No, not really, it is just that we had a few heat waves here in South Africa (I’m in Pretoria) and then we switched back to cold days with 4 days of raining/drizzling, expecting to continue for a few more days. I’m not complaining although it is cold, I love rainy weather. I have been… Continue reading “Back to winter?”
Yes, summer is here or have been here for a few weeks already and boy, it is HOT!! Currently we are in the mids of a heat wave. Every day we have the clouds building up with promises and then the wind blows the clouds way out of our area. We need rain desperately, pray… Continue reading “Summer is here full force”
O my word, I don’t like the cold! Although I’m a winter baby (born in July) I seriously do not like winter time. I hate all the layers of clothes and icy hands, if you catch my drift. Winter freezes my craft mojo (well, not entirely but most of it). My hands are too cold… Continue reading “Hide everybody, winter is here!”
How are you all? Crafting away with not enough time in the day? Well, my daughter and I (and do not forget hubby and son) are always trying something new. Should something like crochet for my daughter and me (and sometimes son), or woodwork projects for hubby and son tickles our fancy, we will go… Continue reading “Every day something new”
Greetings to you. Today I will post photos of the beautiful work done by Desiree Coetzee of Tsitsikamma. She has embroidered the Pink Delight design from Di van Niekerk. I always love Desiree’s work, she followed the instructions Di has posted on Twitter. Contact me (Monica) at lapenlintborduurgenot@gmail.com should you want the instructions (5 chapters).… Continue reading “So beautiful”
Hope you are all well after the long weekend. My husband and I were treated by our friends for an outing to Parys (Free State) where my husband got to tick off one item on his bucket list, he went white river rafting. I tried quad biking, it did not go so well, I just… Continue reading “Outing with friends”
I have so many WIP’s (work in progress) and yet, I’m still stacking up on them. My latest craze is cross stitch. I haven’t cross stitched for many years and suddenly it’s all I want to do. I am now neglecting my ribbon embroidery. I have lots of other work to keep me busy with,… Continue reading “Cross stitch”
My goodness, what a crazy time I had. I told you previously about the order I filled with embroidering t-shirts for a pre-school. The front of each shirt took 25 minutes at 650s/s to complete after which I had to clean it up (cutting all the loose threads and removing the water soluble fabric as… Continue reading “Not done yet….”
I have been working on filling some orders this week. This gave me an opportunity to record some video footage of my machine doing it’s thing. The machine is embroidering a design of a fairy onto a golf shirt for a client. I accept single and bulk orders, this would normally include digitizing (however, should… Continue reading “Machine Embroidery”