Category Archives: Travel
Hiking
I went hiking! We have a family member visiting from the States, so we went for a hike at my favorite spot in the mountains. It’s a 2 hour drive from home to a hotel called Champange Castle Hotel and a 5 mile (8km) return hike to the waterfall. I love staying in this […]
Buzy Day February 2015
Poncho
Crochet part II As I was writing last week’s post I started crocheting a little poncho for my husband secretary daughter whom will be turning 2 soon. Can you believe it? It feels like yesterday that she was born, check this post. I found this quick and easy crochet poncho pattern from a blog “Le […]
Meet Bella
Crocheting part I While I was nursing my injured shoulder I crocheted a little bit. On my last trip to the States we visited a town called Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Here I found this lovely toyshop, they had these crochet dolls for sale made from cotton, I decided I was going to make one. Back […]
More fabric …..
In Hungary outside Budapest, about a 45 minute train ride on a Russian built train through the country side is a town called Szentendre. Here I found this shop that sells blue-dyed products called Kovács Kékfestő. The fabric and products that are sold here are made according to traditional methods. It was started by the […]
I’m back!
Well I’m back from an amazing holiday. I will give you a quick overview of my European holiday or my “white Christmas”. Our holiday started a few days before Christmas when we drove up to Johannesburg, this is a 5hr drive to our international airport were we met up with friends that were joining us, […]
What a trip!
Sorry I didn’t blog last week, as I was in New York to meet my son’s fiancé and family! What a trip! My head is still spinning around! I’m not sure if its “jet lag” or the amazing few days I have had with my family! We had the whole family together! What joy! All […]
Buzy Day May 2014
Travelling around!
Not much crafting on this side of the world! We have been travelling around, just a little knitting now and again! We met up with our oldest son for a couple of days in Cape Town, he flew in from London. So needless to say lots of eating and drinking was done! One of the days […]