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dutch school

2011-11-28T13:41:00.000-08:00

every monday jilles and stije attend dutch school. jilles needs to bring books and was using one of my embroidery bags. It was time to make him his own bag for his birthday, more boyish. my parents gave jilles this owl embroidery and I found the fabric for the inside at a swedish loppis (a second hand market). A perfect match I think and he loved it!

busy sewing

2011-11-27T09:07:00.000-08:00

these are some of the things I made for the fair. I like to compose with the embroidery.

winterfair

2011-11-27T06:51:00.000-08:00

together with other crafty moms at school I organized a winterfair last friday. It was a big success and I really enjoyed making things to sell for the fair. It's nice to see all cultures come together! a big variety in the things made.

a while ago

2011-11-27T04:53:00.000-08:00

it's already a while ago, but I did a workshop with ten 5 year old girls for a birthday party. The theme was princesses (what else at that age?) they decorated a wand and made this headband. I underestimated the age a little bit, but luckily ellen en noor where there to help me. I was surprised with the results.

ornaments

2011-11-12T04:24:00.000-08:00

I know it's too early, but I couldn't resist making these christmasballs. very simple. balls made of styrofoam, covered with felt (first needle felt and then wet felt) and added the sequins with little pins.

almost seven

2011-11-07T13:22:00.000-08:00

jilles will turn seven in two weeks. unbelievable how fast it goes. he wanted to celebrate his party at home and I am glad about that, because most of the parties are at an indoorprlaygrounds. so he picked a theme, indians! made the invitations yesterday and it was so nice to see him so proud this morning at school to hand them out. two more weeks to figure out what indian games we can play. any ideas?

drawing

2011-11-02T06:46:00.000-07:00

I wanted to do this for a long time. I saw the idea at vlijtig, and loved it. And the funny part is that i found the time now in the autumn holiday! things are really getting easier with their age. Jilles makes the most beautiful detailed drawings...so easy to pick one element. I liked this strange bird! love how it turned out.

moustache

2011-11-01T12:39:00.000-07:00

I had a little left over stampcarving material and made this moustache. I made two faces and j & s found it so funny, they wanted to make one too. they asked me to stamp a whole paper full with moustaches so they could make their own moustache-men. so much fun with just a little left over.

haloween

2011-11-01T12:35:00.001-07:00

hope everybody had a great haloween. this was our first one and my first pumpkin carving. j & s picked the images and I carved them.

experimenting

2011-10-25T03:22:00.000-07:00

I have done a felting afternoon with some friends. for on of them it was the first time so I had to explain and help a little. that's why I could only manage to do a little project. I experimented with these small pieces and new colours. I like the colours but the contrast is not good enough, learned something for next time..

twins

2011-10-22T03:13:00.000-07:00

I am preparing for a christmas market which I will attend and I made these two bags and a lot of stuff is in progress. I first had to make these bags because one of them is for my mum. She asked me this long ago. They bought a lot of embroideries in France and these two in particular were here favourites. Maybe because she always used to have chickens. finally I managed to make them. mum, one of them is for you and is coming your way!

children's party

2011-10-21T03:04:00.000-07:00

tomorrow I will be doing my second children's party. the theme is princess.. (what else can be the theme with 5 year olds ;-)) and we are going to make headbands and fairytale wands. I am a bit nervous because this is the first time I will work with children this age. Hope it works out fine. I made an example of a headband and cut all the fabric and felt in advance...they only have to choose and glue.

loppis

2011-09-28T12:34:00.000-07:00

a few weeks ago I went to a "loppis". it's a fleemarket, where people park their cars in a row, open their trunks and start selling. very entertaining to go to. I found some lovely stuff there. this nice fabric and some origami paper and also a lovely linnen sort of napkin from jobs (not the one from apple and it's not on the picture, sorry) with a print of smultronet. This week i was in a beautiful souvenir shop, with all kinds of handmade scandinavian products and there it was, my smultronet napkin for over 20 euros!! my neighbor surprised me with lovely scandinavian mittens, which I didn't buy and felt very sorry for, so sweet of her!

first birthday workshop

2011-09-27T14:00:00.000-07:00

today i did my first birthday workshop and i am so happy because it was a big hit. It was fun preparing the workshop. I did some experiments with a heart punch and a butterfly punch. the girls made two things, cards and hangers from paper cut outs and a felt flower. they really enjoyed making the felt flower, playing with water and soap made it very interesting.

wrapping

2011-09-27T12:17:00.000-07:00

i love to wrap presents. thanks to the lovely magazine flow, it's made very easy. the magazine has such beautiful prints! I made a felt iphone cover (forgot to take a picture before wrapping ;-) for a swedish friend and added some dutch sweets (muisjes and haagse hopjes).

eyecandy

2011-09-23T02:00:00.001-07:00

the boys have two days off now, so we decided to go to the naturhistorisk museet in stockholm, only 8 km from our house! it was a beautiful museum full of inspiration and the boys loved it! I was amazed by the piece of art they made out of insects..

leftover bracelets

2011-09-02T02:36:00.000-07:00

I saw this nice idea at vlijtig (she got it from between the lines) and i liked it so much, that I started experimenting as well. I made one with buttons and one only with dmc thread and one small bead. It's a fun way of making bracelets.

new little ones

2011-08-31T10:08:00.000-07:00

a lot of babies have been born this summer, but i didn't always find the time to make something personal. kate and benne can stamp away with their name stamps...

speaking of fruit

2011-08-31T06:02:00.000-07:00

we picked a lot of fruit, in the wild, in friend's gardens and even in or own garden. so jam and juice needed to be made. I also made drottning sylt (queens jam) which is a combination of hallon (raspberries) and blabar (bleuberries)...hmmm. yesterday picked all the apples and plums in our garden. I made (again) jam and dutch appelflappen. our swedish neighbors loved them. good to know because we had so many apples...more appelflappen to come.

fruitbag

2011-08-30T14:00:00.000-07:00

after a 10 week holiday with the kids and lots of visitors in sweden. I finally managed to finish this bag. it was staring unfinished at me for a long time...

nyckelviken

2011-07-25T06:19:00.001-07:00

sweden keeps surprising us. every time we discover new beautiful places. our Swedish friends told us about nickelviken. we went there with my parents and it was beautiful! lovely nature, very nice cafe with great cakes, a super playground with a stunning view and the children could ride a horse and see a lot of animals. this is definitely worth another visit.

guest towels

2011-07-11T12:28:00.000-07:00

this week our first guests will arrive in sweden, yes! I wanted to make something for all the guests to take as a souvenir, but because the boys have holiday and we have a lot of nice activities i didn't have much time, so I made these simple guest towels with the swedish horse on it.

midsomer

2011-06-28T03:13:00.000-07:00

we celebrated midsomer for the first time and were invited by swedisch friends...we loved it! to thank the lovely host of this party I made her this bag. Thanks Caroline and Jan for the lovely day!

light

2011-06-28T01:10:00.000-07:00

two of my best friends in holland made me this lamp just before I left. To help me through the darker days...so sweet. I love how the felt filters the light. I really miss them, but hopefully they will visit sweden in september.

dalhast bag

2011-06-22T13:08:00.000-07:00

as a goodbye present I made this bag for a belgium "shopping" friend who will move to the netherlands. I will miss her very much because we had a fun time.

my friendly neighbor gave me the nice dalhast fabric. I love it and think there will be more dalhast bags coming. For the first time I made the handle with leather my father gave me...so a nice cooperation project.

first swedish fabrics

2011-06-15T08:45:00.000-07:00

Eline and kate took me on a very nice tour. we visited a lot of thriftstore (which are great here in stockholm, because they combine it with lovely cafes where you can have lunch! I will show you pictures of this great concept). but we also visited a lovely fabric store, which was nice after a long time without doing this. my love of course asked me why on earth I needed more fabrics... :-) but you never can have enough fabrics. the fabrics made me make something new right away ;-))

nice gift

2011-06-14T13:41:00.000-07:00

let's start by saying I didn't make this bag, but got it as a birthday gift from our very nice swedish neighbor. I just love it and could use it right away because yesterday I had a margaritha evening with some ladies and my bag was a hit!

do it yourself mom

2011-06-08T12:29:00.000-07:00

because jilles is six he gets pocketmoney and he loves it and does really well. he saves up money to buy something. this weekend he went to the toystory with his dad and returned with a revolver, sherrif badge and a holster. but stije was of course a little disappointed that he didn't get to buy something, maybe we should start giving him pocketmoney, but they advise to start with the age of six...any suggestions on this matter are more than welcome.

so I promissed him to make a holster for the wooden revolver he got from sinterklaas. I wanted to pimp it with a felt star, but he didn't have the patience, can't blame him for that. He was so happy with it and they played the whole afternoon chasing each other in the garden.

charity

2011-05-15T12:46:00.000-07:00

I thought I would have a lot of time, especially since the boys go to school every day, but it's the opposite. despite from making some felt i phone cases for all the very helping people we just met and an extra curtain for stije's room (because of the early sunshine here, the sun comes up at 3.30 a.m.!) I haven't had very much creative space. but no complains, a lot of nice activities. last friday we had a charity market and there was a bake table so I made date cakes for that reason and guess what, they didn't sell. so I bought almost all of them back. I know the date cake doesn't look that attractive, but the taste is really really good. I gave my neighbor a piece and luckily she was very happy with it and loved the taste of it. next time I will also make colorful attractive cupcakes.

feeling at home

2011-04-22T13:30:00.000-07:00

and of course I like to show you our new home. not much time for creativity yet, because i've only been busy unpacking the boxes, decorating our house and getting familiar with everything. the boys went to their new school and they managed very well, a new language to learn and a lot of new friends to make. now they are having a easterholiday, so we are doing a lot of touristic day trips, so far we love sweden!

finally

2011-04-22T13:20:00.000-07:00

yes!!...we have arrived in stockholm and we are connected. that really took some time because we needed a social security number, which you need for almost everything. buying a car, getting a phone and connecting to internet....but no complains after two weeks we're finally connected, still no number (a friend arranged the connection for us), so still no car for me, but we will manage. in stockholm the public transportation is really good and we live nearby a train.

a lot of new experiences these past two weeks. we met a lot of new people and even got invited for an easter diner on sunday by swedish people in our street. the neighborhood is very nice, friendly people who made us feel at home right away.

just before we left we organized a saying goodbye party and we enjoyed it very much, it's so good to know we have all these lovely friends...so a lot tissue's were needed on that day.

boxes

2011-03-31T06:59:00.000-07:00

thanks for all the sweet words on my last post. It really felt good to have so much support from my (blogging)friends. and of course I will maintain this blog, hopefully we soon will be connected to the internet in stockholm. Right now I'm sitting on the ground behind the computer stuck between boxes...tomorrow the truck will arrive.

saying goodbye

2011-03-29T13:35:00.000-07:00

tomorrow is the boy's last day in their dutch school. starting a new adventure means a lot of saying goodbye's and a lot of emotions. Are we doing the right thing by going to sweden? I doubt about that a lot these days. It feels difficult to leave all the good things for this new experience...but then again we would never know by not doing it....

For all the classmates of jilles and stije I made 55 bags with a little gift in it. I was happy the boys helped me out on this one and they enjoyed it as well. saying goodbye isn't easy....I think I will need a lot of tissue's this week.

more sewing

2011-03-23T04:57:00.000-07:00

yes, another good reason to sew, a friend turned 40 and had keycoard from "van flora" on her wishlist. I started making the brown one, because I figured that would match her, but finally ended up by making the one with some flowers in it, a better match. happy birthday M.

wooden pillow

2011-03-22T13:11:00.000-07:00

due to all the preparations for stockholm I hardly manage to sew things. This week I felt the need to sew something (sounds like an addiction ;-)) so I used this fabric from Ikea for a cushion cover, I like the contradiction in de print (massive wood) and the feel (soft fabric/pillow).

run

2011-03-14T02:38:00.000-07:00

yesterday I ran the City pier city run in The Hague. 10 km in 58.20 minutes! unfortunately I had no supporters, everybody was on holiday, unbelievable, even roel had to take a plane that day to austria for a skiing trip. but nevertheless it was very nice to run across the city, a last tribute to The Hague before leaving for sweden. I spoiled my poor feet with some new indoor birkenstocks.

lunchdates

2011-03-11T05:28:00.001-08:00

since we will be leaving in a few weeks from now, I have a lot of nice lunchdates with good friends. for stijn I made these stamps for his kids. It was very nice to have a pleasant lunch with wine and a good conversation!

experimenting

2011-02-21T05:35:00.000-08:00

yoehoe...i'm back again. I've had a large order for brooches, so a lot of work besides preparing for stockholm. she wanted the large flowerbrooch in a smaller version for her grand children. it took me some puzzling, but the result is the one with the felt bead in it. It's difficult to sew it, but i like how it turned out. last week we had a nice visit of kapitein winokio in our library, we have a few cd's of this funny belgium captain and he's just great. you can buy his work here (only in dutch)

matching fruit

2011-01-31T07:45:00.000-08:00

As said it's been quiet on my blog but not quiet in my little studio. I made these matching bags from one large fruity embroidery. a little zipper bag to use in the larger bag.

simple

2011-01-31T06:25:00.000-08:00

a friend asked me to make him a very simple felt cover for his ipad. He liked it so mission completed. and I discovered that 3 mm felt (so 6 mm when you sew them together) is easy to sew on your machine, good to know for other projects.

a lot

2011-01-31T00:11:00.000-08:00

it has been quiet on my blog, but it's not been quiet in my live. in two months we will be moving to stockholm! I'm very excited about it. we just found a nice house near the new school of our boys (stupid me, I forgot to take pictures of the house, I must have been too excited).

so a lot to arrange. I'm trying to throw away a lot of stuff so we don't have to move so much. It doesn't only clean up the house but also my head. and last but definitely not least, stije will turn four friday! he will go to a dutch school for 2 months and then of course start in sockholm. He's very excited about it and today is his last day in peuterspeelzaal (don't know the correct translation for hat). We made these treats together and for his very humble party (he only invited two friends ;-)) I made the invitations (zakje feest).

red and blue

2011-01-04T04:12:00.000-08:00

I made these very simple felt flowers for a workshop I gave for a little girls party. she turned 8. Unfortunately I was to busy helping the girls that I forgot to take pictures. the flowers are very easy to make, first make a flat round piece of felt, don't felt it too much, make the stalk, but don't felt the end were you want to attach it to the round piece. attach them together and felt it by hand.

a happy, lovely, healthy, creative, warm, all you wished for, great, mindfull

2010-12-27T04:02:00.000-08:00

for everybody. we will be enjoying a holiday in drente. see you next year!

in need of inspiration

2010-12-21T04:32:00.000-08:00

while stije is busy baking the christmas cookies, I'm busy thinking what can be made out of a very nice piece of x-mas fabric. It's two times the print you see on the picture, and my feet give an indication of the size. I already have this fabric for two years and can't figure out what to make of it. I would love to make something practical..something we can use during christmas...any ideas???

paper snowballs

2010-12-21T04:25:00.000-08:00

I know I know...sinterklaas left holland a long time ago already..of course we are also preparing our house for christmas. made these paper decorations from taska paper. very simple, cut some rounds, sew them together (sew the ribbon as well) and fold the halves.

sinterklaas

2010-12-17T10:05:00.000-08:00

yes, he is a pretty good sewer, sinterklaas, who would have guessed he could make jilles a bag for his judo outfit. It's a pattern i saw at vlijtig, very nice, very simple...

wooden apron

2010-12-17T01:06:00.000-08:00

I had to find a nice gift for a friend who celebrated her birthday. I found these nice plates in the taska webshop (see kitchen). they opened a shop very recently in The Hague. So a good reason to visit the shop, I can tell you it's very nice and they have a lot of nice gifts. I also made her a handmade gift, I hope it will match her new kitchen....and of course the mister can also wear it while cooking her a romantic diner ;-)))

bye bye boat

2010-12-16T10:01:00.000-08:00

this week stije had his last day at daycare. to thank the women who took very good care of him all these years, we made these boats with chocolates. I had to take the pictures in the evening, so the colors look very odd.

to nice to sit on

2010-12-06T07:34:00.000-08:00

jilles received so many nice gifts for his birthday, but this one is by far the most special and beautiful. Kristel made him this beauty. I heard the tutorial is in her new book...already looking forward to it. thanks kristel!

bruni

2010-12-05T07:28:00.000-08:00

someone asked me to make a brooch for a little girl named bruni, and it had to be in grey colors. this is how it turned out. It even looked nice on one of the boys sweaters, but I don't think they would like to wear it ;-))

Here to stay

2010-11-29T13:06:00.000-08:00

yesterday we could finally pick up the portraits Dorine Latenstein made of our boys. we had a nice drink near the fireplace and they played with the playmobil of her daughter. i love her work and we are very happy with the paintings, she definitely managed to capture them. it was great to see her interact with jilles and stije, she was very comforting with them.

6 years

2010-11-24T12:09:00.000-08:00

I almost forgot to show you the treat we made for the children in his class and the teachers. I bought the little clown heads at the haagse markt, a very multi culti market I love to go..for the teachers I made a little bag with apple chips, very healthy ;-))

new little ones

2010-11-21T11:58:00.000-08:00

I've been quite busy with jilles his birthday, which was really fun! in between I also found time to make new bags for my shop. I discovered that I can't force the making of them but the embroideries become a bag or cushion or whatever by themselves, I only have to make them.

so these little ones (and big ones of course) just came into existance..

for rosalia

2010-11-17T01:30:00.000-08:00

my niece turned four last week, so a big party and of course she needed a schoolbag. I made her this one! happy birthday little lady.

kitchen princess

2010-11-16T01:15:00.000-08:00

I'm not a kitchen princess, never have been and probably never will be. but I like baking and I could use a new apron, so I made this one out of a piece of fabric I printed a long time ago (the piece with the leaves). I didn't use a pattern, but it turned out just fine. I realize the apron has a christmas look, but I didn't mean to do so..

almost six

2010-11-08T01:57:00.000-08:00

jilles will turn six next week. so time to hand out the invitations for his birthday party. I really like to figure out how to make an exciting invitation. Jilles loved them and couldn't wait to give them to his friends (the boys have to blow up the balloon and let it explode to find out their invitation). I recently bought this nice viking stamp from Sandra Monat. I love her work and it made it so easy to make this invitation.

new live

2010-11-03T14:28:00.001-07:00

I like to recycle. with a lottery for a good cause we won this scarf a long time ago at a fair of stije's daycare. it's a perfect scarf for stije besides the advertisement of a beer brand. this post of lightbluegrey gave me the idea to give the scarf a new live. I cut of the logo and sewed the ends in the color of the lining of his jacket. I think the makers of the scarf are not happy with my little project but otherwise we wouldn't have used it.

bag for Noor

2010-11-02T15:31:00.000-07:00

my niece turned 9 last week and I finally made her a bag. I promised it a long time ago...and yes she liked it a lot. happy birthday Noor!

more possibilities

2010-10-31T05:57:00.000-07:00

I'm trying some projects with the cards from my bosatlas. some giftbags and little boats...not very special but I like the look of it.

lots of sun

2010-10-26T04:05:00.000-07:00

we went to egypt last week and had a great time, I'm still not used to the dutch temperatures...brrrr

wedding mugs

2010-10-10T06:46:00.000-07:00

my sister in law is got married yesterday and I wanted the boys to have a their own present to give. so I made these mugs with their drawings. Very simple (via hema) and they turned out surprisingly well. you can't even see the borders of the print. their uncle and aunt will have the first pieces for their trousseau ;-)

aarrrggh...

2010-10-09T03:28:00.000-07:00

for the first time I tried to make a cushion cover with zipper (which turned out to be very easy)...but I used a recycled zipper (felt very good about the recycling part) but when I putted in the cushion to test my hard work..the zipper broke down...aaarrgghhh...think this is the last time I recycle zippers..

fabric treasure

2010-10-08T13:21:00.000-07:00

I found this fabric at de stoffenmarkt, which is a very pleasant market to search for fabrics. I just fell for this one, I love the print, the texture and think I can find a lot of nice projects for it. the first one is this little cushion for jilles his room.

old maps

2010-10-05T06:39:00.000-07:00

before I throw things away I always figure out whether I could give it a new destination. So when this old "bosatlas" came across I decided a garland would be nice. I surprised jilles and stije with a garland in their room and they were more enthusiastic then expected. unfortunately the pictures didn't turn out well...maybe I will give it another try to show them better.

new booties

2010-10-04T13:33:00.000-07:00

my parents in law asked me to make a baby gift. I experimented with leather to make these booties. Thought it would be difficult to sew the leather and felt, but it was very easy..like how it turned out. hope the baby boy loves them as well.

autumn

2010-09-26T12:50:00.000-07:00

..and then all of a sudden it's autumn. we collected, collected, collected and made it a little bit autumn in our house..

spoiled 2

2010-09-25T04:40:00.000-07:00

although it isn't sinterklaas or christmas yet, even my birthday is far away, I spoiled myself with another piece of art. I met the artist (Irma Braat) at kunst in duin. I loved this little piece of art right away and considered an unpleasant medical examination good enough reason to spoil myself. I don't know whether I should let it be framed or not...any advice?

early

2010-09-23T02:52:00.000-07:00

jilles is already very excited about his upcoming birthday (which will take a while because it will be in november) and of course after that sinterklaas will arrive in holland. So he started to collect pictures of presents for his wish list (you can never start to early). Stije copied his behavior. so our house is now filled with pictures of playmobile and lego, they are all over the place, everywhere I walk I step on it ;-)).

busy

2010-09-22T13:42:00.001-07:00

I've been quit busy lately giving workshops, making presents for new borns, helping at school etc etc.... Today was a lovely day, together with a friend I gave a workshop at the children's farm in my neighbourhood. there was a little festival about farm products. the weather was great, there were a lot of enthusiastic children (so much that in the end we had to disappoint some children because they couldn't take part anymore) and they made lovely felt flowers.

spoiled

2010-09-06T04:29:00.000-07:00

I spoiled myself with a beautiful piece of art from cathy cullis. I love her work and was looking for the perfect piece to spoil myself. I asked her to make something to symbolize the mother-son bond. I had it framed and gave it a special place in our home. Thank you cathy!

wedding

2010-09-05T12:03:00.000-07:00

in october my sister in law is getting married. yesterday we celebrated her bachelor and I made her a gift for the wedding, a ring pillow. something old (the buttons), something new (the pillow made by me) and something bleu (the bleu button) (unfortunately it's not something borrowed). I also added their initials. hopefully her daughter wants to carry it on the big day.

new cushions

2010-09-01T00:44:00.000-07:00

I finally found some time to make some new cushion covers for my shop. loved the holiday, but like it also very much to have some me-time.

bleuberries

2010-08-19T13:43:00.000-07:00

last week we picked blueberries at a biological farm with my parents (unfortunately i don't have pictures of it, but is was a fun activity). So I had a lot of blueberries. I had to come up with an idea for all these berries, since I'm not such a good cook, I asked my mother and googled a little bit. I made this jam and luckely the boys love it. I also found a very nice recipe for blueberry cakes with coconut.

baby boom

2010-08-16T13:26:00.000-07:00

it's been a while since I blogged, but I've been very busy. One of the things I've been doing is making little gifts for new baby's. It seems like we're in the middle of a baby boom. almost every week we receive 2 or 3 cards to announce the arriving of little ones. To add something to the gifts I made these cards. very simple and good to use all my leftover fabrics.

monsieur biscuit

2010-07-30T13:21:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately our holiday in france came to an end. I like to take home little souvenirs and the supermarket is my favorite place to score nice things, everywhere we go I love to look around in supermarkets. Besides a lot of other things (cupcake forms, barbapapa stuff etc.) I found these lovely biscuits from bonne maman ( a brand I love). the little fellows not only taste good, but inside we also found a nice little coloring paper...

collector

2010-07-20T12:48:00.000-07:00

I love my mother's collection of old religious statues. every year we come it's extended.

holiday

2010-07-19T14:07:00.000-07:00

this is how we spend our days. besides swimming, playing outside and doing nothing we drive around the house with the little tractor and pick flowers from the garden.

surfaces

2010-07-18T12:50:00.000-07:00

fascinated by beautiful hidden surfaces

knight for a day

2010-07-17T13:40:00.000-07:00

this week we visited a castle where the boys could dress up. they became a knight for a day and loved it.

enjoy

2010-07-15T05:07:00.000-07:00

we're spending our holiday in my parents house in france and it's so nice to spend most of the time outside.

celebrating

2010-07-14T04:17:00.000-07:00

we had a lovely birthday party....and roel is still 27..it's unbelievable. the boys decorated the cupcakes.

for my love

2010-07-13T05:38:00.000-07:00

today is my love's birthday and we're celebrating it in france. since he has a new gadget (not that he is such a gadget guy, but he followed a course in switzerland and the textbook was an Ipad, that's much better than taking a dull ring bander home). as a gift I made an Ipad sleeve (i'm starting to get good in making these sleeve things). Hope he likes the embroidery I used for it.

new shoes

2010-07-07T13:35:00.000-07:00

actually he didn't need new shoes, but I couldn't resist these cute ones...luckily he loves them too..

kermis

2010-07-06T00:50:00.000-07:00

together with opa and oma we celebrated the beginning of summer holidays and opa's birthday. we had so much fun, the bump cars were by far the most favorite.

embroidery belt

2010-07-01T14:19:00.000-07:00

Thanks Wendy from Regina and Guusje for a good idea. I tried to make a belt out of embroidery left overs. Like this first result so far...

celebrating summer

2010-07-01T12:13:00.003-07:00

love this time of year

birthday gift

2010-06-28T01:25:00.000-07:00

This year I turned 35 (beginning of june) and dear friends gave me a piece of art, I could pick one from a friend's friend who is an amateur artist and I love his work (unfortunately he doesn't have a site or blog). I received this lovely piece this weekend, together with the sunshine it made my weekend. Thanks anne, san, chantal en daan.

welcome line

2010-06-25T13:08:00.000-07:00

monday Line is born! the name sounds a bit funny in English, but I love it in dutch ;-)). welcome little girl!

cooperation

2010-06-23T06:27:00.000-07:00

together with anne I made these boxes for the baby room of her little girl. she made the felt, I hand sewed the boxes. nice when things work out like this.

use everything

2010-06-22T13:10:00.000-07:00

I don't like throwing things away. I made this key cord of left overs from the embroideries. I love using it.

2010-06-22T01:02:00.000-07:00

it's not earth shocking but I'm very happy with the result. Since I couldn't find the duvet cover I liked, I decided to make them myself. The boys liked them too, fortunately they still don't ask for cars and spiderman duvet covers...but for how long?

see the head of stije behind the bed? that is his favorite hiding spot. I love our hundred years old house, especially the boys rooms, I will miss it once we've moved.

no more lost keys

2010-06-08T00:41:00.000-07:00

my mother asked me to make her a keychain holder a long time ago. I finally made her one. the paper I used was a present from a friend it's from djeco.

old sweater

2010-06-07T05:44:00.000-07:00

A friend gave me a very nice book, cool baby (in dutch). there are a lot of nice tutorials in it for making baby stuff out of old clothes. after cleaning up our closet I found this old sweater (the feabric was still very nice) and made this babypants and hat out of it. It's so nice to give new live to old clothes. I made it for a friend who is expecting a girl. I wonder whether it will fit correctly, I have no clue what size it is, but it looks very suitable.

parel

2010-06-07T00:21:00.000-07:00

Saturday I participated in the parels project. fortunately not everyone went to the beach. It was very nice to see all my work together in this little exhibition. I gave some demonstrations and made a lot of little pieces which I want to combine in one big piece of art. (the pictures look a bit yellow but that is because of the big amounts of sunshine that day). After worths roel organized a birthday party for me, very nice to end the day with all my friends and family.

more preparing

2010-06-04T13:08:00.000-07:00

besides enjoying the very nice weather with the boys I try to finish and make more pieces for the "parels" project tomorrow. I finally finished the leave bag and on the right is a new scarf made of chiffon and wool..

twin girls

2010-05-30T06:12:00.000-07:00

someone asked me to make felt booties for twin girls. I redesigned this pair a little to make it more "girly". one pink pair and one orange pair (not in the picture, they weren't finished when I made the pictures ;-)))

preparing

2010-05-29T12:30:00.000-07:00

I'm participating in a project in our neighbourhood called "de parels van bezuidenhout" (unfortunately they don't have a site). people from our neighbourhood exhibit their arts (music, paintings etc.). it's next saturday and I'm preparing to exhibit my felt pieces. So I made some new pieces. Today finished this envelope bag. I like the initiative and I'm curious how it will be.

time

2010-05-24T00:08:00.000-07:00

after two weeks of holiday I finally had some time to make more embroidery products. love to make the combinations...see my shop for more new things...

geertje

2010-05-15T14:58:00.000-07:00

today we celebrated my mother in law's birthday. She is very fond of the birds in her garden so jilles and stije made her a birdhouse on wednesday, when we visited the goat farm 't geertje. she loved her present.

laptop sleeve

2010-05-15T13:45:00.000-07:00

Roel spoiled himself with a new gadget and asked me to make him a laptop sleeve. Since I had no idea what a laptop sleeve is, I did some search on the internet and made this comfortable sock for his new toy. he picked the fabrics and Josephine, he insisted on using the DC fabric you bought us ;-)).