Christmas

Hello, my dear readers, lovely followers and kind visitors! Thank you so much for leaving your warm and kind massages for me :o) I`m so touched, lovely ladies! Sorry for my outing of blogging. I`m really miss you all! There were some reasons for being off line. First of all I changed my apartment and I`ve spend about a month for moving :0) and right now I`m repairing my( not main, but only for rent) new apartment. So it was a time without any internet in my life but very busy. Hope to finish all my repairing stories soon :o)
And first of all I want to ask you "How are you doing? " Hope all of you are well and have a really great and sweet time right now :o) Sadly I was not able even to read your lovely blogs, but will visit you soon to find a lot of great ideas, sweet massages and cute pictures. I promise ;o)
Warmest and best wishes to you my dears for this Christmas with love from all my heart. Wishing to you a lot of happiness, fun and joy :o) Some pictures for you (Christmas 2011):

Wishing you have a *** Magical Christmas ***
With lot of love from Russia
Natasha

Photography in manual mode and nice award

Hello, lovelies! How are you? Hope you all are well and have a nice start of the week :o) Here in Moscow a bit cold and we`re expected snow this week. So we`ll need some scarfs, hot tea with large small piece of baking and more lighting during the dark season. But I do love this time. And the most important reason to love this season is... preparations for Christmas! So magic time!!! For me it`s the most joyful part of the year :o) Lovely lightings, yummy dishes, handmade decorations, homemade sweets, festive and bright wrapping, lot of brilliant ideas... and so much job full of joy and fun :o) And what about you? What do you think?
I`m already started my preparations for Christmas. I want to make a great pics of my Christmas tree, of my kids and of my Christmas makes, of course :o) So I start to learn more about photography in manual mode. And the best way to make it - is practise. Here they are some pictures in manual mode again:

ISO 800   f5,6   1/2000

ISO 800  f8  1/800

ISO 800  f8  1/800

ISO 800  f5,6  1/2000

ISO 800  f10  1/800

ISO 800  f6,3  1/640

ISO 800  f5,6  1/500

ISO 800  f5,6  1/2000

ISO 800  f5,6  1/200

ISO 800  f5,6  1/100

ISO 1600  f5,6  1/100

ISO 1600  f5,6  1/100

ISO 800  f5,6  1/125

Nice news!!! I was awarded by sweet Angelica at Decora y Adora with Versatile Blogger Award! Thank you so much Angelica :o)

And the difficult part is choose some blogs I love to pass the award. Here are some of them:

Het Bloeiende Buitenleven

Blue Hortensia

Crafted by Carly

HATTATT

An English Travel Writer

Raindrops and Daisies

Riet`s Photoblog

Tangled Sweetpea

Sky-blu-pink

Helen Philipps

homemade@myplace
Audrey Finch
Knitsofacto
Heart and Soul
Maria Glazacheva

But there are much more blogs I love and I`d like to award :o) If you`re not in list, please don`t be upset. It will be another award and more blogs I love ;o)

Thank you for reading, for leaving your nice messages and for following me too :o)
Very warm welcome to my new followers Annie at Knitsofacto and Gracy at Casa Coisas e Cia :o)
Wishing you all the best for this week my dear friends
Love
Natasha

Autumn

Hello, dear friends
In my part of world comes deep yellow Autumn. It`s cold now in Moscow by this time of year and no sun, but still beautiful. Nature is the best picture in any season, isn`t it? Hope your week goes well and autumn brighten your days :o)
This time I`ve tried a new cam setting - all manual. And I found this setting much better than Auto/Middle auto ones. What do you think? Some pictures for you:

Last flowers at my Balcony Garden. Cornflowers are still fresh and bright :o)

Thank you so much for stopping by, for reading and for leaving your kind comments. I love to read your sweet messages :o)
And very warm welcome to my new follower Eugenia at Orvalho e Geada :o)
Wonderful autumn to you all
love
Natasha