It’s December.

It’s time to put our advent calender to use.

It’s 24 days till Christmas… !!!

It’s also time to slow down, to share and give.  I’m preparing some stuff for the charity event in Vilnius (Lithuania) and thinking how lucky I’m. We’re…

Think of somebody, pass some good to them.

And enjoy your life. Again and again.

Those linen booties and crock stitching in my previous post where both copied from ever so inspiring Japanese craft magazines/books.

Here are a couple from my stash:

For my sweet baby ISBN4-07-246385-x

I’ve bought mine here but you can try other places. Some more pictures: here and here.

Next up it’s one of my favourites:

Heart warming life series – Idees special ISBN978-4-529-04493-6

Found a good site with quite a few Japanese craft books reviews in it. Have fun!

Two people made a little precious person and I made a little welcome gift for them/him.

Linen/cotton/wool filling. Mushroom toy has a squeaker…to hopefully entertain…

Some more of those little things to come.

This pencil case will not be up for sale, but still hope it will be for someone. Don’t know for who yet…

it’s finished. But I haven’t quite decided what it is gonna be for… ‘sigh’. Well, originally it was meant to be a placemat for my older son, but I’ve changed my mind. And my boy doesn’t mind it (as long as it’s going to be something for him). So, I’m still thinking. Once I’ve completed this project I’ll let you know. It might take a while though… But for now lets have a look

Some of you might have recognized, I’ve borrowed my picture from this beautiful book. Delphine Durand is one of our very favourite illustrators and if you don’t know her yet – here, yep, she is fantastic. And those stories she illustrates… eh! I only wish there would be more (all) of her books in English.