Miracles will happen 

Dear Martina! So sorry that you are feeling unwell. Please give yourself time to recover. Naturally you want to be in your new home as soon as possible , but the things we look back on with greatest satisfaction and pride in life are often the ones that were a struggle and challenge at the time. I can see a time in the future where you will both be sitting on the hillside , looking with wonder at this beautiful home you have created. Soon the days will be warmer and longer and you will find renewed strength and positivity to face each task . It is natural that you get these moments of self doubt , it is part of the human condition , especially when you feel unwell. Try and allow yourselves some rest and recuperation. For most of human history , before this crazy 24hr world people's daily lives were governed by the weather and the light. That was certainly true of country people. These difficult times will pass. Every blessing to you both for a Happy and healthy New Year. I am an old woman and coming near to the end of this great adventure called life. I am blessed to still be able to knit and garden a little .In fact I have just sent for seeds to grow a few vegetables and of course flowers for the bees.That makes me determined to live to see them grow.😅😅 Finding your channel has brought me so much joy and I am so thankful to you both.You are such delightful people and it is wonderful that you found each other.However tough it gets or low you feel try to hold onto yours dreams.God bless!

Hi Martina! Hoping you feel better soon ! I will pray for quick recovery! Happy new year..!

What a beautiful message. 10 min at a time… yea, that is doable, right? I hope you’re feeling better soon 😘. Rest and restore yourself, other things can wait.

Oh dear, I hope you’re feeling much better by now . The mittens you’re knitting look amazing 👌 ,wauw the sweater 🙈 so,sorry to hear about the burning 😢 but you are brave to tackle it and re do the knitting , after all,it is such a beautiful jacquard . I wish you both a smooth end of the year and a good start into,the New Year , 🍀🎄🥂

Heya Martina, I wanted to thank you! I've been going through a rough time this christmas, my partner broke up. I've been going back and watching your old videos, because you are so wonderfully talented in giving me hope and strength. You are amazing, so thank you. I hope you'll soon be better. To see the house progress is so fun, so again thank you thank you thank you!! ❤️❤️❤️

Yes I can see you need rest right now. Hope you feel better soon. The house looks amazing!!!!

Happy New Year Beautiful Kids ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Hello you two. The house is coming along nicely. 😊

Sending healing wishes ❤ Happy New Year, guys 💫💫

Hope you are feeling better soon!

This was such a lovely video Martina. Hope you are already feeling better. I decided to take some leave this year for the first time in years and I agree I sometimes struggle to keep to the decision to not WORK all the time. But I am also trying to follow your advice and reprogram myself. I love that you say it is completely save to rest. Thank you! 💜💜💜

Feel better soon!❤

Thank you so much for this new episode, dear Martina! I wish you a very happy new year, with health, peace and love! Good luck with your beautiful and sweet home, you two are wonderful! Get well soon! Thank you for sharing with us your talent and good taste and elegant choices in all you knit and create! 😊🤗❤️🐾

Enjoy the journey of creating your beautiful sanctuary home! It is already amazing and will be incredible as you build it - so don't ever get discouraged or let others bring you down. 10 years ago I also left the city behind and moved to a 400ft2 rough cabin with no insulation etc etc and now have created a place that is so perfect for me and my family, with nature. It is really how we are meant to live. Peace in the New Year for you and your family

Thank you Martina. I wouldn't wish this journey on anyone but I am delighted to have found good company in you and your videos reminding me to allow myself to rest and to not always feel that you have to use your time "productively". It's ok to play for the sake of play. Last night I spent 3hrs knitting all these stitches I have never done before in bright colours with no rhyme or reason, knowing full well I will frog the lot because I wasn't making to produce something, I was making for the sake of learning and play and I gave myself permission to do it. I hate waste, have always hated waste, so have found many roadblocks to creating anything, let alone just playing. But last night, after decades of knitting on and off, I realised that with yarn I can unravel it and play more and unravel again, trying all kinds of things. Its not a waste of money and its not a waste of time because learning and play feeds the soul. Sending you love and healthy thoughts, get well soon! x

yes they do happen 😊 i think we forget that the mind is just another part of the body, so just like with other injuries, it has incredible self healing capacities - if we let it. i actually began to think of my "natural self" almost like another person, some weird mixture of the "subconscious" , "inner child" and "shadow self" concepts (the latter i know least about, but everytime i imagine it, it looks creepy and almost dangerous and i think that is to show me exactly what i need to work on, having major anxiety and trust issues) who actually knows what i need and that i therefore need to learn to listen to. but it's hard because doing that will bring out all the hidden sensitivities and your loyalty to your health will absolutely be tested against deep societal beliefs of self worth 😣 seeing you in that beautiful place with your beautiful family gives me much hope, because one of the most powerful things in healing is to actively appreciate beauty - not out of duty but out of spite. we make life good, so that bad people won't win ❤

Hello Martina, take care girl.. hope you recover soon big hug

be well Martina:) and Happy New year:)

Health And Happiness Martina! Spring Is Coming, Days Will Be Longer Soon ❤️

Lovely. I really like your mitten design. Hope you feel better soon.

Get well soon Martina! I know you know how to heal yourself, and we are in the season of hibernation after all. ❤❤

Take care sweet girl. ❤

Hope you feel better very soon , your house is looking more beautiful each time and looks so peaceful. Every time I see you were your white shawl makes me want to knit one it is very simple and beautiful also love the size, wish there was a pattern for it . ☺️

Take care of yourself, Mieke is amazing how he keeps going and going!

Hope you get well soon! I also had to learn to rest. I learned it during Covid times- when we had a slightest hint of a cold we had to stay away from work (I‘m a teacher in a primary school). I‘m so loving this of grid videos too! The house will be wonderful! I‘m just always scared of someone falling down those stairs🙈

I wish you and Mika strength, health, happiness and peace in the new year. Sorry you're sick now, but you will be better. Your house journey is amazing and the knitting is beautiful.

Happy new year martina🖤 Your videos give me a sincere, warm hope, even though I'm in a rather hopeless phase of my life right now. I hope that you, we, all of us, can hold on to a light in our most desperate moments. Sending a lot of love💐

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yes they do happen 😊 i think we forget that the mind is just another part of the body, so just like with other injuries, it has incredible self healing capacities - if we let it. i actually began to think of my "natural self" almost like another person, some weird mixture of the "subconscious" , "inner child" and "shadow self" concepts (the latter i know least about, but everytime i imagine it, it looks creepy and almost dangerous and i think that is to show me exactly what i need to work on, having major anxiety and trust issues) who actually knows what i need and that i therefore need to learn to listen to. but it's hard because doing that will bring out all the hidden sensitivities and your loyalty to your health will absolutely be tested against deep societal beliefs of self worth 😣 seeing you in that beautiful place with your beautiful family gives me much hope, because one of the most powerful things in healing is to actively appreciate beauty - not out of duty but out of spite. we make life good, so that bad people won't win ❤