Today started not as good as the title suggests. My walk around the park was nice, but during grocery shopping the bottom fell out of my bag of apples at the counter and after that all kinds of other stuff started just escaping from my hands and falling. Since I overreacted to most happenings (welcome, monthly hormones) I decided that today would be a bad day to spend behind the sewing machine. The thing is buggy at best; not transporting properly at random times and can really get on my nerves.

So, how did this day end up to be a good day? Well, after having breakfast in the back yard in the sun and reading a nice book ('Gnole' by Alan Aldridge, picked up in the 'give-away-shop' a few weeks ago) I picked up my WIP (work in progress) the Fairyhome. It's a wet felted shape, formed around an empty laundry detergent flask. I added roof tiles, a door with knocker/handle and the beginnings of a wistaria (blauwe regen in Dutch) through needle felting. A time consuming process, but rather zen. I didn't even prick my finger once! When I needed to wet felt a piece for the door I also tried my hand at felting around a rubber ball. Which was harder than it sounds. Felting around stones can even be done with children from age 3 (!) and up, but if you don't know the right way to do it it gets a lot harder. However, I managed and after removing the ball I now have a small 'wallet' that is drying in the sun.

Aside from felting I also searched for some inspiration online. Mainly driven by the fact that the felting around the ball went crappy and I needed to know how it should have been done. I just love this pinterest page with all kinds of projects. these fall leaves, these birds, this lovely bracelet, really give me the urge to go make something. There is even a cat cave! I can imagine that this takes up a lot of wool.

When the sun left our table in the garden I moved further back onto a little bench and took another WIP with me: a crocheted top of this pattern. I started the top part with purple cotton yarn and was planning on doing the lace bottom with a fake-wool yarn that changes color. However, today I changed my mind. I'm going to do the lace with a lighter purple cotton yarn and use the color-changing 'wool' to make a new top. In this first try I made some mistakes (the biggest being that the boob part should be higher/bigger) and though I kind of fixed them I want a 'perfect' project with the color changer. I finally arrived at the lace part today and I think that I can take this with me on train trips or during meetings when I get the hang of the pattern.

Though the sun now has totally left the back garden (we want to make a terrace in the front yard to be able to enjoy the evening sun there) there's more goodness to come today: I'm going to bake myself pancakes for dinner and after that watch the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie on DVD. Unfortunately there won't be tea and chocolate because I'm starting to watch my weight again, but the movie in itself should be fun enough. (And I should be stuffed to the brim with pancakes) :-)