Emma likes schnitzel dinner

Oh and her braids! 👍😃

Love, love, love

Wholewheat organic blueberry muffins

Fresh out of the oven!

Epiphany queen

I loved the desert

I did not expect to love the desert. I had been once before in Morocco but I always thought of myself more as more of a sea person. Our visit to the desert on the outskirts of Dubai changed my mind.

I was swept away but the beauty of the scenery. The colours, the texture of the sand, the amazingly vivid light. I loved the desert! Here are some of the pics we took.

Last lunch of the year

Last lunch of the year in Al Reem Bawadi in Dubai!

Emma's 3rd milk tooth fell out today!

Emma's Christmas show

Holiday fun with the kids

Yesterday we spent an hour in a fun park at Avenue Mall here in Athens and the kids loved it. We also enjoyed 10 minutes of peace and were able to have a quietish cappuccino.


Here are a couple of pics of William and Steph as Will drives his first car.

Emma and I were right behind them with me at the wheel and Emma managing the accelerator.

Christmas shopping pizza lunch

My lovelies

Will's Xmas show

Sent from Sandra's iPhone

Getting in the mood for Christmas...

Getting in the mood...slowly but surely :-)

Emma's up cycled Xmas decorations

At the moment Emma's class are looking into ecology and recycling. As part if this unit, they have collected items that can be recycled and used them in art projects. This week part of her homework was making Christmas decorations from recyclable items. Here she is with the upcycled Nespresso capsules and wrapping paper from the flowers we bought earlier this week.

Ta-da! My painting is up!

And amazing skies...

Beautiful, breathtaking nature here in Greece. Really.

Rainy day

Over the summer I started a painting that was, well, rather difficult for me as it involved a lot of complicated swerves and precise paint-brush control. It is inspired by a wallpaper design from the 30s.

After having penciled out the initial curves I was so fed up with it that I left it for at least a month and painted something more free and colourful.

Then I came back to it in October and started adding the background colour. A neutral beige.

Then I started adding the background pattern; a kind of coral like structure.

Getting the symmetry at least looking right on the swerves had been so painful that I decided to make things easier on myself with the corals and actually trace and flip so as to speed things up.

 

Finding and then mixing the right shades of pinks and burgundy was also quite difficult as was brush control - or painting within the lines. Phew!

I hadn't initially thought it was going to be all pinks and burgundies but that's were it took me...

Here I am painting away one autumn day...

Nearly finished! I need to go over the white swerves again to make them pop and then touch up bits and do the sides...

What do you think?

I'll post the finished piece soon I hope...