Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romania. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Easter decorations

Unlike previous years that we went to the beach house for the whole of the holidays certain things (the weather among them) kept us in the city this year!
Therefore I cleaned up, and decorated with my collection of Easter eggs.
Here are some photos.
My mum's embroidered Easter cloth.

 And some close ups.
I made this collection of animal Easter eggs many many years ago when my son was five, during our first Easter together after my divorce! We tried to have fun and it was so great to make them. The eggs were store bought dyed in various colours and I think I had found the patterns in a Marie Claire Idees magazine.

I hang some eggs bought in Prague from branches I collected at a walk.
The Indian girl.
 Blown glass.




 Two huge ostrich eggs from Africa.
Marabeth's glass egg(painted from the inside) in AtelierStella vase (I had won in a giveaway) and two Romanian eggs.

 Some of the eggs I have made during the past years at Easter. And some given to me as gifts.
 Candle eggs inside candle holders.
 The bird I was given this Christmas by a pupil inside a crocheted basket given to me by another pupil next to Margie's of Resurrection fern stone.
 My aunt's hen next to the porcelain candle holder I bought at Nafplio this Christmas.
 Wooden eggs from Romania along with a wooden ladybug from Prague inside a basket by my best friend next to a bunch of beautiful fabric bunnies bought at the Orphanage Melissa bazaar this Easter.
 Tomorrow I will be dyeing this year's Easter eggs.

Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Serbia-Romania

Don't ask me why I didn't write anything about this trip we did back in April with the Teachers' Association.
It was a good trip but I wasn't really impressed. And as we spent so many hours inside the bus (which had very narrow seats) I felt very opressed. Still now that I see the photos I realise we had fun and saw interesting places.
I took more than 500 photos so I will only share a few.
All the way to Belgrade the scenery was fantastic.
 The view from our hotel.
 First day bus tour. Bombarded buildings from the NATO bombing in 1999.
 Saint Savas Church. Impressive!
 The view of the river from the Kalemegdan Fortress.




 Nebojsa Tower where Rigas Feraios was killed.




 Lunch at Zemun.
 The notorious Karajorjeva.
 Cruising Sava River.

 Smederevo Fortress



 Acting a scene of our play even there!
 In Romania at Timisoara.

 Meat and the famous Easter eggs.(Pysanka)

 My beloved Romanian Pottery.
 At the monasteries Velika Remeta and Krusedol.






 Sremski Karlovci, a tiny picturesque town.

 Novi Sad


 Nis
 We didn't want to spend much so we only bought some local snacks.....
 a handmade icon for my mum at Dzep....
 and a book and some fridge magnets. Also this lovely Romanian vase. Prices are exceptionally low both in Serbia and Romania!