Workshop with Marcella Brancaforte

Last week we had the pleasure of being involved in the great workshop held at the Museum of Applied Art in Belgrade and conducted by fantastic Italian illustrator Marcella Brancaforte
It was offered by the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade







The kids had pleasure of listening the old Sicilian fairy tale "La Bella dalla stella d'Oro", looking at Marcella's gorgeous illustrations from the book and drawing something that was related with the story.





The workshop was organized as part of the 48th Children's October Salon, where my sister's sons got the first award;)

Inspiring flowers

I have been doing a lot of drawing, painting and sketching lately. With a tablet and with a hand, depending on a subject or eventual final use of it. I feel so inspired. And I feel a bit guilty of not sewing much lately. But I am just like that, some days you will find me mesmerized with the ideas for the textile and surface design, some days with creating some new cute dresses and wardrobe pieces, or creating new patterns for them and sometimes I just want to photograph things or to paint or to be crafty in other way. And there are days when I just want to enjoy my kids and doing my routine homework;)



In this time of the year, there are beautiful, colorful flowers everywhere around (naturally in the country side, and not in the city;) and so each weekend becomes a feast for the eyes. It's also so incredible how the nature change from a week to a week, and just when you plan to do some more of this and that (flower) you realize that it's gone. But, the new species are up....blooming.....and I'm driven by theirs beauty.















Have a wonderful weekend,
Katarina

Easter Holidays

This year the Easter (Orthodox) here in Serbia was much later that the Catholic one (that we also celebrate, from my DH's part) and was also very close to the 1st of May day, so we had a lot of festivities. Kids were on the Spring break and so we were pretty much spending our time at Fruska gora, enjoying the kids and nature, doing just the ordinary things . We prepared and dyed the eggs , we cooked the pizza for the first time in our wood stove and we were delighted with the results. We enjoyed the Easter performance prepared by our kids and simply enjoyed the beauty around us.




















We also did a lot of spring cleaning and I happen to find tons of my drawings and paintings, while attending the high school.








Happy May!
Katarina