I hope everyone had a great weekend. Our’s consisted of the usual Saturday excursion which (as you know by now) consists of buying armloads of books, stuffing our faces at a Greek restaurant and then hunting for crafty shops ambling around taking pics. Today we lazed around the house and watched some DVD’s. The Good Husband cooked for us tonight (Nasi Goreng with Saté sauce) so I had a laid-back day to say the least.

This weekend we went to Ingolstadt again. We have been there for three consecutive Saturdays – every weekend since we came back. We bought books, some Christmas presents for the kiddies of friends, had a lovely lunch and I picked up a few crafty bits. The crafty shop there is tiny. No kidding. Teeny tiny, but it is packed. There are shelves right up to the ceiling which is a bit of a pain if you don’t happen to (conveniently) be married to a 6,4ft German that just manages to reach the top shelf if he  does some serious reaching standing on a (conveniently) located step-ladder. Granted they don’t carry stitchy stuff, but have all sorts of other lovelies to keep a girl happy!

I finished the little french heart freebie and it looks quite nice although I think I should have used something else than the powder blue fabric. Never mind – you live and you learn! For those that asked: it is stitched with Needle Necessities ‘Finian’s Rainbow’, (new name ’Rainbow Fairy’).

Even though I have a lot of stitching to do and catch up on, I couldn’t resist starting this little guy. It’s a freebie by Waxing Moon and is called Patriotic Snowman.

I bought these little wooden boxes, braid and cording on Saturday. The boxes are the perfect size for smalls, although I have absolutely no idea how to go about covering boxes or making them up. I imagine it’ll involve a fair amount of glue and a fair amount of cussing and cursing…

I spent this morning reading some blogs but whereas it normally puts me in a good mood and inspires me, it utterly depressed me. Everyone has been so busy and has done some fantastic things, but that of course is not the depressing part.

The depressing part is that I feel so *lost* reading the blogs because I have been out of the loop for so long. Well, it’s pretty understandable that I feel lost – not reading blogs/blogging for close to three months is enough to make anyone feel out of sorts. I hope the feeling passes because I feel like a stranger on my own blog.

Because this blog has been quiet for so long, I also find it more than just a bit awkward to accept the Rockin’ Girl Blogger award so I’ll let that slide and not nominate anyone. Thanks Dee for nominating me and sorry that I managed to b*gger it up.

Like I mentioned in a previous post, I didn’t stitch much in the last couple of months but have finished the second BC Snowman Stocking for the Good Husband and a couple of smalls since I picked up the needle again.

At the moment I am working on a little french design and even though I would love to give credit where credit is due, I have no idea which site I printed this from. If this design rings a bell, please let me know as I would like to credit the designer of this cutie.

I started a Photobucket account (because of the sub-folder possibilities) for all my pics, so in future I can post travel/sightseeing/ Germany pics and direct you to the rest of them to look at without any probs.

PIF News: I have finished four of my five PIF’s and am hoping to finish the fifth one next week.  As soon as I finished my last one I’ll start mailing out.

Wishing everybody a great weekend!