Happy Valentine's Day!

All the shops are overloaded by hearts, mostly Estonians make gifts for their best friends (not for their Valentine) on that day. I don't celebrate the day but as I found the guide to make this beautiful ribbon, a 9-year-old lady and I started to make it. I made the white hearts to her and she did red ones to her Mother. As I don't like when beautiful ribbons have ugly endings, I made them more beautiful. There's a little bead at the end of the chain.

Some jewelry

I tried to make a pair of beautiful earrings:



They are not what I expected them to be.

But these... I'm so proud of myself :D :





Look how proud I am:

Re-use

Meet my mom's coat:







The coat was bought in the 70's. I wore it few years ago, but it looked already old, so I decided to make something else out of it. It was a present to a little boy. i'm planning to sew another one, 'cause my son also needs a hobby-horse ;)

Here's my son delivering the present:

Ode to Men

My husband, my brothers, my father - the most important men in my life. They all have something in common: they can make marvelous things if they want.

My husband is a teacher (teaches boys' handcraft, I don't know the right term in English). Some of his own work: here (the page is still a bit incomplete as I'm not a IT-specialist ;) ). A collection of pupils' work is on Flickr, but we don't remember his yahoo-account (if you know what to do on that occasion, let me know, please. My husband also has a blog in Estonian. About a year ago he tried a bit beading and wiring:



I have two elder brothers. The younger one made the best looking bunny to my son. My son already had a bunny, which he had for Christmas. They look good together, don't they?

The older brother visited m. some time ago and he too tried beading and wiring a bit.

Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of my father's handcraft and at the moment there's nothing to take picture of. I remember brightly how lovely was a wallet he made to my mother, sadly it was lost a very long time ago. But I can say that he too is not afraid to do something with his own hands.

So men don't just cook well ;)

Practicing

I love beads and wire. I'd like to make stunning jewelry, the problem is that I don't have any ideas at the moment. Here are some links to marvelous jewelry:
m. (Edit: her blog in English) I particularly like this one from her (usually pink isn't my colour).
Mdm Beadalot
Janalill
Lucy

I just love visiting these blogs. They all have their own style and it's enjoyable. As I'm not even a beginner yet, I don't have my own style so I just practiced making open loops:







Wanted to make a necklace that's simple by technology.

One day I'll show you what my eldest brother made while visiting m. I'm really stunned.

Kitchen Accesories

Thinking of the house that's waiting for us in a countryside:



It's a kitchen towel (tea towel?), I sewed it myself, and the edging is made by me also, of course. I have some finished lace ribbons waiting for towels so hopefully I'll add some more pictures soon.

Boy, Am I Glad It's Still Winter...

... 'cause I finally finished knitting a balaclava to my son. First I tried this way, then ravelled a bit, then I tried another way, didn't like it. And then I found the Toasty Topper from knitty.com, I did'nt like it either, 'cause it's hard to fit the ends of a scarf under the jacket. I changed the pattern a bit, and here it is - a balaclava:




I didn't have finances to buy new yarn, therefore I ravelled my old scarf i knitted three or four years ago. It wasn't emotionally hard to ravel it, 'cause the scarf was hideous, it was simple and striped, but the colours!

Edit (13th March): How could I ever think these colours were pretty together around a woman's neck. I like when boys wear bright colours but a nice and neat garment in dark colours suits as well. When my son runs around in the yard, it seems like six little kittens are romping around :D (there are six kittens on the hat).

Here's a glance at my Project Spectrum (March):



Will I ever finish it?

I thought that bobbin lace is a technique I'd never try. Cause it's hard to get the things needed and it seems quite difficult. But today there was a workshop in my very little hometown and I couldn't resist it ;) This is what we did today:



I hope I can practice it more in the future.

Have a nice day!