COWMICS ...

HERE ARE SOME CROSS STITCH EMBROIDERY PATTERNS

that I received as gifts.

Also make some beautiful cross stitch creations with the booklets!

YOU MAY TRY THESE COWS,ROSES,DOILIES!

ENJOY VARIOUS KINDS OF X-WORK PATTERNS ...

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.

MY OWN...

These are all my own projects.

I've made them for my dear daughters - As usual :)

THEY NEED TO WEAR

ASSORTED FOR 365 DAYS IN A YEAR!

FROM THEIR MUMMY'S MENU...

You may try them all and

give me new ideas in your blogs ...
I knitted two of them (4th-10th)

but the others were crocheted.

I'll give the bigger pictures soon.

I hope you'll see all the details there.

The numbers of the loops are all my alternatives.

SOFT SHAWL...

So Soft, So Sweet!

MY SHAWL

** POFUDUK**

Talk about Knitting...

you need to enjoy this favorite hobby.

I AM SO GLAD, I DID!

I KNITTED THIS BLACK SHAWL IN COMFORT.

AND WONDERED, LIKED MY MODEL BOBO?

THIS BLACK SHAWL

IS MY LAST PROJECT !

IT IS BEING KNITTED TWO RECTANGLES

YOU'LL SEE WHERE I FOUND IT, IN SMALL PATTERN

AND NAMED BY ME "POFUDUK" :)

EASY TO KNIT BY USING NEEDLES "7"

WANT TO TRY ONE ?

Have a perfect day!

CROCHETED CARDIGANS...

THIS IS MY FAVORITE

I LIKE TO CREATE CARDIGANS AND BLOUSES

HAVE TOU TRIED CROCHETING AT HOME?

This cardigan was created by me. I used cotton yarn.

First I crocheted "flowers" then continued...

AND OTHERS...

SOME CROCHET TECHNIQUES FOR YOU...

Crocheters can create a finished edge on their work that makes

their projects more professional and finished looking.

Additionally, finishing the edge of an crocheted piece that will be

appliqued onto another, as in the case of Amigurumi faces,

will help to hide the thread and stitches used to applique those pieces.

The technique is quite simple and once you see it,

you will wonder why you hadn't thought of it.

ENVIRONMENT...

GIANT SEA SPIDERS FOUND...

WANT TO LEARN"MORE" FROM THE SCIENTISTS?

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/news/animals-news/australia-spider-apvin.html

HAPPY WOMAN'S DAY :))

GLOBAL MESSAGE FOR EVERYONE!

EDUCATION WILL CHANGE OUR LIVES.

International Women's Day On March 8th,

women around the world speak out about women's rights,

injustices and other issues facing them today.

This year, the 30th anniversary of International Women's Day,

focuses on violence against women.

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What Do Women Want?

I want a red dress.

I want it flimsy and cheap,

I want it too tight,

I want to wear ituntil someone tears it off me.

I want it sleeveless and backless,

this dress, so no one has to guess what's underneath.

I want to walk down the street past

Thrifty's and the hardware store

with all those keys glittering in the window,

past Mr. and Mrs. Wong selling day-old donuts in their café,

past the Guerra brothers slinging pigs

from the truck and onto the dolly,

hoisting the slick snouts over their shoulders.

I want to walk like

I'm the only woman on earth and I can have my pick.

I want that red dress bad.

I want it to confirm your worst fears about me,

to show you how little

I care about you or anything except what I want.

When I find it, I'll pull that garment from its hanger

like I'm choosing a body to carry me into this world,

through the birth-cries and the love-cries too,

and I'll wear it like bones, like skin,

it'll be the god damned dress they bury me in.

by Kim Addonizio.

This one's pretty self-explanatory..

KNOW MELTEM'S STORY?

**Locked up for being a teenage refugee**

What kind of society detains young people simply for trying

to escape torture and abuse in their own country?

Natasha Walter on the shocking story of her story.

http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,2265321,00.html

MOVIES ...

THE PATRIOT - MEL GIBSON

I like this movie too.

About a guy in the Revolutionary War.

Who makes really weird facial expressions when he runs in slow motion...

In Britain's American colonies,

the cry goes out for freedom as the air from Lexington

to the Carolinas burns hot with powder smoke and

cannon fire. But Benjamin Martin has had his fill of war.

A veteran of the fierce French and Indian conflict,

he has renounced fighting forever, retiring to his South Carolina farm

to raise his motherless children in peace.

Now the war has found his hiding place,

bringing its senseless cruelty back into his life and destroying

what he holds most dear.

And Benjamin Martin must take up arms

to fight again-to lead a makeshift army of brave farmers

and craftsmen against a relentless, overwhelming enemy

-in the blessed cause of liberty...and blood vengeance.

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PEARL EARRING...

I watched a film yesterday.

"GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING"
It was the story of a famous painting.

Poor young girl !
Was all that she wanted being a model ?
But it was impossible to escape some dirty thoughts around her…
She felt a terrible pain when the painter pierced her ear!
A jealous wife.. and they were all lonely !
Did he only paint the Picture for Money ?
Who sent her the pearl earrings at the end?
Have you ever watched this film?

MITTENS-EASY TO USE ...

PINK FOR KNITTING

AND FOR CROCHETING black mittens.
Do you need a new pair of black ones?
If your answer is "YES" - Just crochet them tonight,

45 chains were enough for it.

Did you like them?