Crafty Creations

I’ve been stitching my behind off for the last few days.   Once I get started I can’t stop and keep at it night and day.   Especially with Christmas cross stitches, I love the finished product… shame I don’t get to keep them out longer though. I’ve been working on the old toy store cross stitch for about the last week, …

On Friday my husband and I had a total meltdown after dealing with our end of year bill from our energy company.   Getting a bill for 800 euros just before Christmas really sucks ass.  We can pay it, but it really screws up most plans we had for Christmas shopping and such, especially after just getting back from holiday. To …

Lordy Lordy, do I love me some x-mas deco!  Only 29 days till Christmas and I’ve given up on the idea of waiting until Dec 1st to decorate.  I want my Christmas deco nowwwww!  Ok, I admit, I’ve already started.  So what?!  It’s just a few ceramic houses… For the last two weeks since we got back from Canada Xander …

I’ve finally dug out the sampler quilt I started making in my quilting class oooooh 1.5 years ago.  I had finished all the blocks but they were just tucked away in a drawer waiting for me to do something with them.   Since I quit work recently I figured this would be a great time for me to get it done! …

I can’t believe Christmas is actually here!  It seems like just yesterday I was counting down at 23 days.  It sort of makes me sad because I know New Years will come just as quick and then I’ll have to take down all my Christmas decorations.  The house will seem soooo plain and boring then. This is my latest completed crafty …

I finally got around to making the lightbulb snowmen that I wanted to make.  I saw them on a website last year and said I was definitely going to make them this year. It was kind of annoying because the lightbulbs are shaped differently here, without the long slender part but I improvised.  I think they are as cute as …

This week I took a stab at making a sort of double decker type rat hammock and it came out pretty well, the girls seem to really like it! When I got up yesterday they were sleeping with their little heads sticking out, so I couldn’t resist the urge to get a few photos.  Of course, they woke up as …

Argh, I just went and saw that the theme for this week’s photo hunt is LIGHTS!  I wish I’d saved this post for Saturday rather than on Friday, so I’m just going to make this my entry for the photo hunt this week! Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants. As promised, it’s a new …

I’ve been talking for a while about getting a sewing machine to try to make things to sell like rat hammocks, hedgie bags, play tubes and other fun pet stuff.   Basically, an idea for me to try to bring in a little bit of money. We had planned on getting me one for x-mas but x-mas came early!  We found …

It’s now one week since I started my tree skirt project for x-mas.  I still have a month and a half to finish it but I’m trying to get the patchwork done as quickly as possible.  I’ve never gotten past the patchwork stage and the actual quilting and binding is unfamiliar territory to me so I want to leave as …

Last winter I took a quilting class with another expat girl I know.   I know it sounds like something only old women would enjoy, but it’s actually quite nice.  It’s relaxing to sit and sew in front of the TV and such.   I don’t have a sewing machine yet so I do it all by hand. I ended up missing …