Drage Feuer Stitch

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.

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.