a dog

Within a month, say six weeks I hope to have my puppy here. It’s a big dream of me to have a dog but I wasn’t ready for one in the last years. Now I’m ready and up for it! But as you know I’m a big...

ochre and pink flappy hats

It’s cold here in the Netherlands. It’s freezing and we have lots of snow. Yeah! And that means; hat time! Last week I made a flappy hat for a little boy I know. His brother wanted one too but I...

crochet boots

Not a good start of the new (blog) year. I was really sick in the beginning of December. A fever, an enormous headache and so much snot… I thought it was over but apparently it wasn’t. I saw the...

new year

So that was the longest blog break I ever had, since blogging. Guess I needed it very badly as I noticed in November to blog with some dislike, without any inspiration or love. Besides that, I just...

drawer/crate walls

To be honest it’s time, here in my home, to do some big cleaning, rearranging, refurbishing and restoring. You know, lots and lots of plain cleaning and then paint the walls again, replace some...

almost done

Putting things away so good, that you can’t find it any more.. Recognize that? I did this with my white cotton for this baby blanket. I didn’t want to use white in a block but use the white for the...

fingerless mittens

I love fingerless mittens. Only when it’s freezing, I’ll wear gloves but otherwise fingerless mittens. And because I’m very skinny and I always have cold hand and feet, I’ll wear them in my house...

krochet kids

I’m following Krochet Kids for a few years now. These fabulous young guys from the US did a volunteer program in an orphanage home in Northern Uganda, a few years ago. They noticed that all the...

too busy

it’s a baby boy

source/link I just got the message that everything is okay with mom and her newborn son. I’m so happy for my friends, who got a healthy son, last night. I truly believe that a handmade present for...

slippers

Tania from Little Things Blogged shares so much sweet and gorgeous crochet patterns on her site. She makes lovely amigurumi but also these lovely, lovely slippers. And she’s such a sweetie to share...

olivia

My little niece Olivia is the love of my life. She’s so pretty, smart and sweet. I could give her the whole world, so that’s why I close my eyes while I’m in a (thrift) store or shop… With...

darkness

I have no idea how it works with summer and winter time in other countries but here we set our clock back and forth two times a year. One hour back for wintertime and one hour further for...

milomade

These are so pretty. I love this idea from Evie from MiloMade!! As SOIL, MiloMade is all about reduce, reuse, recycle. Evie makes beautiful items.. Love her work! Find this idea on her blog and...

potholder Marisa

I can’t keep it all. If I could, this one stayed mine.. This double layered potholder I made is a design from a vintage pattern book, from 1963. I called her Marisa because that’s the name of the...

found

I’m a star in making and not finishing. I have so much experiments and (almost finished) projects lying around. It’s in me, it’s who I am and after years and years of trying to finish first before...

fall crafts

fall felt leaves by dana made it Fall is making her entrance. The wind is blowing harder, colours are changing, more rain, a fall sun and a earlier darker evenings. Lots of leaves, in the most...

Stephanie & Mary

apartment therapy: egg shell roses, jewellery display, art board, stylish maps family fun: paper flowers, tin robots, carton & paper dollhouse, jug heads Sometimes someone tells you something or...

grey wrapper with neon green stripe

Finished the light grey wrapper! This yarn was a leftover stash of 8 skeins and I really had no idea what to do with it. I knew it needed a bright colour to combine but I wanted to keep it plain...

green grass

it’s not greener at your neighbours..

knitting

When I started doing textile crafts, I started to learn myself knitting. That wasn’t easy. Very soon I found my way to the hook and crochet is my true passion!! But I wanted to knit too, so after a...

neon

I know the trends. I’m always on the Internet, read lots of fashion and interior magazines and I know what’s hot or not. That doesn’t mean I work with trends. I don’t. I like an interior, fashion...

turtle back pack

How sweet, how cool and how crazy original! So I love this turtle back pack. It’s a design by Julie Lapalme and for sale for only 3,50 USD on ravelry. Get the link to the pattern here, but remember...

listening

This pile of loveliness needs to be crocheted together into a blanket (with white cotton). Off course, not all of my crochet is 100% made by me. That’s with some of my sewings too. I hire...

illustration love

(pinterest, did my best to find the artist but can’t track back.. )

ochre crochet vest

In between designing cupcakes, writing a DIY for the DAWANDA site and finishing two articles for the HZG magazine I designed a vest for myself. I found this ochre acrylic yarn and fell in love with...

art class

Yesterday I gave a (freelance) art class during a introduction week on a school for secondary education. This class was a group of kids that don’t have any degree yet, are kicked out of all the...

colour

I’m working on a (light) yellow and camel coloured crochet project. It’s a bag project for Handwerken zonder Grenzen, the magazine I’m writing for and off course I can’t show anything. This will be...

minimal flower perfection

Ohh my Goodness, how I LOVE this idea!! (Dad, I know you can’t read English but I will explain it and we will make these together!! So you know!) The idea is very very simple. Just drill a hole in...

mini cupcake

I’m designing different kinds of cupcakes, pies and other cakes for a possible assignment I’m working on. Can’t tell you to much about it but above is one (of the many designs and work in progress)...