past Decmeber as a real blessing! 

All things are happening with a reason. Even if they are painful or if you are disappointed. But please believe - they have deep sense. 

And a great blessing is when you are able to see that, probably not immediately, but after time.

I was not going to write about past December and unhappines which turn into the bigest happines... I just realised that this year December is coming so fast, and onece again it is bringing big changes, and New Happines in my life. I can not wait. I feel it will be really happy Decemer in Slovenija this year!!!

Ok. Now you will ask: And what to hell has all that unhappines turning into happines with european championship in basketball from the title of this post???

Answer is simple: if "happy December" two year ago wouldn't be unhappy, probably I would not watch this basketball championship in the best company ever*.

*best company ever = my Husband

p.s. 

My Dear Readers with this picture I've started a new series of fast drawings which you will see from time to time on this blog. The series I can titled "around the blue couch". But this is story for next time ;)

coffee time

I've already wrote about mornings I like HERE. I do like mornings (even those raining like today). I so much like this moment when I can sit with a cup of hot coffee in my hands, with my eyes closed for a while, smelling this hot liquid and enjoy the moment... no metter when I am - in my kitchen, on the balcony, in the office... 

Slow down for a second. Just take your time and enjoy a cup of coffee...

Sunny Saturday

It is not a photomontage or photoshoped colours! 

It was really so incredibly beautifully!

Of course we hope that weather forecast is wrong and that summer will not end just like that. Oh, please not here - I am living on the South! (I am Polish so please understand the fact that Slovenija is already South for me:). 

Taking advantage of the sunny and really nice weather we went for a trip into the Unknown. The Unknown means Jezersko, a little village or rather a settlement in the north of Slovenija. None of us had been there before so we didn't know what to expect. 

It appeared that our choice was p e r f e c t!!!

We had amazing walk in nature, mountain air filled the lungs and in the end we found ourselves in the litte hut, a shelter and a home run by Davo Karničar(click)- a very famous Slovenian climber and extreme skier. We met with great hospitality and sense of humor of the owner. 

We ate delicious ajdovi žganci and drank yummy home-made joghurt. 

It was so great Saturday and amazing trip.

 Waiting for ajdovi žganci. Home-made and served by Davo Karničar :)

 Yummy, yummy in my tummy....Siesta after so simple and so delicous meal.

We know one thing for sure - we will go back there soon! 

the mornings I like

I like mornings. 

I like those lazy, Saturday mornings when we are slowly crawling out of the bed. I like those early mornings when alarm-clock is ringing without mercy and we are running around our flat in hurry. I like those summer mornings when the sun is peeking through blinds in our bedroom. I also like those autumn mornings when all world is covered with a sticky fog. I like those mornings when I have a detailed plan of action for all day, and I like those mornings without any particular plan. 

I like all those mornings with a cup of coffee in my hand:)