Where Am I?

Am I still here? 

or 

Are you still there?

Been awhile not blogging. Life is extremely busy with the real world. There is more things to think about and should be given prior attention than here in the bloggging world. Yet, I still do visits most of the blogs I like to read and that inspires me whenever I get the chance. Just that, lately I need to make a whole new twist to my life. Live in the moment and enjoy every chances. 

There comes a point during my absence that I wanted to disappear in the blogging scene and delete everything in here....However, I learnt to reconcile with myself.  Said, this is still my ground to express whatever things I have in mind and like doing for the past years...and the years to come.  Today I'm enjoying such euphoria that is hard to explain. This is more favorably giving me joy, peace and tranquility.  My vitamin of my everydays.

Am I in love? 

I'm always in love with everything..with life and with every single thing that I'm experiencing. The whole network of bloggers for instance guided me and giving me so much inspiration when it comes to living life. It associated me to a whole new level of living and being more passionate with what your and I am doing.  

Am I sick?

Nope! sickness is far from my vocabulary right now. Been on a second surgery last July which prompt me to do proper caring and resting. That explains as well my absence here. Then, we're all very glad that I get over with it and my doctor told me that I'm now a 'zdrowia kobieta' - healthy woman. 

What's new?

Currently working still on that small projects I've mentioned here. Hopefully, I could get my hands again working on them and at least accomplished one set of them.  Just that, time is always running and mostly spends with my children.  I can't hardly breathe sometimes...that sometimes I really needed a full week break just being me...and me alone  ( i know somebody will react to this). *wink!

Then, insanely trying to master the the Polish language. This would make me insane.  

*pulls hair! 

unfortunately by the category of learning languages and based from a study lately, Polish language still emerged as number 1 complicated and very hard to learn language in the world. Why you Polish likes to complicate things? Like when you try to learn the basic Polish ABC's you will encounter already hard letters to pronounce and read with. And in this portion of their alphabet... I J K - when read in Polish and if a Filipino (especially ones speaking my local language which is Cebuano) heard it, it will sound pretty silly.  Don't ask me anyways.  LOL! I guess you get what I mean.

What's new? 

Nothing new. Been just so tough months for me.  Always out of home and enjoy summer as much as we could.  Now that it's officially Autumn, time to scrub a little cobwebs into this blogsite and then create something new or that writing something interesting.  I promised myself not to indulge into a lot of personal things into my blog. I'll leave it in private and as much as possible do blog only with the things that makes me busy like my arts - sewing, DIY's, knitting, crochetting, photography, baking and cooking...and other form of media.

I believe, there's absolutely a special place for all things personal.

To this day, I'll try my best to blog as much as I could and post my projects in here at least once a week and be more active in writing and blogging. Oh wow! how I miss being in here and how I miss writing with free flowing thoughts in mind.

Be happy always!

Here are few pictures during our summer...enjoy!

lake in Vistula

visited the museum of lace at Koniakow, Poland - my bucket list is to visit this small town here to actually see how this lace making became a culture and tradition in this area of Poland. I met the old lady who actually into this lace making for longer time now.

and this is one of her works on display....

some other designs..the other one is an eagle which symbolizes Poland.

lace headpieces, usually wear in a traditional Polish wedding. I fell in love with this pieces..got me thinking why I didn't think of a Polish wedding..hahah!

a bodice piece that a Polish woman wear as part of their traditional dress. Really piece of art right? the embroidery thing is such a tedious job. It takes me too much time looking at this so I better snap a pic to enjoy this at home anytime.

you can enjoy a boat ride around the lake and go for some fishing..this is just located near the our apartament we've rented. However, we didn't try renting for not quite amusing for us. I just enjoyed the colors of the plastic boats.

somewhere in another very small town in the mountain.

an old library and a city hall of the town Wisła or Vistula

piece of handmade toys put in exposition at the museum

some headpiece women wear before to tuck in their bun. How clever isn't it? 

The President's palace ring on top of the mountain

A colorful peasant chicken at the Leśny Park in Ustron

A bison, that is snobbish and smelly.  Sorry dude but I like you actually.

Taking picture of an old satchel bag at an old traditional house somewhere in Ustron, Poland.

an entrance to the public WC of the town..makes me giddy for it's flowery and greenish entrance. Though, we have to pay 1.50zl just to use their WC.worth it anyways.

Our everyday afternoon walk in a nearby park with a tennis court on the side and many lovers to my amusement.

Me and son, enjoying touching the real fawn. They're really pretty  in person and I didn't know they're that friendly. We can feed them as well. And the silly me wearing a wrong shoes in the forest.

one of our evening walks when the that full moon begins to appear, then makes me think of people I love but they are far from me.

this goat i love to take home...oh wait, is this a goat? LOL

and eating my hearts out with this Polish food...my first meal on that 1st day.

that the Presidents Palace

houses and apartaments for rent in the area.

the vistula river

The Niagra fall version in Wisła

the centrum

quiet place inside the compound of the Palace of the President

 joining people, that's what that chair all about. I just love taking picture of this chair...and if you know. You'll understand why.

More pictures next time..

The 37 degrees celsius weather ...

I don't exactly know what to blog today for I'm feeling a little melodramatic today. All I know is that today is one of the hottest summer we are experiencing here now in Poland.  Temperature reaches to 37 degrees Celcius to 39C. Whew! That's quite too much sun and heat for Polish standard.  No wonder most locals here trying to find the chilliest place to stay or that dress light as much as they can...some almost naked just to keep up with the heat.  I for one is into the groove to fight the summer heat. Not naked though! bleeeh!

Still my birthday month. I had the simplest birthday this year as I always wanted that way. Last year, celebrating it somewhere while vacationing with family and friends...so for 5 consecutive years, I celebrated with mostly close friends throwing a party for me of which is so flattering because mostly I do make surprises to friends and family for their special day.

Few more weeks from now would be September and that makes me excited, which means as well summer would be over and that we have to endure the long cold months again. My amore always reminds me to enjoy the summer and that we should not complain about the weather for surely this kind of warmness will surely be missed in the coming months.  That is true.

This months makes me busy a bit in preparation for the school opening. My little girl would be entering proper school - 1st grade.. Can you imagine that? The first time I blogged about her here when she was still inside of me and now she's 6 years old happy little girl. She is excited to explore her new world in school but at the same time she is a bit nervous.  I know such excitements.

This is Izabela at 6.....

such an innocent face and getting smarter everyday.

she likes to wear high heeled shoes . What would it be in 10 years. yay!

She's blowing love to everyone...

and she likes to always have that long hair with a bangs and refused to cut it.

Wherever you are in this world, enjoy your weather and every moment of it. 

Always remember, when all else fails, occasionally go back to basics .  Build your foundation. practice your skill and build your craft.  And today is just one of my many boring , monotonous summer days. Yet, I realized I forgot to remind myself about going back to the basics when things aren't the way I want it. For I easily get frustrated, impatient when a certain project I'm working on fails in some ways. I easily get discouraged lately when I see that with all the things I'm planning and preparing is far from finishing and perfection.  For sometimes, I expect too much and that I don't have the confidence of.

Will I blame the 37 degrees celsius weather again for feeling this way?

Nahhhh!

Cheers!

How do Poles spend Summer?

Poland is one of the nicest places on earth to visit. For me, it should be in the list of  places to visit before you die. Like Krakow's historic city is underrated and Poland's baltic seas are marvelous place too. There are lots of interesting places to visit here, with lots of history.  Landscapes are lovely especially at the countryside. Summer months are hot, the super snowy winter is spectacular , autumn is so romantic (especially if your sitting with the love of your life) and spring is really fascinating and inspiring for it's more colourful, flowers are blooming and popping enthusiastically. 

Summertime is one particular season  that I really like. Though, I'm a tropical girl who lives in the tropics all my life and who doesn't like to go sunbathing nor getting a tan for I prefer a little chilly weather, still I love Polish summer, because it's the only time where we get to visit friends, relax and eat our hearts out with the fruits in season and foods we do like to prepare easily outdoors.  

How do Poles spend Summer?

Grill is one summer sports here other than football. (insert your smile here.) Oh yeah! for mostly Poles loves to do barbecue or grilling right in the confines of their gardens. Invite family and close friends and party till the sun sets.  Usually sun sets later so there is really reason to stay long outdoors.  So, the best and quickest food to prepare is grilled kielbasas (Polish sausages), cheese and some meat marinated the Polish way. In my case, it's a pretty good occasion for me to share and prepare my favourite Filipino pork barbecue.  If you don't know what that is you can see the recipe here. Isn't it appetizing?

Secondly, they like to spend summertime getting that great tan they would want.  I do understand for the sun doesn't appears here all the time. There's a need of sun/melatonin in their skin. They are way too white and pale. So, they worship the sun with much liking and adoration. In which again, I don't like to do for I'm way too brown. That I don't need to worship Mr. Sun. Although, every single day I always love Mr. sun would appear to keep up with a good mood and feels great.

Living here for 7 years prepares me to adjust with the Polish way of spending summer. Mostly July - August are months where most families go for out of town or out of the country holidays. Probably places where the sun shines all day long with sand and seas are together. Baltic seas are really chaotic place to visit during the summer. I get to see how it's like there 2 years ago........too many people and mostly just worshipping the sun in which I find not appealing. And the seawater is way too cold for swimming. YAY!

Past weeks, this is how we spent our summer days .........

A great place for grill/barbecue party with friends right in the confines of the park. But you need to go there early for tends to get occupied quickly for it's free.

Eating ice cream is one hobby / thing to do to beat the summer heat. Imagine how big is that ice cream. Yes! I ate all of them. It's Polish version of Italian ice cream.

here we are kiddos, not mnding how silly they look like eating their ice creams. We enjoyed looking at them eating with great fascination.

How about an elephant plant in the middle of park? cool!

one of the best attractions are these beds of roses in the rose garden in Katowice Park. I recommend you to visit the place. Really romantic if your into flowers. You can see varieties of roses in different shapes and colours.

A handsome taxi driver at the park. You like? He's shy though. heheh! i like the rides only, excuse me!

And see, so many LODY WŁOSKIE which means Italian ice creams. I don't know if it really taste like Italian ones. Paging, mi amore!

A bear plant, right in the middle of the park. Cute!

I'm trying to picture out this place but crappy me I can't get the right angle for I'm chasing two active kids who loves to run all the time. But this is great place where you can run and ride your bikes for there's a pathways for running and biking. So, I'm thinking of running here next time.

Met this cute dredge lock haired lovers who loves to play the Australian didgeridoo. So, I approached them and taught me how to play the didgeridoo which I find it hard to do. I think, it takes me time to make such a sound. But yeah, they are so accommodating and I find them so cute for they only have their own world in the park sharing the same passion and love. Wow!

Here's my little boy running and running. So that explains the blurry picture for we are playing tag.

I love this rose. Makes me want to pick them. hehehe!

A view from the 8th floor apartment of a friend's place. I like the clouds like painting. 

Flock of people in and out of the park. Two active boys over there. Hi ben and Bo! Daddy Edwin are chasing them.

in case you don't know the prices of that ice cream....

we're trying to let this kids make some good pose for the mural arts is just so great for picture taking.

And how do you like crazy lollies? cool isn't it?

That's how Poles spend their summer and so that makes me like a Pole too. 

How about you, how do you spend your summer ?

until next entry for this summer series....