The domestic housewife

Hey there,


It's been rainy and gloomy here for the past week. On days like that I have a bad habit of lying down on the couch as soon as I get home from work. I've been reading more than I've been writing lately. This is what my nightstand looks like right now..

Last weekend I participated in a program called Christmas in a shoebox. You fill a shoebox with some necessities along with some fun stuff. Wrap the box in festive christmas paper (optional but fun). The boxes are then sent to children in need somewhere in the world. This year it's Ukraine.
Like the past few years I made two boxes;

one for a boy..

and one for a girl.. 

I added some more stuff after I took the pictures f.ex. a teddy bear and a hat.

Then I wrote a card in both Russian and Ukraine (please google translate don't fail me now!)


I've been pretty busy today. We're having a secret Santa game at work next week and i've been working on the presents today. Like always I tend to go a little bit overboard with stuff like that.

Day 1

Day 2

Full of home baked chocolate chip cookies

Day 3 

Day 4

and 

Day 5

And than I have yet to find a big present for friday night when we all go out to dinner together.


I've also been working on a little project.
Took some pictures of my younger brother today.

I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with them. This is what I have for now.

Today I started knitting as well, if you know me well you're probably a bit surprised right now. I know for a fact that my elementary sewing teacher would have a heart attack if she would hear about this. The last thing I remember knitting was when I was 11 years old and decided to turn my "scarf" into a wool corcelet, super sexy I know!


I've just never had the patience to knit. But today I decided to give it a shot and after almost strangling myself with the string a few times and with help from my great friend google I managed to get going. And despite a few holes and the fact that knitting recipes look more like mathematic formulas to me it looks pretty good.

That's it for now, take care!