pahasiga

Just moved... living in a slight chaos.

Swaps/tags/etc whose fate I wish I knew:

• Show me your town! - sent Aug 3 from Canada (lost?)

• A Rainbow of Photos - sent Aug 5 from USA (if it WAS sent?)

• nolagirl sends a stuffie!!!! -> sent July 2 to USA (either receiver or package lost?)

Non-formal unfilled swaps:

I have promised to send and haven't yet:

• To send prizes to three winners of my giveaway bingo game: @Bugtussle s 20 items to go. (some handmade items still in progress)

• FAD YGFQ to @ozduchess

• three Estonian children books and a cartoon for @SweetClementine (books bought but not translated)

• To show Floppity around and send her to next host. (not here yet)

I have been promised and haven't received yet:

• 10/18/2007 - a DIY soap kit from Rebes in DIY kit PIB
• 03/11/2008 - a DIY jewelry kit from anaheimblackmailer in DIY kit PIB (angeled by @lilychouchou )

Work: a software company at half-time.

Home: husband and two sons (6 and 4); no pets.

I am Estonian, my husband is Latvian, children speak both languages (well, so do we). We live in Latvia.

"Paha siga" in Estonian means "bad pig" - from a story of a piglet whining that he cannot burrow as either his snout is mangy or ground is frozen. I was often like that during my second pregnancy and to warn my fellow chatters (you know, trying to find solutions for someone just wanting to whine gets both angry) I changed my nickname to paha_siga on these occasions. Afterwards I stuck to it as it was far more original than previous nick.

This little pig in my avatar I crocheted specially for using as an avatar. I wondered after photographing whether I should find her now another use, for example, as a pincushion (making her therefore a porcupine - in Estonian "thorn-pig") but a friend told me that she looks more like a sad pig than a bad one and it is obvious from her face she knows about my cruel plan to stick needles into her; so I just gave her up to my children for playing.

I like mostly knitting, a bit less crocheting; I like making toys more than anything else. Making a pair of mittens is not as interesting as making a pair of knit glove puppets, although mittens would be easier. On the other side, I prefer for my stuff to have some kind of use as well. I am also exceptionally good in washing-machine felting when it comes to my husband's socks - I have produced heaps of baby socks already (unintentionally, I must admit).

I hope to try this year several fiber/fabric related crafts like dyeing and felting. I also hope to give a good try at my table loom. And then I want to get rid of my acrylic yarns (except for variegated ones that are cool for amigurumi) and stock up natural fibers - I'd especially like to try some other fibers than wool.

Now, thanks to some swaps, I have got interested in polymer clay, embroidering and (hand-)sewing as well.

I'm not into paper crafts. I admire people who can make wonderful collages, but I just can't myself.

For most time of my life, my first favourite was black, second favourite changing at least once a year. At the time I was expecting my first child, it suddenly changed to red and has stayed like this, although black has had some comeback as second favourite. My mother-in-law thinks my first-born's favourite color is red because it is mine, but I myself suspect that it's the other way around. ;)

Among my least favourite colors are orange, pink, golden and dark brown, but that doesn't mean you must avoid them, unless you send me something real big or accessories (I have clothes of all colors except these).

I cannot think right now of anything I'd really hate. There are just things that sending to me would be, well, like throwing pearls in front of a pig.

Cosmetics except for bath stuff. Cute things with no other use than just putting on a shelf and looking at - we have not enough shelf-room for our books. Books for the same reason (and because one never knows what we already have). ;) I'm way too bad in papercrafts to use ephemera and similar stuff.

My husband finds food coming through mail from unknown persons to be open to suspect, so it would be better not to send me edibles.