Frank's been playing a computer game for two days flat, so I haven't had the time to do anything on the puter.

day 5
I tried to see whether a magic drawing board could be used for something proper. Yes, it can. On second photo you can see a little artist adding in to my masterpiece. I guess it suits. :D



day 6
Cheesy, I know. A sunset. But I just love it when the sky is burning. Back at home I had never seen that. Here, occasionally. And this time, as well, it was gone 10 minutes after I took that picture.


day 7
Little artist at work! :D


Iris,
sincerely

And just last week I thought: this year I will not miss a day and start properly! And now? Well, I only remembered today.

I have a little online handicrafts shop in Folksy now and some lovely lady wanted gifts for her friend's newborn baby. So I finished the ball yesterday and the hat today.



Also, featuring a drawing of a cupcake I made few days ago to amuse my little daughter.



( a little update... )

Anyway, looking forward to Naarmamo! :)

Iris,
sincerely

!!!!!!111!!!!11!!!!11111!!!!!!!!!!

Estonia is getting votes!! :D Were at the 6th place!!"!!! :D

Iris,
ecstatic

I've had quite a few books I've read recently that I have wanted to translate.

*I will definitely continue with Miloš Mačourek one day, I tried doing it over Christmas - check my history in December.
** Robert Vaidlo "The Wonderous Voyage of Dr. Mary and Chub-Puppy", a childrens' story in which some dolls escape and find an island made of sweets, also starring characters from real kids drawing pads. I used to love it when I was a kid. (I am thinking of also scanning the illustrations in, they are really cute!)
*** "The Memoirs of Ivan Orav", a really funny parody of Estonian history since the first Republic and the Soviet times. My sister just gave me an audiobook of this for my birthday. I can understand that many of you wouldn't know whether to be interested, but it does contain famous people as well (and Sherlock Holmes in one place! :D), as well as generally funny bits which would be understandable for everyone. I am happy to provide footnotes to everything that is estonian, like places and people.


Tell me what you think and what you would be interested in. I'll try to do that one first! :)

Book: Clockwork Orange. Em, Digital Fortress, though I kind of liked Da Vinci Code. Gone with the Wind. It made me sick, though I know that it wasn't common then or anything, and they didn't know how to but WHY oh WHY didn't they TALK to each other?
Film: For technical reasons I don't go to cinema much, but I did see Prince Caspian few days ago, that's about the most modern film at the moment. Didn't like many things in it. Mainly the "love interest" cr*p (And the actress who plays Susan has the most ugly mouth EVAR. I understand that they wanted to pick new Angelina Jolie, but her mouth looks like it's swollen ALL THE TIME. Poor girl.) Also the sex scene even on trailer annoys the hell out of me in new Star Trek, though evil bad guy Sylar from Heroes seems to make a decent Mr. Spock.
Band: Can't even say. I think pretty much all contemporary music is bad. Can't pick anyone - I simply only listen to the things I like, and usually even won't try pop.
Food: British pickles. What do they put in them, battery acid? (And another thing I don't like is that I can't get proper black bread, nice cottage cheese, big yoghurts - 1l juice carton size - or soured milk here.)
TV show: New Reggie Perrin is absolute cr*p. I watched about a minute of it, in 2 different bits. Made me sick, especially since we have been watching the old one recently. And Robin Hood isn't better. Oh, oh, and Lost.

I love ranting. More categories, anyone? :)


Iris,
sincerely

That someone had made a film about Singing Revolution.

http://www.singingrevolution.com/

Iris,
shocked (in a good way)

Hee hee. In some questions I recognised not myself but my dear hubby. :D
from rabidsamfan

( geek geek )

Take The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test at HelloQuizzy

Iris,
sincerely

More Milos Macourek magnificence


( ...of a little blue pot who loved to make tomato sauce )
Iris,
sincerely

Yep, you guessed. Story by Milos Macourek.


( The water pipe who sang in the opera )

Iris,
sincerely

...yet another story by Milos Macourek.

( Zuzanka and her letters )

Iris,
sincerely

...there's another story.

( Little carpet and crumbs of almond cake )

Iris,
sincerely

I posted a story by Milos Macourek. Because it is cute. Read and tell your friends, too. (If you like it.) :)

( Katerinka and the thick red sweater )

Iris,
sincerely

For all my friends - I did switch to my mosaiik-community. Please go and watch it, if you want to see my artmonth. :)

Iris,
sincerely

*Just watched last week's Dr. Who and thought again how sad the episode really was, or the whole story. Donna lost the nice man, and The Library was just left to Vashda Nerada. :'( Also, if we did compare it to Blink, which had these statues appearing last year, implying that you never know which are the Weeping Angels, then now people will be afraid of libraries! (Nooooo!) AND everyone died AND it's sad that the little girl was the hard drive... :S

**I decided to take part of bladdericontest LIMS, which came like gift to me, since I missed mystery_stills one. Would anyone else from my flist like to join? :D They want at least 15 people, so there's still 7 to go! And you don't have to be uber-skilled to join. :) (I do hope I can manage to make one icon per week, and that I don't fall out the first week...) (EDIT: since this was posted on Friday 13th, I probably will. :P)

***This post features my newest icon as well. Hooray, Emily! :) *cuddles*

Iris,
sincerely

What Doctor Who character are You? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as 2nd doctor Small, scared, clown. Three words that sum you up. Recorder music is brilliant. 2nd doctor 92% 10th Doctor 75% 4th Doctor 75% 3rd doctor 58% 8th Doctor 58% a Dalek 33% 1st Doctor 33% 6th doctor 33% 5th Doctor 33% 7th Doctor 25% 9th Doctor 25% Davros 8%

A question to my flist generally: where can I look how much I have used up of my scrapbook space? Anyone?

Iris,
sincerely

Sherlock Holmes game! :D
I know I have it somehere already, but still. Need it NOW!! :D

http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com :)

My little sister was here today, because they had athletics competition here, and I borrowed her camera. :)
Spring is here, warm and beautiful, and this must be one of my favourite times in the year: when the leaves are still tiny enough not to cover all sun, but still large enough to give shade, if you need it. And all the trees in full bloom! And, and, dandelions! :D
But, enough of talking!

Just the order again I took the photos. :)

As I hit enter accidentally before I wrote location or music in, I also didn't put photos behind a cut. Sorry. Doing that now. :P


Iris,
sincerely

Something bad happened yesterday. We were playing backgammon with Frank, and I was losing - and because I was tired, I was crap at hiding my disappointment. :( We had an argument and Frank feels really depressed now, even if I have told him several times that I am sorry I acted like a fool and I would like to forget it.

As I know (well, almost) what it feels like to be depressed, I know it is very hard to do something then, hard to believe that you are worthy, that you deserve happiness and that you are a good person overall. And that is, I believe, how Frank feels now. The worst thing is, as he told me yesterday, that because of his work and years of depression, he simply has to analyse all things other people tell him, and find the hidden meanings - bad meanings. :/ And as he has always been a person who believes only (in) the things he has thought straight in his own mind, it is hard for him to believe that someone could genuinely like him, without any selfishness. Add it to the depression and you find a problem almost impossible to solve. :(

But, we here have no reason to only act nicely, because we want something from him, right? We - well, at least my friends who know Frank - like him just because what and who he is - a kind, knowledgeable, helpful man, whom I personally love the most. I want him to be happy, and it breaks my heart seeing him being sad like that. (Especially when I caused it myself. D': )

So I am asking you, my friends, to go and tell him why you like him. You can write into his LJ, so everyone could see, or send him emails or real snail mail, whatever. If you don't have his address, I can give it to you. Please tell him why he is your friend. He should understand that we don't make compliments just to make him feel bad, on the contrary, we want him to feel happy. :S :)

Frank, I love you. You are the best and wisest man I've ever known (to use Watson's words ;), and your knowledge, kindness and love have made my world so much better over the last 8 months. I love you. You bad voices, who keep telling him he is not worthy, GO AWAY! Leave my man alone!! >:/ No matter what, I can overcome all th arguments, because I love you. I can cope with the bad things because I love you. I forget the sad moments, because I am looking forward to the good times we will have together. Because I love you. It's as simple as that. *hugs you and kisses you and holds you tightly*

Iris,
sincerely

After long arduous day I finally reached the scanner! :)
My first comic-like card, to tribute elina_kivimaki's fabulous holmesian cartoons!
Warm birthday wishes, Elina! 22 is a *very* good year!! *hugs*



(and yes, I know that Holmes looks strange on the last pic, but I have always drawn him in profile until now.. ;))

Iris,
cheerful

From now on, I am going to "Friends only". All this "excitement" lately has made me somewhat cautious. And there are (at least) two people I don't want to read about my personal life and love. Yes, love, because they had big issue with it. I am not locking all the previous threads, though. You still should see with whom you want to become friends. :D

Feel free to add me and just leave a comment here. :)

Your Iris,
very sincerely

Added the Holmesian drawing to my art-blog mosaiik.

All my friends who you are interested in my art, please do friend this community, because I won't post my art here anymore; and maybe only 1 or 2 more notes about posting something there. Thank you in advance! :)

Iris,
dying into sleep

Tom Baker, the 4th Doctor Who, has played Sherlock Holmes in 1981 TV mini series of HOUN.
Read more here.
There are also some funny quotes, like this:  [On the "Doctor Who" (1963) serial "The Talons of Weng-Chiang"]: "The BBC is very good at period drama but not very good at giant rats." :D

Iris,
new dr. Who fan (you simply have to love the music! xD)

EDIT: This post is public now. People have rights to see the point of view of every party. And share their opinions; if they wish, of course.
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As you can see, my dear friends, I am "suspended" from HN again. Because of my last post in "Shared joy" thread. All HNers, you can go and read for yourself. Because I can't anymore. All non-HNers can read about it here. There are also links to the original "spat".

The original circumstances, and "reasons". My point of view of the whole story - I am not claiming that this is 100% right. I just have to get this finally out of me.
I joined HN in the end of August, just before starting my new job. I loved this place, everyone there were so friendly. But there was one special man I noticed from the beginning, and I thought about him a LOT. Then, finally, on Oct 9th I was finally courageous enough to write him, and we became friends. This wonderful and very special friend is frankymole. We became very close really quickly, and noticed that we had lots of things in common. These were the happy times, but life had its own plans. :P
Frank had had a stroke on Nov 14th, and he had been in hospital several weeks. In the beginning of December, just a bit after he got out, Chat wrote him and told him if he could tell me to not to talk so much about my private life. Frank was unpleasantly surprised and tried to protect me, which lead to C&Co to tell him that they don't like him - a mod - being a friend to a member, i.e. me. And, in fact, us being "in love" is making them sick (as do the "emo-threads") and we should really post only holmesian things there. There was a quarrel, Frank called me in the morning and woke me up, telling that he is going to leave HN. I, naturally was shocked, and wanted to persuade him not to, saying that if he will, then I have to do this, too. He still started a "good bye" thread, lots of people answered and told us not to leave. As soon as Chat noticed, she deleted the thread. SolitaryRider and Reichenbach tried to express their disapproval, but we all were suspended by the next morning. I was fool enough to crawl a bit and ask if they please would take me back. I was on a "noviciate", though, my posts had to be approved. I behaved, of course, because I hoped that things will be the same again. *blond and naive me* xD I even asked them to take SolitaryRider and Reichenbach back, because it was not their fault. But every time I went back, I just felt that the place is never the same again... :( Without Frank. And, of course, without proper reasons, because they never told me really what was wrong, what I had done, or what could I do to make things better, even if I asked several times. (And I got the impression that my posts had caused the original quarrel!) I felt constantly that I will say something wrong. :( I even didn't visit the place anymore. :S But, the day before yesterday I wanted to do that, still. Because my dear Frank had been here, with me, in real life (yay!), and I wanted to share that joy. I wanted to see how many people still remember him there. I wanted to praise him *blushes*, because he is *SO GOOD*! And maybe, just a little maybe I wanted to stir things up a bit again. Then I made my second post, and as before - I was given a "warning", just before they suspended my account for a year. Again. :P

I am really sick and tired of these games. It seems that the president of Russia is right - Americans preach democracy, but in the same time they don't want to learn that themselves, they only want to control the world. (Of course, as Russia did it for 50 years, Putin should know what he is talking about. :P)

I sent a request to London Cabbie, asking if they finally could "unregister" me. Because, as I said, I don't feel comfortable there anymore. Every time I went back to HN in the past 2 months, I only felt hypocrisy there, I couldn't understand how they can be so happy, when they have caused so much pain. :'( (Yes, I mean you, Chat and Cookies.) I don't want to think of me as a revengeful person, but I tell you, I will never forget what they did to Frank and how they treated us and our friends. (I am good at bearing grudge, yes). *shakes fist and swears like navvy* :P :P They will never know about the pain and concern when I tried to sort things out and had to keep Frank talking to me on that night, because he was really close to giving up, at one point. On Dec 4th it was only three weeks after his stroke! :O He had to go back to the hospital because of this shock, afterwards. :'( I was awake almost 24 hours, talking to all people, all friends of mine from HN, in MSN, or via emails. Many of them are still with me, here in LJ. Thank you! :) *hugs all*

I am in one of my shittiest moods at the moment. All this original surprise and sadness came back into my mind today. So I even don't want to apologise because of all the anger in this post. Have to get this finally out of me. Too much. Too much. Too much hypocrisy in the past few months. *rablerambleramble*

People still in HN, beware. Happiness and love are not appreciated there. And we still have not seen proper reasons or apologies. The "Big Sister" is watching you! And, as I have seen in 3 posts now - and in the members-only forum rules, which were written there after banning us, too -  there are sentences that could be read as "you are not allowed to express your disapproval, because you are not paying the bill"!


One good thing in the day, though. :) Received a wonderful gift. "The Storykeeper Cameo" (see my avatar)  - a pendant necklace with Iris the Writer, painted by Selina Fenech. :) Thank you, dear! *kisses and hugs all over*

And, the Sentence of the Day, fom my online dictionary: :D
"Great minds run in great circles". ;)

Iris,
tired


edit:
P.S. Kudos to London Cabbie, who was helpful and tried to sort things out, really. She didn't cuss in Frank's LJ, and "smoothed" things in HN after this split. LC, if you are reading this, then I apologise again that things had to end like that and I appreciate very much what you did (or at least tried to do) for me. I am sorry that I let you down, but now I know it would have been better if I had left in December already. You do good, ;) and every forum could use a mod like you. Good luck! :)

A joke from newspaper "Postimees" today:

An American millionaire wants to buy a castle in England. He asks the landlord: "I have heard that it's a haunted castle. Is it true?"
"Of course not!" sais the lord offendedly. " I have lived here over 500 years, and I have never seen any ghosts!"

Iris,
sincerely