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I have been invited to share my view on yarn on the lovely blog "About crochet".

Thanks so much for having me over.

Please visit About crochet to see what I came up with.

You will also find lots of About crochet's wonderful creative and excellent crochet projects and tutorials.

Happy Day,

Anette 

Another fun idea from Tabea and Müllerin Art: Die Frühlingspost!

After December's wonderful Adventspost it was now time to get creative with spring poetry:

"Frühling läßt sein blaues Band

Wieder flattern durch die Lüfte

Süße, wohlbekannte Düfte

Streifen ahnungsvoll das Land

Veilchen träumen schon,

Wollen balde kommen

Horch, von fern ein leiser Harfenton!

Frühling, ja Du bist's!

Dich hab ich vernommen!"

Divided into 9 lines means there will be 9 weeks of Spring in the mail

My 9 partners are:

Blickgewinkelt, Schreibtischwelten, Östlich der Sonne und westlich vom Mond, gabsARTig, Steffi's Papierzauber, GRISCHArte and Frollein Enerim. 

Once all cards have arrived it will be summer (I love that thought!!!) and I will show you all cards i have received. 

My line was: Streifen ahnungsvoll das Land...

I  again used copper tape (like I did for the Advent mail art) and tried to engrave the letters from the back side. It didn't always work perfectly but I think it is readably. Some Masking tape and a little spring bracelet and off to the post office to bring joy!

Happy Day,

Anette 

Better late than never, right?

I actually had not planed to show you these eggs we spontaneously made Sunday afternoon while having tea and cake but i like how they turned out and thought you might like them too...

I blew out about 10 eggs in the morning (so we had plenty of yummy scrambled easter eggs...), rinsed them well and dried them on the heater.

When I went into my studio in the afternoon to grab a few markers from my desk for coloring the eggs I found this Candle-Liner I had bought before Christmas. It was hidden under a stack of stuff! (Confession: I am a really chaotic person - you do NOT want to see my desk...)

This unfortunately happens a lot to me. I live on the countryside and when I finally get to go to the city's craft-shop, I tend to buy a lot of things because seeing all the supplies out there gets me all excited and many new ideas come to my head. Then I get home and there are always a thousand other things I have to do first before i can get crafty and life goes on and other ideas come and so forth...so I just forget what I actually wanted to do in first place and this is how some supplies get buried under stuff...I hope, that sounds familiar to at least a couple of you...

Anyway - this Candle-Liner is basically liquid paint wax and it's intended to decorate candles. It comes out of the "pen" in a medium line and you can easily draw a pattern with it. It is all white and soft first and needs to dry for an hour or so. Depends on the thickness. I drew some feather designs in literally seconds.

Yes, I could have just used glitter medium and glitter for this project or a glitter pen but the Liner was so much less messy and not runny! And I also like that the design is only gently glittered.

Happy Day and have fun with Creadienstag

Anette