~ Lovely goodies and an award ~

Hello all, how are you doing? I hope you all had a great weekend and your new week ahead will be a beautiful one!

It's been over a week since my last post, sorry for the silence, work has been quite busy lately! Thank you so much for all your kind comments, your messages, your words of encouragement really made my day!

Well, not much for today post, I just would want to share with you some lovely goodies I bought from a lovely lady on Ravelry last week. She has some beautiful yarn for sale there, I checked out her stash and picked these beauties out:

Two balls of Vanna's Choice Baby, Aqua, one is wound into smaller balls.

Caron Simply Soft in Country dark blue. I see some bloggy friends using this type of yarn very often for their projects and I would want to try also, but it's not available at my local craft store here, so I took all three balls and love it!!

Caron Simply Soft Paints, also very soft and has a lovely variegated colors - Oceana.

Naturally Caron Country, in my favorite color... Soon I will find something beautiful to make with this lovely yarn!

And these Paton's Brilliant in lilac are just so soft and beautiful. This type of yarn has been discontinued, there were only 6 balls left in her stash so I took all. I've been thinking of knitting a top with these, and I'm still looking for a pattern to try!

I've never used any kind of glitter yarn so far, but it looks just cute so I took 2 balls, this can be something fun for my baby projects... ;)

The package arrived quite fast and here is all the yarns I have bought from her:

Look at the picture below, except a set of DPNs size 3 I also bought in the same order, all the rest are included in my package for free! Knitting needles - used and new, 11 pairs in total and a pair of Takumi circular needles together with some stitch holders - she offered them all for free as I was buying her yarns!

Other than that, below is some lovely stuff she included, a small ball of Simply Soft paints in rose garden and some bows, flowers,.. she made for embellishment and gifted to me as well. How nice!

But the best part is this pair of barefoot sandals - also a gift from her! I'm going to have a vacation and these will be something very cute with me on the beach, and very sexy, too! Thank you Denise, for such cute stuff on our first deal! I love them all!

And, one more thing to share is, I have received this "Liebster Award" from Miss Beena Stephy over at Beena's Creations. Thank you very much, my friend, for thinking of me and has passed this award on to me, I'm so honored!

I just googled the word "Liebster" and so fun to know it's German and means "Dearest", or "Beloved"! Go check out Beena's "Dearest" blog, her embroidery is amazing!!!

Thank you everyone for stopping by, wishing your days are all gorgeous!

Take care and best wishes ~

Sunshine award and sunshiny crafting day!

Lovely Jee Q at Learning to write and Rob at Men Crochet have passed this Sunshine Award on to me earlier this week. I'm so happy and feel warm in my heart for the thoughtfulness from our bloggy friends. Thank you both, it's so nice of you to think of me and send some sunshine to my days! I'm very hornored!

It's my turn to answer 10 questions: 

1. Favorite Animal: Dogs
2. Favorite Number: I have no idea :)
3. Favorite Non-Alcoholic Drink: Coffee
4. Facebook or Twitter? None
5. My Passion: Crafting
6. Getting or Giving: Both
7. Favorite Pattern: So many
8. Favorite Day of the Week: Saturday and Sunday (I love weekend!) 
9. Favorite Flower: As long as it's flower.
10. Favorite Country: So many

This time, allow me to skip the part of nominating this award to 10 blogs as I did previously with other awards. To be honest, there are so many beautiful blogs and all of them deserve the award so I think 10 is not enough. I would want to pass this award to all my bloggy friends and my followers who have been encouraging me so much with my crafting so far. Once again, thank you!

Well, back to my crafting topic (as usual :)), I have bought these balls of crochet thread, they will be used for my next project, a top pattern in my crochet book. I love this variegate color so much! Sweetie chose it for me knowing it's my favorite! I will try it soon!

I think these balls of thread is perfect for something lacy, they are just so sweet!

And these balls of cotton thread I don't know what to make with, just love the colors!

Here are 2 balls of yarn I will knit a sweater for my sweetie. When I first saw the pattern on my knitting book, I know I will make it for him! Oh I just wish I will retire right tomorrow (not 25 years later), so I can have full time for my crafting and do whatever I'd like to! :)

I love bamboo knitting needles pretty much, but the store I often visit doesn't have this kind. Last week I stopped by a small craft shop and found them there! Exactly what I was looking for! I took a set of 9 pairs, from 3.0 mm till 10.0mm.  

I just love, love, love it! Even though I have still not yet experienced bamboo knitting needles before, they are just too lovely! People say that if we use them a lot we may find they will benefit from a light sanding every now and then to keep them nice and smooth and to keep the tips from breaking our yarn. Sounds great!

My knitting needles case is now filled with these! But it's OK, I will sew a new one, as the fact is, sooner or later, I will take home more! :)

I also took this one from the mini craft store. A ball winder. I have some big balls of yarn and this is a good idea to wind them into many smaller ones to easily go with my purse - crochet on the way!

Some balls I have winded... Anything related to yarn is all so fun!!! :)

One more thing I would want to share with you, Hannah at Not Your Average Crochet is hosting a very beautiful Giveaway, just click on the photo below to check out and enter. Good luck! :)

Thank you so much for your time with my ramblings today...

Take care and hope everyone have awonderful weekend ahead! ♥
~ Best wishes, LS ~

Versatile Blogger Award

Hello all my bloggy friends!

Rob at Men Crochet was so kind and nice to think of me and pass this Versatile Blogger Award on to my blog. Thank you very much, Rob! I cannot believe my blog is versatile! I'm very chuffed! :) 

Now it's my turn to follow the rules:

1 Add the award to your blog

2 Thank the blogger who gave it to you

3 Mention 7 random things about yourself.

4 List the rules

5 Award to 15 bloggers

6 Inform each of those 15 by leaving a comment on there blog.

1 - 2 - 4: Done. Now I have to list 7 things about myself - I just wish I can skip this part! :)

• I love coffee.
• I started to try spicy foods a few years ago, and I just love it.
• I don't smoke.
• I love dark chocolate.
• My favorite color is orange, green, cream and recently I feel I like blue.
• My sweet honey just brought to my home 2 chickens, they are very cute in the garden!
• I met my honey 8 years ago and we don't celebrate Valentine's Day. I love gifts, love flowers, love chocolate,..., but don't need to have them on Feb 14.

This part is also not easy, I have to choose 15 blogs to pass this award on to. Here goes, in alphabetical order:

• Annielizabeth at annielizabeth's heart to heart 
• Anne at Ungardened Moment 
• Annemiek at mieksthreads
• Aurora at Aurora Blythe 
• Celeste at les mailles de celeste 
• DaPerfectMix at Mixing it up with DaPerfectMix 
• Donna at GG's Creative Corner 
• Esther at Happy In Red
• Heather at The Good Life 
• Mercedes at el olor de cadiz  
• Meredith at Mereknits
• Tammy at T's Daily Treasures
• Teresa at Teresa Kasner
• Sandy at Sandy's Space
• Saskia at Crafty Valley

I hope you like the award, but you don't have to participate - a smile would be good enough! 

Great weekend to all! see you sooooonnnn.........

Happy Returns and Sunshine Award!

Hello, hello everyone!

I've got back after a short vacation, so now I'm so happy to be here and say Hello again! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! For me, I know I had! ;)

I would like to express my THANK YOU for all your kind words on my last post. They really touched my heart. My dear friend Donna told me your comments warmed her heart so much. How precious bloggy friendship is! I'm sure she would not mind when I reprint this from her message to me: "And the comments left on your blog warmed my heart so much! They were so kind in their comments about our friendship and about my FRIEND album, so very, very nice!". So, we thank you!

When I returned, I received many lovely things which made me so happy! My Mom prepared food for me to enjoy together, my dear friend's message arrived to welcome me back! I also received this Sunshine Award from lovely Aisyah at My Tinker Space, thank you Aisyah!

Well, to follow the rule I have to tell something about myself:

• I love sunshine! :)
• I love coffee and... dogs! :)
• I learned to swim last year and now I forget how to swim!
• My childhood memories are always in my mind...
• My hair is dark brown naturally and I don't want to dye it any color.

I'm done! In turn I have to pass this award on to other blogs, oh I'm so scared of this part! All your blogs are awesome, and all deserve the award, but I have to pick some friends so I would like to pass it on to:

1. My dear friend, Donna, who is very special to me and is a part of my life...
2. Josie, who always makes me happy with her words of encouragements...
3. Susie, lovely lady who is always with me from the beginning of my blogging...
4. Tammy, she seems never misses any post of mine to leave her kind words on!
5. Penelope, a nice friend who gives me so many inspirations...
6. Annemiek, talented lady who loves dogs as much as I do...
7. DaPerfectMix, lovely friends who is also with me from the beginning...
8. Carol, a kind lady who always spreads her love to everyone...
9. Sonia, who leaves her sweet comments of motivation on my crafting work so far... 
10. Caz, "never knew" how her nice words meant...

I would be happy if you feel free to take this award and pass it on to other blogging friends, but please don't mind if you don't want to!

Great day to you all!

Take care and till next time! x

Stylish Blogger Award!

Hello everyone,

I would like to share you some things made me more than happy at the beginning of New Year! :)

On my holidays, I received the nomination from lovely Teje, she'd like to give me the Stylish Blogger Award! Oh my, I cannot believe my little blog is 'stylish'! So amazing! I'm very honored to take it! Happy vacation then! :)

Another big surprise came to me when I got back, lovely Daperfectmix gave me the Stylish Blogger Award again! I was so delighted she passed this award on me! So excited! My honor, lady!
Thank you, thank you my sweet friends so much for your thoughts! This is really a big encouragement and a very special New Year present to me! Nothing is greater than!

Well, to keep the condition of the award, I will tell you 7 things about me (just wish I could skip this part):

1. I love nature and what is natural.
2. I love the simple things and always try to make everything simple.
3. My childhood memories always in my mind and always make me smile.
   
4. I rarely cook. But I believe I will be a good cook if I pay attention to cooking :).
   
5. I learned how to swim more than one year ago, and I didn't swim since then!
   
6. I learned Chinese for a about one year long time ago and now I even can't write my name in Chinese!
7. I love making bags and purses, a lot of bag ideas are waiting for me!
   

I'm happy to pass it to new lovely bloggers, just some of them here:

• Josie from Flower Power
• Tina from Beansie Bables
• Louise from Gephart 836
• Lee from Killiecrankie Farm
• Lilybets from Nel bosco di Lilybets...favole, ricordi ed amicizia.
• Pammy Sue from Scotty's Place
• Linda from Linda Crochets
• Anita from ASE Keepin' Creative
• Tammy from T's Daily Treasures
• Sarah from Home Made Gorgeous
• PattieJ from Blissfully Domestic
• Denise from Knitting Kitties
• Jacey from Coffee 'n' Crochet
• Maaike from creJJtion
• Rudee from A Knitting Nurse
• Sara from tangled happy

Visit them for your inspiration, they're really rock!

To accept the award, you have 4 duties: link back to the person who nominated you; tell 7 things about yourself; pass it to the 15 recently discovered bloggers; contact them to let them know about the award. Enjoy!!!Thanks again Teje and DaPerfectMix for the award! Thanks all my lovely friends for always warming my heart with your sweet friendship and encouragements all the time!!!

Have a wonderful New Year!

Beautiful Blogger Award

It's soooooo happy to me when I was given this lovely award from Clara and then Hayley, thanks ever so much for thinking of me "Beautiful Blogger", you really made my day! :)

Well I'll tell you 10 things you don't know about me, keeping with the award conditions:

1. I am a Vietnamese girl, also the only girl in my family.
2. I am 25% French, from my grandfather.
3. I haven't got married yet.
4. I love dogs and other animals, so much.
5. I learned to crochet about one year ago, and deeply fall in love with it.
6. I bring home a ton of yarn and thread but when starting a new project, I bring another one :( .
7. I just started to learn knitting yesterday, and found it's really fun!
8. I go jogging 4-5km every morning.
9. I love coffee and enjoy it every day.
   
10. I also love Louis Vuitton bags but never think about buying one!
    

Phewww, done! Now it's my turn to pass it to 10 blogs, such a hard job! I have to choose only 10 of 10 millions beautiful blogs! So some of them are:

• Penelope from L is for Love
• Casey from plus3 crochet
• Susie from Uit het breitaske
• Sonia from Raine and Sage
• Jacquie from Bunny Mummy
• Teje and Nero from Nero's Post and Patch
• Mopo from La tana di...
• Nélia from Magia do Crochet
• Ames and Tash from Le Tigre Papillon
• Glor from Crochet Galore

I just wish I could write down my list as long as I love, not have to stop at 10, very sorry for that. And, it's my big fun if you take this award and pass it to the other blogs, but please don't mind if you don't want to. :)