One day I was looking through some craft websites and saw these friendship bracelets. Suddenly I was 12 years old again and itching to make some. I thought back to the day when I was a kid and making bracelets with gimp was all the rage, man I loved that stuff. I decided to start [...]
Today I completed my first craft project of 2010. It’s a Baby Bobble Afghan I started a while back from a pattern by Bernat. Now I just have to get it packed up and sent off… I’m a little sad in a way, I quite enjoyed working on this and I learned quite a bit as [...]
You know how they say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure? I’ve been learning the validity of that statement ever since a second hand shop moved in across the road from our house. Every so often I pop in there to see what’s new or if anything catches my eye and more often [...]
For the last few days I’ve been keeping myself busy but working on a crochet project I started a while back. It’s only the second time I’ve crocheted something but I’m quite enjoying working on this pattern. The first time was when I made a baby blanket for Faela, my friend’s adorable baby girl who [...]
God I’ve been meaning to write about this for ages but I’ve been so busy the last while with my friend Penny being in town and a few other things that have been going on (that I will write about soon), my blog has suffered. Anyhow, a while back my mother in law asked for [...]
I am now about to begin the 4th block of gail pan’s Christmas Wish BOM, and I’m so enjoying making them. The three above are the ones I’ve completed up till now, and the one below is my most recent. I didn’t think I’d enjoy embroidery as much as cross stitching but now I [...]
I’ve been wanting to learn to do embroidery for a while and when I saw the Christmas Wish BOM over at gail pan designs I thought it was the perfect opportunity to teach myself. So after a few online tutorials and YouTube videos I felt confident enough to give it a go. It came out [...]
One thing that has been bothering me about my camera since I got it, is the camera strap around my neck. The nylon material it’s made with scratches the back of my neck, and can get quite uncomfortable. Also, one thing I noticed when I was out with my camera yesterday, because it’s black it [...]
A few years ago I wrote about another blogger who was photographing strangers in public to ridicule them, which was something I disagreed with very strongly. It brought up a lot of questions in regards to taking photos of people in public. My personal opinion was that it was ok, that people in public are [...]
Sunday morning I woke up and my back was still killing me, but I couldn’t stand the thought of not making it to Keukenhof. The last time I was there was about 8 years ago and I was due for another visit. I packed my camera bag with painkillers and tried to take the Suck [...]
April doet wat hij wil is a saying about the spring weather in the Netherlands. It means “April does what it wants”, and boy does it! A lot of people get irritated by not knowing what the weather will be like from one moment to the next, but I like it. We go from days [...]
This guy makes sculptures the size of a GRAIN OF SAND! Paints with the hair plucked from the back of a house fly. Can you imagine? I have trouble painting normal sized things because my hands are not that steady. Now if only I had about $250k, I’d totally buy one!
Today my mother sent me photos of the tea quilt I made her after she got it home and put it up. It’s kind of exciting for me because this is the first quilt I’ve ever made for someone as a gift that is on display somewhere. She hung it in her dining room, which [...]
No, unlike some places in Canada at the moment, it is not snowing in the Netherlands! As much as I love the snow, I’m glad… because I’m so not ready for it yet! I am totally ready to do some Christmas crafting though! A few months ago I ordered this cross stitch kit from sewandso.co.uk [...]
A few months ago I started working on a secret project. My parents were coming over and I knew my mother would be celebrating her birthday while they were here. I wanted to make something special for her. So I got to work on a quilt I had been wanting to make that I thought [...]
Well I’ve been working on the quilt sampler cross stitch I mentioned a little while ago and I think it’s coming along pretty well. The pattern called for it to be stitched across 2 stitches but I couldn’t be arsed, I just did it normally. It’s still coming out nicely anyway. I have to admit, [...]
Well, not me personally… but my mother’s cross stitch has! err.. or will be. There’s a pattern I’ve wanted to do for a long time called Aunt Verdi’s Porch by Paula Vaughan. I had mentioned it to my mother a few times and when I was home in Canada in October she showed me that [...]
Fearless Fourteen
by Janet Evanovich
