30 Dec 2013 | craft-projects
Somehow I lost track with the days and missed my weekly blog last week. But hey, I am only one day late and I actually worked yesterday for a couple of hours, so that’s a pretty good excuse I reckon. So, the celebrations started off on Christmas eve at my dear...
22 Dec 2013 | craft-projects
I am back into Christmas craft and in the middle of creating Christmas Bon Bons! Its a good way of using up some more paper and left over bits and pieces. Below some pictures from start to the finished product of one bon bon. I still have to decorate 15 bon bons, but...
15 Dec 2013 | craft-projects
Are you also thinking every year, that its a shame to throw away all the nice Christmas cards you received? And then you store them somewhere in a box just to never look at them again! That’s exactly what happened to me in the last years, but I finally found a...
8 Dec 2013 | craft-projects
Yesterday I started again making some non Christmas cards and it was good fun. I had my friends Vada and Linda over for craft. This time we started already at 9.30am and went out for lunch as well as Linda had to go to a painting class meeting. We dropped her off...
1 Dec 2013 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
In the times of internet I thought I could write a much nicer online review of my year with pictures this year and also I won’t have the problem with space. So I could write unlimited – but don’t worry I won’t! 😉 I have split my review in...
1 Dec 2013 | craft-projects
Yesterday I thought well, its going to be the 1st Advent today and I therefore I pulled out all my Christmas decoration stuff and decided to create an Advents wreath. Armed with pruning-shears I went out into the driveway and cut off branches from an olive tree. Well,...
24 Nov 2013 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Same as last week, I didn’t really get to do much craft, but was writing a lot of my Australian cards. My German mail is all posted and will hopefully arrive early December. I had planned to write a lot more cards yesterday, but I had an unplanned 2 hour Skype...
10 Nov 2013 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
I think I am not in the mood for typing today! I had a packed weekend and somehow I don’t feel like typing. So I will keep it short and sweet. Yesterday I had two of my friends for craft over and I made my 100th Christmas card! Of course that didn’t stop...
3 Nov 2013 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
Its finally nice and warm or better hot with temperatures around 30 degree. Last week we even had a day with 37! What’s really nice is that the nights a still quite cool allowing me to have a good sleep. Just in time I was packing away my winter cloths and...
27 Oct 2013 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
By now I have created over 75 Christmas cards! That is definitely a record for me. I haven’t done that many in any other year! And I am still going to create more. Another record is a magical low figure I haven’t seen on my scale for over three years!...
19 Oct 2013 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
After a week of no sweets and lots of salad, fruits and vegetables I have lost one kilo! YEAH! I had a couple of evenings lying in bed and getting hungry, but I managed to ignore it and fall a sleep anyway. Otherwise I have continued with creating Christmas cards, but...
13 Oct 2013 | craft-projects, stories-from-my-life
After having finished my last piece of birthday chocolate yesterday, I am back to not eating sweets at home. Of course I am already craving a piece of chocolate, but I guess I will be fine in a couple of days. In the meantime I keep eating fruits against the cravings....
