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Today I had some bad luck handling usually rather innocent equipment: an SDcard, a reader and my laptop. Somewhere along the way things went very wrong, because instead of importing my pictures my iPhoto crashed, and the data turned out to be corrupted (the camera couldn’t read most photos anymore, and my laptop gave I/O errors while trying to read the card). Rather sucky, because ofcourse I hadn’t imported my pics for months and now all seemed lost.

Luckily we have been able to recover some of the corrupted pictures, albeit some with more erm, creative colours….

Extra interesting: the blue one was pink in its original format, after downsizing it turned blue O_o

In de boom achter ons huis zitten regelmatig een paar groene parkieten. Er zitten ook wel duiven, spreeuwen, mussen, zwaluwen en wat je verder in Amsterdam zou verwachten, maar die parkieten zijn in het bijzonder gemeen tegen de katten.

Zodra ze merken dat ze Izzie’s (of Tijger’s) aandacht hebben gaan ze uitgebreid zitten kwetteren en hun collega-parkieten erbij roepen. Binnen no time zitten ze dan met z’n vijven of zessen de kat uit te lachen: “Na na nana na, je kan er lekker toch niet bij!”. Rotbeesten! Maar wel erg grappig

In het onderstaande album tevens 2 plaatjes van Izzie in attackmode, let op de grote ogen

For my birthday I’ve spent the money I got as a present (plus some of my own) on a very fancy lock machine. It’s actually a coverlock machine, meaning it does regular ‘locking’ (or ’serging’ for the Americans out there) and can also be converted into a cover machine for stretchable single or double seams without the fabric being cut off. So far I’ve used it mostly for (very, yay) quickly cutting+finishing edges so I could move on to putting my project together a lot sooner than before

By the way the mechanics of these machines are truly amazing, I spent hours figuring how these lock stitches are created by the various loopers and needles (ofcourse you can also look it up on Wikipedia but believe me, it’s not the same as seeing it in action)

From Habbie I got a very bright daylight lamp so I can still see what I’m doing at night, plus a ton of small sewing goodies such as a box to store all my spools, a ‘bobbin saver’ and spare needles which came in handy right away as I had just broken one of my current ones while repairing his pants

Anyhow, I’m now all set for years of sewing creativity \o/

Someone made a plan to create your own (paper) ceilingcat. Obviously we needed one for the office

Later I made a bigger one in colour, sorry for the poor picture quality:

Last friday evening I finally finished the scarf for Habbie that I’d been working on since finishing the previous one. It took so long because I didn’t really knit on a regular basis, I basically rediscovered it a few times I’m putting off my next knitting project for about a month, since I’d like to try something from a pattern and the summer books aren’t out yet. For the time being I’ll entertain myself with some more sewing projects.

Today I made a blue string purse according to my plan. That is, not entirely, since I haven’t been able to find a suitable rope for the straps yet. For now the UTP works fine though I made a minor modification to the pattern so the bag would be a bit less flat which turned out nicely.

Since I plan to post crea-projects more regularly from now on I’ve added a section for this in my gallery: if you go one level up from the link below you’ll get to the other crea stuff, among which H’s scarf