stitching & baking

I have to admit that I'm not able to just relax when I'm ill.

I always wake up early in the morning because my head is full with ideas.

I try to spend most of the day on the sofa but I really HAD to make some new cookies.

I made some yummy cinnamon cookies a few weeks ago and I was lusting for chocolate chip cookies. I found a recipe which should be the best chocolate chip cookies ever if you believe the new york times.

The cookies tastes really nice but I was hoping to find a recipe for cookies where the inner is still soft.

Maybe do you know a recipe which you can share with me ?

Beside cookie making I have always some hand stitch stuff next to me on my sofa.

The ducklings are so fun to make but very time consuming.

I worked more than 2 1/2 hours on the stitching with the duckling & hedgehog so I won't be able to make a lot of them.

Being organised is very important when you don't want to waste time.

I like my embroidery yarn all together in a box sorted by colors. I even made those cardboard things myself.

I really needed to add some buttons on my newly made pillow covers. Gladly I own a lot of fun and colorful vintage ones.

Of course I sort these by colours too .

Mie is not impressed by all my hard work. She prefers to sleep on a "new" cardbox.

ducklings again

While we visited mr. artistic parents for christmas I took some craft stuff with me.  I discovered my love for appliqué again.

I started making appliqué bags in 2006 and I stoped making these bags when I started with the dolls.

I'm still a bit "rusty" so I started with a little bunny for mr. artistics niece. It's a simple H&M shirt but with the bunny it's now a unique garment.

(little Hoppel)

Around 5 years ago I planed to make a bag collection called "musical ducklings". Sadly I never finished the collection so I made only 5 duckling bags.

While mr. artistic was sick and I was borred I came up with idea to make "circus duckling" bags. I just finished two of them and you can find the i phone/ i pod touch bags in my shop.

(duckling bags)

You can find more pictures of the bag on etsy.