Drage Feuer Stitch

I've been stitching nothing else but her for the last 2 days. I can't wait to join her strands of hair to make her look more complete. DH stared at her yesterday and said 'she is done soon, isn't she?' I laughed as that reminds me of Chiloe's comments who asked me the same question. I told him very soon. He said it looks really nice and he too, thinks that she looks our DD - the hair and the sharp chin. This is the first time that he comments on my Sleeping Beauty. He is not interested with my cross stitching, same like how 'interested' I am with his servers, programming and websites.

Warm warm weather. We have had 17 degree and today up to 20 degree. However, the wind is really strong. DD was at the doctor yesterday for a test to see whether she is allergic to pollen. He prescribed some eye drops for her watery eyes and if it doesn't helps, we have to go for the nose drops and if not, she will go for some tests and will get some medications. He said her allergy is very very mild as she doesn't has asthma. DH is starting to sneeze a lot today too as he is allergic to dry grasses.

As I mentioned in my previous post, DD is involved in the kindergarten's flea market. Today, I managed to find more toys in the attic. It was quite a disappointment today. None of the kids in the kindergarten were there to set up a stand to sell their toys. Most of them were the kids from the school next door. I think it was boring for her as she doesn't know any of the older kids there until she recognised one of the mums there. She is the mum of a kid from the same kindergarten and DD bought the huge bag of legos from her. DD sold a soft toy and 3 of her Winnie the Pooh frames. Here she is, munching on her popcorns. Things got better when her grandparents came and her grandmum put some money in her 'money box'. We left after 1 hour as my mother in law just recovered from a lung infection and it is not good for her to sit there when the wind is so strong. Mother in law said there will be a flea market at her neighbourhood and she would like DD to sell the rest of her toys there.

Next week, we are going to my inlaws as the Funpark will be situated at the town where they are living. They want to bring DD to the funpark for some rides. Next Sunday, we are joining the Forest Day. It will be a walk in the forest and other activities. So, tell me, how do we get stitching done during summer? Too many happenings and gardening to be done during summer.



We went over to Germany for dinner today. This is the harbour whereby they have lots of activities or funfairs during summer. We went to a very typical German restaurant just opposite the harbour. Since this is the season for fresh asparagus, I ordered fresh asparagus with potatoes and smoked ham. There were like 5 to 6 huge fresh asparagus and after eating the 3rd one, I felt like throwing up. It was just too much for me.

I just created another blog and that is my shopping/wishing list. I thought it would be easier for friends or any other people who come by my blog to see the list. Hoping they know where I can get them at reasonable prices or used.

Her hair is growing :0)) She is an addict as I simply couldn't put her down. I only have to put in a few more stitches to finish off the last block but I simply don't have the time the whole day.

Marie asked me whether I've started on Sandra K's Cherished Moments. It will take a while before I start on that one. I have the sudden urge to start on a new non-haed project. The Permin Christmas in Town is starting to bore me out. I am stitching whites to fill in the blues. I can't really start on a new project right now as I don't have the right fabric and floss. That is why I am taking such a long time to order all the necessary materials to start on something new. Like this, I have no choice but to continue with what I am stitching.

I spent 1 1/2 hr in the garden getting rid of weeds and digging out all the roses at the back of the house. While pulling weeds, some of the flowers are really getting into my way and I digged them all out too. The birds are so happy and they were crowding around me as I threw the worms to them each time I find them.

I was in the post office to buy a postcard. A lady in USA requested for postcards to be sent to her 10-year old daughter. I am going to get a postcard tomorrow in Germany. I sent out the Danish postcard today and tomorrow will be a postcard from Germany. Guess which one will reach her first?

DD will have to go for a test tomorrow at the doctor to see what type of pollen she is allergic to (if she is allergic to pollen). For a couple of days, her face was flushed, nose running and watery eyes. At first I thought she is getting the flu again but DH said she could be allergic to some pollen and he is allergic to grass.

7 full pages completed!!! I put in the last stitch for the 7th page yesterday morning. I didn't post it as I want to post it today on ourfriendshaedsal today. That means it is time to post our HAED wips. I am going to start on page 8 very soon which is the last full page. After that, there are 4 partial pages. I am excited and a bit sad?...at the same time, knowing that she will soon be done. I really enjoy stitching her so much.

My cross stitch leaflet arrived from Korea last Saturday but the postman was too impatient to wait for me to open the door and threw the registered mail card in my letterbox. I ran out to chase after him. I think he is either David Copperfield or he has wings as he was gone so fast! I collected the registered package from the local post office on Tuesday. I am very happy with the leaflet, though I am not so excited that 91 colours are used for this pattern.

I stitched a bit on my Permin Christmas In Town. For a moment, I thought maybe I should just use a white opal evenweave fabric instead. I realised that I have to stitch in whites to cover the blue hand dyed fabric, so that it looks like snow. I emailed Permin in Denmark regarding a symbol which I simply couldn't figure out. We had mails bouncing forth and back as she confused me with a wrong dmc colour. Well, seems like everything is settled regarding that weird symbol on the chart. I still don't agree with her clarifications but I will go with what she told me.

The whole area here didn't had water yesterday morning. All of us received a note saying that water will be shut down from 10am till works are completed. They turned off the water at 8am!! My neighbours were walking around and complaining, saying aren't they shutting down the water a bit too early and giving the note a bit too late (we only received the note while we were all snoring). I felt so miserable yesterday till 12pm as I simply couldn't do anything without having my morning shower first. I didn't even dare to do any gardening at the back of the house, no way am I going to step out of the house without a shower.

DD is involved in the kindergarten's flea market next Saturday. I am in the middle of packing all her old toys, so she can do her selling business. After a week of packing her old toys, I only managed to find 3 jigsaw puzzles which I am willing to part with. Honestly, I simply can't bare to part with her old stuff. DH often says I am a bit over to the top as I am keeping all her stuff, even all her milk bottles. I am going to try finding more stuff again later, let's hope I won't clutch onto her old toys and not wanting them to go :0)))

It was rushing day for me yesterday morning. I had to pack some cold food for DD, tidying up, cleaning up her bedsheets (she pee in the bed the night before). I wanted to visit one of my neighbours with a pot of flower the day before but I couldn't make it as I was working in the garden the whole afternoon. So, I rushed to Åse's house 1 hour just before we had to leave as I know she would make me sit there with her for at least 20 mins. Åse is an old lady who lost her husband 2 years ago and very often she tells me how much she misses him. She only has 5% of eyesight left but this is one lady whom I have so much of admiration and respect for. She is living on her own and she walks to the nearby supermarket to buy stuff all by herself. Her kids visit her once a week but not when they have to go on holidays. She just had a fall few weeks ago during the night, knocked her head against the cabinet and fell onto the floor. There was a lot of blood and the ambulance came. 1 weeks later, she is up on her feet, taking a walk under the rain to the supermarket and she loves it. She cooks meals for herself and even put up some Easter decorations on her table, all just by feeling them with her fingers. She is one great lady with a great sense of humour too.

We went to my in-laws at around 11am and all of us drove off to a local restaurant in Germany. I packed some cold food for DD as I know she is not into warm food during daytime. Luckily, the restaurant has some bread as side dish and I asked for butter. So, she ate 5 small pieces of bread with butter + some cucumbers for lunch. I am not so much into warm food during daytime either, so I had Scampi with lots of salad. We went back to my in-laws after lunch and my sister in law entertained our DD while we started to put the gifts and chocolates in the garden. She had such a good time searching for them and I killed 1 chocolate bunny by stepping onto it. How would I know DH would put some chocolates on the grass. I was too busy running after DD with my camera, that is why I didn't see what were on the grass.

During the Easter holidays, our neighbour just across our house took down most of the trees. He said he hasn't been doing that for a few years. That is really great for us as we have a much better view to the lake now. Saw those tree trunks lying there? He started cutting them down at around 9am and it was done at around 2pm. He left 2 standing there just for some shade over his terrace. To show our appreciation, DH bought him a good bottle of whiskey :0))

Today is the last day of Easter holidays for DD and she is going back to the kindergarten tomorrow. I have so many things to do - cleaning, more gardening and more unpacking and packing of boxes. We planted some flowers and spices in the garden too. Hope they turn out well as this is my first time growing stuff.

I've been spending the last 1 week working on her. I didn't have much time to stitch since last Friday as DD started her Easter Holidays till next Monday. I still have approx. 1500 stitches left and then I am done with 1 more full page. Going to post her on the HAED SAL Blog as it is our Thursday SAL!!!

Since it is a public holiday in Denmark today, we spent half a day in Germany doing some shopping. DH hates crowds, so we had to leave as early as possible as we know there will be a lot of Danes in Germany today. We bought 3 full sacks of sand to refill DD's sandcastle. I just wish she can stop throwing the sand out onto the grass. Then again, kids love to do what they are told not to. We have warm weather till Easter, so it is time to work in the garden. We have a big garden and it is really frustration to work in such a huge garden. It took me few days to pull out the weeds at the front area and then continue with another area at the back of the house. When it was done, weeds start to grow at the front area. Seems like my duty for every summer is running around to get rid of the weeds. You can call me the Weed Buster ;0)

I wish everyone a great Easter!

This is where we spent our last Sunday and also spent a lot of €€€ inside there. It had been a while since we went to such a funpark. This 'Tivoli' is only in Germany for 9 days (until Easter). The weather was really great that day, though a bit of chilly.

DH and DD went into this haunted house. I refused to get in with them. Well, she wasn't that fond of the haunted house and only told us in the evening that it wasn't that fun and she didn't like it.

Both of them took this Dragon roller coaster ride. It was really scary as I thought it is going really fast, that is why I didn't take this ride again with them, I am such a chicken but DD was yelling them to go faster.

This was my first ride with DD that day. I thought 'Baby Flug', how fast and high can that be as it means Baby Flight. OMG!!! It went up so high that I thought I will die. I've always been afraid of heights. DD was so excited and thought of herself as Little Einsteins (the cartoon series whereby they are in the spaceship). She kept on shouting 'higher!!!' I nearly pee in my pants while up there and DH had to hold me to steady me when the flight finally came to a stop - thought it will never stop!

No idea what kind of flight this is but DD had 3 rides on that as she was so thrilled to be up there all the time. Guess she loves to be swinged around.

I thought this is a very nice, slow and steady ride but she frowned and said 'boring!'

We have all these candies stores there.


Last but not least, we had our burglar alarm + sensors + gas alarms installed in the whole house. We really don't want to take the risk after one of our neighbours' house got broken into. Since we moved into here for more than a year, I think that is the 4th house that got broken into. At least with the burglar alarm, we don't have to worry staying out late each time we are out. DH can travel to Bulgaria for business leaving us at home too and not worrying for both us.

Easter holidays started last Friday until next Monday. It is a holiday in Denmark tomorrow but not in Germany, so we are going there to do some shopping. On Sunday, we will be doing the 'egg hunting' at my in-laws, as well as lunch in a restaurant. Initial plan was buffet as brunch serving warm and cold food. In-laws changed the plans by just having warm food in a restaurant. I will have to pack some cold food for DD as she is not into warm food for lunch. Well, me neither.

I haven't been doing much stitching since DD started her holidays, except during the wee hours in the morning and 30 minutes in the evening on Sleeping Beauty as I wanted so much to finish my book - Ken Follett World Without End. I finished it yesterday evening and it is such a good book like his Pillars of the Earth. Wonder how long I should wait before he comes out with the next one.

I am so much into ballerinas these days. I won 2 Lanarte used charts on ebay - Ballet Girl and Ballet & Music. Hopefully I can find some time to start on Ballet Girl with my friend who started hers since Christmas. As for Imagen, I had been hunting for that one for more than a year. I wrote to the Korean firm, asking them how do I order their leaflets online and to a few other Korea ONS but no replies from them. Even the artist Jose Royo didn't reply my mail when I asked which companies has the licence to chart his artworks into cross stitch. I wrote to so many cross stitch shops like Odds & Ins, Cross Stitch Pattern Gallery, Celtic Rose Designs, etc and even put up a request on HAED, hoping they can get his artworks charted. Finally, I managed to get the help of a Korean who ordered the leaflet for me. Just found out that there are 91 colours for this pattern!!!

Postman is sure early today, especially on a Monday. I received 2 packages in my mailbox. It is a set of Hi-5 DVDs Dance Hits with 3 volumes. DD loves the Australian Hi-5 a lot and she loves to dance to their songs too. So, I got the help of a very nice Australian lady to get them for me as I want the DVDs to be part of her 'egg hunting' during Easter at her grandparents' house. She also enclosed some chocolates in the package. That is so sweet of her. I can't wait to see DD's reaction when she find them during her 'egg hunting' . The last time when she received the Hi-5 CD, she was so excited and was showing her aunt, uncles and grandparents the CD.