Birthday breakfast & birthday girl

 My sweet Sofia is 14 today!! I cannot believe how big she is. She is so smart, pretty, sweet, creative and so much more, I'm so proud to be her mum!!

We celebrated her birthday this weekend with a Mexican themed party with lots of cacti, pineapples and of course Frida. 

I'll share some photo's of her party in a next post.

Roses and Frida...

Today i'm making  Frida ornaments for shop orders and thought they look great with my pretty rose from my garden. I love summer and all the pretty flowers that it brings to my city garden.

Frida for breakfast...

This is the surprise breakfast I made for the girls this saturday a Frid Kahlo inspired breakfast this time. A head shaped pancake decorated with choclate , strawberry, mango and some candy, a peanutbutter flowerpot with an apple cactus and a strawberry magrita smoothie on the side...

Frida Happy mail

 

One of the last Happy mails I send out for the Happy mail project was this one I made for Leslie of the beautiful blog A Creative Mint. I think this one was one of my favourites to make. It's no secret I love Frida Kahlo and when Leslie wrote me she had visited the house of Frida I thought it would be a good idea to make a Frida themed Happy mail for her. My inspiration was the book Finding Frida Kahlo, so I made a little paper suitcase and filled it with small paper frida inspired objects and also included a mini frida hanger and frida medaillon. 

Frida Craft Panel

Besides the Frida doll & Frida doll D.Y.I kit I also have a Frida craft panel in my etsy shop. This panel is a piece of screenprinted cotton that you can use for several projects. With the panel you can make a mini Frida hanger, two tissue holders, a flag banner and a little needle book.These little projects are easy to make and make perfect gifts!! Want to make your own Frida goodies, you can find the panel here. 

Frida Kahlo in her atelier....

Yesterday I went through every room in our house to gather small props for todays photoshoot. I wanted to create a room for my Frida Kahlo doll.

It was sSo much fun putting all the items together and creating little scenes. 

Here are some of my favourites.  I added some ribbons and coloured lace to Frida's skirt and shawl for and even more folklore look.

Do you want to make your own Frida doll ? you can fin her here 

Frida Catalogue

Finally I made a catalogue for my Frida collection, I have had some  mails from shops who are interested in wholesale and now I can finally send them a proper catalogue. I like having my own business but having to do it all by myself is sometimes quite hard. I want to do everything perfect and that takes time. I love being here on the blog and reading your comments but it's difficult to find the time to keep on the blogging and replying to all the e-mails. Just want to let you know that I read and apreciate all the comments ! Have a great week!

Frida Sale set

Thank you for the great Frida feedback and your orders! It's keeping me quite busy!

I have just listed a few Frida sale sets for just 10 euro!!  these are combined sets and do not include the extra's like the birds, Frida heart and Frida Medailions. There is just a limited amount of these sets availible so be quick!

You can find the Frida sale set here

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I'll be back tonight to announce the Dawanda give away winner!

Making and preparing

These last days have been busy ones, not that I am complaining. I had such a good response on my Frida dolls and sets and have been busy making, folding and packing to get all the Frida's and sets to their new homes. Of course we have also been busy preparing for the Wintermarket this sunday. The girls have made some really nice things and tomorrow we will bake cookies and cake for the little cafe! I hope to see some of you there!!

In the meanwhile I have added an other new product to the shop and that is a mini diy kit, a little set to make your own Frida Flag banner you can find the set here

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.

Frida is here....

 I'm very happy and proud to show you my new products, a frida doll, a frida doll D.I.Y kit, frida craft panel, tissueholders, frida ornaments and Frida flag banner, you can find them in my etsy shop here hope you like them!

Frida shop update today

Yesterday the Frida fabric arrived and I have sewed and packed some of it already, I still need to take some pictures today and than I will update my etsy shop with the first Frida sets and ornaments.

If you want to follow the proces you can follow me on instagram and twitter ( @mikodesign) where I will share pictures during the day.

The making of Frida...

My new D.I.Y kit is almost here....it's inspired by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. I really love Frida Kahlo's paintings and life story, a story about a stong talented women who was so passionate about her work and although her life was hard she never gave up and was so full of life.

This design was not just designed by me but also by my talented daughter Sofia, she made the lovely drawing of Frida Khalo for her 8th birthday party. For her birthday I also designed a Frida doll (pictured in the above picture left) that doll I never finished, it still has pins that attach her legs to her body,  but an idea was born...

So in the spring of this year I decided it was time for a new D.I.Y set , so I started working on a Frida D.I.Y kit, incorporating the lovely drawing of Sofia and the idea of the Frida doll. I have spend many hours designing , looking at all of Frida's work and pictures and had so much fun making these new sets. The fabric arrived just an hour ago from the screenprinter and I cannot wait to cut, sew and pack it and put it in my shop. I hope to have it ready by tomorrow for a big Frida shop update!

Frida set Preview

This little sewing set is part of the Frida set I designed, actually I designed a doll set and some other items that I will show you later!

Frida is here.....

I'm so happy that I can share with you my new design, I recieved the test panel and started sewing right away, so strange to finally have it in my hands.  Cannot wait to sew all the items, make pictures and packaging and put it up in the shop. The fabric roll still needs to be printed and I hope to recieve it within 2 weeks and put it in my shop just in time for Christmas ( and Sinterklaas) shopping. Hope you like it as much as I do !!

Frida cards & paper bags

Still waiting for my test panel for my new set(s), some technical stuff caused a small delay ;-(

I thought it would be nice to reprint the drawing Sofia made of Frida Khalo for her 8th birthday party, this drawing i love so much and it was the inspiration of my new set to come. I listed a few of the bags & cards in my shop if you are interested.

I really can't wait to share with you the new set, I guess we still have to wait a bit longer!

Frida party in Queensland

One thing I love about blogging is that the world seems so small, it's great to be able to meet like-minded bloggers around the world. I really enjoy reading all your comments and love to hear and see that what I show here sometimes inspire others to create. Do you remember Sofia's Frida Khalo party we had last year? After seeing that party Lisa (from Australia) created a Frida party for her daughters 10th birthday party , I especially love the paintings the girls made, you can see and read more about the party and Lisa here.

Frida Give away

I had so much fun planning and crafting for Sofia's Frida Kahlo party, I'm very happy how everything looked and most importantly Sofia ( and friends) were very pleased with the results. To thank you all for the sweet and supportive comments I have a little give away for you to share our party fun.

What to do : leave a comment and tell me what you liked best about the party and what theme we should do next ( you know I'm already thinking about Mila's birthday.....)

Winner will be announced :on saturday morning the 20th of June......

enjoy your weekend

The Frida Kahlo goodie bags

So I hope you are not bored with all the Frida Kahlo party pictures, I promise it is almost over, but I could not keep this from you. This is the goodie bag we made for the party guests, Sofia made this drawing of Frida and together we designed a colouring book, we added some coloured pencils and cute bird pins and some candy. I have printed some small and big paper bag and also some cards and listed them in my etsy shop so you can have your own Frida party...... or you can come back tomorrow for the Frida give away.....

if you want to see more pictures, go here and see the Pinata's and more....

Presents

This is the present we gave Sofia for her 8th birthday, a wooden sewing box with her own Frida drawing gocc-ed on the outside and a drawing from her sister on the inside.