For Sticki :)

katoushka [hope i got that right] it is really beautiful ~ i love it!!

inspirational i would say!

im going to have a try at that ~ its a lovely shape

I love that tablecloth Katarina. hand made hardanger embroidery? My Hungarian grandmother used to do some of that. I wish I would have more of it. The flowers are nice too.

oh sorry katarina i missed the table cloth ~ its a beauty too, i think we used to call it drawn thread work ~ i had to try to learn a little of that when i was 12!!

Lol, Sticki, nobody calls me like that - only my mother :). I am enough old owl to be called like that, lol. But pronunciation is good.
And this is Russian version of Katjusha - but this was weapon :)):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY5TUiqjyBc

Hi Klahanie, bingo. That was made by my godmother, who was Hungarian! But her generation - my grandmother too, made me a lot of those. In old times it was part of trousseau.

is that like 'Kalinka' ~ we learned that at school, i liked it.

No, Kalinka is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_A7Hu0uKNw

I think, that kalinka in Russian is the name for Viburnum :)

oh, i found that one too, but it wasnt quite how i remembered it?

i like the long shoes of the dancers at the beginning!

Oh, yes, lol. That was I think very popular Russian group, lol.

Definitely I am Katoushka and not Kalinka, lol.