Waiting for Spring

Yesterday I bought some flowers for my Home and made a simple bouquet with them :o) It`s was first time when I bought the flowers without any reason! And they make me smile :o) They are so beautiful! It`s so good to have a little spring at Home while outside is cold winter!

Thank you for reading and for your nice comments :o) Hope you liked my pictures.
Warmest wishes from Russia
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Natasha

Frost

Hello! How are you? Had some fun last weekend? Hope a lot :o) In Moscow today is very cold -12 dgr C! And the frost drew on my window such a beautiful ornaments :o) Look!

What do you think? Beautiful, isn`t it?

Thank you for stopping by my blog, for reading and for your kind comments that make me so happy :o)

Warmest wishes to all of you from Russia

Natasha

Candied Orange Peels (source Calabria from Scratch)

Hi! What a lovely sunny day we have here in Moscow! And I feel that spring is close :o), but in Russia we steel have a lot of snow by now.
Ooh, yes, and what about candied orange peels? I made them for Christmas :o) and it was such a treat. Yummy-yummy-yum! :o)



  Cut the peel of oranges into strips about one inch. Boil them for two minutes five times (every time use cold  & fresh water). After the third blanching remove the white pith. After the five times boiling make the simple syrup with 4 cups of sugar, 2 cups of water and 2 tblsp. of lemon juice. Add the peels and cook until the peels look glassy ad translucent (about an hour). Remove from the heat and let them cool in the syrup over night.

 Next morning remove the excess syrup with your fingers and let the peels dry about 24 hours

 Coat them with the sugar :o)

All instructions are HERE at Calabria from Scratch (VIDEO)
Hope all of you are fine and I wish you all the best :o)
Hugs from Russia
Natasha

GIVEAWAY!!!

SORRY, CLOSED
Hello and Welcome! Today is a GIVEAWAY DAY!!! And today`s giveaway is a set of two crocheted doilies made by me with love. Two handmade doilies made from 100% cotton with diameter 12-13 cm. with my own design.

To enter you need:
1.Follow my blog
2.Leave a comment on this post (please, write me your e-mail adress to let you know if you win)
Giveaway is open until February 10th. Everyone can participate, old and new followers. On the 11th of February one of my daughters will pick the winning number (only one winner). Winner will be announced immediatly via e-mail as well as post.
I would appreciate it if you would link my giveaway to your blog :o)
Thank you for stopping by and Good Luck!
Natasha

With Love

Hello! How are you? Hope all of you having very nice & crafty day with sweet people :o)
This time I want to share with you some pictures of  lovely cake that I baked some days ago.

I think this decoration tips are very simple & easy to make :o)

Warmest wishes from Russia

Natasha

My Gift from Notes of Sincerity

Hooray!!! Today I recived my beautiful gift from Trish. I`m already told you about she and about her cute stuff Notes of Sincerity. And here they are RED-RED siam earrings by Trish! They`re just SUPER CUTE! And were so well wrapped! Lovely! Isn`t it? Look!

Thank you Trish from all my heart! You are so sweet ;o)
Best wishes to all of you and thank you for stopping by my blog, for reading and for all your kind words that make me happy :o)
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Natasha

Russian Winter

Hello there! How are you doing? Hope having a nice day with nice people :o) Me too! At Moscow now we have such a beautiful weather with lot of snow & winter fun :o) But sometimes I miss summer & sun so much :o)

Warm wishes from Russia
Natasha

Very Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to my orthodox friends!!! In Russia we celebrate Christmas Day today :o) Orthodox  Christmas just started. And the Holy Night bring to me a very simple and very important things: Love, Trust and Hope. In my Family it`s a Great Day :o) and I love it like a child! Some festive pictures with best wishes from my Home to yours :o)

 Warm wishes from Russia.
Natasha & Fam.

Festive & Bright

Hello, Friends! How are you? Hope fine :o) Want to share with you some of my Christmas pictures :o) I made all these things with my kids. Easy-preasy to make with children a cotton pads garland & cotton snowball garland (my 5 y.o. son made some of them :o) Hope you like them.

With love from Russia
Natasha