Seven Random Facts

Oh, this one made my day!This award was given to me by Sanctuary. Part of this award is telling seven random facts about oneself, and here they come:

1.I know how to milk a cow, but I don't know how to drive a car

2. I sing in a choir. I love the feeling when all the different sounds unite to become one sound and one piece of music. Singing in a choir shows how people can be so much more together than what they are alone.

3.My husband had to propose me twice. I'm so lucky he did and that I said 'yes'.

4.I'm afraid of flying,

5. but like traveling

6. I love notebooks. Even though I try to fill them with lists, things to remember and things that inspire me, I still keep on forgetting things like birthdays and addresses, because they are not among the things I write in my notebooks.

7.I'm a night owl and definitely a long-sleeper. Well, my blogging habit seems to make this tendency even worse and my daughters try to do the opposite. That makes me a sleep- deprived night owl.

There are no words of wisdom or thorough thinking captured in these seven facts, because the stomach flu has reached our house and there are a bit too many things in my mind at the moment. So I guess, you caught me off guard with these.

I will pass this award forward to
Villivilla
Ravenhill
Arjen helmiä

The Sun came with colours

Purple, pink and glimmering white were the colours for today. I wish I would have been able to capture the purple hue which covered everything in the morning, but knowing my limits with camera, I concentrated in admiring the beauty of winter light. By sunset though I had to give my camera a go.

There's definitely gnome energy in our house. I made two of these hats in five minutes (and you can tell it, by the seams). This little gnome of mine has been decorating gingerbread and doing pipe cleaner hearts with beads, while mum has been , well, blogging. These ornaments will surely have their place in our Christmas tree.

Avoiding the inevitable

I should be busy making Christmas cards in order to get them posted on time, instead I'm posting about things I've been doing instead. To be exact I haven't finished or even started one single Christmas card. So if you have used to get a card from us this might be the first year when it doesn't happen.

Because I'm pretty sure Leevi doesn't read my blog, I can show you the tote I sew for him. I'm hoping to make a couple more of these for other kids on my list. Elsi's tote is the original, which I made last year. Elsi's tote has a lining, but the other one doesn't. The flax I used, is sturdy enough without lining and naturally easier to sew without.



The tote was on the list for Christmas, so that doesn't count as avoiding card making. But the apron I sew for Elsi was just for the fun of making it. I had an opportunity to use my bias tape maker for the first time and it was sooooo good and practical. So definitely a good buy. I hand-stitched the reindeer on the front to brighten my rather dark choice of fabrics. This fabric is the same flax as in the tote above. It's so nice fabric to work with that I decided to try it on children's clothing. Let's see how it will survive the stains and strains of every-day life with a three-year-old.