Gloomy Day...

I has been raining ALL day... it's chilly, I had to turn the heater on again...
I miss MG whom had to go again to work... I know that is the way it is... but Mondays are difficult to be apart of each other because during the weekends we have such a great and lovely times together that Mondays seem to be veeeeeery looooong and I can't see the end of the day coming so he would be back and hug me.

I've been missing him all day, specially with this weather... it makes me want to snuggle with him in the coach with a nice cup of tea, with a comfy blanket and a cute-romantic movie.... ok, ok, maybe an other tipe of movie, I'm not sure that he would love the idea of the romantic movie... but in my mind he will say yes to all this, and we will have dinner and then snuggle while we talk about our day...

See you soon!

Crochet Café

Me again...
Today is a gloomy, cloudy day, one of those that make you want to stay inside and curled up and not go out...
But I had a call from one of my friends to get out and buy some yarn and hooks for her so I can show her how to crochet... SOOOO who can resist to that??
And once we got to the store I couldn't contain myself and I end up buying 2 Red Heart balls... 2 tones of blue...
It's for my Mary Jane Slippers that I told you about the other day... I made one, as I told you... and I run put of yarn (stash yarn) so I have to go and by more!
And now I'm in the process of my new pair of Mary Janes...

My friend was very exceptical and didn't think she could do it... but in a couple of hours she crochet 3 inches of a scarf!!! She was so happy!!! and I was so proud of her...
Yei!!! another hook-person for the world!

See you soon!

Yoke

I love the way the green and blue melt together... that is the yoke of my Little Sister Dress... I've been working on it for a week, it's not too bad, but it feels really slow because my hands get in pain really fast... more pain than crochet...

But my Ice Dipping therapy seems to be working... it's my 5th day so far... :o)

So... I had another trip to the yarn store yesterday... I bougth a plain lime green to make the body of the dress, aaaaaaaand I bought a small ball of Rowan (?) I think it is Rowan... in a deep blue-breenish...

To make the sutures (sweing) of my Little Granny Square (hope) Blanket... that was inspired (again) by Lucy... the yarn I'm using was a gift to me... and it's baby cashmerino bliss... in such a pale pink and yellow... that I need something darker to make contrast with them...

MG always says that my squares remind him of cookies!!! I've done more than this, but they were not available for the picture... and I'm not doing them in a regular time... so a bit now, and another bit in 2 weeks... who knows... so I think it's not gonna be ready soon....
But what do you think... square or diagonal lines...?

See you soon!

Sushi Frustration...

MG took me out yesterday to have sushi for dinner... I LOVE sushi, maybe my favorite food, and it was the first time we had it since we moved here (more than a year) so I was more than happy to have it...
We sat on the floor, asked for the food and it all looked sooooo good when it arrived to the table...
I started to eat with my chopsticks, it's a whole art to eat with them, and even I'm not an expert, I can use them very well I think........... until........ I noticed that the position that your hand need to have to hold them was not good at all for me and my current pain!!! I started to have pain in my hand while holding the chopsticks!!!!
It was so frustrating!! So lovely MG asked the waiter for a fork for me, and he looked at my with a condescendent smile that made me want to yell at him "listen mister, I KNOW how to use chopsticks, and I can use them very well, thank you... but I can't right now because I have RSI!!!" (Repetitive Stress Injury)... but I just thougth about it, I didn't say anything to him...

Today I'm at home while MG went to work... It's cloudy outside and it make me want to curl under my ripple blanket which I will in a while with a cup of tea (Chamomile-Anise)... I'm cold because during-after the Ice Dipping, all my body temperature fell down, which I'm sure will be great in the summer, but not quite nice for this cloudy day.

I'll snuggle and read my new Wire Jewelry magazine... it just came today on the mail!!

And I'll work in a pair of crocheted Mary Jane Slippers for myself... I found a nice pattern!
I think my Little sister dress will rest for today... I'm half way done with the yoke!

See you soon!!

New Hand Therapy

So, after my hand pain 2 nights ago I found my self sad, suffering one more time because I don't want to stop knitting or crocheting or blogging... OR making jewelry!!! It's so frustrating thinking that you (literaly) CAN'T do what you want and like because you have such a bad pain that you have to stop doing it because you can't do it anymore.

My lovely hubby MG suggested that I should look for hand pain online... I had done it before, but this time I looked for it on Ravelry, suddenly it was just so obvious to look for it in a Cochet and Knit Comunity... so I did...
and I found so many great things!!! not that pain is something great... but is so nice to know (and feel) that you are not the only one with the problem...

And one of the things I found there was a group named Crafting with carpal tunnel group where a guy named Joshua Tucker had a post that seemed to be exactly what I was looking for!!!
So after reading for a while I ended up in his own webpage::: The Tendonitis Expert !!! that contents all kind  of information and the more I read the more it all made sense to me... so I decide to give it a shut...

So here I am, ice dipping my hands in the kitchen sink with frozen water bottles. So far 7 Ice dippings and my hands feel so much better than the way they were before doing it... Let's hope this'll work!!!!
I'm really excited!!!!!!!!!!

And just to let you know... I use Handeze Flex-fit gloves, when I'm doing my crafts... they allow me to work without taking movement out of me, and give me a lot of support!

See you soon!