Cookie street

For the wintermarket I baked a lot of cookies and Mila's window houses inspired me to make cookies in house shapes, I really love baking and this cookie recipe is the best, these are sugar cookies, I think a lot of you might know these already, I made these with the recipe of Martha Stewart, here is a link to the recipe and video. What I love about these cookies is that they really keep their shape ( this is because after cutting the shapes you put them in the fridge overnight and than bake them) and of course they taste jummie too....

An impression of our wintermarket

Yesterday we had a great day, very cold and cozy. The wintermarket went great and we had some really lovely visitors, friends, family and bloggers( so nice seeing Josha + family and Kay again). The girls did a great job running their little cafe, the hot chocolate with wipped cream was favourite and the cookies went well too ;-) Their shop inside looked so pretty and I loved seeing them in action, as you can understand they almost sold out!

Wintermarket

Tomorrow the wintermarket is already, yesterday Mila had a day off school and cut these lovely paper houses as window decoration, don't they look great! It's pretty cold here in Rotterdam and I even saw a few snow flakes today ! I hope to see some of you tomorrow, you can find the details here, we will have hot choco and freshly baked cookies waiting. I will try to make some pictures to share next week.

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for those who want to ad some snow to their pictures you can find it here at picnik

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Packages

I really enjoy making pretty packages, for packing I use simple white bags that I printed (with my gocco-machine or screenprinting), some of my favourite red/white twine and screenprinted stickers and finish of with my label and a handwritten card and of course add a little extra!!

Red Cross

An other doll outfit finished, a nurses costume with a red woolen cape, so many more ideas in my head for more doll clothes.......hope I don't bore you !!

Paris doll kit

After some people asked me if the Paris doll was also availible as a kit I decided to make a few for my shop, so if you like to make a Paris doll hop over to my etsy shop you can find them there along the other kits.

Sweet houses

The girls are very busy preparing for the wintermarket and I wanted to give you a preview of what will be on offer in their store. I have sewed little houses with them ( they sat on my lap and sewed with the machine while I contolled the peddle) and after turning and stuffing they did all the cutting and embroidery themself. I like them all and think they will be very popular !!

sewing more clothes

I think I'm a little addicted on the whole doll clothes sewing, I simply can't stop! I made a pattern for a shirt and sewed these two, for the white shirt I used a vintage napkin and for the other I cut up an old liberty blouse of Sofia. I hope you had a great weekend, this week i will be busy preparing for our wintermarket and screenprinting more rabbit/doll kits for the shop because they are simply flying away ( jippie.....!!)

Wintermarket

Yesterday I asked Sofia to design a invitation for our wintermarket and here it is, a cute cat ice-skating (why didn't I think about that?). We took the drawing of Sofia and traced it with a special gocco pen and then gocco-printed the invitation in blue & gold. I was also quite productive yesterday evening and managed to sew a new outfit for one of the dolls, pretty chic I would say! If you like the custom dolls that I have been posting lately, you can buy them at the wintermarket (and will not be for sale yet in my etsy shop) or just contact me and I make a special order!

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I like to invite you to our wintermarket

sunday 28 of november

11.00-17.00 hours

Teilingerstraat 62

3032AW Rotterdam

The girls and their friends would like to welcome you in their Roulotte Cafe for hot chocolate and fresh cookies, inside we will have a wide selection of handmade goodies great for your Sinterklaas and Christmas shopping.

I hope to see you next week

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New bag and lots of packages

Yesterday I finally sewed a new bag for myself....always too busy to make something for myself ( do you know that feeling?) I really needed this new bag, my old one was falling to pieces and looked really shabby. The fabric I used is the echino fabric my mum bought in Antwerpen here, you can also buy it online here and for the dutch readers you can find Echino fabric here and here, it's a really great fabric to work with and the bag is perfect for going to the post office!

New dolls

I had some sad dolls laying around waiting for clothes for months, yesterday I made some new clothes for them, they still need a shirt or blouse and then they are ready for the wintermarket.

Made by Sofia

Here is a post of a proud mum, I like to show you some of the things Sofia made in the last few days. A little embroidered house, this great pictures of Eric the polar bear in our local zoo and the sweetest christmas card I ever seen ;-).

The girls and me are preparing for the winter market we are going to organise in our house, the girls will have their own stall selling their handmade products together with some friends (including these lovely cards and more fabric houses) and they will be also in charge of the cookie & hot chocolate cafe in their Roulotte. If you want to come, you are very welcome I will post more info about the wintermarket soon.

Happy monday

Hi there... I just saw that I haven't posted for almost a week, I was so busy printing, sewing, packing and going to the postoffice that I just didn't have thought about it (but that is also a good thing, it means I'm busy working ;-) . These rabbits and ladies are taking a trip to France, lucky them. I have to wait a little longer, I going on a small weekend trip to Paris with Sofia in december to see some friends, do christmas shopping and take lots of pictures for my very neglected Carnet de Paris blog.

Mikodesign Collection Magazine

Open publication - Free publishing - More kids

I really love internet and all the options it offers, lately I've been in love with Issuu, a great site that makes it possible to publish your own online magazine. Who would not want to make/have it's own magazine? I would love to make one someday but I know my time limits and thought it would be much better to make a catalogue of my work. So I spend the last 6 days almost non-stop behind the computer to make a catalogue. Making the catalogue was quite a bit of work but it feels so nice to have it finished and feels great to flip the pages...

I really like these issuu publications

Isabelle's warszawa boutique guide

Gifted Holiday Magazine

Mix and Match set

How was your weekend? I spend my sunday evening in front of the telly filling up all these arms and legs of the Mix & Match creatures, so they would be finished in time to photograph so that I can introduce you to a new set in my shop. I made a few mix & match creature sets, a set with pieces of screenprinted fabric to make at least 3 creatures. You can find the new sets in my shop.

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If you like a chance to win a make your own rabbit set or I love Paris Rabbit hop over to Elisabeths blog and join the giveaway

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A finished doll..

I always love seeing what other people make with "my fabrics " and now with all the doll & rabbit kits flying all over the world I look forward to see the finished dolls and rabbits.
Some time ago Nathalie (NU interieur ontwerp ) bought a doll kit and I asked her if I could share the doll she made, I like that she kept it simple and just added a comfy white scarf. Nathalie also made some cute robots you can see them here.

101-woonideeen interview

You can see/read a small interview with me on the 101-woonideeen blog

Some doll clothes

Do you remember the doll I made for Mila's birthday? (That doll was the inspiration for the new Rabbit kit). I did not only made the doll but also some extra clothes, a party dress made of pure silk and glitter fabric, liberty skirt and a liberty bikini. I asked my mum to make a closet, it's made of cardstock and covered in bookbinders linnen. Seeing these clothes again makes me want to start sewing some outfits for the dolls sitting in my room waiting to be dressed, but first there are some boring things that need my attention !!

A stylish nursery

I really like the blog and work of Nina and now that she is pregnant with her first child I love seeing her decorating style when it comes to children rooms and clothing. Some time ago she shared some pictures of the nursery on her blog and I was happy to see the doll that I made so cozy in the baby bed. I'm looking forward to see how having a child will influence her work. One thing I know for sure, it will be a very stylish baby !

A new skirt for Sofia

It's been a while ago that I've been sewing clothes for my girls, I planned to join the Kids Clothes week but was to busy at that time, I thought I could do some sewing in the autumn holidays but didn't manage that too. So I was very pleased with myself and Sofia that Saturday morning we made this skirt together. She helped me cutting, pinning, measuring and I did the sewing. I used a old skirt of Sofia as example, the fabric is a corderoy so that will be nice and comfy in these cold months. If you feel like sewing some kidsclothes and look for ideas, inspiration and tutorials be sure to check Elsie Marley's blog.