Designing saturday

I spent whole day today designing and I was happy!
Actually I am still happy and I am knitting a cape sideways. It will be part of my sideways capes both crochet and knit that I plan to release this year! :)

Friday

I am preparing to go to the post office to send a pair of gloves for a customer of mine. The gloves are my popular white Inverted Cables design in cashmere blend. Unfortunately, there is no more of that yarn to be found in my supply shop, so this is the final pair. Luckily, previous order of these gloves was canceled, so this lovely customer has a chance to grab the last pair!

I also need to do a heavy talk today after the post office, so I wanted to write before that. I am not in a good mood for days, and since I am a very closed off person emotionally, it is still hard for me to talk about troublesome things. Maybe one day I will, hopefully. I actually do hope it will happen, because the way I have been living is not something I wish to continue at all. If I could do it on my own, I would, unfortunately I still live by other people's "rules" and it spills into my creativity or lack thereof. That was vague, but hey it's something, right? Bye for now, whoever you are :)

Orthodox Christmas

Today is the Orthodox Christmas! So, Merry Christmas to you all!
I don't have anything to write today. It's a quiet day all around. My best friend Ivana and my friend Zoran and me were in the church last night. It was my first time in church for Christmas Eve and I was really happy last night. :)
That is all I want to be remembered for this day ♥

Christmas Eve

Today is Christmas Eve for Orthodox Christians in Serbia. It was a beautiful snowy day. I love snow and I hope it will snow some more this winter. My friends tell me it will, so I am preparing for a new one, since this one is melting unfortunately. I see so few kids sledding this year and I remember how we used simple plastic bags when we were younger and returning from school. I wish I could do it now :) But I feel I won't survive, lol! Well, giving my childish nature, I won't put it past me ;)

I also designed one more thing in my head. I will have to draw it although my drawing is terrible, just to make sure I won't forget it. Currently I have to write the patterns for already finished things and I promised myself not to design or start anything new. But being me, that's not going to happen :)

I finished a yellow capelet last night. Although it was already knitted, I needed to add the buttons I bought weeks ago, so I did just that. And I feel like I've done something, which is why I wanted to write every day in this blog. To some accidental viewer these writings won't make sense, but they mean so much to me. I need to stay true to myself and not talk about doing things but do them, in spite of the difficulties. Now on to enjoying the day before Christmas!

First Goulash this year!

I made first goulash this year! It is one of two recipes I love to make. First is white chicken meat marinaded in soya sauce and honey, then roasted in butter, with a side of rice with curry and Worcester sauce. It's called "Chinese chicken" and I found it on the Internet. Yummy! :) And second is the goulash I make. Goulash is made in so many ways, but I saw the recipe for this one on a Serbian cooking site, together with pictures, and I just had to make it.

Here is a picture of goulash with macaronis:

 

After a while I added some of my own ingredients, which I tried following the comments below the recipe. And I loved how it turned out! Now I enjoy making it "my way" for my family.

Next time I make it, I will write a recipe in english and make a whole post about it. I will make a recipe for "Chinese chicken" too.

One more knitting pattern finished

Today I finally finished a new knitting pattern, called "Moro Shrug". I am currently waiting testers to finish testing Sonja Shrug so I can post Moro Shrug for testing.

I have about 16 patterns in total that wait for me to be written. Two of them are down, 14 more to go! Although most of the projects are finished, some still need to be tweaked. Only seven of them are photographed. I really don't like taking photos, because I mostly do it myself. I put the camera on a tripod and set it to "smart". I usually make about 50 pictures of one item so I can find at least 5 that are worth posting. Last time a friend of mine helped me. She took a photos of me wearing my shrugs and shirts in a studio we once worked together. Maybe we'll repeat that soon :)

Although I would love to make some pictures in snow! Especially hats and capelets, they would look lovely in white setting.

First snow

Last night the snow begin to fall! And I LOVE snow! A few friends of mine and I got together to celebrate a friend's birthday. It was wonderful and relaxing and there were lot of laughs. And in the midst of it we saw that snow begin to fall. I was happy thinking how I will wake up today and see it through my window. It reminded me when I was little and when I saw it for the first time so white and beautiful through my window.

A glimpse on the street from my window:

Anyway, today is Sunday and after New Year's celebration, I'm glad it's finally peaceful and I get to finish some of my work on next pattern. I watched movies, talked to my friends and decided to stay home today to rest a bit. I love peace the snow brings! ♥