I'm still here and have been working a lot and spending lots of time working on personal projects. The weather has been so nice and warm that it's hard not to spend as much of our free time as possible outside at the park. P and I picked a beautiful bouquet of wild flowers yesterday while walking home. 

Next year we will be getting a little garden with a small house on it just at the northern edge of Berlin. I can't wait to spend weekends and some evenings there. I look forward to the fruit trees and growing vegetables and flowers. It's something that I've been craving these last five years, living in an apartment in the city, without a balcony.

Hope you're able to enjoy the summer and spend lots of time outside!

Happy Saturday.

     

    

     

 

We're just settling in at home after a long holiday. It's nice to get back into a routine again. While we were away I managed to experiment with some tiny weaving samples. I'm just itching to get back into using my loom!

Have a lovely Tuesday.

  

        

                      

                      

I just finished my second weaving project that I've been fooling around with at home. I'm not sure if you can even call it weaving. This small rug was made on a loom using a rya technique. It was a lot of fun to make and feels great under foot!

Happy Tuesday.

I love handkerchiefs. I have a bunch that I have had since childhood. I also pick them up at flea markets from time to time. Here are a few of my favourites. The blue handkerchief in the back is my all-time favourite. The designer has used some sort of inlay technique to apply the white border. I often wonder who put the love and care into designing and applying these stitches.

It would be nice to have the time and energy to decorate a few of my own. It could be a nice 365 day project to start.

Happy Wednesday.

           

I just can't stop experimenting with this loom.

Happy Tuesday!

       

       

I just recently started taking weaving classes and I'm learning some very helpful techniques to measure out the warp yarn and keep everything all orderly and tidy. It's all in German though so the proper terminology is missing from my English vocabulary. As impatient as I've been to get started (I've just finished setting up the loom to start weaving), I've been experimenting a little at home. 

Happy Monday.

Happy belated New Years! I spent most of December dealing with health issues and then the beginning of January recovering from minor surgery. Now pretty much fully recovered I feel like my year is finally beginning. 

I've been spending lots of time making things for around the house, like this rug that I finally finished. I had been working on it on and off for about a year now. It's perfect under our feet for the arrival of this cold weather we've been having.

Happy Saturday.

We've been gearing up for fall and winter and have been trying to soak up the sunny days when they present themselves.

M. made some Grittibänz this weekend, wonderful little bread rolls.

I've been taking over M.'s studio lately, because it's been getting harder and harder to keep my projects out of little curious hands. Plus it is a wonderfully spacious and quiet place to be. No internet to distract me! I am thinking of permanently moving my sewing machine there as well. It would definitely improve my productivity.

Patterns and colour are popping up in our home and in my own projects lately. I'll post some photos as I finish projects up... hopefully in the coming weeks. I am full of ideas these days. I just hope that I can eke out some time to bring them to fruition.

Happy Monday.

                               

Nature, leaves and outdoors on my mind. We're passively hunting for a cabin somewhere close to Berlin. I am dreaming of projects to test out our ability to build and have some ideas in mind for our apartment in the meantime. Perhaps once we make some progress I'll have some interesting things to post here!

Happy Monday.

Hello from Berlin. I'm back from a half a year break. Fall is officially upon us now... we broke down and turned on the heat yesterday.

Happy sunny Friday.

Hi! I'm still here and have been in the process of reorganizing my life and my schedule. I'm hoping to have more time this summer to post. I've just been spending a lot of time making things and spending time with friends and family, and haven't put much effort into documenting these things... which is how it should be sometimes.

Have a lovely start to the week!

It's been a bit of a rough month for us, or rather rough year so far. We said goodbye to our little friend yesterday. He had been having some health problems and yesterday morning (in the middle of a period awaiting test results) we noticed that he just wasn't right.

I bathed the little guy and he just lay in my arms not protesting one bit, which is not really his character. He was rather an agressive cat with those who didn't know him, but very loving with me. Then we called the emergency vet to check him out and give us some advice as to what we could do for him, and he told us that his liver had given up, so we decided that we could only relieve him of his pain and put him down. Surprisingly this wasn't such a hard decision to make. It was so hard to see him alive yet so lifeless.

I've been lucky never to have had such a close experience with death. Seeing someone or something that you see every day alive, and then in seconds so lifeless, just gone. I am now going through all the memories of our little friend and am lovingly thinking of all the nice times and even the annoying times with him. I wonder how long it will take before I don't think about saying hi to him when I come home, or waking up in the morning and greeting him in the hallway, feeding him before the day really starts.

Goodbye Louis.