Summer's End

It has been a lovely long Summer.

The heat has been something else though. 

All I can say is thank g o o d n e s s for air conditioning. 

I have opened my Etsy Shop again and am slowly getting my new projects together. 

 

Watch this space... lots of new goodness coming up! 

Shine Bright

 

The sun might be out, but I could not help myself.

I had this lovely chunky happy and bright yarn smiling at me for weeks.

 

 

So why not crochet together a Flower-Power Scarf!

 

 

 

I added some light tassels....

 

 

... and voila!

A chunky flower scarf all ready for when Winter comes around again!

 

 

 

First Things First

 

My table has been a mix and match as of late.

I have not been able to make up my mind what I want to focus on,

so I have lots of different things going on at the same time.

 

A steady thing on my morning table, is the husband's red cup.

I guess my morning tea just tastes better somehow from his cup.

Go figure, no logic whatsoever.

 

My love for crochet has been creeping into my every day.

My day seems incomplete without a bit of yarn squeezed in somewhere.

 

I have so much to do at the moment though, that I really need to

get myself a new to-do book.

There is only one way to gain some control here,

and that is the ticking-off system.

 

I am ((crossing fingers)) opening my etsy shop again!

(((gasps)))

It has been closed for quite a few years now, and have been open

for bits here and there, short periods only.

But I am coming back!

 

....

definitely need that to-do book.

 

I can see a thousand things to do in my near future

xxx

Spic-and-Span

 

Had an unplanned need to change everything around

and baked myself a crisp new look.

 

Feels nice to be different from what I was before.

 

Is almost like putting on a totally new outfit.

 

xxx

 

 

Lilla Lotta's Garden Flowers

 

 

Everything kind of changed.

The colours I am surrounding myself with are much happier

and brighter now.

 

 

I have this deep need to have lots of colour around me.

Nothing feels the same anymore.

 

 

My life has been on hold for 5 years.

Where I was just floating, not being here nor there.

Where my entire life was not happening.

 

 

Circumstances were just so difficult.

And just remained treading water in the same spot.

Just surviving.

 

 

Maybe that is why I want to surround myself with flowers and happy

colours.

 

It is time for me to continue living.

Doing the things I love.

Growing away from where I was stuck.

 

Thank you to all the dear people who stayed near me

and cared for me.

 

It means more than any words can ever express.

 

You are a Star

xxx

 

 

 

 

 

Goodbye Winter

Goodbye Winter!

You have been amazing this year!

We have had so much snow fall, and even the odd storm here and there

 

Your skies were mostly blue and bright.

 

 

You have been wintry wonderfully white!

 

 

We have loved every minute of it!

 

 

 

We are looking forward to seeing you again at the end of the year!

 

In the meantime we are getting ready for sun bathing

and swimming and picknicking and being outside as much as possible!

 

xxx

 

 

Summer Smiles in Flowers

My love for paper and paints has been mixing with yarns.

 

 

I find myself stacking yarn made goodies, and instantly my

mind starts ticking how to use them, and what to use them

with.

 

 

I can't seem to just let yarn be yarn.

 

My mind seems to be a strange place where all of it just

mixes and starts blending into something else.

 



 

This new love of mine, this yarn, has been such a joy.

I just love all the colours and all the wonderful

textures. I am still so new at crocheting, and learning

as I go along. But I just love it.

 

This is a summer illustration I made.

I had been painting some stalks and lettered some words

when I happened to have some unfinished grannysquares

on the table.

 

I just love the promise of Summer.

 

I am hoping everything will come together finally for us

in this new land that is now our home.

 

xxx