Christmas in my home already

Enough with the knitting for a while, I am working on a pair of mittens but since the light here seems to have disappeared totally, I'll have to wait with the picture. Instead I'll show you how my home (and my mothers) is slowly getting ready for Christmas!

This is a wreath my mother made for her front door (I keep telling her to have her own blog or at least a flickr...we'll see)

I bought this a couple of weeks ago and liked it so much that I decided to put it up already! These electric "candlesticks" are very common here in Sweden around Christmas time. We usably keep it in the windows to light up the dark afternoons and nights here. What is particular for Christmas time where you live ?

On Sunday the family is getting together to make Christmas decorations and candy. I'll have a lot to blog about next week! I think I'll have a little Christmas party every week here until we leave for Malaysia on the 20th!!!

Currently finished projects

Two currently finished projects are these two I blogged about here
Now they're both finished and I use them all a lot!

this was two self-striping projects and I like stripes!

And here it is on me, finished!

neckwarmer

My first knitting project, I started already in July on our interrail trip around Europe! This is the easiest project ever (and a bit boring). All you have to do is find a pair of suitable circular knitting needles and then you start knitting! Using only the knit stitch. I used three ball of wool for this. This was a perfect knitting project on the train watching the views go by the window and looking at movies on the computer. A good beginners project!

I now use my neckwarmer a lot at work and the pupils think it's a funny "thing" I have around the neck...:-)

The knitting season is here

The knitting season is here
Originally uploaded by Nifty loves crafting

and have been for a while. I've been knitting a lot this season and are still knitting a lot. Even though I never follow a pattern (I can't read them) and mostly make the same things. I now and then need some new inspiration to explore my knitting and take it to another level. Flickr is great for some new inspiration! Here's my latest flickr fav's:

The colours are pretty much the same since the last one I made....

Enjoy your Monday night!

cermaic Tuesday on a Sunday?!

This is a post that should have made it here on Thursday but my computer played some tricks on me...

I'm moving ceramic Tuesday to Thursdays...
These are some new jugs I made in my ceramics class (also made in the same porcelain clay) I think they are perfect for keeping our toothbrushes in...since they are a bit wonky. My teacher says I'll be treasuring these later and I'm not sure what she's talking about!

Next week is going to be all about knitting! see you on Monday!

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