JD122712 - Hummels

***  there was an exhibition of Hummels in the National Christmas Museum. We have several of them at home.

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JD122612- Snow

*** It has been snowing again.

*** I drove to my office and with drizzle snow and rain in the downtown, it felt like home <smile>

JD122512 -Santas

Santas of all times
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National Christmas Museum

JD122412- Christmas Eve

*** First snow on Christams Eve

*** Santa has been here already

JD122312 - Dutch Wonderland

*** National Christmas Museum
*** Dutch Wonderland

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Мир принадлежит тому, что ему радуется

(французкая мудрость)

 

JD122212- Italian cooking

*** I have been cooking all afternoon today. Few weeks ago we bought a new cooking book by Buddy Valastro. And I love his recepies, they are simple and tasty.

JD122112 - ColdPlay

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I used to do cross-country ski during high school  and I was on a cross-country team at the University. I missed it.

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"One of the biggest benefits to cold-weather workouts, however, may be psychological. Studies have long shown that exercise is mood-boosting, but research has also found that working out outside may actually help fight seasonal affective disorder (SAD). The combination of the sun's antidepressant-like power and the endorphin-high of exercise can trick your body into believing spring is already here. And then there's the motivational factor. "it's a lot easier to run an hour outdoors than it is to run an hour on the treadmill", says Chris Grover, the head coach of the U.S. cross-country ski team. There's more to see, more to do". Grover views battling the elements, nature's and mankind's, as a better workout overall... read more".-- Robert Sullivan, Vogue Jan 2013

JD122012 - Preen

*** I love this Preen by Thornton Bregazzi color-blocked dress.

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Savannah Guthrie, Vogue 2012

JD121912 - Dovima

*** I love tunic style, pared-down silhouettes like Dovima Paris, but you can buy them through invitation-only private trunk shows.

Anne-Catherine Frey wears a Dovima Paris dress, Vogue, Aug 12

JD121812

*** I love this blanket and a white knitted pillow. I have no idea what kind of niddles I need to knit the blanket <smile>, but I can knit the pillow.

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dust jacket attic

JD121712 - SnowGirl

*** My daughter painted this charming SnowGirl.
Snowy is a fancy girl, she has her nails done <smile>.

JD121612

*** Holiday Concert at the Symphony

 *** During the intermission

JD121512

*** In the morning my daughter and I painted a box with the grandma's Christmas gift. It's huge and we don't have a space in the house to hide it. We decided to make it more colorful  <smile>. We have not finishied it yet.

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"Whatever you can think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Acton has magic, grace, and power in it".

-- Goethe

JD121412

*** It was a good, calm day. I worked all day long and it the evenong we went to a music lesson.