A Postcard A Day - Tuesday 21 November 2023 - T for trainers, spectacles and a birthday party.

 Hello lovely girls, here we are again on Tuesday, ready to join the so-called T-Gang for the T-Party hosted by Bluebeard and Elizabeth.  All that is needed is a beverage of sorts (or a reference to a drink). You will see mine a little later, but first I want to show you my postcard for the day:

It arrived this week all the way from Moscow. There wasn't much room for the sender to write anything on it (as you will see later)

There is a lot of fun information about Moscow as well as a beautiful sunset sky. 

This is the back of the card. (Hardly any room for the address). The stamps are stunning:

Three different ones about lace making. Right up my street!

The stamp on the left looks like this:

And is Vologda lace, a bobbin lace made in Vologda Oblast.

Vologda lace is a unique type of decoration in the Russian folk art that impresses with the richness and variety of its lines, ornaments, and patterns.

At one of my lace making residential courses in the UK, I learnt a bit of this lacemaking.

The middle stamp:

This is an example of Yelets lace, a bobbin lace made in Yelets town, Lipetsk Oblast.

Yelets laces became known in Russia since the end of the XVIII century: Yelets became one of the first centers where Russian traditional lace craftsmanship has arisen. Yelets weaving is unique and labor-consuming craftsmanship: for example, lace makers have spent more than four month for the creation of the dress which has appeared in Ulyana Sergeenko Spring-Summer 2016 Couture collection.

The purple one on the right is The Vyatka lace, a bobbin lace made in Kirov Oblast, the centre of the handcraft is in Sovetsk town.

Here is an example of Vyatka lace:

The line at the bottom reads (according to Google Translate):

I haven't been able to do any lace making for many years. I wish I could find a teacher , then I would love to start doing it again.

But what I have been doing is spending money.  I've bought a pair of Sketchers (trainers) and I also have new spectacles.

A selfie in the mirror to show you my new glasses. They are turquoise, although they look darker. In the light they are almost transparent, quite pretty (I think).

I also did some socialising. I was invited to the 3rd birthday party of Saba, my friend Maria's little girl. 

You might remember I went to see her and her family in Sardinia, back in June. Now she is here in Caniles for a little while.

In Sardinia I had lovely cuddles with her other child, Atlas, who was only a few weeks old then. Well, he is a few months older now and I had more cuddles:

He is so gorgeous.

Here I am with my Dutch friend Maaike:

Maaike is a farmer (In the Netherlands) and a crafter. She does beautiful things with felt.(https://www.instagram.com/eco_maaike/?hl=en).

Maria and her sister had prepared quite a spread:

Of course the newly 3-yr old had a cake 

and some candles to blow out:

Of course as this is T for Tuesday, There should be some drinks. Yes, looking back at the photos, there are wine bottles and thermos bottles and goodness what else visible. 

I'm going to leave at this. 

Happy T-Day all!

Hugs,

Lisca