Trying my hand at something new

I've been wanting to do this for a while now.... 

So when my husband took the kids and the dog for a walk while I was recovering from 3 days of migraine, I dove into my creativity. 

The best prescription to lift one's spirits. 

I used a lot of paint, gesso, gold, glitter and ink 

from the Ranger range and ta-dah:

Flowers may fade

but

fragrant memory lingers

She's painted in a COMPLETELY different style so I'm quite chuffed with myself!

Flagline

Still owed a photo of the flag line I made for my 8y0's b-day in July. I made one last year which in my opinion was prettier. On our visit to South-Africa in 2010 my oldest daughter turned 10 and I took the flagline with. Upon visiting one of my best friends I decided to do her a pleasure and gave her the flag line. This year my second child kept reminding me to have a finished one in time for her b-day in June. Well, I made the deadline.

I've cut 28 flags with a stencil I made from cardboard

and then used my rotary cutter to cut the triangles

I locked two flags at a time, right sides facing outwards, together

I then add them all randomly sewing them on 3m of bias binding

the binding is pink so I used a double zigzag stitch in red to create a very cute look

I made this line mostly with reds and pinks

my eldest turns 11 in October and I'd like to make her a blue/green one as she's not a pink girl

I'd like to make myself a black/white one but a dash of colour won't hurt at all :)

we"ll see

Little Mona Lisa when she was still a poor girl

I've found her at a local market in Pende, Piccard, France. Was a lovely market with no tourists to be spotted apart from us. I saw her and fell in love with the browns(unfortunately not well seen on the photo), her simplicity and her observing glance. Love her.

The flowers on the dyke

We live on a dyke in The Netherlands and I just love the flowers growing on it!

Vintage Chandelier

Got this beautiful vintage chandelier from my aunt. She bought it at a local market in Belgium. Isn't it beautfiul? I'm going to enjoy the light from it in my hobby room and later it will be moved to my downs

tairs toilet. I'm planning to give it the vintage charcoal/withered

pink/cream look. Can't wait

I've carefully cleaned it today and now it is up to hubby to mount it for me.

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Give away bij Marutska

This is is a post for Dutch blog readers

a give away at a cool hobby shop for needle crafts

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en gaan loer een beetje in haar webshop

en op haar blog

ik vind het altijd inspirerend

Cupcake keyrings

I've made two new cupcake keyrings today.

The cupcake without the keyring and ribbons is 6x6cm

a red one

and a pink one for girly girls :)

peasant top

I just love this pattern:

Potrait Peasant top @ youcanmakethis.com

I've made it twice (like this one) and will definitely not stop making them

and surely try some more variations:

sorry again for the not-so-crisp photo. It is just so easy to take a photo with my BB and send it to my pc wherever I am. Unfortunately the weather is often very dark here in the NL.

The fabric I've used was from Dapper (2011)

new line of fabric, very cute, very bold.

Kyla reversible dress

I've been wanting to make this dress for a couple of months. Every time I started out I ran into the print sizing. I've been making e-patterns for some time now and didn't have any printing issues until I ran into this one. I still don't know why. It doesn't matter what I click or "un" click it just didn't want to work out. I've been mailing the author and probably made her crazy cause she can't look into my head and my printer. She tried her best but to no avail.

Today I felt it was a good day to tackle the pattern and printed it and made the size 4 pattern for my skinny 2 year old. It seemed to work out perfect. Very neat solid patter, good explanation for a pea brain like me. If I can't visualize something I'm struggling.

Normally I choose very bold colors and prints but this time I've kept it small. It looks cute though the photo's aren't clear enough so I'll have to make some close-up photo's with my camera cause I've used my phone for these. I was too lazy for the camera :)

I've used two stenzo prints but used a thrift store fabric for example on the border.

I didn't want to cut up my other fabrics.

Again the print in the reversed side isn't that clear. Sorry.

I've made a little application on this side so that the bias band repeated somewhere else on the dress:

Keyring purses

I've come across this very nice tutorial

and already made 3 of these very handy key ring purses:

lil cutie pouches

One already found its way as a b-day gift