Painted T-shirt with folkloric motif

So, I've been having these fabric paints since more than a year now, but never gave them a try. Until now, when I had to paint some T-shirts for a friends' pre-wedding  party. Before getting to the actual work, I thought I'd try first on one of my plain t-shirts. And I got this:

I must admit, I gost this idea from my artist fellows on FB. I was amazed myself. Cross stitch looks so good in paint you can't even tell the difference from far away. In the same time, the result is much neater, easier to take care of and way much easier to obtain :D (although I spent a couple of hours for this particular design - a folkloric motif from my natal region, Dobrogea).

The photos were taken in the Natural Parc of Comana in Romania, a protected area and the second one as biodiversity after the Danube Delta.

Happy new year 2013 - Occidental Carpathians hike

We spend the last day of 2012 and the very first days of 2013 around Herculane, hiking in the mountains and in the caves that small rivers carved to get to the Danube. It was quite an experience, as it was the first time night caught us (I mean, me and my boyfriend) on the top of the mountain, with an extra topping of snow and ice and little light available (only a few of us got flashlights). Eventually, we got back to the hotel in time, just to start the next day another adventure on the side of a river that was hidding in a cave.

We were lucky to be surrounded by all those young people who seemed to have been there before, and who took a lot of pictures during the activities. That is how the next video came out, showing a lot of key moments of our trip in the middle of the nature. Enjoy watching!