I don't do much with communities. I'm not on hyves, livejournal or facebook. Sometimes I feel like I'm missing something when all my friends talk about what someone-or-other has posted on their facebook, which I don't get to read. On the other hand I really don't feel the need to be found (by all your grace school friends! Yay...) on such a site or comply to their rules of 'web design'. I'm happy with my own blog which is one of the first hits on Google if you Google me.

However, some weeks ago (or was it days?) I found a community that I do like. Cut Out + Keep, a community of crafters. A place to post your crafting projects and howto's and when you followed a howto of someone else you can link your version to theirs. It has all kinds of projects from beauty (make-up, hairdo, nail art) to baking, crocheting and sewing. You can send messages to others, 'befriend' people, leave comments on projects, add projects to your favorites list, make lists of projects you'd like to do etc.

The whole interface seems a bit wonky from time to time, not showing profile-edits immediately or my avatar. However, I still like the idea enough to put up with that (and it probably is a hobby project since you don't have to pay for it).

I already posted two versions of my own: Plattie the Platypus and wool dread falls. When I think about it I can find lots of other projects in my house that deserve to be photographed and put up there. Like the cat tree we made, our toilet door, the cd rack in the kitchen, the pimped sahara tent etc.

It's not about your life, your cat, whatever but about sharing creativity with each other. I like that.

Another weekend without plans has come and gone. Delightful. Spent the Saturday shopping and sorting my beads into the new box I got for them. Geez, I have a lot of beads for someone who doesn't really do anything with them. (They're just so shiny!)

On Thursday I had rolled some felt dreads from purple and pink wool and Saturday I put them onto a hair clip. Instant dreads. I also adjusted the shoulder straps of my vest so the whole thing would fit better but didn't finish it before watching t.v. in the evening. Matthijs worked on his coat a good part of the day and the Sunday too. So there's progress at last!

On Sunday we had a nice breakfast with fresh orange juice, buns and boiled eggs and after that went into the sewing room again. Matthijs worked on his coat and I finished my vest. It's cute! After that I painted butterflies onto a sweater. One of the butterflies is hiding a BisonTix stain, the whole reason for the 'pimping'. I also made a very cute platypus cuddly toy, from the pattern you find here. Just because I can.

In the evening I combined a recipe for 'kruidnoten' with some old left over 'amandelspijs' into 'gevulde speculaas'. It was very yummy and there's still some left.
I just love crafting!

• Going to Jozeph (musical) on Friday
• sewing a new balfolk skirt on Saturday
• baking pie for the Noabers folk night
• dancing at the balfolk
• more sewing; finally a start on the mock-up for Matthijs' winter coat and a vest (gilet) for me
• listening to the new CD of the Gonnagles
• 5 minute chocolate cake (look for the comment from Alice on the 11th of April 2009, she has the right measurements)
• pancakes, my favourite food
• watching t.v., Criminal Minds and Law and Order
• sleep, zzzz.

We planned the Sunday free to work on Matthijs' new winter coat, for which we already have the pattern cut out and the fabric in a box, however we ended up tidying the hobby room instead.

It all started with the livingroom being littered with empty banana boxes which we used to transport our larp stuff for Lex in. We thought we might put some stuff from the hobby room into boxes and ended up rearranging most of the stuff in the room.

That's all a good thing because Jojo and her boyfriend will be staying here next Saturday after the Noabers balfolk night and they'll be sleeping in that room. There's actually space free for their bed now.

Still, Matthijs' winter coat isn't really progressing. Let's just hope it gets finished before spring. I was planning to work on a little vest made out of tie-and-dye fabric to match a skirt I made, but that didn't happen either. Ah well, better luck some other time.

Sometimes it's the small things that make you feel good. Like finally replacing the handle of your car door (which broke off one time when the door was frozen shut) and the broken outer mirror (vertical breakline just off-center) by a new one. Of course after the boyfriend has gone to the junkyard to get the spare parts. He got the parts, we fixed them together.