Rest in Peace,Vanessa...

Hello Dear Friends!
Yesterday I was shocked with the news of the tragic death of Vanessa Cabban. Her blog 'Do You Mind if I Knit' was one of the first blogs I have discovered when I started knitting and crocheting. Rest in Peace, Vanessa...
You can read more tributes here , here , here .

New Year Spirit...

Hello, Dear Friends!

I hope you are all well and are enjoying this holiday season...

In this part of the world, the sun is still shining and I am having a difficulty in feeling the 'New Year Spirit'. This is partly because my parents are in Australia visiting my uncle who lives there, so this year we will not be having our big New Year Family  Dinner and partly because we are having a weird weather ; one day heavy rain and flooding , next couple of days like summer days...While I would very much like to cozy up in my living room with my crochet W.I.P. sipping some green tea with rosebuds. We are not having a tree either so instead I prepared a corner for the presents.

 

My Little Man is enjoying the gifts and I find him sneaking around sometimes and wonder if the gifts will survive till the end.  

I am almost done with my Scheepjes CAL 2014 blanket . I will be back with a ta-daa! post soon!
Wishing you the very best for the New Year!
Gaia...

Crochet Squares...

All the crochet squares patterns are from http://winkieflash.nl/scheepjes-cal-2014/

TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN

Hello Dear Friends!
I have been crocheting like almost 5 years now and while browsing through the net , I became familiar with the concept of CAL ( crochet along ) . I have never wished to join any CALs though because I think I cannot be committed or worse if I commit, I would get stressed and lose it totally. ( I have a 'thing' with dead-lines; whenever I have a dead-line I am always behind...)

When I saw this CAL , I have started to hear music . 

So far, I could try only one pattern.

My Little One (5) is becoming more and more demanding and whatever free time  I have ( or rather I create time ) , it is just reserved for his activities.

Only last week, he had an accident in school and was taken by an ambulance to the emergency  ending up with four stitches in the head. I didn't get a proper sleep for a week till the stitches are removed after eight days.

He missed the Halloween Party at school so we made a party for him at home.

So the question still remains; to join or not to join? 

Have a lovely day. Gaia.

Bliss...

Hello Dear Friends!
I have been absent for a long time but honestly, there was nothing to tell you about , no crochet, no cooking, but just work and mothering.
Luckily for me, my car broke down on Thursday. I called the road assist, of course , and while I was waiting for the assistance to arrive,I was struck by the idea that I had nothing to do if I couldn't go to work that day. Then I realized that my car's breaking down could provide me with the much needed excuse to take a day off from work and concentrate on what I like to do instead and may be get some rest.

I found a wip ripple blanket-  I forgot when I started this project ; should be at least two years ago- and started working on it.

It felt so good but my car was fixed and ready to go two hours later and I left  for work . 

This felt so good that I decided to take Saturday off and  called a neighbour and invited her for morning coffee on Saturday ; something I have been postponing for a long time.

So I baked some chocolate muffins and

we enjoyed a couple of hours chatting over coffee... 

Bliss...

ripple