Easy valentine sweetheart tutorial and give away,

It is almost Valentine! And for those who are very busy but want to make a little sweetheart...Or if you want to make them with your kids.. here is a little tutorial for this sweetheart.



What do you need;



A piece of felt, thread, a little filling like a cotton wool pad, a needle, a ‘kartelschaar’ and scissors. (I don’t know the English word for ‘kartelschaar’ if you do please tell me.)

Step 1,



Cut out the paperheart (if you want glue it on firm paper)

Step 2,



Lay the heart on the piece of felt and outline the heart with a pencil on the felt.

Step 3,



Fold the felt and Cut out the heart with the kartelschaar (= the scissor with triangular curve) on the pencil line. Now you have two cut out pieces.

Step 4,



Embroider little flowers, dots and leaves on one heartpiece.

Stap 5,



Lay one (or more) cotton pad between the two hearts. If you want you can put a few drops of lavender or rose essence on it.

Step 6,



Sew the heart together with small stitches. Now make a loop to hang it with. For a extra tough you can sew a little bow on it .
an readdy it is!



This sweetheart is ready to go! If you want it just leave a little comment and make a chance on winning this valentine heart!

see you all soon,

,

What is in a box and fat quarter swap!

My husband always wears a cotton blouse. And since I can’t remember when, I saved all his worn out blouses, with the thought to make a quilt from them.



Now you most not think I always choose his blouses, with the thought in my mind ‘that print will do great in the quilt’. But very rarely I bring him a new blouse that ‘accidentally’ may have a the right color and print for the quilt.
Later the idea came up to make it into a family quilt. So I searched for all kind of photo’s , and with transform paper, printed them on cotton fabric.



My intention was to finish this quilt this winter! Unfortunately I have to say this is the first time this box is opened this winter…….. I know I still have time before the winter is ending.

Fat quarter swap!
Look how great this swap turned out!



Katy send me these beautyfull fabrics and spoiled me with a Oilily soap!
Thank you katy!



This what I send her.
This was a great swap! Thanks katy for organizing it!

It's always great to search and get new inspiration. I think the new magazine Flow is one of them.



It is styled beautifull, and filled with nice new adresses. Here are a few,
Rasablu,
stoffen en sloffen
and Rachel mount

Wish you al a great start of the week with lots of new inspiration!

A man on my mind.

My head is filled,

Filled with a man,

These last few days were filled with this man…

This man gave me no time to blog

He made me go to the library, to the bookshop, go through the internet…

He even made me paint!

He sure has a character!

No I’m not cheating on my DH!

But there really is something about this man…

Something about his colors, his head, his ear

I have been busy with this man,

Vincent,



Our next school art project is about Vincent van Gogh and we’re busy making all the preparations.
I have to finish these things before I can blog. So I hope to have some blogtime tomorrow or Sunday !

Till than!

Project Improv

Today I was at a flea market and bought this magazine from 1963. A cover like this, who can resist it!



Dad is wearing mom's apron and is doing the dishes, while his two little girls wolk by giggling about their well behaving daddie. How things changed! (project improve? I hope)

But now, Project Improve,

I thought, peace of cake! make a block, leave the rules and improvise!
But I did not like my result... so I thought 'hup, het mes erin!'
I'll cut it in peaces.



Then I made an enormous mess...



let all boundaries go... and sew!





And that's what I did.

Have a good start of the week everyone,

And the winner is.......

Thank you all so much for visiting and giving me the sweetest comments!
There were 78 people who participated this give away!




My youngest son had the honour to pick the two winners,



And the winners are,



Nicolette from De vliegende koe and Lili M
I hope you like your sweetheart.

I am participating the project improv with the colors pink and orange. I have been going trough my stach and this is the result.



So time to get started and hoping it is going to turn out ok.

See you soon!

Give away

Januari is my birthday month, so time for a give away!(or two actually)
If you want a sweetheart just leave a comment.



Oh, and tell me if you prefer the red or the blue one. You can leave a comment on till tuesday.
Yes, another year older (and wizer?). I was spoiled enormous,



New oilily mugs, a Mary Engelbreit calander, a book, matroushka candle and more.
But now it's time to go and read in my new book and drink hot coco in a new mug!

See you all wednesday!

Bunting and sweethearts

My mother does not like computers….. although? Since my sister and I have a blog and a shop, a visit to my house is not complete if she did not see all the new posts! (And the blogs of the persons who visit ours). We try to persuade her to a computer course…. But still no results. She does like to contribute every now and then.
And now she made lots of triangle pendent’s in all kind of colors. I wanted to make them into a new cheerful bunting, but the flags were a little tall.



So I cut off the top and above you see the result.
This morning I sewed the scraps together and made these sweethearts



Just to get into the valentine mood!

Greetings,

Winter art,

Although the ice and snow started to melt today... I want to show you the art work the kids in our class made with my colleague and me.



Mister Snowman!



Drawn with oil pastels on black paper.



Pom-pon snowman with needle felted hat, eyes, mouth and nose!



4 lemniscaat penguins,



And a winter display with paper folded penguins.



Aren't kids the greatest artist in the world?!

Aprons,

I have been planning to make a post about aprons for a long time.
So now here it is!

The Dutch word for apron is, ‘schort’ and just today I discovered another old Dutch word, ‘boezelaar’.



When I think back in time, my grandmothers both wore aprons all the time except on Sunday and in the evenings. When my grand mother died I always kept one apron as a sweet memory to her.

Than there is this sweetie,



I always thought it was mine, but no, it's from my sister. She got it for her birthday when she was 4. We treasure it!

And this morning I was going through some old books in search for aprons.
In this book, from 1924, I found the new (old) word, "Boezelaar".





"apron for the servant" and "Reform apron" (1924)







And this week I finished restyling these two aprons for children.





We put one in the shop.

Well I'm off now to my mothers attic.... she just called, she has some old aprons...

Have a great day,