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Feeding my addiction — MtG

Monika — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:00:53 +0000

One of my little not-so-serious hobbies — Magic: the Gathering (a collectible card game).

This is my home-made MtG playing table – with a help of several more-serious-than-me MtG players it has happened and now the table has gone to our local hobby shop D6 as a gift.

Pink is for Kęstas

Monika — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:50:23 +0000

it’s still winter winter winter. the time of gifts.

Monika — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:10:01 +0000

Finally. All my winter season presents are delivered. Yes, it took a while. And now it’s time to share them.

Colorful lights

Monika — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:42:30 +0000

My New Year started with home-made glass lanterns…

Love to you all, have a good year,

Creating fairytales

Monika — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:35:22 +0000

If the world was mine
I’d paint it gold and green
I’d make the oceans orange for a brilliant color scheme
I would color all the mountains, make the sky forever blue
So the world would be a painting and I’d live inside with you
If the world was mine
I’d tell you what I’d do
I’d wrap the world in ribbons and then give it all to you
I’d teach the birds such lovely words and make them sing for you
I’d put those stars right in a jar…and……….
give them all…to you…….

Lyrics: Melody Gardot

Photos and ideas: Ann Wood

Making postcards

Monika — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:53:54 +0000

I love my friends. But sometimes my friends tend to come up with some crazy ideas such as going far far away from me. And then I make postcards. This one is for Laura.

Midsummer’s Night Dream

Monika — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:40:23 +0000

This smell of rain…

White roses, candlelight and fragrant smoke of incense remind me of my last summer’s nights and wonderful xxxHolic.

The only thing that I’m missing is a lot butterflies (yes, xxxHolic was the first reason for my little obsession with them). And this time they are small and delicate, and this time I make them myself.

(If you’d like to make one yourself you may found out how to right here.)

As much as I am Yuuko, the two of them are nothing else but gifts. Gift giving is something very close to granting wishes. Sometimes it’s the same.

May your wish be granted.

Candy mountain

Monika — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:29:07 +0000

It took me five days, four supermarkets and two ruined milk chocolate bars to make these… But it was totally worth it: the taste is wonderful. Home-made Bounty.

And I just love making candy wrappers by myself .

Thanks to Jule for the recipe (I hope one day she will post it on Kepykla nr. 5)

Project “Hell Kiss” closet

Monika — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:47:47 +0000

You’ll need:

1. An idea (ex.: “Steps to Paradise” )

2. A space for creation (ex.: a small closet with monochromatic walls)

3. Equipment (some brushes, spray paint, some trafarets)

4. A friend (to make it all more fun)

5. Imagination

And here we go…

Cause “everybody wants to go to Japan”

Monika — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:17:10 +0000

Listening to CocoRosie this evening and taking my very first steps in learning Japanese with the help of two wonderful blogs: Japanese lessons and Kanji. I’ve made myself a notebook cover with sakura – it’s more fun this way. Let’s start counting days till I will be able to read my manga from Kyoto.