Howling at the Moon

In the summer vacation of 2016 I made my first mochila. That first one was just to practice and now that we're a year further, I think my mochila making skills are improved a little bit. In this year some people asked me to make a bag for them, too. The best assignment was the one from a boots and bags shop owner, who asked me to make two bags for her, in exchange for a couple of boots at choice. No cheap boots to find in her shop, so I considered it a great deal when she let me choose some beautiful Tony Lama boots. I still love them. This month I made another mochila. I love the colors of these boots, so I chose the same colors for the bag.    ~*~ My Crocheted Birthday Cake was featured by Sew Can Do ! Thank you, Cheryl! And my Peacock Feathers Mochila was featured by The Linky Ladies ! Thanks, ladies! And my Party Shirt was featured by Grandma Ideas ! Thank you so much, Nina!

My husband has cleaned up his shed with tools and machines and found two boxes of mine. They were filled with craft supplies and unfinished projects. Most of it was useless, broken or incomplete, but one of the things in the boxes was an unfinished cross stitch netting to make a pillow with. It had a picture of two cats on a roof, looking at the moon, on it. I didn't even knew I still had that netting but when I saw it, I did remember when and why I bought it.  Some years ago I had two cats, one totally black, the other one totally white, exactly as on the netting. I still have the white one, Ronnie, who is fifteen years old now. The black one, Sjakie, died more than six years ago.  I don't like cross stitch pillows at all, but bought it just because of the cats. And when I saw it again, I just wanted to finish the cross stitching. But..., what can I do with it, except for making a pillow? Suggestions, anyone?   www.betweennapsontheporch.net ~*~ My P...

~ I love Pinterest and would like to make a recipe of my boards every week. Since I have lots of recipes pinned (that, until now, I just pinned and only that), I hope this will be a way to reduce the amount of pins on my boards ~ The semifreddo was a hit! Delicious because of the strawberries, and it has a bite because of the pieces of white chocolate and pistachios. And not even that much work to make! Really a keeper for summer. www.betweennapsontheporch.net ~*~ A couple of weeks ago some friends of mine came over to eat diner with us and as a present one of them took a bread pudding. I hadn't eat bread pudding in years, but it was so delicious that I decided to make one more often.  Today I bought blueberries and because they're a bit sour, I want to use them in a Blueberrie Bread Pudding . I will use this recipe for it. Tell you the result next week!

We're still in the Tenth Birthday with Cat Theme-modus, so here's the next project I made for my daughter's birthday: the Party Sweater. Bunting and a cat, that should be pass for festive, what do you think? I bought a not so expensive sweater, cut the cat and the bunting out of iron on flocked textile transfer and ironed it on the shirt. Easy as that.   www.betweennapsontheporch.net ~*~ The Peacock Feathers Mochila I made just before I went on vacation is featured by Scrapality and by Oui Crochet !! Thank you very much, Andrea!! My Lampion was featured this week by Across The Boulevard ! Thank you, Beverly! My other Crocheted Lanterns were featured by Creating My Way to Success and by Oombawka Design ! Thanks, Jill and Rhondda! 

Cat Theme Birthday Party... do you remember? Of course the invitations had to have a cat somewhere on it, too. I looked for something original and found wire cat pendants, so I made this. www.betweennapsontheporch.net I found this idea on Pinterest. ~*~ While I was on vacation some of the things I made in the last year, were featured by Creative Jewish Mom. So nice to see old projects! Like the bunting. As it was used only for a party, I almost forgot about the bunting. Half Lotus Bunting Mochila On Request   Crocheted Lanterns And one other thing that was featured while I was on vacation: The Boho Bag , featured by Creating My Way to Success !