Today I finally finished my huge cross-stiching under-the-christmas-tree-mat! I've been doing it on-off for a couple of years now but about a month ago I decided to finally finish it so that I don't find it under the bookshelf still 5 years from now!
I'm a huge cross-stiching nerd and previously I've made a tower with a very gorgeous floral tribal decoration on the bottom. Sounds gay, but I gave it to my dad as a present and he's kept it in the kitchen for everyone to see since :) And this year he gets a little big bigger thing for Christmas. I hope with a hand-made gift like this he'll forgive me for traveling to Bali and Singapore for the holidays :D
I hope one day I'll get to make a huge pile of presents on this mat too, but this year my family in the north can do that for me.
A lot of times when a friend has called me in the past month and asked me what I was doing, the answer was typically "mummoilen" which means something like "grannying" in English. Doing grandma stuff :) And I'm 25!
But what can I say, grannying makes me happy. And I'd be happy to hear about a new hobby now that I think I'll have a at least 10 year brake from cross-stiching. I need something to do while watching TV. Make I restart making clothes.
Where did you get that crate?! Awesome old Dutch design :).
ReplyDeleteIt's very populair in The Netherlands to mount it onto your bike nowadays!
http://urban.vergelijkfiets.nl/upload/fietsfoto/767/Detail-aty01.jpg
Haha, how very hipstery thing to do :) Do you have one of those on your bike, Marcel?
ReplyDeleteI got mine from my favourite hardware store K-Rauta in Oulu some years ago. Now they have them with a little different design so I might get another one!