Crafty Creations

This guy makes sculptures the size of a GRAIN OF SAND!  Paints with the hair plucked from the back of a house fly.   Can you imagine? I have trouble painting normal sized things because my hands are not that steady. Now if only I had about $250k, I’d totally buy one!

Today my mother sent me photos of the tea quilt I made her after she got it home and put it up.   It’s kind of exciting for me because this is the first quilt I’ve ever made for someone as a gift that is on display somewhere. She hung it in her dining room, which is the exact spot I …

No, unlike some places in Canada at the moment, it is not snowing in the Netherlands!  As much as I love the snow, I’m glad… because I’m so not ready for it yet! I am totally ready to do some Christmas crafting though! A few months ago I ordered this cross stitch kit from sewandso.co.uk and have had it set …

A few months ago I started working on a secret project.  My parents were coming over and I knew my mother would be celebrating her birthday while they were here.  I wanted to make something special for her.   So I got to work on a quilt I had been wanting to make that I thought she would like. It has …

Well I’ve been working on the quilt sampler cross stitch I mentioned a little while ago and I think it’s coming along pretty well.   The pattern called for it to be stitched across 2 stitches but I couldn’t be arsed, I just did it normally.   It’s still coming out nicely anyway. I have to admit, it’s not as fun to …

Well, not me personally… but my mother’s cross stitch has! err.. or will be.  There’s a pattern I’ve wanted to do for a long time called Aunt Verdi’s Porch by Paula Vaughan.   I had mentioned it to my mother a few times and when I was home in Canada in October she showed me that she had actually done it …

I started this cross stitch years ago when I first came to NL.   It landed in a drawer and came out once or twice but I never got around to finishing it until recently.  It’s pretty manky and crumbled from 8 years of being worked on and then stuffed away but I’m hoping that once I clean it and get …

It’s hard to believe that Christmas is over already!  I spent ages counting the days until it got here, and now it’s passed.   Isn’t that always the way? It was sort of weird on Christmas Eve because it didn’t really seem like Christmas at all.   We ordered some Chinese food and I spent a while making these rat hammocks for …

For the last few weeks things have been really tight here financially.  With our trip to Canada and our end of year bills, we were so broke we squeaked.  Thankfully things turned around the other day when money we were waiting for had come in.    I’ve been on a huge cross stitching kick lately and wanted some new new threads, …

I got a mail yesterday from Faela’s proud mommy showing me how adorable she looks in the blanket I made for her.   She also gave me permission to post a photo so I can show her (and the blanket) off a little! I need to learn to knit more because I’ve seen soooo many cute patterns for things I would …

Yesterday afternoon Xander and I went to visit our friends Paule and Warnoud.   While we were in Canada Paule gave birth to a beautiful little girl named Faela.   I would post a photo of her but I forgot to ask them about it and I don’t want to put up pics of someone’s child without their permission.   You’ll just have …