Kira's party dress, and new addiction

In my last post told you about a dress I was making for Kira for the party.

I finished it on time, and Kira looked so cute and super girly in it.

Let me show you the pic, there is a short story for this pattern

♥ It's perfect for her ♥

The mix of the 2 fabric's and my favorite ribbon a ricrac. The ballerina fabric I bought to make her a dance bag, but found a other idea, so this is perfect for the dress.

The story:

When I was pregnant of Kira, the Dutch designer Collie-Collie, designed this dress and I fell in love with it, I didn't know if I had a  boy or a girl in my belly ( secretly I was hoping for a girl.. hihi).

But if it would be a girl I would buy it.

So really 2 hours after I gave birth to Kira, ( I really didn't believe at that time, I had a girl) I bought the pattern..

Read 2 hours after!!!!

The smallest size is 86 for the pattern.. Kira had that when she was 2.

I made is for my neighbor girl, made it twice for a other girl, but still hadn't made it for Kira.

Shame one me.. I loved it so much, And now when is is almost 4 ( in 6 months.., hihihi) I made it for the first for her!!

But I'm in love!!

I really like it!!

For now the has enough dresses for the summer, so the next will be for winter.

As you can see she is all girl, with her hair and jewelry.. she really loves that..

Braiding the hair is my new addiction.. I really love it.. I have a pin board on pinterest, and often I get pictures send on my facebook, so I;m trying new things..

This braid I made so often with Kira, but I didn't like the end of the braid hanging like that, I tryed ceveral options, but it still wasn';t it..

But today I found it!!

I braided Kira again with the side braid and also braided myself

So the side braid for Kira, with a messy bun and then a little flower in it..

I wanted to crochet one, but i didn;t had time, it's on my to do list for this week..

I;m in love with this way.. need to try out some new braid, with  a messy bun..

I always have a bun in my hair, but not often do one with Kira... 

And what about my hair.. found the tutaorial last night. 

The total braid is called the Bohemian Side Braid.

For a first try I really love it.. 

It's a French braid and then in to a fishtail.. the fishtail, is my favorite.. need to try it on Kira one day.. I wear it often

No hair in my face, and it looks pretty I think. On her blog I found more beautifull hair styles.. so more to try out!!

And I love how long her hair is.. hope mine will grow a bit more!!!

BTW bad pic's of my hair.. all the pic's that DH made, where to close by, and mine to far away!!

Need to work on that!!

Soon will made a post full of braids.. I have done a lot.. I'm liking it a lot =))))

Back to the party last week.. I also did some cooking.. It was a long ago.. last September.. hihihi

Right below the pie's, a apple pie, whipped ice-cream pie and carrot-pie.

I also made a lunch this time.

We had a great day... 

Soon my big birthday party, so then more cooking pic;s...♥

This last weeks we often had beautifull day;s.. we are really enjoying them!!

Her some pic's of different day's

The dike is my favorite to go too.. 

Mostly I go with Kira, as Noah is often at school. but in the weekend, Noah and sometimes his friend go with us!!

I love to skate, every day Im skating minimum 30 minutes.. (longer when I have Kira with me)

I'm feeling so much better with my new working outs ,.... and loving it.

Kira also fell down this week, very hard with her bike

This is a pic made after a few days

This morning came out of the night shift, so now a few day's off.. next weekend I have to work again..

Hope you all enjoying your day's 

I know I do

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

 I love reading them!!

 ♥ Have a great day ♥

Crafting with-out needle and thread

I'm enjoying my free day's off.. how are all your day's??

I emptyed my mailbox, my blogloving, cleaned out the attic, working in the garden, cleaned the house   and moreeeeeeeeeeeeeee..

I did a lot, but not my normal crafting..

buttttt.....

I did something else.

I made a wreath out off sea-shells 

But not only me

As always the kids helped me, and had a great time.

The glue is hot, so that part I did, and after many shells kept falling off, I took over, they got tired of it.

But the most important thing, we had fun, and created something beautifull

It's hanging next to my front-door.

Isn't it beautifull??

So proud of my kids.

From the moment Noah and Kira where little, I wanted to make a play kitchen.

I saw the most awesome DIY playkitchens.

Wanted to make one.

But.. didn't find the supplies, 

................... then 2 weeks ago.............. 
a old kitchen on school ( which I liked for weeks ), had a big paper on it, only this week free to take home!!

I went to my neigbor asked her to help me, and it was standing in our halway

A real big one.. but I thought with a little paint it most be more beautifuller.

So I scrub it ,scrape it.

And this was how it looked!!

Then the paint.

I promissed kira, she could help me

So today we started painting!!

she loved it.. but the floor was also interresest to paint. and the the kitchen again.

So can you imagine how the paint looks like???

hihihihi =))))
Next week I will schrub it a little again, and new paint will be on it!!

And this is how it looks at the moment

I think I need to paint it ones or twice..

But that's all for next week.

I;m very happy with this project.

The very, very first time I do something like this.. 
and I love it. ♥

Then tonight I started with needle and thread..

I'm making a party dress for kira..

..........Finally........

But I needed to stop, I forgot the buy a zipper :( ;( ;(

Tomorrow night I hope I have one, then I can finish it off.

Next week I will show it..

PS, any football fan's????

We have one!!!
And the Dutch team is doing good, so he is happy!! ;))))

It's almost midnight, I;m off to bed, busy day tomorrow

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

 I love reading them!! 

 ♥ Have a great day ♥

A awesome great day!!

Today was a big day for us.. ♥

It was the second time that Noah had a schooltrip today!

He has been jumping up and down for days.

So I thought lates make it more special as Dh found a awesome Starwars bag for him.

A while back I found a cute little Yoda crochet pattern, it would have been perfect for attach on the bag 

Look at my sweetie.

Look at him so proud left above..

What do you think of the cute Yoda??

Awesome right??

With the whole school they went too the Efteling for the 100 year anniversay of the school, and had such a blast.

They always get yellow T-shirts from school, as you can see at the pic below of the collage.

His best friend ( our neighbor girl) was in his group, so he had the best day

Dh went alone as a accompanist.

They had a awesome day, and Noah was so happy with his Yoda ♥ =)))

But as the boy's where gone the whole, what would the girls do???

We didn't stay at home.

We went shopping in the city.

The first time Kira and I did that, and we had a awesome day

Look at this

Look at her?

See the dress.. This morning she was wearing a other dress, but we went to the H&M ( don't now if it's a store every where, I know The firts lady of the USA shopped there before too... hihihi )

I love the store, and now so does Kira..

We went to a fitting room, she put it one and didn't want to put it off again.

So I put her at the counter and told the cashier, she want to buy this dress.

All the woman in the store who heard it needed to laugh..

I gave Kira the money, the cashier cut the card out of the dress, and the rest of the day, so was happy with her Cat-dress

And at the end sleeping, as you see below on teh pic ( she hasn't done that in alsmost 2 years... hihihi )

As I told you a RAK of mine arrived in the USA.

I'm very bad in my replying from comments and mails this week, but I can tell you that the reciever Carol, was VERY happy with my little RAK..

This is what I send her:

She has made a monthly bowl last year, and I thought this would be perfect for in it.

The crochet bunny has cross stithed flowers on it.

Carol loves bunny's and blue.. thought this would be perfect.

And as summer is coming, some crochet sunflowers for her August bowl.

This are all free pattern, can't remember where I found them, but i all pinned them, so you can find them somewhere HERE on my Pinterest board

Have fun with it Carol, happy to gave you a big smile =))))

2 more RAK's almost are ready for the mail, and a few more will follow.. I love this!!!!

As most of this post is crochet, lets add another one.

I'm working on my last order, its one that belongs to the Minion hat i made..

But now a Minion doll.

Can you guess what kind off??

( Hint it's a girl)

More for this later..

Now off to bed..

Done with the 5 night shift, tomorrow the last 3 then I have worked 72 hours, this 1,5 week, so that's enough for a while..

I bought the supplies for my next BIG project today, that I will start on Monday or Tuesday.. 

It's  requires painting.. big and lot's of paint.. the kids will help me..

curious already?????

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

 I love reading them!! 

 ♥ Have a great day ♥

Have a great Pentecost weekend !!

I'm working many night shifts this week, but still, I'm enjoying the beautifull summer weather with my family.

More off that at the end of the post

Last week, I also did a bit of crafting.

No cross stitching this time, but many crochet

Let's begin with the horse on a stock..

Many are curious how it looks like.

I really think it's awesome!!

I love to stitch another 5 of them, so much I love them.

But it costs many cotton, so lets start with only this one, and look how much kids play with it!

Look at Kira having fun on her new horse!!

The pink halter really looks awesome on it, I add some purple flowers buttons on it too.

It really looks perfet, and add at the side a big wooden butten, with handmade with love on it!

Tomorrow is the birthday of Marion.

I send her a sweet felted Dutch lady

I made one for myself last year, and by seeing it, I thought it would be perfect for her.

She told me she loved it very much!!

Happy to have made and send it too her.

Marion, have a awesome birthday!!!

My strawberry family, is starting to grow.

I didn't do much, but the beginning is there.

The baby is finished

It's  a still green little strawberry, with a wooden head and hands, I normally don't work with that, but it was in the package.

I also gave him a blanket and a pillow.

So he can sleep for a while now.. 

I'm woring on his bed, so soon, he get sleep in privacy.

The last weeks, we have rain and sun take turns.

So my garden is growing so much!

This afternoon, I made some awesome pictures

because I made so many I make a big collage, Hoep you can all see it good.

These are pic's from my front and back garden.

Can you imagine I love sitting in my garden!!

This weekend we are having real summer weather.

Yesterday we went to a little beach, and today we stayed at home, and put on teh water slide in the garden

As you can see on the pic's kids are having a awesome time!!

And tomorrow we are having another free day.. so..... ♥

You see the yelly-fish??

We have seen so much..

Hubby went looking for crab's, Kira and I went looking for shells, and Noah found some boy's to play with.

I have some other crafts to show to, my first RAK arrived in the USA, and making something cute for Noah his schooltrip bag.
More off that in my next post

Enjoy your day's.

I'm off to bed again.. 2 night shifts done, still 6 to go!!

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

 I love reading them!!

 ♥ Have a great day ♥

Joy in life ♥

I had planned to talk about the weather, start there this post with.

But this morning when I was looking in my bloglovin, I saw a post of Nia, and she wrote the sweetest thing about me..

I really have to thank her so much for her awesome writing piece.

Sweetie, you will be the best mom too!!

Wait and see =)))

For those who wanne read it, look here.

And yesterday when I woke-up from my night shift I got the greatest picture send by whatsapp.

A picture of the bride with my wedding garter on her leg.

I started crying of you ( remember I just woke-up)

So sweet, the bride really loved it so much ♥

♥ Me is happy ♥

~~ It made my day ~~

Then lets show some crafts..

We start with Jingles, as it´s the last day of the months, so Jingles Time!!!

whahaha upside down.. lol  

( don't tell Rita, but i just finished it, made a pic real fast and then writing my post)

It was a bigger piece, but with such lovely colors again.

We are almost half-way there!!

Then I have finsihed the bunny's.

With Kira helping me stuffing, it goes so fast

Aren't they cute???

 ( ssssssstttt there is also a bunny flying somewhere sssssttt)

Then cute somebunny!!

It's progressing well.

I like Satin, it's beautifull thread, it's stitch really easy..

In my last somebunny, needed to stitch with a awfull thread, but Satin I like!!

And it's really beautifull too

The end is in sight!!!

But still much to do ;))

My Horse on a stock, is progressing awesomely fast!!

I finished all the part. Tomorrow going to the IKEA and buy a bedding, that I can use for stuffing, so it's not to heavy for Kira to play with.

Then need to add all the hair, and made a halter, for both I still need to order the yarn, after I put it togheter, I need to let Kira choose the next colors

Above is the body with head, then on the left the two ears, and right the nose.

I really can't wait to see it finsihed..

My last craft for this post is a order from my BIL.

A friend of him is expecting a baby this summer, and asked me if I could make a baby minion hat!!

I wanted to give it a try, and it worked

Look at how cute!!!!!

My cute neighbor boy (5 months old) was my testing person, as I don't have baby's to try it one.. and he looks so cute with it!

I hope the newly mom will love it too, when she gets it

Noah asked me if I would help him make a bookmark.

He wanted to knit it ( that what he calls all I do.. lol)

I went to my attic, found some supplies, and we have been stitching with the three of us, even Kira wanted to do it too again!!

Look at this cute collageI made♥

Look at that cute concentrated faces..  see Noah his face!!

It was very very very quiet at the table.

Just before bed this was how far they got

Can you see what Noah's making???

A Jedi, all by himself.. How great is that!!

Kira is making a present..

halfway it was totally full, but as you can see on the above pic's she does it all on her own.

She makes the thread wet, put's it in the needle, stitch it, and then cut it all again..

So after hours of work, many threads where stitched, but also many where cut loss again.. hihi

They didn't want to go to bed, but tomorow we will do some more stitching!!

So off to bed now!!

have a great Sunday all!!

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

 I love reading them!! 

 ♥ Have a great day ♥

Will the sun stay??

Begin of the week we had such a wonderfull sun and weather, since two day's the rain and clouds are coming.

But My garden really needed the water.

And the flowers are growing so good.

Here a beautifull picture of my 3 white clematis flowers

Aren't they so beautifull ♥ ♥ =)))

I made the pic just in time, that afternoon it got very windy and the above flower ( the first one) lost all his leaves.

In the day's we had beautifull weather we also sat a lot out side ( still do ) , and doing some craft Kira and I while Noah was at school.

Look at those cute bunny's!!

They are progressing well.

Sweet Kira is helping me very good, she stuffs all the parts.

Right now she is sitting next to me filling the legs..

So the bunny's will be soon done.

The other order I was making is finished.

The wedding carter.

My friends loves it very much.

Let's hope the bride and groom will do to

I didn't made the bow yet, otherwise you see that in the ribbon.

Simple but so beautifull!!

I almost was thinking to get married, so I can wear something like this, and make my own flower bouquet..

....mmm..... still thinking.. lol :P

Then as I didn't have enough crochet projects 

I started another one

At the moment it looks like the bag of Santa.

But when It's finished it will be a Stick Horse.

I bought the pattern last week, I really love it.. it will be for Kira.. need to order some pink for decoration..

She chooses the colors.. lol

I didn't though Jingles this week, but I do stitched on a other WIP of mine.

Somebunny

The above is how I started it after frogged a whole color, I justed the wrong one.

I read the numbred wrong.. lol.. 

And on the after pic, you can see what I did this week!!

I orderd the speacial colors, so when I have them I can finish it!!

Last week we had a BBQ at my godchilds birthday, but as alwasy I never eat the meat of that, becausel I get so ill.

After I felt bad, because Dh told me the meat was so awesome, they made it there-self.

So I told him I want to try and eat it again.

So yesterday for the first time in about 15 years I eat meat of the BBQ

I liked it very much, I didn't got ill.. so we are going to try it again next week..

Let's hope the rain will stay away and sun keeps coming!!

I will end this post by saying Happy Birthday to my sweet colleague, who has her birthday today

And really loves Johnny Depp

Have a awesome day Sunbeam :))) ♥

Need to get on my bike and get Noah from school for lunch!!

 ♥ Have a great weekend ♥

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

 I love reading them!! 

 ♥ Have a great day ♥

Spring has arrived ( again )

The last 1,5 week we had a lot of rain ( good for my garden ), but not for me.. lol!!

As off today warm weather is back, and the temperature will keep getting higher and higher!!

Yeah for us!!

How is the weather all over our globe???

^^^ 

I have been crafting a bit too between my spring cleaning ( yes still very busy on that) =))) 

Here the update of Jingles, I was stitching it this afternoon in the garden, while kids where playing there with friends

I need to order a few colors, as I;m almost out of them..

Still enjoying to stitch it very much..

I'm working on the biggest piece that there is..

^^^

My wedding garter is progressing very well..

I asked the sisters of the groom if this was what the wanted, and they liked it very much

It's a bad pic, I put in on my leg, as I have the same size as the bride.. hihi ;)))

This is the blue ribbon I'm going to use!!

Put a little bit in there, so I can see how it was looking

^^^

As the crochet butterfly's from my last post where so fun to make..

I made a few more, and send them too Valérie, as I know how much she love them.

Noah wrote inside the card..

She loved it so much!!

^^^

As I finished my first secret project, I could start a new project:

The strawberrie familie as it will look like when it's complete:

♥  isn't that cute????  ♥

It will be my summer project for the next 3 years..

It are 3 packages, and every year i will try and make one

The teapot I will save for last as the stitching is a lot, really a lot of work.

This is my first start:

I will start with the baby and then the mother... so more of that next time!!

^^^

I have been working in the garden this afternoon too.

I'm done back.

Here two pic's

 My sweet colleague always let me now when there are plants for sale in her town, also this boxwood ( buxus) where for sell, and see helped me with them..

I planted them..

hihihi I thought 20 was enough... as you see below... I'm missing 17..

So need to look for more..

And a close up from the beautifull white clematis..

The above flowers is 1,5/2 weeks in bloom by now.. I hope the third will be soon too.

I love to make a pic of them all..

So beautifull.

First year it gives me flowers

^^^

As I told you kids where playing so sweet this afternoon with a  friend..

I made some pic's

Look at them enjoying the weather..

Kira in our garden, and Noah in the playground across the street.

And yesterday went to our beautifull mill. kids loved it

The brown crochet bunny is progressing well too, forgot to take pictures..

But all parts for both are done..

So next week, will put them togheter, then I can start my final orders.. hihi ;)))

Now I;m off to bed, I have 2 night shifts this weekend!!

have a great evening all

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

 I love reading them!! 

 ♥ Have a great day ♥