Taking up driving lessons

I am significantly busy nowadays, not only for my nik-naks but also learning everyday on how to be a responsible and defensive driver. Anyone can say its easy, but for me its not. When you have a phobia for anything, I'll tell you its like tomorrow is the end of the day. Especially in a country like ours, I mean where I now reside is very important to be really cautious. It is almost everyday in the news that people died of accident here in there.

Sometimes I thought I could better take public transport out of anxiousness, but more often than not I changed my mind easily because shopping spree and trips to the groceries is a part of daily life and it is not pleasant to bicycle here in there all the time. Although most of the people here in Belgium are used to it. I still think that my husband could possibly sick at any time and I have to bring him to the doctor. So I decided that I really need to take it seriously and I need to do it pretty soon.

Learning to sew

I was the last three weeks busy with everything and anything all at the same time, typical me. Here is the result a series of what somebody might called a product of my eccentric taste. I said somebody because I know someone who finds my style cheap. But I don't mind, because as I always say: I am not me if I am others. although I am not even sure if I'm gonna wear them all I am happy with my works. I'm pretty sure that there will come a time when I can sew something nice and pretty for somebody else. As for my own, I like to create something colorful, I don't mind if people thinking that I am nuts. The truth is I hate to see young people here in Belgium wearing, black or dark colors, they look 10 years older than their age. But of course these are really cheap fabrics, good enough to throw it away when something goes wrong. Yeah if I cannot really sew it right then I don't have to get too frustrated. I still have a lot to learn yet.

Small stiches work

Whenever I get bored of my big cross stitch projects, I set it aside for awhile and stitch something small. This is what I have done for the last three days.

Something to share

Man and Woman

V.H

Man is the most elevated of creatures, Woman the most sublime of ideals.
God made for man a throne; for woman an altar.
The throne exalts, the altar sanctifies.
Man is the brain, Woman, the heart.
The brain creates light, the heart, Love. Light engenders, Love resurrects.
Because of reason Man is strong, because of tears Woman is invincible.
Reason is convincing, tears moving.
Man is capable of all heroism, Woman of all martyrdom.
Heroism ennobles, martyrdom sublimates.
Man has supremacy, Woman, preference.
Supremacy is strength, preference is the right.
Man is a genius, Woman, an angel.
Genius is immeasurable, the angel undefinable.
The aspiration of man is supreme glory,
The aspiration of woman is extreme virtue.
Glory creates all that is great; virtue, all that is divine.
Man is a code, Woman a gospel.
A code corrects, the gospel perfects.
Man thinks, Woman dreams.
To think is to have a worm in the brain,
to dream is to have a halo on the brow.
Man is an ocean, Woman a lake.
The ocean has the adorning pearl, the lake, dazzling poetry.
Man is the flying eagle, Woman, the singing nightingale.
To fly is to conquer space. To sing is to conquer the Soul.
Man is a temple, Woman a shrine.
Before the temple we discover ourselves, before the shrine we kneel.
In short, man is found where earth finishes, woman where heaven begins.

For Arriane

I have stitched this beautiful beertjes for my new born niece. Her mother has to do the name and date of her birthday. I think its cute when framed already.

Something for Aaron