Cheeky or not?

Joeysdreamgarden send me a little note the other day. She used the word cheeky in it.

This word sounds so sweet to me that I made her explain it.

This is what it means to her:

It's when someone "bends the rules", whether they are written rules or a norm of behaviour, and it's done in an endearing or inoffensive manner. The opposite to CHEEKY for me would be "RUDE". So if people do something wrong (in my eyes) then they are either RUDE (being selfish) or CHEEKY (doing something for their own benefit but showing in some way that they are aware of that and trying to limit the amount of inconvenience to the other person.) So to me, it would be rude of someone to push in front of me in a queue in a shop, but I would find it cheeky if someone asked very nicely to go in front of me in the queue because they have a bus to catch. There is fine line between cheeky and rude... to me it depends on what mood i'm in whether i'll find somebody as being cheeky or rude!

To me, Joey is definately cheeky in the sweet way - she makes the loveliest bunny brooches and I'm sure that somewhere she's hiding away more fabulous bunnies...

Yellow mellow?

This is a custom made necklace in a bright and happy color.
Just right for a lovely, warm summerday!
We couldn't decide on the accents, so I just made two.

It actually will be harder to choose from now. :)

Flabbergasted

flab·ber·gast (flbr-gst)
tr.v. flab·ber·gast·ed, flab·ber·gast·ing, flab·ber·gasts
To cause to be overcome with astonishment; astound. See Synonyms at surprise. [Origin unknown.]

adjective
as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise; "a circle of policement stood dumbfounded by her denial of having seen the accident"; "the flabbergasted aldermen were speechless"; "was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion" [syn: dumbfounded ]

Feeling brown?

I baked some little breads this morning and while they were baking I thought I could make some brownies too. Hmmm, I love brownies.
Here is what you need:
100g butter
200g darkbrown sugar
1 package of vanillasugar
2 eggs
125g flower
1/2 spoon baking powder
little bit of salt
50g pure chocolate
30g chopped up nuts

Here is how you make them:
Melt the butter and mix the sugar (brown & vanilla) underneath. Beat up the eggs and mix underneath the mixture of butter and sugar. Add the flower, the baking powder and the salt. Melt the chocolate, chop up the nuts and add them to the dough.
Put the dough in a buttered baking pan in a preheated oven and bake them for 30 minutes at a temperature of 180°C. When it comes out of the oven, chop it up in little squares.

Quick delivery?

When I returned from work tuesday evening, I saw I sold two necklaces to a customer in Germany. I love my European customers so it made me really happy! When I printed the receipt, I saw in the message to seller the request if I could have it at her address by thursday. She was willing to pay the extra cost for shipping.
I phoned the local post point in our supermarket since that was the only option that was still open in the evening. They told me it wouldn't be possible to get it there on thursday by regular mail. They advised me to ship through Taxipost and I decided to contact DHL and Taxipost the next morning to inform about their rates.

When I phoned them the next morning, I was shocked by their rates but I let my customer know about it and asked her if she could send me a reply with her decission by 1pm since I needed to go to work.

When I opened Etsy around 12 o'clock to see what she decided, I saw a conversation and the first word I saw on the message was 'saturday' - I jumped on my bike to get it mailed so that it still would be in time for the afternoon pick up from the mailbox. I didn't read her message carefully enough so when I got back home I saw that she requested a different shippingaddress.

Arrghhh, I could hit myself for not having read it more carefully. I was so anxious and persistent to get the package to her that I acted silly and stupid! Sad me! I phoned the postoffice to tell them I dropped something in the mailbox with a wrong address and if they could help me with that. They were very resistant to help at first because they were so busy but when I insisted they told me to come and collect the key of the mailbox. If I promised to bring it back after I changed the address, it would be fine. I couldn't believe that Belgian Post would actually give me the confidence of opening a massive mailbox but they did! So I went to the headquarters to collect the key, drove to the mailbox but I couldn't get it open. They gave me the wrong key... (you can see me trying to get it open on this picture) In the end, a postwoman came with me to the mailbox and opened it up for me. I changed the address and now the package is on it's way to Germany.

My partner dropped me off at work and I asked him to deliver a box of chocolates for the ladies at the post office headquarters to thank them for their cooperation. My customer was very nice about it and I sincerely hope that it will arrive there on saturday. I will never forget this experience and next time I will read my convo's with more care and act a bit more sensible... *blushes* I'm sure the ladies at the postoffice headquartes will laugh at this incident - I hope they will enjoy their box of chocolates... :)

Unfortunately these pictures are poor quality - they were taken with a mobile phone camera *sigh*

Patience in progress

For those who are curious about the mini-feelings...

Patience is not only a feeling but also a virtue!

Still a long way to go as you can see. :)

Custom work

A few weeks ago, Patsy206 asked me if I could make her a headband. I was a bit puzzled as I don't really know how to make headbands. I like challenges like these so I informed on how long and wide she wanted it to be and said I would give it a go. As things have been so hectic the past weeks I did not have enough energy to create. I almost felt guilty for letting her down so long but she was just really patient with me. I had tried a bit here and there but was never satisfied with the result. Today I managed to finish it and when I showed her the result in a convo, she was just so sweet and enthusiast about it that it made me really happy! :)

I felted the elastic band into the felt and then I sewed the ends a bit more so that the elastic wouldn't come loose when pulling over your head. There are few fuchsia accents on the darkbrown merinowool. This item has two functions: you can either wear it as a headband or as a necklace.