be more creative

There are so many ideas I want to do (with or without the kids). I hope I can finish them all:

- Try a new recipe with my daughter every week. Make pictures and make a cook book of hers (christmas-gift)
- Make jam with my daughter as little give-aways
- Go to the market and get some cloth to learn how to sew with my sewing machine. Make some pillow cases to practise.
- Make a scrapbook with all postcards from Postcrossing. Add flag-stickers to mark the countries they’re coming from
- Make little foto-booklets from my kids with all pictures I’ve taken just for fun
- Make a foto album for my little son Max. Add pictures of us (the parents), his sister, the cats, his grandparents, the neighbours and other people he sees regularly – something to recognize easily for him.
- Crossstitch a ribbon with my friends babie’s name on it to sew on a towel (as a gift for her newborn)
- Make a shelf for the garden with glasses and pots for my daughter to collect stones, shells, flowers.

Yesterday we talked a bit about trying to improve things. Just some everyday things we always use and always wish they would be working in this or that better way. Well, my husband was talking about so many things he wants to imrpove – I couldn’t think of one little thing. Not one! I had some other ideas, but he was either not interested or he immediately talked me out of it.
I probably should focus more on making things for and with the kids – ths is what I’m good at.

I am going to make something for my baby’s room: A cord with three stars in different colours. They will be soft and sort of like a cushion with my baby’s name on it and connected by a little ribbon. Maybe I am even going to put little bells inside, so that it make s a lot of nice little sounds every time he or she is playing with it – e.g. while changing a diaper.

and so little time to try everything out. Right now I have started a diary for my ideas: Everything that comes into my mind, recipes, whatever, I write down into that book. That also helps with not having too many sheets of paper lying around… :-) The funny thing is: 5 of the 6 things I have written down so far I also tried already! Motivating, isn’t it?