3 things before Christmas

First of all, I would like to apologize to everyone that I am missing in action again. Been really busy and hectic here, in and out hospital all the time.

Secondly, we would like to say sorry to T, T gave birth to a baby girl last October. Due to the hectic situation here, we still have not send her the card and little something yet. To T, here is the little hint of our little something. ;) Hope that she will like it. And I promise that we will send them out as soon as possible.

The third thing is we would like to wish everybody a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Sunny, cloudy and drizzling 16°C - 30°C

Oops!

It's my bad again. Here is some updates of what I did for the past few days. My sewing project occupied most of my time, but I enjoyed them a lot!

Cerda also helped while I took the pictures. She was good and I snapped some photos while she was not aware (she do not really likes camera :p).

Cloudy, 12 °C - 19 °C

Update!

I spent 4 days finish this embroidery portrait of Cerda. The sewing surface is about ø 5.5cm. What do you think? It is pretty cool right?

After that, I started with carving. Making stamp is one of my new interest recently.

Cloudy, 11 °C - 19 °C

3 Handmade Thingies!

These are the 3 thingies that I made in the last 3 days. I am very content with them. I like to make small thingies. No large canvas or anything big at the moment. Small and petite, that is what I would like to make. P always say, "small Chinese girl likes to make small thing(ie)s." I enjoyed them a lot. Do you?

Sunny, 13 °C - 20 °C

Positive caffeine influence!

Today is a photography frenzy day for me. Walked around the garden and started to snap photos. I do not know whether my "non-stop" action today was caused by my caffeine intake, but I enjoyed it very much.

Besides that, I also finished my lavender pouch for our car and a few sewing pins. It was such a fun to make them.

Cloudy, windy 13 °C - 20 °C

Tribute to Henk

I made this tortoise softie few weeks ago. Due to the hectic situation at home, I have been away from the blog a little too long. The tortoise is a tribute to Henk. We did not see Henk anymore in the garden, most probably Henk went to the valley.

Sunny, 15 °C - 22 °C

Proud ^_^V

I finally finished the swan. I started the project in the end of June, soon after that it was hectic around the house. Yesterday I was looking for some fabric and yet I found the swan -- the blank one. Now it is a flying colour end product. I am very please with her. Hope that you will enjoy her as much as I am. Cheers!!!

Sunny, windy, rainy 12 °C - 20 °C

Hello!

Hi everyone, I am back. Although I did not go anywhere else but staying in Hoekwil all these time, I am still guilty as charge that I did not blog for quite awhile(a long while).

I did something interesting yesterday. Due to the blog that I followed, there is a party of 3x3 going on in the blog world. Okay let me explain, I followed Geninne's Art blog, she is contributing a small painting to 3x3 which belonged to a talented artist called Gustavo Aimar for his blog's 3rd anniversary. So I decided to participate too, and I painted 3 pieces which in the end I will only submit 1.

Could you guess which 1 that I am going to submit? ;)

Sunny, windy and cloudy, 11ºC - 18ºC

Henk

A special friend visited us today. We heard a cracking sound and the dogs were barking. At first we thought that they were playing and I looked at them, all in a sudden, I asked P, what was the thing behind Cherda? Looks like a tortoise. P went to have a look and said, get the camera, it's a tortoise. A real big one. I rushed into the house and got the camera. Passed the cam to P and told him that I am going to get some veggies for it to munch.

The dogs were put inside the house and we started to snap photos, but the batteries did not last very long, chaotic by then, cannot find new rechargeable batt. Sooooo frustrated! We fed the tortoise some water, it seems like it's very thirsty. It drank 4 bowls of water. We measured the tortoise and it's 61cm (only the shell). Later we found out that it is a Mountain Tortoise or Leopard Tortoise and it's the largest among the southern African tortoises. We were so lucky to see one today.

I finished my 8th edition prints today. It's a fruitful day for me. ;)

Sunny, 14 ºC - 26 ºC

BdayS

Today is my bday and also Sarie and not to forget Lea. So three of us have the same birthday but in different years. The weather is bad, rainy and windy :( stayed in the house the whole day. We didn't have a big party, just a small "lekker" lunch at home. I chatted with my mum and sis via skype the whole morning and finally "meet" my sister's boyfriend SK. I like him so far... :p

Sarie is behaving strange today, she clapped her teeth very often like something major is happening. She has this behaviour when the family members are sneezing or when she feel uncomfortable. Maybe it was caused by the strong wind against the house that sounded like thunder. We tried to pet her and comfort her as much as possible. She is still a sweetheart to us. ;)

We had a nice dinner, lamb with garlic and black olive, pan-fried baby potatoes and green beans with onion and chorizo. Yum yum!!!

Drizzling, windy, 8 °C - 10 °C