White crochet cushion giveaway

I woke up early, as i always do on week days. I light a fire in the fireplace, made coffee and here i am spending a few precious moments sitting with my computer and browsing trough some beautiful blogs. I love to discover new ones that will make my heart miss a beat and will make me gasp with delight. I found this lovely blog while visiting one of my favorite places. Helen of Helen's colorful crochet is having a lovely spring giveaway. If you wish to enter, simply click on the link and see what she has in store for you....or me...^_^
Julie of Swedish House says of Helen :
Helen makes the most beautifully crocheted Cath Kidston inspired blankets & cushions

You can see and read all about the one she made for me here

Helen would be delighted receive an order

and assist you in your requirements

So i think a visit to her blog is a must for crochet lovers, Cath kidston's fans and granny blankets devotees.
Now i am off to visit some more lovely places before i get back to my days work. I made several new Matryoshka dolls yesterday and would love to finish them today. I also started working on a new project and if i like the end results, i may be making another one and offer it as a giveaway. Spring is here and giveaways are such a  wonderful way to celebrate and share. So stay tuned my lovelies ♥
I might be back soon.

My swap present

In early fall, i entered a pillow swap organized by 2 great dutch sisters.
I was really happy to be part of that swap and lucky to have Corry as my partner. A few days ago, i received my surprise and i was all Aaaaaaahhhh's and Ooooooohhhh's admiring the beautiful work she had done. I am still in awe before such beautiful work, my pillow was nothing compared to what she had created for me. I hope she is happy with her present, for my part, i am so delighted. She even included some lovely cheery fabric and a gorgeous market bag.
I took more pictures that i wanted to show you, but my cam is playing tricks with me and i could only upload those 2 pictures. Hubby will fix it for me and will show more later. I have an old blue velvet chair in my sewing room and my pillow matches perfectly. I feel so lucky, so spoiled, Corry, how can i ever thank you ? you are so so talented, your needlework and crochet skills are lovely, adorable, perfect, thank you a zillion times, i will cherish this treasure forever ♥

Smell the flowers...

Wow, i can hardly beleive i am giving time to post a message in my blog. As i mentioned in a previous post, i am a very lazy and poor blogger. Although i wish i was as good as all those great blogs i love to visit. I do hope that once i move to my future house ( one day ) i will have my own little studio, i will be spending more time creating and filling my etsy shop and maybe take more time to blog. Blogging is a fun thing to do of course. I just feel sometimes i don't have much to say. Ok, enough justification for my laziness, i came here specifically to show you that pillow i made for my hubby. I am not entirely satisfied with the ended result, but hubby seemed quite pleased. And he even liked the discloths ! He offered me the crochet one my friend did for him ( I think he found it a little bit too girly with the frill border ) and i must admit it really washes the dishes well. The cloth is thick, spongy and soft. I think i am hooked, i will have to knit more for myself. The peonies are just barely starting to flower and i beleive they will be gorgeous ! I love peonies ! I have many plants troughtout my flower beds. Yesterday, the sky was clouding over and i could hear the thunder roar. A storm was building up. I ran to the chicken coop to get them inside and i almost stopped as i passed by the peonies. The smell was so intoxicatingly intense. I ran back inside, grabbed the scissors, ran back outside to try and cut a few flowers before the storm breaks out.I made a lovely bouquet to put on the kitchen table. Oh, how wonderfully sweet is the smell of peonies. I wish they would flower all summer long...Well, i wish summer would last longer too...Take the time to smell the flowers...

Summer days

Summer days are finally here and it feels so good. Yesterday the weather was just perfect and i was driving home with the window down. I was feeling completely happy just by feeling the warmness of the wind and the sweet smell of the fresh cut grass. I live in the countryside and the scenery here never stops to fascinate me. We decided to sell the house because we feel the urge to live in an even more remote area. I want to wake up every morning and see beautiful rolling hills, not collected trash in our neighbour's yard. I am not a hermit, of course, i do enjoy being with people. But i do need my peace and tranquility. My little neighborhood used to be a quiet and pretty place to live in. Unfortunately, over the past years, new people came and things changed. They don't really care for pretty flower beds and cleanliness. Moving away was a hard and painful decision, because i have so many beautiful memories of my life there with my family. But 2 of my daughters left the nest and i feel i am ready for a new beginning.

Sunday is father's day and i decided to offer my little boy hubby a box filled with little surprises. One of them being knitted dishcloth. ( What ?! ) Yep ! He's been asking for some handmades to use at the sailboat. We have a 36 feet Pearson Ketch ( very pretty and comfy ) and we like spending weekends there sailing at the lake and relaxing. Anyway, speaking of knitted dishcloth, i do hope he likes them. The girls at work thought it was a pretty funny gift to offer to a man, but in the end, one even offered to crochet an extra dishcloth for him. I have another one on the needles that is almost finished, so he will have four pretty dishcloths. Spoiled hubby ! I am also working on a decorative pillow ( for the sailboat of course ) and will post some more pictures later for everybody to see. So many things i have been working on this past spring. From knitted socks, to pretty coasters, to sewing lovely dolls, aprons, totes and pincushions. I will try and post all these pretty things i have been working on as soon as possible. In the meantime, i better get on with my day. I have a long list of chores waiting to be done. And that includes cutting the grass. Yuk !

See ya !

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