Slow down.

while keeping still and silent,
doing nothing,
spring will come and grass will grow
all by itself

Ritva wrote these wise words to me some days ago.

I will keep them in mind in the future.
Had a very relaxed day though, only did pleasant things
such as embroider and making soup.

Started this 'wormhole' series about a year ago,
the two I'm showing here are still in progress.
Look here and here and here for the finished ones.
I will show them together in one post when the series comes
to an end.

This was on the radio the afternoon, actually meant

for kids +6, but i loved it.

Sweet Dreams :)

2010 first post.

Marie's giveaway present arrived in the post
yesterdag morning, but i got so bored with that dark and
sulky weather all day long that i waited one more
day to make fotos from my prize.
Thank you so much Marie :)
2010 started cold but sunny,wish everybody a
Happy New Year!!

On my free day.

I'm always full of good intentions of what i'm

going to do on my free day, such as finishing off

all the stuff that i once have started, like these

little patchworks for example. The one on the first

pic only needs 5min. more i guess.

But you know how it goes on a free day, you stay

a bit longer in bed, you take your time to have

breakfast, hanging around in your pyjamas,

have some reading and check the post.

Eventually you take your morningshower at noon,

then you stay in front of your stove, warming up your

backside in deep contemplation about life and your

objectives :) etc. etc.

OK, i just wanted to say, before you know it is already

3 in the afternoon, so you have one more hour of daylight.

Now comes the stress :(

I messed up the bird, not this one but the red version.

I messed up the dress i was making, but it reminded me

to much of a nun's habit anyway.

To cut a long story short: i did nothing.

Something cheering to end: this beautiful pattern

is the reverse of the one above, i got it from the second-

handshop, department men's ties. You should go

and see there if you like crazy little patterns!

Still don't know what i'm gonna do with the bird,

it really needs a finishing touch.

I'm open to suggestions!!

Have a happy New Year's Eve!

See you next year.

Royal mail from UK.

I almost couln't believe my eyes when opening
this present box from the lovely Alessandra.
Everything was wrapped in beautiful papers with
nice strings and buttons and a handmade little bag!
Wow.
Have a look.
One nice Clipper organic green tea, i love that Clipper
design!

A card with nice words and drawings.

A mushroom book, only the edible ones.

This is a picture of the ones we were hunting for.

A book of ships.

I recycled the wrapping material to make a wild

and stormy see and...

... a detail of the wrappingpaper to make a viewmaster pic.

Thank you so much Alessandra!

x x x

Free tickets!

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Have a nice Sunday all, i'm going to make a dress,

and later maybe a movie :)

Christmastime for the birds too.

This could be a birds reading of a very lavish
Christmas dinner, namely, a bunch of fat, juicy
honeybee larvae, frozen in by Willy, who is a bee-keeper
and put aside for the very cold winterdays.
The place is crawling with birds, mostly tits and
blackbirds, some robins and one nuthatch couple.
Love to watch this while having breakfast :-)

Hope everybody had a nice time last days.

Merry Christmas.

I'm leaving to the countryside this evening, having
Christmas celebration with my family.
Finished the little jumper yesterday evening
at the very last moment, sticking at my stove.
Got struck by the heat all of a sudden, just like
that poor little froggie who swallowed the Christmas
lightning by accident, we show the same flush :-)
You can see me chilling here in a cold and pretty dark room,
that's why the photo is so unsharp.
Isn't that looking forties Hollywood style! (E&K)
Or rather forties Hollywood comic strip.
For all animal lovers amongst us, it turned out well with the frog,
he was set free soon after he was discovered by the owner
of the lightning, only felt a bit warm according to his saviour.



Wishing everybody a nice and Warm Christmas!

Cold :-( .

Love snow but i can't stand the cold.
I have three enormous windows in my living room/
workplace, and very high ceilings, so it's
virtually impossible to warm this place sufficiently
with only one stove when it is freezing outside.
So i stay in the neighbourhood of the fire, what makes
my sphere of action very 'petit' and brings me in a
rotten mood sometimes.
But on the other hand, the cold is a suitable excuse
to do nothing and turn in a warm blanket to watch a movie.
Have you already seen 'In the mood for love'?
Definitely one of my favourites, love the soundtrack too!
Click here to see the trailer, what you hear is Yumeji's Theme.




Still from the movie.

Playing shop, part two.

I made an extra soap powder, a crate of oranges,
a pot of mayonaise ( her favourite sauce), which
i forgot to photograph, another powder (DASH),
forgot too. Also a pack of semolina and a sack of cat's box litter;
i suppose it is the same stuff one uses for little ponies?
The little mutton cube box comes from the Turkish shop.
Found in the secondhandshop an apple and a pear,
a jerrycan, a pink merry-go-round, the ponies and
some wooden blocks.
The beautyproducts are little samples for bodymilk
and handcream.
The little soldier (a gift from Mieke) and the wooden
dolls are my property, i keep them for myself.
The snowman also.














Have a nice evening everybody :-)

A garden...

... from my sister and her husband Willy,
-10°C






Horses from the neighbours.

Sunflowers.