Manic November

It has been a looooong time since my last post and I have been manically busy with making Xmas presents. Especially since I have quite spontaneously decided to fly over to Germany for my mum's 50th birthday on 5th December. She is only having a small thing at home as the real big party will happen next March in conjunction with my 29th birthday, but it is a big event after all. You only turn 50 once, right? And as I haven't been over for my mum's birthday in the last 8 years, I really wanted to be there this time.

The plan is to take all presents with me to save on postage and as I am only going for a week I don't need as many clothes for me and Lucy. Therefore I have been busy busy busy. I also didn't feel quite ready so far to share these handmade presents with you as I didn't want anybody to see anything. But I also don't want to put them on here after Xmas either.

So, here are a few of my favourite things:

a crochet hook+accessories wrap





potholders for my granny



scarf galore- for several people...



Peony corsage for my MIL





I can't believe how much work this all took. When I decided to make as many presents myself this year as possible I didn't realise how much it would take. I just hope they will all know to appreciate it...

P.S: Please excuse the quality of the photographs. The light here is very poor at the moment.

'Tis Winter Time

Brrrrrr.....is everybody as cold as me?

The weather has changed so quickly. Just a few weeks ago I was enjoying the hot weather in Germany and now here in Northern Ireland we have icy cold winds. This gets me into a wintery and actually already a christmasy mood. By that I mean I have started on my Christmas presents. Obviously I won't be able to show you the full thing as I cannot guarantee that the people who they are for will not look at this blog. But I guess a little sneak peak won't do any harm.


I love the colour combination of this. If you can guess what it is please do not write it in a comment. Just write something else ;) It is pretty obvious anyway...