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Sunday, December 26, 2010
She was completed very early this morning. Now I can start on my new project which I've been wanting to do for a while.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. As usual, we spent the Christmas eve with my in-laws in Germany. Santa dropped by for a visit around 4pm. See the book he had in his hands? He was telling our daughter, niece and nephew what they've been good and bad at for the whole year.
This picture was taken around 7pm this morning. The day looked promising without any snow... however...
the snow started around noon today! When will this ever stop? We had to cancel our dinner with my in-laws as the snow isn't stopping at all. I wish everyone a Happy New Year in advance.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
She won't be finished before Christmas at all but I think she will be done by end of this year.
I went to a Punsch Rally in Germany last Saturday with my husband and some friends. Tried a few different punsch. There is one particular punsch stall which had really lovely punsch. I never know you can do so many things with warm cocoa. The stall had like 15 types of cocao with different types of liquor added. My favourite are eggnog and Baileys.
I took this picture 2 days ago before the snow storm. The birds must be hungry. I am not very hardworking when it comes to putting some food into the birdhouse. I just hate to walk across those inches of snow to get to the birdhouse.
Took some pictures this morning. The snow storm started yesterday night at our area and it is still snowing heavily. Wonder when will this stop. Would love to do some shopping with my daughter today but I am not daring enough to brave through this snow storm. So, we baked some cookies yesterday evening and going to make some brunsviger later today.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
I haven't been really working hard on this project. Too many birthday parties and Christmas shopping to be done plus shovelling the snow constantly.
Or maybe I can't wait to start on my new project? As mentioned in one of my posts, I've always wanted to stitch a few of Koukiotis's artworks together in lesser stitch count. I've already planned out 4 charts which I want to start in 2011.
We had a lot of snow but amazingly the snow melted after a few days of sun. I took my daughter for shopping in Germany last week and within 2 hours, the snow are back again, just like before.
With so much snow, building 3 snowmen was a piece of cake.
We attended a few birthday parties for the last couple of months but I have to say the last one was the best. Great, simple and traditional Danish food. It was the birthday of 2 sisters and the parents threw a party for both of them. As usual, Santa dropped by at the party. He is actually an old friend of the birthday girls' grandfather.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
In my last post, I mentioned that the skin and hair colours were all wrong. I received such great customer service both by Borduurblad in Netherland and our own Permin/Eva Rosenstand here in Denmark. The lady from Borduurblad is extremely sweet and helpful. Within 24 hours, I received the correct numbers to replace the wrong ones. If any of you had bought the magazine, Borduurblad had uploaded the correct DMC numbers on their website.
We just celebrated our daughter's birthday in November. Here is the cake which I made for her party. It didn't turn out as I wanted as the icing wasn't thick enough to cover the whole cake. It was a Tinkerbell party we threw for her and even her costume was a Tinkerbell :0))
We have so much snow at this time of the year and for the past 10 years living in Denmark, I don't remember seeing snow just months before Christmas. Everyday is a pain for both my husband and me as we have to shovel the snow around the house.
2011 is approaching and there will be a lot of changes for us. Even the Danish Immigration is implementing new rules constantly. All these stupid rules are getting on our nerves and we decided to move to another country. No idea how long it will take us to get our house sold but we are already starting with the first step. I will definitely miss having the Danes around me and the Danish culture but with all these ridiculous laws keep coming, it is better to be out of the country than worrying constantly about our future here in Denmark. Wish us luck ;0)
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
I really should had stopped stitching when I was on her hair. I thought the colours were just not right as they all seemed to look so pale. The original photo has some dark beige/brown on her hair and face and also her hand. I sent an email to the German ONS where I bought the magazine from and the mail was forward to Bourduurblad in Netherland, who in turn forward the mail to back to Denmark - Permin/Eva Rosenstand. I could had written or call Permin/Eva Rosenstand directly but I thought since this pattern was published in the Dutch magazine, they have the right to know if there's any corrections to the colours. I love how the Dutch work - really great customer service. The lady from Bourduurblad was constantly sending emails to Permin/Eva Rosenstand asking for the right colours and I could see from her mails to them that she wants this problem to be settled fast. I hope to get the right colours from Permin/Eva Rosenstand soon to complete this project. Now, I just have to frog all the beiges out first.
For the last 2 days, I was already planning a project which I've always wanted to do for a long time. I've taken some of Katerina Koukiotis' works charted by HAED and put them together. I will only stitch a small area for those charts - 200x200 for each one.
A package arrived this morning. It is a special order I placed with Kagebutikken. I ordered 2 sets of these - 1 for our daughter's birthday party and the other one for her party in the kindergarten. Not what I expected as I wanted the base to be light green and some glitter on the flowers she is sitting on. Well, I am still satisfied with the results and the fondant smells really good. I planned a Tinkerbell party for her 6th birthday.
We had our first snow yesterday. It was snowing the whole day. It is going to be a really harsh winter this year according to the weather forecast.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Started this piece 1 1/2 week ago. I love to stitch all the reds!
November and December are always such busy months for us as we have so many birthdays and some special occasions to prepare. My husband just celebrated this 41st birthday few days ago. Great day with friends and family over. The next birthday parties will be for our daughter's (1 in the house and 1 in the kindergarten).
Today is the Danish Morten's Aften (St. Martin's) whereby either duck or goose is on the menu. So I am making a duck this evening. Following that, it is our great-grandmum's 95th birthday huge birthday party. Another 3 children's birthday parties to attend in December, Julefrokst (Christmas Luncheon) and we have Sankt Nikolaus and lastly Christmas + New Year's eve. So, these 2 months are actually 'heavy money-spending and baking month!
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Just completed her this morning. Most of the backstitchings are not so difficult but there are some parts which caused quite a nightmare to me!
I managed to take a good picture of my previous finish again. This was stitched on a Silkweaver hand dyed but I couldn't get the colours out with my camera when I finished it. I placed this piece at a rather dark place and took a picture of it. I am quite happy with how the colours turned out.
This will be my next project - designed by Eva Rosenstand. This pattern is really weird. On the cover, the girl has the light on the left side but on the pattern, the light is actually on the right side.
She will be stitched on this SW hand dyed.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
This is one of my 3 UFOs which I decided to continue with. I never thought I would get so carried away stitching the lower part. I hope I can have her done by middle of next month. I am already thinking what to stitch next, probably my Permin Christmas Town which had been put aside for a long time. I am just too lazy to start on something new as I hate to gather new floss and looking for fabrics for a new project. Talking about fabrics, I just acquired 10.5kg of fabrics in different counts, colours, linen, aida, hardanger and others. I've taken out approx. 2.5kg for myself and hope to sell the rest away. I would prefer to sell the rest (8kg) to the same person but won't mind separately them out (min. 1 kg each) and selling them to different people. So, if you need fabrics, feel free to contact me ;0)
Ordered this Dutch magazine a few days ago and it arrived yesterday. It was the Eva Rosenstand Girl with a Candlelight which made me buy this magazine. I have to say this magazine is a good buy as there are a lot of other beautiful patterns inside.
Time of the year whereby the flu bug is everywhere. Stay warm everyone.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
It is finally done! I love stitching on this piece as it is a nice feeling to see each child appearing. This finish was stitched on a Silkweaver hand dyed but I simply couldn't get the colours on the fabric with my camera.
I have no idea which project should I start next. I am thinking of continuing 2 UFOs. My first choice is Girl With a Rose but it is really hard to stitch on the bottom part.
OR Permin Christmas in Town. What puts me off about this piece is that I have to stitch all the whites in to make the snow.
I would really love to start on this ER but I think I should really complete 1 UFO before I start another a new project.
Fall is here and as usual, it is so windy, cold and wet. I had a very bad infection in one of teeth recently. It was a torture at the dentist. I had my 2nd appointment yesterday and few days before the appointment, I felt so despressed and terrified. Just the thought of getting tortured by the dentist is enough to make me pee in my pants. Luckily, it wasn't so bad at all. According to the dentist, the first time was really bad as I had an infection. I still have 1 more treatment next month and that's it!
Monday, August 30, 2010
My ER Robin completed. Took me about 11 days, stitched on 28 count cashel linen. Is it that difficult to iron the wrinkles out on linen? I noticed that it is much easier on lugana and jobelan.
I completed one of the Hello Kitty sometime ago and put in the last few stitches for the 2nd one. Stitched on 14 count plastic canvas. I doubt I will stitch on plastic canvas for a while as I broke 4 needles just stitching these 2 and constant cramps in my hands.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
It had been a while since I updated my blog. Things had been getting in our life during this period and I am so glad that it is over and our life is back to normal (at least until now). During this hard time, I am so glad that we got the help of family and friends. I have a special friend whom I want to thank for being there when I nearly lost hope. Thank you so much, Jackie for being there when I was so afraid and lost.
I haven't been stitching until few weeks ago. Here is what I've finished in less than 2 weeks. It is a very fast stitch and also my first real try on linen.
My current WIP which is another fast stitch as well but backstitching those twigs can drive me crazy. I had been on the search for this used chart for a long time. I managed get it but without any leftover floss or even floss numbers. Luckily for a very kind lady, she sent me samples of her floss as she has this used chart + leftover floss and I matched them up to DMC.
It had always been my dream to run an online shop selling crafts. I had an online shop which was set up in 2003 but it didn't go well (probably promoting to the wrong country). After some serious selling on Ebay, I decided to re-open this shop. My husband is an IT man but he is not good with webshops. We have a program called Magento and all we need is someone who knows about Magento to help me with. If you know anyone and will charge a reasonable fee for it, please let me know. I really need the shop running in October. Thank you so much in advance.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
We were supposed to go to Tivoli in Copenhagen yesterday but changed our plans and went to Sommerland Syd instead. DH is one of the sponsors for a handball club and this club invited all the sponsors + their family members to a day in Sommerland Syd. Our good friends came along with their twin girls too as the father is also one of the sponsors.
Pictures here are some of the crazy rides which the girls took. It was a great weather and this giant monster is the main attraction there. No, the girls didn't take this ride as they are too young for this.
How many times did the 3 girls ride on this? 5 to 6 times? I lost count as this ride swings so fast that it made me so giddy even by looking at it :0))
The 3 good friends climbing the 'Mount Everest'.
I really feel like a coward sometimes. I didn't even dare to go onto this pirate ship as I have a fear for heights. So, the girls were up there, while I was looking after the bags!
Was sitting on the grass waiting for the 3 girls to finish this ride. It was a long queue for this ride and the 3 girls love to sit in 1 train together. After each ride ended, they queued up for their turns again. They took this ride 3 times as they all wanted to take turns to be the 'driver' in the same train.
DD sat with the twins' mum and 1 of the twins at the front row. The impact was really strong when it went right into the water. 3 of them hit their heads really hard onto the front bar. DD did cry but didn't take her long to recover and look for the next ride again.
This is the only ride she refused to go with at the last minute. She could see that it was a very dark tunnel and she doesn't like darkness.
A very sweet-looking train.
2 girls off to look for new adventures :0)
We had a warm week and DH and I decided to clean the 'family pool' at the beginning of the week. Our daughter had a great time swimming and playing in the pool every day when she came home from the kindergarten.
We will be getting rainy days starting from this evening for a whole week, I guess. So, this evening, we started to cover the pool and packed quite a lot of stuff in the garden and back into the shed and garage.
We had an old friend who came by and visit us this afternoon for coffee. We invited him for dinner too. When was the last time we saw him? 3.5 years ago? It was really nice to see him again and DH and him are already making plans to go to the movies together.
Monday, May 31, 2010
4th child done + some snow added. I really enjoy stitching on this piece.
I was wondering what's so big deal about this Håndarbejdets Fremme 1993. Each time, a copy is put out on Ebay for bidding, it will goes up to more than 100euro. I took a look at this book and there are only 3 patterns which I like - out of 12 of them! My favourite is the December, June and May calender birds.
I hope you had a great weekend. We had some friends over for coffee and grill on Saturday. It was really fun and DD played really well with their 9-year-old daughter. Yesterday, we took DD to the local indoor pool. I must admit that I am really getting old. I was at the children's pool for an hour, didn't do much swimming, except for playing with DD there and I took a 2-hour nap when we came home.
We are looking forward to next Saturday, even though we have to cancel our Copenhagen trip as we decided to head to Sommerland Syd with our friends and their twin girls. The last time we were there was like 3 years ago.
Have a great week ahead.
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