more spring :)

Last week we went to some places to buy plants and flowers for the garden,

so now my garden is ready for spring:

In some weeks it will be time to plant the vegetables, so now we are finishing the winter crops of leeks, celery and beets ...and we all enjoy the sunny days:

And now back to miniature work!

spring ...

Even in winter time goes fast, March already.

We had a nice sunny winter only the last week we had several days of rain.

I have been working in the garden, working on crochet: I started working on a new Afghan - the other one sold -a colorful ripple Afghan this time.   And also working on an embroidery order:

For the rest just cooking and enjoying home.

We went for a walk with some friends, it is amazing ,only 30 minutes from home but we were in the middle of nature.  It was very nice although I did feel very tired afterwards :)

 Also enjoying the sheep and the lambs: view from my garden, at least this is less tiring :)

Afghan finished

As promised here a picture of the finished Afghan, it is on eBay right now ( http://tinyurl.com/crvyc9j ) : 

I have an embroidery order waiting, but will start a new challenge in crochet soon.

It is almost February and we had not yet much of a winter here, in some weeks spring will officially start here.

The garden is full of winter vegetables: leeks, celery, beets, radishes, onions and salad greens.

Lambs were on the back of our garden and of course we had to cuddle one :)

winter again ...

Since more than a week it is really winter now.  Rainy days, colder - this moment 16C, nights about 8C, what is maybe not bad for you but after all those Months of sunshine it is different...but I am still lucky, when the sun shines we can sit outside in the afternoon all winter.

Any way we had a beautiful rainbow last week, it was a double one but when I came back with my camera the biggest one was fading away fast.

And for my miniature friends:  I wanted to prove for myself I can do a multi colored granny piece, so I started - already some weeks ago now - an Afghan/blanket.
I can work on it outside when the sun shines or evenings when my DH watches television.
In the beginning I really needed to force myself to go on and not give up.  It is not really what I do usual :)
So I called it my exercise of patience.  I am over half of it now. and start having fun making it.
Sometimes it takes me longer to decide about the next color to use than making the next square.
Sorry the picture is a bit blurry, I promise a better one when finished.  I need new batteries for my camera ... the only bad part of living in a very quiet place without having a car: it takes some organisation to do shopping!

Christmas is coming close, so I made some Christmas themed small crochet pieces to put on eBay

http://tinyurl.com/crvyc9j

some tiny star doilies

 a Christmas stocking:  I made some the years before, because I never write down how I make something they are always a little different.  I am very happy with how this one turned out.

A Christmas tree skirt, I wish I had a Christmas tree to make a nice picture 'with tree'

and at last a piece I made last year.  It was a lot of work. I really like it but don't think I will make another one soon :)

My family left, almost a week ago and I am still recuperating.
We had a lot of fun and plans are made to have them back here next year!

climbing the hill:

 End of vacation family portrait:

 and here with our nephew, our private driver:

and just to prove I did work -just a little- a small round table top, I think it sold already...so work is waiting :)

End of August already ... I again I did not Blog  :)

First of all I want to share a picture of my petit point progress,  I love to work on it but had not much time the last weeks.

Last Friday my mother, sister and brother in law arrived at a hotel close to my house.
Because my sis has health problems and they did not know my house they prefered to stay in a hotel and visiting me during the day.  I 'chartered' a friend with car to help us drive around.

Now they have seen  the house and the possibilities the promesses for next year are made already :)
Friday afternoon we picked them up at the hotel and had a very nice visit home.
Saturday morning I would take them from the hotel at about 11h.  When I arrived my mom asked to help because there was a man who wanted to ask me something.
So I got out of the car and started walking to that man who was sitting on a bench filming with his camera.
I found it a bit stupid he was filming me while I crossed the street, thinking 'where am I supposed to know him from' and when I was there he asked me how he could get to the beach ...
The moment I did hear his voice I knew it was my brother!
They made a surprise for everyone.  He and his wife (of 3 years and I never saw before) arrived Friday night and made the same surprise for my mom and sister.  It was really fun.  But of course now we had not enough place in the car to go to the market in Selçuk.
The men decided to go by 'dolmuş'  little busses running between the villages.  For them it was a bit of adventure.
We had a very nice time as you can see on the next picture:

And yesterday my sis and my mom stayed with me while the others went in town...when they were back we had a lot of fun.
It is a long time ago I did laugh so much as I did the last two days!

Ok when you read this Blog I count you as a friend and then I can show you the next picture without being ashamed .... when they came back from the shopping trip to town they had new Tshirts and  ... and no they are not drunk they are always like that LOL

I think I am the only normal in the family :)

So today is a day rest for me: they want to enjoy a day of hotel luxury.
I am sure that before the evening everybody in the hotel will know them!