Everytime it is the same story… I want to blog but think I don’t have much of good interest to tell you…. so I don’t…. Or I am bussy with all kind of RL things…. RL meaning familie, friends, house–> my life besides sewing and crafting ( is there a life besides sewing and crafting???? yes there is!!!!! )
About that RL…. nothing nice to say at the moment…. Last week one of my aunt’s died of Cancer. It braught back lots of not so nice memories indeed… I needed some time to let is all sink in.
I have been sewing pullovers for a friend of mine, have been to a workshop on sewing bags ( that one was realy nice and fun! result will be here later on ) I also have been to the Rotterdam/Ahoy Fabric and yarn market with the “Pullover friend” and bought a lot of rose-fabrics and patterns for sewing quilts and bags ( ofcourse ). With the same friend I went to a fabric market a couple of weeks later and bought fabrics for clothings for my kids.
About my kids? Well… my little girl has lost yet another tooth, its the age you know?! lol…. it sure looks funny though! My little son is trying to crawl on the floor, he does the best he can! he also eats my ears off of my head! He grows and grows and grows! He has now 6 teeth… yes my girl looses them and my son seems to find them and puts them in his little mouth! lol
Anyway….. got to get back to sewing….. or watching a movie… or just doing nothing else than eating cake… it’s my birthday you know and this is the only day in the year that I can do what I want , were I want and when I want !!!!
hugs
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Sometimes everything goes down the drain and time runs away from you.. thats how I feel lately. I try to keep up the blogging part of having a blog ( serious? ) but reallife has to many projects to find some time for blogging.
We went on a vacation to Eibergen ( nl.) with the friend of my late mother and his new friend. We had a lovely weekend, lots of laughs and I visited a quiltshop in Zutphen ( nl ) called Petra-prins and I loved going trough her FQ’s! I have a new addiction.. I collect FQ’s with roses on them. Soft colored backgrounds and soft collored roses. I want to make a simple strip patchwork quilt for myself eventualy. So I bought me 9 FQ’s and a pattern to make a “housewife” . I love that pattern already! I have begun this week with making the pattern and yes it is a lot of handsewing but I really like the “housewife” a lot! I have been looking for this pattern almost everywere!
And today… well today I went to the anual quiltshow of the dutch quild-gilde and … forgot to take my camera with me.. silly me! But I so enjoyed looking at all these marvelous quilts! I even got realy closeup with one of them to see how it was quilted.. I was all admiration, they all were really good! There were modern quilts and traditional quilts and some were something inbetween.. lol! But I enjoyed looking at them and that is what counts, doesn’t it?
Ofcourse there were some quilt-boots with all kind of fabrics for sale and I could not help buying some rosy-fabrics! lol… my husband had to work and my girly was at school so it was just me and my little guy. Can you imagine how many people stopped and looked at Him instead of the quilts on the wall? Come to think of it… He was the youngest visitor today! lol they even took a picture of him and everybody told me how great they think it is taking him to a quiltshow… well my responce was: you have to infect them very young… you never know what can come from it, right? lololol
After having visited the show, I wandered into the city of Alkmaar (nl) and found a bookstore with all kind of quilt related books… so I could not help myself for the 2nd time and bought a couple of books and some postcards with all kind of quilts on them… my day has been good today…. I am so blessed!
As of tomorrow, we will have 1 more little familymember to count… my dear little princess is getting a rabbit for her birthday. She doesn’t know it yet though otherwise she would be overexcited and sick.
Real life is catching up on me lately. Yes I do read a lot of blogs but seam to have turned my back on my own blog. There is just a lot going on in my life at the moment. I have been clearing out and cleaning up my house; Brought a lot of stuff to the second-hand shop so it will get a new life somewhere else. Also a lot of my clothing is packed in bin-bags and ready to be transported to Hungaria. Even my little princess decided that the poor kids in the Hungarian orfan-house could use a lot of her cuddly toys so they too went into the bin-bags and on transport to Hungaria.. Don’t I have a sweet girl or what?
The attic is slowly being transformed into my sewingroom. It is cleared out and all the stuff that is in there needs to find a definitive space…. we went to IKEA and bought cabinets to be used for making my sewing-desk. In these cabinets is space to put my books and magazine’s in. After that, we went to PRAXIS and bought a couple of tabletops made out of sturdy oak. I can’t wait to be able to go upstairs ans sew without thinking of the mess I have to clean up because we need the table for dinner!
Now that I have all my fabrics in 1 spot I can see I have way, way, waaaaaaaay enough fabric to last me at least 2 years worth of sewing. So I think I need to put an end to the buying of fabrics for at least half a year.
I also finaly found my 2 QIF projects I started almost a year ago, had a look at them and decided to make something else…. duhh well it at least means that I am still working on them and not forgetting it at all….
See? that’s why clearing out your house every once and again is good for you… you find your stuff again!
I am trying to read the book the davinci code from D. Brown but I hardly find the time to sit down and read, there is so much to do at the moment!
I love to read though and I realy hope I will get time for myself eventualy after my whole house is ready and done.
Today I bought a new quilt magazine and I like it, maybe I’ll get me a subscription, who knows?!
Oh yeah in my blog absence we went on a short holiday to Germany. We all loved it and even my husband thinks we should go back some day when the little prince has grown a bit. We went to the vinyard erea and ofcourse we bought a couple of bottles with white and red wine. If you ever get in the erea of the Moesel ( river ) go and buy yourself some of those white and red wines, they are fabulous!
Before we went on the trip I tried to find out if there was a quiltshop in town, I couldn’t find one.
Than I found a little shop selling selfmade bags, cousions lavendlebags etc etc . I asked if there was a good shop with quiltfabrics somewhere nearby and the nice woman behind the counter told me the way…. oh how my husband would have wanted her to shut up! lol.
I could not resist and had to have a look for my self.
The shop is in Traben-Trarbach and it’s name is “Handarbeitsstube Trasser “. It is a hobby-shop, meaning there is also other stuff beside fabrics. She has yarn for knitting and crochet, she has all kinds of things and I realy loved being there! The owners are such nice people! If you ever get to this store, tell them I said HI! okay?
As soon as the workbench is up and tested I will show you pictures of what is to become my realm….
Hugs from the Netherlands
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As some of you know; I am bussy clearing out my loft to make room for a space for myself. The decluttering is having an effect on me that I did not count for. I am starting to feel empty at the moment. No no, not that my house is EMPTY! Me myself and I are feeling empty. Al the stuff I horded over the last 36 years of my life, all the memories, all the tokens, the loveletter from a boyfriend in the past ( … I didn’t have that much boyfriends ) the stuff I got when my mom died, all the fabric I bought over the last couple of years… I had it all going through my hands this morning and to lots of it I said goodbye. Goodbye to the things that gave me joy and laughter, to the stuff that brought me to tears…goodbye to the past and wel…
Now I can finaly say: ” Hello future! you can trow anything and everthing upon me, I am sure I can handle it”
( and if not I have an almost empty loft now, where I can give it a box as restingplace……)
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