Treasures,

Time to show a few treasures,
Today I found a beautiful old perfect 'stoplapje', I don't know the English word for it. Girls and women made these, to practice special stitches for repairing clothes and linnen.



It is only 15 cm big and made with extreme small stitches.



I really love it!
Another treasure are these Dutch plates with drawings off folk clothes.



There are also cups and plates... Hope I can show them another time.




Have a great week everyone!

(or a great vacation... next week is the last working week before our school holiday finaly starts!)

See you all, Heleen

Embridered bag(s) and first carbootsale!

When I was on my way to the store where they sell band and ribbon, I found a little thriftshop and found this new wonderfull painting,



Then I quickly bought the band I needed and hurried home. I was all inspired by this new painting! At home made this combination of fabrics and band,



And now I have two finished bags with a embroidered front!





I think they both turned out real nice!

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This Morning I was at my first car boot sale!
The weather was drizzly so a lot of people kept their goodies in the car.
But I did find this,



lovely dutch puzzle from Rie Cramer.



And I found these lovely embroidered birds



I'm not sure what to do with them.... but that's ok.

Wish you all a good day, with some lovely sunshine.

Meanwhile...

I wanted to show a finished romantic messengerbag



... but I wasn't able to get myself to the big city, to buy band and finish the bag! Meanwhile I mannaged to make this new bag,



But today I'll go to the big city and look for band... and who knows I might walk into some lovely other things... fabric maybe..

Have a nice day everyone!
(I'm off to the city)

Great summer cake

Every year we have a feast in our neighbourhood. This year, it was yesterday, on the fourth of juli and the theme was 'American party'! With American sports, games, music, and a cake/pie contest.
This was my contribution to the contest,



A chocolate cake filled with cream and strawberries, a layer of raspberry jam and topped with pure chocolate with blueberries. It was a yummie contest, we could taste all 18 different cakes! (little pieces ofcourse)

Remember the kitchy stitchery from this post?

The bag is almost finished, here a peek,



I think it's going to be a great bag.

greetings to you all.



(and yes I won first prize with the cake!)