Late birthday post... (2)

See that beautiful present I received from Mylene!! I was doubly thrilled because I have never done neither received a biscornu before... It's my first and it's GORGEOUS! I was soooo happy to discover it after opening the envelope. Mylene does such beautiful work (and beware, I hear that she's joined the quilting world recently!). I think the cording is made with the same thread as used for the pattern on thebiscornu. And you know what? The little button has "For You" written on it. How suiting!! And the giftie was accompanied by one of Mylene's worlwide famous hand-made cards, which I am now lucky to have more than one! :)

Now, my birthday surprise from Irene for the 2007 exchange within the Stitching Bloggers Birthday/Christmas Club ran by Becky. See all the neat goodies I received! Irene sent it to me directly to Norway and was it a lovely package to unpack! She sent me the cat/mouse Workbasket chart (from my wishlist, thanks so much, Irene!), the Norway heart from The Victoria Sampler, and here is a decription from their website:

Norway - "Tweed Stitch and Hardangersom"

Official Flower: Purple Heather

National Animal: Elk

National Bird: The Dipper

National Symbol: Milk

The Tweed Stitch, right under the Dipper bird, symbolizes dark green trees and deep fjords this country is known for. The Hardanger Heart, represents the specialty stitch technique we know and love, which has it's origins in this northern country. This geometrical drawn thread work takes its name from a town on the southwestern coast of Norway on the Hardanger Fjord. The technique is still used for parts of the festive folk costumes, and bridal wear, as well as household linens.

What else? A beautiful needle minder from Kelmscott Designs, which I always wanted to have, three different skeins in pink, my favorite color! and an extremely cute little tin box with Canadian chocolates, that vanished in a short time! They were delicious.

Irene took such visible care in picking the right items for me that I was particularly touched... thanks so much!

Again, Mylene and Irene, I am sorry for taking so long to show off these wonderful presents!

Pillow for Cheryl

I posted a link to Cheryl's blog before, but just for the record, here it is. I absolutely love the color combination. I picked an odd piece of Lakeside Linens 40 ct. linen - and my eyes didn't thank me for that LOL! and a skein of a color named Melon from The Dye Shop that alas doesn't exist anymore.

Next giftie will be for the ten thousandth reader, but that's a long way to go :)

Design: Pique et Pique (France)

Fabric: Lakeside Linens 40 ct

Threads: The Dye Shop (color -Melon)

The Queen...

Thank you...

...for your numerous messages on and off this blog! It's such a warm feeling to get in contact with you all again, thanks so much for your comments :) I've already sent many late e-mails out, some still wait in the queue :) Today was a bit windy here though sunny and I don't have much work for Monday, so I am sitting at my laptop most of the day and catching up... Watch this space this week-end :)
PETRA - I had a big broad smile when I read your comment :) Actually I had told H. to have his camera ready for when I exit to the arrival hall. Even my aunt kept telling me I am trying to do Mission Impossible. With 3 pieces of luggage and 2 transporters with pets, I wondered myself. What the picture doesn't show well is that one of the suitcases is huge, the other not so enormous, plus hand-luggage and Happy's transporter biiiig. I chose a bigger model than I had to wen I bought it last year because I wanted him to have loads of space inside. I decided not to stress though, chose a very early flight when I had to be at the airport at 5 am (!!!) because I figured there wouldn't be many planes cheking out and that - most importantly - whatever I do, however I behave, whatever ridiculous I and it might all look - at 5 am most people try to fight sleepy eyes and simply won't care. True! I didn't stress too much but I must say that if not for a wonderful family (a father with 3 grown-up daughters) it would have been much harder. They offered to help, carried my luggage, helped at the x-ray stand (pets had to be taken out, their transporters x-rayed and then put again in) etc. I was sooo thankful.
When it comes to photos from here, I'm afraid they might be very local this summer. Money is on the low side and we have tons of expenses related to works in and around the house, so we might not move much from home except for trips in the nature around. We've travelled so much and I've seen most of Norway already, which is not nothing if you look at its lenght and of course I LOVE to see, experience and discover, but it might be so that I won't have that many spectacular pictures to share this time. I realize that people expect to see perfect beauty and fjords when they hear 'Norway'...
SHARON - I am not 'back' LOL, I am here till late August or early September :) And I am so enjoying being here.
NATH - Merci pour ton gentil message ! Dieu que j'envie tes talents multiples ! Le sac est absolument génial :)
ELA - alez oczywiscie, wklej prosze :) Gdanska chyba nie zalicze tego lata, ale co sie odwlecze... :)
When it comes

In Norway!

I'm in Norway already, since 10 days and I haven't updated my blog in a looong while.

First, I would like to ask forgiveness to *anyone* who I haven't replied to yet - especially Donna, Mylene, Linda, MaryK and many others. I feel extremely guilty but I just have to say the last period was pure madness, so if you read this, PLEASE forgive me, I am terribly sorry, I am not ignoring anyone or nor caring, definitely not, I just wasn't able to cope with everything! During some periods days should last 48 h.

I'll update the blog with photos later but now I just wanted to write a quickie to say hei! (the Norwegian way) to everyone and first reply by e-mail before I go on here.

The last period in Warsaw was hot in all ways - weather, work and packing :)

The trip by plane went super fine:

You can only see Happy's tongue but he really is there in the lower transporter. Actually things went excatly the opposite way to what I expected. Toska (aka The Queen) - I thought she would be extremely stressed and need a long week of time to recover, but all the trip (airport, plane, drive home) didn't seem to impress her at all. She was CALM!!! like I don't know what. She amazed me totally. On the other hand, Happy had a great trip last year but this time he was extremely stressed and made sounds from the moment I got the transporter with him at the airport till the moment he could finally go out outside the airport building, and he asked with his paw that I finally open the damn prison, and cried and cried. He's such a calm dog normally so I was really sorry for him this time. The procedure at the customs went super fine. I have to go through the red section (goods to declare plus live animals) and some of you might know that the veterinary procedure to "import" pets into Norway is of the toughest ones. The customs officer was very careful in checking all official stamps, writings etc. but all had been prepared in the smallest details by me and it went fine. I was first a little bit anxious because the man was so "official" and not smiling, but I know they have to be so - and Norwegians often are that way anyway - but usually a big honest smile follows and that's what happened this time too.

H. was waiting for us and we drove home making just a small stop at our fav' pet shop to buy a thing or two more. My darling had bought everything himself the previous day: dog and cat food, litter and litter box, scoop, bowls etc. It was the first time The Queen was about to visit Norway :)

Since then I had tons of work and deadlines (also known as dead lions among translators) to face and many were the days I worked most of the day and night.

I'll continue later but I'll just add I'm making long walks in the nature with Happy, we work in the garden planting trees and flowers, and I only picked my needle yesterday.

I was actually about to reappear here on Monday, but on Monday... Happy escaped and I don't have to tell you what trying to find a lost dog involves. Police, other services, driving around till the wee hours of the night, and FINALLY getting him back a day later. I'll make a seperate post about that to describe how efficient and amazing the Norwegian can be!! Anyway Happy is back, but it's easy to see the whole thing was a huge stress. He slept all the evening and during the night, he hugged to me with his nose on mine, and he was just a ppoooooor little doggie all too happy to be with those he loves - and who love him. Dearly, as would say H., as we had to fork out over 200 usd!! to have him back. Yikes. But all the world knows Norway IS expensive. To those who haven't yet experienced Norway's expensiveness, I'll say: try to imagine it, multiply by nine, raise your hair, say Holy cow!, raise your hair and you might be close :)

Nath from France has received her little surprise and she already stitched one piece :)

Cheryl received the pillow I made for her as a giftie for being the 5000th to visit my blog and I am more than delighted to read the comments :) I loved the result myself and I am so glad she liked it!!!

I just love making new friends through this blog!! :) Thank you so much for enriching my life!

(toldya we all enjoy our time here!)

Away...

I know I disappeared :) But after a week filled with stress and too much thinking, I had taken the decision to just pack and leave for some days at my family - and I had such a great time that the stay elongated to almost 12 days :) During that period I really didn't feel for blogging... just had too much of a nice time :) To those who might think I was on vacation, I hasten to add - nope! I took my laptop with me and worked normally. My free-lance status means I can do excatly the same job as at home, anywhere there is an Internet connection. I am sure I don't have to convince you that working in the garden here, surrounded with gorgeous flowers in full bloom is just heaven comparing to working in my tiny flat in the center of a big town. Hah! I enjoyed every minute spent with my family. Gradma is slowing down with every day passing but she's just amazing. At 98,5 she's in better shape than most 80 years old people I know. Both my cousins with families live close to my aunt and visit very often. And the 4 cats and 2 dogs provide additional fun :)

The GREAT news is that despite a non-celebrated :( birthday next week, I have my plane tickets bought and ready for June 2nd, which is Saturday in more or less two weeks - I'll be leaving for my summer in Norway and I just can't wait!!! Now I need to fulfill the last steps of the veterinary procedure for both Happy and The Queen which means the next 10 days will be VERY busy. Happy has already taken the plane last year to Oslo but it'll be a first time for The Queen. And H. flew with me that day so it all wasn't that terrible despite the obvious stress. This time I'm facing taking a taxi to the airport with a) two big suitcases b) hand-luggage reduced to laptop in a hand-bag c) one big transporter with a dog d) one smaller transporter with a cat e) me and myself f) my STRESS, hey, I just have two hands!! I don't have the smallest clue how I'm going to cope with all that, kicking luggage with my feet while talking gently to my pets and holding tickets etc. in my hands. Well, I'll tell you. If I manage to do it, I'll be a proud gal. I keep telling myself that this is doable. The problem was that there weren't any cheap tickets left and the cost of H. flying back of worth to pick me up from Warsaw and help with the logistics was really prohibitive. Ya all know how travelling can be costly.

So, I've promised to live my birthday like it's just another day in the year and SMILE because in just a few days, I'll be flying to Norway! Waaahoo!!

Donna, I know I've been tagged, will reply asap! I'll be back home tomorrow. It's awfully HOT and my cousin and wife are going to Warsaw by car tomorrow so I'll travel with them instead of taking the train.

To the little giftie I promised - only Mylene posted a comment that day and I had promised Cheryl to put her name in the "hat" as well, resulting in her "winning", so if you see this, Cheryl, please send me your snail mail addy to fjordgirl at gmail dot com :) Mylene signed up for a PIF form me so a giftie will fly to Holland in due time :)

I've finished Their Song and started working on another piece. Pictures - soon.

I'm just sending this quickie as midnight approaches and I need to get up in just 5 hours, so I'll post more pictures tomorrow, if time allows.

A mood for celebrating

I really don't know why, without any apparent reason, I feel for celebrating everything today. Must be this horrible allergy/homeopathy text I got rid of this morning, because otherwise it's a gloomy week. Outside it rains very often, it is grey, a time for stitching, heh! ;-) The text for tomorrow is about registering trademarks in the EU so that'll wait, I'm doing a short break. And the phone is still silent between Norway and Poland, a consequence of last Saturday's tough talk between two people who love each other dearly but who sometimes have some issues to solve, like everybody :(.
So, apart from walking Happy and visiting the pets shop (didn't I say the word celebrating at least once today? LOL) - I got bones for doggie, tasty cans for The Queen and other rubbish to spoil them both ;-) ... I'll do pretty much nothing today.
And since my nephew celebrated his 5th birthday last week, here are some photos I took last December in Cheeseland.

On the first picture, it's me (the grey whale - WHO took that picture??? - ah yes, my brother... sigh) in the middle, H. (the tall Norwegian, you must know how to recognize Norwegians ;-)) and my sister-in-law. Jeremi poses in the center. When you ask him to pose, he becomes soooo serious. But when I take a shot in a natural situation, here's him!

5000 ahead!!

Yay, that is amazing! I wasn't planning to celebrate blogiversaries, but to hit 5000 visitors is nice enough to send a broad virtual smile and...

AND.... ON THE DAY (be it today or tomorrow or any day later) that my blog's counter hits 5000, if you leave me a comment saying more or less you're in for that, I'll put your name in a hat - naaaah, to say the truth I don't have a suitable one but I WILL write names on bits of paper, put them in a bag and proceed to an honest drawing LOL!) - and I'll send a little giftie to the winner. I promise it will be nice :)

Aaah yes... I won't be reminding you on that... so keep watching the counter! ;-) You have to leave a comment on that very day :)

Just for the fun of celebrating, smiling and to say thank you for reading me!

Busy week ahead

I wasn't very efficient today and work awaits with three very different texts to work on, and not very easy either.
I've only got a few stitches more to do on my Prairie Schooler stocking.
Replying to Vonna : well, if I want to be fair, I can't say why this stocking is not a winner :) Whatever I could say it would reveal which is mine LOL! and I want to be fair to Linda S-H who's the only other person participating. On the other hand, if you know me by now, you'll immediately know which one is mine ;-) I'll just say that I imagine a winning stocking as a more classic one, while mine is more sampler-like and very personal :)
I think we may have to wait quite long for the PS folks to choose the winner because our listmom Linda McM will be on a well deserved, super exciting holiday (waving to Linda! have a super lovely trip!!) this month.
I really made this stocking for fun, for the joy of participating in the contest and not to win anything (though that would be nice, I imagine :) I never win anything!). And now that that stocking is done and just waiting to be ironed, I must say I love it.
I also have to describe which element comes from which leaflet etc. but I'll do that in a free moment. Yikes, why do we have to work :(

No stitching?

Very wrong! I'm stitching very fast but I can't show it. I'm working on the Prairie Schooler contest stocking - with the idea I am not doing it for a contest, but for fun. There is no way my stocking can win, instead it will be a very personal one :)
Some days more and I'll be able to stitch on my WIPs.

On cats, dogs and birthdays

Cat queen is finally fine and back to normal, more or less :). She finally started to come for hugs in the morning. Well, her version ;-) The alarm in my cellular phone rings in the morning and she runs fast, jumps on the bed near my face and I take her in my arms :) She doesn't show more appreciation for me as a human being than that, but that is still a long way we have gone together since a little bit more than a year. I still have to be careful because there are plenty of things she doesn;t like, but she *is* changing, I swear she is. One the mornings when we sleep together nose to nose, belly to belly and her paws on my cheek, one could almost think she likes me! LOL I hope Happy forgives me for talking about her mainly on my blog, but with Happy, it's very simple - he is HAPPY. Always :)
Must say my own father did something very surprising two weeks ago. But from the start...their dog had a very ill heart and died while they were away in Switzerland and Canarian Islands. Now, I woulnd't have gone on a vacation if my dog was _that_ ill but that's me. My brother thinks I'm extreme that way, but my pets are parts of the family and as long as I don't have kids, they're my kids, my best friends, you name it. Already last Christmas their doggie was so bad that I suggesdted many times that they help him leave, but my father's wife was hysterical at the thought. I'll viciously say she was doubly hysterical, from what I've heard, when she learned that his condition worsened suddenly the day they left for vacation. I felt so, so very sad about how they handled it all. But then you can't tell other people how to behave with their pets/kids/hubbies/hobbies etc. ;-)
Anyways, five days after they returned, they took not one, but TWO doggies from the shelter! I am sooooo very happy about that. That they took dogs from a shelter, and that they took both they loved. One is already at home, it's a small black mix-breed aged 4-5 months named the same as his two predecessors, and the second one will arrive next week after the necessary procedure the shelter insisted on following (vaccinations, neutering etc.). She's 3 and redish, named Tara. Nice :) Both are small.
Now I must say my reasonable father surprised me. His wife is particularly good at forcing her wills on him, but he has some limits, and having two dogs is not something I would every thought he would accept. I am really happy :)
On another note, I am upset about my summer. I should fly to Norway on June 1st for 2-3 months, but the administration of my building had the wonderful idea of organizing not one but two types or works concerning my part of the building. One is putting additional heat insulation from the outside and the other, oh horror! is changing water pipes in both the kitchen and the bathroon. I love the idea! NOT! Problem is that they don't know the dates, I can't buy my plane tickets, and on the whole flying from Norway for a week or two for the duration of the works will be an expensive trick. So I don't know... and I don't know when I will know anything! That annoys me severely. Apparently I am the only person interested in knowing the exact dates :) RRRr-rrrr-rrrr. Might be I'll stay home this summer and just make trips here and there to avoid the heat when it arrives. Mind you, it won't be any day soon, after 10 not so warm days, we're facing 10 not so warm days with rain!! Each day.
So, H. was supposed to fly in for my birthday and take me back with him ;-) Mainly to help me with numerous luggage pieces, a dog, a cat and my nerves LOL! Now the situation being as it is and money being on the (very) low side, I think I'll suggest he doesn't come now. After all, a birthday is just a day.
Does anyone long after their childhood birthdays? I feel that whatever H. does, it's never as nice as it was in the ol' days :) My parents made it very special that day, also other family members. On the other hand, H's birthdays weren't celebrated that much, and well, he's Norwegian ;-) so the intensity of that day is not the same ;-) He does his best, but it's just not the same. My birthdays are never as nice as I would like them to be. My father used to wake me up with a delicious breakfast on a tray and the whole day he treated me very special, the day was so full of joy. For H., apart from the dinner out - or any other nice thing we do (usually we are away somewhere) it's just a day - and he's not behaving differently really. I don't know, maybe when you have kids, they know how to make it very important... Or maybe I am generally too nostalgic, which I am well known to be! :)
Heh, my nephew is 5 since Thursday! I sent him a biiiiig package which he received a day late, but his parents said it's great, because the birthday joy was then spred on two days. My SIL told me that when she came back from work, she saw Jeremi all excited, with red cheeks and all, shouting he got a package from aunt Anna, I can visualize that :) I promised another trip to Geneva soon, maybe without H., so we can spend a few days playing and having fun together and he'll have his aunt for himself :)

Read my lips...

SIXTY-SIX-DOLLARS is the price someone just paid for this little fav' chart of mine! Wish I were rich, heh! ;-)

Colors

Donna asked what my favorite color is (Donna, sorry for the late answer, I don't feel for doing much lately! :() I am asking that question to myself quite often. Some things are sure :). I hate blue. I admit to substituting blue in some patterns where it is the dominating color and I happen to regret not having changed it in others, like in Blackbird's Designs "Bluejay's message" I am working on. I should have done the bird in dark grey ;-) But then I look very good in dark marine blue and that happens to be my "elegant" color. Most of my official clothes are this color - I look very bad in black and only buy some black clothes "just to have them" because in some occasions they look best.
I can honestly say that I love deep, intense, fuchsia, indian, raspberry PINK. No pastel colors for me.... What annoys me personnally is that once I move out to Norway, I'll have to rething my color strategy for the interiors LOL! I don't think any man wants pink around him too much :) Here my room is in cream/pink/wood, my kitchen is green-cream-metal, the bathroom is light grey and pink. Not one blue element! LOL
Colors I look best in are "autumn" shades. I like to say that I look good in intense but muted colors, like "with a splash of milk" :). I have a peach shade of skin and green eyes - now, if I didn't look like a perfect mixture of both my father and mother, I would have wondered. Noone has green eyes in the family. One of my grand-fathers is said to having had green eyes but the way I remember him, I'd say they were blue. All his photos are black and white, unfortunately.
Never mind... Ah yes, I love some shades of dark grey and I'm always on the look out for such clothes. I have an old Ralph Lauren golf t-shirt I got for peanuts, I absolutely adore but it starts too look too worn out ;-) Unfortunately all the clothes I see that have this color are really made for men and unadaptable (much too big or much too manly).
Oh, and I hate admitting to liking pink! LOL I find it conveys an image that is not mine. No baby pink, no pastel pink, I like intense pink! I hate admitting I like pink, have I said that? ;-)
Now, when it comes to shades of cross-stitching fabric, I never have enough of light cream shades in all versions and types.
Well, like H. say - I love colors. Because for each purpose I like different ones, which all together create a very variegated palette :)
Sorry Donna, I know it's much more than you wanted to know but I should be doing some house chores and procrastinating is what I am best at in such moments! LOL

The queen has calmed down

Can that human sadist be trusted now? I wonder...

The SIXTH morning after the traumatic visit to the vet brought changes :) Finally she slept a loooooong time in my arms in the early morning, purring LOUD! Let's see how things will be now... It was a long wait but well worth it :) Only yesterday she jumped out of my arms each time I tried to be nice to her. But she wasn't biting or scratching anymore since some days so I knew there was hope! :)

During that time of trouble, big brother relaxed. "That model knows how to relax" - that's a phrase H. often says about him and we both laugh. See for yourself. I was changing bed clothes but got distracted at the computer too long... only to found Happy only too happy and deep asleep :)

Another cat post - this time a finish!

But what or who is hiding in there??


Oh it's just me the little cat...

I am accompanying my weird cousin who's been sent somewhere far as a giftie!

Design: from Prairie Schooler #06 Barn Cats (colors highly adapted!)

Fabric: hand-dyed Jobelan 28ct Wild Rose

Threads: VC silks and WDW/GAST

I also sent this little card (couldn't resist, they are hand-made and the gallery is just two houses away from me)

I am being hated...

...by my cat! Now I must admit that my devil queen has been changing gradually but incessably, she's developed lovely habits - like running to get hugs in bed with me when the alarm clock rings in the morning- or during the day when I feel for a moment of tenderness with her ;-) She hasn't been attacking big-brother-dog and generally she's just been changing. Now today can have changed it all.

I *needed* to take her to the vet to have a blood sample taken. A hundred dollars affair (gulp!) but she needs to have rabbies antibodies tested in the national laboratory somewhere in Poland, where the blood is sent by special messenger. This is because this summer, she'll be flying to Norway along with Happy the dog, and happy me. Happy had this test done last year and the procedure doesn't need to be repeated if you remember to do the rabbies vaccination each year within the prescribed 365 days. Of course there are additional criteria set by the Norwegians but these include giving the animal a pill against worms within the last 7 days before the trip - and then going to the vet in Norway within the first 7 days to repeat that. Of course each step has to be documented duly by official vets and done in set order and time. I did it all with Happy and there was no problem at the airport in Oslo. The police officer was a gorgeous young blonde girl, with a special reader she checked his electronic chip implanted in the neck, checked all the stamps and what nots in his European Union pet passport. But the most important is the blood sample - and today it was time to take cat queen to the vet. Yikes! Even if my worst scenario I didn't foresee that ordeal. We were 5 (FIVE) persons around her: I was holding the rear legs, one assistant was holding a towel around her neck so she wouldn't bite, another assistant was holding one front leg, another the other leg - and the vet did her best to take the blood sample. Problem is the official lab needs TWO big samples. Cat queen was very upset and no blood did flow. Only when she calmed down thigns started to happen. I didn't know that a cat (my cat!) is able to cry/shout THAT loud! It sounded like we were removing her skin. The lady from the reception came to ask us to maybe calm her down or do it quicker because people in the waiting room were asking what we're doing to this poor cat! LOL

Ok, try to visualize it. She tried to bite, scratch, kill, strangle, deafen us, whatever. It almost worked. At one moment I looked at myself and I looked that way: I was sweating all over, cat hair was flying everywhere, dark grey cat hair sticked to my wet face (lovely! i could have been mistaken for a grizzly..), then she made a strong move, and small and biggr drops of dark red blood sprinkled all over my white (who puts on a white shirt to the vet???) shirt, then to top it all she peed on me - now you can see the scene. I looked very lovely :) but the vet assistant warned me she could also do worse (you know what) - which she didn;t and I was very pleased with that! :) One hour later we had it all done, now it's just to wait about 4 weeks for the results from the lab. I got her the tastiest bag of delicious wet food for cats they had.

She's been resting all afternoon after swallowing all the portion. But don't be mistaken - she HATES me, she hates the world. When I tried to cuddle her, I was quickly reminded how sharp nails can be - and she makes warning signs as soon as I take her up. Okay, I'll have to wait and see. But for the moment I fear all the good work is ruined - she might have lost all faith and trust she he had built. Too bad...

Now, on special request from Lizzy (hi Lizzy, thanks for the lovely message!!! :), here is my progress on Their Song. As much as I love the amazingly well matched colours, I hate the fabric and I won't remember it as a fav' piece. But it will be loved once framed and hanging on the wall.

See this freebie!

I might stitch it very soon, it just shows me so well, LOL! Just need to change the hair color to something more suitable ;-) See it here.

It CAN get weirder!

Ooooooh yes it can! You won't believe it, at least neither H. nor my family can. This is *another* case where my data have been used! In the one I mentioned earlier, the b---d used my address and fax number - but not my name nor ID number - to try to get credits at many, many banks. Hmppppfff.

Now it seems someone (else?) used my name and my address in some bad way. I am "suspected" of having bought illegal diploma(s) online from a guy selling those both on the Polish equivalent of ebay and on a diploma-related site. I simply can't understand how all that is happening to me and can these two cases be coincidental? In what way? I just don't know. What worries me is that in the current one, the person also knew my second name which I only use in official documents.

We didn't go to the official part of the police "audition". The police officer was a young, beautiful woman. I'd say in 50% we just had a relaxed, laughing talk but the other 50% of time when I was asked about something and was replying, she had this disturbing way of looking me deep and straight into my eyes. Sure was a police technique but I can tell you that even if you're 100% honest, sincere and haven't done anything wrong, you can start to stutter and look like you're terribly guilty! LOL I need to calm down the next time! :)

Okay. So I was given to read the official document sent by the district attorney in Cracow, asking the special investigation section in Warsaw to audition me, to ask if I know a person called ---- -----, or using the nick ---- or -----, if I had bought a diploma or anything else from that person, had contacts with him etc. No, I haven't. No, I don;t know that person. But I told the police officer that I want to be 100% sure and honest with me and her so I'd return home, search through my harddrives where I still have stored all the information about the ebay and similar transactions I was in here in Poland or abroad, to check if I hadn't bought anything else such as a book, dictionary, mug from him.
I checked and I haven't. I have an appointment on Monday again to do the official part of the interrogation and sign what I have to sign. But now I have all the reasons to worry. Who is doing that? Who knows my second name? A coincidence, two cases like that within 2 months? Am I on a sort of bad list bought by someone? I can only hope this will stop soon. On Monday I will also call the police officer who came to see me at home some time ago. I had an excellent contact with him and the way I think I know him, he might contact the other department in another part of the town and maybe he'll have something to tell me. I am just curious to hear if he thinks there's any sort of connection between the two cases.
I'll keep you updated!

A quickie

Yup, that really was an unexpectedly fast finish, it only took me 3 evenings from start to finish.

Waxing Moon Designs - My needle and my floss

Threads: WDW

Fabric: China Pearl Jobelan, 28 ct.

I also am almost finished with Blackbird Designs - Bluebird's message but I`m missing a skein of Brick (rrrrr, what was left of it mysteriously disappeared during my Easter trip, either in the hoover, or in my cousin's daughter's hands, or in either cats' claws, rrrr) and it'll have to wait for a prospective order.

This week hasn't been nice, no work came in (it's always either too much or not enough) so a long awaited order brought a biiiiiiiig smile yesterday!

There's the frame for the Mocking Bird, a piece of Lakeside Linens 40 ct Sand Dune for CHS Sarah Spurr, the sooooo wanted conversion to Crescent Colors (plus threads and chart) of Prairie Schooler's sampler Autumn Leaves, tear drops (wanted to try them), Just Cross Stitch magazine, a 13 pieces pack of small cuts from Lakeside Linens (oh my, I think I'll convert from a Silkweaver to a LL addict), and a 36ct LL Creme brulee piece for the Mocking Bird. The LL Autumn Gold for the CHS girls is still on backorder, sniff, after almost two months, I think.
Now I really wish I could afford the recommended silks for the Mocking Bird and the CHS girls, including Sarah Spurr, but the price is just TOO high... I need to check again for Sarah Spurr.... I swear she needs silks!! LOL

Ah yes, I was about to forget. I also received the RR Apple Brown something fabric for Blackbird Designs - Their Song with the chart and all threads and I've started to work on it last night. However there's another project calling my name and if I succumb to it, I'll let you know!

Oh, these Lakeside Linens are gorgeous, why did I resist that long? ;-)

A bit unhappy

So it all looks like the b----d who used my phone and address data to try to do bank frauds managed to do something bad.
I am called to be at the police (special investigation section) today at 3pm - as a witness, and the case number is different from the one I had. So, the guy is guilty of something.
I got a visit from a police officer two weeks ago, who was absolutely wonderful, competent, professional and kind, who came to my home just to say he's closing the case for now and to inform me that regardless of what can/could happen, I am not to worry about anything - because basically, I don't know the guy, never heard of him.
Now it all starts again.

All my guilt is having had a tiny advertising for my professional activity in the biggest phone book in Poland, the police say that's where the guy probably took it from.

ARGH!!!! And I must say that for someone who is not used to contacts with the police, this can be an initial stress. Now I am getting used to the fact they are normal people, just in uniforms ;-)