Spring

Yay first spring day. It is still super nice here, my girlfriends and I went to Hornby Island last weekend for our annual girls getaway. It was as usual  AWESOME !  Are you ready for pictures overload?  It's going to be a long scroll, lol. Enjoy.....

Hura, prvni jarni den!  U nas je stale nadherne, minuly tyden jsem stravila s kamaradkama na ostrove Hornby. Je to uz tradicni, kazdorocni "damska jizda". Bylo to, jako pokazde UZASNE !  Jste pripraveni ? Bude to dlouhe ale doufam, ze si to uzijete ;)

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 I like to snap pictures with my phone. It's convenient and the phone fits in my pocket. Also it's really easy to post pictures on the Instagram or Facebook right away.  But I missed  my camera so out it came again instead of my phone. Being able to take better quality photos and  "play" with the settings and lenses makes it up for the inconvenient size.

Rada fotim z telefonem protoze je maly a vejde se mi do kapsy. Je take sikovne mit moznost fotky rovnou poslat na Instagram nebo na Facebook. Ale zastesklo se mi po fotaku a tak jsem ho zase "oprasila" a zacala si hrat.



If you didn't see my kitchen before, you could probably guess which color is  the most dominant just from looking at these shelves ;)

Jestli jste nikdy nevideli mou kuchyn lehce uhodnete, ktera barva tam prevlada jen z pohledu na me policky ;)

Also I finally manage to take  pictures of these  infinity scarfs. You can find them in my fb shop.

Konecne jsem nafotila i davno dodelane saly. K dostani na me facebook strance.

And of course I had my "helper"  Charlie watching me. He follows me everywhere like a dog and he is super sweet!

No a samosebou jsem na to mela pomocnika Charliho, ktery za mnou vsude chodi jako pejsek a je hrozne mily a pritulny!

photos © Monika Opatril

 

oh deer....

We still have such a gorgeous weather and we take full advantage of it every day. We take Tess for  walk on our beach almost every evening. The days are already noticeably longer and sunsets are beautiful! I am working on lots of things as usual,  tomorrow I plan to start refinishing more pieces of furniture.  I bought  some new watercolor supplies today and had fun drawing this buck deer. I like to upload my pictures to the computer and use different filters and backgrounds to digitally enhance the image.

Stale mame nadherne pocasi a plne toho vyuzivame. Skoro kazdy den chodime s Tess na dlouhe vecerni prochazky po plazi. Dny se prodluzuji a zapady slunce jsou nadherne. Ja, jako obycejne, pracuji na vsemoznych projektech, zitra mam v planu renovovat dalsi kusy nabytku. Dnes jsem si koupila par novych "pomucek" na malovani akvarelkami a zabavila se kreslenim tohoto srnce. Jak uz jsem psala minule, rada si upravuji me obrazky digitalne v pocitaci (pozadi a ruzne filtry) a tenhle neni vyjimka.

 Lots of flowers are already in bloom.
Kytky se zacinaji probouzet.

images © monika opatril

Lately I am being lazy and do not carry my camera thus the grainy (not enough light) pictures from the beach taken just with my iPhone.

Posledni dobou jsem lina tahat fotak. Proto tedy ty zrnite fotky (malo svetla v podvecer) z plaze, focene jen  iPhone.  

Happy Valentine's Day ♥

Happy Valentine Everyone, a special day to celebrate what we do every day, love one another. What a wonderful day to tell the world and remind each other how lucky we are to have each other ♥


Preji vam hezkeho Valentyna ♥

© monika opatril

Puerto Vallarta

Here are some pics from Puerto Vallarta. It was my first time in Mexico, we spent two weeks there and I absolutely loved it!

Fotky z Mexika z mesta Puerto Vallarta. Byla jsem tam poprve, stravili jsme tam dva tydny a ja si to tam zamilovala!

Church of Our Lady Guadalupe.

Kostel  Panny Marie v  Guadalupe.

La Calavera Catrina figure.   An icon of the Mexican Día de los Muertos or Day of the Death.

Catrina či La Calavera Catrina nebo-li elegantní lebka,  je vlastne karikatura smrtky,  ktera  patri k svatku  " Den mrtvych ".

These figures are everywhere and I just couldn't  resist to sketch one of them. I added the background on the computer to give it the  journal like feeling.

Tyto figurky jsou vsude a ja neodolala  a take si jednu nakreslila. (Pozadi je delane na pocitaci)

I also attempted this watercolor painting of my grandma from an old photograph. I took some acrylic painting classes about 6 years ago and really, really enjoyed it.  My New Years resolution for this year is to try to get back to it, learn and hopefully improve while enjoying myself. I know these are more or less childlike "doodles", but  I have fun and like they say practice makes perfect so I will keep practicing ;)

Jako predsevzeti do noveho roku jsem si dala zavazek, ze se zase pustim do kresleni a malovani. Asi pred 6 lety jsem chodila na kurzy malovani akrylovými barvami a moc me to tenkrat bavilo. Tak se letos pokusim tomu zase vice venovat.  Lakaji me akvarelove barvy a i kdyz ty me maluvku vypadaji jak od zacku zakladni skoly, ja to nevzdavam.  Tady jsem se pokusila namalovat babicku podle jedne hodne stare fotografie ;)

This one was inspired by these cute felt hens  that I stumbled across the other day. What a fun project that would be to make one!

Pri brouzdani na webu jsem nedavno narazila na tyhle nadherne filcove slepicky, dobra inspirace do "malovaneho denicku"!

Winter Shades Of Gray

It is cold,wet and gray.... .still beautiful in many ways, but  nevertheless almost lifeless.

Je zima, mokro a sedivo.....coz ma stale svoji krasu i kdyz skoro jako bez zivota.

  Especially when  you come home from warm,colorful place called México! (we had a wonderful holiday last month in Puerto Vallarta, more pics to come ;))

Zvlas kdyz se vratite domu z tepleho, barevneho sveta zvaneho México! (minuly mesic jsme byli na dovolene v Puerto Vallarta, vic fotek priste ;))

So to brighten my days and because my daughter really inspires me, I  dug out my watercolor paints and put some color on the paper.  Little silly hings like this make me happy.......♥

 Abych se trochu rozveselila  a protoze me inspiruje dcera, vystrachala jsem me akvarelky a  a dala se do malovani. Takovehle drobne malickosti me delaji radost......♥

 More color yet, as I promised a while ago, here are my finished wooden dolls. I had so much fun painting these and "playing" dress up .

No a jeste trochu barev v podani dokoncenych "vareckovych" panenek, jak jsem slibila. Byla to zabava je namalovat a obleknout.

Happy New Year

Wishing you all the best in the new year 2015 ! 
 Vse nejlepsi v novem roce 2015 !

OMG, so behind with keeping this blog up to date. I will try to do better in the new year, meanwhile I would like to thank you for being patient with me and coming back for more.... ♥

Moc vam vsem dekuji ze vasi trpelivost, posledni dobou vubec nestiham a blogovani se me proste nejak vymklo z rukou :)  Vynasnazim se to v novem roce napravit!