crafts

First of all THANKS to all who came over and talked to me during the party. I had a wonderful time and hope there will be one again next year hosted by the wonderful Constance, Gilian and Lisa.

Book week has closed, so I'm late with this entry. Still I wanted to post it. I have quite a few Japanese craftbooks, and they seem to be much discussed already by other wonderful bloggers. I have the advantage of having a husband who studied Japanese and can read proficiently. I don't ask him to translate the instructions. I hardly ever follow instructions anyway. But he is very handy to have next to me when I want to order from a Japanese site, even though Amazon.co.jp has most of it's site in English too. This one I haven't seen yet (I'm sure it's out there) is what seems to be more a magazine than book.


It has lots of yummy images

Wouldn't you want to have a studio like this


great ideas for one of these, which I bought when we were still in the US here


I love this dancing pair

Another country with lovely craftbooks, especially crossstitch is France

I fell in love with the cover of this book


a little ladybug alphabet


with butterflies

And this one has pretty little motifs



with koi fish


and pretty monograms, which I tried to make for a second sail for a gift. This was just before we went to the Netherlands, but I had to abort this second sail and settle for a single sail ship, because I ran out of time