Natalia Glazacheva

Make a Wish

2014-02-07T15:28:00.001+04:00

Hello dear readers, sweet followers and lovely guests! Here in Moscow we have no sun, some snow and -6 dgr C, not very cold (past week -20 dgr C), but still no spring's signs. What about your part? I wish I could grow some plants this year :0) And your plans for the coming Spring?
I've realised some of my plans for the February :0) and feel so proud of myself :0) Some makes for my son and for my daughter's friend to share with you:

Close-up of the Flower Purse by Natalia Glazacheva

Handmade Card and Flower Purse by Natalia Glazacheva

Flower Purse by Natalia Glazacheva

Handmade Card by Natalia Glazacheva

Craft stuff by Natalia Glazacheva

Close-up of the decorative element for the wrapping by Natalia Glazacheva

MAKE A WISH!!!

Thank you SO MUCH for reading, leaving your kind messages to me and for following me as well. I'm SO GLAD you are here! All your comments to me are very important and they really make my day! THANK YOU!!! Sorry for being such a bad blogger, I don't have enough time to visit your lovely blogs and comment on your wonderful and interesting posts. Every time I'm trying to leave a comment I hear something like: "Mum!" or "A-a-a!". So please, don't think I don't want to talk to you anymore or I forget about your message :0) Ok? I remember all of you and really glad that you still remember me and came again here to my small part of blogland. Thank you again for all your kind words! YOU ARE THE BEST!!!

Wishing you all the best for the coming weekend
Natasha & Fam

It was a Christmas Day

2014-01-23T19:15:00.000+04:00

Hello, dears
Hope you all are well and had a lovely Christmas with your Family and friends. We've spend here a couple of joyful and magical weeks enjoying our preparations to the Christmas Day. All presents were wrapped and all yummy dishes were made. The most joyful thing for me about Christmas? The happy faces of my kids :0)
Here are some Christmas' pictures for you:

Table centrepiece made by my eldest daughter Maria!

Our cat looking for his presents checked the labels :0)

Christmas Morning!

Homemade biscuits by kids :0)

Handmade snowflake by me.

Homemade biscuits again :0)

I've painted the new figures for the Nativity scene this year.

Biscuits made by kids :0)

More Christmas Tree decorations baked by kids :0)

Welcoming wreath made by my little 7 y.o. son!

My son made this paper ornament with lovely Danish lady Oda Wiedrecht.

All our best and warmest wishes for the coming weekend to you all and many thanks from our Family for your kind and nice wishes, congratulations and comments :0)
With lot of love from cold and snowy Moscow
Natalia & Fam.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

2013-12-25T00:23:00.000+04:00

Warmest wishes to all of you from snowy Moscow
Natasha & Fam.

Moscow Festival of Russian Traditional Arts "Lad'ya. Winter tales. 2013"

2013-12-22T22:52:00.002+04:00

Hello, lovelies
Hope you all have a lovely day or evening, and that all your Christmas preparations are going in the right way. We all are doing well and having a very busy time here. All presents, cards, surprises must be ready in time :0) and all Christmas decorations and yummy dishes as well. I do love this lovely smell all over the home and these smiling kid's faces :0)
This weekend we've spend enjoying the Moscow Festival of Russian Traditional Arts"Lad'ya. Winter tales. 2013". It was a really great time. Most of the items are handmade. My kids had fun and I owned some lovely things :0) Some pictures (and links) for you as well:

Matrioshka Doll by Tatiana Dubinich click to see the web

by Olga Naumkina click to see the web

Tableware from the Asian part of Russia

Honey from the Altai Region

Zhostovo

Old-fashioned boots by Ukranian Fashion Designers (click to see the web)

Don't you think these capets from Uzbekistan look very similar to William Morris design?

Capet from Uzbekistan

Fabric horse and pigs by Tatiana Dubinich click to see the web

Matrioshka Doll by Tatiana Dubinich click to see the web

Tilda rabbits by Tatiana Dubinich click to see the web

Wood rabbits by Tatiana Dubinich click to see the web

Toy display and toys by Tatiana Dubinich click to see the web

Tilda rabbits in Russian costumes by Tatiana Dubinich click to see the web

in my collection :)

Thank you all for visiting me here, for commenting and for reading my small blog. I'm so appreciated you are here. And I'm really sorry for not answering to all my lovely commentators, but I will answer as soon as possible. I remember every and single one message from you, and it's the most lovely thing in the blogging to be in touch with you :0)
Wishing you all the best for this week
Lot of love from snowy Moscow
Natasha & kids

EVENT

2013-12-09T13:26:00.000+04:00

Hello, dear friends :0)
Hope all of you are well and having a great Advent time. Here in Russia we have the Advent a bit later than the Catholics, but we already start to prepare for the famous kid's event. I was checking a lot information about the delicious Macaroons, but my first experience turn out NOT nicely at all :0( But I will keep trying :0) I just cannot stop until I made 'em successfully :0)
I want to thank you all for your so lovely comments. It's a great pleasure for me to read them :0) Thank you so much! And I have to share with you some lovely pictures (NOT of my Macaroons) of my Baby Boy's Baptism.
Here they are:

Wishing to you all the best for this week
Kisses
Natasha

Hello there!

2013-10-08T14:43:00.001+04:00

Dear friends, are you still there?
Hope all of you are fine and enjoy your day or evening :0) I'm here again to say Hello! and to show to you our new baby boy! His name is Luca and he's the very loved one :0)

Wishing you all the best

Natalia

An Amazing Crafter

2013-04-22T00:26:00.000+04:00

Hello, my dear friends! Here in Russia we have a lovely Spring with sunny and warm weather :0) Hope in your part of the world you get the same :0) This time I would like to share with you an absolutely amazing crafter Hydie Tan from NozomiCrafts. I'm really in love with her super cute creations. Look at them!

from Nozomi Crafts

Here is her Etsy shop :0) I'm already owned some of those sweet things ;0) Thank you Hydie I love them all!
Warmest wishes to you all for the coming week, lovelies
With love
Natasha

Peasant Blouse Tutorial

2013-03-10T21:21:00.005+04:00

Hello lovely readers, sweet commentators, nice followers and kind visitors :0) Hope your day or evening is happy and funny. Wishing to my British friends a Very Happy Mother's Day! And I would like to thank you for all your comments that make my day :0) I'm so touched with your so kind words to me. Glad you came here to visit my small blog and I feel my self so lucky because of that.
I've finally got my own sewing machine :0) and already tried to remember how it works :0) And here it is my first try for a few years. Easy-preasy DIY Peasant Blouse:

To make it I've used THIS TUTORIAL (CLICK TO SEE IT). It's simple and very nice to wear. This one is for my eldest one :0) Next time will show you more pictures.
Wishing you have a very nice warm week with lot of sun and joy
Lot of love from Moscow
Natasha

Felted Puppy and Flowers

2013-03-08T15:23:00.000+04:00

Hello lovely ladies! Today in Russia is a Women's Day, but for me and my Family it's a kind of Mother's Day :0) I would like to thank you for all your support, for your kind messages to me. I'm so delighted to see you here :0) I wish you all have a sweet time with lot of fun and sun :0) Some of my last makes and some of my last pictures for you:

Lot of love to you :0)
See you soon
Natasha

Felting or...drawing

2013-02-28T05:37:00.001+04:00

Hello lovelies! How are you? Having creative time and nice weather? Hope so :0) Here in Moscow no sun and -1 dgr C. I'm a bit tied with all mine must-to-do trying to find more time for things that I love ;0) Hmmmmm...and it's always so difficult to chose what I will prefer for this time :0) felting...or drawing...or may be something else. And I've chose felting and drawting together. I've tried to draw with wool and needles :0) May be it was not a good idea, but anyway here it is my 'wool drawing':

Very warm welcome to my new followers :0)

Wishing you all have a very nice time with lot of fun and sun
Lot of love from Moscow
Natasha

Spring Makes

2013-02-24T22:18:00.000+04:00

Hello my dear followers, lovely readers and nice visitors :0) Hope you all are well and have a lot of sun and fun during the weekend. Today here in Moscow was such a beautiful weather with lot of sun, but still -2 dgr C :0)
I spend some of my time creating a few spring-like things: a lovely nest for my birdie and a cute Easter bunny :o) Here they are:

Wishing you all the best for the coming week :0)
Lot of love
Natasha

The English Home Magazine Free Subscription

2013-02-22T03:10:00.001+04:00

Hello my dears! Hope you have a nice day or evening. Today I would like to share with you my favourite English interior magazine :0) and I have one lovely reason to bright your time here: The English Home's exclusive offer for my readers and visitors a one month subscription ABSOLUTELY FREE. All you'll need is click HERE to get your FREE digital issue :0) Just check it out! It's absolutely stunning and great :0)

Please, enjoy and have a lovely time!
Warmest and best wishes to all of you from snowy Moscow
Natasha

Felt for fun

2013-02-11T16:32:00.000+04:00

Hello, dear friends! How are you doing? Hope all of you having a nice day :0) We all are well a bit tied with our long cold winter with no sun waiting for Spring :0) And what about you?
Last weekend I was thinking about Easter and planned so much things to do :0) So I and my eldest were starting to create some personages in Spring theme:
Lovely Bunny made by my daughter (with my help, of course :0)

And lovely birdie made by me.

Wishing you have a lovely warm and sunny week with lot of fun and joy :0)
Kisses to you all
Natasha

Love

2013-01-25T18:31:00.001+04:00

Hello dear friends! Sorry for being such a bad blogger, my lovelies. I was out of blogging again, but I was not well for that time. I have a very nice news to share with you. I'm expecting of my 5th child :0) and look where are we now:

Our repairing stories still lasts. So I need a lot of energy to have done everything and everywhere in my new home :0) And all I want it's sleep and sleep again :0) Thank you all for your lovely and sweet messages to me, it's such a joy to have this conversation with you. Thank you for staying here with me, it's such a treat for me. Hope to see you soon again :0) Hope you'll forgive me my absence and hope I could find more time for blogging.

Send you a lot of love from cold Moscow and best wishes for coming weekend :0)
Natasha & Fam

Christmas

2012-12-24T13:51:00.000+04:00

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

2012-10-22T19:44:00.000+04:00

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 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 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

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

2012-10-17T18:11:00.002+04:00

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

Buona Italia

2012-10-15T21:00:00.000+04:00

Hello, lovelies! Today I would like to share with you a nice place that I`ve visited last time in Italy :o) First of all I must admit that it`s a bit wild and quiet place , so to go there you must get a car :o) It`s a really nice place situated close to Oliena, Sardegna and has the most beautiful landscapes I ever saw. And delicious homemade food and fantastic vino di casa ))) So here it is Agriturismo Guthiddai (please click to see the web) :

Picture from www.agriturismoguthiddai.com

by Maria Glazacheva

But I know some of you would like to taste delicious Italian food right now, so you can order some typical products at Esca on-line shop. My favorites are: Pesche marmellata, Canestrini albicocca, Savoiardi, Pane Carasau (panificio Sagheddu), Vino Cannonau and more, and more. You just need to taste these yummiest sweets, biscuits, breads and vines )))
Thanks to all of you my lovely friends for visiting me here, for leaving your kind comments that make my day and for following me too :o)
Lot of love from Russia
Natasha

ITALY

2012-10-02T08:47:00.000+04:00

Hello, my dear friends! How are you? Hope you all are well :o) I`m back and very glad that you came to visit me here at small part of blogland :o) I`ve had a lovely vacation in Italy with my Family and having so much to share with you :o) Italy is always so stunning like a dreamland. For me every single day in Italy is full of life, sun, clear sea, joyful plants, real food, fantastic views, great people, sweet air and olive`s smell everywhere. This is what means Italy for me))) And here you are some pictures of beautiful Italy for you:

During my trip I was awarded by sweet Alessandra at homemade@myplace with Liebster Award :o) So nice to chose me )))) I`m so pleased )))) Thank you my friend!

And following the simple rules I must to chose 5 new discovered blogs to passing the award to them. So, here they are:
1.Linda at lawsonplace
2.Sarah at Down by the Sea
3.Sandy at Stitches and etc.
4.Lia at House of Seasons
5.Oliya at Cozy Corner

Thanks to all of you who stay here for a while for reading and commenting. Wishing you all the best with lot of love from Russia )))
Natasha

Dortmund

2012-08-28T17:12:00.001+04:00

Hello, lovelies! I`m back but only for a very short time :o) My first trip to Germany finished very successfully. I and my middle daughter visited Germany for a medical treatment. And all well that ends well :o) No special medical care is needed for my sweet daughter, only physiotherapy and gymnastic :o) And that`s great! I`ve planned for this autumn another trip to Italy with all my Family :o) I will miss you my dear friends. My 3G is not so good to visit your so interesting blogs during my trip :o( Hope you`ll forgive me. For you my pictures from beautiful Germany:

Thank you so much for visiting me here, for leaving your kind comments and for following me too :o) Very warm welcome to Jacqui at Angels,love,health and happiness, Andrea at Werkelbude, Nicole at Shabby Chic and more, Laure at La maison de Laure, Teresa at Flor do Campo Atelier, Oliya at Cozy Corner, Lia at House of Seasons, Sandy at Stitches and etc., Sarah at Down by the sea
With lot of love from Russia
Natasha

Vacation

2012-07-31T19:55:00.000+04:00

Hello! Hope you all are well. This is my last post before the vacations. I`ll be back in last dates of August. This time I`m going to visit Dortmund with my middle daughter. If you know some lovely places there to visit, please let me know :o) I`ll be so happy to hear from you :o) All advices appreciate it. And thank you all for making my blogging life rich of inspirations, funny and lovely things and nice meetings :o) Thank you my dear friends for all your supporting messages to me and your friendship. Through my small blog I found so much creative and talented persons. I found YOU :o) with your own individuality and style. See you soon in August!
For you some pictures of my garden and my last makes :o)

Warmest wishes to you all from Russia
love
Natasha

With Love from England

2012-07-27T12:50:00.000+04:00

Hello dear friends! I`ve received this week very expected package from Catherine Daniel :o) She is so good in pottery :o) And I've ordered some cute things by Cathy. I love her style and her individual way to make our lives bright and colourful. I must admit that Cathy is the first potter-"quilter" that I've ever met, of course not really but via her cute blog :o) And here they are Gorgeous Teapots by Cathy:

Lovely card-tag by Catherine Daniel

To get more information about Catherine Daniel Ceramics, please check out her lovely shop.

Thank you so much Cathy :o) I`m just the lucky one :o)

And big thanks to all of you my dear readers, sweet commentators and lovely followers. Very warm welcome to my new friends Nely at Blue Hortensia, Mariaida at mariaidabenussi, Indigo Blue Designs.

Wishing to all of you have a sweet time with lot of fun and sun

love

Natasha

At Moscow Flower Show

2012-07-23T01:22:00.006+04:00

Hello, my lovely friends! How are you? Having a nice time? Hope so :o)
I have so much pictures to share with you. First of all I want to tell you about one very talented painter Caroline Weihrauch. I`ve meet her recently at Moscow Flower Show and (you know me with my passion to flowers :o) I bought one of her gorgeous prints, not painting sadly. I`ve made these collages to show you Caroline`s painting:

Sadly the quality of these photographs are not good, so sorry about it. Please, use your imagination to feel how they are beautiful.
You can find more information about Caroline Weihrauh here.
Hope you enjoy her painting like I do.

Fantastic news: I`m the lucky winner at Madelief`s Vintage Tea Party Giveaway!!! Thank you Madelief, I`m so happy :D
Very warm welcome to my new followers Noelle at Live and Dream a Little Dream, Sky-blu-pink, Alessandra at homemade@myplace, Karen at My Little Home and Garden , Adriana Silva.
Thank you all for your visit, for your so dear messages to me. I`m so happy to have a conversation with you :o)
love
Natasha

Lavander Box

2012-07-15T12:46:00.003+04:00

Hello, lovely friends :o) Thank you very much for your so useful comments on my last post. Gardening is a realy new thing for me. And I was so sad when I found the thrips at my balcony garden. I just didn`t know what to do with them! I`ve tryed a soapy water, but I was not shure that it`s what I need to do. So, I`ve asked you. You all are so good in gardening :o) I`m so glad that a soapy water works :o) Sadly, some of my plants are gone.

And here is one of my last makes for my balcony garden:

Here the picture how it looks BEFORE:

And some pictures of my balcony garden too :o)

Wishing you all the best for the rest of the weekend and for the comming week too :o)

Lot of love

Natasha

Berries and flowers

2012-07-12T02:05:00.001+04:00

Hello, there! Hope you all, my sweet friends, are well and having a nice time right now :o) We all are doing well and having a warm weather :o) But my poor plants are sick. Last week I found at my balcony garden some thrips :o( And they were so terrible that damaged most of my poor plants. So I made a liquid natural soap to kill them and spray it on my lovely plants. Hope it will helps. What do you think?
Some pictures from my balcony garden:

Red Basil

Thank you so much for visiting me here and for your lovely comments. I enjoy reading them every time and every single one :o) Thank you, my dear friends. You are the best.
And very warm welcome to my very new followers Anne at Heart and Soul, Emma at The Blooming Times ,Riet at Riet`s photoblog . I`m your newest follower too, lovely ladies.
Wishing to all of you who came here having a sweet time
love
Natasha