Christmas market...

The Holiday season is getting closer and closer and it's almost time to start shopping for presents. Of course you can buy your present online but even better is visiting christmas craft markets like the Mini Market in Elle Aime in Rotterdam. A tiny christmas market in her shop, if you're looking for unique and handmade (Christmas) gifts come and shop for stationery, illustrations, accessories, jewelry and  more ...

I'll be there too selling my work on 12 &13 december, see you there!!!

Christmas is coming....

Christmas is coming so close and I'm looking forward to decorate the house again, to get my boxes of decorations out and perhaps make a few new ones...One of my christmas decorations that isn't in a box is my WoodWool&stool tree so I could not resist to put it up and decorate with my new Frida ornaments, I think it's a perfect fit.

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Talking about christmas I'm planning a christmas market at our house again this year. The market will be sunday the 9th december in Rotterdam, I'm happy to tell that I will have the company of two talented ladies Jessica (Jessica Nielsen) and Joscha (Muswerk) and their lovely work. Of course I'll be selling my work and the girls will have their own stall with cute products.

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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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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I love baking cakes...

I really enjoy baking cakes and will take any possiblity to bake one, a family favourite is this Hungarian chocolate cake called "rigo jancsi". My grandmother used to make this and we all loved it, my sister and I tryed to get her recipe by looking at her making the cake and lots of tasting and both came up with our own variation. I cannot wait for the day that Sofia and Mila will make this cake for their loved ones! The cake is for dessert tonight after our christmas dinner (the orthodox one, the girls love the fact of celebrating chritmas twice ;-)
Happy weekend, see you on monday!

Fijne feestdagen & Merry christmas

So I will take a few days off and want to thank you all for coming to my blog & leaving your comments, I really appriciate it! I wishing you all a very merry christmas, joyeux noel, fijne feestdagen and hope to see you back soon.

Bloesem christmas gift guide

Some time ago I was asked by Irene from Bloesem kids to share my gift ideas for christmas, I can tell you it was hard to choose, there are so many lovely things to buy your kids for christmas, you can find the post here. Are you ready for christmas? We don't have a tree yet, I was so busy these last few weeks and then with the snow and sick children it is hard to get out of the house, I think today we will buy a nice small one and finally start decorating...

Christmas in our house

Monday evening I finally put up our advent calendar, I know it's way to late but I just couldn't find the time before. I filled the socks with all the goodies Sofia and I brought back from Paris, I wrapped the presents in red/white polka dot paper and used my new origami paper to make labels. I love dressing the house up for the Holidays!!

Christmas again......

Today we are celebrating christmas again, that is one of the advantages of being in a mixed relationship!! I made this chocolate cake using the recipe of my grandmothers famous Rigo Janci ( the best hungarian choclate cake there is!!)

Winter Roulotte

We just had to dress up the Roulotte for winter/christmas, I love how changing some little details can change the feeling of a space. The snow is already gone now and we went outside to hada hot chocolate in the Roulotte, come and join us......

catching up....

A bit of a hectic week, saturday evening I got sick with a stomach flu and had to take some time off, I'm busy catching up with e-mails, orders and such. Mila got sick yesterday to make things more complicated ;-) she is doing much better now!! One of the things I still had to finish where these mushrooms for the christmas ornament swap. I'm really happy with the result and feel sad to let them go......that is all for now, I hope to update my etsy shop tomorrow and announce some special christmas offers.

Wintermarket

Invitation

Open house/ wintersale

11.00-17.00 hours

29th november

( please send me an e-mail to get the adres)

Rotterdam

You are all invited, we have hot chocolate milk and fresh baked cookies and Sofia and Mila will be selling some of their lovely crafts in their own little shop.

Christmas

More macarons with more flavours

Lovely hazelnut cake made by my mum

Little corner in my sisters house with a collection of Hungarian Folk dolls from my sister and me

Merry Christmas

I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year...

thanks for all your visits and comments this year, I hope to see you all back next year!

Tomorrow we will start to make a new wooden floor in our livingroom, and dolots of repainting, I can't wait to show you the result.

christmas greetings

The last month went so fast, i can't believe it's christmas so soon,
last preparations for the holidays, today i made our christmas
card,our two angels sofia and mila didn't mind dressing up and
modeling.


A lot of chrismas decoration and craft is going on, this is our tree,
as you see very colourfull, lots of wood/metal/fabric ornaments,
we have made and collected thelast few years.
New additions are my christmas deco i got from my swap from
Malenefrom Denmark, they really are great.
Inspired by my trip to paris, ( the expo of apoline at bonton) we,
started to build our own village from cardboard, it's a work in progress,
more pictures will follow.

Some last orders are wrapped up and ready to go.