I made a decision to change one thing here: I’m going to share my 365’s right after the completion of a week, which happens in the middle of workdays.

I love crafting for my kids. My mother says, I’m indulging them. She says that they don’t appreciate my work enough. I think it’s not valuing that is important, but what my kids feel when they get a handmade gift from me. And I know they feel my love.

Veronica had a desire to bring her Winx doll to the kindergarten, but the doll couldn’t go outside in that cold in her super-light fairy dress. I volunteered to help Veronica and provide her doll warm cosy leggings and a modern top to complete the outfit.

So today I’m going to share here a tutorial how to sew a modern outfit for a fashion doll from scraps (or old baby clothes) without any pattern.

I think I’ve already mentioned it once or twice here: I’m not a religious person. That’s why Easter is and isn’t celebrated in our place simultaneously. Things get even more complicated because our country provides us 4 days of official holidays on Catholic Easter, and we kind of belong to Russian Orthodox Church. I do like the brightness and freshness of the Easter colours, and the traditions of it are too kids-friendly to skip those, but still it’s more like a spring welcome for me than a holiday. And despite the fact that there was no spring yet around to welcome, I took a little break from writing (but not taking pictures) and threw myself into fancying my home and crafting.

Now that Easter is just around the corner, I’m very excited to share with you a one year old pattern, that haven’t been translated in English up until now! And I have even more good news — I’ve been working on designing and polishing the layout of PDF’s for my patterns through the past month to make printing those easier, and I’m finally ready to show the result! This means that not only you can use the pattern, you can also easily save it and print!

Here is the link to the renewed pattern on my blog.

Download and Print the PDF (A4)

There are days when we feel totally uninspired. Either it’s the fault of spring rains and puddles under your feet, or it’s because your kid is sick (yet again). Or maybe it’s none of that. Maybe it’s just your mundane routine that got you bored. You start your creative work, and you feel like you’ll definitely going to end up with nothing decent again.

The idea was to share inspirational some spring pictures without much talking, while I’m working on a few pretty long posts. But somehow these look more weird than cheerful and inspiring, don’t they? Yep, I have some odd decoration in my place, but believe me, those doesn’t look so gloomy in the real life.

I had one more photo shoot these days. I had been asked (yippee!!) to take some pictures of a little girl. Of course, I agreed immediately! I grab any opportunity to practise with the remark that I do it for free, as I can’t ensure nor the quality neither the quantity of the resulting images yet.