Shoppingtherapy

Hmm, had some serious shoppingtherapy the last couple of days. Here are some pics of what I bought :

Some new red-with-white-dots teacups, the bowls and the stuff on top op the cupboard I got from my mom and aunt.

A watering can, ofcourse the pink one (although I kinda fell in love with the fresh blue one as well).

I also just bought a great coloringbook for grownups! I'm not gonna color it, but going to put them in a frame.. My favorite is a girl on a swing, but don't have it as a pic yet. I will post a pic when I've got it framed.

I also crafted a bit (although it was that much work ;)). A friend gave birth to a little girl, Lara. My boyfriend lived with her in a house when he was a student, and with some other housemates they wanted to give Lara something that referred to where they knew mommy and daddy from :) So this is what I came up with :

I also made another, just for fun :

Number 5!

I almost forgot that I was tagged by Wendy from http://www.liefmonster.blogspot.com/ to show the fourth picture in my fourth file. Because that is a picture of me with some of my students (and I don't want to put them on the internet), I chose the 5th of the 5th.

This are my grandparents when they got married. Although my grandmother doesn't look very excited, they were happily married for a lot of years ;) My grandfather unfortunately died 2 years ago.. My grandmother is still alive, and turns 90 (!!) in march. We're gonna celebrate and have a nice dinner with my family!

You can leave your hat on..

I just ordered this great hat for a friends birthday.

Check out this etsy-store, free worldwide shipping right now!

http://www.etsy.com/profile.php?user_id=6734884

housekeeping.. SIGH

Well the title of this post says it all, I'm not really the best in housekeeping. I guess it has something to do with my lack of discipline (probably why I also still don't fit in a size small ;))

And to be honest, when I come home from work and doing groceries I barely have the energy to cook, let alone doing anything else involving cleaning, washing, ironing and folding. To make things a bit more visible for myself (ehhmm, yes I am a to do list-lover) I made this list with all the things to do in my house. The days of the weeks are there, so my goal is to do 1 or 2 things every day during the week, and the rest in the weekend. With my Leitz Easy Laminator I laminated it with a magnetic back, so now it is on my fridge. And it worked for me today, almost every dot is black! If you would like this list as well, please let me know and I will email it to you. My list is in dutch, but if anyone wants one in english, please email me with a list of chores.


Ps. if you don't have a cat or never iron, I will make you your own list, just email me what needs to be on it ;)

Easter(eggs)

Easter is almost here now. I don't really decorate my house for easter, but I DO eat LOTS of eastereggs! Well I should correct myself, I eat cadburry mini-(easter)eggs :) Believe me, once you've tried them, you will never, I repeat, NEVER want any other easteregg anymore.

And since they do not only taste fabulous but also look gorgeous, I think I will buy lots of them and put them in a big glass jar or something... et voilá, there is my easterdecoration!!

(this is also a really cute idea, but the eggs will last about 2 minutes due to my playfull cats ;))

And how cool is this :)

HEMA-agenda

The first thing I did with the floral prints I got from Marieke, is this :

It's my agenda, bought at the HEMA, a great store here in Holland. In the front you can place your own picture or card, and I thought this pattern would be lovely. And I think it is, it makes me really happy! I don't know if I like my name that big on it, maybe I will change that later on.

I heard HEMA also has a store in Paris as well now. Really cool, and I think people all over the world would love it. I got some pictures from products they sell (with really REALLY nice designs), check this out :

I got this nice notebook,with hearts all over it :







I'm still a bit sick, but luckily don't have to work next week. That means I'm FINALLY gonna finish the photo-album!! Pics will be shown later this week ;)

Sick again..

But to cheer myself up a bit, I bought really cute patterns on Marieke's Etsy-shop.

Marieke makes really cute things, like this :

I really can't wait to make those cute paperclips with the flowery design I bought!

Go and get inspired at Marieke's blog :
http://mariekevermeulendesign.blogspot.com/

And then go and buy her beautiful designs at :
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5602391&page=1&section_id=&order

Back again

Here I am again :) Didn't have any time OR energy last week to blog, so today a quick review on what happened untill today.. Reports are finally over and done with, just one parent I still have to talk to next week. My class is a mess right now, and it really costs a lot of energy doing my work at this moment. Three boys have joined our group in the last weeks, and all the children are reacting to that. The boys have to get used to this new environment to them, and the rest of the class has to get used to them. Not easy for this type of children! So I feel more like a police-officer than a teacher right now. And, although I wanted to be a police-officer when I was younger, I don't like acting like I have to now! Oh well, I'll give it some time and a lot of effort, and things will settle... (and after this week working I'll have a week off!!)

Anyway, this nice print you saw above this post, is the new wallpaper I used for my closet (or is it cupboard?)! I haven't wallpapered a lot (I'm more of a painter), so it took a bit of effort and a lot of patience to make it all work :) Now put some shelving up, and I'll have a 'brand new' closet!

The pic on the right is what I made for the children in my class for valentine. It's a mini-lollypop, on the leaf was my name. I hid them in their drawers, and it was really fun to see the kids finding the lollypop and looking confused (valentine isn't a big thing over here in Holland). They were all very happy with it! I made a valentinescraft with the children, so they could give something to someone they love as well. They loved doing that! They 'made' 3 cute teabags, added 2 chocolatechipcookies and wrapped it nicely, decorated it and made a tag. It looked so cute! I don't have the pics here right now, but will post them later on.

(Ps I'm sorry for my terrible english! With this terrible cold I have I can't seem to find the right

words or phrases!)

Nice day today :)

Just a quick note today.. I had a very busy but nice day today! A friend of mine, Hjalmar, has his own business and gives trainings/seminars/I-don't-know-how-to-name-it. Too complicated to explain (especially in english ;)), but I've attended one today. If I ever will open my oh-so-desired shop/business (in toys, learningmaterials, interiordesign for schools, childrens rooms, etc.) the things I've learned today will be really helpfull exploring the market.

Hmm, I think I should just leave it at 'I had a very nice day today! thnx Hjalmar!!' :)


Just wanted to share another thing, wouldn't you just looooove to have something like this in your childs room (or even classroom!)??

Yudu!

Yes, that's right, YUDU!
Today I found out about a new Provocraft-product (don't you just loooooove them making things easier and more fun?!) called the Yudu... and ofcourse now I WANT IT!!

It is, what I understand of it, a new and improved kind of Gocco. Not that I ever had a Gocco (when I discovered about them, they already weren't producing it anymore) ;)

So with the Yudu you can screenprint on almost any (flat) surface! Ohhh just think of all the things you could screenprint...

Check out the provocraft-yudu website for some video's on how it works :

www.whatdoyudu.com

On Etsy there is a discussionabout the Yudu, maybe nice to get some reviews:

http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6006138&page=1

Inspiring toys

All pictures from www.haba.de

Not much time to blog (or craft) yet... Sigh, if only I had those reports done... Next wednesday it'll all be over. Untill then, just something that inspires me. I looooooove the toys from HABA!! Check out http://www.haba.de/ for more toys, childrens furniture, games and lots more!