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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
I am so done with those whites and creams and now I am on the wreath. Stitching the wreath is not something which I am enjoying too! I give myself max. 4 more weeks to get this done as I really want to start on my HAED.
I havent been stitching much since last Saturday after I brought Karin Slaughter Genesis home. It is such a GREAT book! I've always love Karin Slaughter's books but I will say this is my favourite.
While stitching this Santa, I thought of the Nissekjole which DD had for the last 2 years. I doubt this one can fit her this year. I really love this dress as it is quite thick enough to be worn outside as a winter jacket. I guess I will have to get this in a bigger size once the dresses are out in the shop.
In my last post, I mentioned that I have something to announce but only until Katerina receives her package. This is the first time my package took more than a week to reach USA. My HAED Sleeping Beauty got published in the latest issue of CS Collection. It was my first time sending a finished work in and got published. I was so excited. I actually knew about it during the last week of August as 2 UK ladies informed me about it. I got one of them to buy me an extra magazine when they were out in the news stand and then contacted some people living in New York whether certain Danish chocolates can be found there. I sent Kat this magazine + Anton Berg Guldæske. Kat sent me a mail when she received this package. It is an extremely sweet and touching email.
Lovely prizes I won but they are not something which I can use. So, I think I will have a Giveaway on one of the stitching forums. Let's wait till I recieved the prizes first as I haven't got them in my mailbox until now. I want to say congratulations to my friend Emma whose finished work got published in the same magazine too. Her work is really beautiful and she stitched on her own hand dyed fabric. My husband who has never shown any interest in embroidery saw Emma's work in the magazine and commented that it is really good as the finished work goes really well with the fabric.
There are some ladies here whom I want to say a BIG thank you to for helping me in this secret :0))
Luan - for putting her own magazine aside for me when she saw Sleeping Beauty got published, as well as running to the store to get an extra copy for me and sending them to me.
Jackie - for helping me with the text before I submit it to the publisher.
Petra - who told me what kind of Danish chocolates are not easily available in New York.
Last Saturday, DD and DH went Geocaching and they thought it was really fun and got me into this treasure hunting with them the next day. It was a bit tiring for me but it was really fun especially when you know the treaure is just somewhere near. The scenaries are really great and we actually found 2 treasures!
Today, DD will start in another town for her sports activities. She was back at the old place last week where she did sports for the whole of last season. Everyone was new - the trainers and the children. The new trainer is not as well trained as the trainers from before. Most of her friends are not there anymore. There was this little girl... approx. 4 year old who was instructing other children what and how to do things. She was quite haughty and DD got enough of her and ran to her father and started to cry. I found out that this little girl is the daughter of the new trainer. At the end of the session, I asked the trainer for the name list and she thought I forgot to sign DD up for the class. I told her I did but now I want to take her name out. I told her that her daughter had been going around instructing other children what and how to do things. I don't feel good leaving my own daughter alone if I know she is uncomfortable having another young child breathing down her neck constantly. Parents are only allowed to stay in the activity room/hall on the first day but after that, all have to leave the children alone and pick them up when the sports end. We taught DD to say 'Do Not Tell Me What To Do!' if she again meets other children like this young girl. Of course, we are also telling her that she is not supposed to use this sentence on us or any adults she know.
Time of the year again. DH is turning 40 soon and we are planning a huge celebration but not together with DD this time. Both of them were born in the same month and we will make 2 separate parties this year - 1 for DH and 1 for DD. We will rent the same castle again as we did 2 years ago. We are inviting friends and relatives all the way from Southern Germany and Bulgaria. Relatives and friends travelling from far will get a room to stay overnight. It is a castle with 10 bedrooms with attached bathrooms and we can only have 10 families, including us in each room. I am pretty sure there will be some guests who will be very unhappy to know that they are not given a room. We had some unhappy guests 2 years ago too regarding the bedrooms. They were already informed beforehand that they won't get a room as they are given to others who travelled from far to our party. Lots of planning to do for this party and when I am under stress, I BITE!! ;0)
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
I believe my tongue must be somewhere in the house ;0) I've been biting my tongue so hard to stitch all those creams and whites on his beard and his hair. I REALLY can't wait for his head to be done soon.
I won Katerina Koukiotis 's Mermaid's Touch Bookmark on her Ebay last week and received the package this morning. She attached a small gift for me - a print of Alice in Wonderland which will goes very well with the chart I bought from HAED. I love the bookmark and Alice in Wonderland a lot. They are simply BEAUTIFUL! Thank you so much, Kat! Eternity had just been released on her site. Katerina drew this for her HAED fans. I've never been a Gothic fan but this one is really amazing and I can't find any fault with it. It is so beautifully drawn, the couple looks so real and the woman is so sexy in such an elegant way. Well done and thank you so much, Kat!
I actually have something to announce but I can't do it till Katerina received my package and I hope she gets it real soon (she doesn't know what's in the package ;0)). I knew about it last month. It is really hard to keep a secret, isn't it? :0))
September 11th, the German kindergarten and the German school organised a carnival, inviting parents and the friends. I offered to bake some muffins for that day. It was a fun day and DD's group leader had a chat with me about DD. I am extremely happy and proud to hear the great feedback from the group leader. They had been a bit worried about her German before summer but was surprised to hear her speaking more German after summer. The credits will have to go to her Oma who had been spending quite some time with her during summer. On the same evening, we went to the train station to get my sister-in-law who was coming from Copenhagen with her new boyfriend! He is a very nice and down to earth man. Our daughter likes him almost immediately.
When Amo came out with this baking book 2 last weekend, I immediately went to get it. I have the first book and it is really GOOD! I think I've tried almost everything from Book 1 and almost everything turned out really well. I've tried 2 recipes from this Book 2 but it seems like everything is so watery. I made the French Baquette and some buns but end results are - too much fluid. I am going to try the English Scones recipe this weekend with DD. If result is still too watery, I will have to write an email to them, asking them to double check their recipes.
Our shed is done!!!! My brother-in-law had been working on this non-stop. Over the last weekend, DH tried to do up as much as possible while my brother-in-law had to work. The shed was built from ground. Kudos to both of them for getting this shed up. The top of the shed was supposed to be of the same height. However, they had to lower one part of it down as our neighbour (behind the shed) said he can't see over to the other neighbour's window if that part is too high. We respect his concern as they are just looking out for one another.
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Season for all the sports activities is starting this week. DD will be going back to her sports activities. I am not so fond of the new timing 1700 to 1800 and last season was 1600 to 1700. My husband said we are not going to take that away from her as she really loves doing sports and also she misses her friends who are in the same group. We just have to adjust our dinner timing. Last Thursday was her 2nd lesson in dancing but she came out of the room to look for me after 30 mins. I had a good talk with her. I told her we had this discussion for more than a week, asking her whether she really wants to join the dancing class. I don't want to push her but I want her to learn that she can't be fickle-minded all the time. It took her less than a min to get into the room again and she came out smiling when the lesson ended. Still we could feel that she loves doing sports more than anything. We will see.
I think I write too much today! I just want to let people who happen to read my blog to know that this blog is something like a diary for me, as well as some happenings going on in my life which are for family members whom I don't have the time to write long emails from time to time. I know my cousin from Canada is reading my blog from time to time to know what I've been up to ;0)
Monday, September 7, 2009
This is one pattern which I will definitely not stitch again. I've always asked myself what colours do I have a problem with and they are white and cream together. It was a drag to stitch the edge of his red cloak. Those white, creams and golds are really confusing me. I am over that part now and I am really not looking forward to stitch his beard, hair and the edge of his hat.
HAED is having a Labour Day sale right now. I didn't buy anything again this sale, not yet. I guess I won't be buying unless some really great charts catch my eye. Well, I did buy Koukiotis Mermaid's Touch the day before the sale started. No heartaches for not waiting to buy it when there is a sale. I still get 15% off as I subscribe to their newsletter. I thought Mermaid's Touch shouldn't be that difficult but when I compared her to Over the Rainbow, Mermaid's Touch is actually more complicated! Still, I've been waiting for this mermaid to be charted since Koukiotis released her and she will definitely be stitched once Angel of Spring is done.
I used the GC I won for this year Silkweaver Gallery on 3 solos. I love the 3rd piece a lot but it was gone really fast. I managed to get it into my cart after 45 mins :0))
Bought this Tutti Fruiti last week when Silkweaver listed her Odds and Ends. It is actually slightly darker than the last piece I had. I sold the other Tutti Fruiti as I find it too light for my taste. I am quite happy with this one. At least I can get the colours out with my camera.
DD started her first dancing lesson last Thursday. Both DH and I thought she was doing really well throughout the 45 mins. However, when we were about to go home, she told me she doesn't like it and find it quite boring. She told me that she wants to go back to her sport lessons. The new season is starting next week. However, I am not so fond of the timing they have for this season. It is from 5.15pm to 6pm and it used to be 4.15pm to 5pm. DH said not to take this away from her and we can find an arrangment with the timing - dinner and bedtime. Since all the activities are starting next week, we will bring her to all and try them out. Just found 2 more sport activities in another town. We think why she thought the dancing was so boring could be due to the fact that they are constantly in a circle and not moving all over the place. She feels that it is too restricted, unlike the sport, which they have to run around the whole hall to do different type of exercises.
I wish everyone a great Labour Day!
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