Journal feature and a blog award:)

Stephanie of the Pocket full of buttons passed this sweet bloggy award to me. Thank you so much Stephanie!!!

The Rules are as follows:

Include the award logo in your blog or post.
Nominate as many blogs which you like.
Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.

So, I'm passing it to all wonderful bloggers from my blog list, but just to name a few:

1. Nicole Owens of 60 piggies
2. Anne Julie
3. Cree of Bowznstuff
4. Meg of Boutique Nutmeg designs
5. Kristen of Gocksfrocks
6. Tab of Kayden's Grace designs
7. Shawnta of Mamigirlboutique
8. Sharon of Mimisgirls couture
9. Melissa of Yummygoods
10. Laurie of the Wooden spool
11. Richelle Leanne
12. Ravenhill

Also, last week I was featured in one Serbian magazine, Blic zena and they were so sweet to share my designs and talk about me.



I got so many e-mails with compliments and some orders too. It made me wonder if I should consider making a smaller Like flowers and butterflies collection to show in some of the fashion weeks...but will see....





For now, I'm doing slower way, enjoying my free time in testing new styles, being able to play with some favourite fabrics, trying to create some fresh Like flowers and butterflies designs:)











xo, Katarina

Easter vacation in Bari, Italy

I have finally managed to edit and upload almost all of the most interesting photos from our 2 weeks family visit to Italy, Bari.



We had a great time, especially kids, playing with theirs cousins, Alessia and Giulia:) They finally had the chance to speak in Italian, as here they are mainly speaking only Serbian.



Beside playing a lot outside, near the beach(their building is the first row of the buildings after the sea cost),



we did a lot of walking,



window shopping,










shopping(no fabric shopping this time:()







and eating, of course:)











Italian pastries are just delicious!!!!These are my favourites, typical Sicilian pastries, cookies like cannoli , baba and code di rospo.Yumm!!!!!!

We also visited the Zoo safari, in Fasano, near Bari. Kids were thrilled!!\



















Unfortunatelly, the weather changed after 2 hours of visting the zoo by the car and we were lucky enough to see (Marta was assisting too)the Dauphin performance, but not only that the dauphins completely dripping Marta wet and soaked us too, but the rain started and we were forced to leave, not having the chance to see the Dino museum and other fun animal places.







But, well, next time:)






Bari is such a beautiful town, the capital of region Puglia(home of mozzarella:) and have beautiful "old city" part and I was dying to take some pics there. I had attention to finally buy a Canon 40D, meaning a decent camera and I wanted to shoot some pics there with it. But unfortunatelly, that camera is out of the production now and a Canon 50D replaced it. Here I can still find the EOS 40D, but now I'm tempted with the new model, much better model, that cost a few hundreds of euros more:( Any suggestions????

Have a great weekend,
Katarina

And the WINNER is......

Using Random.org , I got my 100rd blog post giveaway winner, and it is Regina who said:"I love your stuff and your blog is inspirational! Wish you a wonderful trip, great Easter feast with your family and lots of fun!"

Regina, please shoot me an e-mail or just leave the comment including your address and I will send you a lovely accessorize goodie pack:)

I'm uploading the pics from our trip, so will try to post them ASAP:)

Thank you all so much for stopping by my blog and for leaving the comments!!!

xo, Katarina

Back home and doing the commercial

We are back and literally straight from the airport, we headed to the place where Marta and Pablo were engaged to do the commercial for the new milk coming soon by Imlek, called "Bello"(in my language BELO is the name for WHITE as well).



My sister is the stage designer (you can visit her website HERE ) and she is doing many commercials, very often. So we had the occasions many times in the past to get the kids doing the lil' actors roles, but we never wanted to have them suffer after hours of hard work and trials, so we never did any, until this time.



This time was different, because Marta wanted to be engaged in the commercial,she almost begged my sister to be taken, so my sister applied her and Pablo for this one.



The place where they were filming, was one incredible huge and beautiful old house, builded in 1936. with very authentic furniture and beautiful garden spreading all over the house.





The kids actually enjoyed the day, even being forced to stay there from 10 at the morning till 10 at the evening. But between the scenes, they could play outside, as there were 8 kids in total.

First to "act" was Pablo, and here is my sister taking him to "place".



This is from the inside, but they were filming outside...he was supposed to be sad, as the commercial idea is that the kids are awaken in the gloomy and rainy morning, and turning to be very happy after, at the moment when is the "milk time".



...producing the rain....







In the meantime, the hair stylist was doing the hair to Marta.



The producer and the director were totally in awe about Marta's sort of expressions while they were telling her what to do and how to pretend.



She was great.





The funny thing was when the director said how incredible and fantastic is she doing all the expressions - just like she had some sort of the experience in modeling or similar......LOL....if he only knew or could browse through my pics......





Well, that's all for now, I need to do some house works and than I will have my giveaway winner posted for the next post as it will be my 100rd as well:)
I also have some great news regarding one "Like flowers and butterflies" journal feature and will show off some pics from Italy:)

TTYS,
Katarina