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

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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!

After finishing a 'long term' order I am finally free to work on what I choose.
And as it is still summer I like to sit outside in the garden, even the evenings.
So I decided to start a BIG petit-point carpet.

I started the design on the 15th of August and I only worked of and on on the piece .
My social life was quiet busy the last weeks, or should I say 'I finally have a social life again'?

The carpet is a challenge, it will be big!  About 7-1/2'' wide and about 11'' long
I made a little more than half of the first (small) border.  The larger border next to it will have a dark blue background and to finish I will also make a dark blue border all around:

I hope I will not give up on this one.
We have a 10th. update in the petit-poıinters group, I will try to update here also regularly.

And just for fun some pictures of our garden:
Mid summer daily harvest:

And two things you have to give your husband: water and fire :)

Hedgehog spotted!

Just some days ago I wrote I hoped to see a hedgehog ... and tonight my cats did discover one :)

Lucky discovered the hedgehog and did learn not to touch!

He looked a bit scared but escaped safely under my tomato plants!

I loved the visit!  I don't know why but I always loved hedgehogs.,
Once as a kid I had one as a pet for quiet a long time ... now I feel totally home here :)

summer!

Nobody told me the days would be much shorter after retirement :)
I was not as much on the loom as I hoped for, but I have been working on a 'stitching order', making some new crochet pieces for my weekly eBay AND working in my garden!

fire screen, stitched petit point, an order  to go with one of my carpets

Usual I put pictures of the tomatoes and other veggies, so here a picture of some of the flowers!

my DH and our cat ... and as you can see I have been stitching in the garden ...

one of the critters in my garden

I took several pictures of animals I see here, luckily for me I was not around when the first scorpion in the garden was killed, and I was already asleep when the cat brought her first snake home :)

So here some pictures of nicer meetings in my garden:

the tortoise was just outside of the garden.

Still hoping to see a hedgehog ... they say there are some around

And finally a picture of our second cat Lucky:

both cats love it here, I think maybe even more than we do LOL

 

Spring was short and Summer seems to have arrived here already.
It is more than 30 C  for the third day in a row!

Here a picture from some spring visitors in our garden:

I have been working in the garden, in fact making a garden, for the last Month.
But because I need help it is not yet finished...
I hope tonight or at least tomorrow night the last part of the hard work will be finished  so that I can start growing flowers and some vegetables.

Minneke Poes loved to sit on the earth, between the lavender plants:

And now back to my loom, and to show you I am still working, this is the wool carpet I am working on this moment: