Thank you all so much for your lovely words, I love reading them, and there are so many of them, It made me blush when I opened my mailbox!!
Kira and I are doing great, I'm still only resting and feeding her, and she grows so fast. I hope I feel better soon, I wanna go outside, walk with her and Noah.
Noah is so sweet to her, kisses, hugs and wants to hold her!!!
I have some pics of the last few days..

Finally in PINK!!!!!
Look at how cute she is, and how big already.
At birth she was 3.680 gram, and 51 cm, for me a small baby, because Noah was 4.240 and 53,5 cm. But ow so cute and beautifull...

Before I gave birth I finished my Lizzie Kate August, and made some felted ice crystals, I hope to make a picture this week, and when I'm not that tired anymore hope to start crafting, making dresses, new clothes for Noah, decoration for the house- Noah's room and Kira's room (pink pink pink.....) and so much more...
I still have free from work till 15 May, so many time to craft and enjoy the kids.
At the moment DH is also free for a few weeks, so we are enjoying are new family a lot..

Hope to show something soon.

I wanna thank everyone for visiting my blog and especially everyone who leaves a comment!!I love reading them!!

My beautifull baby Girl!!!

Hi every-one,

The waiting is finished, last night at 3.46 I gave birth to a beautifull baby girl Kira!! Here she was just born, and already in the arms of her daddy.
She is doing great and drinking and sleeping good!!
I'm taking as many rest as I can... So for a while not most to show here!!
Little Noah is so proud of his little sister and whants to play with her and lift her up!! He is a happy big brother..

Thanks all for visiting my blog and leaving a comment!!!!

A very big hug, Annette, Noah and little Kira

Made a few stitches!!

But first look at this lovely gift I got from winning the give-away from PattyC
The scissor is already in use, and cutes so great, I never had such a beautifull scissor.
The Christmas piece she stitch is beautifull, I think I'm going to make a pillow of it before Christmas, I'm stil thinking!!
The pinchusion also so beautifull made.
And when I opend the box, I was blown away, Al kinds of beautifull little things like the 'made with love' charms.. it's funny but for quiet time I was looking for those here in the Netherlands, but could not fine them, en now I got a lot of the.
Patty you are the sweetest.. Thank you so much for this lovely great gift you sent me.

Then my stitching update!!


The tree is done with brown, need too do the green, but first wanna make Piglet, you see the little pink stitches??
August of Lizzie Kate is almost finished, then can started on September!!!

Thanks for all of you who keep coming back to my blog and taking the time to leave a comment, I so appreciate it.
Hugs

Little update

First I have to ask everybody with a blog too visit this post on the blog of Daffy-cat aka Sharon.
I have a lot of problems with comment bug on some blogs, maybe did will make it better...
And check out the rest of it she makes such beautifull things!!!!

So I haven't stitch much because of the pain in my hands but there is a little progress to see: Also I have been working with paper. Noah loves counting and learning about colors, so made him a color train on his wardrobe, with a funny elefant, bear and ape!
Every night before going to bed, we practice the colors and count the ten trains.. I'm still waiting till the baby is coming, yesterdag the doctor wanted that I went for a checkup in the hospital (normaly I don't have my pregnancy appointment in the hospital our local doctor does them) because I don't feel the baby a lot, after more then two ours we went home everything is alright. I can come back when I still don't feel al lot of moving. But since we went to the hospital I think the baby is afraid because it kicks more!!
I'm still sitting and lying a lot, but can't always craft sooo not many post will come.....

I wanna thank you al for visting my blog and taking the time to leave a comment, I really appreciate it!!

A big hug

All kinds of stuff

So my contraction are gone thankfully, I can do a bit more.
I have done a few stitches on my Lizzie Kate SAL. July is finished and made a start on August: Also have finished my secret piece, it's finished and on mail. When the quilt is done I show a pictures.

My beautifull crochet piece the candle basket is also done.. I so love how it looks like:
So romantic.... every night we light the candles!!

I'm also have been working on a gift for Noah to treat on his school for when I GIVE birth:
It's a paperbasket with his photo on it, on one side the other side Hurray!! I'm a big brother. In it I will put raisins with the name of the baby, that's the blue and pink papers... oooo on the pink I saw the name, sorry still a surprise for maybe a few more weeks!!!!!

Today put away all my last Christmas decoration (not much was there more...). And put my beautifull table-cloth on the table, a few years back I got this for my B-day from a good friend who bought it in Spain.. It totally handmade and I love it so much.
I always have a plastic table-cloth above it, but is was full with holes, from Noah en my crafting, so DH bought a new one and my beautifull cloth is protected again..
We both so love it, and it's white so perfect for my new decoration!!
Also got my beautifull orchid from behind the curtain on the table. It was dead for a year but last week when I looked there where all new flower buds, can't wait to see it with beautifull flowers again. White flowers!!!
Some of you will know I work in a nursinghome. Many years ago we had a women with al kinds of beautifull orchids on her room and everytime I needed to help her I talked about that I so love them. When she past away her husband came to me and brought me to her room, he and his wife had decided that I was the first to choose a flower to take home, because of that I loved them so much, I choose this beautifull one. Now it will give me flowers for the tirth time... can't wait to see them...

I wanna thank every-one who visits my blog. I saw I have some new visitors. Welcome
Also a big thank for the lovely comments..
Till next time

Hugs

Happy New Year!!!

First, I wanna thank everyone for there lovely comment on my last post about our grandfather passing away. It meant the world to me to read them!!!


I wanna wish everyone a happy new year.. Hopefully no-one gots hurt!!
It's going to be a new year with new changes and a new challenge, and hopefully a healty little baby.
Last year I made goals, but didn't make them all..
This year my goal is FINISH WHAT I START!!
I need to finish everything I started last year so:
* Lizzie Kate SAL
* Birth sampler
* Panda Days
* Bumba
* And make growth chart for the baby
And for the rest sew, crochet and stitch as much as I can..

I still have a lot of contractions so need to take it easy, but I can sit still so need to craft or blog..hihi
On 31th of Dec my easy-sitting work was baking, I baked a lot with the help of DH.
Look at the pictures:

Pears

Sausage, cheese and ham-cheese rolls

Don't know a translation for this think meat-bread it closed by, we call them worstenbroodjes

This is typically Dutch what we eat on New Year's Eve : oliebollen and appelbeignets (fritters)
And they where all yummy...

I don't wanted to go outside with Noah because in the street there where a lot of boys playing with fireworks, so DH set off some firework in the backyard and I putted Noah in the window-legde

Then the crafting I did.. Today I started stitching again... I so lost my stitching mojo, but is getting back piece by piece.
I stitch a bit on my secret project and on the birthsampler: I doubt a lot about this piece, but I'm going to stitch it and when it done I will see what I'm going to do with it!

Then do you remember my January Lizzie Kate Piece...no... here is it finished of in a flatfold
Only need to attach the buttons, found a website where I can order them, so when I know with colors I need then I order them... I'm very pleased with the result.
For the ones who also wanna make a flatfold I always use this tutorial!!

Then I say my new year plans are finish what I started, in my last post I showed a crochet piece of the candle light and sad to make another, then I need to start another before crochet something else.. yesterday I started itAnd today did a bit more crochet on it Also have done a bit of other crafting with wol, I made pompom's. A while back when I was googleling I saw a beautifull pictures but can't find it anymore, but still knows how it looks like and trying to make it too
I so love how they look like!!
See the cute bear, I found it a while back on the attic, I made it many years ago.

My new decoration color in house is white as you can see in my last few posts... and still have a lot of new ideas to make of all kinds of beautifull white things... So more is coming.
For many years I loved white, but everytime still used colors, but from now off it's al going to be white!!

Before I forgot I got a email today that I won the give-away from Patty, can't wait to see the beautifull piece see made for me!!

Thank you all for visiting my blog, please come back to see more beautifull things I'm going to make
Hugs

We had a sad Christmas!!

It's wasn't really the Christmas we where hoping for!
The morning of the 24th we got a call that our grandfather had past away.
The last few weeks he was getting sicker, but the last few days before Christmas it when very bad with him, we thought he would make Christmas, but it wend a bit faster.
He past away in his sleep, so he didn't had any pain, thankfully.
DH and grandfather had a special relation, so it's very hard on him.
Grandfather turned 93 this past summer, and still living on his one...He was a wonderfull men and we will mis him just like we mis grandmother (who past away last year!!
Also Noah was very ill the whole Christmas, he had a high fever and a ugly cough
Here a pictures of how he spend Christmas:Thankfully is all better now, and playing and laughing again

Yesterday we had the cremation of grandfather, it was a very beautifull ceremonie.
It's so strange that there now both gone!!
It was a lot of walking for me at the cremation, last night and today it's not going that well with me I have a lot of Braxton Hicks contractions (harde buiken).. so I'm doing nothing today..

The whole week I haven't done a lot of crafting. I only have done a bit of crochet. Before Christmas I started a piece and today I finished it. I saw something like it on a blog, but could not finds a pattern, so was trying something and it worked! I've put a glass yar in it, with around it a piece of paper where I've cute out some hearts. I really love it, so I'm going to make another one!

I wanna thank everybody who stopped by this year on my blog, and for the ones that taken the time to leave a comment. I means the world to me!
I hope you will come back next year!

I wanna wish everybody a fantastic ending of the year, and a wonderfull start of the new year.
May it gives us a very creative year, and I hope to enjoy al your beautifull blogs and ideas in the new year

A very big hug