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Monday, May 24, 2010
We went on a short vacation during this long weekend. This was actually a birthday gift from my husband. We were supposed to go to Hamburg 2 weeks ago but had to cancel as all hotels were fully booked.
Our first day was at Hafencity. We took the inner city train. Honestly, I've never seen a more completed train zone plan, other than in Hongkong. I have to say, I do miss the city life a lot. It had been a long time since I've seen a busy city, with lots of people and lots of different food.
We went to Miniatur Wunderland. When darken.
With lights.
A minatur open-air concert.
It took us a long time from Hafencity back to the main rail station. We stumbled upon a Spanish restaurant. The dishes remind me of Chinese Dim Sum - all in small portions. I have to say our 5 year old daughter is a real trooper. Not a word of complaint from her when we were finding our way in the city for hours. She got to eat all she wanted at the restaurant. Home made french fries, bread and ice cream. This restaurant really has such wonderful service. They said they will make any food for the children.
We went to Hagenbeck Tierpark (walking distance from our hotel) the next day. I just thought these orangutans are so lovable, especially this one who is often seen carrying his/hers blanket.
Our daughter's up close and personal encounter with the gentle giraffe.
Happiest girl on earth as long as she has her popcorn.
Aquarium which is just next to the zoo.
This python really facinated her so much that she stood there for a long time looking at it.
Of course, she needs to bring a 'pet' home after the zoo's trip. This parrot is her latest companion now.
I stumbled upon Starbucks Coffee when I really needed to find a washroom in a mall. I nearly had tears in my eyes. When was the last time I saw a Starbucks Coffee? 10 years ago? When I was still living in Singapore, there is almost a Starbucks Coffee at every corner. After our dinner at Jim Block, we headed to this Starbucks and had another feast - coffee and cakes.
As much I love the city life, still there are a lot of things happening in a big city. Saw this when we took the inner city train back. My husband said this boy was stabbed and died at this place. It is really sad as he was really young.
That was our vacation and I really enjoyed and made my husband promise me that we will definitely be back there next summer. I am really looking forward to the next vacation which will be in Copenhagen. We will be there when Pippi Longstocking is visiting Tivoli.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Just bought these magazines from an old lady - 53 issues of 2009 Hendes Verden when I only need 12 issues of them. The seller is an extremely lovely and sweet 87 year old lady who has a very bad eyesight and legs. So, I told her to just sell me the whole year issue and I will search for what I want myself. After her sale with me, she said she will never do it again. Reason - The whole package was so heavy and she had to get someone to load it onto her walking frame and then unload it at the post office counter. Well, I actually need the whole of 2005 issues from her and some others. She had been a subscriber to this magazine for the last 67 years!
So, what do I do with the rest of the magazines? There are lot of lovely recipes in them and I have to find a day to go through them slowly.
All because of my obsession for these 12 birds. I bought 1 issue from the publisher as the pattern was missing from the issue which I bought from the seller. I think she took that page (at the back of the pattern) to enter into some contests.
My progress of Girl & A Rose. I had to frog her eyes out as I made a mistake. At least, now with her eyes stitched up, she doesn't look so scary anymore.
I wish everyone a great long weekend. We are having a long weekend here in Denmark as we have Pinsedag.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Finished the 3rd child this morning and 4 more to go.
Going to continue with her this week before I go back to my Children in Snow. I think I will stitch in her eyes this week as those empty eye sockets are starting to freak me out.
I hope everyone had a great Mother's Day yesterday. It was a horrible day for me as my cold got worse yesterday. So, all I did on Mother's Day/my birthday was sleeping. This is a birthday gift which I received from my in-laws and husband yesterday. This is what I had always wish for as I am sick and tired of using the mixer whenever I bake some cakes.
Looks kind of frightening as there are so many other accessories. Still it is very exciting and I can't wait to try them out.
I think the reason why my cold didn't get better was because we went to the circus on Saturday. It was very cold and almost felt like winter with the rain. My toes were totally frozen. Still, it was so worth it as our daughter enjoyed every minute while at the circus. It was a very typical children's circus with a lot of animals and clowns.
During the 10 mins break, we get to go to the back of the circus to look and stroke the animals. The horses are extremely friendly and love children a lot.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
1 more child done and 5 more children to go. It will be put away for a few days while I continue with my Girl & A Rose SAL with Jackie.
My progress on Girl & A Rose. I am so tempted to stitch her eyes now but I know I will have nothing to look forward to once the eyes are done.
We are supposed to spend our holidays in Hamburg next week but due to the the Hafenfest that will be held there on the same week, we have to change our plans. All hotels are fully booked for this Hafenfest and prices are even doubled just for this event. I am quite disappointed but well, there's nothing we could do, except to travel there a couple of weeks after this event is over.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
My hands couldn't stop shaking as I had been stitching quite a lot on her to catch up with Jackie. I could feel like I am working on a Dimensions kit again while working on her. Took me a while to get used to looking at the coloured symbols and 2 symbols sharing the same colour floss.
Another kit came in this morning. I think I must be colourblind as I was so sure that it showed blue on my screen but seems like it is not in real life. This is a kit called Blå Flora by the Danish Håndarbejdets Fremme and the designer is Ole Kortzau.
Snow in April! This picture was taken this morning. DD is bringing a friend home from the kindergarten today. Not exactly a nice weather for an ice-cream. She is really excited as she had been counting the days to bring this friend home. Whereas, I am a bit worried as she told me this boy can only speak German and not Danish. I am not good at German at all, so I guess DD has to play the translator if I can't communicate with this small friend of hers.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
1 child done and 6 more to go. At least it is easier to stitch 6 children than making them ;0) I love the reds and really enjoyed stitching this girl. My main problem is the backstitching, as on the kit, it says use 1 strand for backstitching. However, when I look at the picture, it seems like 2 strands had been used. I did use 1 strand for her mouth but it didn't turn out good and changed to 2 strands. I will do the same for her eyes too.
My kit arrived this week. This is a SAL with Jackie who has already started hers as she received hers about 4 days before me. I am going to replace the fabric in the kit with a SW fabric. Luckily for my 'fabric supplier' who found 1 SW fabric that might goes with this project. I hope it will arrives by end of this week.
I received these 4 beautiful pictures taken by my dear friend Michiko. I've always love the Japanese cherry blossoms and it had always been my dream to travel to Japan to admire them in real life. These pictures are so well taken by Michiko and they are really beautiful. Thank you so much, Michiko. I am also very happy to know that Michiko is back to blogging after taking a short break.
We went to the funfair in Germany last weekend. DD was really excited. We played and ate a lot during our 5 hours there. Very soon, she will be going to a real funpark in Copenhagen - Tivoli. We really need a few days here and there for short holidays during this summer. We had been working constantly on the house every summer with no breaks. Another place where we've planned is the Hagenbeck in Hamburg.
Very empty funfair as we arrived 45 mins before it started, just to avoid the heavy traffic and not able to find a parking space.
We've had great weather for the whole of this week. I finished washing the last windows today. Took me 3 separate days to finish all the windows. That is the price to pay if you want a very bright house. We bought DD a bicycle, so that she can start learning how to cycle during this summer.
We are invited over to our friends' house for dinner tomorrow. I just came to know that we have to bring some extra clothings as we will be doing something outside before or after dinner! I hope not too much walking. DD is really looking forward to go to their house tomorrow as she gets to meet their twin girls who are her good friends.
I've just ordered 2 boxes of ice cream and they will be delivered this Saturday. DD had been asking her friends in the kindergarten to come over to our house for ice cream. Arrangements had been made with the parents and they will come by next week. I have to stock up as I'll never know which child will ring on our doorbell, saying they've been invited for an ice-cream :0))
I wish everyone a great weekend and great weather!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
My ER kit finally arrive this morning. It had been a while since I stitched a non-HAED. I thought of buying this kit for a while and after all the encouragement and bad influence from my friends ;0), I finally ordered this kit.
I am replacing the fabric from the kit with my own. I did a floss toss on 2 Silkweaver fabrics. I do love this blue but was a bit worried that the light blue floss will be lost in this blue/light purple hand dyed. In real life, it looks nice but on the photo, it seems that the light blue is drowned into the blues.
So, I did another floss toss, seems like this fabric and floss look much better together. What do you think?
Angel of Spring. This is where I stopped yesterday morning. I am only stitching a bit on her every now and then. I didn't even touch her during our Easter holidays. She will be put away till my current project is finished.
I hope everyone had a great Easter. We had a long Easter holiday and I was busy running around getting the gifts for Egg Hunting ready. I went shopping with DD in Germany too and had guests dropping by. DD stayed overnight at her grandparents' house for a night during this holiday and slept with her aunt, who was here for the holidays. DD was really happy and excited and looking forward for more overnights at her grandparents. Of course, she wants that as she was already getting gifts the moment she woke up in the morning. I missed her a lot as for the first time in 5 years, she wasn't with us during the evening. DH and I went to a nice Italian restaurant in Germany after leaving her with her grandparents. It was really nice as we frequent that restaurant a lot when I was pregnant.
Spring is here and that means I won't have a lot of time to do any of my felt crafts or stitching This is the time where there are a lot of activities going on - funfairs, having friends over and we going over to our friends' house, gardening, painting and windows washing. We are going to the first funfair next Saturday and followed by a grill at our friends' house the following week.
I wish everyone a great spring/summer. I hope to post a wip of my ER project very soon. (if I can find some time to stitch).
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
I can really feel that Spring is here as flowers are starting to grow. Birds are chirping, even at 4.30am in the morning! Spring also means work in the garden and I am not really looking foward to all those weeds-plucking.
Edit : I think I must be dreaming while writing my blog yesterday. It was Almond Chocolate Cake that is supposed to be here. I even made a small cake stand to go with it. In fact, I made 6 mini cake stands to go with all the 6 small cakes.
I made this Walnut Cream Roll and I simply love it. I am thinking of making another one but in pink.
I've always love the Danish Othello Kage. While walking past the bakery last week, I saw one. I came home and decided to make one myself . This one is sewed but I am going to bake the real one soon, just have to exclude the marzipan away as I hate them.
All of a sudden, I just feel like buying a kit to stitch. I am still working on my HAED Angel of Spring but thought of putting it away for a while. I have 2 Eva Rosenstand kits in mind but still deciding which one to buy first. I hope I won't take too long to decide.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Here is another batch of felt cakes I made during the last 2 weeks. I remade a couple of them as I wasn't satisfied with the first results.
First time making a whole felt cake. I have to practise with the icing though.
I just bought this Wilton Wonder Mold. For the past few weeks, DD had been watching on Youtube on some doll cakes making using this mold. I can bake but I am not a professional cake decorator. I know there are a lot of accessories (different type of tips to be used on the dress) involved and they look quite intimidating. DH told me that he will help out with the decorations and told me to go ahead and buy the kit. DH came with an idea to save some work but not money. He suggested buying a barbie doll dress, cut it to the waist length and put it over this doll pick. In this way, we don't have to decorate top body with icing, marzipan, etc. What do you think? We will try making a Barbie doll cake this Sunday together with DD. If you want to look at the most beautiful Barbie doll cakes, go here. That is the site which DD and I frequent a lot and try to look for The Island Princess cake, that one is stunning!
I had been reading quite a lot during the evenings too. Recently I am into reading about child abuse books. I finished Sold by Tess Stevens last week and started Shy Keenan Broken. They are not lying when it is written 'The Most shocking story of abuse ever told' on the cover of Broken. The abuse that this young girl Shy had gone through since she was 4 was horrifying!!! Each time I finished a page and had to turn to a new one, I kept on telling myself 'please, let the abuse stops at the next page.'
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