The Snowflower Diaries

Thank you for your patience. My latest design is now available in three languages (English, French and Hungarian) and you are very welcome to download it from here  ! :-) Good night, Mr Darcy ! IN HUNGARIAN Köszönöm a türelmeteket.  Legújabb mintám három nyelven (angolul, franciául és magyarul) immár elérhető, töltsétek le nyugodtan, a link .  Jó éjt, Mr Darcy!

Blame it on The Primitive Hare, but since I had seen her gorgeus, latest Pride and Prejudice themed design, I am totally distracted from my own designs and keep watching Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy on dvd.  There had been years, when I was such a huge fan of the BBC adaptation with Colin Firth that I had watched it and read Jane Austen's wonderful book million times.   I can totally understand Bridget Jones if you ask me. I am very blessed, because I met and talked with Colin Firth when he was in Budapest some years ago.  He and his Italian wife were both such wonderful, opened, kind and normal, I respect him even more since that day.   So instead of stitching I painted some 10-minute quick portraits of him to practice.  I love the English Derwent watercolour pencils, one of the finest, high quality pencils on Earth. Thank for your patience, the pattern for You Are So Loved is coming tomorrow! IN HUNGARIAN Fogjátok a Primitive Hare-ra, de mióta megl...

Please welcome my latest design, You Are So Loved. It is dedicated to the strongest and deepest love between human beings: the love between mother and child.    The model was stitched on 40 ct French Vanilla hand dyed Zweigart Linen by Nina with her threads (Coral, Artichoke, Iris, Caramel, Ginger, Espresso and Cigar).     It will be another free pattern if you would like to, I can upload the pattern in a couple days. Happy sunny day to everybody!:-) IN HUNGARIAN : Kérlek, fogadjátok szeretettel legújabb mintámat Nagyon szeretlek címmel.   A legerősebb és legmélyebb emberi kapocsnak, az anya és a gyermeke közötti szeretetnek dedikáltam. A modelt Nina 40 ct French Vanilla kézzel festett Zweigart lenvásznára hímeztem a fonalaival (Coral, Artichoke, Iris, Caremel, Ginger, Espresso és Cigar) Ha szeretnétek, szívesen megosztom ezt a mintát is veletek, de szükségem lesz pár napra a feltöltéséhez.  ...

To my dear Visitors, I wish you a happy and blessed Easter with this little card I had painted recently with watercolor art pencils. I wish I could send a copy with a handwritten message to each of you by post to all the countries you came, because you gave me so much support and love in the past three weeks since I have opened this blog.  I am very thankful. I have a big announcement. From the very beginning the majority of my visitors are from France, the least I can express my gratitude toward you is that from now on, the upcoming designs of The Snowflower Diaries will be available in three languages: English, French and Hungarian.   A nice lady will help me translating the patterns to French. Hugs with love, Maja IN HUNGARIAN: Kedves Látogatóim! Ezzel a kis képeslappal kívánok kellemes, áldott Húsvétot Nektek, melyet nemrégiben festettem akvarell ceruzák segítségével.   Bárcsak mindegyikőtöknek küldhetnék belőle egyet postán, kézzel írot...

I had joined a HALLOWEEN ORNAMENT SAL group this year where each month we have a different Halloween ornament theme (pumpkins, witches, black cats and bats etc) to stitch, a paradise for someone like me who loves Halloween and makes a pumpkin land out of her flower garden at home.    The March theme is haunted house and I came up with this design I share with you in this post. Now that I am ready, I think it would have qualified more to the ghost theme of May.   The poor haunted house is only a background decoration:-) The model was stitched on Nina 's Syringa Dark hand dyed Zweigart linen with her threads (Onyx, Pumpkin, Old Berry and White Sheep).  Please welcome some pictures of this very nice ghost lady with flowers in her hair.  I made a little pouch for my old white buttons... heritage from people who had once lived and loved and laughed.   You can download the pattern  here IN HUNGARIAN: ...

I have to tell you I have no strength to resist the temptation when it is about building my needlework stash.  Furthermore I love visiting the eyecandy stash posts of foreign stitching blogs and I am happy to share with you my first one of such in my diary here. (In case my husband asks, all these things costed ten bucks altogether, okey?) As you have noticed I am in love with hand dyed fabrics and threads.  I hope one day I can get lost in one of those amazing needlework stores you have in France, England in the USA as we do not have such stores here, so 95 % of my stash is from online webshops.    I am very blessed that despite this handicap, one of the most talented fiber artist, Nina is not only a fellow Hungarian but lives very close to my house.   No matter what I asked (and I have a wild imagination what colours and linens my heart desire, believe me) she brought  them to life. Soon.  I did not have to be anybody, and I am still a nona...

This Easter I decorate our house in white and shades of purple with a hint of yellow here and there.   Of course ot of the million tulips I had planted in our garden during the cold autumn days none is happened to blossom in purple, but well, let's stitch some, right? :-) My latest design is called: TULIPS WITH CHICK.   (You can check its twin pattern: Tulips With Bunny here ). I have stitched the model with Nina's Threads (with the extraordinary and amazing Punk that is only for the bravehearted stitchers, Butter Squash, Artichoke, Daffodil and Oak) and black and white DMC.   I am the half-blood prince little white flower:-) IN HUNGARIAN : Idén húsvétkor fehérbe és a lila árnyalataiba öltöztetem a házunkat itt-ott némi sárgával fűszerezve. Természetesen abból az egymillió tulipánból, amelyet a hideg őszi napokon ültettem a kertünkben, egy sem bont lila szirmokat, de majd legfeljebb hímzünk párat, nem igaz? :-) Legutóbbi mintám c...