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 Globes part 4/8

A bit (a lot!) later than I had hoped but I've finally managed to finish part 4 of the snow globe SAL, a SAL which is organised by CSL-group This one is a cute snowman.



It was my sisters birthday, she requested an apple-pie.




Met het overgebleven deeg, maakte ik een appelflapje. Ik maakte ook briochebroden.



And just because...

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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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!

Merry Christmas

Jelena and I wish everyone a Merry Christmas!





vegetable time!
Since Jelena is turning six months old (young), it's time to start with vegetables. It wasn't a big succes yet, ah well, she'll learn with time I guess.



Christmas baking
I've been baking ...


LK SAL
I finished the next one in line: June
On the July...



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LK SAL: May

My wish came true, I finished May a LOT faster than april :) But boy, am I tired!

Here's a piccie (click to enlarge)




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LK SAL: april

Having a little girl that prefers to spend the evenings in mummy's arms is not productive for mummy's stitching, so even this little pattern took me more than a month! (schock!!)
But I finally managed to finish the April stamp.



Hopefully I'll get May done a bit faster!

LK SAL: march

I finally finished the next one in the LK SAL: March. The others are about done with october, but we won't think about that!
Here's a piccie:


On other news, Jelena is now almost 4 months (only one week to go), she can now roll from tummy to back, she 'talks' and laughs, just a joy to watch and hear. The formulae-milk did not go so well, I had to change it a couple of times, I hope I now have the right one, because it's just awfull to see her in such pain from the cramps :(

LK-SAL: february

LK-SAL
Soooo, we're almost a month later ... and I finally finished another piece of my LK-SAL. Since I didn't have any inspiration on how to finish these stamps (and since I can't sew, there aren't that many things I can make), I decided to make one big piece.

Proud mummy!
Can't believe she's now almost 3 (three!) months old, where did those weeks go?? She's now at the stage of making funny sounds (prrr, wawa, hé), and putting everything in her mouth.

Unfortunately, I have only one more week of vacation-time and then it's back to work (but luckily I start on half days), so I'll have to start her on powder-milk (keeping fingers crossed the transition goes smoothly!)