Welcome! Well, the final square is mine and I can’t believe we are here already, wow… just a few weeks to go and many of you will have a completed blanket! Although, some of us will wonder what we will do with all our free time on Wednesdays… I hope you like the square for this week. If you would like to learn a …

Recently I was contacted about making another Dreambird, this time in the colors of the sea.  I realized as I was looking back in my blog that I have only ever posted the first Dreambird that I’d ever made.  After making that one I was contacted by a few people asking if I could make them one and over the last year I …

As of this morning my Dreambird is officially finished. Well, almost… it’s all over but the drying.  I had to put off blocking it a little longer than I expected as we had people over and a lack of space to spread it out, but today I finally got it out on the blocking mats! I was totally over the …

Remember before I left for holiday I posted about my Autumn Dreambird Shawl and how I had become totally infatuated with the yarn?  Well, not a lot has changed, I’m still head over heels in love with this project.  I tried to work on it as much as I could while we were in France, but with places and people …

One of the things that I had on my to do list was to learn to make HDR photos.  A while back I got Photomatix and played around with it to try to teach myself how to do it.  Some of the photos came out really well, others… not so much. For example, I loved this one… On the other …

Over the years I’ve had a lot of issues with seasonal depression.  Not something I’ve ever suffered from in Canada, but it hit me quick and hard here in the Netherlands.   I wasn’t expecting it but it happened, and it continued to happen for the past 10 years.  Granted, for the first half of that time I was often quite …

1. HDR Kinderdijk, 2. Winterdish-Boerenkoolstampot, 3. Heláás, 4. Famke Janssen, 5. Stroopwafel innards, 6. Marco Borsato Nachtmis, 7. Oliebollen in Rotterdam continued, 8. "I, Piórko, like Cheese!", 9. hard rain, 10. i can make stroopwafels, 11. St. Nicolas has arrived…, 12. Autumn Colors Ok I’ve seen these mosiac meme’s around but the gal over at A Touch of Dutch turned …

That’s how long until the first day of Autumn.  It sounds like a long time but it’s not really, and we’ve not even had a summer yet (we didn’t last year either).   I want to go back to France, where it was warm and dry.   Barring my horrid sunburn, I loved it there… and I only got the burn because …

Wow, what a great day it’s turned out to be so far.   At a time of year when the weather is growing more and more dark and depressing, I was happy to wake up to a beautiful sunny day! I took this photo (WITH MY NEW CAMERA!) while Xander and I were out with the dog this morning.   I think …

While I write this I keep hitting ‘Try Again’ on the time out thing in Firefox hoping that I have an internet connection. Last night I went to see The Devil Wears Prada with two girlfriends of mine.  The movie was good and I really enjoyed getting out with the girls for the evening.  We had some good eats, good …

The other day I got a package in the mail from my friends Gail and David, it was the coolest looking package.. wrapped in a map. When I opened it, it included an M&M figure full of tiny M&M’s, a big bag of Hershey Kisses, a desk calender about knitting and two CD’s of 80’s music. One of which was …