Happy mail

Today I was in bed for the whole day, sick... But what a nice surprise, in the mail I received the two patterns I ordered from Kellie (http://www.dontlooknow.typepad.com/) a while ago. Wowie! Made my day a bit more fun.

Thanks Kellie,

they look great!!

Photo-album

Today I made some time to start making a photo-album for Evy, the daughter of my friend Ellen. So Ellen, if you're reading this DON'T GO ANY FURTHER!! ;)

I got my inspiration (and the pattern :)) from http://www.dontlooknow.typepad.com/. Check out her blog! I really LOVE her work! The bright colors and the cute patterns. As a personal touch I added this cute buttons in the centre of the flowers, bought at 'Pipoos', a dutch craftstore.

The way it is looking now is probably not the way it'll get sewn. I've got no pretty white fabric here right now, but I think I want to make a white square in the middle, with the flowers on it. I think the bright colors of the flowers will be better seen, it'll be fresher.I will cover the edges of the square with a ribbon or something like it. Also I want to put Evy's name on it.

Well, I guess at this point Ellen stopped reading, so here is a pic :

Fabulous fabrics

Tadaaa, aren't these the most beautiful colors and patterns? I must admit that I am turning into a fabric-addict. My fabric-cabinet can't take anymore fabrics, but next saturday I will be in Utrecht (visiting an educational exposition/market (can't really translate this any better ;)).... And in Utrecht, every saturday, there is this big fabricmarket. So I persuaded my colleagues to visit that market as well! I hope I can post another pic of new fabrics next week :)

Evy

Just a little project I did a few weeks ago, for this beautiful girl :

Books and time..

Today I bought these two books. And with doing that, the list of things I would like to make grows.. First I will have to find the time to sit down with a cup of tea and read the books thoroughly! It's a very busy time at work right now, a lot of meetings and reports are coming up.. That means a lot of work (not only at school, but also at home) and not a lot of time to do fun things. What makes it even more difficult, is that the fabrics I've ordered at http://www.fatquartershop.com/ arrived, yay! Tomorrow I'll post a pic of the fabrics, right now there's work to do :)

Roommates

My roommates..

Woohoo!

Well, my first post, yay! Beginning a blog was on my mind ever since I got hooked on reading other people blogs.. The only thing i should be watching out for, is spending as much time on my own blog as being busy reading others ;) I have such a HUGE list of things to do and make, I'll try to take pics and post them here..


Let's start with the last project, my dotted bookcases. I have an appartment that was built in the 30's, with very high ceilings and lots of wood and ornaments. I'm such a sucker for that! Loooove houses that have a 'soul' to them. But the only thing is, that it's getting this 'classic' feel to it when you're decorating. Just to give you an impression, here's a pic..






Yes, I know, the chandelier helps a lot too :)
But to lighten things up a bit, AND because I am in this red with white dots-fase, I painted my bookcases. Unfortunately no 'before' pic! (I will try to remember the 'before' before next time).




Makes me smile when looking at it :)