my friend Alex just sent me a lovely e-card for my birthday and he adds that I shouldn't do anything that comes close to housework today, he will "send" me somebody
click me, I'll clean
so funny, ridiculously funny
9/22/2008
9/21/2008
Happy Birthday
to me
^_^
yepp, it's my birthday today and also a long time since my last posting, but as I've written before I have been busy **sad smiley**
this last weekend I've been to Berlin, on saturday to meet other crafters and talk about blogs and why they are so improtant for me and for you, and for us all in general at a DaWanda meeting. On sunday I went to a congress and this was ... well it was nice.
But saturday afternoon was so inspiring! I met people who are like me, although I knew there are people like me - I can see them online, but in my near enviroment ? well, my friends like to hear me talking about my new critters and ideas, but they can't relate to my enthusiasm, they just don't know the feeling, sure they have their own things that inspire them, but to create something with your own hands and see the happy faces when you give a doll away and hear the lovely short stories about girls loving their monster trolls and going to the toilet with them and brushing their teeth, that is sort of different! it's great!
So what else did I get from this saturday? friends! and the idea of 'networking', which is nothing more than actually be online and don't hide, to be present and to be continuous. It's cool. There was Holly having a cool talk about blogs and also Nic from Luzia Pimpinella, who almost like myself decided to not study art or graphic design after school in order to learn something safe and proper, something like biology. But she managed to start her own business with these ooooh sooo cute embroideries. A lot of beginners also where there, people just starting out and this feeling in the air was so thick you could have cut it with a knife, there was inspiration and love and ... well just smiling faces everywhere, like the one from Katrin, who just started her own blog two days ago!, I guess the inspiring atmosphere had caught her and her companion Barbara to start out, there was an idea, now there is a blog!
I could go on and on, and I'm sure I'm gonna show you some more cool sites of people I met there, but there was also a sunday, of having no breakfast (I needed to leave my hostel at 7 am and breakfast started at 8 am) after that I went to meet my Boss at an interesting congress for ophthalmologists.
at the train home I knitted, I continued at my frog colored shawl project. I actually felt inspired to work on my next amigurumi, but when I wanted to start on it - I had my yarn in front of me, my hook and paper and pencil - the only thing missing, my stitch markers! Damn! I can't create something without markers, when designing markers are as essential as the yarn or idea itself!, well I knitted, and actually made a couple of rows and I enjoyed it, and right now, when talking of knitting I think of Barbara from Sonnenkinder, she also was there on saturdays DaWanda meeting and knitted baby shoes, cute!
two posts ago I promised some kind of 'insight' into my secret project, and now there you go: green nose
^_^
yepp, it's my birthday today and also a long time since my last posting, but as I've written before I have been busy **sad smiley**
this last weekend I've been to Berlin, on saturday to meet other crafters and talk about blogs and why they are so improtant for me and for you, and for us all in general at a DaWanda meeting. On sunday I went to a congress and this was ... well it was nice.
But saturday afternoon was so inspiring! I met people who are like me, although I knew there are people like me - I can see them online, but in my near enviroment ? well, my friends like to hear me talking about my new critters and ideas, but they can't relate to my enthusiasm, they just don't know the feeling, sure they have their own things that inspire them, but to create something with your own hands and see the happy faces when you give a doll away and hear the lovely short stories about girls loving their monster trolls and going to the toilet with them and brushing their teeth, that is sort of different! it's great!
So what else did I get from this saturday? friends! and the idea of 'networking', which is nothing more than actually be online and don't hide, to be present and to be continuous. It's cool. There was Holly having a cool talk about blogs and also Nic from Luzia Pimpinella, who almost like myself decided to not study art or graphic design after school in order to learn something safe and proper, something like biology. But she managed to start her own business with these ooooh sooo cute embroideries. A lot of beginners also where there, people just starting out and this feeling in the air was so thick you could have cut it with a knife, there was inspiration and love and ... well just smiling faces everywhere, like the one from Katrin, who just started her own blog two days ago!, I guess the inspiring atmosphere had caught her and her companion Barbara to start out, there was an idea, now there is a blog!
I could go on and on, and I'm sure I'm gonna show you some more cool sites of people I met there, but there was also a sunday, of having no breakfast (I needed to leave my hostel at 7 am and breakfast started at 8 am) after that I went to meet my Boss at an interesting congress for ophthalmologists.
at the train home I knitted, I continued at my frog colored shawl project. I actually felt inspired to work on my next amigurumi, but when I wanted to start on it - I had my yarn in front of me, my hook and paper and pencil - the only thing missing, my stitch markers! Damn! I can't create something without markers, when designing markers are as essential as the yarn or idea itself!, well I knitted, and actually made a couple of rows and I enjoyed it, and right now, when talking of knitting I think of Barbara from Sonnenkinder, she also was there on saturdays DaWanda meeting and knitted baby shoes, cute!
two posts ago I promised some kind of 'insight' into my secret project, and now there you go: green nose
9/08/2008
Charly Seahorse - the pattern
6,50 USD
add to cart --- show cart make yourself a little seahorse!
Seahorses are also known as hippocampus and they live in tropical and temperate waters throughout the world.
They are very unique fish, not only do they not look like fish in general, they also swim upright instead of horizontally like other fish. Another crazy fact about them is that the males give birth to their descendants.
Seahorses like to eat small shrimp, tiny fish and plankton, but these prefer chocolate covered strawberries ^__^
Crochet pattern in pdf format, designed for a E / 3.5mm hook and worsted weight yarn, written out in plain English.
This pattern provides a stitch-by-stitch guide.
This pattern is for the advanced beginner with knowledge of crocheting in the round, increasing, and decreasing. Special stitches are explained particularly.
Using a E / 3.5mm hook and the apropriated yarn you should receive a doll about 9 inches / 23 cm high.
But keep in mind that the size of a finished doll strongly hinges on your yarn and needle.
Unlimited email support is included to help you create your dolls.
Thank You!
9/02/2008
happy september
gosh - I'm so behind with my blogging, but everyday life is keeping me busy, and there is a secret project I can't tell anybody about, so I didn't really see a reason why to blog. It's kinda annoying to have something cool and can't tell anybody . . . . maybe just a little I'm designing something new (can't tell you what, of course) and it's pretty difficult, at first I had something very different in mind, than what I'm working on right now, and maybe I could show you a little Work-In-Progress-Picture this evening of my first trials, it has a nose, a freaking cute nose, though it still needed some improvements.
oh and maybe not as interesting as my amigurumi but I'm thinking of getting my hair cut short, again. I had short hair nearly all my life (except when I was a kid, mommies want their girls to have long hair), and only let it grow again for the last 3 or 4 years, I like my long hair, but it's a lot of work and even though one has got a lot more choices of how to do ones hair it's still a simple ponytail that sits on my head.
When I saw Americas last Top Model Yoanna House I found the winners hair to be very cute, and now I've seen Pinks new video 'so what' and found her haircut to be the right hair cut for me
sigh so important decisions to make
oh and maybe not as interesting as my amigurumi but I'm thinking of getting my hair cut short, again. I had short hair nearly all my life (except when I was a kid, mommies want their girls to have long hair), and only let it grow again for the last 3 or 4 years, I like my long hair, but it's a lot of work and even though one has got a lot more choices of how to do ones hair it's still a simple ponytail that sits on my head.
When I saw Americas last Top Model Yoanna House I found the winners hair to be very cute, and now I've seen Pinks new video 'so what' and found her haircut to be the right hair cut for me
sigh so important decisions to make
8/15/2008
happy weekend to y'all
Hi, it's been a few days since my last - the everyday routine is keeping me busy. But I guess you'll all know what I mean.
didn't really work on anything new, making a custom order for another hermit crab, working on the pattern for Chubby Fish, this one will be a freebie =)
also crocheting a little bit at my first (yet unfinished) seahorses, I ordered new yarn to complete them, but it's just not the same kind of fun **sigh**
what else?
oh, something really cool, Sonny and Shear used one of my dolls in an ad of theirs, cool uh?
love the outcome, and pretty exciting - "my" first ad :o)
didn't really work on anything new, making a custom order for another hermit crab, working on the pattern for Chubby Fish, this one will be a freebie =)
also crocheting a little bit at my first (yet unfinished) seahorses, I ordered new yarn to complete them, but it's just not the same kind of fun **sigh**
what else?
oh, something really cool, Sonny and Shear used one of my dolls in an ad of theirs, cool uh?
love the outcome, and pretty exciting - "my" first ad :o)
8/05/2008
new plants for my home
arriving, some impressions from outside and me and my brother fooling around
some impressions from inside, see this cute bumble bee?
what I brought homeyesterday was a looong day, a few hours in the car each way, a few hours at the plant nursery, pretty imressive this Rühlemanns, really a lot of stuff to sniff and feel and watch and maybe even taste ^_^
I brought home seven plants, well actually only five, but my mom brought me two extra ones. Driving home we finally had lunch (at about 5 pm) and they dropped me off nearly 4 hours later, believe me I was dead! tired is not the right word to express how tired I was!
I still feel tired, but you can't care too much, right?
I even crocheted a little in the car, but not much, only the face of another chubby fish is done, if you would't know it's a fish you couldn't guess ^_^
I brought home seven plants, well actually only five, but my mom brought me two extra ones. Driving home we finally had lunch (at about 5 pm) and they dropped me off nearly 4 hours later, believe me I was dead! tired is not the right word to express how tired I was!
I still feel tired, but you can't care too much, right?
I even crocheted a little in the car, but not much, only the face of another chubby fish is done, if you would't know it's a fish you couldn't guess ^_^
8/03/2008
Charly and Chubby
the job sucked up all my free time last week, also the hottest weather I can remember didn't made me pick up yarn and hook or needles last week, but on friday afternoon, Charly was looking at me with his eyeless head his cute armlike fins and he called out to me to finish him, so I did, I made some eyes and decided on one pair and sewed them to his head and he looks at my kinda sad 'i wanna have a friend' . . . well, I had this pair of eyes left over and they called FISH, I made a couple of sketches and Chubby was born, yet only on paper, but already so cute I needed to bring him to life in form of pink yarn. So there I went trying and pretty quickly Chubby was born, now they swim together through the sea ^_^
also when I opened my ravelry yesterday morning a suprise was awaiting me: I won 2nd Prize for my flower pot in the Crochet on Ravelry group.
big smile on my face brightend up :o), biiiig smile, I can tell you!
I feel so honored and my flower pot is even more special now.
and now I'm off to clean my room, my parents are visiting me tomorrow, first time I see them since last christmas (they live in Munich so it's quite a travel to see each other on a more regular basis) but I'm glad to see them again, it was about time and the bonus to their visit is that we're going to a huge plant nursery near Bremen to sniff and buy the best herbs and other plants available (note to self: don't forget the credit card)
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