Winter Olympics

 

I love watching the Olympics and this year did not disappoint.

I always feel, as a dual citizen, I can just add the medals for both countries.

Holland had 20 (G10-S3-B7) and Canada 21 (G5-S7-B9) so our total was 41, which brought us right beside Norway at the top of the standings.

My Dutch Lion, Canadian Moose and Olympic Bunny were standing right by the TV to cheer on the athletes. 

They will be ready to come out again in 2 years for the summer Games in L.A.

Last of 2025

Here are some of the fun things I made this Holiday Season.

My personal favourites were the knitting Christmas trees and the deer head.

I made about a total of 40 themed dishcloths, little angels and other small decorations to give away to everyone at the Braam Christmas party.

I'm pretty sure it was a success because the basket was empty when I went home.

I have lots of ideas already lined up for Valentine's Day and Easter so no a lot of resting time!

 

Easter is coming

I decided a few years ago to not advertise any more because it became so overwhelming to get everything done (I have a very hard time saying "no") that it took a lot of the fun away for me.

But I had some former customers contact me (which is so enormously satisfying to know they love my stuff as much as I do!!) and I happily finished those orders. 

Then I started working on some fun little projects, planning on giving them out as gifts to the little ones in the family.

I'm also taking a 2 week trip to Holland in April so probably taking some stuff to hand out there.

I ended up writing out a simple pattern for egg warmers with bunny ears, flat knitting and very quick to do so a great craft for starter knitters. 

Look in the pattern section to download

Happy Holidays

These were some of the favourite crafts I did this 2024 holiday season.

This Advent Calendar was new for me this year and it looked great hanging in Michelle's work place!

I find it much more relaxing to just work on things I feel like doing than taking orders and stressing about getting it all done.
We had a very nice Christmas and starting fresh for 2025.
I'm already planning new things to make and maybe trying out some technics I haven't done before.
YouTube is my friend for that.  

There is never enough hours in the day to let me make all the things I want to make but at least I try to finish what I start 😁

Old is New

Everything old is new again!

I needed a sweater pattern and nothing jumped out for me from searching online so I decided to go through all my very old (and mostly Dutch) pattern books and this one came out as the winner, it's from 1980.

It turned out so well, Love the colour.

I'm super pleased with it.

Granddaughter Hazel was pretty happy with the result too  🧶😀