.......or, ''In which I send all my blog readers website-hopping''!
I hope everyone had a good, productive and enjoyable week!
This week I was able to work somewhat on accomplishing a goal I had for February, which was to finish setting up accounts for our businesses on different sites, and designing new banners for our Etsy, Artfire and blogs!
Mazzou's Photography FB
Sam and Sisters Nature Photography FB
Nonpareils Designs flickr
(I'd be happy if you would follow them ;))
I finally made a banner for my sisters's Etsy shop: Plume de Nikola.....
as well as a new header for her blog : Nonpareils Designs blog
By the way, what do you think of all those websites I sent you to?
I must mention that although I did work some on these sites, that's not all I did this week, and it isn't exactly why I called it a ''good week''. The little things of life: a day with bright sunshine, exercise time with my sisters, doing school-related crafts together, sitting outside in the sunshine doing school, and making and eating especially tasty foods are actually what I remember most about last week. :) But since I did accomplish the above stuff in the web world, I am only sharing that. :)
On Wednesday, I did some special things in honor of Serbia's statehood day, which you probably already know, from the previous post. But did you know what happened to my post? It went on to become ''famous''! (well, a little, at least)
Thursday, I was pleased to find comments from several actual Serbians, responding to that post.
And then I heard that the post had been linked to by the U.S Embassy in Belgrade, as well as been recommended by another writer! That was exciting. :)
It was so fun to read nice things about myself and my dear little Serbian post! Quite thrilling, actually.
American girl celebrates Serbia...
U.S Embassy Belgrade
(Facebook: three posts down is the post about me! :))
U.S Embassy Belgrade twitter
Thirdly, this week I have gotten back into learning the Cyrillic alphabet.....
(beginning with Bulgarian Cyrillic since that's what I have the language course for)
It's a great alphabet...and very easy to learn, I think! Did you use secret codes when you were younger, to write messages to your friends or siblings? We certainly did. Inspired by that fact, I think I'm going to teach the Cyrillic alphabet to all my younger siblings for them to use it phonetically for fun; later they can learn the actual languages involved with the alphabet!
On Saturday, the menfolk of our family (Papa, Sam and Alexandre) went paintballing with a ton of friends. The weather was beautiful.
I know, because we ladies went skating at our outdoor ice rink. :)
Which is better: paintball or iceskating? I know which is cleaner....:)
Thank you Kate, for the above three pictures. I hope you don't mind my borrowing them!
Visit the following link!
Above photos taken by Aaron's sister: Shannon Emily Photography
(be sure to visit her page!)
I hope everyone had a good, productive and enjoyable week!
This week I was able to work somewhat on accomplishing a goal I had for February, which was to finish setting up accounts for our businesses on different sites, and designing new banners for our Etsy, Artfire and blogs!
Mazzou's Photography FB
Sam and Sisters Nature Photography FB
Nonpareils Designs flickr
(I'd be happy if you would follow them ;))
I finally made a banner for my sisters's Etsy shop: Plume de Nikola.....
as well as a new header for her blog : Nonpareils Designs blog
By the way, what do you think of all those websites I sent you to?
I must mention that although I did work some on these sites, that's not all I did this week, and it isn't exactly why I called it a ''good week''. The little things of life: a day with bright sunshine, exercise time with my sisters, doing school-related crafts together, sitting outside in the sunshine doing school, and making and eating especially tasty foods are actually what I remember most about last week. :) But since I did accomplish the above stuff in the web world, I am only sharing that. :)
On Wednesday, I did some special things in honor of Serbia's statehood day, which you probably already know, from the previous post. But did you know what happened to my post? It went on to become ''famous''! (well, a little, at least)
Thursday, I was pleased to find comments from several actual Serbians, responding to that post.
And then I heard that the post had been linked to by the U.S Embassy in Belgrade, as well as been recommended by another writer! That was exciting. :)
It was so fun to read nice things about myself and my dear little Serbian post! Quite thrilling, actually.
American girl celebrates Serbia...
U.S Embassy Belgrade
(Facebook: three posts down is the post about me! :))
U.S Embassy Belgrade twitter
Thirdly, this week I have gotten back into learning the Cyrillic alphabet.....
(beginning with Bulgarian Cyrillic since that's what I have the language course for)
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| Russian cyrillic- I will learn after |
On Saturday, the menfolk of our family (Papa, Sam and Alexandre) went paintballing with a ton of friends. The weather was beautiful.
I know, because we ladies went skating at our outdoor ice rink. :)
Which is better: paintball or iceskating? I know which is cleaner....:)
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| Sam gave Felicia M. rides after each paintball game! |
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| My dad preparing to play |
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| Nick, Peter and Mr. Burns, with Joseph S. |
Everyone else, you can see the rest of Kate's pictures here:
and Leah's pictures as well:
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| The paintball group 2012- thank you to Mary-Ann for the picture :) |
Lastly, and on an entirely different note.....this week I realized that it has been a year since Aaron and Andrea Burns' wedding! Our family did not attend, but we thought of them on their special day. You can view the pictures their photographer (Jonathan Hedrick) took of their wedding; not only is the photography beautiful, the wedding itself was gorgeous: decorated as a winter wonderland!
Visit the following link!
Above photos taken by Aaron's sister: Shannon Emily Photography
(be sure to visit her page!)
15 comments:
Actually, Reyna took the Paintball group photo. No offence, dear sister! :)
THANKS for all of these GREAT links Marjo, I glimpsed through most of them... You have been very busy in the Internet world recently! As well as responding back to all of my comments! :)
Congratulations on getting so much publicity about your Serbian post. That was a VERY good post- very informative & interesting! :) Keep up the good work!
THANKS for sharing the paintballing photos too! I'm SO glad that Mary-Ann got that group shot! I had wanted to slip out to get a photo of everyone, but I wasn't able to... THANKS! :)
Хвала на дивном чланку. Поздрав из Србије.
Hi Marjo!
You have been busy. I was following the comments on your "Serbia" post. :) Very exciting! I really enjoy reading your posts and seeing all the pictures.
Enjoy the lovely weather today.
You made ıt to the Serbıan national press! Congrats :) http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Drustvo/307778/Americka-tinejdzerka-proslavila-Sretenje-uz-srpsku-nosnju-i-palacinke
Hi Marjo,
Did you know that Serbian language has two alphabets: Cyrillic and Latin which are both equally used among people? Also, did you know that each letter from the Serbian alphabet is one voice? This means you can learn how to read by saying those voices as they correspond to each letter within the word. It's been said, "Write as you speak, read as it's written." In other words, no spelling trouble. Here is the link about with more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet
Thank you for honouring my country. Many thanks from me and my family.
The traditional costumes you wear are form Southern Serbia, and I live in the city of Nis (pronounced Neesh) and it is called the capital of southern Serbia. If you have any questions about specific details of the life in Serbia, feel free to ask. Also I can offer you some traditional recepies if you really like our food.
Sincerely,
Dexter
Wow...you've been quite busy Marjo... ^_^ And quite popular...I might add. =)
I'd love to connect with you, my name is Stanko and I am 27-year old Serb living in Kosovo (I guess you know where it is since you are so familiar with Serbia) please give me you e-mail, my address is stanko.montana@yahoo.com
We can share pictures and other stuff since I am interested in discovering the world too. I was so overwhelmed when I learned about your blog and your interest in Serbia. Please contact me!
Hi Maržolena!
I've enjoyed your "Serbian" story, and just wanted to say that Serbian Cyrillic alphabet is a bit easier to learn than Bulgarian (and bit different). The reasons are summed quite well by Stanko above.
Greetings from Serbia, my fb nick is miljan.smith if you ever need a friend over here (and as I can see, you have many now :)
Pozdrav!
THANK YOU for the kind comments, all my new friends in Serbia! I am thrilled to hear from you; you have all been so kind and friendly. It has been very exciting to hear from you!!!
Thank you for the advice on the language- it will help so much!
I am excited to learn Serbian more, especially after seeing the many comments written in Serbian!
Hello,
Have you been to Europe before? If not, you must visit this continent, perhaps all Serbs throughout the world, and Serbian Orthodox Church, collect money for you and your family to come and visit Serbia?
Best Regards from Swedish Serbian born in Serbia
Hi friend of Serbia, did you know that you get to the most visited Serbian daily newspaper. you can read the article here: http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Drustvo/307778/Americka-tinejdzerka-proslavila-Sretenje-uz-srpsku-nosnju-i-palacinke
wish you all the best!!!
Hello Маржо! :)
I'm pleasantly surprised that you've shown interest in learning Serbian. That is so rare nowadays. Serbian Ћирилица is the best as we have the only completely phonetic alphabet in the world. Hopefully this site (www.srpskibre.com) could help you achieving your goal.
Поздрав и све најбоље
Божо
Thank you for the link! I'm sure it will help a lot. I am progressing faster with the alphabet than I expected! Serbian IS a good language! Thank you for your encouragement.
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