
I hope you spent Christmas with your loved ones, and in peace.

What was different - it was Christmas. Never has a year like this one made me realize how important it is to have a home where it's warm, and love and how important it is to have someone beside you who cares about who you are and how you feel. And that it's not a given.
This year, I participated in it by complete accident. Next year it will be completely on purpose. I realized that doing something selflessly for someone else gives Christmas a different dimension. We live in a time when we want more and more, and nothing is enough. But we forget, that sometimes just little is enough. As I stood outside looking at the lighted gazebo, I felt so grateful to be there. I don't know these people, their lives, and their stories. But I know what it feels like you don't deserve to live in this world for one more minute. I know what it's like to feel broken. And I know it can happen to any of us someday, and I'm grateful that I could make someone feel like they matter too.
So my dears, I wish you to have around you the people, whose hearts are filled with love, kindness, and humility.
Vendulka XOXO
Sometimes I have the feeling that everything is fast somehow.
Days when I don't even notice the daylight.
Meetings and phone calls that I missed again.
Moments I've mistakenly taken as priorities.
The calendar sheet I didn't turn again.
Or the winter, which hasn't started yet and is already ending?
Or are these delicate flowers just a little reminder that you can bloom even when others tell you that you shouldn't?
It is winter, after all.. 🌸

Hi, my dears,
the hug. Sometimes the hug is the only thing you really need. Did you know it?
This sloth knows it very well too. ♥
Did you know why sloths are so slow? What do they have in common with avocados, and that they are great swimmers? For the curious ones like me... read this article TOP 10 incredible facts about sloths written by The Sloth Conservation Foundation.
Sometimes I feel that I am slowly the same as a sloth. 17 months! This is how long it took me to publish a new pattern. Instead of being angry at myself, that it took me so long, I am happy, that I finally finished it. Do you know that for all this time I was just one little step closer to finishing it? I am delighted, that I broke my designer/publisher block. I am as happy as this sloth. Thank you very much for still being with me. ♥