A few weeks ago I found a origami book in the thriftstore. With cheap origami paper I learned to fold a paper crane. Never knew that folding a paper crane isn’t as hard, as I thought. Last Satu...
Are you as happy as I am? Seeing skirts and flipflops everywhere, people sitting in the grass enjoying their lunch, everywhere are flowers, beautiful bright colours and we’re all getting a bit ...
This doormat is from uncommongoods. I find it very funny! Thrift a mat, use a waterproof marker and you’ll have the funniest doormat this summer!
My fruit and vegetables are flying out and every time I want to photograph them for the shop, I miss a piece. Yesterday I made new pears and a eggplant. Hope to make some new carrots, some limes and ...
Because mama’s know it all.. washing, loving, cooking, cleaning, careing, organising, teaching, loving, knowing, crafting, loving and more loving.. Mom’s are the best. My mom is the best....
Jason Lee is a wedding photographer. He started taking photos of his two little daughters back in 2006 when his mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The girls were constantly sick, with cold...
This wasn’t my weekend. Which can happen because it can’t be your day, all the time. I had no inspiration or what so ever. And everything I tried didn’t work, wasn’t my taste ...
I really don’t have any time to do some fabric stamping but if you can’t do it, you can think about it! Ha! Anyway I love the idea of thrifting a piece of nice fabric (okay did that.. alr...
Had to say goodbye to a colleague yesterday. A lovely, sweet lady I worked with for a while. I made a little bundle of three lovely daffodils. Made on a little iron wire, so these are beautiful into ...
So we did some painting yesterday.. and we made this smashing, bright, colourful painting. A very large canvas. About 110 cm wide! Made with scraps of paper, felt, pages from the vintage book shown a...
In the next issue of Handwerken zonder Grenzen (you know the craft magazine I’m writing for) I made a macramé bracelet. No not the one above!! Something complete different and I used another kn...
I love this bib dress made by ‘very purple person’. It’s simple, yet very stylish. It’s casual but elegant at the same time. Novita made this dress with a Burda pattern, you c...
Found this vintage children’s book in the thriftstore yesterday. It’s a very book big (from 1971) with large pages and the most beautiful drawings. The book falls apart, all the pages are...
It’s been over a week since the last time blogging. It was such a chaotic, busy, hectic week. All that tax stress (and everything that went wrong and costed triple time to resolve), so much wor...
Was doing some research for HZG this morning and came on the website of Turkish designer Beril Cicek. I’m fascinated by her ULL collection. I find it a bit whimsical, magical I think. Anyhow, v...
It hurts.. it hurts so bad. I fell, and I felt very hard and deep… Deeply in love with the Berlin designers duo ‘Bonnie & Buttermilk’. Inspired by modern, urban and retro design...
I’m working for a Dutch textile magazine called Handwerken zonder Grenzen (Crafts without Borders). Writing articles, doing interviews, making DIY projects and within a few weeks I’m goin...
I think this idea is genius! Brighten up your flipflops using balloons. So simple but so smashing!! A perfect Spring craft. You’ll be prepared for Summer!! Find the tutorial at ‘Or so, sh...
I finished up a present I’m making for one of me friends. She’s a teacher and a pencil case is always handy. This pencil case comes with a large bag. Striped, in multiple colours, also wi...
Added two sets of egg hats in the shop. These are so lovely on Sunday mornings breakfast table. Smashing for your Easter lunch! New ones are coming up but these, the ecru and neon coloured, are the l...
I always have an addiction going around. For weeks I eat the same cookies or chips, make the same meal over and over again. Or I can listen to a certain song over and over again (at the moment itR...
Where’s the limit of knitting? Well, according to textile designer Pauline Borca, nowhere.. I love this 2011 collection! It’s vintage, it’s raw, it’s 3-dimensional, it’s...
I found a little, little skein of ‘left over’ grey cotton and I had this necklace I didn’t like any more. So I cut the necklace apart because of the re-use of the closure. Took some...
This will be my inspiration to design a crocheted short for this summer! I LOVE this one. Picture is on my pinterest, source is unknown. (will you please pray/hope for me this afternoon.. have to go ...
WAUW!!! I’m in love!! Wauw, wauw, wauw. Find this doily dress amazing. So, so beautiful, pure and whimsy. Start collecting, you’ll need a lot doilies, crochet doilies and make your own do...
Off course you know these moments.. These moments when you realize what you have, because you are missing it. Like when you want to put your children behind the wallpaper because they are shouting an...
The last three weeks I’ve been coughing and coughing and coughing. Like the rest of us, here in Holland. Last Tuesday I thought, oh I’m getting well because my cough is getting loose. But...
‘in the blue(s)’ inspirations sources on my pinterest
So, this was a very very busy week!! You know, that kind of week, where you don’t know where the time is going. So sorry for the lack of posting a new blog this week! Promise to do better.. Fin...
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