Goedemorgen!

Wij zijn er klaar voor hoor, voor de kou die komen gaat!

Hilarisch toch? Maar vooral lekker warm. Patroon vond ik via Pinterest, op deze weblog.

Jammer!

De vakantie is voorbij, school begonnen, aan het werk....
Dat 6 weken zo om kunnen vliegen, ongelofelijk!
Een deel van de vakantie brachten we door in Frankrijk, met onze "nieuwe" camper. Een Volkswagen Westfalia T2 bus van 38 jaar oud. Met Hula-meisje op het dashboard.

We kijken nu al uit naar de volgende vakantie!

Weer Terug

We zijn er weer! Lekker genoten van de kampeervakantie in Italië en van de schoolvakantie van de jongens. Inmiddels is de school al weer anderhalve week begonnen en keren we weer terug naar het gewone ritme, wat ook wel weer fijn is. Ondertussen haakte ik wat (maar daarover later meer) en maakte ik een aantal armbandjes, met behulp van tutorials die ik via Pinterest vond. Ook zelf armbandjes maken? Je vind de tutorials hier, hier en hier.

Yum

Yesterday, I had a nice lunch with my niece Kristel at the Verkadefabriek.
She also brought me a bag of very yummy homemade chocolate - black pepper cookies. Nicely packed in a paperbag, decorated with one of her own (selfmade) stamps. Thanks Kristel!

Time

To announce the winners of the give away!
Due to a busy autumn holiday and being busy with the shop afterwards, I didn't have the time to do so, sorry! We enjoyed a culinairy weekend with friends at the Swarte Ruiter in Holten. Good food, good wines and good company, very nice!
And after the weekend we spent a week in a holiday home with the kids. Relaxing, swimming, indoor playground, even mini-golf (not my favourite, but the boys insisted to play!) and, as we were close to it, a visit to the Hertog Jan brewery. This picture was taken in their beer-cellar.

But now the most important part of this post, the winners....
The random number generator picked number 15 and 34, which are Kir and Tania. Congratulations ladies, I will contact you regarding you wishes!

Six

Today, our oldest son turns 6! Had already a party on sunday and will have one on friday, but today it is really his birthday.
And today also his party on school, with popcorn in selfmade boats to give to his friends (and as parents we were allowed this morning to stay and celebrate the party in the classroom, which was so much fun!).

Carrots

These carrots were harvested by the boys last weekend at the farm where our "groentetas" comes from. The people from the farm organised a tour and it was very nice to see where our vegetables grow.
We managed to take a few carrots home, but most of the carrots were used to feed the ponies.....

Garland

Our son will turn 6 in two weeks time. And he really wants a pirate-themed party. And poporn as a treat for his friends at school. And a bike. Yes, big boys know what they want!
I made him this party t-shirt to wear on his birthday (and luckily he likes it).
Easy to make, just stitch a string on a t-shirt (don't forget to use the stretch needle). Cut out some flags from iron-on velours (size 2x2,5cm) and iron them on. Ready! Also nice as a gift. I am thinking about adding a 6 somewhere, what do you think?

France

We are already back for a week, but the kids still have holidays and I was busy sending out all the orders that came in, so no time yet for blogging.
We spent our holiday camping in France and the best pictures were made by our oldest son, who used our old digital camera (with lots of shoes and garbage cans ;).


The market in Sarlat (very touristic and busy):

The only church we visited and of course we had to light a candle (picked up this tradition from my mum):

And the last few day we spent in the railroad house of and with my parents in the Creuse (a very nice quiet area in the middle of France):

And now back to daily life! But with nice things to come in the near future.
Hope you all had a good holiday too!

Four

Our youngest son turned 4 last Tuesday, time flies.... No more little kids in our house, but two big boys! And after the summer holidays he will go to school. How exciting (for him as well for us). Anyway, the best present he got was a steam engine, to attach to his wooden trains. See them testing it in our empty living room.

Weekend

Finally some time to upload the photo's from last weekend.
We spent the saturday at the farm from my uncle for a family reunion. With great weather and so nice to see all my nieces and nephews with their kids.
The farm is not a real farm anymore, but still with a lot of space around it. For the kids a perfect playground and they couldn't be more happy when a tractor arrived to make haystacks and they could drive along. The picture says it all!

Welcome to our World

He is here already! Our little nephew Willem was born last Tuesday. A month before his due date, he decided to come and surprised us all. My sister was visiting a friend in Den Haag (she lives in Den Bosch), when labour started and a few hours later, little Willem said hi to the world in Den Haag. Quite a funny story, don't you think? Luckily his mom and Willem are doing fine and will be home later Today.

On The Beach

We spent last weekend in a little house near the sea to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of my parents. Lots of laughter, good food, wines, sunshine and sand! The boys couldn't be more happy, playing at the seaside and throwing little shells, stones and twigs in the water. Really a little holiday! Thanks mum and dad!

Snowtime fun

Yesterday, we went to the "Loonse en Drunense duinen". It is a national park, not so far away from us and it is the perfect place to have a nice walk on a sundaymorning. We took the sleigh with us to sleigh from the dunes. Great fun! And of course a hot chocolate milk when we were finished sleighing.

Spoiled

The boys have been spoiled by Sinterklaas. They thought the "marble race court" was the best present they got, I like it too by the way... It is very relaxing to watch the marbles roll down ;).

I made some more notebooks as a present to give to my brother in law and to my dad. This time I use the iron-on velours on a Moleskine notebook, it worked very well (even better than with the one for Teun).

Busy

With making these goodies for the goodiebags of Tresj (for Flavourites live) and Doekjes (for a christmas market).

With making these accessories for the Textile Shop (in Textielmuseum Tilburg). They are going to sell them there, I am excited!

With making this onesie for my sister. She is pregnant from her first child. I am excited too and going to be a real aunt!

With testing this for the shop. It is called iron on vinyl and you can use it to laminate your fabrics with. Great for bibs, placemats, coasters etc.

Five

This little baby turned five Today!

And Today it is also his birthday at school. Very proud (and a bit shy) he went to school to celebrate it with his little friends. Singing, blowing candles, standing on the chair, making music and of course giving treats. Popcorn and a little autumn themed button.

Brrrr....

I had a stomach flu last week, so not much blogging (or anything else) around here.
Before that, we celebrated the 3rd birthday of Karel, who was very happy with his vintage Tonka fire truck.

Of course there was a homemade birthdaycake.

And to celebrate his birthday with his friends on the child daycare centre, I made these keychain droplets (all the groups at the centre have names like clouds, stars, suns and his group is called the droplets).

Tour de Jeunesse

Last weekend, my sister and I organised a "Tour de Jeunesse" (youth tour) for our mums 65th birthday. We rented two 2CV's and drove along all the places that were important in her life, like where she lived, worked, got married etc. She was really surprised, because we didn't tell her anything (she is curious!), we just came driving in their street to pick them up.

We were very lucky with the fantastic weather, so that we could drive with the roof open and that we could have a picknick in the open air in a meadow, surrounded by cows. It almost felt like we were on holiday!

Perfect for a holiday

We were a bit slow in teaching Teun (he is 4,5 years old now) how to ride his bike without the little side wheels. At first he also didn't want to and we were a little surprised, because he is always handy in learning physical things, like walking, climbing, jumping.... Last week he really practised a lot, and since he has holidays from school, he had all the time to do so. And after just a few days he is able to ride the bike on his own (and are we his proud parents of course!). Now he wants to go everywhere with his bike, so when the school starts again next week he will definitely go on his bike!