Terrific Tuesday

06 Tuesday Mar 2012

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On a Monday I can still remember the fun I had over the weekend, Wednesday is the middle of the work week, on Thursday I start getting hopeful and on a Friday I can taste the weekend. But what about a Tuesday? It’s so…. just there. Weekend memories are too far away and the upcoming weekend might as well be a year away.

What we need is a bit of colourful inspiration to get us going on a Tuesday, don’t you think? A pretty picture, beautiful scenery or colourful imagery. Yup, that’ll liven up Tuesdays and turn it into a terrific day!

From now on I will go through my photos and Pinterest likes every Tuesday and find us a pretty picture to add colour and joy to the day.

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Here’s me modelling the result of a leisurely Sunday afternoon spent jazzing up a Boden skirt with a croched edge. I have two more skirts I want to beautify with crochet, so I’ll do a proper blog post soon.

Wishing you all a Terrific Tuesday.

Have a good one!

Natasja

Christmas tree, crochet style!

03 Saturday Dec 2011

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Behold our christmas tree in all its crochet glory! Doesn’t it look christmassy, colourful and wonderfully crochety? (On this blog, crochety is a word okay?)

You will recognize the granny stars from previous posts. After selling one star at the market and giving 30 away, the rest went onto our tree. Now I’m actually glad they didn’t sell at the market because they look every so cheery on our tree.

The round decorations are rounds 1- 3 of Attic24’s hexagons and the christmas star at the top of the tree is this Super Mario Invincibility Star pattern. I left an opening between two of the points, and also ironed on fabric interfacing to the wrong side before sewing the two halves together so that it would keep its shape on top of the tree. It worked a charm.

All the decorations are done with Rowan handknit cotton in Bleached, Rosso and Gooseberry.

The stars even look good as part of the christmas wrapping!

Have you made crochet christmas decorations? Have you decorated your christmas tree? I’d love to hear from you!

Terrific Tuesday

29 Tuesday Nov 2011

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From now on I will go through my holiday snaps every Tuesday and find us a pretty picture to add colour and joy to the day.

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I so love the contrast, textures and shapes in this photo (taken last week along the South Bank, London). It’s not much – just pavement and grass, but the autumn leaves seem to bring them together in such a wonderful way.

Do you feel inspired to take on Tuesday? I hope so!

Have a terrific Tuesday!

Natasja

Maplevillage W.I. Christmas Fayre

21 Monday Nov 2011

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Saturday hubby and I were at in St. Andrews church, Surbiton for the Maplevillage W.I. Christmas Fayre. It was a beautiful setting!

Despite the hallowed ground sales didn’t go as well as I had hoped. I only sold one blanket, eight birdies and one granny star – no clocks, and no brooches. Only one star! I thought that at £1.50 each, and being the cheapest thing on my table, they would sell really well. Oh well, the King christmas tree is going to look REALLY good this year 🙂

Here are some pics:

The birdies were a huge success. People couldn’t resist picking them up and giving them a squeeze.

I had very craft neighbours. In total I’d say there were about thirty tables selling a variety of handy crafts. MaudiMade, which I met at the Surbiton Festival in September, was there as well. I bought a 2012 diary refill in lovely shades of green for my filofax at her stall, and I’m loving it!

All the brooches are now in my Etsy shop, and next weekend I’ll be listing the unsold baby blankets there as well.

If any of my readers are doing the Christmas Markets Thing, I wish you loads of success! For me, this was the last market as a seller. I think I’ll stick to selling online and attending craft markets as an avid buyer.