Cat bag and something special before Lent

There was  my mum's nameday this week. It is like a birthday but it is on the day when your name is in the calendar [for anyone who does not know, of course]. It is a Polish tradition to rather celebrate a nameday then birthday. 

My mum reads a lot and goes often to the library. She always brings plenty of books, so I thought she needed a big bag for it! A special bag with a portrait of her beloved cat Misza [read: meesha]. The cat is slightly on a fat side, I would say, but my mum says it is the way Misza always looked like. She is a wild cat and it took my mum over six months to somehow domesticate Misza. She [the cat is a girl] still, after two years at home, finds it hard to face new people. Any guest in the house and she goes into hiding for the entire visit.  Hard life, but other then that she is pretty spoiled :-D

 o, and I think, it is always good to have a black can at home ;-D.

Below- Faworki, as we call it. It is something special to be eaten just before Lent. Very traditional in Poland.
We also eat doughnuts, but Faworki are far more easier and quicker to make at home. It is a similar tradition to eating pancakes on Tuesday just before Ash Wednesday in England.
So, if anyone fancy to try it I promise to add recipe to my cooking blog shortly...

First post in 2013!

Hello to Everybody and hello to myself. I am a guest lately on my own blog... It is a bit pity that with very demanding work outside my crafty life I do not have much time to update my diary.
Anyway... It is about to snow again but not later then last weekend I mowed the grass in our garden!
That seemed to sound hilariously to my mum, who, living in Poland, had her garden completely covered with snow [about 40 cm of it] and the ground frozen.
but here is the proof:

There is also a lovely addition in our tiny front "garden" [if a space few tiles wide can be called this way?]:

we also have Camellia, which has been trying to blossom since November. Honestly I do not know what is wrong with that bush. It is supposed to flower around March- May. Why, on Earth, it is having buds already in November? They mostly can not survive a bit cooler winter. They get brown and die. 

Anyway, this is how it looks now:

Still pretty :-)