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About justelly1

I work as a chemist, because I love science. My fav TV show is Doctor Who (my profile photo has been made last year, when we went to the 50th Doctor Who Anniversary in London) Another hobby is photography. Unfortunality my time is very limited for hobbies :( No matter what, I'm starting with sewing

Hunting ducklings with my camera and spring colors (photos)

The last 2 saturdays I had to cancel my sewing course. I didnt had the time ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

Today I went to my sewing course again. I could have post pictures of my new tee if I didnt had made a huge mistake at the end of sewing it.Unfortunality I need an overlock to endย  this tee. So I have to wait till next saturday.

After my course I went to a park with my camaera.

IT IS DUCKLING TIME !!!!! I sooooooo love them โค โค โค

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Arent they cute ????

The last pic isnt mom duck ! This one tried to steal ducklings. But you should have seen daddy duck. He hunted this one around the park. After this the duck scolded for minutes and I made a photo

I also made a few photos of flowers ๐Ÿ™‚

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Pimp my PAX for the kitchen

Yes, I know this wardrobe is ment to be for clothes.

ย  I needed exactly the width and depth (width 39 1/4 and depth 14) one of the Pax frames comes with. Butย  I needed also space for my .microwave.

ย I assembled the Pax including a few shelves and 2 drawers. The 13 3/4inch shelves has been to small for the microwave. I bought an extra shelf with a depth of 22 7/8 inch and sawed the depth down to 20inch. .On each side of the frame I put 4 steel angle brackets and screwed the shelf on it.

The next step has been the doors. With the bigger shelf the doors couldnt close anymore.And I didnt wanted my microwave inside a closed cupboard.

I sawed the doors down to 40.5inches. So the doors fit well under the bigger shelv.The smaller doors are 22inches.

Here is a picture of my shelf. OK the knobs are still missing, but otherwise its ready.

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With the larger doors I didnt have a problem. I choosed the high because of the hinges. This doors comes with 3 drilled holes. 2 holes I used for the larger doors.But for the small doors I had to make a drilled hole for each door by myself. And I made it perfekt. hehehe

The first picture shows the original drilled holes, the second one my work. You wont believe how often I measured the small doors to make it right.

Oh boy, half a year ago I hadnt ever work with a saw and now I sound like a pro LOL

I am so proud of my work ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™‚

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See my sewing course results :)

In most of my posts I write about going every saturday to my sewing course.

But I only showed in the beginning what I have sewn. The apron and the loop I made at home.

Today I will show you WHAT I made in my course.

My first sewing course day has been september 28th. Now we are end of march and I finished this saturday the 3rd piece for myself. All other things I made so far has been for friends and family. Can you believe it?

Unfortunality I didnt made photos from all the things I’ve done. I asked my god child to get photos of the middle age cape I made for her. She needed this cape for her final examination. We didnt wanted to buy a ready-made cape because they didnt looked so good. So I bought dark green woolen, and sew it in my course.

Here are 2 photos:

Cape 1 Cape 2

The cape isnt to long. It was made for her model which is 1 or 2 inches larger then Sonja. Unfortunality you cant see the beautyful dark green here. It seems dark grey. I even bought a brooch to make it more middle age authentic.

Here are 2 jackets I made for myself ๐Ÿ™‚

They are not perfekt, but I started both in october. Today I’m better with the seams hehe

The red jacket has been planned for the Advent season lol. The flannel inside is with Rudolph.

The grey jacket is with my much-loved dots and my fav color. I’m sure this jacket will get one of my favorite ๐Ÿ™‚

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New fabric for spring and Easter – couldnt stop buying it

The new fabric collection for spring and Easter is out.

I couldnt resist. The new fabrics are too cute ๐Ÿ™‚

This fabrics are for decoration at home. I will make baskets, tableclothes and stuffed animals.

I know I bought to much, but hey, I can make gifts for family and friends ๐Ÿ™‚

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I also got new nautical fabric

Fabric 3

do you see the one with the stripes? One side is blue, the other side is red. This fabric is a little thicker. I;m not sure will I sew 2 shorts or one 5 pocket jeans?

The 2 fabrics on the left will get blouses, the dark blue is jersey and will get a nice tee

The nautical fabrics are from my fabric store where I’m learning to sew. Every saturday I tell myself not to buy a new fabric. But when I see the new ones I had to have them hehe

Spring photos — again

I switched my camera with my god child this week. Mine is a full frame camera, but her camera has a 1.6 crop factor. This means my 100mm macro objective has now 160mm with her camera. I really really love this objective ๐Ÿ™‚

I went away from work early yesterday to make photos. A lot of days I’m coming home after 10 or more hours. This means winter isnt my season to make a lot of photos because of the darkness.

Yesterday has been such a lovely day: warm, sunny ….

I had to leave work hehehe

More and more spring flowers has been out there. Also many bugs and other insects. This is why I love to work with a crop factorย  ๐Ÿ™‚

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Spring is coming – Photos

Yes, its been a long time since my last post.

Dunno why, but I didnt had energy for working at home. But since one week its like I woke up. Maybe I ‘m related to polar bears and had to sleep all winter like they do LOL

Whatever. One week ago I startet to work on pimping my home again.

Yes, I’m still going every saturday to my sewing course. But guess what! I made 2 things – in words TWO – only for myself. All other stuff I sew so far has been for friends or my god child. And now I’m planning a gift for my god child again hehe

Last weekend has been the first time this year with temperatures about 50 degrees. I had to go out with my camera and look for spring pictures

YES spring is here ๐Ÿ™‚

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Happy New Year :)

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I’m a little upset about the photos from the firework ๐Ÿ˜ฆ I testet my camera the early evening. Every photo went fine. But when the firework startet I moved my stative and forgot to change the settings on my objective as well.

Whatever! I wish you a Happy New Year with happiness and health ๐Ÿ™‚

My first apron

I boughtย  patterns from Burda Style 2 weeks ago. I wanted to make special curtains I have seen on the picture from this pattern. Besides my curtain there has been a pattern for an apron.

No, I dont wear aprons and I dont own one.But my best friend does ๐Ÿ™‚

We will meet today. I have to give her the christmas gift (a bought one) . Why dont give a special self made gift too?

I startet yesterday evening and worked till 4 am. Yes, I’m not the fastest sewer so far, but hey, I’m still a beginner. I checked my fabrics, and chose 2 different cottons, same pattern but different colors.

Here is my apron:

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I’m damn proud of it. I love the colors and the compass logo makes it more special hihi

Little icicles on my window (photos)

OK, winter and it’s cold temperature isnt really my favorite season hehehe

But a few things I like about winter ๐Ÿ™‚ Christmas, the feeling when coming from the cold outside into your warm home, snow, hot tea with lemon or hot chocolate

When I woke up we had freezing 25 ยฐF and I found icicles on my window. Only small ones about 1 inch, but I couldnt resist to make photos with my macro.

When checking this photos on my computer some icicles looks like they have a plant on it. Amazing. Havent seen this before. Maybe wind did this art with water drops. I dont know

Take a look for yourself (the black on the top of the photos is the shadow of my window)

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I made my first Loop

OMG OMG I did it.

My first sewing project all by myself !!!!

As I postet before we had the first snow ๐Ÿ™‚ I took my camera and made photos. When doing this the snow were falling on my neck because. I forgot my scarf at home. Not so bad because of this I had an idea. Why dont sew a loop?

I wanted a loop which would be warm and with my favorite color and motive. In one of my first posts I wrote about my fav color = red and that I love polka dots and stripes.

For the loop I took flannel with polka dots and cotton with stripes. Both in red ๐Ÿ™‚

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And this is how my loop looks like

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I needed a little longer for it because I made a mistake and couldnt turn it inside out. I had to cut both seams and sew it again. This time it worked

And I so LOVE it !!!!