the week through the lens

It has been on the back burner, I have not been taking a lot of photos for a while now, and that should change. Every time, it touches me in a special way, as I wander and have the camera ready be it in the kitchen, or living room, or the garden... this enables me to see with new eyes and I like it.
We will see if it sticks, it is a start to a new friday review of what caught my eye. There is to be said, that I was inspired by erin boyle and her blog "reading my tea leaves". She does a wonderful job and it is so inspirational to have a look at her photos...

:: 1. Christ rose, so pretty to look at. We have a few plants and some were in bloom even before
        Christmas.

:: 2. It felt like the most snow this winter, fell on thursday.

:: 3. The house concert, once more wonderful music and a house filled with friends.

:: 4. Lemon curd, whipped creme and merengue. It was the first time I made lemon curd...

:: 5. Monday evening was my first meeting at the town hall.

the week through the lens

It has been on the back burner, I have not been taking a lot of photos for a while now, and that should change. Every time, it touches me in a special way, as I wander and have the camera ready be it in the kitchen, or living room, or the garden... this enables me to see with new eyes and I like it.
We will see if it sticks, it is a start to a new friday review of what caught my eye. There is to be said, that I was inspired by erin boyle and her blog "reading my tea leaves". She does a wonderful job and it is so inspirational to have a look at her photos...

:: 1. A week in the snowy mountains, it's one of last weeks pictures I still savor.

:: 2. She loved it too and learned so much.

:: 3. The knitting got some good going as we had two days of high winds, when no lifts were running.

:: 4. Such spectacular evening skies, we get them frequently (I guess they make up for now snow)

:: 5. On Wednesday was Kiwi jam day.

the week through the lens

It has been on the back burner, I have not been taking a lot of photos for a while now, and that should change. Every time, it touches me in a special way, as I wander and have the camera ready be it in the kitchen, or living room, or the garden... this enables me to see with new eyes and I like it.
We will see if it sticks, it is a start to a new friday review of what caught my eye. There is to be said, that I was inspired by erin boyle and her blog "reading my tea leaves". She does a wonderful job and it is so inspirational to have a look at her photos...

:: 1. our neighbors in the morning (taken by Joel) 

:: 2. winter without snow

:: 3. In our front yard, the Yasmin is in full bloom

:: 4. Some wonderful bush in bloom, in our friends front garden.

:: 5. Winters evening sun in our kitchen, I still love the lace knit "curtains" from my mother in law.

the granny square quilt

 I'm very happy to finish up this granny square quilt. The piecing of the top was done seven years ago, in the summer of 2013. The back, the following winter and then it rested an other two years until I "sandwiched" it. Last summer on our trip to the dolomites, between hiking and climbing and just beeing, I managed to bind it and in the past two weeks, there was the machine quilting and finally the tying together (by hand stitching) done. It turned out lovely and I'm pleased with the color scheme of those squars, put together, kind of random, but not totally.

I'm not a very productive and quick quilter, it takes time and energizes me at the same time. And it fills me with joy, looking at the finished quilt. It is no masterpiece, but it still amazes me, what one is able to do with scraps and some old bed sheets as well as a bit of craftyness.

thank you Amos for helping me with displaying the quilt and Joel for taking the photos... It was a rather windy sunday afternoon, just before the rain came down!

The back ist put together of rather old curtains, which I got from my mother in law, thank you E.