The Snowflower Diaries

I chose one of my favourite pattern for today: AUTUMN WITCH 2013.  One with spring theme would be probably more appropriate, but don't worry we are going to welcome an army of stitched bunnies in the next weeks!  First of all I am utterly in love with Halloween and pumpkins.  I am a huge Harry Potter fan (or more precisely, a hardcore Severus Snape fan) and I enjoy stitching primitive witchcraft and wizardry theme designs.    This little design is part of a seasonal series, her little spring sister is coming soon, too!   As you can see one of my first homework is to learn how to put together a clear and useful instruction sheet for the designs.  It seemed so simple until I had to actually make one.    You would have never guessed this little one took me four hours (without the chart) of wrestling in photoshop.    Well, I have lot to learn! You can download this pattern in pdf file  here The thread pack ...

Today is the day when I open a window, a blog to my creative world.   It has been a long way.  Guess what, my family, relatives and most of my friends do not know about my hobbies, that I paint and draw, nor do they know about my latest guilty pleasure, the stitching.   I live a very busy muggle life as a lawyer in the capital city of Hungary and I am blessed to be the mother of three children.   My job is about defense and as a shield person for my clients I always thought it is wiser to show the tougher part of my personality and build a wall around my private pass time hobbies.    Secondly I thought if you are not outstanding in something than stay quiet and I am not outstanding in painting or cross stitching, do I need others to laugh at my works?  Definately not. It had been a long way to learn I was mistaken.  I am a much happier person since I opened up!  I met so many wonderful, lovely ladies in the past two years since I had bee...