New website

It's been rather quiet over here, because I've been working on a new layout on my own website. It's still a lot like this place, but fresher and upgraded. All previous posts and comments have moved already, but I'm tinkering with a few details every now and then.

So if you've been with me for a while, or if you just found me, please click here for latest posts and updates on my creative process and occasional musings.

A new post about spring feelings and flowery fabrics is already waiting for you.
Thank you for having accompanied me thus far. I hope you'll feel welcome on my new site.

Much Love, Mina

Unexpected setback

Moving into a new place is seldom easy. I have been prepared for some banana skins on the way. But this time seems to be exceedingly difficult.

I was promised a new kitchen, and got an involuntary adventure instead. If I ignore the poorly built state it's in, the leaking sink and the fact that I have neither a freezer compartment in my fridge, nor a ceran stove, then I am left with an oldfashioned stove that works beyond any reason. It does work, yes, but you're in for a little jeopardy if you decide to cook an egg or coffee.

If you turn on only one of the 4 hobs, nothing will happen. Turn on 3, and include the bottom right one, and all 4 will start to go full throttle. No matter how you regulate the power. To the state where you can watch the cooking plate turn red and see some sparkles. I am tempted to draw a little chart about the logic of this stove, if there was any.

Now all this wouldn't be so frustrating, if it was taken care of attentively. But my landlady is the mistress of procrastinating, and I am the slave of my own inability to set some limits. 

It's been 2 weeks in total now that I have been living with a crazy stove, and instead of asking what she's been doing during these days I find myself nodding understandingly, agreeing to another day waiting since "this document is still missing, that dude is not calling back, those repairing companies are so unreliable..."

Dealing with landlords has always been difficult for me. It paralyses me that all this comes up right at the beginning. I would have welcomed an easy start into a new chapter of my life. 

But you can't be guided by the thoughts about how things should be, or you're bound to fall into despair.

New horizons

It's time for new beginnings.

I've spent the past weeks organizing, rearranging and reevaluating my life and desires. So sorry to those of you who peeked in from time to time and thought I may have lost interest in sharing my thoughts and dreams. But rummaging around in the past in search of little treasures really does take up much time.

I finally made a decision that filled me with passion. I'll be moving to a new city, and amongst other things hope to seduce the new surroundings with my homemade cakes. The way to someone's heart is through his stomach, as we say.

Right now it's all boxes and chaos and the desperate search for distraction from that. I never liked moving much, but this time I feel something good will come from all this. 

So bear with me for a couple more weeks, until the new place and internet is finally set up. And then I'll hope to share some of the projects I've been working on so eagerly lately.
I can tell you as much as this; my knitting needles are blazing hot.


*credits: picture by Marek Bruns, made during our trip to Sweden for New Year's, still so much to tell you about that