Catharina Blaauwendraad

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Escapology vs escapism

Both body and mind long for hibernation in a warm hole, far from the evil world outside. But books and knitting do not keep evil at bay – oh

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Blue Monday is the name given to a day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) said by a UK travel company, Sky Travel, to be the most depressing day of the year. https://blaauwendraad.blog/2025/01/06/blue-monday/

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Cold Water

Happy New Year! Of course, you may consider every day, every hour and every minute as a symbolic new beginning. With all the hope in your he

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Möbius strip

A Möbius strip is not only interesting to crochet or knit, but is also more manageable than a scarf and it drapes itself smoother than a tur

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Baskets. Almost better than Boxes.

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Tabby cat Benny by himself on the chair in the back, red-haired brother and sister Doortje & Franz together in a cardboard box in the foreground.

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Coming home https://blaauwendraad.blog/2024/11/22/coming-home/

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Today I discovered the wonderful word #fancywork: ornamental needlework, crochet, or knitting, as opposed to plain or purely functional stitches. And I discovered that it is more functional than the term suggests. https://blaauwendraad.blog/.../20/in-the-mood-for-a-snood/

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#reflection

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Tropaeolum is dying, marking the start of the frost period...

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Collage of wood fungus, fly agaric, scaly inkcap and puffballs that we encountered on our forest walk.

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Limited Vision

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A break in the weather

The day before yesterday the pepper plants were still outside in the sun, yesterday I harvested potatoes and today I woke up to a #WTF momen

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ISBN #9780224611855 125/176

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#synchronized #caturday

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2. Kerze angezündet