Christmas crafting 24/7 ;)

Almost.. I'm almost done with the Christmas cards, luckily because I think they have to be posted tomorrow to have any chance of getting to their destinations before Christmas.. :) It's a lot of fun at least :D I'm planning to make gift tags too.. and then I want to make really nice parcels.. will just have to see have far my energy goes :)
Tomorrow I'm going to make a lot of different candy with a friend :) and on Saturday I'm going to a flea-market with another friend.. and then on Sunday it's the big Tree Hunting Day! We usually go every year with mom and dad to our cottage and get trees :) one for them, one for me and sometimes one for my sister too :) quite often my parents have decided on a tree already during summer (no snow to wade through) but not this year.. and we have a lot of snow this year too.. So we'll probably look like snowmen before we're done :P We're also going to a Christmas market at Mörby Gård on Sunday, it's close to our cottage so it works :) mostly they sell stuff from the farm (they have a lot of ecologically produced flour etc) and then some more or less locally made craft/knitting and so on.. It's a nice tradition :)

I still have some unfinished gifts, especially knitting.. the fluffy muffler had to wait for a while as there where other, more pressing, gifts to finish.. I think I'm more than halfway through anyway.. but of course my sister wants to be able to wrap it twice around her neck so it has to be really long.. sigh ;)
And then there's some other things I can't mention here ;) One of the best things about Christmas is all the secrets in the corners :D

A good monday :)

Although it was a bit slow in the morning.. I had problems getting myself out of bed.. :)
But then I got a lot of things done! Some Christmas gifts and Christmas cards mailed, walked to the post office, store and library :) Then I glued my gingerbread houses :) pictures of that coming tomorrow or sometime.. ;) Aaaand then! I started to knit cables! I've never done it before but of course I wanted to try :) I still have one knitted Christmas gift unstarted and I've been thinking of using cables on it.. but for that I'd have to learn how to do it first :) I've thought knitting cables would be one of the hardest things to do but it turned out to be quite easy :) not fast, a lot to keep track of, but not really so hard :) Especially a lot to keep track of the way I did it, just look at the picture ;)

Crisscrossing here, there and everywhere ;)

I had a glove with a similar, but neater and clearer, pattern in mind when I did this.. :) I think I'll do one more training piece before starting on the "real" one :) I want to try it exactly as I want to do it :)

Otherwise today has just been cold, cold and cold! Although I got lucky when I was out and saw the sun and blue sky! I was so happy walking home, I walked quite slowly and just looked at all the wintery beauty around me :)

Tomorrow it's time to decorate the gingerbread house(s)! At least the one mom and I made, uhm, mom made.. Then I also have three small ones of my own but I'm not sure if I'm going to decorate them tomorrow or the day after.. :)

Snow day

Yes, it's snowing again.. quite a lot too :) perfect timing, I have to use the car today, now I get some extra exercise when I dig it out :P
I also cut a snowflake of the new paper I got, only 70g per square meter.. the usual printer paper is 80g so this one is a tad thinner.. it's the thinnest I've found without resorting to tissue paper.. :)

Trollis was just about to step before the camera so I'm telling her to keep away, hence the look on my face.

 I was keeping my lovely snowflake book open on my lap while cutting, to get some inspiration :) you can see the book in an earlier post, definitely worth getting :)
I'm going to cut lots more snowflakes, it's so fun :) and you can do such a lot different ones! :)

Just an ordinary day

I seem to be a bit slow on updating my blog.. I will try to write more often.. :) Otherwise I've been getting better at "updating" my life, i.e. doing stuff that needs to be done.. :)
I returned library books today (2 days late but no fee) and I actually walked there and back! It's not very far, but I've been sooo lazy for so many years that I've almost forgotten how to walk :P
The weather is nice, the sun is actually shining right now! That happens so seldom in Finland during the long, cold winters. The sun was out on Tuesday too and I even went out with my camera and took a couple pictures :)

Today it's been blowing so hard that some of the snow from the trees has fallen down, but not much.. :) it's still as beautiful :) luckily at least it hasn't snowed in the past two days.. we've got quite enough already :) 

I'm getting on with my Christmas knitting, another present is soon finished :) luckily as it has to be posted on Monday! I need to finish the Christmas cards that I need to send on Monday too.. 

I've been making cards with cutouts, I can probably post a pic later on and you'll see what and how I mean.. :)

It keeps on snowing..

And I started cutting out snowflakes ;) I just have to buy some thinner paper, normal printer paper is a bit tick.. as it needs to be folded so many times. Being the way I am, of course I make my snowflakes 6-sided, as natural snowflakes are :) or at least multiples of 6.. I found some nice snowflakes in an e-mail from Habitat and that got me started.

They do look like they were cut out of paper don't they? :) I've cut snowflakes most winters, but when I was a kid I did like everyone else and cut them with 4 sides/points.. but after reading this book:

The Snowflake, Winter's Secret Beauty by Kenneth Libbrecht and Patricia Rasmussen

I can't go back :) my snowflake-virginity is lost ;) but it was worth it, that book is awesome! Soo gorgeous pictures and a lot of facts about snow and snowflakes too :)

But yes, it's snowing here again, it snowed most of yesterday and the day before.. and we had quite enough snow before that :) yesterday I had to dig to get my car into the parking space! Today I moved it to a space that was already cleared.. :) luckily they seem to be quite active with their snow-ploughs here :)

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm chocolate! ;)

My favorite! All the time! Fffffffffazer :D

I don't have that much to say right now.. mostly I'm just sleepy :) should go to bed.. Been crafting with mom today, started making Christmas cards (nope, no pics, you don't want to see your Christmas card in advance do you?) and then I made an experiment and baked bread using sea-buckthorn juice..

it turned out quite edible :) could've been a bit sweeter though.. But I'll be making more experiments :)
I've also been crocheting today, finished one snowflake, started on a new one and then I got the bright idea to try and get the Mary Jane slippers done so I could wear them tomorrow! uhm, I don't think that's going to happen.. but at least I've started on them :) and then they'll be finished for the next party! :) I think they'll be my number 1 accessory this Christmas :) oh, I have to figure out what to wear tomorrow too..
Well, off to bed it is! To dream sweet sweet dreams of chocolate! :P

Merry start of Christmas! :)

Welcome to my home! :)

One star in my bedroom window :) there's one in every room, all different of course :) but I haven't taken photos of them all yet :)

And the best.. A small amaryllis just breaking into full bloom with some lights behind it, reflected over and over again in the windows.. :) Sometimes me and my camera get lucky :)
Happy time waiting for the Christmas! I loooove this time :D