Early darkness means sightings of beautiful sunsets from my backyard.
it's that time of the year
Category: life lately
A wavy scarf
It’s done! It feels so great to actually finish something again.
Also, I forgot how hard it is to take acceptable pictures of a scarf unless you model it (but my face is not up to modelling today – believe me I tried). You’ll just have to take my word for it; it’s long enough to wrap around my neck comfortably and it feels really soft and warm.
I found the stitch pattern in a magazine and really enjoyed doing the zigzags. Easy to memorize, but interesting enough to keep going. I may be tempted to try and make a blanket with this stitch.
crafting on?
I picked up my crochet project for the first time in months and it seems I’m finally hooked again (unoriginal pun intended). I may even finish this scarf before the weather changes.
(let’s just forget for a moment that when I started this I intended to get a headstart on making Christmas gifts for everyone in my family)
(joining Nicole of Frontier Dreams)
in my garden
Gouda ~ Antique Market
I love taking pictures here (I posted some of them last year too), but I’m still feeling awkward to take close-ups. One day I will work up the courage to aks people if they mind I photograph them and their goods…
enjoying
One of the things I keep noticing when depression rears it’s ugly little head is that I stop enjoying doing what I do. On darker days everything feels like just another chore.
The only thing that helps (a little bit) is doing it anyway and consciously remind myself that I do enjoy these things.
Preparing diner actually made me smile yesterday.
self portraits
Mondays are my busiest days most weeks. Since we’re still always in the middle of a big home renovation project while living and working here, Mondays are for picking up the mess we made the weekend before.
This weekend we tore out both the ceiling and the floors in our tiny office and broke down a wall seperating it from another tiny room. In time we will have a bigger, beautiful space for the three of us (our youngest girl works with her father in his IT business), but for now we’re working on bare concrete floors and looking at unfinished ceilings and walls. We could call it the industrial look and leave it that way. But hmn… no 😉
Anyway it’s kind of silly to add “write something for the blog” and “take good pictures for the blog” to the Monday list. I have plenty of other (more important) things to do. But that’s what I’ve been saying for weeks now and I really want to get back to it.
On my camera I found these self portraits I took a few weeks ago. Silly pictures actually, but I quite like them. It’s just me, taking pictures of flowers as I often do.
the beach
photography – 30 days of everyday life (part 2)
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| 16. easter. didn’t eat chocolat, but we went out for breakfast in Scheveningen. fun. |
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| 17. walls done, laying floors. that bathroom is actually getting close to be finished! |
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| 18. watering plants inside. outside not needed. it’s raining. |
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| 19. not feeling too well. passing time with yarn and photos. trying to allow myself time to heal. |
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| 20. i stopped bringing every cute vintage item i find at the thrift shop home, but I love it when I find things I was looking for (tea glasses) or things I can actually use (yarn!) |
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| 21. had a really slow start today. but some things just need to be done. |
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| 22. we drove a long way to pick up a second hand bath we found on marktplaats (comparable to craig’s list) for 60 euro. it was fun. |
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| 23. i find his glasses (he has several – cheap- pairs) all over the house and still he can’t find any when he needs them… |
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| 24. “stop messing with that camera and feed me, i’m starving!” catsitting for my daughter and don’t worry, he got enough yesterday, but he eats a lot (too much if we let him) when he gets lonely. |
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| 25. the weather today was really unpredictable |
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| 26. our custum made blinds (3m long) finally arrived! |
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| 27. growing |
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| 28. an unexpected visit from one of the girls ended in all three of them having diner with us. love when that happens. |
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| 29. he started the next diy-project on his list |
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| 30. our weekends are always filled with things like this. i like it. |
crafting on – frogged
I actually frogged two of the four project I was working on last week, so my basket is a lot emptier right now.
The yarn (thread) I was using for the blue summer sweater was just not working for simple stockinette stitch. It’s a kind of cotton, twisted with a thinner shiny thread and that twist was causing really uneven stitches that irritated me more and more. I was almost done with the body, but I knew I would never wear it. So back to square one. I think I’ll try crochet with this yarn next. I do love the color.
I also frogged the assymetric shawl. First of all that bouclé yarn makes my hands hurt, but also: A. I don’t wear shawls and neither does anyone I could gift it to and B. I wouldn’t wear those colors (though I do like them), and neither does anyone I could gift it to. So I think this yarn will go back to the thrift store to find an owner that will actually love and wear it.
The other two projects are going slowly, so I don’t have much to show. I did find a project that never made it to the blog though when I was updating my ravelry (I’m notastation, if you’d like to follow me there).
For Sinterklaas my sister got me one skein of yarn. She really wanted to give my enough to make something big, but was shocked by the price. She did tell me where to find more, but I liked the idea of just using that one skein and made myself (another) cowl. Since we don’t have really cold winter here, I hardly ever use thick wool cowls. But I do have a jacket that doesn’t close all the way up, so something to keep my throat warm would be nice.
(I remember using an online pattern for this, but I can’t find it…)
NOT A STATION 