Drage Feuer Stitch

I hope everyone had a great and safe New Year.  As usual every year, we will watch the fireworks from our house.  Both my husband and our daughter had a great time playing with some fireworks that the whole front yard is still in a mess with the leftovers.   

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.  

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.