Snow Globe SAL 6/8

Snow Globe SAL 6/8
I finally finished the 6th part in this SAL, only took me a couple of months...

Box Finishing Class
Meari is organizing a box finishing class. I had a lot of trouble finding a box (didn't find one at all...) so my brother made one. Okay, it's not the best looking box in the world, but to me it is mostly about the practice of learning how do finish this. Here's the box and my stitching Mes Jouets
Hidden hints
I left two hidden hints in the last blogpost. Annette found the message, although since she understands Dutch, she did have a little head-start :) For the others, here's another 'hint'

This new Blogger-look is really taking some getting used too, why do they have to change this when you are finally getting the hang of things??
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Snow Globes part 5/8

I finished the next part of this SAL, now only 3 to go! I've already started the 6th parth (not done much on it yet, but well, it's a start, right?).



and this little girl already turned 19 months!



she's having some trouble with the upper airways, and is on antibiotics, I don't like giving antibiotics, but I guess I have to trust the doctor.


Winter!
It suddenly turned winter! Until last week, we had warm temps for the time of year, but this week, we suddenly had -10°C in the morning, brr, it was cold, bycicling to work! Luckily no ice on the roads, so no riks of slips, but that changed yesterday, because, we had SNOW.

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Snow-Globe 1/8

Blogger problems
Updates come slowly, for two reasons. Not enough time to stitch..., but also problems with posting on blogger. I can type up my whole post on the 'new' (secondhand) laptop perfecty, but the stupid thing refuses to publish. So I have to start up the old computer to publish a post, and that one goes as slowwwwwwwwwwwww as a snail! So that takes a lot of time, that really could be used for better purposes. I also have difficulty reading other peoples blogs, so that takes up a lot of my time as well :( (but it's worth looking at your work!)
Any one have an idea whath the problem could be??; The laptop has Vista and I work on Internet Explorer 9


Snowglobes
I joined a new Sal at the CSL-group and finished the first part. The SAL exists out of 8 snow-globes with a Christmas or winter-theme. The first one has a Santa inside.


Sinterklaas kapoentje
December 6th we celebrate Sinterklaas. For the adults that means chocolate, marsepein, nicnacs (little biscuits in the form of the alphabet), yummy! For the kids it means... toys! And even though Jelena is little, she got visited by Sinterklaas too :-)

First she put her shoe with a little something for the horse.


The next morning her shoe was filled with some nicnacs (she doesn't usually get anything like this) and something more healthy ;-)
And of course toys!



she was very happy with her little shop, her kitchen-stuff and building blocks!

Till next time!



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Lanarte Cultures: Inca and Maya Cultures - progress pic 3

I'm still very slowly progressing on my Lanarte-kit Maya and Inca Cultures, so I hoped you might enjoy a new pic of it.





Autumn has now really arrived with rain and wind, but the temps are still quite high. Christmas-decorations are already showing up in the shops - way too early for me! First sinterklaas will come, and then I''l think about Santa :)






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It was a

Hi all,

thought I disappeared of the face of the earth?; No, still here, but my laptop died on me! Now I'm figuring things out on my new (second-hand) laptop. A lot could be recovered from the old laptop, but still lost a lot of my links and patterns :(


It was a
itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini


finish!




RAK'ed
Lisa N. rak'ed me with a cute Eeyor-chart! Thank you Lisa!!


Autumn?

so we're autumn, but the last days were really summer-like, we had more sun and warmer weather then during summer! Enjoyed them while they lasted, and now we seem to be heading to real autumn weather.

15 months!
Time sure does go fast!



Coming next: update on Inca and Maya cultures


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Inca and Maya Cultures: progress Pic 2

Hi all,

I've made a little bit more progress on my current WIP, Inca and Maya Cultures by Lanarte.
Stitching keeps going slow, but well, at least there is some progress :)





Till next time



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Pics, Pics and more Pics (part two)

Soooooooooooo, here is the stitchy part of the update!

Yes, the long awaited pic of the baby afghan is finally here. What fun I had pulling out all the threads (not!)

So here it finally is: Farm Animals Baby Afghan by Dimensions (designed by Barbara Mock)
29" x 45"/ 73 cm x 114 cm


A finish also means a new start! I had planned to start the Christmas-sock for Jelena put didn't have the kit with me on vacation. I did have another one with me, here is what I have so far:


I did already get the encouraging comment that I had done only a little bit on it, and that there is a lot of work left on it :( Yes, I know, my stitching does not go that fast anymore. My days are filled with walking little circles with my daughter :)


Give-aways:
Daffycat is hosting a give-away, go check it out!

Baby Afghan: FINISHED

Happy dancing right now, I finished the stitching part of the baby-afghan. Now on to the real finishing (which may take some time, no acces to the necessary materials right now).
Pic of the stitching will follow (I was just so happy to have finished the stitching, I couldn't wait until I have the pic up and running to post about it!).

Baby Afghan: row Three

Yep, more stitching got done on the baby afghan, and I finished the third row with a cute dog and bunny.

From now on the motives are returning, but some in mirror image. I'm not going to bore you with the images again, I will put up a pic of the whole afghan next time :)


And here's a pic of little cool Jelena at the beach


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Baby afghan: elephant

I've been stitching!! :-) I've got the next three squares done on the baby afghan: two hearts and a baby-elephant.



Here's another pic of my little darling who loves standing!

birthday card

Just a small stitchy update. I made a birthday card for someone who could use a little cheering up. At the moment I (or someone else) seem to have misplaced the pattern for the baby-afghan, all 'find-lost-item'-vibes are welcome ;-)

In between these updates, I've taken a little trip to Lourdes. It was Jelena's first big trip. We went by car, she was such a good girl!

She's really changing these last few weeks, she can now really crawl on hands and knees, althoug the other way goes faster at this moment, so she still prefers that. She's also trying to stand, and pulls herself straight on anything she can.


Last wednesday, she turned 10 months.


And here's the result of my Easter-baking. The writing on it was done with white chocolate. The result was really yummy! :)
the glacing wasn't dry yet, on the pic.

And lastly, thank you everyone who has been commenting on my blog, I appreciate them all! And welcome to the new follower(s)! :-)

LK SAL: finished

I finished the last stamp on Sunday, so I'm done with the LK-SAL. The group started a new LK-SAL, but I've opted not to do this one, since I still have so many projects to do, although it is with a little regret, as I've really come to like the Lizzie Kate designs!



In the meantime, I seem to be catching all the bugs out there, hardly recovered from one cold, and I (and unfortunately Jelena too) have the next one! Luckily it's allmost spring!

I bouhgt a Baby Afgan at a fair, a good week ago, came home, realised it was one of the choices I'd selected last year at 123-stitch (but didn't buy at that time due to circumstances), and that even with the sending-cost from America, it would still have saved me 10 euro's, it was not such a good day :-( Now of course, I have to get started on the Afghan, so Jelena won't have outgrown it by the time I've finished!
Jelena is still mostly 'dragging' (snake-like) over the floor (fast!). She does put herself on hands and knees sometimes, but doesn't quite get it yet. She's also almost putting herself in sit-position from lying down.

get out of my way, coming through!

solving cross-word puzzles!

LK SAL: two for one

hi there

Yesterday, I was too lasy to go pick up the cable to transfer the pics to the computer, but in the meantime I finished not one stamp but two of the LK-SAL, so now only december is left to stitch.


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Look at her go ...
My little baby is growing soooo fast, she turned 8 (EIGHT!) months old yesterday. I just can't believe where the time went. My little baby girl has two teeth by now, can sit of you put her that way (until she's distracted and falls sideways), andddddd she's moving! Not 'crawling' yet, but she's going forward and fast! Nothing is safe anymore, and the words 'no, don't do that', have made their entry in our household.



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LK-SAL: 3/4 done!

Hi all,

I finished another stamp! Now, be honest, you didn't expect one so fast did you ;)


Now, I need to clean up in the house a bit (blush), and then on to the next one!

And just because, here is another pic (or two) of Jelena :)

LK-SAL: August

Stitching update
yes, I finally have another update! You thought I'd be quicker from now on, didn't you! :-) But no, stitching-mojo left me hanging, probably scared off by my tiredness.
So I begged for him to return, so I could at least finish one little LK-stamp this month, and look...! I did it, not without lots of visits from the frogs, but none the less, it's done, finished, all stitched up!


I hope stitching-mojo will stay around this time, because I really would like to stitch up the next months a bit quicker!


New stash!
I treated myself to some new stash (but please don't ask me when I'll ever be able to stitch it)
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Jelena
Can you believe she's 7 months already!? She likes to hold big converstations now, they go like this: dadadadadaiiidaidaidaikaallalaprrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpffft One time she had to have al talk at 2 AM :-)
The poor darling is getting her first tooth, she's drooling, biting, and in pain :-(
She really loves her vegetables now, eats everything she's served, lets hope it stays that way!
A week and a half I also started giving her fruit, she likes it! :-) Apple, pear and banana so far.
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I'm still trying to get the remaining pregnancy-kilos off, I can fit most of my clothes again (even if some are a bit too tight), but I still get remarks from some people about my figure :-(


In Memorian

Rene, you will never be forgotten!