Linnea 'Ea' quilts...

Craft Friday is a 2012 recurring blog post where I present either a hobby jewelry technique or project I'm currently working on. This one is gonna be quite short. If you have no idea what memento mori  is, then go and read about it. Mine and Micke's good friend Ida turned 26 years yesterday, and tomorrow she's throwing a come-as-you-are birthday party over at the only Irish pub here in Turku. And for her birthday, I'm giving her: Ida's new Memento mori-earrings. Why? Well, I thought she would think them cool, and since she's an art history major... I just thought she'd get it. What do you think? Too weird - or too odd - a present? update written the following Monday: She really liked them! I'm so relieved! For once I've managed to make a jewelry-present that was spot on. Huge success, and a huge relief. I'm so glad :)

My dear friend Kaisa, together with her Jussi, threw a home-warming party last Saturday. This time, we actually had time to attend. It's annoying when you have friends you want to stay close to, but can't because of logistics. traveling by train is NOT cheap, no matter how ecological it's supposed to be. Anyway, for a house-warming present, we gave then the traditional bread & salt. This was accompanied by a small present for Kaisa (a shawl + matching brooch), and one for Jussi (8 wine glass tokens). The shawl, made from a real simple pattern (scroll down to the bottom!). This is the actual color of the yarn, I don't know why the next picture got so lilac. The trim, one I came up with myself (scroll down for the pattern). Jussi's wine glass tokens are on the right. The crocheted flower is the brooch. Like always when leaving for a trip in the last minute *cough* I had ample time to wrap the presents.... that is, I had to bring paper+tape+scissors+gift bo...

... I thought I'd catch up with making my Christmas wish list. Actually, Micke has been... well, not NAGGING, but politely reminded me at least twice that he wants me to make a list of possible presents he could get me for Christmas. Christmas ain't r-e-a-l-l-y about giving presents... right? Just because it's NICE to get presents, and nice to give them too (the last part only applies if you can afford them, sadly), doesn't mean that's all that Christmas is about. This capitalistic shopping-frenzied holiday (and that's sooo what my Dad would say) used to be about celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, and before that it was about Yule and the celebration of the "returning" sun via the winter solstice . So, in honor of this, I'm wishing for: 1. Yarn , preferably in 'happy' colors like sunny yellow and lime-green 2. More tealights! And these can be those cheap white ones, since our candle holders are the ones providing the color...