TREND ACCESSORIES

Nowadays young girls prefer crocheted accessories.

These earrings are for my dear daughters...

They like to wear colored flowers and

also fruits like some cherries.

Do you think to crochet one for yourself ???

These are all for

my dear Angels...

HERE two sisters are having FUN !

Even though they are all grown up, I still sometimes look at them

and see them as cute little girls smiling from ear to ear.

NOW THEY'RE ATTENDING UNIVERSITIES :)

I'd shot a few more photos that week in the past.

Their most serious food incident was eating cake!

I was not expecting any of my photos to be scanned,

but now thinking to take old pictures

in their frames and try to post my page.
Also remembered, my sewing machine had arrived thatday!

I'd got some fabric and thread at Fabrics

when I was in Antalya over the weekend.

YES

that present was a huge step for me!

♥ İSTANBUL...

Know Blue Mosque, in Istanbul ?
Istanbul is a wonderful city and the only one that is divided

over 2 continents, as the Bosphorus separates Asia from Europe.

Most of the old city is in the European part and definatly worth a visit.

The Topkapi museum, the Aya Sofia and the many huge Mosques

are impressive, but also the spice Bazar and grand Bazar are

the perfect places to realize that here 2 world cultures merge.

Do not forget to eat a cheap fresh caught and grilled fish in the harbour

The Blue Mosque was nicknamed so due to the many beautiful

blue mosaic tiles, though not much can be seen on this view.

Entrance is free and though

the Mosque is in use as a prayer room,

also non-muslims are welcome and photos can be taken.

The city is a mix of modern western shops and clothing

with traditional eastern culture.

The sound of the calls for prayers in the morning makes you realize that

Islam is the main religion here,

though for me the sounds are just as curious as

the Christian bells that wake YOU up

elsewhere in the world.

:-) RIGHT ?

LACES - CROCHET PATTERNS...

DO YOU LIKE COLORFUL LACES

OR WHITE ONES

IN YOUR ROOMS ?

HERE YOU FIND SOME PATTERNS...

No lace pattern-books have been found to have been published in Spain.

The needle-made laces which came out of Spanish monasteries in 1830,

when these institutions were dissolved,

were mostly Venetian needle-made laces.

The humble endeavours of peasantry in England

(which could boast of no schools of design),

Germany, Sweden, Russia and Spain

could not result in work of so high artistic pretension as that of France and Flanders.

In the style of the laces made at Venice, Genoa, Ragusa and other places;

these French imitations were to be called " points de France."

By 1671 the Italian ambassador at Paris writes,

" Gallantly is the minister Colbert on his way to bring the

` lavori d'aria' to perfection."

Six years later an Italian, Domenigo Contarini,

alludes to the " punto in aria," " which the French can now do to admiration."

The styles of design which emanated from the chief of the French lace centre.

In the 8th century good lace was made in Devonshire,

but it is only in recent years that to some extent

the hand lace-makers of England and Ireland

have become impressed with the necessity of well-considered designs for their work.

Silk pillow lace making is carried on in Spain, especially at Barcelona.

The patterns are almost entirely imitations

from 18th-century French ones of a large and free floral character.