Fellows ~ part three

and there he is: fellow number three

which one do you like most?

it might help to tell me

you never know

when creJJtion reaches 100 followers there might be a give-away

and if so, perhaps one of the fellows will escape and jump into the package?

by the way, I have to tell you: Amsterdam is covered with a thin but magical layer of snow...

~ twinkle ~

Fellows ~ part two

ow yes, fellow number two couldn't wait to show himself to you

~  smile ~

I hope you all enjoyed the weekend as much as I did

 lots of family, some I did not see for years

we catched up, laughed and had a real good time

All ready and set for the new week? Have a good sleep

~ ...zzzz... ~

Fellows ~ part one

this is the time of year when dreams and surprises are everywhere

and look what I found on our cabinet!

do you see them?

three little fellows, I made them last year

just an easy-to-make pattern, nothing special

but so nice to do: quick and cute results

I have a feeling the other two fellows would like to show themselves soon...

~ surprise ~

Weekend

I am soooo busy with the Sinterklaas- presents

one finished, one half way, one week to go

I can hardly wait to show you the results!

So here is a peak to new material

and the boyfriends new favorites: coffee machine and grinder

the three of them produce delicously tasting and lovely looking drinks

~ smile ~

Wishing you all a great weekend

~ love ~

Wednesday

Goodmorning!

welcome to the new followers

~ you make me blush ~

Have a nice granny-cup-of-tea
add a little Christmas

Wishing you all ~ followers and visitors ~ a warm and light Wednesday

Season

~ it is the season ~

wrapping up the old year, getting ready to start a new one

although it is the same every 365 days and thus makes less sense

~ I do love it ~ 

Stand still and realize what you've got

make plans for the future

my new agenda filling: empty pages, ready for both lovely dates and great 'empty' days

my il papiro sketch book, which I am planning to use more often from now on

~ 2011 here I come ~

Details in red

We are having a great weekend with some shopping, very good food and a lovely hotel.

The winter weather these days is so bright, cold and clear ~ love it ~

I am very busy with Sinterklaas presents at the moment... two more weeks until the reveal!

Here are some details of the items I foud recently:

top of a vintage tin, an old oval iron potholder, Emma B. wrapping paper, a deer-coathook and some hearts.

Enjoy your Sundaynight!

Lucky

I still can't believe it: my first entrance to a give-away

and I was among the winners!

Thank you so much Princess Threeways

and Ingrid from Ingthings

May be when I reach 100 followers

although it seems to be cliché

I might organise a give away myself...

 a wonderful package, a great book and lots and lots of buttons, ribbons, yarn and 2 origami folded birds!

 some of my favorite buttons ~ although hard to select ~ and an example of how to embroider drawings

more lovely bottons and ribbons, pearl buttons ~ pearls are among my favorites! ~ and these great reds

I am so lucky ~ smile ~ .....

Birthdaygift

~ warning for pastel lovers: post contains colourexplosion ~

Last weekend I decorated this notebook as a gift for my friend Tineke

she turned 30 ~ smile ~

on my request she told me she would love something pink, green, a lot of flowers and some birds

detail: she did not know what was going to be created in pink and green, with flowers and birds :-)

I used Victorian die-cuts and HouseDoctor wrapping paper

together with left-over-paper-bits and vintage ribbons

a little painting here and there for the finishing touch...

What specific part do you like about it?

Do you think I should plan to create more notebooks?

available in different colourschemes of course

~ hurray for pastel lovers, if you're still there... ~

I would love to get your opinion!

 

 

Yellow

For the love of light, yellow and gold

on these darker-getting-days

to lighten up your Tuesday

Enjoy!

Sundaymorning

Yesterdaynight: two friends, both turning 30, two great parties

~yawn~

This Sundaymorning: large Emma B filled with tea, candlelight, laptop with your great blogs

~smile~

wish you all a great Sunday

Sinterklaas

Today Sinterklaas arrived by boat in Harderwijk in the Netherlands. For anyone who does not know him, he is the Dutch version of Santa claus. From today on he brings presents in your shoe by the fireplace every night {if you're lucky}, and brings most gifts on December 5th. Along with Sinterklaas comes the candy :-), so here is a recipe for gevulde speculaas in Dutch. A true tradition and I baked ours this morning. Enjoy!

Gevulde speculaas

100 gr licht bruine basterdsuiker

100 gr zachte boter

snufje zout

ong. 3 eetl melk

200 gr bloem

1/5 theel bakpoeder

10 gr  speculaaskruiden

50 gr  amandelen

1      licht geklutst ei

1      pakje amandelspijs

Oven voorverwarmen op 160 C. Basterdsuiker, boter, zout, melk, bloem, bakpoeder en speculaaskruiden in een kom doen en kneden tot een gelijkmatig deeg. Deeg in de koelkast laten rusten. Pakje amandelspijs behandelen zoals aangegeven op de verpakking (meestal mengen met half geklust ei). Deeg in 2 ballen verdelen. Bakplaat met bakpapier bekleden. De eerste deegbal uitrollen (gebruik hiervoor een glazen fles als je geen deegroller hebt) tot max 1 cm dikte en met de hand in de gewenste vorm kneden. Het amandelspijs gelijkmatig over het uitgerolde deeg verdelen en de randen vrijlaten. De tweede deegbal uitrollen en daar het deeg met amandelspijs mee bedekken. Randen goed aandrukken. Vervolgens versieren met de amandelen en bestrijken met de andere helft van het geklutst ei. Plaats in het midden van de oven voor ongeveer 25 minuten.

Light

Just a light coloured post to thank you, followers, new followers and visitors, for your lovely comments!

I enjoy reading them very much and love to visit you back and explore your great blogs...

Have a wonderful weekend.

{love}

Every year I allow myself to get two new christmas ornaments at the Bijenkorf. Meet the 2010 lovelies...

Porcelain

A while ago my boyfriend gave me two dark blue porcelain painters. "you will find a purpose for those",
he said. And I did. New white porcelain, ready to be decorated! Here are the results. What do you think?

I hope the prints will stay when we start using these new mugs, cups and plates...

Vintage blue

Thank you for all your lovely comments on the previous post!

Reading them encouraged me today to crochet a few of the last squares :-).

Here are some pictures of the vintage blue items I found recently.

They are all little items, I think that is one of the reasons I like them so much.

And yes, Christmas is around the corner...!

Progress- part 2

A few weeks ago I showed you my kitchen-blanket-to-be, WIP. It is not finished yet, but I am crocheting the last mini-squares to complete the 8th and final big square...

I am so happy ;-).

After that I will join all the squares together and crochet a border around it with the left-over yarn.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend! Happy Sunday.



Today the squares still look like this...



... but in a few weeks I hope they will be joined into a blanket!

Flag

Just a simple red-white-blue post. In the middle you see a detail of the giftwrap I sent to Hazel a while ago.

She posted about it really nice on her blog quietly stitching, thank you Hazel!

And thank you all my dear followers and visitors who commented so lovely on the Lizzy post.

I really appreciate that, it makes me smile! Have a great weekend.

Lizzy

Meet Lizzy

She is my first crochet project in 3D and I love how she turned out.

My dear friend Els came up with her name and it fits her perfectly J

Lizzy is based on a garnstudio duck pattern which you can find here in English and here in Dutch.

I created her as a gift for a newborn babygirl and enjoyed it very much.

Looking forward to my next 3D project already!

Greens

Hello there! I hope you started this new week with an easy Monday.

I had a good day at work. It got dark very quick though...

Here are some vintage greens to lighten up your day ;-). Happy week to you all!