Black Friday Cyber Monday Christmas offer for my blog readers!

A little thank you for my dear readers!

Starting from today, by entering the coupon code CH002010BL during checkout at my etsy shop you will have 12% discount on all your purchases (excluding the shipping costs). This offer is valid till the 6th of December.

Also, from november 25th until december 6th, i'm participating in the dawanda x-mas special: every day another category will have a 12% discount, so on the days it's jewelry or accessories, you'll find my items reduced :). And usually the last one or two days all categories are discounted.

Happy shopping :)

New jewelry-playing with new materilas

Almost  a whole month is passed since my last post!and only one month is ahead of us before Christmas!! I don't understand how quickly time slips from my hands.... I will try to make a brief review of this month.....

My iron broke, my glasses, my watch and my p/c!!!!I bought a new p/c, struggled for two days to move all my files and programs, but I still can not connect to the internet!!!On Monday I'm expecting a technician to come and fix it!

In the meanwhile I managed to finish an unfinished shrug finally:

and made a lot of new necklaces, most of them have already been sold and some of them I have not been able to take pictures:

I couldn't resist the temtation and bought new materials, silk cocoons and rods hand-dyed and yarn:

and made these necklaces:

I have two new bags almost finished and the perfect way to show you how to adjust a zipper to your jacket/wet or bag, without having the wrong side looking ugly when the zipper is open, but I will show it to you in a next post! take a pick of what I will show you ;)

and now I must get to work, two christmas bazaars are on the way and I have to stock up!!!

Μy new bags and a recipe

I don't know how, but this year I can't accomplish not even half of the things I want every day!And I have neglegted my blog terribly!
But I managed to finish some halfdone things and to make to new bags!
Bags have always been my favorites and I believe that a woman can never have enough bags!!!

For almost any woman, the handbag is the ultimate accessory - as it says in the introduction of the book "Bags Two" from Vogue Knitting- . It combines fashion and function and suggests couture in a beautifully useful package. A fabulous bag has a unique way of grabbing people's attention! 
You can find patterns for my bags in my shop and on Raverly :)

Last week my son had his birthday and I thought I would cook something special for dinner! I tried out a new recipe I found on "Marieclaire cuisine", sarlot of stuffed cabbage and chocolate soufle!

Here is the recipe for the stuffed cabbage:

Incredients (for 6 portions):

1 nappa caggabe (chinese)

400 gr. sausage

150 γρ. rice for risotto (arborio)

1 large onion

1 egg

60 gr. grated parmegiano

50 gr. butter

1 tbs oil

chopped parsley

salt-peper

Slice the head of Napa lengthwise in half and remove the core. Cook the cabbage leaves in salted water for 20 minutes and drain.

Boil the rice al dente in salted water, drain, and mix with half of the butter. Chop the onion and heat it in a pan with oil. Remove the casing of the sausage and the flesh of the sausage to the onions. Add salt and pepper and let it cook for 5 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 180 grade and butter a baking pan. Cover the base and sides of the pan with the large leaves og the cabbage.Roughly chop the rest of the cabbage.  Mix in a bawl the sausage, the rice, teh egg, the parsley and the parmegiano. 
Fil the pan with a layer of the mixture, then a layer of chopped cabbage in turns, until the pan is filled.Top with leaves. Cover the pan with a baking paper, buttered and bake for 30 minutes. Leave to rest for 5 minutes before serving. serve hot.

The soufle was very yummie also:

Τhe weather is chilly!Time for knitting!

Fall and winter are the perfect seasons for knitting! With the first heavy rains I felt like knitting again! I finished two bags:

And a third one is lying to dry!

I searched my stash and found several unfinished projects which must get done some time ;)

 an almost finished shrug !

A scarf!

A mitten!

A capelet!

How many unfinished projects do you have stached?

Hot color trends for this fall/winter

these colors are very trendy for this fall/winter:

grey

camel and brown

 purple

 red

 black and white

following the trends:

Granny squares-the trendy take

I just finished a hobo bag, made with granny squares in chocolate and wheat:

Granny squares are trendy again! Take a look at these fantastic colorful and happy creations I found in flickr:

1. Commission for Sarah, 2. new year garland, 3. Granny pillow, 4. Untitled, 5. Untitled, 6. Little squares WIP, 7. P1010004, 8. Untitled, 9. IMG_1536, 10. sedie all'uncinetto, 11. IMG_1789, 12. Granny plaid

And in Etsy:

fron top left: poops, zerva, royalsisters, kydum, baahar, rocketandbear, sandyscapecodorig, softspoken , atelierafra, northerly, littlethingies, sebsurer, simakery, namolio, spacejamhandmade, francinetoukou

If you are insired by these beautiful creations, grab your crochet hook and try these patterns:

Animal print - Hot fashion trend for fall

One of the hot trends of 2010 fall fashion is the animal print trend which has lead to the development of some of the best looking outfits this year so take a peek at what prints should definitely be a part of your fall wardrobe!

Because printed outfit give a certain luxurious and rebellious look, they blend beautifully with the a variety of different style outfits and accessories. This year the prints could have been seen from shoes to accessories and clothing and they all looked fabulous. 

 Dries Van Noten

Moschino

Mulberry

My new scarves inspired by this hot trend:

My zebra bag, super trendy accessory for this fall-winter: