Year ending 2015

The time has come to get rid of the sorrows, worries, and pain and to make room for love, joy and kindness! I wish you many wonderful holidays of the end of the year, in the hope that all your wishes come true. Happy Holidays 

Christmas decorations

December always seems to be the quickest month of the year. You reach the first and you're all like 'yeah

, I still have plenty of time'.....

then in a blink of an eye, it's the middle of the month, and you start to panic. You don't know where a couple of weeks have gone and you suddenly realise you still have A LOT to do.

Made this snowflakes for a local gift shop 

Knitting

You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

Barbara Sher.  Baby blanket knitted size 36x36" in soft acrylic yarn

27 September 15

I think You are responsible for your own experience. There have been times in my life where I just did what had to be done because it seemed so overwhelming to take care of everyday life. I started to make time for crochet and knit after my husband bought me some hooks knitting needles and yarn, it was funny how am able to do those things and still take care of everything else. I can't say the cleaning suffered because I was never really cleaning all that much, so I'm not sure where the time came from. And of course now I feel better as well.

Hunnar

So, I've been thinking for a while about doing this.  And by "a while" I mean many many months.  So many months that they combine to make years, in fact, life generally just getting in the way.  But here I am now!  Finally. I won't lie to you, 

Enjoying unifying love of yarn and hook. 

Oh, and I have received a lot of yarn.  A LOT of yarn

Ankodi

1. “A loop after a loop. Hour after hour my madness becomes crochet. Life and art are inseparable.” - crochet artist OIek
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Ankodi

Creativity actually is a very interesting thing. It is like a small little plant that you need to take care of, it has to be fed constantly. There are many ways to keep yourself creative

But there is one thing that I found much more helpful – to turn from dreamer to doer. To choose a project and just do it. No matter if everything is perfect or not – just act. I admit that sometimes I was loosing my creative mojo. The everyday life it just squeeze it  and I had to do something. At the beginning of this year I picked up my yarn and hooks and a miracle happened 

I became more serious, organized … I became a doer. The results are so far wonderful for me. I don’t feel rush, pressure and I want to do more and more 

25th hour

Searched for cotton threads to make 'Sophie' as live in tropical climate and winter is hardly a month or so, the only available Coats cotton threads here would have been way too expensive for my Sophie so started with embroidery thread and 1.25 mm tulip metal hook, happy with the way it looks

25th hour

Life continues to whirl along at a speedy pace here in my little world.  My head is absolutely bursting with ideas that I want to get onto the crochet hook and I want to do everything immediately.  Something of a problem when you only have a set of hands, 24 hours in a day and other such restrictions to hamper progress.

25th hour

1. “My mother taught me many craft and household skills but she never taught me to crochet. For that I have to thank her, as it meant I had to teach myself.” – Pauline Turner
   
   
   

   
   

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25th hour

Slow crafting, here are my very own struggles 
... but my time can not stretch, and these days I can't seem to find the time to do more than this. Not sure about what the heck is happening to me. I used to be much more productive ! Each day seems to bring its lot of things to absolutely do ... some things actually get done, and the rest ... NOT. I'm only human after all. 

seems a good start

Wow - isn't that beautiful?

I look at my hands, and I ask myself, "do my  hands work eagerly, willingly, delightfully, purposefully, and with pleasure?" 

Sometimes they do, when I'm working at what I enjoy. I smile and sing when am cooking, wash dishes, embroider, or iron my husband's shirts! 

But when it's doing the mundane things around the home, or if they are required for service outside of my comfort zone, my hands rarely crack a smile.

This week let's stop and take note of everything our hands can do. Give thanks to GOD for your hands and the tasks they are able  to do and which we too often take for granted. 

God gave them to us to be purposeful, and what a gift it is to have a purpose!