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Garden

Been dreaming of gardens lately and planting my own flowers and vegetables. Isn't this be a nice entrance to a magical garden?

Photo taken at Saugerties, NY.

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Marieta

The BobbinTalk European contributor Marieta Tsenova as seen in Varna.

You gotta love her blue bags!

Red, White and Blue - Fashion

Have an amazing Independence Day weekend!

Red dress, styled and modeled by Alexa Winner

Tayane Leao at a photoshoot

Blue paper dress from an FIT exhibition

Grant Jewelry

I am both a big lover of rings and a lover of BIG rings. I always end up buying a piece of jewelry every time I go on a trip and my trip to Bulgaria wasn't any different. This time it was my mom who bought me an amazing piece for my birthday from an artist in Bulgaria. It is a massive silver ring with colored sand glaze on top and silver ornaments underneath the base. I am in love with this piece!

It's about 1 1/4" wide on top and about 1/2" deep.

 

If you ever travel to Varna you should visit the art-gallery I bought it at. It's called NAIRI, address is Panagyurishte 4. The artist who made this ring is Grant and his website is grant-jewellery.com He has a ton of beautiful pieces. I could have bought a few more if I could!

Gifts from Bulgaria

I love buying gifts for friends from trips and love receivening them too :) I'm always amazed by the hand-made textiles from Bulgaria. Such bright colors. I am traveling back to New York today and this is what I'm bringing back for friends this time:
Hand-woven wall decorations with little bell at the end.

Traditional hand-painted wooden containers, which hold a small vial of rose oil from the Rose Valley in Bulgaria

 

And these are my favorite: little dolls in traditional folklore dress, accompanied by rose oil.
 

All photos with the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone 3GS

Varna

Two weeks flew by so fast especially being relaxed with my parents and feeling spoiled... Today is the last day of my trip and I walked around with my mom to take one last look at VArna, eat some ice cream and take a few photos!

The main cathedral of the city of Varna

 

I'm already eating ice-cream here and no I didn't buy two, one of them is my mom's who is taking the photo...

 
Above is the Opera House in Varna

 
And one of my all time favorite restaurants on the beach. It is completely open with gorgeous views of Black Sea

Samuel Green

If you are an avid BobbinTalk reader you probably saw Samuel Green's collection during thesis review at Parsons this past spring. Now a fresh graduate and with a bit more time on his hands he reshot his collection with a bit of flare and a sense of dreamy modern femininity.

 
 
 

  
 
  
  

Nostalgic

A couple of weeks ago before I even knew I would travel back home to spend some time with my parents I felt the need to walk around the town where I grew up. I felt almost panicky that I might not come this summer and started dreaming of strolling through the familiar streets, lying on the beach or just relaxing at my parents summer house. Now that I am here and I do walk around, I catch myself reminiscing of the times when I was growing up and walking the same streets. So many things have changed and others have stayed the same. I see some of the trees I used to climb when I was little and they all have grown so big! I can't even reach the bottom branches. When did we all grow up so much? It feels like yesterday I was a little kid... One thing is always here though, the beauty of what used to be my grandma's and now is my mom's garden. 
Here are some more photos of our house here in Varna and my favorite monastery:

My mom uses ceramic figurines of animals like roosters, chickens, ducks and even fish and places them through out the garden. They are quite colorful and make wonderful accents. I love looking at them, but the stray cats that pass through the garden get really startled and spend some time inspecting them.

 
My grand-parents build a gazebo next to the house many many years ago. It's still there unchanged and that's where I have my morning tea and afternoon snacks, and we all gather around to have dinner together.

 
My mom has flowers literally everywhere... And yes she does water them EVERY evening!!

 
Back view of the house...

 
The next couple of photos are of the Saints Constantine and Helena monastery. This is where we had our wedding last summer. It has been renovated since I grew up and is one of those really special places where you do feel re-energized and holy!

 

 

All photos taken with Hipstamatic app on my 3GS iPhone 
 
  

Enjoy Your Weekend

For the next couple of weeks I'll be writing from Varna, Bulgaria. It's where I was born and my parents still live. I had a quick opportunity to fly back here to see them and enjoy the beginning of the summer and didn't even hesitate. I bought tickets and in a day I flew over the ocean to find myself back in the house where I grew up. For those of you who might not know, Varna is a city on the Black Sea coast and has four seasons with sunny hot summers, but the heat waves of July and August seemed to have come really early this summer. I got greeted by a blazing sun and temperatures of 90 degrees Fahrenheit. I am certainly not complaining, but the flowers in my mom's beautiful garden are literally getting baked. My mom is a landscape designer and an avid gardener and likes her flowers perfect! I on the other side, {to her horror} thought that the drying flowers look even more interesting than the lively ones and took more photos of the imperfect ones. Here are some I took yesterday!
The first image is the entrance to the house.

 
These are some of my mom's favorite roses.

 

And here are the ones who are starting to dry out in the unforgiving sun...

 

I think they are all beautiful, or maybe I'm just grateful to be back home for a couple of weeks!
Hope you enjoy your weekend as much as I am right now...

All photos, taken with the HIpstamatic camerea on my iPhone 3G

 
 
  

Fashionable in the Heat!

Here is one way to beat the summer heat! Tank top and maybe a hat, but for a fashionable look make sure you are well accessorized! I bumped into Houman Farahmand and Eri Wakiyama, in SOHO a couple of days ago. Do you remember Eri? I covered her fashion design graduating collection last year {HERE}. And she has an inspiring blog EriTheMermaid

LOVE the chunky ring in a bold bright color!

The glasses are priceless!

These boots might not keep you cooler, but they are fashionable!

Stay cool this weekend!

All photos by Aneta Genova