Gifted Gorgeousness April 2018

Jo of Serendipitous Stitching organizes a link-up party where we show stitch gifts we made to give or items that were gifted to us and are related to stitching and sewing.So on the 15th of each month we can link up to her blog. This is my first year taking part in this. Thanks Jo for the chance and the inspiration.

I didn't manage much this month unfortunately. First I finished my monthly flower bookmark by Bucilla which is a kit gifted to me by my friend Marabeth.

 Then I made one more sea glass felted stone to gift to my friend Ruth from Israel who came on a visit in my city. Ruth and I have been penfriends since High School and that was our first meeting.

 I think this one was one of my most favourite stones. Also the wool that I used was from a secret crafter exchange. The buttons and the charms were also gifts from friends.

 Here's Ruth and me in front of the White Tower.You can read her report about her holidays in my city in her blog Reality and Fiction.

 I stitched a bit on my Halloween Happiness. I had won the pattern from Jo's giveaway.Also the fabric was a giveaway win from Brigitte's blog called At Brigitte's Place. The photo does not do justice to the colours as I used flash.In reality it looks much better.

Also I would like to show something else here.This was a handmade gift I purchased from my friend Evangelia of Happy Deck and gifted to my Godson for Easter. A music mobilo as he loves music and he is an excellent pianist.

 And an Easter candle.

A gift to myself was the new issue of craftpod this month again but I haven't started it yet.It has lovely colours and I have an idea what to do.

That's a gift I sent to a lady in Australia. I had put up at Adopt a WIP on facebook another kit to RAK which never reached her so now I am sending her these ones.

Finally the winner of my previous Gifted Gorgeousness Giveaway was Linda from California of 
Stitching with my furbabies and she will receive her pattern soon.

If you want to see more of the blogs that participate in the Gifted Gorgeousness have a look at this link here.Looking forward to seeing what I will manage to stitch, make and gift next month!

Up

This week's word for Our Beautiful World  is

up

and was chosen by Mandy of  A teacup of Scrapisms.
My spirits were high

up

last weekend inspite being down with a cold.
Apart from attending the Teachers' Association Drama Club premiere performance of "Game Over" and cutting the pie with the shadow puppeteers (you can see two previous blog posts), last Sunday we also visited my best friend as it was my Godson's birthday!

We had a great time!

Nature all around their place is so beautiful.

Look at all these photos.

I couldn't keep myself from looking

up

in the sky,

so blue so beautiful.

 And the trees blooming thinking it is spring!

 My Godson played the piano for us too and it was great listening to him! Music lifts you

up

 You,too, can link your own blog with a theme about the word "up" in Our Beautiful World!

Dyed eggs!

On Holy Thursday the Greek Orthodox dye their eggs for Easter.
This year I dyed some in pastel colours and some using silk threads.
Here are my results.
First I bought white eggs from the local food open market.

 I bought a packet of dyed silk threads(one euro) and a packet of liquid egg paints(one euro).

 First you wet the eggs and then lay them in some threads. I tried to make some in certain colours by dividing the threads. But some I made in various colours. Then you wrap the egg and threads in aluminum foil and boil for 20 minutes.

 When I opened them they looked like that. Those I liked I kept, the rest I dyed with the liquid paints too.

 Here's the result.

 And here are the ones I dyed with the liquid egg paints only. Red, orange,green, blue and yellow. My favourite? Yes the blue. I also gave  a try to nail polish dyeing of eggs(the blue and orange one was the only one I made as I wasn't happy with the results.And we really want to eat the eggs.)

I also sketched on some of the eggs.

 And am going to keep my favourite turquoise and purple thread dyed one.

And today we paid a visit to my best friend whose son is my Godson. It is a custom for the Godmother to bring gifts to her Godchild. As my Godson is having a Harry Potter attraction at present I bought him two of the books and made him an Easter candle with a Harry Potter keyring!

We played with their pets.

 As they live out of the city we took the chance to walk a bit around the countryside too!

 And we left with a lovely bouquet of lilacs and wild flowers along with....

 a tsoureki(traditional sweet bread of Easter) and eggs and chocolate eggs.

I would like to wish you all the best for Easter! Have a great weekend!