Merry christmas

I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, with these homemade and hand decorated cookies I made with the girls yesterday. Hope you'll have a lovely time with your family and friends!!

 I will take a little blog break  but will be back the 30th of december for the winner of the collégien give away ( you can still enter).

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we will go to Brussel and Gent,

does anybody have tips for nice things to do, visit, eat out with children??

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Swedish goodies

Look what I recieved all the way from sweden, Floortje send me this great package filled with pretty, fun, tasty things, I think it's a great way to start of Christmas. I look foward on sipping a cup of that lovely fragrant tea and cuddle up on the sofa with the family living, sounds perfect to me ;-)

Firts there are still a few things to be done untill I can sit and relax. Today I will decorate Christmas cookie houses for their school christmas party and I need to sew a party skirt for Mila.

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don't forget you can still enter the Collégien give away

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wood & wool stool

It's so nice to see the things I made in their new home, photograped by their new owners! Above you see the eiffel tower I made for Ingrid, I really like that stack of colorful wool next to it. The cute little christmas tree was made by Ingrid from Wood& wool stool,  but hangs in the very pretty house of Marlous from Planet Fur, both ladies made some really nice christmas decorations for their home. We just bought our tree yesterday and start decorating tomorrow, today I will try to make miniuture christmas gardens with the girls and their grandfather, untill then I will try to catch up with all the e-mails.

Last shop update for this year

I made a few more Paris ornaments, mini cameras, parfume bottles and tissue holders and listed them in my shop. This will be the last shop update of this year so take your chance ;-) You can find them here!

Eating Design

Mila's classmate celebrated her birthday and instead of handing out cakes or sweets she handed out a book and some fruit. The book is 'het broodtrommel boek' a book to inspire to make nice lunchboxes instead of the boring sandwich with peanut butter everyday. The book is written and designed by Marije Vogelzang, who happens to be the mother of Mila's classmate ;-) Visit her website and take a look at her portfolio, it's filled with many interesting projects like this project Eat Love Budapest.

Mmmmm....macarons

You perhaps already know I love macarns, I have (tried) to bake them several times using different recipes and sometimes it worked and sometimes it did not. When I was in France I bough a package macarons mix in the supermarket and the macarons I made with it turned out quite nice, of course not as good as the ones you can buy / eat in France but certainly nicer than most of the macaraons you can buy in the Netherlands. A few days ago I found these macarons mix packages at the Xenos and bought a few to try, this weekend I baked the strawberry macarons, it was very easy and the result quite pleasing. The taste is ok, not fantastic, but I like how the shape and the important little feet turned out! All in all I would say it's a succes and I will use the mix again, but it won't stop me to try to bake them all by myself again ....

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Don't forget to leave a comment at the Collégien give away!!

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Winterfestival

Tomorrow I'll be sharing a booth with Jessica on the Winterfestival in Rotterdam.

Good press

So nice seeing my dolls, rabbits and other product popping up in gift guides like this pretty one.

Collégien Give away

For Mila Christmas came early this year, she got a very nice package all the way from France, these very cute, comfortable and fun sock slippers from the French company Collégien. We where offered to try out a pair for free and even better I can give away one pair to one of you too ;-) I visited the website together with Mila and looked at all the designs, I can tell you it's a difficult choise, for me at least, I really liked the matroyska inspired ones and of course the french stripes ;-) But Mila she knew right away wich pair she wanted! They are called Farwest and reminded her of a little Indian girl, so inspired by Collégien and Mila I made a little Indian outfit for the Paris doll to go with Mila's new slippers. Mila was also inspired and made this cute Camera from carton !

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Do you want a chance to win your own pair of Collégien slippers? ( they come in adult sizes too)

What you need to do, visit the website of Collégien take a look at their collection and become a friend of their Facebook or their twitter and leave a comment on my blog. Do you want to double your chances to win, send me a collage or drawing of your favourite pair and how you where inspired by it! 

You have untill the 30th of december to join this give- away! Enjoy!

Important note: this give away is only open for people living in the Netherlands!!

A handmade Advent

This year I have started pretty late on the advent calendar for the girls, we have a garland of numbered socks to hang and to be filled but I just didn't find the time to do so. Finally yesterday when the girls came back from school they found the socks hanging in their room filled with goodies. I wanted to fill the socks with pretty little things for crafting, above you can see what I found. Some items I bought like the knitting fork, heartshaped popmpom maker, wooden star and some came from my own collection like the ribbons and zippers. To finish it off I wrapped everything in pattern paper and red and white string.

Better late than never ;-)

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Be sure to come back tomorrow because I will have a very nice give away,

can't tell you much but it's from a very nice French company!!

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She's got Flair ...

So nice seeing my I love Paris doll in the Belgium magazine Flair, thanks Dominica for sending me this.

Pretty busy

These last few weeks have been pretty busy and I'm not complaining. Some new stockists, interesting mails and orders. I will be updating my shop this week with a few new ornaments and paris sewing sets soon. Keep an eye on my blog because there will be a very nice give-away soon I'll be hosting and i think you will like it!!

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If you like you can still leave a comment at the give away on Bloesem kids and don't miss you'r chance on the give away from Noeks on Bloesem blog.

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I love Milk

 I love magazine, I really like interior magazines, I really really love kids interior magazines and I really really really love Milk! I have been reading milk from the beginning and I just love it, there has not jet been any issue that dissapointed me and I love flipping through the old issues. I just bought the new issue and also their milk decoration book ( for the people in Rotterdam, you can find the book at Snoek). So many nice interiors and design objects. The picture above is taken in the girls room, these are the shelves of Mila, she loves collecting little animals, japanese tape and much more....the cute white bunny is a little light, you can find it here.

Give away time !!

Want to win a combi set ? I'm giving away two combi sets at the lovely blog of Irene from Bloesem kids!!

Feedback

I love getting feedback ( postive ones are my favourite of course ;-) and seeing how my products are recieved and it's great to see the end results, all the rabbits and dolls that are made and their little outfits. A few days ago I got an email from Sara who made the Paris Rabbit, here  you can see how her rabbit turned out and see and read more here, she also made a tiny lined gilet ! Sara is an illustrator with a very nice etsy shop  and blog. On her blog she offers a very cute christmas gift tag freebie. If you have made the doll or rabbit I would love to see pictures, you can mail them to me or if you have blogged about it just send me a link!

Free dutch skyline fabric

I have printed a few  dutch skyline skirt fabric pieces and I'm giving them away with the first 5 ( doll or rabbit diy sets) orders, 1 per order. You can find the doll and rabbit sets here. I made the little dutch skyline garland using fabric scraps and my locker machine.

Sinterklaas

Here in the Netherlands we are celebratingSinterklaas, so busy times. Sofia got this lovely parier mache cat with a gift hidden inside from one of her class mates. Tonight hopefully there will be more presents for the girls. For all the dutch bloggers Fijne Sinterklaas and for the rest, happy beginning of the week!

Coming soon....

Still need to do some final touches but soon I will upload my renewed website with the extra page where you can find patterns for the doll / rabbits.

Etsy Advent

 

Etsy France, Germany and the Netherlands made an Advent calendar for their blog, each day you can open a 'door' and you can find a nice suprise, a DIY project or download from an etsy seller. I'm so happy and proud to be the first etsy seller to offer a suprise  behind one  of those doors! I made a download for a Paris skyline candle holder ( be sure to use fake candles or put the candles in a safe candle holder!) If you like to download the candle holder and find the advent calendar you can visit the Dutch etsy blog, the German etsy blog or the French etsy blog.