Wishing you all a very merry Christmas!
Hugs,
Gee
donderdag 24 december 2015
maandag 30 november 2015
The bed
Hello Sweeties!
Again it has been far too long since we've had a talk.
I do hope you all are fine and have managed to remain doing your business instead
of your mind wandering off thinking about what my next post will be. lol.
Well, pumpkins, no need to suffer any longer ;) for here it is!
First I have to fill you in on what happened before, so here we go:
one of my very early memories of winter eve's is the sound of my Mom's knitting needles
going on high speed to knit one of us kids a warm sweater.
Knitterdeknitknitterdeknitterdeknitterknit... that sound went on and on and on.
She knitted on very small steel needles in an olympic tempo.
Moms could way back then.
While she knitted she'd watch some show or the news on television and could have a
conversation about anything.
I have also knitted some sweaters, when I was at the age of uhm... let's say that was years and years later; no need to harm your little souls with numbers ;))
Anyway, I knit on needles size 10 with big chunky yarns
and the sound of my knitting goes something like knit....wait for it.....knit....wait some more
...knit....darn I've dropped a stitch.
I can't even have a two-word talk when knitting, let alone watch the news.
But I've always wanted to be a fast knitter and preferably keeping all the stitches up, too.
Also I've always loved the look of lace knitting.
The only thing being... what to knit and could I pull it off??
I'm not actually going to wear anything like that, so when the mini hobby came along
this was an opportunity not to neglect.
I decided it had to be a bedspread or something like that and the patterns had to be 18th century-ish at least. Because I never did laceknitting before, the first thing to do was knitting a real life sized bedspread on needles size 10, to practice and so I did.
The finished thing measures 3 metres by approx. 3 metres and then I felt ready for smaller needles.
Had to start over 4 or 5 times but I did make a baby blanket as well as a bedspread.
Of course I was not able to refind the picture I've made of the lifesize thing, but I"ll
show you the minis.
For the bedspread and the babyblanket I've used real 18th century patterns.
While I am fully aware of the fact that there are people who arrange and style what they
make picture-perfect, there is no danger of encountering that kind of behaviour on this
blog, I know you can see beyond blurry pics and not so neatly dressed stuff, so here it is:
I use this handkerchief as a bedsheet, it belonged to my grandmother.
I noticed the edging and the corner were done by tatting.
The tatting work is so fine I could not get it clear on the picture.
My grandmother made this edging more than a hundred years ago; maybe the
handkerchief was her mothers'and she got hold of it the way I did.
Although the handkerchief yellowed a bit over time, I'm not going to use any bleech on it.
Another family item to go in the minihouse.
Let's see, what's next... here's a picture of the babyblanket:
and pictures of the bedspread:
on the mattrass:
Again it has been far too long since we've had a talk.
I do hope you all are fine and have managed to remain doing your business instead
of your mind wandering off thinking about what my next post will be. lol.
Well, pumpkins, no need to suffer any longer ;) for here it is!
First I have to fill you in on what happened before, so here we go:
one of my very early memories of winter eve's is the sound of my Mom's knitting needles
going on high speed to knit one of us kids a warm sweater.
Knitterdeknitknitterdeknitterdeknitterknit... that sound went on and on and on.
She knitted on very small steel needles in an olympic tempo.
Moms could way back then.
While she knitted she'd watch some show or the news on television and could have a
conversation about anything.
I have also knitted some sweaters, when I was at the age of uhm... let's say that was years and years later; no need to harm your little souls with numbers ;))
Anyway, I knit on needles size 10 with big chunky yarns
and the sound of my knitting goes something like knit....wait for it.....knit....wait some more
...knit....darn I've dropped a stitch.
I can't even have a two-word talk when knitting, let alone watch the news.
But I've always wanted to be a fast knitter and preferably keeping all the stitches up, too.
Also I've always loved the look of lace knitting.
The only thing being... what to knit and could I pull it off??
I'm not actually going to wear anything like that, so when the mini hobby came along
this was an opportunity not to neglect.
I decided it had to be a bedspread or something like that and the patterns had to be 18th century-ish at least. Because I never did laceknitting before, the first thing to do was knitting a real life sized bedspread on needles size 10, to practice and so I did.
The finished thing measures 3 metres by approx. 3 metres and then I felt ready for smaller needles.
Had to start over 4 or 5 times but I did make a baby blanket as well as a bedspread.
Of course I was not able to refind the picture I've made of the lifesize thing, but I"ll
show you the minis.
For the bedspread and the babyblanket I've used real 18th century patterns.
While I am fully aware of the fact that there are people who arrange and style what they
make picture-perfect, there is no danger of encountering that kind of behaviour on this
blog, I know you can see beyond blurry pics and not so neatly dressed stuff, so here it is:
I use this handkerchief as a bedsheet, it belonged to my grandmother.
I noticed the edging and the corner were done by tatting.
The tatting work is so fine I could not get it clear on the picture.
My grandmother made this edging more than a hundred years ago; maybe the
handkerchief was her mothers'and she got hold of it the way I did.
Although the handkerchief yellowed a bit over time, I'm not going to use any bleech on it.
Another family item to go in the minihouse.
Let's see, what's next... here's a picture of the babyblanket:
and pictures of the bedspread:
on the mattrass:
and finally on the bed. the picture is blurry but you get the idea.
I have very much enjoyed reading your blogs, please keep the posts coming.
It is a bit early but I do hope you will all have a lovely Christmas!
Big hugs and take care,
Gee
zondag 3 mei 2015
Those darn vampires
Dear Friends and Followers,
I used mahogany for making the box.
Though I have tried to follow your activities, I may not have always succeeded.
But know I've missed you guys and gals, we've got a lot of catching up to do.
I do hope you are all well.
It has been far too long since I've done anything mini, and being horribly busy at the time due to all the chores I should have done these past months but did not do and thus have to do now, it will be some time before I do another post :s. That is, unless I find a way to divide myself in two or three, but if that is the case I will probably not do any chores but be very busy putting up a production line :D ;)
One of the positive things of my retraite is that I have got some more outlined ideas of mini things I want to try this next year, but more about that when the time is due.
My sweetheart of a daughter took me on a trip to Amsterdam, to get my mind off things, and we went to a rockconcert; some time later we did this again, only now I took her. It was a really nice opportunity to see each other in another perspective.
And what do you know, after the concert yours truly even got kissed by the popstar LOLZ, Who will remain to be unknown btw.
We've got a saying over here, that goes: hoe ouder hoe gekker. Or: the older the crazier. Go figure haha. I'll show you the pics we took in the Rijksmuseum another time. Now, back on topic.
My sweetheart of a daughter took me on a trip to Amsterdam, to get my mind off things, and we went to a rockconcert; some time later we did this again, only now I took her. It was a really nice opportunity to see each other in another perspective.
And what do you know, after the concert yours truly even got kissed by the popstar LOLZ, Who will remain to be unknown btw.
We've got a saying over here, that goes: hoe ouder hoe gekker. Or: the older the crazier. Go figure haha. I'll show you the pics we took in the Rijksmuseum another time. Now, back on topic.
Couldn't keep my focus so this was an endless -so it seemed- practice in getting my mini stuff out-starting working on it for five minutes- putting it away again for weeks and so on.
But here it finally is...... a must have for every home ;)....... the ultimate Vampire Killing Box!
Mind you, boxes like this really did exist, this one is based on an 18th century one, and it contains:
- a vampire skull, with it's vampire teeth intact, and directions on it on where to find the most
vulnarable places on the skull in order to kill the vampire.
- a bible
- a rosary with cross
- wooden stakes and a silver stake
- a bottle wich contains poison
- an empty bottle
- a bottle with holy water
- a little mirror
- a candlestick
- a gun and a bag of gunpowder, well filled
- a knife
- garlick
- a cross (an extra, better be safe than sorry)
- cloths for cleaning up any mess
and hidden in the lid:
- drawings and instructions on how to kill a vampire and a notebook.
As you probably already noticed due to the scratches, this box has long been in use.
I used mahogany for making the box.
Don't know about you, but having this item at hand, I know I will sleep peacefully tonight ;).
Please take care and keep smiling your lovely smile,
Hugggggsss to you all,
Gee
PS: John, Simon, Andy: how are you doing guys?
PS: John, Simon, Andy: how are you doing guys?
woensdag 15 april 2015
pics removed
Dear followers,
hope you are all fine.
To get to the point right away:
As Ilona and Brae already mentioned on their blogs, it seems some people copy pictures from blogs and repost them as their own work.
I have had an unusual amount of traffic on my blog the last weeks.
As a result of that and said rumours going round, I have removed my pictures.
Of course I will put them back in place as soon as I have them watermarked.
Hope you are enjoying the spring sun, big hugs to you all!
Gee
hope you are all fine.
To get to the point right away:
As Ilona and Brae already mentioned on their blogs, it seems some people copy pictures from blogs and repost them as their own work.
I have had an unusual amount of traffic on my blog the last weeks.
As a result of that and said rumours going round, I have removed my pictures.
Of course I will put them back in place as soon as I have them watermarked.
Hope you are enjoying the spring sun, big hugs to you all!
Gee
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