June,

where did may go... here is June!
A new month on my calander,



With this month a costume from 'Marken'



And of course a new tree picture!



Look at the color changes of the leaves,




Enjoy this beautiful day,

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,

March, Maart

A new month, 'March' = 'Maart' in Dutch.
This month spring will start!! Today the sun was shining a little.. and ooh it felt so good!
And this month we finish and send all our swap envelopes with the fath quarters and a gift!


Of course there is also a new page on my Dutch costume calander,



Old Dutch costumes of this month are from Volendam, a characteristic Dutch fishing village in the province Noord Holland.


This how the clothes were around 1850 in Volendam.



And here you see them around 1950.
There has almost been no change.
These days everyone walks around in regular clothes.
Only a few people where typical clothes from Volendam, Maybe some for the toerists.

Now I do have to show you my monthly tree picture... Hope to do that on wednesday!

Until then
Groetjes,