season's greetings

Wishing you and your loved ones very Happy Holidays 

with good health and laughter for the New Year!

...from my family to yours,

                                Heidi

2010

Best Wishes to all of you for the New Year...

and a new decade!

holiday wishes

Wishing you all very happy holidays and a very good New Year!

Happy New Year!

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

-T. S. Eliot

holiday wishes

...and to all a good night......

heidi

We'll be celebrating on Saturday....

The silver is polished and the glasses shine, so now it's time to begin preparations for the big dinner. I even managed to make a table runner for the occasion! ( to be photographed and posted when lighting conditions are better ). Since it's not a holiday here in Holland, we'll be having the turkey on Saturday.


To all my friends, family and readers,

A very happy Thanksgiving - there's much to be thankful for!

heidi

Re-entry...

My dear friends,

We're back!  

Had a fabulous time in Umbria, met wonderful people, made new friends, ate food fit for the gods, enjoyed beautiful architecture and art, and swam with our dog for the first time.  The colors of the land, villages and towns inspired me, and Italy made a coffee drinker out of me!

Just have to unpack, get things back on track and I'll be posting again soon.

In the meantime, hope you will enjoy this snap of a sunflower taken early in the morning during a walk in the fields with Darwin...

Ciao!

Dark Side of the Moon

That's it!

All packed and ready to go.

See ya'll in a few weeks!

much love,

heidi

hexagon stack

Clothes are packed, well, lying folded on the bed, toiletries packed, food and drink for in the car packed, well, waiting on the dining room table....pfffft!

But wait... where are my priorities?  My handwork!

Here's a stack of little 3/4 inch hexagons ( prepared weeks earlier ) ready to go, plus the transition gold color that will come next in the row from yet another stash of charm packs.  Together with the Ann Grimshaw sampler, my iPod and a good book (never leave home without one!)  it should keep me occupied, especially if we get stuck on the road as we've just heard that there can be a long wait of up to two hours at the Gottard tunnel...joy!

dog food and toilet paper...

Spent the day getting organized for our trip to Italy. The end of this week we're headed off to the province of Umbria, to a farm not far from Perugia. The car is cleaned and configured, for DH, myself, DD and her friend, and Darwin our Golden Retriever. Maps are in place, and the route is determined. It's going to take us about 13+ hours and almost 1400 Km to get there from the Netherlands, through Germany, Switserland and so into Italy. That's not counting rest stops, pee stops, eat stops, getting lost or the very likely chance of hitting one of the many road works that always seem to happen during the summer all over Europe. Even though we have a roomy car, we've had to get a roof rack and ski box for additional packing space since Darwin will need at least half of the space in the "trunk". He'll be sharing it with the cooler.

So you can guess there's not much handwork happening here lately, though I did get some stitching done today for the first time in many days. My quilting has halted too as I used up all the muslin for the triangles quilt and after digging around in my closet found another piece well short of a yard. At least it can keep me going for a bit.
I'l probably cut it all so there will be some to get started with as soon as we return. At least I'm using up stash!

Then there is that all-important matter of " the holiday project". What to take along? Hmm, well, I think Ann Grimshaw will come as the needlework project, but I"m still not sure what to take for the quilting project. The hexagons? Another search for UFO's in the closet is in order. There will be lots to do and see while there, but hey, you never know! I've knitted whole pairs of socks in the car and regretted not bringing an extra ball of yarn to start another!

Ok. Enough procrastination. Back to cutting muslin.......