Grey weather...colourful projects

Here it's rainy grey weather but inside we did some colourful projects. Friday Mila was free from school so we decided to make some cakepops, we had lots of fun, crumbling the cake and mixing it with the frosting, these are the ones who came out the best! You can go here and see how the pro's do it! On saturday there was a package in the mail all the way from Australia with inside an early present for Mila, a teatowl with the birds of Australia, too pretty to use as a teatowel but perfect to make into a nice curtain for her reading corner!

Look what I found!

Sometime ago I visited a local secondhand store with Mila and looking for vintage bird things and look what we found, a really nice wooden sewingbox on wheels. The box was filled with a lot of junk but also some intresting things. The box needs some work and perhaps some paint to.

Paris in Blue

I made some new remnant sets for my shop, this set contains cotton screenprinted fabrics in blue and white with paris print, great to make a cushion for example. There are only a few in the shop, you can find them here.

The cat who loves birds....

I'm busy working on designing two new doll/creature sets, one is almost finished ( will keep it a secret for now) and for the other set I'm thinking of making a cat and since we are all about birds here in this house lately I thought why not make a cat who likes birds. I made a cat using the rabbit set and started to add details with marker, still not sure about where it will end, I like the idea of a little fabric cage that he/she can carry around and as an extra a little fabric bird you can make.

Cutting paper birds

I hope you all had a good weekend, sunday morning we collected some pretty papers and selected some party colours, we cut out birds, feathers, birdcages and stars for the party decoration we are going to make.

Lovely afternoon

Today I had a meet-up with Diana, Caroline and Michelle, we had a lovely afternoon drinking tea, eating cookies and of course lots of talking. I made them a little paperbag (stamps bought in Paris) to take some cookies home.

Goodies from Japan

Last week I met Miho ( one of the ladies of Driehoek who made the book Dutch interiors). Miho brought a little paper bag for me, although most of the goodies went to my girls straight away ;-) I love the look and packages of these japanese goodies.

More cookies....

I seem obsessed with cookies lately....but I just want to share some more cookies with you!! These are some of the other cookies I baked in the weekend. Handcut birds, birdhouses and feather without the icing and ***Homemade*** cookies stamped with a cookie stamp my friend Maud bought for me at Merci (in Paris).

Weekend painting

In the weekend we ( Mila, Sofia and I) made these bird paintings as decoration for Mila's party, it was total coincidence that the branch on my painting (left) connects to the one on Mila's painting ;-)

Birds and feathers

Monday again and I'm sitting behind the computer with tea and a homemade sugar cookie that I baked in the weekend. Our weekend was full with crafting, baking and house shores. I tryed to find nice cookie cutters in the shape of birds, feathers and birdhouses, but didn't find something I really liked so I wanted to try if I could cut them free-hand, I made a paper bird shape and also a feather and cut out the cookies, it wasn't as difficult as I thought. After baking I decorated them with royal icing, Mila was very happy how they looked (and tasted) and ordered a bunch for her birthday.

New Stockist

Yesterday I met Miho at BonBon at the Block, a very trendy kidsstore in Rotterdam. It was nice meeting Miho and her friends and also a good moment to take pictures from the shop and my dolls/rabbit +sets! Since last week BonBon on the Block stocks my products and I really like how they are displayed them in the shop! ( did you see the rabbit on the swing?)If you are in the Rotterdam area you should visit this shop because they offer some really cool brands like Bobo Choses and Mini Rodini.

*** there are just a few free hankies left so be quick if you like to recieve one***

Free "Souvenirs de Paris" hankie.

This morning I've been very busy screenprinting, one of the things I was printing where these vintage hankies I collected over the last few months. Do you like them? One of them can be yours...I will give away a "Souvenirs de Paris" hankie to the first 10 people who buy something in my etsy shop.

Oh la la...

I've told you before and I will tell you again I really enjoy seeing the doll/ rabbits you make of the sets I screenprinted, this one is made by Holly from the very creative blog Chez Beeper Bebe and it's so cute ( Sofia and Mila saw these pictures and loved it and asked for more clothes and of course croissants for their dolls!!) The outfit Holly made is super, the short blue jacket and the legwarmers and the tiny croissant and baguette love it all...

How to draw a .....

In the latest issue of Flow magazine there was a little book on how to draw diffrent kinds of people, we love this little book and Sofia started right away, I love the way Caroline explains how to draw all the different facial expressions! Caroline also has a blog where you can find here lessons to draw cute pets see here

L.O.L.

This weekend I have made lots of L.O.L. ( lots of legs or like the in dutch lol= fun) thanks to Joanie I started on a project for Mila's bird party. This part I did and the next stage the girls will join the fun! Can you guess what we are making?

Sweet Sofia

This weekend I managed to snap some pictures of Sofia wearing the dress I made for christmas, it's the same model as Mila's dress, I used very fancy dupion silk and very pretty ivory organza for this one. I think she looks very pretty in the dress ;-)

Spotted

This week I got an e-mail (thanks Amandine!) telling me that "I love Paris doll and Rabbit" where spotted in the latest issue of the French Glamour magazine, so great to see them sitting there next to Julie the owner of the webshop Little You .

My turn now....

One of the things I like of these themed parties is that we ( the kids & moi) learn a lot from it, we bought some vintage bird books (and borrowed a great one too) and now we start to know the names and really love drawing them. It has been a long time ago that I drew birds and used aquarel but it has been so much fun. I totally forgot how I love working with this medium and I'm sure I will start to use it more often. We have put a lot of bird food in the garden and love watching our visitors, I hope they decide to stay and build a little nest like last year!

Hella

Last week I visited the Hella Jongerius expo in Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam with the girls and we loved it, so much beauty, love for colour and texture...really inspiring. Here you can see a small film about Hella too. If you are in the Rotterdam area and love design you should take a look (untill feb 13.) I'm off to go with Mila and her class on a school trip to an other museum today, a kids museum called Villa Zebra on a great location in Rotterdam.

a doll poncho tutorial

I made a tutorial to make a poncho for your (mikodesign) doll/rabbit, you can see the whole tutorial here.

A collection

No you are not seeing double...I was playing around with Picnik an onlinephoto editing program , I really love this online place where I can play around with my photo's, make frames, mozaiks, add text and more. You should try it! It's for free !! Here you can see a few Babushkas from my collection with some diffrent effects...what is your favourite one?