Present arrived today!!!

Today after I came home from sport and Fien getting from school... The postman( woman) came and there was a present for me!!!!
Juffrouw Juul sended her PIF present! Oh I love it! Great colors... cute little button... Thanx so much for it!
So ladies... please join my Pif and enjoy a little present by the post soon...
You can make it yourself or buy a little one... But making is more special I think!

I also sended my SWAP for Swapbot... It arrived well! I finished my first swap!!!! Still curious about what I will receive...

PIF OPROEP and more

Hallo dames...
ik zou vandaag bekend maken wie er meedoen aan de PIF. Helaas is op de verjaardag van mijn moeder niemand die ik bekend kan maken dat ze mee doen! Bij deze nogmaals een oproepje Ik heb 3 mensen nodig die mee willen doen aan een Pay it Forward...Wie wil er meedoen????
30 september sluit de PIF... anders maak ik er een give away van... Heb al een heeeeel leuk cadeautje voor de mensen klaarliggen, maar helaas... de gelukkigen moeten dan nog maar even een nieuwe kans krijgen!

Today I heard that Naald en Draad is online! it's the shop where I buty a lot of buttons, and so... Their webshop you can find under the banner in my sidebar! It's a dutch store so dutchies... Go and look around!!!!just click on the banner


A good friend of us is starting his comany in giving child parties with face painting!!!! He is soooo talented!just look at his blog what he does with the face paint! Awesome! Click on his button above and enjoy ....

PIF, Only for the dutch girls this time....

Sorry , this PIF is only for the dutch girls this time...
Maybe next time there will be one international...

Op de Blog van Juffrouw Juul stond een oproepje voor een PIF ( pay It Forward). Ik vond het zo'n leuk idee dat ik me opgegeven heb en dus meedoe!

Vindt je het ook leuk om cadeautje te krijgen? Vindt jehet leuk om cadeautjes te maken? Dan is deze PIF iets voor jou!

Je ontvangt een kadootje van iemand en mag daarna aan 3 anderen een zelfgemaakt cadeautje toesturen én aan de persoon van wie jij iets hebt gekregen.
Ik maak voor 3 mensen + Miranda van Juffrouw Juul een cadeatje.
Wie wil ermee doen?
Ik zoek 3 mensen aan wie ik een zelfgemaakt cadeautje stuur en die daarna mij en drie anderen iets stuurt. Plaats een berichtje/reactie als je het leuk vindt om mee te doen. Ik zal op 7 september 3 mensen uitloten die zich hebben aangemeld!

Featured again!

WOW!!!! I was featured again on craftgossip with my pillowcase jumper tutorial!!!!
Such a surprise to see an email in my box...

As promised earlyer... the bread recipe.



625 gram whole wheat flour( 325 gram) and flour 300gram)
400 ml water or milk
15 gr fresh yeast or 12 gram dried yeast
1 teaspoon salt
a dash of oil ( I use walnut oil) or liqued butter

Put the flour in your kitchen machine and add the yeast. When you use fresh yeast first solve it in the milk or water. Best result is when you solve it in handwarm water.
Than add it to the flourmix and keep stirring. than add the salt and keep stirring.
Add the oil or butter and stir.
After that put a little flour on the mix and let the dough rise/swell for 40 minutes under a tea towel that you first made wet.

After 40 minutes mix again the dogh with your machine and repeat the riseing/ swelling part again for 40 minutes.

After 40 minutes stir it once again and take out the dough, roll it over and put it in a loaf tin or cake tin. dash a little flour on top of the bread and let it rise/ swell for 40 minutes under the wet teatowel again.
after that 35 minutes in a prea heated oven at 220°C.
To keep your bread fresh and nice store it in a dry teatowel and you have a great taste on your bread the next day!

It's show time again!

After a 3 weeks beiing back from France I have been working and creating! And I had to update all of you!
My parents came for a weekend and we went walking in "Barger veen" A beautiful nature reservate near by.
We had a great walk and made beautiful pictures.Ilove the spider!



Grandma and Fien walking hand in hand...



Grandpa and Emma...hand in hand!

I told you all last time my sister "D" is getting married! She asked the girls to be bridalmaids. A reaction from Fien: "I can't be aunty... my shoes are to smal and I can not walk on them, my feet are hurting in them..." She was SO serious and dissappointed! My sister told her she would get new shoes and a new dress, not the same as last year when my other sister got married! It was such sweet reaction and she was So serious on it....

I also created a lot again... First a little bag from a baby jeans! the elastic in it was solved so no use for it or... YES! It turned out te be a little bag!
Had seen cute bags of old jeans on a market in france and thought it was cheaper to make myself one ....


A friend of us is pregnant and will get a baby girl! Nice to know so you can make PINK baby presnets!!!! Here's my Bitty Boots pair!!! You can download the pattern for free on Heather Baily's blog!

i also made a skirt from an old skirt of myself...
aslo finished the library bags for Daan and Emma. Today they used it fr the first time...
Easy with the library card hooked on the bag so they can not lose them! and always have the card with them when they go to the library bus at school...


Last weekend Fien was at the Neighbours. There she had some great home baked bread. She loved it so much that I asked for the recepy. It was easy with a great result. This morning I made the bred and when Fien came from school she loved the warm home made bread!!!! Soon I will translate the recepi and share it...But first the picture of the bread...Shame you can''t smell it and taste it!!!!


well it's a long post but now you are udated!!! Hope to share again soon, when the girls wanna show their new made clothing...

OUR HOLIDAY!

We are back rom our holiday in France! Here some pictures to share with you...

 

We had a great time on camping les valades in coux et bigaroque
The perigord noir is a beautiful area to be! We have been in the france paper "Sud ouest" aslo!!!!
Lot's of day trips made and beautiful places seen! time flies! We are back in the Netherlands and life starts tomorrow at work!
29th of july my youngest sister called and had a great announcement...
She's been asked to marrie her boyfriend!!!! So romantic! he asked her at the house near Gordes that was used in the great and romantic film "A good year."


30th of july was my b'day at home!
I was surprised with beautiful earrings of swarovsky!
My parents in law gave me a beautiful hand bag of cognac colored leather. Selma sended a nice surprise a little keyring felt flower that I put on my working bag!
oh by the way... This is my summer eye catcher!My husband took this nice picture!

Geweldige giveaway!!!!

Geweldige giveaway op Essies blog:

Neem maar gauw een kijkje op haar blog! daar wordt je erg hebberig van als je al die leuke dingen die ze maakt ziet! Dus... GO!

Sewing today and the days before...

 

This is Emma's birthdaydress. She was trying it on today and loved it!
I love the fabric choise! It's stenzo fabric and the pattern is from Portabellopixie

This little navydress is recycle stuff! I used an old poloshirt of myself, it was almost new, didn't fit well to me... So I took an old dress off my DD and traced it for the pattern... Some ribbon and a aplliqué...voilá!


This is my first fused plastic bag -bag...
I found this tutorial and had to try! I still had the lovely bird plastic bag and found it great to use! It's soooo cool t redo and repurpose things!

These dresses are the invitations for Emma's birthdayparty!

Tutorial soap hanger

I just found out how to make a quick and easy soap hanger.
Nice little gifts for a teacher, mom, friend....mine will be teacher appriciation gifts. The kids will go to school for only 3 more weeks so... Time flies!











Here is what you need:
- nice block of soap (I used marseille soap)
- a rasp; use the small part
- some water
- ribbon, wooden, glass or any kind of beads
- a sillicon mall; I used ice cube makers from Ikea!




Scrap some soap off the blok




Drop a little( really a drop) water to the soap and mold it with your hands until it's a ball that feels like clay... It has to have that much water in it that you can put it into the mall...press on well and make the surface shiny with water on your finger....






Take the soap out, be carefull it cracks easy!
than make the form shiny with water... It can be bumpy if you did not mold it well enough.

Take a wooden pin and slowly pull it through the soap so you get a hole...
Now you can use you soap beads and create a hanger....Be creative!!!!




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