Picture Saturday: Australian Seed

Who knew that  this?

A type of seed pod from Australia

Could be turned into this?

Beautiful hand turned container

I saw these while watching a turning demonstration at Lang Pioneer Village 

FO Friday: BP Kelenföld Painting and traveling to Vienna

If you want to go to Vienna from the 11th District of Budapest or neighbouring districts I would recommend that you leave from this train station.  The last time I checked, it was 31 Euro to travel round trip (including public transportation for 4 days) and it takes about 2.5 hours if you go from Kelenföld.  Since it is not the main train station it is a little less crowed, but the ticket sellers do not always speak English.  By choosing to traveling by the Austrian high speed Railjet you will be treated to a modern, comfortable European trains.  I have traveled once to Vienna this way and once to Salzburg by Railjet.  They by far have been the nice trains I have travel by in Europe and in Canada.

A few weeks ago I showed you the beginnings of a painting of the station.  Now here is the finished version.  It is my  first serious effort in acrylic painting and I think that it turned out well.

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WIP Wednesday: Cross Stich Baby's Bib

While staying at my parent's house this week I started to get a little bit antsy, so I went rummaging through an old stash of yarn.  I didn't find any yarn that I wanted to knit or crochet, but I did find an old cross stitch baby's bib to finish. I am thinking of putting it on a teddy bear and giving it away.  Any other suggestions about what I could do with it?

I also went over to the yarn store and bought another ball of the Canadian coloured cotton, so I could make more face cloths.  This time I decided to make it a little bit different shape.   I decided on Tricksy Knitter's  Leafy Washcloth:

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Picture Saturday: The Classic East German Car

A  month or two ago I was walking to the bus stop in the Village (where my school is located) and saw this curious looking car:

What is it?  A convertible Trabant! 

The regular version of these cars were everywhere in Hungary during communism and just after the fall of the Iron Curtain.  My dad's uncle had one that we would ride around in when I visited Hungary in 1993.  He would take it up to the top of a hill and then just coast down in neutral. Today he just has the tires left.  Here is a picture of a regular Trabant:  (It was originally posted when I wrote about my trip to Germany.)

FO Friday: Face Cloth and Laurel Letter Opener

It has been a slightly productive week for me.  I completed the Canadian Coloured face cloth/dish cloth.  I decided that I will try it as a face cloth and if I don't like it then I will use it as a dish cloth. I have already used it to cool my neck in the sweltering heat.

Project Info

Name: Face cloth/dish cloth

Yarn: Kertzer Coolspun Cotton

Colour: Peppermint (9191)

Needle size: 4.5

My mom's wood turning progressed well.  The results was this letter made out of laurel wood which is grown in Appalachian Mountains. 

Bark side up

Bark side down

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WIP Wednesdays: Dish Cloth and Wood Turning

 Wednesday already?  How time flies!  Sometimes I don't know where it goes. 
I was away from Thursday until Monday visiting friends and a church in beautiful Welland. I had a chance to visit my favorite place in Welland - Merritt Island:

It was peaceful sitting at a picnic table looking out onto the river

This was also peaceful until so people decided to turn on their rap music

I also had a chance to sit out by the old canal watching some women's quads rowing.  It reminded me of the time when a lady who lived in my building in Welland was trying to recruit me for a coxen.  Unfortunately, I was moving to Hungary, so I couldn't join the fun.




 
 Now to WIP Wednesday. Do to all the fun I was having I didn't have a lot of time to work on anything, but last evening (Tuesday) at Soper Creek Yarn's Knit Nite I decided to start something small:

I was going to make it into a dish cloth, but now I am thinking of using it as a face cloth.  It is our national colours, so in Hungary it can remind me of Canada.

My mom has also been working on her own WIP this week.  This piece of wood is being turned into a letter opener.

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Eastern Europe Missions Trip

Do you have a heart for prayer?
Would you like to pray for the CRWM missionaries working in Eastern Europe?
Why don't you consider joining the CRWM prayer mission trip to Eastern Europe this September?
For more information see Mission Link or contact me for more details.

You better act fast - registration deadline August 1st!