Days 28-31 and summary of first month

On Friday Maciek said good bye to his kindergarten and his beloved Mrs. Iwonka. I won't post here photos of them but Friday's photo is for Maciek as it was his day.

W piątek Maciuś pożegnał się ze swoim półprzedszkolem, od lutego będzie chodzić do nowego, 5 dni w tygodniu a nie 3 jak do tej pory.


Action by Pioneer Woman.

On Sathurday we made a snowman, big one this time :) Kids had fun but in the afternoon Maciek got sick. He was complaining about his belly and then he got diarrhoea.

W sobotę w końcu ulepiliśmy dużego bałwanka. Dzieci cieszyły się z niego, Maciuś szczególnie. Niestety po południu Maciuś zaczął skarżyć się na ból brzuszka i zaczęła mu się biegunka. Biedny strasznie cierpiał, ale lekarstwa już pomagają.


Overlay by Martencja and Kimla

Today Maciek was so poor, he was lying, reading books and watching some Once upon a time... Life

Dziś Maciuś nie poszedł na spacer, bo był taki biedny, więc leżał sobie w naszym łóżku i czytał książeczki (ostatnio ulubiona książeczka o"o muchach" - konia z rzędem temu, kto zgadnie o jaką książkę chodzi :) ) i oglądał Było sobie życie. Mój trzylatek zafascynowany jest tym, co dzieje się w środku ciała więc taka mądra bajka strasznie go wciągnęła.


Action by Pioneer Woman (I'm in love with these actions).

It seems first month of P365 is done :) So 11 months and we'll be done :) After first month I achieved my first goal - I used 17-35 lens, which I don't like 3 times :) Yay!!! For 2 years I used it only once so it's something big. I started using textures, I made few night shots and I feel I learned something. Next month I'd like to focus on ISO, use 17-35 few times more, make some night shots, make portraits of kids and Piotr and maybe one mine.

Here's mine summary of the month:


Credits for paper, elements and template.

Day 28

I decided that one day in every week will be for kids. So today Maciek had to pick a subject of today's photo. I wasn't difficult guess what it will be. He choosed Lightning McQueen of course.

Postanowiłam jedno zdjęcie w tygodniu oddać dzieciom, niech oni wybiorą, co ma doczekać się zdjęcia. Nie trudno było się domyślić, że na tapecie będą autka.. Maciek już mi zapowiedział, że dziś Zygzak a następnym razem Pan Król, Marucha, niebieski Zygzak i tak mam temat na czwartkowe zdjęcia już chyba do maja.



Action by Pioneer Woman and overlay is by SBS.

Day 27

Dirty kids can be pretty too ;) We had pasta with spinach today and kids looked so funny with green faces so I couldn't resist taking this photo. Szymek, my 19 months old, wants to do everything by himself. Yesterday he was even more dirty than today.

My family started reading my blog so from now I'll include polish text too.

Szymciowi ostatnio włączyła się "samosia" - wszystko tylko "ja, ja, ja!!!". No i takie oto efekty. Choć starszy Maciuś wyglądał niewiele lepiej. Wczoraj Szymek był jeszcze bardziej brudny, na szczęście szpinak dobrze się pierze.



Photo action by Pioneer Woman

I Heart Faces

I discovered amazing site, I Heart Faces. You can find amazing photos there, great tutorials and challenges. This one was about textures. I tried using textures during P365 this year in few posts before so I decided to take part in this challenge. I also love the idea pf photographing faces, well, as I browsed my photo folder there are mostly my kids' faces.

I had idea for this photo few days ago. My kids simply took a position like this and started kissing. I wish I could have camera with me then, they were so cute. Today I tried to make similar photo to the picture I had in my head. I played with textures by Something Blue Studios.

Day 25

This photo shows what kids do when they wake up lol
Piotr forgot to close his notebook and Szymek immediately after getting up was just by a notebook.

Days 23 and 24

Yesterday we were on a magic show. This show was for kids and I was there with Maciek, Szymek is too small to enjoy magic. Maciek was very interested in what he saw, and when the magician sat with kids on a carpet, Maciek was in a first row.



It's my 3rd b&w photo this week so I completed Kasia's challenge.

Today it was freezing. In the morning it was 20 Celsius degrees below 0 but we decided to go with kids for a walk. They had their sledge walk.



Life here looks normal even when it's so cold outside. Next week will be also very cold but after that I think I'll go for another night trip. Thank you for all wonderful comments on my previous post. Textures make photos much better then they originally were.

And at the end - 3 months of 2009 in photos.

Days 21 and 22

As I said, yesterday I tried to make some night shots of Warsaw. I planned it long time ago, I was with a friend, Magda (in digiworld she's known as mru). We planned this session a week ago but it's so hard to meet when you have kids and both of us have. So finally yesterday was a first day when we could meet and it was disaster. It was so freezing outside. After few minutes my hands were frozen, my cheeks were frozen, I was like a piece of ice. It was 13 Celsius degrees below 0 and there was wind. I couldn't operate my camera in gloves and without it I could make one shot and I had to put them on because I coudn't move my fingers. So I have only few photos from yesterdays evening.


Royal Castle. Texture by Jerry Jones


St. Anna Church. Texture by Jerry Jones


Texture by Vera Lim


Krakowskie Przedmiescie St. Texture by Vera Lim

We both were freezing so we had to drink something warm.


Texture by SBS.

Todays photo is connected with Granfather's Day celebrated today in Poland. Maciek was preparing some gifts for both Grandmas and Grandpas, he made two cards for Piotr's parents and flowers for mine (he keeps saying "violet flower is for Grandma Renia and red tulip with glitteris for Grandpa Konrad").
Dziadek i babcia ciągle słyszą o prezentach, które na nich czekają w Warszawie ("zrobiłem Ci babciu pudełko, z takich małych ślimaczków, i kwiatuszka fioletowego, a dla Dziadka Konrada zrobiłem tulipana, czerwonego, z brokacikiem"). Pudełko (z warsztatów sprzed 2 tygodni) jeszcze leży w księgatni nieodebrane, no i wczoraj przyszły zamówione końcem grudnia fotoksiążki ze zdjęciami obu chłopców.


Photo action by Pioneer Woman, heart bokeh by Joannastar

See you after weekend!!!

Days 19 and 20

Yesterday we had a very quiet day. In the morning kids were playing with cars. Well, they can't live without cars :) Maciek was playing his favourite part of this movie, when Lightning is pushing the King to finish the race.



Today we were baking a bread (it's a greek bread with joghurt, looks yummy, I hope it'll taste great too). Kids enjoyed making and baking bread.



Tomorrow I'm going to make some photos of Warsaw by night. I hopeI won't freeze there.

Days 17 and 18

Yesterday we wanted to make something different and we took kids to gardens. It was so pretty there, lots of flowers and fresh green leaves, I didn't want to leave. For kids biggest attraction were cats :) They were roaming with us and kids were crazy, they sat and watched cats and we could make some photos. On one there's my portrait, I don't like myself on photos, but my dear husband made me one so here it is. And lots of flowers in the middle of winter.

Wycieczka do ogrodu botanicznego była naprawdę wspaniała, naprawdę można oczy nacieszyć. Choć zima piękna to we mnie rodzi się tęsknota do kwiatów, do zieleni, więc z tej okazji kilka zdjęć, dla podładowania akumulatorków w oczekiwaniu na wiosnę.
Powsin jest całkiem niedaleko, więc jak tylko wiosna zawita będą wspaniałe różaneczniki i magnolie - w ubiegłym roku przegapiliśmy magnolie, ale w tym roku mam nadzieję trafimy tam na czas.









I love orchids so much, I'm so glad Piotr took this photo. Colour of these orchids is amazing to me.







Kasia proposed a little photo game for this week. We are supposed to make at least 3 b-w photo this week so this is my first. I like warm photos of Szymek so I edited it in LR2 to get warm photo of him. He was drinking his milk and he was making such a funny faces so I grabbed a camera and took him some photos. He was plaing with a milk, which he spilled on a table and he was sooo sweet so I coudn't resist to use this photo.

Days 15 and 16 and something more

Today I'm with two photos - one is just saying good-bye to a Christmas tree we had during Christmas.



Today's photo was inspired by Kasia's snowman. I thought her snowman was so cute that today I did two little snowmen for kids while we were outside.



I also want to show you my three pages from my 2009 P365. I started it in March, stopped after holiday in September, but I had to make it to keep some of my memories.







In my personal version there's journaling about important events that happened in these months, it's in polish so I didn't include it here.

I'm back with some new photos

I'm back and I'm so glad!!! I have to say my hubby is brilliant, he reperated everything so quickly. Nothing was lost. One of our disks is on the way to service, the other works fine.

Now I can show you photos from last days.
On day 12 I just had to make a photo of a forest, which is near here. I want to dedicate this photo to Marta, who I was talking to about this place few days ago. Kabacki Forest is so pretty now, under a soft eiderdown. Photo overlay by Vera Lim.



Day 13 is dedicated to Kasia, who inspired me to take a photo of my warm socks. I love these socks, especially now, when it's so cold outside. Photo texture by Vera Lim.



Today kids were playing Play-Doh and they loved it. Maciek made an octopus and then he said she needs a cap and neck-cloth because it's winter now. And he did both. I took one photo of this sweet octopus before Szymek took her eyes and tried to eat them.

8 hours

It will be the longest 8 hours...

I'll start from the beginning. Few days ago I had some pc troubles, I got a message, that there's something wrong with HD. My DH (IT specialist) looked inside, checked and said it was fine. Today I got message, that one of HDs is damaged. I wasn't worried, because I have second copy of everything I did thatnks to RAID (I hope I write with sense, because I'm not IT specialist and I just can say what my brilliant DH says). After a walk with Szymek this morning I got message that everything is broken and I have to wait long hours for my DH and for diagnose of my pc. I'm terrified. What if both HDs are broken? What if I lost everything? I mean EVERYTHING!!!! Whole 3 years of Maciek's photos, all memories kept in scrapped pages, all recent photos. My DH is sure that one of disks is fine, but I'm terrified anyway. If it's something, I'll have my ps tomorrow (without backups in raid disks), if it's something else, I'll have my data on notebook tomorrow and pc after a week, if it's something else, I'll have my pc and data in a week. IN A WEEK!!!! What will I do!!!! I'm not even able edit photos in here, my lightroom presets are on pc, my yesterday's photos are there too. Keep your fingers for me, I hope I have my pc and data tomorrow. This evening I'll know diagnose.

Day 9, 10 and 11

It was impossible to write and show photos everyday, especially on weekend. So today I have 3 sets of photos.

On Sathurday (day 9) my digi friend, Magda (known in digiworld as mru) came to us with her super sweet daughter :) We wanted to make kids some valentine's photos but they didn't want to cooperate. First Maciek didn't want to sit by Alicja. He was ashamed (he's in that age when girls aren't the best company for him lol). Then when I gave them rose, they had really great fun, first Maciek was touching the rose, then he was drinking honey from it and then he started beating Alicja with the flower. Then kids started running and we were done ;) It was so funny watch them having fun together, that many good shots were lost because we both laughed :)



On Sunday (Day 10) lots of things we did, we were on a small hill with kids and they were riding sledges. And in the evening we were participating crafting workshop for kids. Kids were supposed to make clay boxes for grandma's (Grandma's day is on 21 January, Grandpa's day is on 22 January). Well, Maciek started, but when he saw cars, he was gone and I had to make this box by myseld. Szymek was helping me, he was so focused on making holes in clay, he sat there for about an hour.



Today I wanted to show you Chestnut Avenue with snow. It looks so gorgous. 365 template by FruitLoOpSally.

Day 8

This photo is dedicated to love of reading. My kids, especially Maciek, love reading books. They have a huge collection (well, it's an idea for a photo in a future for me) of books any kind, for little kids like Szymek and encyclopedia of animals for kids. Maciek loves his "mature" books, Szymek sometimes can't be focused for that long so I read with Maciek his mature books when Szymek sleeps and books for little kids when they are both with me. Photo texture is by SBS, thanks to Karina I bougth a pack of textures and I really love them :)

Day 7

This is a photo from our walk. I used Something Blue Studios overlay.

Day 6

Today kids were not good in the morning. Szymek got up at 6:15 and he was screaming "Mama" so loud.. He was gettin up this early from Monday, but today it was so hard to get up to him because I got cold and I really needed some rest. So a cup od coffee is a must.



Today is a birthday of someone special to me. Kasia, my brother's girlfriend has her day today. I wish I could see her and wish her all the best personally, but unfortunately I can't. Kasia is a young and very ambitious girl, she studies, works and makes wonderful photos. In December she was in Warszawa and I hope she'll let me show you some of her fantastic photos. So here's a photo of Kasia and my brother with Szymek (photo was made on Szymek's birthday in June).



Wszystkiego dobrego Kasiu!!!!

Day 5

Another day on snow, this time both kids were playing (Maciek is going to the kindergarten only 3 times a week, other two we spend together).



One very important thing happened today but I didn't have idea how to capture it on a photo. During dinner Maciek (he turned 3 in December) asked me first how vegetables grow (carrots, broccioli and cauliflower) and his next question was "how the meat grows". Well, I don't want to lie to him so I told him that we get meat from animals. "what kind of animalis?" I told him chickens, cows and pigs. "and what about bees, do we get meet from bees?" I was in heaven, I could start talking about honey and how bees make honey and I didn't have to tell him how it happens that animal give us meat. He's so smart and he asks many difficult and very logical questions. I was affraid that question about meat will be asked soon because lately he was looking at meat in a strange way. I'm glad I didn't have to tell him more about meat, I wasn't prepared for that even though I expected that question. He's too young for questions like this I think. If anyone reads it, tell me, how your kids reacted when they knew where's meat from? I'm affraid Maciek will stop eating meat when he knows the truth, he's so sensitive.

Day 4

Now there will be some boring photos of my kids playing outside with snow. But now winter is so pretty here, snow is white and it's not melting so I want to capture as many photos with snow as I can.
Maciek, my older son, was in the kindergarten and I was walking with Szymek and sleigh. Believe me, it's so hard to keep him on sleigh, he wants to push it by himself and a second llater he wants to sit there, then he wants to get out and so on. He can't sit or stand still for 3 seconds.

Day 3

We spent that day at my parents and after dinner we went to Warszawa. Kids had fun eating snow while spending time outside.

Day 2

On the second day winter came to the mountains, everything was white and clean. It's a pity we had to go back. We were roaming with our rucksacks down for about 2,5 hours, it was really wonderful see that white landscape. We saw deers rinning across our road, it's a pity that camera was deep in the rucksack. Then we were in Krakow, the town I love. We were visiting our friends and I didn't have a chance to make photographs of Wawel Castle, which I saw only from a car. But I will make some later in January, I'm planning short trip to Krakow, just me and camera :)
Then we came to our hometown (we both come from the same town), to parents, where kids were while we were in the mountains. I had a chance to make few photos of Main Sqare and an old wooden church in Bierun.
Photo textures by Vera Lim, snow by Kimla and Martencja.