Today my heart is in the USA.

We’ve been doing some fun festive things lately. We decorated our Christmas tree. We went ice skating and then today we went to the Onion Festival in Bern. We trekked up to the Dolder sport area on a hill above Zurich for skating. I wanted to see their big rink with it’s pretty Christmas tree.…

I’ve been manically crafty this week. I can’t help myself at this time of year. My latest silly endeavor is a wreath craft for Claire’s upcoming class party. It’s a modern wreath made of equilateral paper triangles. Nothing too complicated or messy for a class party. It must fit into the party where the kids…

I miss my hydrangea shrubs back in the US, but today I snagged some blooms from a pile that our apartment landscapers had pruned. As much as I love hydrangeas I never know how to arrange them in a vase. They are SO BIG and they always seem out of proportion with the vase. Oh…

I bought a big pickle jar full of costume jewelry three years ago and I’ve finally gotten around to making something out of it. I made a wreath.  It’s not my usual style of craft but I kept seeing examples of wreaths and trees made out of jewels online and there is something about them…

We had our annual gingerbread party yesterday. We had 12 kids altogether. Bea and Claire and I had so much fun gathering the candy, and setting up the table. This was the first year I made gingerbread houses instead of gingerbread men. The kids were very excited and it was lots of boisterous fun. It’s…

Brian had a work colleague in town and her husband and son joined her for a little vacation. We had fun taking them to a zoo and to a snowy mountain. After seeing the snow it really feels like the holiday season and today I am making gingerbread houses for our upcoming party. 

I tried out a new sewing pattern. It’s the Uniform Tunic from Grainline Studio. I do love a tunic. It’s my first time using a pattern from Grainline Studio and I liked it. I liked how the instructions are printed as a little booklet instead of an unwieldy huge folded paper. It’s just a basic…

How can it already be the 5th day of November? I’ve been enjoying the cooler weather and looking forward to Thanksgiving. I’m bringing the pumpkin pie for our little gathering of Americans. I rarely make homemade pie crust because I’m always so disappointed in my results. Really everything I make pales in comparison to my…