St. Nicholas Day

In Germany St. Nicholas Day is a big thing: Children put out a (well polished) shoe outside their home on the eve of St. Nicholas Day, hoping to find candy or a small gift or both in it the very next morning.

Today is St. Nicholas Day. And of course this year, as every year, we were St. Nicholas was well prepared to fill J‘s sneaker.

Now try to imagine how M and I felt when we found wrapped little gifts in our (!) shoes too! Here’s what I had:

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I guess that answers the question I have been asking myself whether J still believes in Santa Claus and the like … Kind of sad, I know – he’s growing up waaaaay too fast – but you should have seen him this morning, beaming with delight that he had been able to surprise us.

To quote Martin Luther: – “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” 🙂

A wonderful St. Nicholas Day to all of you out there!

Pompom Advent Calendar

It’s not too late for an Advent Calendar (yet). Here’s what Pip came up with:

I’m making one pompom every day of December! I’m hanging them from a stick. I found this stick in the park. As I crossed the road to get the stick, a taxi driver yelled at me… If he’d known I was going to get a stick he wouldn’t have been so fresh, right? Sheesh.

Anyhoo. Maybe this is something you might want to do at your place too? A pompom every day? With a stick? Without a taxi driver?

So easy and cute, right?

Festiveasaurus Rex!

x Pip

Don’t you just love that?!

Babyblanket — CrochetAlong

The babyblanket is coming along nicely. Another 10 rows, finally the edging and we’ll be done.

Crazy to think about it.

Even though we only started in mid October it feels like I have been in this forever. We had tulips, and granny stripes, and bobbles (single- and two colored); we had the spike stitch as well as the star stitch. All in all, 110 rows in the colors of the rainbow. To make up the pattern, to write the instructions was a lot of fun (even though more sophisticated, more complex than I thought it would be).

This is where we got last Friday:

Babyblanket Babydecke Crochet AlongIf you’re interested in looking at everyone else’s beautiful blankets have a look at my Facebook account.

Last night, I finished the “prototype,” the archetypal blanket. Like I said: Crazy to think about it …