Introducing...

Hello there! This being my very first post on here, I thought I'd share a teeny bit more about myself as a person. I'll write a bit about my origins, my interests, the idea behind the blog and the blog title, share a picture or two of my work, and whatever else may come into my mind at this time...

I will start with my origins, which then should shed some light on some of the 'who' and the some of the 'why'. I was born in Transylvania, which as you may well know is part of Romania, nevertheless my mother tongue is Hungarian and I consider myself a Hungarian. This confuses a lot of people, but I won't go into detail on this, as it truly is a complicated matter. Over a year ago, I've gotten my first Hungarian passport, so I now am a Romanian-Hungarian double citizen. Eight years ago, I came to try my luck on the British isles and here I stayed ever since. My South-African husband and I met in London, but now we call East Surrey, England our home, along with our two small children (the eldest a girl, the younger one a boy), Columbus, our tabby kitten, and Sesame, our old budgie. I considered writing the blog in Hungarian, but then I decided on English after all. It's good practise for me and because I am planning to talk mostly about crochet and crochet projects, it is easier for me to write in English, as I do not know the terminology in Hungarian all that well. Might sound strange to some, but I started crocheting about 2 years ago and learnt the basics from books, magazines and youtube videos, all in English. I think I would struggle to read or write a pattern in Hungarian. Good thing with crochet diagrams, although that's still a thing that I'm in the process of learning. All pretty multicultural already isn't it?! And now the blog title, which is in French, even more confusing... I've always loved how the French language sounds like and I've always been drawn to anything French. Never formally studied the language, but quite a lot of it just stuck to me anyways over the years, and so playing around with ideas for a title, I chose 'fleurs de fil' as it sounded elegant and poetic to me. It translates into 'flowers of yarn' or 'yarn flowers'. I like the sound and look of it and I hope you my dear readers will like it too.

A storage basked for my daughter's hair accessories

Flowery Baby Blanket

I think I will leave you with this much for today. I need to get ready to go pick my daughter up from school. She just started reception and so our days are still a bit hectic, trying to get used to new routines, new responsabilities.

Bye for now, Andrea.