Drage Feuer Stitch

Completed her yesterday evening! She took me nearly a month, I think. I am really happy with the way she turned out, though stitching all those blacks was really boring. What will my next project be? I thought of Lanarte Ballerina but that one can wait. I will go back to my Sleeping Beauty and hope to complete her by end of this month.

Today is my mother-in-law's birthday, DD And I are going to take the bus to Germany, do some shopping and then the train to my in-laws' house. Mil will pick us up from the train station. DH is so worried that we will lost our way to the train station and insisted that I bring his navigator along. His navigator will probably point us to walk along the main road instead of going by short cuts. I can always ask people for the directions if we really get lost. Hope we don't spend too much time shopping and forgot to go to the train station!

I haven't been stitching her for nearly 2 weeks now. I started on her again early this morning and I could feel that my motivation is up again :0)) I guess that is also because I am recovering from a bad flu + an ear infection.

We had great weather last week. The temperature was up to 25 degree. We had this swimming pool last summer but it was at the back garden. DH thought it will be fun if she can slide into the water. He dragged the pool to her small playground. DD is so crazy about it and for days, she stayed in the garden for 4 to 5 hours. We realised that there could be a punctured hole in the swimming pool. We found another pool and this time with a filter in a shop as DH doesn't want to be the Poolboy scooping all the grasses ;0) They were all sold out when we drove there yesterday and were told to call today at 2pm asking whether the stocks are in again. I am crossing my fingers that we can get the pool later today.

I am pretty amazed that I am progressing rather fast on my Spanish Dancer. I haven't been stitching much since the holidays. The whole family is down with a very bad flu. DD 's flu is not so bad as ours but still we put her at home as she had cold sore. I don't want other kids in the kindergarten to get it too. I haven't touched my Sleeping Beauty for a week now. I simply don't have the motivation to stitch her. I know, I am so close to finishing her but if I don't have at least an hour in the morning to stitch, I won't even touch her as that one needs my full concentration. Really not easy when my nose gets stuck all the time and also with an ear infection. Hope I can get some motivation back once DD is back in the kindergarten and when the house is all cleaned up AND when my blog doesn't look weird anymore. I noticed the layout of my blog is acting really strange recently. I have no idea what is wrong and is still trying to find out what it is.

Even though flu days are really horrible, DD and I did a lot of baking during this period. We baked cookies, bread, cakes and all kinds of boller with different fillings - chocolate, pizza, raisins, marmalade. We are very pleased with the outcome.