tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33301586054144648742024-03-13T04:38:46.678+02:00Pretoria ChiqueRiettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.comBlogger192125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-7555914983501035692016-05-15T20:41:00.000+02:002016-05-15T20:41:23.640+02:00The VisitThere was a Mother's morning at Finn's school this week. It was both beautiful and heartbreaking. We sang with them, played with them, painted and had a music class - all of which was pretty spontaneous (chaotic is such a strong word...).<br />
The hardest part was leaving mid morning. Finn's entire class turned into one sobbing mess - ALL of them were in tears.<br />
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Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-13331207138476044722016-04-07T19:59:00.000+02:002016-04-07T19:59:31.758+02:00April<div style="text-align: justify;">
Then it was April. Autumn in Pretoria. Soft light, cool mornings, earlier sunsets. On weekends we recuperate - during the week we work until late at night. This is how it is right now, and we make what we can of it. Finn teaches us many lessons about the world. He is the mirror in which we see so much and yet so little of ourselves.</div>
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Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-45625324192486037122015-12-17T20:43:00.000+02:002015-12-17T20:43:03.985+02:00...and then you were two.<div style="text-align: justify;">
Dearest little boy,</div>
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Where has this year gone? Can it really be your second birthday? You are becoming so much more than what we ever could hope for. You are so intelligent, soft, lively and sweet. We love it that you can say a few words now. You have been the anchor of this little family the past year - you made everything worthwhile, every single day.</div>
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Happy birthday, you amazing human. We love you.</div>
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Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-3372088715960731522015-12-11T20:49:00.000+02:002015-12-11T20:49:59.250+02:00Respek...en eiers<div style="text-align: justify;">
I love the wordplay of this tiny coffee shop in the Moot. They opened on 1 December this year. The interior is strikingly simple and I don't think this shop is much bigger than 40 square metres. It is part of a mixed-use centre (Moulton Centre) with small shops below and apartments on the top floors. We had very good cuppachinos and a delicious, moist carrot cake slice.</div>
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Please go out, explore and pay your respects - the world needs more sweet little spaces such as this one.</div>
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<br />Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-25741490264956571792015-08-23T20:36:00.000+02:002015-08-23T20:37:27.089+02:00Market on Main Pretoria<div style="text-align: justify;">
Snor City got sexy in June this year when the new <a href="http://marketonmain.co.za/" target="_blank"><b>Market on Main</b></a> Pretoria was launched. We went last week to check it out...what an amazing initiative and a great space! The market area is filled with light and the quality of vendors is the same that you would expect at the Jozi version. There is a well-designed outdoor courtyard space with sculptures. This market is also family-friendly with plenty of space for the kids to play and to Finn's enjoyment they also provided scooters (the plastic type for kids).</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.012central.co.za/" target="_blank"><b>012central</b></a>, a <a href="http://www.cityproperty.co.za/" target="_blank"><b>City Property</b></a> initiative, is proud to be involved with the market. City Property is the driving force behind our Capital's urban renewal programme and has invested in bringing people back to the city. By changing the perception of the CBD with partnerships like Market On Main, they want to facilitate reasons to be in the city and to love the city centre again.<u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">DATE: Every Saturday<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">VENUE: 012central, 385 Helen Joseph Street, Pretoria Central<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">PARKING: State Theatre or 216 Sisulu St (cnr Sisulu & Helen Joseph - take the first parking entrance and go up to the second parking level)<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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The kind people from the <a href="http://www.proteahotels.com/fire-and-ice/Pages/protea-hotel-fire-ice-menlyn.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Protea Fire & Ice! Hotel in Menlyn</b></a> treated us last weekend on a night out. And by treated I mean like royalty - complete with dinner and breakfast the following morning. We were transported into a totally different world, one we as parents are definitely not used to anymore. The place was clad with well dressed trend-setters and it seemed like the who's who from the social scene in Pretoria were there.</div>
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We had sun-downers on the deck and watched the autumn sun turning the city into a purple-pink-orange haze. We then had a spectacular dinner - The Husband had a lamb shank and I had the Norwegian salmon on wasabi mashed potatoes. I then absolutely HAD to have their Oreo milkshake, which I couldn't finish. With almost bursting bellies we headed to our room and crashed on our bed. Needless to say there was white linen, otherwise I wouldn't be writing this review...</div>
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We really appreciate the invitation to spend the night and the hospitality of the team (as well as our kind neighbour Lize who offered to babysit Finn). </div>
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Then there was a small holiday at the coast. You loved it so much, little dark-haired boy.Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-51249752972095449122015-03-21T09:54:00.000+02:002015-03-21T09:54:07.324+02:00Fifteen months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our miracle boy.Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-13508475113843514952015-03-14T16:14:00.001+02:002015-03-14T16:15:25.770+02:00Fourteen months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You had your first haircut, your mom almost didn't make it but the hairdresser was awesome about it. She really did a great job: she came out to our house to do it while you played. On the same day you also met Simfox, your granddad's horse. He is a lovely soul and has a velvet-soft nose. You were really infatuated. Your world is getting bigger and bigger my sweet boy.</div>
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Look at you, beautiful boy! You can say a few words like "ta-ta" and "daar's hy (da-dy)". You love talking on the phone, anything that resembles a phone goes to your ear...<br />
Mommy loves your curls and she does not want your hair to be cut until you are at least five.Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-34688600009519846352014-12-20T18:39:00.000+02:002014-12-20T18:39:02.310+02:00One Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<br />Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-8699811565676837132014-11-25T20:20:00.001+02:002014-11-25T20:20:08.394+02:00Eleven Months<img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHwfr0xVs3iw9T1lcPCerX_ZCCrBU3TUs0UumJY-qAm_9z4wKsOWfL3yxe1m4cr4Yo01abWJ7iv_XVkXR4fbjEL_YZ7FNafRKmG5duHRDtTTHmC342yl2oBDaOIgf2J0kc-D6KROZiPdE/s1600/eleven.jpg" /><div style="text-align: justify;">
One of the most beautiful things in this world is to have you in my arms when you fall asleep. To watch you surrender to the tiredness and to feel your breath changing and to see you suckle without anything in your little mouth makes all the wrongs right in my life. It saddens me to think that this is only temporary and that one day (too soon) you will be too big for this. In the meantime I will just soak up all of you in these precious moments.</div>
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Whaaaaaaat?!? Eish I cannot believe...You are ten months old, babe! Look at you - you have six teeth, you are crawling like a little machine and you are so curious about this world. I still have moments where I am left breathless by your beauty. We cannot get enough of you, Finn.Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-4283107162544406622014-09-23T17:00:00.000+02:002014-09-23T17:00:00.963+02:00I'm still hereI scheduled this post - by the time it is published I will hopefully be sound asleep in my hospital bed, with my newly reconstructed boobs. I will have had a double mastectomy and reconstruction - one of the last big hurdles to overcome in my personal fight against this disease.<br />
I want to share a poem that I've been carrying with me for a few years, a poem that tells it like it is, that sums up the loss, the bitter fight, the pain, the scars. Beauty - yes, it exists in the eye of the beholder. It was written by <a href="http://laceupyourgloves.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><b>Jen Hoffman</b></a> in 2008. Unfortunately lost her battle with cancer a few months after this was written.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">like a marred and tattered canvas - i stand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">as if an unfortunate embodiment of an artist's satire</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">formerly known as youth and beauty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">a road map of scars marks the long and winding roads of a journey</span></div>
</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">each one telling unspoken tales</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">and serving as a reminder of an uncertain future</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">the left breast - perfectly sized and eternally perky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">nearly flawless but for the absent nipple</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">and the faded scar sweeping diagonally upwards</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">accompanied by tiny, nearly indiscernible circles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">along the left side of the body where drains once existed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">who had made mistakes - lost her way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">and endeavored desperately to find meaning and hope</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">in what turned out to be the wrong places</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">the taut yet never impeccably flat abdomen seems a figment of the imagination</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">replaced by the still fresh marks left after removing traces of the demon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">and the assurance of children never to be conceived</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">perpetual souvenirs of the ironically life-saving masses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">that screamed for attention and started the whirlwind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">that tested the body and soul once again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">murmurs of a girl in the twilight of her thirties</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">who had taken the road less traveled still learning to heal scars deeper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">than those able to be captured by a photograph or a paintbrush</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">untimely evolution of metabolism and elasticity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">potentially unseen by observers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">all too apparent to the soul that resides in the metamorphosis of the body</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">the alternate voice of these wordless tales spoken by the corporeal road map</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">tells of skin tougher than an ancient elephant's hide and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">brass bound resolve to emerge the victor of each battle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">only the closest observation exposes the eternal flame of hope</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">burning in the eyes that have seen more than they have ever wanted</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">sharing the quietly thunderous roar of faith and life and love with the willing beholder</span></div>
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Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-71576584836810616782014-09-22T20:59:00.000+02:002014-09-22T20:59:24.128+02:00Breaking even<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Oh baby boy, you are becoming such an incredible human being. Lately you are kind of clingy but I secretly love it that you only want your mom at times. You and your dad are best friends...you love it when you two play a bit rougher than what your mom would like. Your laugh is the most beautiful sound on earth. We are so lucky to have you.Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-61692790149813899052014-08-28T20:32:00.002+02:002014-08-28T20:32:42.332+02:00Eight Months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This blurry photo perfectly captures your being right now. You are crawling, baby! You love it so much to discover the world, it makes us look at it with new eyes too. We love your energy, your sense of humour and your strong will. You still love baths but you hate getting dressed. There were also a few blessed nights where you slept right through...keep it up little man.</div>
Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-50280331004639052532014-07-17T20:40:00.001+02:002014-07-23T20:15:40.082+02:00Seven months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Finn,<br />
You bring such a tenderness to this family. We enjoy you so so much. The past two months have been incredibly difficult, yet you manage to light up our darkest days with your beautiful smile.Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-45525114091618117372014-06-21T09:54:00.001+02:002014-06-21T09:54:28.497+02:00Six months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bath-time is your favourite! We love how you enjoy this. Two pearly whites also made their appearance (with all the consequences that involves teething). You can sit on your own and you really like chatting to the dogs. I think they love it too.</div>
Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-41272061303242266232014-05-17T10:34:00.000+02:002014-05-17T10:40:01.052+02:00Five months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Beautiful Boy,<br />
You are getting so big. Each day with you is a total blessing - you have such a sweet and gentle soul. A lot has happened this month - you started to go to daycare and your mom started work again this week. You are such an easy-going little guy, your caregivers call you the "smiling baby". They take such good care of you and I'm sure you enjoy each day as you learn and play. You came down with a fever yesterday and I got totally flustered - this is the first time that you've been sick. And yet you were a little rock star at the doctor - he even said that you are a happy baby. You didn't even cry once and have quite an ear infection and tonsillitis.<br />
We love you more and more.<br />
<br />Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-39288371238867302392014-04-30T11:36:00.000+02:002014-04-30T11:39:37.126+02:00Three years ago...<div style="text-align: justify;">
...we said yes. It was a great great day and I always look back with fond memories. Three years, many adventures, some heartache and a beautiful baby boy later, I'm more and more thankful for this man with his rock-steady personality, his honesty, his patience, DIY-skills, love for his son, eye for detail, and most of all...his love for me. Happy anniversary, my Liefie.</div>
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<br />Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-88989788275615937952014-04-24T19:20:00.001+02:002014-04-24T19:20:03.188+02:00Details:04A visit to the bushveld - the red soil, misty autumn mornings, nature getting ready for winter, the soft light, spectacular sunsets.<br />
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Finn,</div>
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You are four months old - where did the time go? I guess every parent asks that at least once a month. We love you more and more - your friendly face when you wake up, your little screams, how you concentrate to get hold of something and put it in your mouth, your frown (yes, even your frown is beautiful). We love how you are increasingly interested in the things of this world. You are more precious than what we could ever imagine.</div>
Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-46612086003491136442014-03-28T16:45:00.000+02:002014-03-29T15:35:57.849+02:00De Kunst Huisje<div style="text-align: justify;">
We really needed to go away for the past long weekend. We were not quite ready for roughing it with the little one so I looked for a nice bed and breakfast to stay, not too far away from home. We found this little gem in the resort town of Bela-Bela (previously known as Warmbad). The main selling point for us is always white linen. I don't know why most guest houses don't get this.</div>
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<a href="http://www.dekunsthuisje.co.za/" target="_blank"><b>De Kunst Huisje</b></a> is owned and managed by Martin, Yolandé and little Mia. The rooms are very stylish, the atmosphere is relaxed and the service is great. They only opened De Kunst Huisje in December 2013 so this is quite new. I really hope this endeavour will be successful. If you are looking for a weekend getaway, not too far from Pretoria (and not too rustic), this is the place to go.</div>
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Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-79196440307570389412014-03-17T08:50:00.000+02:002014-03-17T08:50:32.713+02:00Three months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Our beautiful little boy,<br />
You reveal a little more of your amazing self every day. You are friendly, yet strong-willed and we love you for that.Riettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749179047874515235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3330158605414464874.post-63476201712522010812014-03-13T19:34:00.000+02:002014-03-13T19:34:25.110+02:00MakingMy mom is a very good seamstress. It was only appropriate that when I graduated, I got a sewing machine from her (incase this architecture thing didn't work out, you know). I'm not that good at sewing - I lack patience and I give up halfway through projects. But once in a while (like in once a year) I dust off the trusty machine and I make something. And I don't understand why I don't do this more often because it's really rewarding. This week (between feeds and burps and battles to sleep) I made two cushion covers for a friend. Off course I also had to photograph it, since the colours and details were so pretty.<br />
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