Sint Maarten

And this is how the lanterns turned out. The girls really enjoyed decorating it. After dinner we made a lantern-lighted walk through our neigbourhood. They are a little afraid of the dark, but not enough to stay inside.

Tasteful

Last week a small piece of land for a vegetable garden was assigned to us. Now we can start making a growing-plan for next spring. But till then we enjoy the harvest from my parents garden. We made a very tasty soup from these parsnips (combined with apples). We used this recipe. Here's a similar recipe in english. We decorated the soup with parsnip-chips (slice, fry and salt).

Sharing

Wednesday both my daughters are at home. It is Saint Maarten that day and we're going to make lanterns, following this tutorial. That means the girls are going to decorate the paper and I'm going to fold. As you can see we made a test-lantern to define the size. The paper we're going to use is 32x63cm, with folds of 3cm (maybe 2cm), for those of you who also want to give it a try. We will use ready made sticks with lamps (bought at HEMA) for lighting the lantern.

Paper-fun

It was raining outside and I finally made a collage. Something that was on my want-to-do-list for a long time. And I was pretty proud of myself for a while. Untill I saw the results of my daughters...

Somersault

Our little girl has outgrown her little bedstead for a while. Yesterday I made a cover for the mattress I kept. She understood right away where I had saved it for.

Squirrel on your shoulder

Since I have a kid with the flu (I hope not the mexican) in the house and have to stay inside, I found time to make this autumn-brooch for her. As you can see it is not difficult. Just assemble the wool-felt pieces and sew together with embroidery yarn.

Recycling

After my first meeting with bookbinding last week I wanted to try more. Another handmade booklet. The back glued and with a hardcover this time. I used paper from our paper-bin. Unfortunately it was just emptied, so I had to use even envelopes to have enough pages in my little book. The result is rather funny, but usable. The cover is a page from the nice magazine Flow.

Surprise packet

As you probably know I enter a contest once in a while. I noticed that the ones with smaller prices usually have quite a big chance to win. These great coasters fell in my mailbox today. Won through a just-send-a-card-if-you-want-to-win-one-of-these-contest. I went to look at the site of studioditte, the makers of these coasters, and saw that they have quite a lot of beautiful things. I really love this bookcase.

Did I really need this?

Via Whip-up I found this tutorial for a passport cover. I couldn't resist and made one right away. And afterwards a matching cover for my car-papers. When using the blue with white dots fabric again I realised that it is amazing what you can do with one fat quarter. Because I used the fabric for this and this project earlier. Can anyone tell me where I could find more of this fabric? I'm in love with it.

Order in time!

I've been working on several Sinterklaas- and Christmas-orders already. If you plan to order one or more stamps yourself I would suggest to do this soon. Otherwise I can't promise they will be in time for the occasion.