June is here...

...unbelievably so...
May and June are the most hectic months for me because schools end and there is so much to do and usually I have to do lots at home too and with the Drama club as well.
This year it is even more hectic for various reasons that I will share later in June!
For the time being here is a blogpost about what I did all last week!
First I made a dessert with cream cheese, creme fresh and jello!It wasn't the best one could make! Especially when all the jello ended up in the fridge and on my shoes!But it was tasty!

 We had some when we gathered with my crafty group friends to make some handmade beaded things...

I also had coffee at Koumbi coffee and crafts cafe with Anna of In my closet and Maro of Akamatra blog from Athens!It was great meeting Maro and putting a face to a blog one reads!She is such a sweet girl!

Here's something a made for Maro, one of my stones.

And here is something she gave me. She makes lovely things you can see in her etsy shop.

A visit to Tiger is always a must when one meets crafty friends!

Also this week I managed to solve the stitch enigma from the Grey Tail blog although I wasn't fast enough as I didn't wake up early enough. I came fourth but I am proud I have managed to solve two consecutive enigmas on dear Chiara's blog.

This week we had a rehearsal with the Drama club after quite a long time.
Here are a couple of photos I took at the area near our rehearsal school.

Inside the school there was an exhibition of old school books and fairy tales! I loved it!

Finally we spent the long weekend at the beach house cleaning and gardening!
Also looking at the beauty around us!

 No, we didn't swim as the water was too cold!

Barca enjoyed the garden.

Have a nice month everyone!

Biennale 4

While waiting for certain things to happen of which I will talk later in  a blog post this week, I took a bit of time away and visited this Biennale 4 of Contemporary Art in my city.It is taking place at Yeni Cami, the old New Mosque in my neighbourhood. It was surprisingly pleasant especially the video installation by Rosana Palazyan from Brazil which showed the story of her Armenian ancestors in embroidery.It was touching.I tried to find more info about her and probably a way to contact her but was unable to. Unfortunately there was no way to take a picture.
I was also impressed by this installation by Gal Weinstein from Israel.It is named Fire Tire and is made out of rubber and cotton.

 And there is a photo exhibition too and more video installations. All that in the impressive New Mosque till January the 31st.You can also see other Biennale exhibitions all over the city in other veues. I hope I will see some more soon.

Hubby and I also visited a book exhibition outside the grounds of the International Trade Fair but once again we were disappointed. Although there are thousands of books most are outdated, boring and not the type of books we read.

Here are a couple of photos from the walk at the park we did with the school last week.

 Finally a couple of photos from last week's sky that again caused controversy about what we are being sprayed with!

Weekends

Dear friends,
thank you for reading along and for your comments. Today this is probably my preultimate post before my leaving for holidays so it is rather heavy in pictures.
Since April when at last the weather started getting better we have enjoyed our weekends a lot.
Here are a couple of photos from them...
a weekend at the beach in the end of April...
enjoying eating just the two of us...

and collecting some sea glass...

...an afternoon at Vafopouleion Institute to see a Karaghiozis Art Exhibition in May...

...and an art exhibition at the same building...

I loved those spring paintings.
... a Saturday morning at the antique market n June...

 I bought very cheap this cross stitch piece...

 and this old frame with a school prize from 1951. This I will donate to the Education Museum.

 And on the way back I found these crochet beauties on the sidewalk! Hubby was angry and felt embarassed because I collected them but wouldn't it be a pity to leave them there? They need better pictures I know.

...a Sunday morning walk at the sea front promenade where a book exhibition was taking place...

I didn't buy any books as I didn't find anything interesting apart from those glass Karaghiozis figures which we couldn't afford,
but I loved looking at the water lily pond...

and spotting this red dragonfly made me really happy!

 ...walking back home I loved that wall graffitti with the fish. I would love one like that on my summer house wall.

 ...and one more weekend at our summer house...
watching the sunrise early in the morning...

watching a little kid playing at the beach...

watching insects...

 looking at, touching, smelling, collecting, eating fruit from our trees...

...and a couple of days ago attending a shadow puppet performance by Giannis Chatzis, a very good local shadow pupeteer,at Kapantzi Villa. The play was about Las Incantadas, a collection of statues that were stolen from Thessaloniki and are in the Louvre now.

I know I could have made lots of different blogposts out of all these events I talked to you about but since I won't be blogging from now on and for a while due to holidays I wanted to tell you all about them now.I hope you too have enjoyed your weekends in spring and will continue in summer!