Tag Archives: Crafts

I can’t believe Christmas is actually here!  It seems like just yesterday I was counting down at 23 days.  It sort of makes me sad because I know New Years will come just as quick and then I’ll have to take down all my Christmas decorations.  The house will seem soooo plain and boring then. This is my latest completed crafty …

I finally got around to making the lightbulb snowmen that I wanted to make.  I saw them on a website last year and said I was definitely going to make them this year. It was kind of annoying because the lightbulbs are shaped differently here, without the long slender part but I improvised.  I think they are as cute as …

This week I took a stab at making a sort of double decker type rat hammock and it came out pretty well, the girls seem to really like it! When I got up yesterday they were sleeping with their little heads sticking out, so I couldn’t resist the urge to get a few photos.  Of course, they woke up as …

Argh, I just went and saw that the theme for this week’s photo hunt is LIGHTS!  I wish I’d saved this post for Saturday rather than on Friday, so I’m just going to make this my entry for the photo hunt this week! Grab the Scavenger Hunt code. Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants. As promised, it’s a new …

I’ve been talking for a while about getting a sewing machine to try to make things to sell like rat hammocks, hedgie bags, play tubes and other fun pet stuff.   Basically, an idea for me to try to bring in a little bit of money. We had planned on getting me one for x-mas but x-mas came early!  We found …

It’s now one week since I started my tree skirt project for x-mas.  I still have a month and a half to finish it but I’m trying to get the patchwork done as quickly as possible.  I’ve never gotten past the patchwork stage and the actual quilting and binding is unfamiliar territory to me so I want to leave as …

Last winter I took a quilting class with another expat girl I know.   I know it sounds like something only old women would enjoy, but it’s actually quite nice.  It’s relaxing to sit and sew in front of the TV and such.   I don’t have a sewing machine yet so I do it all by hand. I ended up missing …

This morning at 6:30am (approx 40 minutes ago) I was laying in bed and heard the phone ringing in the livingroom. The phone in the bedroom is broken and by the time I was awake enough to realize the one in the livingroom was ringing I knew I wouldn’t make it in time. I was just starting to go to …

Yesterday I met up with three other expat women who are living here in Rotterdam. I met them on one of my “Life in the Netherlands” type of yahoo groups when I made a post about knitting (yes, I know.. I’m obsessed with learning to knit lately). Usually when I go to these gatherings I find myself in limbo between …