Hello, friends!

Summer and the heat have finally arrived, and this year I'm trying not to miss the season — so I managed to dye a tapestry. Since they're large, I can only dye them on the balcony, and warm weather is needed to fix the dye properly. Tapestries have always been problematic for me because it’s hard to find good fabric in the right size. I ordered the fabric by the meter, then took it to a sewing workshop to have it hemmed, and finally, I was able to dye it.
I liked the result, but I see many things I can improve — so I’ll try to make a few more.

This week has been difficult for the country, and especially for our city, so I’m once again thinking of taking Nastya on a hike in the mountains this weekend. I’ll be doing a lot of dyeing and trying to earn some extra money for the trip.

This week, something very inspiring happened — something I’d place on the same level as the destruction of the Moskva cruiser or the liberation of Kherson: the destruction of Russian bombers at their own airfields. A video has already been released explaining how the operation was carried out, and it’s truly incredible. These aircraft have been bombing us for years, so this is a real relief for everyone — it means fewer missile launches in the future. Every one of those planes is a huge threat to us, and we’re all very proud of the work done by our security service.
This is truly what responsible warfare should look like: such a large-scale operation, and not a single person was harmed — only equipment was destroyed.
Of course, we expected so-called "retaliatory strikes," though from our side, destroying their aircraft was already a form of retaliation for the terror they’ve inflicted on us.

The past two nights, we’ve been suffering from heavy shelling. Our city was strangely the main target last night — we haven’t seen such intense attacks throughout the entire war. We woke up around 3 a.m. to the sound of explosions, which lasted almost until 6. It was a combined drone and missile attack, with the constant buzzing of drones followed by blasts that shook the walls and windows.
Our cat Sonya was terrified and hid. During the pauses between explosions, I ran around the apartment looking for her and finally found her inside a box under the table. In that moment, I felt so sorry for her, because she has no idea what’s going on.
It’s terrifying to see people being pulled from the rubble of their homes in the morning news — that’s something I hope we never have to experience.
Fortunately, we were unharmed.
By morning, the entire sky was covered in black smoke. That day, we weren’t able to get any sleep at all and felt exhausted the entire day.

There was another night of attacks today, but after last night, it didn’t feel as intense. The attack lasted about an hour, and I had prepared a mattress in the bathroom, which is far from the windows. We hid there during the night, which at least helped us get a little sleep and not feel so awful in the morning.

It’s a tough time, but for some reason, I feel optimistic. I’m no longer afraid of threats — I understand that Russia is constantly throwing all its available weaponry at us. I also know that large-scale attacks like this take weeks to prepare — not just two days — so there's no real link between the destruction of their aircraft and these strikes. They would have happened anyway.
We’ll endure this and come out stronger. I truly believe that.

Thank you all for your support! And special thanks to those who’ve helped me through BuyMeACoffee.
If anyone’s interested, I’m posting my dyeing work over here: https://www.instagram.com/psy.dye.ua/