I can literally spend hours and hours browsing Etsy. There are all sorts of cool items to be found. I love the personalization and uniqueness that items from Etsy bring. ...look at those handmade bags from Starbags, not only they are modern, stylish and beautiful, but even every one is unique, one of a kind made in a limited edition.

Snapped this morning right after taking Adrian to school.

Stop wherever you are and look around! There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant effect and the feelings, as now in October. Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.

Cloudy, misty, and a chill in the air, the forecast has rain on and off for the next few days. So I would say that's Autumn. But I'm ready. I'm ready for a change. I'm ready for a chill in the air. I'm ready for blue jeans, boots and scarves. I'm ready for bronze and gold leaves crackling under feet, and rolling in the thinning grass. I love the autumnal shades of burnt orange, burgundy and all those rusty browns...

You don’t need the lightning reflexes of Jet Li or the bamboo-like flexibility of Jackie Chan to learn a martial art :) Adrian started to take karate classes and he loves it! Yep :) Adrian lost his first milk tooth last Tuesday. And that first tooth had to be extracted by dentist :( that big kid tooth was already pushing its way through. Adrian was very brave even though he was feared to death (me too). Now he looks like a real kid! (so funny)... he does and it breaks my heart a little...

In September Adrian began to attend the class for intellectually gifted children with a special alternative education program Aprogen, one of its kind in Slovakia and surrounding countries.

Pupils are in classes assigned on the basis of psychological tests to pass on the Pedagogical Psychological Center, part of the selection of students into classes for Gifted children are well developed knowledge tests of reading, writing and arithmetic. There is a maximum of 12 pupils in the 1st stage.

 Part of the educational process are the early community. Their task is to prepare children for learning, open them to receive information on the administration of optimal performance, tune in to cool the working atmosphere, degraded minor problems, conflicts between the children and any stress .

Above-average education of intellectually gifted children has its own characteristics. They are used all methods to promote and develop logical thinking, analytical and synthetic thinking, problem solving reasoning, creative thinking. The students enter the open, unfinished, incomplete assignments, which do not have only one solution, but rather have multiple solutions. Since the first class is continually teaching English language, computer science and have a special lesson of Enrichment. Part of graduation each year is to develop the Coursework, where they can choose a topic based on their interests and knowledge.

 Quite often I am facing different opinions on these children and their mode of teaching. Some parents will say they think their child is bright, or smart, but not 'gifted'. Parents often have unrealistic ideas of what giftedness means. A child does not have to be a mini Einstein. Most parents are afraid of the gifted label because of the expectations. Unfortunately, some parents believe their child will be a happier person if she/he is average, or slightly above average. What happens if gifted children don't get appropriate education? They are at-risk, for boredom, frustration, underachievement, or they simply sink to the level of average classmates and never reach their full potential. Because gifted children want to be able to learn at their own speed, not someone else's, skip over work they already know and understand, study things of interest beyond basic school work, and work with abstract concepts that require more than simple thinking.

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!” this quote may be considered of clichéd quotations, but in this case it is remarkably relevant. Simplicity was what Veronika wanted to go for when she asked me to make her a logo and give a new look to her blog. Woohoo simplicity is my obsession :) You can only hardly believe that she got her first DSLR three months ago!?? It's not easy to understand but it's true! She is amazing! Her photos are amazing! Her ideas and colors are beautiful the same as a charm of each captured moment. Please, visit her new blog. A couple of the proofs for Veronika: