homemade@myplace

Hi my Dears!!!! The moving is completed!!! I've opened all the boxes and all our stuff is in place : we have a cosy place to call home again!!!! HURRAY!!!! In the meantime I crafted a little, as some gifts were requested … I had the joy to open my beads boxes and create a couple of beaded bracelets … The first one had to be done with neutral colours ... … while the second one was just up to me, so I went for blues … … then I crocheted two pairs of fingerless Minions mitts (free pattern found  here ) for a couple of twins brothers (7 years old!) who are going to celebrate their birthday this coming Sunday … So, I had some fun in creating all these little gifts, all handmade with love!!! I'll be here in my place very soon : no more "excuses" for delay after delay!!! xxxx, Alessandra

Before leaving Maputo for our summer holidays in Italy, I started (and completed!) some other little projects… I have a passion for circles, so I crocheted a big pile of them … … and when I decided it was enough, I began to join them with a colourful simple border with picots … …. so at the end I obtained a kind of necklace/scarf as you can see me trying it on … I made even another one, but with a white border : this time the final effect was more "cold" … … and my mum took that one !!!! mine! mum's! I did even an experiment with some pink and red diamonds … … and when I added the green border, this necklace/scarf reminded me the tail of a kite, don't you think? I made even a proper scarf (!!!!), just following  the Arctic Scarf  pattern by Sarah London … Happy Weekend, xxxx Alessandra Today links :  Link your Stuff! ,  Busy Fingers Showing Off #97  and  Craft Schooling Sun...

It has been a while, right? ;oD I've enjoyed my summer holiday back in Italy in June and July (just one week was spent in Edinburgh : beautiful and cold!!!!) and the boys, the hubby and I were back in Maputo at the beginning of August, as the school was starting again the 11th….  So we are all back to our routines : boys in school, hubby at work and I back to my blog!!!! We have just moved in our 3rd apartment here in Maputo ( yes 3 moves in one year!!!!) and maybe for this reason my blogging will have some hiccups in the next couple of weeks … you know some boxes need to be unpacked…. well, you know what I mean! I just wanted to show you today some crocheted gifts I made this summer in Italy : are you interested??? Hope so !!!! At the end of July it was the birthday of my niece Mara, so she was born under the Leo zodiac sign… In the same days there was the brutal killing of Cecil, the majestic lion of Zimbabwe… so this is what I made, thinking at both of them, Mara and C...