Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Reminder

Just a reminder of the lovely give away that ends 4th of June.
If you haven't already, you can still enter and have a change to win!
Just click here, follow this blog, and leave a lovely comment.



Nothing of your taste?
Next give away will be at 100 followers :)

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Music Favorites #2

 This song speaks for itself :)


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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Chair makeover

So I decided to do a little chair makeover.
The chairs where horribly.
The color after 10 years of intensive use 
and sunlight flatterd not very well,  
and the stains, right... stains are not good ever.
So I unscrewed the seat and took the measurements.
Because of my terrible symmetrical tic it was a real challenge 
to position the cute pattern on the fabric so they matched nicely.
The fabric is from the Ikea (I love the Ikea)
 A lovely pair those chairs make now :)
Squirrel fabric detail.
Foxy fabric detail.
Fabric detail.
 With some upholstery nails, I nailed the fabric to the chair seat.
I'm not a furniture upholsterer but the result is not that bad ;)
A simple stitch to make sure the fabric isn't unraveling.



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Monday, May 30, 2011

Monday Inspiration #11

Monday Inspiration number 11 already :)
If you want to participate please let me know
and I will make a special button to put on your site.




This week I want to show you the site
of a very special person.
Her name is Elly Blijenbergh.
As she said herself,
in 1964 she is born with 2 right hands...
and can make a lot of nice handcraft goodies
she sell on her website Ik maak blij
what means I make happy, and is inspirited
on her last name wish has the word blij (happy) in it. 
The idea for this website is to make people
happy with what she can makes,
her products have no price,
they cost as much as you want to give for.
And a 10% of that money goes to a charity
calls Help2Help.
Her philosophy is that she makes
good quality products from used or recycled
materials, like our grandmothers used to do,
pull out a sweater and make something new from it.
In the time she grown up,
it was not normal to buy everything that you wanted.
You needed to save money for it, or make yourself.
She comes from a farm in a province in
the Netherlands, where they lived.
Her family sold fruit en vegetables,
from there land and they put in a roadside shed,
people could take some and put money in an old tin,
what they thought was worth the products.
It was always a surprise how much money they had earned.
That money was a big part of there regular income.
All that and more you can read on her website,
it's only in Dutch.
 

I hope you find it just as inspired as me :)

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Friday, May 27, 2011

This week I saw #8

This week I saw
number 8 post on TWIS :)
This week we saw the zoo, 
we went for a trip and had a great time,
the kids enjoyed them selfs in the playground,
and they loved the animals.


This week I also saw our kids
eating from the same plate ;)
And a new knitting project,
made from super soft and beautiful yarn.
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This week I saw.
Is an initiative from Roos en Daan,
there you can also see who else participates.
Inspired on Jill's Today  I Saw.


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Monday, May 23, 2011

Monday Inpiration #10

Good afternoon,
This week I want to show you a very awesome site,
where you can get almost all the inspiration
your looking for. And with free tutorials!
 
Freubelweb

Freubelweb is the site for and by crafty persons,
  with patterns, instructions and methods for the best, 
most beautiful, original creations you can make yourself.
Here you can find all kind of things for
knitting, crochet, sowing and more.
The person who makes this site and
makes it all possible for us for free
is Loes,
and I want to thank her so much for all the effort
and time she puts in this site!
She is just so wonderful.
Go check it out,
you will not regret it.

Note: I'm not responsible for any addictions
 you may get from looking at Freubelweb!

There is also a very lovely Give-Away at Freubelweb,
you can win a book in dutch called Babycadeautje haken
(Crochet baby gifts from Annemarie Arts)

Today I tried to make the (business) card holder.
My sowing machine had some problems with the heavy sides,
and I did not even put some extra layers in.
So the hemming is a bit wobbly.
The fabric is from the Ikea.

 



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