preparations for October

This last day of September 

makes me look back 

and wonder where all that September went ...

I remember now

and one of the best things was definately that 

big red moon 

that kept me out of bed,

it was fascinating and magical !

This picture hardly shows how wonderful it really was  :-)

But the last day of September also means

that tomorrow is 

October

and my fifth Blogaversary !

But more important for me is another

Pink Ribbon

October

Just like last year's October I want to dedicate

a whole month to breast cancer awareness.

This year I will not draw a daily mandala like I did last year

but :

there will be a little felted item you can buy
 and so donate to the Pink Ribbon fund,

money that is needed for research, treatment and aftercare
of breast cancer patients.

You probably now (by now) that felting

is a rather wet business

which means I have to work in advance

to have a new (finished = embroidered) object for each and every day !

So I did some work already
(and have to do that again to keep gettng items ready to finish off !)

(See you tomorrow at the start of
Pink Ribbon October, day 1)

BETTER !

These last two weeks have been very, very busy ...

but the best part is :

our dearest loved-one is on the way to recovery,

getting better by the day

a true miracle

We were very happy that we could celibrate

"Sinterklaas" as we would normally have done :

presents for the children

and a present with a funny poem

for the grown-ups 

(just like it should be)

(there's a great explanation about Sinterklaas here) 

All this, left no time (or desire) for blogging

just reading a bit ... 

and no big stitching, felting or knitting projects either.

Though the funny knitting book I got as a present

on the 5th of December gave enough little things to try !

An acorn, a fly fungus and .... yèk :  a slug ... (on granddaughter's request)

I don't like one as big as this in my garden

(wouldn't pick it up either !!!)

But the book is really fun

*

There's still a pair of socks with the same yarn as the Baktus skarf,

but also little progress on those :

still the first one ...

(we plan to visit the last Stitch'n Bitch for this year

on Saturday : knitting time then !)

*

Hopefully things will be getting back to normal soon,

but it left us all very much aware how precious life is, so

celibrate every day !

And for those of you who will be in the right place :

enjoy the lunar eclipse on Saturday