Spring surprise swap

Look how I have been spoiled by my two fabulous swappartners..
(Yes I had two swappartners.)
RosaMaria from Mexico and Sofia from Portugal.



First I opened RosaMaria's parcel and a there was a lovely lavender fragrance,
She made me this lovely quiltbasket!



And The basket was filled with more lovely gifts,



A lovely card, a little pillow with lavander, a sweet bag filled with buttons, some scrap fabrics and these beautiful fat quarterfabrics.



Dear, sweet RosaMaria you really spoiled me! Thank you so much,
I love it all!

A few days later came the parcel from Sofia.



A lovely box and card
and in the box,



a beautiful and perfect crossstitched place mat,



a great Portugese pastel recipe, two lovely expresso cups,



and two lovely fatquarters fabric.

Dear, sweet Sofia you also really spoiled me! Thank you so much,
I love it all! And Corry and me will have a cup of coffee from your beautiful cups and I hope with Portugese pastel!

I want to thank these two girls for participating this swap and making these beautiful gifts! It's great to have new blogfriends!

This is what I made for them,

A book cover a blue one for Sofia and



for RosaMaria one in Pink colors.



With a little pencil bag and of course the fabrics.



I loved making the bookcovers and little bag for them.

Hope you all swapgirls had or have a great spring swap too!
And don't forget to put your photo's on our flickr group

Have a great sunday,

groetjes

My new skirt,

Ok, here it is
my new home made skirt!



What do you think?



It was great to sew something for myself again...I think the last time I made something to wear myself was about 10 years ago!




Next post is about the swap gifts I got, so keep tuned!

Groetjes,

Skirts,

A few posts ago I showed you this lovely book of skirts,



That my sister gave me.

Well I finally found a cute (curtain)fabric to make a skirt for myself!



Show you the whole skirt when it is finished. (and when it looks good...)
Talking about a skirt,
Look at this cute old Dutch costume doll and her enormous skirt,



Found her, yesterday, in the thriftstore.



I know it is not decent to look under a womens skirt... but



I think she doesn't mind.

'ding - dong' the doorbell.........................

The postman just brought me a parcel all the way from Mexico!



It's from one of my swap partners! RosaMaria!
(I have two lovely swap partners)

So I say 'groetjes' for now, I am off to open this swapparcel!
Yes of course I'll make pictures to show you later.

Groetjes,

Lazy sunday afternoon,

Going through some magazines,
drinking a cup of tea,
trying not to eat tooo much chocolate easter eggs...



..and, enjoying my new tulips.



In other words,
I'm having a lazy sunday afternoon!


Have a good start of the week everyone!

groetjes,

Spring, spring, spring

Hoera.... It is spring! (officially tomorrow)
Oh and it feels so good, I woke up real early and I heard the birds talking spring talk!



And talk of Spring..... the deadline is this weekend!
We hope you're making progress on your projects for your swap partners.



Because the postoffices are closed on a Sunday,
Monday 22th of March will be the last day to ship your items to your partner.
Many of you did already sent and received their presents.
And photos from the "Dutch sisters spring surprise swap"
are slowly showing up and there are some truly creative and amazing crafts.
Check them all out in our flickr group.


This morning I finished the 'alone in the world' bag.





I think it turned out real nice! I hope the next one will be ok too... And now something else,

Let me introduce to you:
'Bear'



you'll be hearing more of him in the future....

Have a good sunday

Strolling in the second hand shop,

This morning I went to the second hand store to find a new china bowl. I love to use them in the garden and this one was broken.. (frozen)



I did not find any nice china
but,
I did find some stitchery..



This cute kids bell pull.



A fancy (little dirty) lady.



and this fantastic (a little over the top..lol)Alone in the world!



A few new stitchery's I can use for new projects!

Groetjes,

Shall we dance?

It's saterday night and time for dancing..
or a lazy night on the couch.



Or we can go to the movies..



Yes, I'll have to check out a good movie!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Bag idea,

Just a idea for a new bag,
In blue or..



In red dutch folk fabric.




I'm just not sure yet,



Meanwhile I love working on this romantic 'kitchie' couple.
Hope they'll do great on a bag to.

(still searching for the right fabric to make a new skirt..)

Many greetings,

Spoil yourself,

Every week I try to spoil myself with lovely flowers or a magazine once in a while. This week I bought these daffodils.



They where on the kitchen sink, in the plastic bag, for three days before I managed to put them in the right vase.



Spoiled myself a bit more this week with the new Flow magazine...



I browsed through the magazine and the first thing I see are these words!




And with these flowers, the magazine a cup of tea, chocolate cake and a bit of sun I really feel I did spoil myself!


How about you?
Did you spoil yourself?

Groetjes,