Mosaic of answers

I spent the better part of today reading blogs and found this fun mosaic on rainy day goods . You type the answers to the questions in flickr and pick one of the picture from the first page. Each url you copy into the mosaic-maker, et voila, 12 random pictures of your life. It's fun to do!

The Questions:

1. What is your first name? Shanna
   
2. What is your favorite food? Marsepein (I think it's marzipan in English?)
   
3. What high school did you go to? Bonhoeffer
   
4. What is your favorite color? Greenblue
   
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Jennifer Love Hewitt
   
6. What is your favorite drink? Tea
   
7. Dream vacation? Ireland
   
8. Favorite dessert? Applepie
   
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? Mother
   
10. What do you love most in life? Family
    
11. One word to describe you? Creative
    
12. Your flickr name? Shanna.dijkstra

The funny thing is that most pictures don't seem to have a connection to the words I searched, but it looks nice, almost as a puzzle.

Texel (to be pronounced as Tessle or Tessel)

As I said earlier, we visited Texel today and it was great! The weather was great, the island was great and we did some fun stuff which you wouldn't do someplace else.

We started with a trip to the Jutters Museum , where all things found on the beach are put together as a collection. Their objects are found by beachcombers before any officials collect them and sell or destroy the findings. Beachcombing is illegal, but somewhat allowed on Texel and seen as a sport or hobby.
The museum consists of a few buildings, packed from top to bottom with everything that's washed ashore. So lots and lots of plastic jerrycans, workinggloves, bouy's and driftwood, but also medicine, containers full of cars or tv's and even drugs.

Buoy ahoy!

Next we went along on a garnalenkotter for some shrimpfishing a little out of the coastline of Texel at de Waddenzee, which is anything between 30 and 2 meters deep. At low tide the water even washes away so you can actually walk from one to another island. I'd love to do that sometime, but unfortunately our day was full enough the way it was, so no wadlopen for us!

After an hour or so on the boat, the wind really took up, so this is me trying to see anything with both wind and sun directly at me.

But we did catch some shrimps and got some home in a bag, which we do need to peel first. It's a push-twist-pull movement, but these things are tiny and slippery!

In Den Burg, the island's "capital" I found this store that sold, how great, some discontinued Schoeller Yarn. It's Elfin (Ravelry link), an 90% acrylic and 10% mohair blend. I got two purple skeins and two brown ones, for just 15 dollars!
There were some other store which do sell yarn made from Texelanian (?) sheep, but it was kinda tough, so no wool from Texel for me.

I'd like to close this post with a cute photo on which Millie practices her "I'm so not paying attention to you" look.


Have a lovely day!

Dresses you will never ever wear...

...but would look just amazing. It's a shame the time of balls and dancing is over and these dresses only get to shine at christmas, 'cause there all on my wishlist.







All by Anthropologie .

Ikea Ikea Ilovya

Spent the day at Ikea and just could not leave without buying some of the new fabric they had. So I came home with Josefin. I went home with about 2.5 yards in purple and 1.25 yards of the bluegreen leaves.


I am thinking of a kneelength dress with an interesting neckline and a matching purple underdress that's a bit longer.


This is definately going to be a skirt, like an a-line skirt or maybe a balloonskirt. The strip of leaves is perfect for a skirt, but it does need an underskirt because it's a little see-through.

Tomorrow we're going for some island adventure, we're going to texel. Whoo!

Mondaymoody

Am I the only one who walks through a store, randomly touching and trying on knitted items while constantly thinking "...I could knit this" ?
The next dress I saw a few weeks ago, it cost about $130, while it's really just a simple dress. There's this cable in the front, some ribbing and stockinette and a real big cowl. I guess the thing that made it was the material used; 100% angora. Ow, and the brand offcourse.

So, I thought "...I could really knit this"! That is why I ordered this:

Orkney's St.Magnus, made of 50% merino wool and 50% angora, ordered at this shop, to make this;


Supertrash Better Tunicdress (dutch shop). Don't you just hate those strangely shaped wristwarmers. They remind me of those plastic sheets that keep the shafts of boots straight up in shops.Can't imagine that's the look they were after though.

What I also found while searching for really expensive knitted items that I could knit, just for the sport of it, was this quilt which was knotted instead of quilted. The colourpallette has a really autumny feel to it, it's beautiful. Also, I could make it, naturally.