more little props

Remember these parcels?

They arrived to destination.

Here the props styled by Xenia and below the photos 
I took before I posted them.

In the last image Harrietta the mouse wears a lovely 
necklace that was in this tiny parcel.

Thank you Xenia, Anna and Elsa the mouse!

*A little production of props for the mouse house
 is on the making, it will be soon in my shop.

And yes, thank goodness for the "messy world wide web",
as Xenia pointed out.

mmmmm

You know, sometimes I start my posts with "mmmmm", 
then I add the images and only after that I write; then, 
of course I delete the mmmmm.  Because of a technical problem 
(that I was never able to solve and still can't) I have to put 
words before the images, but to me it works the opposite way,
 first come the images then the words. 
Sometimes I have no words to start with so I take time.

Anyway, all I wanted to show you today is that I'm 
sewing a top with a beautiful woven fabric I found in 
he bargain chest of a nice fabric shop, I can't wait for 
the warm weather to wear it. I want to make more clothes for
 myself and Anita. 

I've also finished a scarf and the cabled hat, because this 
winter is so cold that I needed something warmer to go out. 

I took that image of the sky only 15 minutes ago 
(in mid morning) when the thick dull grey blanket of clouds 
opened up and revealed a beautiful blue and the sunshine,
 it totally made my day.

This post started with mmmmm.

it's cold

It's cold outside. I'm knitting another cabled hat, this time is a bit thicker. 
I'm using an Aran wool from the Yorkshire region.

The ethereal garland is from Eau de Nil, I love how the light is captured 
and bounced between the disks.

I'm slowly stitching another cushion and making a new quilt.

Looking forward to meet old friends this Saturday.

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Yesterday evening I've watched two films. The first one I quite like it, 
the second one I like it a lot and watched few times since it was released: 

"Please give" and "Living in oblivion".

a bunch of creatures

Hello,

I'm preparing a workshop I will do in march in a wool shop in the Cambridgeshire area. 
It's an amigurumi workshop to be precise. Since it has an Easter theme,
 I decided to make some bunnies, egg cosies, birds and I'm now working 
on speckled eggs and few carrots... I can't tell you how much fun I'm having! 
it's like magic, first you have a ball of cotton and then a character is born, 
and no matter how hard I try to make them exactly the same it never happens, 
each one comes out with it's own personality!

For the egg cosy I made my own pattern and you can find it here or in my Ravelry page, 
for free (the pattern and the egg cosy are not for re-sale, not for business, 
for personal use only, there's a copyright on it.).

For the bunnies I used this free pattern but then I modified it slightly.

For the birds there's a free pattern here, but I didn't used it, 
instead I've guessed it and they came out fine.

If you live near Cambridge and would like to know details about the workshop 
just drop me an email.

The egg cosy will be also on sale in my shop for those who eventually 
would like to buy them.

I'm anticipating Spring time because I have enough of winter now.
Sorry winter, you last too long ;)

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  (0_0)
C(")(") 

the birds will probably join the Circus!

blue butterfly

For me the best antidote to nuisance is to get my mind 
and my hands busy doing something that makes me happy.  
I started to play with scraps of fabrics and hand-sewn 
them together, embroidered and knotted it here and there,
as soon as I started to stitch my moodiness disappeared!

This seat pad is called "blue butterfly". 
The butterfly has been identified by different cultures as the symbol 
of the metamorphosis, the restlessness of the mind, 
major change in the course of one's own life, personality or way of thinking, 
it is the symbol of free of expression. 
I thought it's perfect to symbolize my feelings and state of mind
I like the name the ancient Greeks gave it to it: ‘psyche’.

On a more mundane note, the cushion will be for sale in my next 
shop update, I can't tell you right now when it will be, 
since here we are experiencing a second round of flu! 
this year hit us really badly.

Also please excuse my English, is not my first language 
and though I've been livng here for more than a decade I 
still find it a not so straightforward language,
sure you'll excuse me and understand me, thank you :)

Thank you for your support, it really gives me energy!

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minä perhonen 13s/s collection

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a monarch butterfly emerging from chrysalis

ready to go

A pile of little parcels.

from Lisboa

More snail mail today! It's from Catarina.
she gave me directions on how to find her in case I'd like to visit 
I would love a trip to Lisboa very much, thank you Catarina.

Bichos da Matos

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Lisbon Story

a long lost cousin

Hello there,

The wonderful gift that this blog brought to me is the connection 
to like minded people, lovely real people that often live far away 
from where I live, and that connection in some cases has become friendship.

Not only that, but thanks to these incredible web of connections 
we discovered that our mouse has a long lost cousin!  
The not anymore long lost cousin was so kind to send these lovely handmade
 things for our mouse house! We are making some to send it to her too. 
Well, the truth is that us mums are making all the props for the little houses, 
it's becoming quite an obsession lately but I enjoy it so much that 
I don't mind to stay up late to work on them; it reminds me of when 
I worked as a prop designer in theatres and it fuels my imagination 
on that dream home that seems a mirage to me!

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I'd like to thank you for your response in my previous post, 
it's nice to connect and know what you think, 
I didn't do it to "pressure" you, sorry if  someone felt that way. 
I asked your opinion because I sense that the way readers connect 
to blogs is changing. Perhaps there's too much information, noise, repetitiveness. 
Perhaps we are too used to the fact that bloggers will keep blogging 
no matter what, either to share inspirations, to promote themselves or to sell products,
hence we don't see the point to connect; perhaps we just don't feel that connection.
I don't know, there are many reasons why one don't feel like stop by and say hello.
I understand and accept that, only I always bear in mind that behind a blog
there's a human being who work hard (and often for free) 
to make that post. 

Thank you Xenia, and thank you all!

Eau de Nil  

today

Random images of my cloths, crochet, crockery in my cupboard, 
snail mail received today from an island in the Mediterranean sea 
(waiting for A to open it, then I will show it to you too), 

Lately I've seen around the web quite few blog posts about 
the lack of comments and feedback from readers.

I think that if bloggers stop blogging then many other 
social media will be affected too, take Pinterest for example, 
where all those pins come from? Isn't it just nice to leave 
some words and show some love and gratitude? 
What do you think? I dread to ask, since most of the time I get no answers! ;^)

 

Have a good start of the week.

first finish what you have unfinished

After the snow, the ice, now the rain and gales,
definitely after 13 years in England I learnt a lot about the weather.

A loop scarf I finished. I have many things half done, 
I decided that is time to finish the unfinished. 
My mum often gave me this sound advice: 
'first finish what you have unfinished'.

The pilea Jo gave me is not a baby any more, 
she's growing and looks happy.

The quilt is almost finished, 
it has a little M embroidered because is a custom order.

I've started to work on another one.