Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Friday, 18 December 2015

Absent, but "present" !!!!

Hi girls!!!!!
The time flies very quickly while busy in making a lot of gifts for family and friends in occasion of the coming Christmas ..... next week!!!!!
So I was absent from Blogland, but I had to in favour of the "present" commitment!!!! ;oD
I had taken a lot of pictures of all my works, but I'll show you just a few, ok ???

As you can remember (HERE), I was knitting a scarf with stripes (the Long Striped Scarf, from Fiona Goble's knitting book Scarves and Cowls, 36 quick and stylish knits) ....



.... and from the same book, in the meantime, I knitted even the Pompom Scarf, that is like the following ....



.... and I tell you, they are so different and so beautiful together ...



I crocheted a couple of necklaces, too !
The pattern is the same (my own design!), but I did use two different kind of yarns, so two different sizes of hooks ....


YOU CAN FOUND THESE BUTTONS HERE !!!!



... and I made another one with buttons and beads ....




... then a bunch of hats ....




.... there are more, but I'll show you the rest another time!!!!!
The pattern I followed is free and you can find it HERE !!!

I had even to crochet (my "little" sister request !) two Totoro hats (do you remember the first one?) ...





.... slightly different from each other !!!!

Then a different kind of hats ....




..... sweet little decorations, nice to gift to a friend who was hosting a Christmas party last week !
The photo tutorial ? Have a look HERE and have fun in making them !

I've tried something new (still my own design!) for a couple of chilly friends ...

yes ... hot water bottle covers !!!!





.... So I was not kidding !!!! I was really busy !!!! ;oD

Everything is all packed now in my luggages : tomorrow we are flying back to Italy for the Christmas break ....
..... but I will pop again next week for the Season Greetings !!!!!

xxxx, Alessandra



Sunday, 11 October 2015

Last Sunday ...

… we hired a boat, together some friends, to reach Ilha dos Portogueses and Ilha de Inhaca (to have an idea of what I'm talking about, just look here or here !), a couple of beautiful islands at the end of Maputo Bay.

It has been a very nice day trip, with lovely friends !
We were lucky to see in the distance, while approaching Ilha dos Portogueses, some dolphins and a WHALE !!!! But I don't have any picture of them, as they were a little bit distant from us!!!

We had lunch on Ilha dos Portogueses, that is even a natural reserve and you have to pay tickets once you land on the beach.

Quiet and wonderful, as we wished for !!!

I'm sharing some pictures with you …























xxxx, Alessandra

Saturday, 19 September 2015

Edinburgh, 18 July 2015 ...

…. why this date???
Simply because I have pics of our week in Edinburgh from our first day only ….
Why?
The photos that will follow on this post were taken with my DSLR camera, while the remanent ones were taken with my smartphone, that was stolen (or lost? Still a big mystery!) a couple of weeks ago … I didn't downloaded the pictures from my smart device  …. so a part of my sweet memories went lost, forever…. SIGH …

… luckily a big smile was back on my face when I looked at was left about our great week in Edinburgh…. better than nothing, right? ;oD

Every morning, after having a nice breakfast at Loudon's Cafe, we used to walk to our daily destination...















… In our case, it was The National Museum of Scotland …




















After the visit at the museum, we ventured again along the streets in downtown…







… and back to our apartment, in front of the living room windows, we could look at some baby seagulls waiting for both mummy and daddy : feeding time !!!
They were really noisy , but so funny to watch …





Happy Weekend !!!!
xxxx, Alessandra




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