An afternoon in the garden

My idea of heaven.



But I'm afraid that this way of spending my day will be over for quite a long time. I have two new urgent projects (work-related, no crafting projects, alas). When I have a lot of boring things to do, I have the tendency to procrastinate.
So, back to the old computer and get to work!

Quilt in progress

Every free minute I have, I try to work on my daughter's quilt.
With all the computer work still piling up, I get so frustrated...
Enough complaining, here are a few blocks I managed to finish in the last weeks.
Trees:

Spring:

Kitchen:

Autumn:


I will use these nine patches for a Red Riding Hood themed block.

Back to business

After a short break at the seaside, it's back to the old desk, I'm afraid... Normally, my batteries are loaded after the summer, but we had such dreadful, cold weather...
But what frustrates me the most, are all the fun projects that are waiting to get finished! And work has to go first now, I even had to take some of it on my holiday.
If only a day could be longer...

Blossom

It's amazing how the weather has changed in a week! It's rainy and cold, weather to stay indoors, near the fireplace. Luckily, I took some pictures of the first blossoms last week, they're all rained away now...




Perfect weather to get back to work, and that is what I'm going to do right now!

Winter is here to stay

I've been away too long...feels like ages since I've been blogging. The reason for my absence: work, work and more work. For a month, I didn't cook, shop, read, or craft. All I did was sit at my desk, and work, work, work.
And now this job is finished, and I don't know where to start blogging again.
So a mosaic it will be, just to get the hang of it again.
For a few times since January, I thought spring was arriving, but no, last week it started snowing again. And I'm growing a bit tired of the cold. So this mosaic is a sort of goodbye to winter, I hope!


1. holly bob, 2. A Chickadee in hand, 3. Santa's Toy Shop, 4. Santa Gnome Evening Lights Jenny Nystrom 1905, 5. polish matchbox label, 6. "bow to me!", 7. 2 Cup Yellow Tea Cozy, 8. Over the River, 9. Anemoi Mittens 2, 10. I'm Not Looking!, 11. Once Upon A Wintertime: Skating, 12. my sweet pillow, 13. cuckoo clock, 14. Red Hat, 15. ...April Fool..., 16. Mansion no. 2

Working

I've been busy, had to give up my October challenge of taking a picture a day...
This is what I've been doing: colouring an old book by my husband that will be re-edited in December. It's a comic book he made while still in high school.



While working, I enjoy songs like these:




I'll be back crafting and blogging in a week!

Finally...

...I finished my work this morning, forty drawings for a children's book.
I spent the rest of the day vacuuming, ironing, cleaning, and I actually enjoyed it, certainly with the rays of sun in our house!
Although this was a rather big job, I managed to knit in the evenings and I finished my red cape.


I even started a capelet, with a cable motif. I want to wear it when I am working at my desk, to warm my shoulders.

At my desk

It's so nice to have company while working...