My dear readers,
so today is it the day… the last day of 2008 has begun.
I hope, you get well over and I wish you all the best for 2009.
Thank you for your visits. I’m really happy about it and I hope, that you come back next year.
Best regards
Bianca
Archive for December, 2008
Good-bye 2008
Posted in This and That on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas Days
Posted in On the Way on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the evenig of the first Christmas day I had this view out of the window of my living-room:
On the second day of Christmas the weather was much better. Although it was cold, the sun was shining and there was not even one cloud on the sky. And so we had a wonderfull rich day…
First [...]
Christmas Knitting…
Posted in Handicrafting, Knitting on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Of course I knitted on Christmas. First I finished a present for a dear friend. To make it in time was not possible, but as it is a surprise, I thought, it is ok if I send it today (which worked):
‘L’Aubergine’
Schachenmayr ‘Kid Light’ Farbe 49 (in realitiy a real Aubergine-purple)
‘Double-bordered scarf with diamond borders adapted [...]
Christmas stress…
Posted in Handicrafting, Knitting on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although I was good in time this year, in the end there was a bit of stress before Christmas.
One day before Christmas Eve I had to wrap several presents, which should be layed under the Christmas tree the day before on the 23rd:
The knitting basket and the whole woolbunch was the creative package for my [...]
Afterwards…
Posted in Knitting on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have to show two projects, which were finished a while ago, resp. shortly before Christmas:
‘Herbstblueten’ (Autumn blooms)
Herbstabo 2008 from Kirsten Handgefaerbt
5Par-Socks from Ingrids Strickpraxis
This pair will be given away soon.
Then I knitted mittens very fast. The first pair had to be finished so soon, that I forgot to make a photo, before putting it [...]
Christmas Greetings
Posted in This and That on December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My dear readers,
today is the day, it’s Christmas Eve. In Germany this day is a mixture of an old Saturday (years ago the shops closed on Saturdays latest at 2pm – for normal Saturdays this is gone, but today it’s still like that) and a holiday. Many families come together under the Christmas tree and [...]
Out of Biancas Caboodle Pouch
Posted in Handicrafting on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My (tinkered) Christmas Cards are finished! Today I finally made it. Somehow I’m very drowsiness this year. Some things work really well, with others I have to kick myself to do them.
Now I only have to write most of the cards and to send a part of them by mail. Indeed not every cards travels [...]
A day in/close to Hamburg
Posted in On the Way on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After it didn’t work on the St-Nikolaus-Saturday yesterday in the early afternoon we started in direction Northeast to meet our very dear friends Berit and Michael once again personally. Of we were spoiled thorough good and proper - for the afternoon coffee Berit bake a delicious cake, Christmas-like but still fresh and very different. And [...]
The tale of the new Blog-Name
Posted in This and That on December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A few time ago I asked my dear friend Gesche, who is among other things one of the most talented sewers I know, if she could sew me some little repository to transport my sockknitting safely.
Now she and her steady came to Bremen last Sunday, together with some friends, to stroll a bit through the [...]
Ok, ok…
Posted in Knitting on December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I cheated. On the haul-photo of the last post one ball is missing. From the sock yarn on the christmas fair I didn’t bought only a lilac-one (it is a Merino-Ramie-Silk-Mixture), but also a brown one. In fact it should had been on the haul-photo. But then the weather was too bad for taking photos [...]
