Wine and Design

 When I was in Charleston during my vacation, my girlfriends made for me a surprise: we spent all evening  drawing  at the art room. It was wonderful night! I am so bad in drawing and don't have any experience to paint something beautiful. For first five minutes I was a  little bit confuse, but after a glass of cold wine, I opened a new talent in myself. It is a joke, of course the trainer of this event helped me and gave me a lot of good tips for drawing.

   This is an amazing place for relax, meeting new interesting people, communication, opening new talent of your soul. You can bring your own bottle of wine or champagne and enjoy the process... They costing 35 dollars for almost four hours and gave you all materials: a canvas, brushes, paints. And they teach you! I think it is a good deal for make yourself or somebody a little more happier. 

    
   We drew last night a cute lovely birds, which set on the branch and watched for the moon. Romantic!

  Pancakes in the air 

    Today is the start of the week of Maslenitsa, It is one of my favorite time in the year. Time when the Spring is right around the corner and when you eat pancakes (in Russia we call them ''Blinchiki'') everyday during the whole week.  

• Maslenitsa is one of the Orthodox Church favorite and merry festivals.
  During these weeks people avoid eating fat meals, meat and there are few entertainments.
• People must work hard, pray and clean their soul.
• The Russian word for butter is “maslo” hence it appears Maslenitsa. Maslenitsa is the time to say farewell to winter and hello to the coming of spring. We eat "blinchiki", because our ancestry believed, that hot yellow pancakes symbolized the sun. 

    Blinchiki we make every day especially much from Thursday up to Sunday during The Wide Maslenitsa. It is required to visit and receive guests when Maslenitsa. Each mistress of the house has her own particular blinchiki recipe. I still remember the taste of my granny's pancakes with fish, honey, jam, and lots of butter and of course  with red caviar. Also she made “zbiten” (a hot drink made of water, honey and spices).

Sunday is the last day of Maslenitsa, we call it "Forgiveness Subday". Everybody must forget all their offences and forgive all people. When I was a child , I went with my grandfather to frozen lake and watched how burned the Dummy of Maslenitsa. It was fun! Everybody is dancing, playing in old fashioned Russian games and eating pancakes.
 Welcome to Russia, welcome to Maslenitsa!)))  

Smartphone Addiction (presentation)

Microsoft Windows Phone 7 - Funny Smartphone Addicts Commercial

Smartphone Addiction

  How do you feel when you hear sound of your cellphone? Some anxiety? Do you want to stop doing whatever you doing and check the phone? Maybe you just get a text message or somebody is calling you? Maybe you have notification from Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat ? It is like a red cloth for a bull... You need to check it! Immediately! 

   Smartphone is today's addiction and it is legalized digital drug for people. Yes, we can't live without our cellphones and Internet, because smartphones make our life more easier. Many apps, that we using in our life routine, helps us with job, school, health, fitness, communication and etc. It is a great resource and I will be continue to use my cellphone. But we must remember, that our real life more important. Sometimes, we need to take a break from our genius phones and enjoy the simple things of our beautiful life! 

  There is my short  PowerPoint presentation about smartphone addiction:

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!!