Friday is my day: X by Leina neima

Tere! Today we are invited to visit Leina from Estonia. Well we, in European street team, call her Miss X because her etsy shop is called XbyLeinaNeima.etsy.com
She creates beautiful jewelries of felt and polymer clay but my all time favorites are the impossible mission soaps! Brilliant idea! Go and take a peek to her shop and maybe, if you are lucky, you can grab a halloween soap for yourself :)
Have a good friday!

Sunset in the Secret Forest - Necklace -

by: XbyLeinaNeima

TITLE: “Incredibly gray and rainy day with 2 cats, 3 kisses and constant sleepiness…“

CAST: Leina aka Miss X, 2 black cats, Leina’s boyfriend (BF), old country house, bicycle, random ghosts and hearts.

PLACE: small village in Northern Estonia.

******

7.30 OH NO, my phone alarm rings! As I read a book until 03:40 a.m. yesterday - I just ignore it and sleep on. Grzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

8.55 Finally get out from my bed. Once again later than I planned. As always I feel like zombie in the morning.

8.59 – time for goodbye-kiss to my dear BF who leaves to his workplace.

Before leaving home he opens hallway’s door and my cats run into bedroom. Now I am in trouble, they are in my way and I literally can move as slow as snail.

As we live in old house – which needs lot of renovation and I have had few time for cleaning, there can be seen mess and maybe even some dust bunnies randomly in the pictures. Just ignore them and erase from your retina like I do :=)

09.22 A sight from my bedroom window is incredibly gray today. Feeling sleepy and I decide to quit my morning exercises. Low atmospheric pressure is good cause to be even lazier…

09.30 Opening front door and trying to let my cats out – they look at me with surprise, walk in and out, shaking disgustedly their paws. Finally both of them are outside and I can shut the door. It is cold outside, approx 7 C.

10.24 Finally I am ready to eat my breakfast. I made some buckwheat cereal and try to enjoy it on balcony as always. Brr, it is cold in here, too…

10.30 Finishing my coffee in front of my laptop. It is time to say Hello my to Etsy friends, read and answer some e-mails. “Supergirl” rushes to help me just in time because I feel still sleepy and unable to get into right mood.

12.29 Time for a phone call and small virtual meeting with my dear friend Marianne from byMarianneS (byMarianneS.etsy.com ). My mood gets always better after meeting with her (virtually or not) – today we discussed about new projects and ideas in our mutual craft web-site craftwerk.ee. We always have a good laugh when working.

12.36 Leaves are falling outside and it also starts to feel cold inside. I fire up our wood stove and look into the fire for some time. I like to look into the fire, it makes me feel cozy and dreamy.

12.45. Finally get myself together (almost 4 hours from wake up!!! WOW!) Starting to make something I can’t show here yet – to sew **** for making tutorial to Home magazine.

14.31 Taking more coffee, cats are sleeping - everyone in our house seems to be sleeping, except me – I try desperately to stay awake.

13.35 – Miracle! There is sunshine outside - I rush outside and take random pictures of our yard and house. Everything needs renovation here but I try to avoid thinking about that.

Look, golden leaves are everywhere and I can recognize at least 3 different types of mushrooms. Is it time for mushroom sauce??? NO, it starts to rain cats and dogs again.

15.38 Just got an e-mail from one of my on-line supply shop, saying that they sell their shop until it is empty and prices are so low. I feel tempted! As I have had long diet on supply shopping, I make myself tiny gift and make an order. Just a few beads…

15.50 Continuing sewing “the thing that I can’t show here”, so I put here picture of me and Superhero, spying if tiny cucumbers in the bottle of dill pickle I put up yesterday are ready to consume. Nope, they are not. I am really impatient with things like that…

17.00 – Another dry moment! I rush out to make some grocery shopping. As my dear BF called me and said that he feels a bit ill, I bought some honey with propolis and raspberry jam. He will be fine!

18:00 Time to eat a bit. Who said I shouldn't play with food??? I just love it – so I decorated my potatoes and lamb-cutlets in my way – lot of spicy sausages and fresh quail egg on the top. And yes, 2 almost ready dill pickles, too. Voila! Bon Appétit!

18.30 – As usually my creative engine starts working properly really late. Sanding pile of heart shaped pendants for my “IMPOSSIBLE MISSION Soaps “www.flickr.com/photos/leinaneima).

20.38 – Pendants are sanded and buffed but my hands feel tired. I wish I can hire someone to do it for me… My BF is back, he worked in the far region today, so really late. Time for quick hello-again-kiss ;)

21.00. Finally starting to pour soaps! I enjoy this part a lot…

23.37. Soaps are finally ready and laying in the molds, they will be hand cut tomorrow. And now time for most tiring part of creating – cleaning. I should have a maid, too…

00.24. Time for good-night-kiss to my dear BF and back to my book. Sweet dreams and thank you for joining my day!

02.34…finally falling asleep.

****

Want to see how my soaps turned up?

Friday is my day: Psarokokalo

γεια! Today we will jump to Greece and meet maria from psarokokalo.etsy.com She makes art dolls, fiber art, clothes, accessories; handmade with lots of creativity and fun! Wishing you all a joyful Friday!

mrs Lina the art doll by: psarokokalo

a rainy friday in athens: i am maria living in athens i live with Thalia, dimitris, and our dog satie in the center of the city, welcome to our friday!

9.00 woke up today facing a rainy day! lucky us we will stay home today....have lot's of things to do here anyway!!10.00 we had our breakfast a bit poor but just came back from vacation, empty fridge ....payed a visit to the net! and our net friends! i love to do this !especially search flickr for art projects!then dimitris helped me to make a photoshoot of my new necklaces (i am the model)

like i said before the fridge is empty
so good for us today granny came to feed us!!!Thalia learned how to take her first pictures!
the camera suffered a bit
but i think she did well :-)thalia taking pisture me and a large doll that we are making
with my friend gragoty
(quat) for an exhibit
.....so we started working on the doll named ayelu!mean while our friend Elli and her mom came and we played
and then we eat all together!we continued making a big doll.....
and this is this days result!!!us! the ayelu crew!me and him!
now Gregory has to go home and us off to bed !!!

Friday is my day: Emma Pardos

And again we are lucky ducks and are invited to Spain, to meet lovely Emma from emmapardos.etsy.com She makes very pretty bags with lots of personality. So you know the rules; visit Emma first and then you can rush to her shop :)
Have a good Friday!

Handbag by emma pardos

It's 9 o'clock, time to wake up and it's pretty much the only moment of the day that I look at the clock. These are my favorite appliances. Impossible to have a good breakfast without bread, coffee and tomato!!

10:01h Objective of the day send out some cv's

I go to check my emails and on the way I walk past the bedroom...it's so dificult to make the bed!!

...continuing on, I find a bunch of things on the floor in the entrance for mike's exposition which happens this week
finally i get to the computer...but my internet connection has been really slow for the past few days so this morning it's the same thing. I fight with it a while...but this time I can clearly see that I need professional help

11:28h is that a storm? Is the sky black? I have to rush through the house to shut all the open windows because the rain was blowing in onto the floorI had to source some cardboard boxes for a project, but since it's raining I decide to try to fix the internet connection. I phone here, there...fixed! It works! Now I can send out some cv's in my search for work

12:32h I find myself on VIVALAMODA :)

14:43h Time to eat! Still have to cook the chicken though
16:59h what? Heli just told me I have to post a photo of myself!!
Soon after I finish preparing some straps for a few bags. The buyer prefer creme than black color
18:31h Going to the presentation for a bag design course which I will be taking this winter

20:29h I leave the course and ......autumn is near and at this time it's already dark!! And it's already starting to get chilly

21:32h pizza!! Some fresh tomatoe and coriander on top! And tinto de verano, red wine with gaseosa( it s like sprite or 7-up, but without so much flavour)
23:30h mike arrives at home with a bundle of things he found in the street.. Time for a tv show ( true blood)

01:11h time to go to sleep...another day passes without having sewn something. I've decided not to sew for a while...but I'll get back to doing it soon!!

Friday is my day: Stemellina

Today we will hop to Greece and meet Meli from stemellina.etsy.com She creates yummy jewelries from felt, earrings, brooches, necklaces, bracelets... and she runs a felt supply shop too at StemellinaSupplies.etsy.com

Have a good Friday and soft felt shopping :)

Plum Earrings
by: Stemellina

My name is Meli which means honey in Greek and I live in a suburb in Athens with my hubby Harry and our kids Johnny(9) and Georgina(3).

8.30 - Hubby leaves for work so I wake up and the first thing I want like crazy is my coffee.

In the summer time I like to drink a cold Frappe with lots of ice cubes.

9.00 - With my coffee in one hand and the mouse in the other I visit etsy.I really love that time!

It's 10.00 already and the kids are still sleeping so I decide to wake them up!As long as I'm in Georgina's bedroom I heard Johnny who is already in the bathroom.As you can see my princess sleeps with 3 stuffed golden retriever .First we bought the mom. Georgina named her Maximina and then we bought the 2 kids Max and Maxi.


They dressed and the first thing they love to do is to feed the fish.

10.30 - The breakfast is ready.Little breads with cheese and ham,cucumber,grapes, juice and milk.Oops !! Johnny just took a grape from Georgina's bowl.

11.00-1.00 After breakfast the kids go to their rooms and play.

As for me this is my fun time.I finish cleaning and cooking and then I start felting in the kitchen

Then I taking care of all the mess and go to the balcony to play the model as I am the one who poses for my creations.

1.30- Lunch Time! Today I made rice with cheese,salad with lettuce,tomato and cucumber and grilled meat balls.

2.30-5.30- These days I organize a small space in my living room to a studio. It's not ready yet but Georgina loves to help me out.She also likes to sit next to me and watch me working on my creations.Hopefully one day she can make her own accessories.

6.00 and Hubby is here! The moment that Johnny and Georgina hear his keys in the door they start screaming and jump on him when he comes in.

As its Friday we decide to go to the Mall of Athens for shopping.

Kids have fun there as Johnny runs with his Heelys ( shoes with wheels in the heels) and Georgina try on some shoes.

10.00- We are back at home and we are all very tired so the kids drink their milk and goes to bed.

Hubby serfs the internet. As for me I go outside in the balcony ( which don't forget I use it as a fashion runway ) and I work on some pictures for etsy.

1.00- Meli ! Meli ! Are you coming? Oh ! Hubby is calling me to go to bed! Sorry I have to leave you.

Good Night and Sweet Dreams......with no naughty thoughts ♥