Where do the days go? I'm not sure sometimes. The hours seem to go by so fast. I feel I hardly get to drink up every drop of one day before it turns into another day. Friday night. I feel very content as this week closes. A happy week, and a very satisfyingly creative week too. I'm a bit later than "usual" posting today, as I often do post on Friday. This afternoon I put the finishing touches on two new pieces of jewelry for my shop, but I did not get them in the shop until now after all the day's busyness was done. So two new necklaces grace the shop. A very lovely one of freshwater pearls and Swarovski crystals with an abalone shell pendant. (I could see this one for a seaside wedding!) Also a necklace of shiny silver bugle beads and pink flower glass beads--a very sleek, simple style. In case you're wondering what's happened to the bags...They will be returning! Some new looks for spring will shortly be arriving in the shop, much is happening behind the scenes. And with our Easter trip coming up soon, I do hope to find some goodies in the way of fabric, beads and all sorts to bring back and make into new creations during the spring and summer months ahead--lots to look forward to! Just a little something for now...Happy Weekend to you all! :o)
Last night I stayed up playing with felt and made these fetching felt flower corsages. These four are now in 
I took a little walk round the garden this afternoon, noting lots of little green leaves of all sorts poking up out of the soil. And the yellow crocuses were in full bloom today! My little helper, a.k.a. Charlie, was there to make sure I didn't forget to notice any flower. He must have spring fever. He was bouncing around all over the place, scratching the pear tree, snaking around me as I walked along...Daffodil leaves are well up too, and primroses will soon be making their return. It's very exciting, these first signs of spring! Not much to photograph...not yet...
Another spring treat is that we will soon be taking a trip to America for Easter, going over some days before the holiday. We just last week arranged the tickets, and this week we're making more plans. We travel in just two weeks. We are soooo happy!! I can't wait to see our family and friends! With my thoughts turning homeward, I'm a-buzz with excitement and dreaming of our trip ahead and fun days to come. It's hard to concentrate this week with such goodness to look forward to! Two weeks... there's so much to do...And I can't forget the all-important--making the shopping list to take along! LOL! 
Wishing you all a wonderful day! 
Happy new week everyone! Hope that all of you had a lovely weekend. Thank you for your cheer and feel-good-wishes...A slow, restful weekend can work wonders. So I'm glad to say I'm feeling more perky than when last I wrote. I'm afraid I have absolutely nothing handmade to show you today...A first, right?! LOL! During the weekend my craft room just had to play by itself and wait for me, for all I did was take a break--read, nap and made good meals and had happy time with Dear Husband. But I do have something fun share. Just at the weekend I received a big, wonderful package from Beverly of 
Moving on to another color...Today I give you purple! My blues fading with the return of some sunshine today, I moved along the color spectrum on to violet for some more jewelry making. Two new pieces are now in 
Something I did not get to post about yet this week was an award given to me by the very lovely Margaret of 
Today I am not feeling so good, "womanly matters" if you know what I mean, feeling really low...So this evening and the weekend I plan to take it easy, rest, maybe try to figure out that crochet pattern yet, read...Gentle things, lovely things. And speaking of lovely things...Here are the roses Dear Husband gave me last week for Valentine's day, still blooming strong...Just like love!
Finally I'm trying it. For real this time...CROCHET! Serious crocheting here, not just the usual simple crochet I've done for, say, finishing techniques for knitting, like when putting together a garment. But crocheting to really learn how to crochet! I'm learning from a book. I thought it was about time I gave this craft another go for its own sake and beauty. I've been resistant until now, thinking I didn't enjoy it. I wasn't able before to get comfortable wielding the one stick, the lone hook. And being right-handed, learning how to get the proper gauge/tension with the yarn flowing through my left hand fingers had taken time to adjust to. I'm still adjusting. But it's coming along and I'm starting to have fun with it.
And here's my first real project--a crocheted flower. Last weekend I bought yarn and a pattern at my LYS (local yarn store) for a crocheted scarflette. The pattern is in Norwegian. Now, I can hardly understand crochet in English at the moment... I can read and speak Norwegian not too bad at this point... But still, what was I thinking?! LOL! So this week I'm trying to decipher the pattern, trying to figure out an English translation, using two needlework books, one in Norwegian and one in English, and seeing if I can correspond photos/illustrations and steps to understand how to work the pattern. Today I was practicing with some leftover cotton-blend yarn from and earlier project, seeing how far I've gotten with the translation. I'm not sure yet! I think it still needs work, but it's getting there. The scrumptious purple wool is what the scarflette will be made of once I get the pattern sorted out. The wool is a cozy mohair from 
I'm feeling a bit blue... The fog has returned and I think it has affected my mood... So much so that the color blue has been featuring heavily in some jewelry I've made this week. Today I listed two new beaded pieces in 
