A very busy & happy Easter/ Sehr geschäftige & frohe Ostern

Sein zweites Ostern, und jetzt pest er schon um den Tisch und durch das ganze Haus, mein kleiner Meister Lampe :)

His 2nd Easter, and now he allready can run around the table and through the whole house, my little Mr. Bunny :)

Been busy/ war fleißig

Diese hoffentlich bald zukünftige Reste-Tagesdecke habe ich schon im vergangenen Winter angefangen. Sie soll kunterbunt werden und dereinst auf Eriks Bett zum Einsatz kommen. Ich häkle sie mit halben und ganzen Stäbchen immer in der Runde, allerdings hatte ich sie am Anfang nur in Reihen gehäkelt, was im Nachhinein unpraktisch war, jetzt aber irgendwie witzig aussieht, wie ich finde! Zwischenzeitlich sind noch Apfelgrün und Schwarz als breite Streifen rundherum dazu gekommen.

This - hopefully soon to be scrap-plaid I started sometime during the last winter allready. It should be very colorfull and become the new plaid for Eriks bed. I crochet with half double crochet and double crochet in rounds, although I had started crocheting in rows, what after a while doing so, I found a little uncomfy to do but now I really like how that contrast looks. Meanwhile some aple-green and black rounds were added also.

Nachtschicht / night shift

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Nachdem mich der kleine Bauchbesetzter heut morgen um 3 aus dem Bett geworfen hat, blieb mir nichts anderes, als mich irgendwie (möglichst leise, da wenigstens Männchen weiter schlafen sollte) zu beschäftigen. Was ja bei meinen ganzen Ideen und Plänen keine Kunst ist ;). Allerdings fühle ich mich jetzt, nachmittags um 2, auch schon wieder bettreif. Naja, aber das ist ja vollkommen normal, bedenkt man, dass wir mittlerweile 35 Wochen rum haben. 
Also habe ich heute morgen endlich einige Bilder bearbeitet, einen ersten Entwurf für die Windeltasche gemacht, Etiketten geklebt und weiter an der Tagesdecke gearbeitet. Man kann also sagen, dass ich die frühen Stunden gut und ausgiebig genutzt habe:

Neue Etiketten - es sind die Grau-Blauen geworden, nach Euren Meinungen zu den 3 Vorschlägen :)

Das wird die Tagesdecke - 2,50mx2,50m groß, aus Fleecedecken zusammen gesetzt.

Am Wochenende hatte ich mit 3 neuen Mini-Börsen angefangen, am Montag waren sie fertig und seit heute sind sie im Shop erhältlich. Ich stelle vor: Wildwechsel in braun/pink, Krone in braun/lindgrün und die grüne Fee in braun/oliv.

Im Uhrzeigersinn: Wildwechsel, Krone, Grüne Fee

von oben nach unten: Wildwechsel, Krone, grüne Fee

Soviel erst einmal dazu, über die Windeltasche und die Bauchtragen-Cover halte ich Euch auf dem Laufenden. Geplant ist in jedem Falle, dass in dieser Woche noch einige Neuzugänge in den Shop wandern :).

♥ Mone ♥

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After the little belly-occupant had kicked me out of bed this night at 3 a.m. I had no other choice than to keep myself busy somehow and as quiet as possible, because at least hubby should get his sleep. But, me being busy schouldn´t be any problem, with all the ideas and plans in my head. The other side is, that now, at 2 p.m., I´m tired and exhausted and quite ready for my bed, but that´s entirely normal for a preggie in week 35 I think. 
So I edited some photos this morning, made a 1st draft of a diaper bag, glued some new labels and worked some more on our new bed cover. I think, one can say I exploited these early hours good and extensively:

New labels, the ones in grey-blue, after your votes on the 3 proposals :)

This someday will be our new bed cover - 2,50mx2,50m huge, made out of fleece blankets.

Last weekend I started sewing some new mini purses, finished them on Monday and since today they are listed in the Shop . May I introduce: Deer Crossing, brown/pink, Crown, brown/linden green and Green Fairy, brown/olive.

clockwise: Deer Crossing, Crown, Green Fairy

downwards: Deer Crossing, Crown, Green Fairy

That´s it for now, I´ll keep you updated on the diaper bag and  Baby Carrier-Cover. For this week the further plan is, in any case, to list some more new items in the shop, so don´t miss it :)

♥ Mone ♥

Visste du ha en god jul?

(this is Norwegian and if you´re curious, what it means, just follow the link and translate it)

It´s the 29t of December by now, forgive me that I write that late and less this season. This were quite busy days for me, so I´d better start off right away :)...

First of all let me show you some lovely pics, hubby took auround our house during the last few days:




It snowed for more than 3 days and I really hoped, that it would stay cold and white till Jul. And guess what? It did! After many years of rainy, warm or stormy holliday seasons, this year we finally had a white one! This was one of the best gifts I got this year (despite that I hated to drive the car the last days ;) ) Unfortunately it melted again allready, only some small white spots are left on the lawn. But the weather forecast expects another wave of frost and snow for new years eve.

Now let me show you some of the things I´ve made for Jul this year, some were orders, some were gifts:
a bag for mom, made of two incredible IKEA fabrics, with inside pocket for keys, wallet or tissues. When I bought this fabric mom and I stood before it for quite a long time, pondering and laughing, because we could not imagine, what the hell the squirrel plans to do with the cheese slicer on that bird´s cave... free the birdie perhaps? Maybe one day I´ll write an e-mail to the designer and ask ;).

I made lots of the good pasta oil for friends and colleagues, nearly 3 litres. The receipe (in German) you can find in one of my first posts ever... If someone is interested in an english translation, just leave a comment here and I´ll do it!

This is a very bright coloured waiter´s wallet, which was ordered by a colleague.

What else news to tell?

Since the 24th I work on getting all programms, applications and files I have stored on my new laptop, which is a fantastic fast and even good looking little cutie:

I wished for something like this for Jul, but now I´m still amazed, that I really should get rid of my old, slow and very noisy pc. Now more lagging in Dalaran (what a feeling! Even on a mount I was able to reach the bank in just one try and way below the usual 3 mintues!) , no more brewing another cup of tea, while the pc is starting or only saving a file...

I still use LAN, but that´s not a big deal, since I´m quite sure, we will need to buy a new router when we move latest, and that one will have WIFI.
The current setting (on which I´m actually writing this just right now) is the new laptop, my old additional desktop speakers, a 2nd. screen for better working with photoshop or even playing and chatting at the same time and my good old 5keys mouse, because I cannot imagine playing with the touchpad, despite it´s "intelligent": you can rezise windows with 2 fingers, right click with 3 and so on... charming :)

Today, among other things, I checked out some multi messengers, little programs that connect you with several instant messengers in one place at the same time. Since I used to use MSN, but my girls and some other friends use ICQ I did want to combine both, plus twitter if possible, in only one skin and one login. Another reason was MSN itself: under Windows 7, which is the pre-installed OS on the laptop, the login to MSN using the Live Messenger did not work and after 3 days of searching for a solution I simply have had enough of it.

So I played around a little with several freeware solutions: first trying pidgin and finding the options not sufficient for me (I´m impatient and wanted to find cute skins immediately for example), plus the login to MSN again did not work.
So I installed Trillian Astra as second choice and found it perfect instantly: adding new connections is very easy, it even supports twitter; I can tweet from there directly. I checked the pre-installed skins and choose "Baroque" with a transparency of 80%. Looks classy and georgeous! A chat with mom went through perfect, no lags or delays in transmission... I just love it!
Ok, you need to register an Astra account, which is just another IM, but you can install the program on your phone as well, e.g. it´s even available as an app on the iPHONE store. From what I have seen so far, I only can recommend it. If you´re accidentially searching for a multi messenger, just check out the Trillian homepage. OK, enough advertisement for now.

I will work on the next little gift tomorrow. I´ll have to send out a little care package to one of my dearest friends, so I have to start with it asap... As usual ;)

New Years eve will be quiet, I guess, but maybe you, Girls (yea! YOU!), decide, that my plan was the best at last? Then it won´t be that quiet, sorry dear neighbors ;).

Later this night I will share some Jul photos, we had a great night with our family... and my self cooked dinner wasn´t that bad I hear ;)

Uh, before I forget: feel free to answer my question from this post´s title above and write it into a comment :) thanks a lot!

So long...
Mone

Happy Samhain!

While searching the net for some Samhain/Halloween inspirations I tripped over this gorgeous blog: Vintage Pallette Art. Just look at those amazing old photos and the crazy artwork by Lori Davis; I love this!

Recently I re designed this blogs layout and started with the shop all over again. It´s a little frustrating, because I´m not good enough in php scripting to feel comfy with the fantastic os-commerce tools, so I need to stick with my very old sharewared xaran shop. All web based solutions for free I´ve seen so far did not match my needs. So, If you know a provider, who offers an online shop solution, where I can add more than 1 damned picture per product, where I can manage and offer more than 100 products plus where I can fit the layout matching my blog and website and, most important: who offers a shop solution for free - please let me know.

On wednesday this cute baby finally arrived:
Goodbye my old mechanical ones, hello automated times! I allready managed to check her out a little, but, of course I developed my annual tendinitis just in time, s that I have to wait a few days, before I can start all over again. My 2 old sewing machines will end up at ebay tomorrow. They are in good conditions and well kept, don´t hesitate to bid on them! :)

A new order came up last week as well, so I ´ll also work on a new wallet design this weekend. This will be a kind of waiter´s wallet, with lots of pockets for cards and photos and a huge change pocket. The patterns we agreed on are 2 beautyfully retro-syled fabrics by IKEA called Malena, the 2 below this stack (image by IKEA):
Inside I will use thin and soft lamb nappa in a matching red or pink. This will be quite a task for my new Necchi I´m really looking foreward!