Night photo

Lately I have have been looking for inspiration a lot and seems like I have found it! After a nice maternity photo-shoot (I will show a sneak peek  in my Facebook page soon), I went to make some night photos! Below you can see a result of idea I had already for a long time! Finally I managed to realize it with help of my friends. As it was a really cold night, part two of "Burning stuff" photo shoot coming soon...

 

Review of my Snail mails: Received

I really like snail mail and last year passed as most productive in this field as ever. I took a part of interesting snail mail project and send out a lot of postcards via postcrossing.com. I can't show you here all those beautiful postcards I received (to see them, better check here), but I decided to go with a post where you could see basically all packages I got from my We Heart Mail partners. Hope you will find some interesting ideas what to send with your next snail mail package (maybe it gonna be for Sweet Swap?)!
I will try my best to show you my sent packages as well, so stay tuned!

January -  from Angela (Singapore) Blog post here

February - from Liliana (UK) post here

March - from Sharon (UK) post here

April - from Choni (Spain)  post here

May - from Catherine (France) post here 

November - from Sara (UK)

December -  from Kim (Netherlands)

Sweet Swap 2015 - don't miss it!

It's such a great feeling - to see how many of you have entered or at least interested in my first swap this year! At the moment we have participants from USA, Canada, Australia, The Netherlands and Latvia! You have only 3 days left to apply and add your country or town to this list! Apply you and tell your friend about this!  Who doesn't like sweets enough to take a part? :D

Photo from craftaholicsanonymous.net

Application form is here, all you need is to be ready to sent a sweets filled package to a random person and receive something sweet from another in return!

Have fun!

Sweet Swap 2015!

I would love to invite you to celebrate New Year with the first swap! Valentine's day is not so far away, so let's make it lovely and sweet!

Sweet swap's RULES:

• Applying time 5.01.2015 - 18.01.2015
• Application form is HERE
• Addresses will be sent out on 19.01.2015
• Prepare swap package and send it out till 26.01.2015
• Main thing to  include in package is something sweet - candies, chocolate, cookies, etc.
• Add a letter or postcard from you (be sure to include your name and/or email address).
• This gonna be secret robin round, it means person to whom you send a package is not the same who sends you a package.
• It's nice to publish photos of package you sent and received. If you do so, please, use hash-tag #sweetswap2015
• Those sweet and tasty things should arrive before Valentines day, so feel free to use it as inspiration.
• Sweet swap is open Internationally.
• Have fun!  ♥

Added! Please, try to pack your package of least 3-4 medium sized sweets (little candies - more). 

We Heart Mail letter to Agus

I haven't shared any sent mails for We Heart Mail project for a while, so I decided to show you what I sent all way long to Argentina - to Agus. With a long delay, mail's theme was Sea, Summer. Luckily for me, right now summer begins in Argentina, so my letter was right in time!

I found a few vintage style postcards - black and white reprint of old photo and some colorful postcards of vintage style swimming suits wearing ladies. Letter with two foot paperclip (I find them really cute  :) ) and stickers.

Here  I packed handmade earrings for Agus' summer outfit

What is summer without flowers? Couldn't send fresh flowers, so I went for brooch with cabochon. 

As Sea is so close with blue color, I tried to pick up some little blue things. Here you can see some of them - blue thread on wood spool (love to use those vintage Soviet time thread spools for holding washi tapes), packed towel (that little square with manly man is packed towel - you need to put it into water and it repacks itself- funky thing what to take with you on beach trip!) and off course -   different blue candies (including German chocolate Schogetten, classic Latvian candy Serenade and really traditional - Gotiņa (Cow - made of condensed milk)). 

So this bright blue-purple-yellow package was sent to Argentina. I really hope Agus liked it! I am sure she has received it, so if she will post some more photos in her blog, I will let you know!  

Thanks for stepping by! I have sent out recently a few mail packages, so soon, very soon, I will post about them as well!  Keep in touch!

Happy Postcrossing Birthday!

Today is kind of little birthday for me! Today I am member of Postcrossing for 4 years! I started to send out postcards just for fun as I enjoyed receiving them from my friend trips earlier. In these 4 years this has turned into a bigger hobby and helped me to set up some new goals.

I really really want to collect a postcard from every country. I have already quite nice collection, but if you are from country I am missing or you have a friend there, please, please, send me a postcard (a regular postcard with touristic view will work perfectly! )! Last weekend I re-made list of received postcards, now you can see it here: Postcard list Those countries I have a postcard from already, are bold and if you click on the name of country, you will see album of all postcards from this country I have received! Please, note that I have added to country list special territories as well, that comes from ISO 3166 standard.
I have received question about my address, so click here to see it!

To celebrate this little milestone, here are postcards I sent out today!

How to find a pin's origin?

Am I the only one who sometimes feels in love with some pin on Pinterest so much that there is a huge urge to check out the blog or web site it came from? I believe it's not something rare as we all know how many great tips and tricks and just inspiration could be found in one simple site! However, sometimes it's not so easy because a pin has a direct link which opens only one particular photo, not the whole page it comes from. Here I have one simple tip, how to get to the page of your new favorite DIY project!
Note, this works only using Chrome browser!

So here is one pin  (on the right) with a beautiful photo of nice packing idea I wanted to look at more. 

I find it really disturbing when clicking on a pin (as in this example with packing idea) it opens a direct link of the picture which gives you no idea which page it could be from (I am talking about this).
So, when that happens, right click on the picture and choose Search Google for this image.

There will be a new tab opened for Google to search this picture. Just go through the list of pages where Google has found a particular image and I am sure you will find that template/pattern/life hack you really wanted to see!

It may not be so easy for popular images, but isn't it worth a try?

By the way, the pin I used as an example, is from this beautiful blog:  www.lily.fi

And feel free to take a look at my Pinterest page HERE  !  :)

Last weeks in a short review

What would be a real Autumn if I were not sleeping sick at home?! So fall season is here and while I am drinking a lot of herbal tea and eating oranges, I wanted to show you some of my favorite shots from past few weeks. I done a lot of great stuff, I can' t resist to tell you more!

This is my little kitten which is not so little anymore!
 (3 months ago he looked like this )

I had a super great walk in forest full of mushrooms and
I had so much fun to take a photos of them!
Latvians are truly mushrooms pickers, we love it!  :)

A few weeks ago I had a little trip with my family to National park
next to cliffs where you can hear unique echo

One more picture with my family - next to manor where my mum used to learn.
This is so beautiful - to study in hundred years old building where used to live landlords! 

Every year at Autumn I start to think that this could be
my favorite season because of all of these colors!

My duke Shadow again.
Isn' t he a beauty?

I managed to take a little break from my weekly Saturday rush and
I had a tea with old friend of mine - we met in my student organisation years ago
and now we both are old and can make a little talk how new people are crazy :)  

One more dedication to Latvian Autumn!

Can't resist to show you this photo. Dark Knight 

And here is the cute kitten back again...

Time after time I make some Instagram worth pictures.
 I mean-photos of my food  :)  Queen size cherry ice cream it is!

One more of cat...

Last Thursday I went to see workshop of Latvian drummer Rick Fed. He is really good
as his show together with one of old Latvian pop-stars was really good as well!  

On Friday I took photos of Jonathan Kreisberg workshop and
concert later that night. Really nice performance!

This is last photo of Shadow this time - in his new bed he made by himself
(yes, that is bath and yes, my cat loves water)

Early Saturday morning started with big cold here so I get chance to make
 some 3 or 4 photos of frost. That time of year is there!

That frosty Saturday morning I took a part of orientation contest
 where the whole team needs to find given objects and to prove that - take a picture
 of at least one team member and the object. Here you can see almost
 all my team members - great friends since university times!  

And here - a duck in Autumn!

Have fun this Autumn and see you soon!