send me the pillow that you dream on; swap

Hello,
Please come over to dutch sisters to read all about our new swap

Just click on the button above.
Groetjes,

Great Apron swap

Look what Sarah, my lovely apron swappartner, made for me!!



The most lovely apron!!
It is so beautiful made and I love the fabrics she used,



And Sarah spoiled me with a lovely cloth with a typical New zealand recipe on it.



Dear Sarah I *L*O*V*E* it, thank you so much!!!
I loved beeing your swappartner!

This is the apron I made for Sarah, go over to her blog and look at her wearing it!



Now I'm of,



wearing my new apron and make lunch!


groetjes,

Sewing

I don't want to make my blog into a 'cat blog' .. but our kitten 'bear' discovered a new area in the house...

My sewing room!!



Perhaps he has creative aspirations...
I'll let you know...
until now he makes a lot of rubbish from all ribbons and bands!

Meanwhile I almost finished my apron for the apron swap!



I think it is turnig out nice... and I hope Sarah is going to like it.

For now

groetjes

Blogging again

Hello again,
We had a two week vacation by the sea. It was great!
But now it's time to start catching up with blogging and I'm far behind reading all your lovely blogs, and please forgive me for not answering your comments.



We took our cat 'Bear' allong with us and he did great!
He is growing real fast and is being naughty and cute at the same time.



Today I finally have a little time to work on the apron swap!



Here is a little fabric peek....
My lovely swappartner is the hostess Sarah from Red Gingham

This is it for today,
I leave you with some fresh tulips and hope to be back with you in a few days!



Groetjes,

Sewing time,

I could not resist...
Although I'm rather busy...
Just had to enter this new swap Sarah, from Red Gingham is organizing



Go check it out if you also want to enter!

Today the weather is so great, we had our tea outsite!



And 'bear' (= beer in dutch)is taking his first steps outside!
(he's doing great with the leach)



My intention for today was to work on this new horse bag...



Oh well maybe I can find a little sewing time tomorrow.

Enjoy your weekend,

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

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,

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

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,