Some red...

Did you notice that lately there is a lot of blue on my blog and not a lot of red? This has not any special reason but i thought it was a good excuse to share these photos I took a while ago... I think many of you will celebrate Halloween, so I wish you all a happy (halloween) weekend.

new tissue holders

I added some new tissue holders to my etsy shop

Needlebook tutorial

I really enjoyed making the needle books from the give-away and wanted to make some for the upcoming gift season and thought that it would be nice to take pictures of the process and make a tutorial for the blog. I hope you like the tutorial and if you have any questions regarding the tutorial please let me know, to see the pictures bigger and read the text better just click on the photo, have fun!

* note : the tutorial starts at the bottom picture ;-)

Together

Yesterday evening I finished the new doll, Ive listed these two in my etsy shop now if you are intrested. My girls had a week autumn holiday and started school today, it's a bit strange to have the house for myself again, perhaps a little to quiet. I'm not complaining though, I have enough to do. I want to thank you all for the great feed-back on the new rabbit kit, I really enjoyed designing it and it's so great to see that you like it too. Now i will start to work on a other project that I'm planning for a long time and hope to finish soon!

Making a doll

One thing that I read in the comments you left at the give-away that you enjoy the photo's of projects in process. Here is one for you, I started to make a doll this morning, I mixed the rabbit-kit and the doll kit, the arms and body of the rabbit and the head and legs of the doll, I show you the result tomorrow.

Pretty fabrics...

My mum and dad went to Antwerp a few days ago and I asked my them to visit Julia's shop, I've been following her blog for a while now and love the pictures of her shop window and new products for the shop. She has a very nice collection of fabrics (liberty, echino etc..) buttons, japanese sewing books, wool and much more. This is what my mum bought for me ( she knows me well ;-) I hope to visit the shop myself in the near future to take a look at all the pretty things myself.

And the winner is....

Actually the winners are....I was so happy with all your comments and feedback that I wanted to send you all a little something but sadly that is not possible so I decided not to pick one but two winners...The winners are Orange Farmhouse and Froken Skicklig please let me know your adres details and I can send you the package! For the others, I'm planning an other give away in a few weeks so you have an other chance.

As you can see I've made some clothes for the rabbit and now it could also be a nice softie for a little boy ;-) I will include the patterns for the pants and gilet to the set as well .

Apple picking

Today we went to a farm not far from rotterdam to pick apples, it was a little bit muddy and windy but it was great to be there and see the animals and all the delicious products they sell in the farm shop (their apple juice is the best ;-) I hope you enjoy your weekend as well, tomorrow I will be back with the winner of the give-away, so you still have time to enter untill midnight!!

Bonjour!

I told you I could not wait sewing my new rabbit kit, yesterday evening this little rabbit was born and I hope you like it as much as I do. This new rabbit loves Paris and comes with an extra piece of fabric to make a Paris skirt and souvenirs tote-bag, what do you want more? You can find the 'make-your own rabbit kit' in the shop.

New doll ( rabbit) kit

Today I went to the screenprint studio to print a new design, it's always very exciting to see how the design takes shape. I still have to sew the rabbit to know for sure if everything is right, hope to have some time left today to do it, I can't wait untill tomorrow!

Here they are...

This morning I finished these 3 rabbits, still two more to go but I could not wait to show these, don't they look happy together? One of them is going to a little boy who already has one rabbit but needs a twin-rabbit ( when the other one needs a wash ;-) If you want to adopt one you can find them in my shop.

Sewing rabbits

Today I spend my time cutting and sewing and tonight I will be turning and filling and hopefully tomorrow there will be some rabbits to show you ( I really like this olive green terry cloth ;-)

Kokeshi dolls & fabric sets

I updated the shop with some new fabric remnant with kokeshi & babushka dolls and also some Souvenirs de Paris sets, these sets are great for small craft projects like keychains, needlebooks or patchwork cushions!

Give away and another sewing box

Yes it's saturday again time for an other birthday and yes you guessed it right an other sewing box, the fabric covered box I bought ( at xenos for the dutch readers) and this time I thought it would be nice to make a needle book with my new kokeshi doll fabric ( drawn by me and the girls) and a small pincushion. Do you like them? Yes? Do you want one too? I decided it was time to do a little give-away.

* what you can win? The kokeshi-doll needle book and the sweet little pincushion pictured in the bottom picture.

* what do you have to do? Leave a comment and tell me why you read my blog and what you like to see more here !

* you have untill next saturday to leave a comment and I announce the winner on next sunday

The fox and the birds

I'm finishing up a project i'm working on, a curtain for a girls bedroom. I'm decorating a plain white velvet curtain with a felt tree, gras, flowers and added some birds and a little fox, especially the grass was tricky to sew on the curtain and I'm glad that I am almost finished now, although Mila is said to me that she wants a curtain like that too....perhaps I will make her a cushion with that same fox...we'll see.

Enveloppe tutorial

Since a few weeks Sofia and Mila are writing letters to their grandparents, they don't live far away and we see them almost every week but I thought it was a good way for the girls to practice their writing skills & spelling and it would also be a fun thing to do. Last week Mila and I spend some time making enveloppes of pretty paper from our favourite magazine Flow, I made a little animation with a small tutorial on how to make these cute enveloppes with some magazine pages and Japanese tape...enjoy!!

Paris on my mind....

Lately I have been thinking of Paris a lot, I hope to go there again soon...... I made some keyrings with the Paris fabric we ( Sofia, Mila and I) designed I plan to put them in my etsy shop soon.

style cookie

I hope you all had a lovely weekend, we had a really lovely warm sunday that we spend outside walking, biking and eating icecream. Today I'm busy with boring administration( I really don't like doing this!!) In my lunchbreak I visited this great new site Style cookie, a online magazine with direct links to the shops to buy all those pretty items! They also have an Atelier where you can find the directions on how to make some of the design ideas in their styling pictures.

An other sewing box

I hope that you are not bored by all the sewing kits we are making, the girls just have so many birthday parties to go to and we think it's a fun gift. Of course we try to make each kit special and diffrent, this time I thought it would be nice to use a doll head as a pin cushion, the felt needle book is simple to make and with the felt flowers they make a nice pair I think.

New dolls in the shop

I love making dolls and then dressing them, these are four dolls that I made recently with the doll-kit and I dressed them with skirts and scarfs and even made a little 'souvenirs de Paris' bag for one of them. If you like them and want to give them a new home you can find them here in my shop.