Marmalade and memories

A week ago a friend sent me two banana boxes filled with apples which she had picked up from the garden of her own. It is a tasteful gift and she was happy about the long woollen socks I knit for her just to say thanks. Such old fashion trade. So my week has been full of appless. I've done juice, jam, cakes, pies and marmalade. Not to mention how much fresh apples we've been eating lately. I too have apple trees but they are young and this cold climate makes growing them more hobby than farming.

Below is the picture of the Project eternity part 2. There's two hunters having a break in woods. The next aim is to stitch the back ground and see if I need more also the blue yarn. The original moment for this break was over twenty years ago. The dog himself is dead by now but he was such a great character. Despite being partly wolf (which I don't recommend people to breed and have as a pet) with excellent training and his natural character he was the one on whom I trusted my tiny kids in woods by that time. He never let them get lost. He was huge but would not harm a fly without reason.

Stitching is such a relaxing free day thing for me to do. It really means much to me. More than chocolate and that is something very special. :)

Against the wall

Unfortunately I have not got my swimming polar bear from the frame maker yet. But I left that lonely polar bear baby there too. In few weeks I'll go again to see if I can have them both back home.

I neither have found that other yarn that can't contain sheep wool but should contain nature fibres. I guess I must seek it from the internet.

I've been knitting mostly for the Christmas so I can't add the pictures here. :) But I have been doing something else too.

This is a plate I got from a friend over 20 years ago. She made it just especially for me. It has been in good use because it fits perfectly under a chocolate cake! Now it looked so bad that it had came the time to throw it away.

I just could not so I bought a black PorcleainPen. Unfortunately the one I found was too thick. The result is not excellent at all. Not satisfying at all. But it is enough ok to allow me to keep it.

There has been also hard work by fixing the floor. This is the floor I found under the old vinyl flooring. At the end it was in better shape and made of from better wood I ever imaged; despite it was made on 1947 when there was great lack of everything.

This is the chimney that was hidden behind the wall paper. I was happy to notice instead of 6 layers the chimney had just one. It was easy to take the old paper down. Water was useful help. When you wet the wall paper it looses easier. But washing away that old adhesive stuff was more challenging. Warm water, brush and a bit of soap lead to the clean surface. That light mint green paint that came out behind it all looked actually quite pretty. For a moment I considered to keep it in that way; but just for a tiny moment.

And this is the result. The floor and chimney painted with water drop blue.

And something else; easy and blue. This card is made by using an old label and an old decoration of a hair pin. Simple, easy and fast.

Xmas factory

Recently I count all the Xmas cards I have to figure out how many I need to do to make them enough for this Xmas. That was not many. They are my own design but so easy.

It is just September but the Xmas factory is going on I must confess. At the moment I am crocheting one more scarf with pampula edge. It is going to be brown.

Today I aim to go to the yarn shop. I need yarn for one more pampula edged scarf. The problem is it comes to a person who can't stand wool and I want to use natural materials as much as possible. So we see what these old ladies at the yarn shop can offer. I am curious. :)

Today I aim also to sneak in to my frame shop. They still have not send me the message the work is done, but I just go to ask and will take that polar bear baby with me....

These cards are mady by old idea of craft making. On both cards there's the background paper from a scrapbooking paper collection. On the left side card there is Santa Claus picture from old gift card and a wooden star from a gift bag. On the right side card there is a picture from a magazine.

 

These two cards above are made by combining different paper craft packs & styles.

These four cards above are the samples of the easiest way of card making. You just add a pretty ready made pictures and that's it. :)