A lot of colorwork, which is not for me – yet.

But I like the green lace section, and I will add three of them to my queue:

- Eyelet surplice dress (this only if I will loose enough weight to wear a dress)

- Leaf kimono top: definitely. I even have the yarn for this. That long-time bought green cotton. I have a lot of that, so I’m sure it will be enough. This is going to be the next after I finish my drop-stitch cardi. And this will be my first lace project.

- Apres surf hoodie: If I can figure out how to make it without the hood.

I also like the Plaid halter, and the Roped shell. I will wait for the magazine to see how difficult they are, and I might give them a try.

Great news: Nonakednecks from Etsy had a sale for Mother’s Day. I had two items in my cart from them, and immediately I bought them. Two beautiful rings, with huge, sparkling stones. Some serious bling.

A swiss blue topaz. Isn’t it gorgeous?

Prasiolite (green amethyst). Beautiful.

I have a weekness for oversized sterling silver rings. I bought a beautiful green calcedony ring from them a few months ago, and since then I check in to see what new they’ve got, quite often.

This is it. My favourite ring of all times.

In case you are interested: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=15817

They have wonderful jewelry, check it out.

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My needles are still in a tangled mess. Except the straights. They are bent.

Something must be done with them. Again, Etsy. I have found some wonderful, clever needle organisers.

You can put your straights and circulars in a neat case, with all your knitting notions, then you make a roll from the case, tie it with a pretty ribbon, and you are done. This is, of course, if you didn’t yet put all your knitting needles and notions into your project bags .

Like this one from sarahkincheloe, her Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11465080

The good news: there are rolls for dpns as well! Dpns are well known to get lost, at least one of the five (four) piece set is always missing. Never more. You will WANT to put these nasty little needles away, just to be able to touch these little piece of art accessories.

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I will not start how I feel about him at the moment, let me just tell you that I’m close to the edge of the D word. And no, not because of this argument. This is only the top of the iceberg.

I have found a lot of cute – and not much of effort – knitted bag patterns since my Bags post, and I think it will be a good idea to go through my stash, and knit a few of them. I have ordered a few interesting and cheap handles from Etsy (yes, again…) which will go great with the knitted bags. Bag handles are impossible to find here. Remember, when I told you that I will search second hand shops for them? Well, I did, but I have found nothing. Thank God for Etsy. There is a lot of great destashing happening around there, and I love to browse amongst them.

And yes, I’m still making jewelry too. I will post pictures of the newest creations this weekend. I have a nice strand of faceted black czech cristal bead, two shades of turquoise, and that gorgeous red coral stick strand. I’m planning to compose something really breathtaking with them.

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As you see, I don’t have a huge stock. But it is all I could do besides my three jobs and family, in a few months time.

I was half asleep all day long. No matter the six coffees I had. I’ve been crocheting all day, to show the craft, and to pass my time. I have manged to finish up three bracelets and one necklace, which I brought with me, and started and finished one bracelet on the spot.

My hubby was so patient, he was there sitting with me, helping whenever I needed.

I didn’t need too much help though…. We had not even one buys until 3pm!!! Thousands of people were passing by, asking, touching, complementing, but none of them bought anything. We were quite dissappointed, even I had tried to prepare myself for this.

 Then I said to my DH, listen, I bet we will sell out in between 5 and 6. And this was the case. We made a nice profit in an hour, just before the market closed.  At 6 pm I was tailoring a necklace for a lady, who came back to buy her second! And she even ordered two more for April.

All the sellers had the same problem. I guess because this was the first event after the winter, and everyone was just eye-candying. Next time it will be outside, where a lot of people passes by, and hopefully we will make better. I will definitely go in April again.

We were quite happy at the end, but sadly, this will not make me to go to the silver clay course. I have to cancel it tomorrow. My heart is bleeding. Sigh….

Gosh, there were so many beautiful things! I had a walk around a few times, and I saw such clever and beautifully created things!  I’m so glad that we have so many talented people around!

I have received an e-mail from a girl who makes lampwork beads (literally the one in Hungary, who does it professionally). She and her friend is setting up a homepage, something like Etsy, for Hungarian crafters. She asked me if I wanted to join, and of course I said YES!! I hope many of the crafters from the WAMP will join this site, they things would sell like sugar, I’m sure.

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No wonder. We got married when I was 7 months pregnant, and didn’t care too much for it. We just needed the paper, for administrative purposes. We have finished in the registry office in 5 minutes. But we enjoyed this 5 minutes, and remember it often.

Now I’m collecting items, preparing things for a month now for the WAMP (www.wamp.hu) and it is still a lot to do before the big day.

- I’ve just printed out my brand new business cards. I’m going to laminate them, and put a hole in them, and with some ball chain I will turn them into keychains, to give away as business gifts on the fair.

- I’ve printed out some earring holders, with my logo.

- My husband (Dear Soul!) helped me to sting more beads for more crocheted bangles. We heard a rumour that bangles sell more then anything else. I’m planning to crochet and sew together 5 or more things tomorrow, and if I will still have time, I want to make a few more earrings too.

- I will have to check and undust my jewelry display.

- We have to wake up 4 am on Sunday, to get to Budapest in time. This is because of the time change from Saturday to Sunday.

I do hope that I will make enough money for the art clay silver course. I’ve talked the course organising lady, and she is a doll! So nice and helpful! I’ve already booked my room in a hostel nearby, with her help. The course will be in Sopron, a wonderful town I love so much! Last year we went together there, and took Sára with us.

I think I’m all ready. If I will have some stuff left (I hope not ) I will put them up in my etsy shop, and hope for the best. Otherwise I won’t be able to make it to the course.

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The Easter holiday was spent with toooo much knitting instead of crocheting for the fair.

I wanted to finish the Jane crossover sweater from Perl Grey Studios, but I remembered that only one half of the front is missing. WRONG. Both. I was knitting like a banshee, but could not finish it. On Monday I felt too guilty, and switched to crochet, and finishing off the crocheted pieces. I did quite well, finished three necklaces, and three bracelets. And I even crocheted a few more inches on a new project.

Time flew, and I’m back to work today. I can’t wait to quit this job, and do what I really want to do.

If you are interested in bead-crochet, I highly recommend the ultimate, the one and only complete bead-crochet site: www.beadcrochet.com, from the wonderful Beadwrangler.

I’ve learned the most from this site. And if you want inspiration for your future work, you must check out this great German site:  www.perlenhaekeln.de . This site contains the most amazing library of bead-crochet patterns, for absolutely free!

I also love to browse Etsy for inspiration. Not only the beadworks, or bead-crochet, but all the fine jewellery one can find there. And so many other things! I was really tempted once to order some cupcakes from the US, they were looking so fantastic! I could feel it in my mouth…. Then I thought of the distance, and the postal services, and said naaaaah.

I guess you are right, I’m a shop-a-holic, especially when it comes to online shopping. No wonder. What is more exciting than seeing a whole world of goodies, delivered to your door?

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• So, the Book and more swap: I’ve received my package, and I’ve ordered a book through Etsy. This long weekend I will look for a nice yarn to send it out to my partner.
• Random Act of Kindness group: I’m expecting a few box of goodies from the wonderful ladies there: they will send stuff to my daughter, since this was my wish for March.
• Still the RAC group: I promised to send out some Hungarian speciality sweets to a fellow Hungarian, currently living in the UK. She badly misses these sweets, and Hungary. I totally understand it, so I will fill up her stock.
• I will write a letter to a Raveler’s brother, staying in Iraq, far away from his pregnant wife, who has difficulties with the pregnancy, and the baby is in a big danger. This was also a request from the RAK group. Aren’t these girls are wonderful?
• I will have to collect the yarns I’ve promised to give away in the Yarn Karma group (note to self: the two Trendsetter Dune, and the Norvegian turquoise wool), so I can post them right away on Tuesday.
• In return I’m expecting the following: an apple jacket (I’ve always liked them on Etsy, cool and fun stuff), and a super bulky wool for a hat.
• I’ve ordered a few things from Etsy (I should stop going there. I just can’t seem to resist buying that great stuff, and I supposed to sell there…. Hello!) like:

- That gorgeous sterling silver dragonfly pin (I’ve always wanted one, exactly like this. 
   You’ll see, it is just the ultimate pin.)
- The book I’ve ordered for the swap – this goes to my partner straight away.
- Two strands of turquoise beads,
- One strand of red coral stick beads, to go with the above beads,
- 9 balls of special japanese yarn, which is treated with silver ions, to be antibacterial, and
   a japanese tawashi book (great stuff, I tell you about it later).

Uhmmm, I think that’s all. Poor postman. I should invite him for a coffee next time he turns up….

Ah, and here is a picture about Sára, my 5-year-old daughter, holding the back of the Caftan Pullover, which is   -  this close  -  to be finished.

Now guess, which size I’m knitting?

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