New doll set

Here she is the new doll made with the new red doll-set I printed ( I have sewed her very late last night because I could not wait untill today to see how she would turn out!!), I listed a few sets in my shop...hope you like her!

Sweet dolls....

I really enjoy making dolls and loved designing the doll kit and now I'm so thrilled to show you some pictures of finished dolls made by two lovely ladies, Maya from America and Louise from Australia who made a doll with the kit and made some great clothes for them too....

This is the doll Maya made, her name is Lucie and I think she looks so nice I like the lace Maya added to the Paris skirt and Lucie looks very at home in the kitchen with that lovely apron.

Be sure to hop over to Maya's blog and take a look at all the great ideas and tutorials she shares!!

Louise made this very chic doll but didn't stop there, she made a sundress, skirt, pyama, underwear and a nice red coat, I love the little dutch ribbon details....here and here you can see more of the clothes Louise made.

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Did you also make a doll with the doll kit?

I would love to see and share it .

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Sunset Dance

Sofia's birthday party is getting close very fast so I have to get started...first up is the invitation, I already have some ideas and it involves a few extra arms and legs. We did a little test photoshoot yesterday evening when we went for a nice bike ride with the girls. I hope to show you more soon.

Sewing and painting.

The base of the new room for Sofia and Mila is finished but there is still a lot to do and make, lots of painting (white, white and more white...) and lots of sewing, like these new duvet covers made with fabric scraps from my pile and cushions with some very pretty fabrics from Echino.

My sweet Mila and her new dress

Yesterday Mila made a pretty bad fall and hurt her face, hands and knees, she had a lot of pain and criend a lot, now she is feeling better and more calm.

Yes....I made an other wrap dress......they are so much fun to make, this time Mila choose the fabric and pink bias tape and I think it's a lovely combo, the fabric reminded her of her favourite dress ( see top picture summer 2007) made by my friend Marine, that dress is too small now and needed replacement.

A little holiday and day 7 of the kids clothes week

We are back home, we spend some time with family in Zeeland in a cottage near the sea. We went there by train, ferry and the last 10 kilometres by bike ( Sofia and Mila too). The other day we made a bike tour along the sea of about 20 km and the girls where amazing, I'm so proud of them, not complaining and being very cool! I think we will go on biking holidays from now on ;-)

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The morning just before we left I managed to finish two more wrap dresses and took them with me in the train to cut all the threads....and so the girls got to wear their new dresses. I made a red flower wrap dress for Sofia with green bias tape and it looks so good on her don't you think. I will try to make a picture tomorrow of the dress I made for Mila.

Shopping & taking some time off...

We went to our favourite secondhand store yesterday and these are some of the goodies I came home with, some nice fabrics, embroidery hoops so I can make more of these, cute hankies to screenprint and some other things I could not leave behind ;-)

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I'm taking some time off to spend with the family and will be back on the blog on Monday

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Kids clothes week challenge day 3 & 4

This morning

Mila: Mum, you where doing this clothes week challenge he! Where you have to sew a piece of clothing every day?

Me: Yes.

Mila: But why are you sewing duvet covers and not clothes?

Me: Because we need them too.

Mila: but you will sew the rest of the clothes?

Me: Yes I will....

I did already sew these two dresses using a pattern of one of my favourite Japanese Sewing books ( ISBN4-579-11054-4) with a nice cotton that looks a lot like Liberty but cost a lot less, let the sun come out, we need some warmer weather for these dresses. I will share pictures of the duvet covers too, they are a lot of work too make....but also a lot of fun!

kids clothes challenge day 2

One more dress finished, same pattern, fabric is from schroder ( for the Dutch readers), I love the combi with the blue bias tape!

Kids clothes week challenge Day 1,

Oficially this challenge week starts next week but I'll be on holiday so I started a little bit sooner. I made this dress for Sofia from a pattern from Burda Special 2009, I saw this dress on the blog and Flickr of Vlijtige Vink and Meisjes mama and loved it right away. Making the dress was very simple (although my over-lock decided to stop working) and very addictive. I have already cut out fabric for 3 more dresses and hope to sew them within the next few days. Sofia was very happy with her new dress, she has asked me for one several times already et voila....one happy child and one happy mama!!

Little sewing box

I love sewing and I love it when children are intrested in sewing and crafts so when Sofia's friend had her birthday party I knew what we would give her. I bought a small carton suitcase and an embroidery hoop. We made a little pincushion and a needle-book from felt with a little heart embroidery made by Sofia, added some fabric and small sewing supplies. I love how it turned out and think that it's a perfect gift for a 10 year old!!

Kids clothes week

Although we are having some rainy days right now I know the summer is very close and going through the closet of the girls I see that they are in need of some new summer clothes, that is why I love this idea of Elsiemarley, to sew for 1 hour each day the second week of may. I am going to do this, I only have to start a little sooner as we have a small family holiday planned. Are you playing along, see her blog for a lot of links for kids-clothes inspiration and tutorials!!!

swap rooms...house swap

We have been working a lot here in our house the kidsroom & our bedroom like you see in the picture are gone. Sofia and Mila have grown a lot and needed new and bigger beds so we did a room swap, they are now in our old bedroom and we are sleeping in their forrest room ( feels like sleeping in a shabby hotelrrom ;-) I painted their new room white and they got a ikea bunkbed, now we have to start to decorate, make desks etc...still a lot to do!

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We are not only busy with the room swap but also busy finding a good house-swap for the summer holiday, we have been doing this for the last few years and really love this way of Holiday, but this year we are not so lucky to find a swap partner and the holiday is getting closer......We would love to go to France this year but are open to other places in Europe, we are looking for a house that is comfortable for a family (with children room and toysand perhaps a garden or balcony) in a intresting area, we love culture, sea, nature.... if you are intrested you can take a look here and here and leave a comment or send a mail.