NordenBladet – On December 31 we returned from a several weeks long family trip to Spain and on January 1 after a long time I woke up at home – in Estonia. It was so nice to wake up at home, but the excitement was cut down by the lousy skiing weather, the minus degrees and the Northern darkness.
By the way, flying from Spain back to Estonia was like in a horror movie – it got darker outside every five minutes, even darker when we got back to Estonia. To celebrate New Year’s, we sipped up several bottles of champagne and therefore the sudden climate change was no longer a problem. However, what was a problem was the chest pain the next day. Namely, I cannot take champagne (that sucks), now I have been assured several times already – drinking champagne does not end well for me. Luckily there’s no problem with wine yet. Ptui-ptui… Icccc.
In Malaga airport on our way back to Tallinn.
At home there was a big present from Allan’s brother’s family waiting for us, that brought back the Christmas feeling, and Allan requested sauerkraut and black pudding. He got that! I served them with Meie Mari “Cloudberry jam” (yum!) from the beautiful Christmas-themed ceramic plates made by Ivanka! I have been going to ceramics class with Ivanka since 2019 and I think today she makes really beautiful and unique ceramics. She does need supervision, but she has a very nice and original art style!
But now to the summary of January. Just like you get the January post after the February summary (see HERE), I’ll do the December trip’s summary after the January post.. The blogging came out like this, let it have such logic.. iccc.
In the beginning of January I created a Lightyear* (adlink) account. I do not yet know how difficult or easy it is going to be to submit Lightyear reports, but compared to LHV‘s criminally high service fees and commission fees I decided to do my trading via Lightyear account or via Interactive Brokers (the plan is to register a business account there and once our robo-counsellor is ready, we will trade via their app). There’s a big difference whether you pay service fees 30 eur (LHV) for buying the stock, or 1 eur (Lightyear), the same applies to sales. On the other hand, there are frights connected to Lightyear – when you trade with larger sums, does Lightyear provide guarantee for the deposit? What does the later report system look like (hopefully one doesn’t have to add each and every transaction in the report and it is automatic). LHV excels with reliability, great service (I like that they answer the phone immediately) and I like that they offer amplification. A huge minus for LHV (which in the long run would still mean the investors and traders will move to some other platform) is the abnormally high service fee. 🙁
It also looks like there are age-related changes going on. ? ? Besides sewing nonstop, I started attending rag rug knitting courses in January!!! In January I completed four little rag rugs. I took pictures of the first three rugs and you can read about those rugs from ElishevaShoshana.com handicraft blog HERE (rag rug #1), HERE (rag rug #2) and HERE (rag rug #3). I also bought myself Liidia Mälksoo’s book “Fabric knitting” and I silently dream about my personal looms. Since the idea behind rag rugs is recycling, then I like to make the rugs largely from self processed materials. Therefore I spend lots of time cutting old fabrics into knitting strings.
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January 14th was Allan’s brother’s wife Tiina’s birthday and we celebrated it on the 13th of January. The guests were first of all invited to a private excursion to Tallinn City Hall and after that to a dinner in Tallink City Hotel restaurant “City Grill House”
In January I was also struck by a mania of sewing little sachets. Here are just a few examples – all in all I made at least over 20 different pockets and even one larger glasses case. It is so nice to mix fabrics, laces and ribbons. Besides self made pockets you can also see my stylish blue January manicure in the pictures. It was such a nice nail polish colour that I already miss it 🙂
There’s a lot more to post about January, but to zip it up quickly, I also did the following:
*I went to the SPA and massage several times
*I read and focussed on self development, more precisely learning the art of Manifesting
*as a generator of ides I tried coming up with new ideas to carry out
*I practised thinking big and thought about how I could be of use to the world and the people. I wish to accomplish something that humanity would appreciate. Something that would help many people.
In conclusion, two pictures from today’s dinner. I prepared a quick and easy home made meal (pasta with cheese, fish fingers, pickles and sour cream-mayonnaise sauce).
PS. also these beautiful brown plates are made by Ivanka!
That’s all for this time! Hugs!
