New Years Resolutions 2016

I made some last year! But I didn't even blog about them.And I didn't manage to realise them all !
These were my 2015 resolutions.

 1. Learn how to use my sewing machine.

2. Refresh my driving skills!

3.Cross stitch more!

4.Read more than last year!
5. Keep off the computer!
6.Watch more movies!
7. Try to drink more water!
8.Declutter more!
9. Paint the house!
10. Keep more positive and optimistic!

I managed numbers 4,7,8 and 10.

What about 2016?
Some are the same as the previous ones and some are new ones!

1. Learn how to use my sewing machine!
2. Refresh my driving skills.
3.Cross stitch more!
4. Keep up the reading challenge!
5.Make more handicrafts and use up my supplies!
6. Paint the houses!
7. Relax a bit more!
8. Be punctual with answering my mail and e-mail!
9.Travel a bit!
10. Keep positive and optimistc and stop nagging!

Let's see how many of those I will manage to realise!

(Photos of shadows and light games during rehearsals!)

Learning how to crochet!

In the beginning of January I had blogged about my New Year's Resolutions.

No 2 was to learn how to crochet!

I didn't know how I was going to do that but it has been some years now that I wanted to learn how to crochet. I think ever since finding Lucy at Attic24 and following her and some other crochet blogs!

I had made various efforts to learn from the Internet and I had made a couple of things but I really didn't know what I was doing. Crochet language and symbols were a mystery code to me!

Finally the chance came when one of my new Etsy Greek Street Team friends Vivika of 

The Wandering Deer was teaching amigurumi/crochet at Peirama, a great place to learn various skills.

So I joined in to a five week course every Wednesday. It was fun! We were only three beginners in crochet and that gave Vivika the time to help us learn well.

Here's what we learnt to make.

First and after learning how to choose yarn we learnt the basic stitches. 

  Vivika reassured us that we would be able to make those little animals by the end of the course. I didn't believe her!

 And this is the first thing we made, a bow.

I made the pink one during the lesson!

 And then made another one at home and then turned them into brooches.

Second lesson! How to make a little fish!!!! No way!

 We started!

 Slowly!

 I made it!

I made one at home too!

Third lesson! Make an owl! Really?

Mine is the pink one! It became rather bigger than the model!

 All owls together!

Fourth lesson! Learn to make hearts and try a bigger project! I chose a cute elephant!

The hearts.

The elephant! As it didn't finish in that one lesson hubby said it looked more like Morfonios, a Greek shadow puppet figure! He was right!

 What a funny creature!

Anyway you looked at it!

Even Barca found it strange!

I then made more hearts which I stitched with beads and attached them to pairs of stork scissors.

 And gave them to Vivika and my companions in crochet at a meeting after the final lesson!

At that meeting Elephantine made her first appearance!

Elephantine met Snowy at that meeting too!

I am really happy that I learnt the basics of crochet! Hoping to find more time to crochet I am eager to make more things!Thank you Vivika!

New Year's Resolutions

Don't we all make?

Do you ever manage to keep them?

I try but do not always succeed.

2014 new year's resolutions for me are:

1. Refresh my driving skills and drive our new car!

2. Learn how to crochet!

 (I said this last year too and I made some effort and learnt a couple of things myself  from the Internet but need to continue)

3. Be more on time with answering my e-mails and mail!

4. Start doing cross stitch again!

(2013 wasn't a very good cross stitch year!)

5. Make lots of felted beaded stones.

6. Travel, travel, travel!

7. Organize my time, my day, my space better!

8. Keep off the computer as much as I can!

(I really don't know how this is possible!)

Photos that accompany this blogpost show my beaded felted stones that during the months of November and December were either given away as gifts or sold.You can still find some at thalasseaglass, my little shop.

New Year's Resolutions!

Hello everyone! Happy New Year!I have been following blogs for the last three years.I have been reading them, enjoying them and getting inspired by them. So it has been a long time now that I wanted to start my own. It was one of my New Year's Resolutions that I will start a blog in 2011. So here it is...I hope you will enjoy it and I hope I will enjoy it!