Very short update...

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...

I'm busy making all kinds of handmade things to sell at a (very small) local Christmas market on December 16th. It is held at a petting zoo.
I finished these little wooden boxes yesterday.
I covered them with, candy stripey, crochet and put a holly leaf (Thanks to a tutorial from Lucy of Attic 24) on the lid.
Then I put two little candles in the box and it will make a lovely little present.

 

 

 

 I couldnt resist to decorate the aluminium holders with a bit of tape!

 

 

 

 

 

Here's one in Cath Kidston colours.

 

 

 

                       

     

 

I also filled some glass jars with an all ready to use Gingerbread spice mix.

 Here there are two of them. I've crocheted a top to fit over the cork stopper, and made a Fimo (polymere) gingerbread man to hang from a candy striped cord, together with a little bell.

 

 

 

 

I will sell them (I hope) together with a sheet with a Gingerbreadman recipe.

 

 

 

Wow, has it been away that long??!

Just saw the date above my last blog. It really has been too long.

Is everybody doing fine?? From today I have 9 glorious days of work (Dutch Railways)
so I can do whatever creative job I want to do.

The last two days at work were very busy and restless. A broken down switch on the tracks ment people had to take another route and when the switch was mended and everything  was going normal again (for 45 minutes), there was a collision with a person on the same stretch. A day later the same switch was broken down again so people were getting a bit annoyed by it. Very understandable.

And  someone decided to test if, when we are without power, the reserve power will come on. Only they forgot to tell everyone they were testing it and 7 of the eight sellingpoints were out of order. I was the only one who could sell traintickets. It only lasted for 10 minutes or so. Then it happened 15 minutes later again; then they turned the normal power on again.
But, hey, it is no New York where it took 14 day for the power to come back.

On the blog I can finally see the followers again!
I saw I have 99 followers. I am very honoured that all of you want to keep up to date with my blog.

I have started with some Chistmas crochet and crocheted a garland.
It is 185 cm long (which is nearly 73 inches) Every little heart has a little bell attached to it.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/115031070/christmas-garland

 

I'm still busy working on Christmas ornaments. I would have loved to show you some, but it is too dark to take pictures at this moment, and I don't want to flash. So they are coming soon!!

I have to make a start with my christmas cards too. I want to do something with crochet and I am still chewing it through what they should look like.

 

I'm also reinspired to make little outfits for BJD like Lati and PukiFee, so busy with that too. Here are some examples of dresses I made earlier this year.

For those who don't know these dolls; they are Ball Jointed Dolls and about 16 cm high

 (6 inch). So you can imagine how fidgety the crochet is.

 

   

Butterfly on my head

 

 

 

Poppy

 

 

 

Ballet Girl

 

Warm Winter Pink

 

 

And for even smaller dolls (PukiPuki doll) only 11 cm (4 inch)

 

 

 

 

That's it for now, more coming soon.....