I've been very snappy and short with mom yesterday afternoon. I don't like to behave like this and I try to explain that whenever I'm in such a mood the best thing she can do for me is to leave me alone.
I'm working on improving myself.

I guess this comes from having not enough sugar in my blood. I sleep for 7 hours at night, get up and leave the ( Read more... )

Love is when a daughter asks for birthday cards from people all over the world for her terminally ill mother.
Said mom is turning 90 this september and will naturally not get as many birthday cards as in the years before. Fact of life, the older you get, the more friends and family members die away.

Therefore daughter asked for birthday cards. I ( Read more... )

But no, salad is evil, making people sick and kills them. At least, here around it seems.

Yesterday (it's past midnight) was children's day and it looks like giving mom flowers three times this year paid off. Heavily.

This morning I decided that I want to crochet something, of course once again I was looking at patterns for afghans, but I don't ( Read more... )

This and next months topic for the CAL is "Strawberries". My first idea was to make a tea pot cozy, shaped like a strawberry. But then, I thought of making a strawberry plant.

What I need for this:

Clay pot
Sand
Wire used for binding wreaths
acryl yarn
crochet hooks
plush toy filling
time.

The claypot will be filled with sand. The sand will hold the wire ( Read more... )

Saturday evening.

People enjoy the weekend, go partying, to the clubs or to the next pub, or spend the evening at home, on the couch. Watching TV.

And what does the crafter do? He or she spends her time online, checking the various boards for crafts.
In my case, I checked out Ravelry. Helped a bit here, joked around there. And remembered a problem I ( Read more... )

Huhuh! I'm testcrocheter for the Crocheted Utilitarian Faroese Shawl.

I admit I've been a bit dense in the first two rows. But I guess that's why I've been choosen to test this pattern.
Hopefully the cappuchino will do it's work and wake my brain up.

I won a prize at the Scarfs for Bolivia - charity collection.
I card tube to keep my dpns in and a skein of sock yarn. The sock yarn smells of either stale tabak smoke or has been kept in a confined space. I can't decide.

In any case it's  not nice to have to work with it. I got the advice to put it out on the balcony, to let the fresh air clean ( Read more... )

So far the day can be summarized with: I cleaned and after that I spent the time reading and crocheting ( Read more... )

work on my filet crochet piece for the months CAL, topic: In the polar area.
I designed a pattern for this, wasn't that easy as I had no idea how to draw a reindeer, but when I checked Ravelry's pattern search I discovered many knitted items with reindeers on. That helped a lot to get the right proportions of the deers.


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Good news from the spinning front. The book from the library and a short "how to" of an online shop for spindles finally helped me to understand how to draft. I lost my fear of the spindle, now I'm pretty nonchalant about drafting and keeping the spindle spin.
Still, I need to concentrate more on what I spin, instead of just spinning for the joy of ( Read more... )