Our first week of summer holiday is almost over and we enjoyed it very much, sorry for being off line for a few days but there was just not so much to blog about ;-) Today was a fun day after a nice visit from Diana and her very cute daughters we went to the Kunsthal to visit the exposition Colour in my Hand by Japanese artist Ayako Rokkaku. We loved the expo, so much colour and cute paintings and the cardboard house ...... my fingers started to itch (kriebelen) and I wanted to get some paint and make my own. Luckily for me and the girls they made a studio where you can see Ayako paint her paintings (she paints with her hands, no brushes involved) and get your own hands dirty (or you can wear plastic gloves) and make your own fantasy world. We left with our wet paintings and a head full ideas...
It's raining here all day long,what better way to spend your day inside and do some craft. Yesterday I found a great site with lots of tutorials to make origami figures, very well explained with animations that you can stop and play forward and backwards. You should visit the site and take a look, I think you'll be hooked just like me and the girls...
Lots of sun in our garden, a perfect moment for taking some pictures of the colourful object the girls and their friends created in their holiday. They will be selling these at a fondraising day at their school to collect money for children in Sierra Leone working in the diamond inustry. I helped out a bit with ideas and sewing the bags (old table cloths) but they did most of it themselves!! I think and hope they will raise a nice amount, the market is at the end of the month and of course I will keep you posted on their succes! 
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 
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?
I'm in love with houses lately....not normal houses to live in but minature, paper, sweet houses. I wanted to show you these white paper houses Mila and Sofia made for christmas, we put a fake tea light in the middle and that gives such a great effect in the evening. The felt garland they made for the wintermarket and in the jars are felt pieces and thread to make your own garland (little stickers are drawn by Mila) The houses are quite simple to make but if anyone likes me to make a small tutorial just let me know!
The girls had birthday parties to attend this weekend and gifts where needed, we arranged these sewing boxes, I made little pincushions and the girls helped with winding the threads and ribbons around the cardstock. I bought some really sweet "punnik" dolls( I don't know the english word ;-) and sweet suitcases in matching colours. I think this is such a fun thing to give to girls and what I like is that you can make this in any price range. For the dutch readers, I found the punnik-dolls at Xenos they have some really sweet things there at the moment!
