M-O-O-N spells moon

It is done! My Little Moon Sampler is finished up. Just about an hour ago I made the last cross. Now I only have to find a fitting frame for it.
I only made a small adjustment to the pattern. I stitched the letters for "Friend" a tone darker, because the original color was not giving a strong enough contrast to the fabric.

The name I stitched to the bottom is my Mr.'s last name. We are going to get married anyways, so there is no point of using my maiden name. "Mattila" is a very common name here in Finland, almost like "Smith" in English language. The meaning of it is basically "House of Matti", while the name "Matti" can be translated as "Mathew" or "Mathias".

Back to normal

The happy family days are over. My parents and god parents are back in there home countries and slightly everything is going back to normal over here.
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On my last post, I have been asked if we really eat reindeer here in Finland and YES, we do. It is traditional Finnish food and very delicious. There are all kind of different recipes out here. Just don't tell your kids about it, we don't want to ruin Christmas :-)
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Than, while reading your lovely comments, I got to know that you are at least as crazy about sweet treats as I am. So here are some more. For teatime on Sunday, I made for my family Chocolate cupcakes with Vanilla cream topping. I got 32 cakes out of the dough and we ate at least half of them.

I love cooking and backing at least as much as cross stitching and I am considering on giving a cooking / backing blog a try.
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I also got a little bit of new stash. The missing colors for my Little Moon Welcome Sampler have been brought by my parents. My aunt has a huge stash in her attic, so I never have to buy those things. I just give her a call and she sends it over. And always, she sends a little bit more. This time I got some 16ct. Aida and 25. and 28ct. linen and two new kits. I have no idea, when to use that all. I have so little time.

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Last but not least. My secretary desk is finished. Well not entirely, there are some small things missing that I will adjust later. But the paint is on and it is standing already in our hallway.

Today is the day!

Yes! Today is the day that my parents (living in Germany) and god parents (living in The Netherlands) are coming together for a long weekend to Helsinki. I haven't seen all four of them for at least one year and for my god parents it is the first time ever coming to Finland. Too bad that I still have to work today and tomorrow, but I will see them after my shift, that ends about 4pm. On Saturday and Sunday than is Family-Day on the Agenda. Saturday is some sightseeing, Red-Tram-Riding (Bar in a Streetcar - very funny) and Eating Reindeer planned and Sunday the whole crowd is coming to our place. Having coffee, tea and lots of backed goodies and BBQ in the evening.
So far we are also very lucky with the weather, it isn't to warm thou, but the forecast is talking about lots of sunshine and no rain.

I also recognized that is has been already more than a week since my last post. Well, I was spending the little bit of spare time to clean up my precious home. Not that it is messy, but you know: when Mama is coming, it has to be sparkling. The only stitching I did, was on my current Fair & Square exchange. I finished up the main square and am now busy stitching the one with my signature. To bad that I can't show anything about that yet.

Toukokuu

Actually the Mr. and I planed on going to the movies yesterday, but due to a lack of motivation we stayed home launching on our couchs. While the Mr. was busy killing Monsters with his PlayStation, I took the time to stitch some more.
Now that I can't do much more on my Little Moon Sampler I dug in my WIP-basket and pulled out my SAL des maisons from Maryse. I finished the month May and I really love this one. The colors are so bright and lovely to look at.


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Yesterday was also the asignment of the new Fair & Square Round # 13. My this time partner is Renee. While surfing through her blog and reading her profile, I got the idea that our Likes and Dislikes are besides of a few exemption quite much the same. So I decided to stitch something that I would love for myself. But of course I will not tell you what it is. That's all top secret.

Little Moon update

Unbelievable that it has been already two weeks since my last post. Well nothing much happening here either. I'm still busy with work and studying. It's now only 4 weeks until my exam and therefore there is not much time for stitching left. Thou due to the Labor Day Holiday yesterday (we call it also Vappu) I got a couple of days off and that means lots of stitching time.
I made some progress on my little moon sampler. I'm still busy stitching and I technically could finish it over the weekend, if there were not one color missing. But I ordered it already and when my parents and god parents coming for a visit in two weeks, they will bring the missing color.