Handcrafted

I had some inspiration!

Salon des Fleur


















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Vintage café poster look, acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 cm (23 x 31 in)

I am actualy thinking about selling this painting, but deep in my heart I already found a place to hang it, in my own livingroom ;). But I have that with all my paintings, I only make what I realy like myself.
I am planning on making some more in this same setting. I am so happy when I have inspiration.

Ik ben er over na aan het denken om dit schilderij te verkopen, maar diep in m'n hart heb ik er al een plekje voor in mijn eigen woonkamer ;). Maar dat gevoel heb ik met al mijn schilderijen, ik maak alleen wat ik zelf op zou hangen.
Ik ga nog meer in de zelfde sfeer maken. Ben helemaal blij als ik inspiratie heb.

My home

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Whenever we go on vacation and we find those fun stores with goodies for the home, we try to find a covert, so when we set the table for dinner with family or friends
everybody has a different set. Plus its fun when I hold each one,
I remember the place where we got it. On vacation in Cuba in 2004 it was afcouse difficult to find some fancy stuff, so we ended up asking the matre-d at the hotel we stayed at if we could buy a set off of the hotel. Its a very plain one, but when I hold it I think of Cuba and my first attempt at diving, and the nice ladies we run into while on the road and drinking their very cheap but very delicious fresh orange
juice, Havana, and the wonderful warm sea, and afcource la musica!


Als we op vakantie gaan dan proberen we altijd leuke woonwinkels te ontdekken om een set bestek te kopen. Als we aan tafel gaan met familie of vrienden dan heeft iedereen een andere set, erg leuk ipv altijd het zelfde.
Ik herinner me elke plek waar we iets gekocht hebben. Toen we op vakantie op Cuba waren in 2004 was het uiteraard onmogelijk om iets te vinden, wij maar aan de matre-d gevraagd of we een set van het hotel konden kopen. Het is een erg simpel setje maar de herinnering aan Cuba is nog levendig. Als ik het bestek vast heb dan denk ik aan mijn eerste ervaring van duiken, en de erg aardige dames aan de kant van de weg met verse erg goedkope maar overheerlijke jus d'orange, Havana, de geweldige warme zee en natuurlijk la musica!




















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Handcrafted

Lovely hearts, I put some lavender esence in them, they smell wonderful!

Leuke hartjes, ik heb er wat lavendel olie ingedaan, ze ruiken heerlijk!.

Hancrafted and homemade

They started keeping track of the weather early 1900, and it has not been this cold in Holland as this easter. Its snowing, and hailing, and freezing! and sometimes the sun shines bright.
But we where invited all over the place for easter. Saturday my girlfriend invited us for drinks with friends who live in Spain. And so I though some sweets where in order. I made them these Cantucini (Italian) cookies. With a nice box to go with it!

Vanaf begin 1900 houden ze het weer bij, en het is nog nooit zo koud geweest in nederland. Het sneewt, en hagelt, en het vriest! en soms schijnt het zonnetje.
Maar wij hebben veel uitnodigingen voor het weekend. Zaterdag vroeg een vriendin
ons voor een borrel, samen met een vriendin die over was uit spanje voor een week.
Dus ik dacht laat ik wat lekkers mee nemen. Ik heb zelf Cantuccini koekjes gemaakt.
En in een vrolijk gemaakt doosje gestopt!













































This thursday my niece wil turn 11 but she had her party yesterday.
And she is very in to experimenting with make-up, as are her friends.
So what to buy for her!?

Aankomende donderdag is mijn nichtje jarig, al weer 11 jaar, maar ze vierde het
gisteren. Ze is nu aan het experimenteren met make-up, net als haar vriendinnetjes.
Wat moet je dan voor ze kopen!?

















It's all about glitter these days.

Één en al glitter vandaag de dag.



















And I made for her a little princess box!

En ik heb een prinsessen doosje voor haar gemaakt om alles in te stoppen.!

shabby stuff

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I found this chair a while ago at the thriftstore for €5,00, it was still in prettie good condition. But..... my man doesn't like it ( can you believe it) so I had to compromise.

Deze stoel heb ik uit de kringloop winkel, voor € 5,00, hij zag er nog best goed uit. Maar...... mijn lief heeft er niets mee. Dus dan maar een hoes erom.





















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This coffee table was at the same thriftstore (€ 3,00) so much fun to find this stuff.

Deze salon tafel komt uit de zelfde kringloop, so geweldig om dit te vinden.























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This one I actually found at a builders site, it was sitting in the sand, you couldn't see the legs. So at first I thought that it probebly had no legs. But sure enough it was perfect, absolutely nothing wrong with it! (besides that it was old looking). It had a green fabric. Sometimes people will throw out anything!.

Deze stoel zag ik uit een bult zand steken, op een bouwplaats. Eerst dacht ik dat de poten er wellicht af waren. Maar niets was minder waar. Niks mis mee, buiten het feit dat het een 'oude stoel'is. Het had groene stoffering. Sommige mensen gooien echt alles weg!.

some more of the home

This is my book collection, I love to read books especialy in english, I also like magazines, of which I also have a big collection.

My home

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Some more pictures of our home, well the mostly thriftsore finds in our home.
The lace fabric I found there and also the lamp, but I didn't like the fabric that was on the lamp so I changed it with this lace. So much better I think.

NOTTOSHABBYFORME: Easter Bunny Cozy

NOTTOSHABBYFORME: Easter Bunny Cozy

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Easter Bunny Cozy

So here is my BUNNY, check out Yvonne's blog at yvestown.
And join the
Flickr group
Much fun making these I must say.






















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March tools

The march tools my favorite!
Check out Heaters blog at http://heatherbailey.typepad.com/
This tool You could order thru a magazine and make your own
text in it. I use it to mark my books (wich I loan out often).
Or when I make a greeting card, or on the envelope, oh the
possibilities are endless!!

My Kitchen

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I painted this kitchen some 3 years ago, it's an Ikea kitchen. I wanted it white, so I also painted the wooden floor white and my man hung op the shelf, which I painted afcorse also white.

Our house is very old (about late 1800) and the road in front of our house use to be the mainroad. Which ment that big trucks would also use it. So it is also crooked. It's a very small house. But we like it. I like old homes, it adds karakter.

This home survived 2 wars and in the second w.w. there was even a little basement were the familie who lived here would hide. Later the part where now the kitchen is was in use as a little shop where they sold bread and butter. And lets not forget that before they made the dike higher, the sea water would come into the houses if there was a fast wind. The man that was born in this house still lives in this town an has many stories to tell.

The heavenly Nest

Today, ones again, or actually still, is the wind blowing so fast there is even some wet snow and hail, all mixed together. So I just keep from looking outside and much rather look at this heavely nest I made last Oktober. My nextdoor neibour cut down some branches from his tree, and I just had to make something out of it.
For the holidays I hung it up but it looks so nice that I leave it for a while.
The painting in the background I made recently, the text on it is from "The goo goo dolls" IRIS From the movie "City of Angels". How romantic can it get.
An angel (with eaternal life) who wants to be a "normal man" so he can touch and hold his great love. awh so lovely.





















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The note book

On these day's when it's still cold out and you just want to be inside, the sun sets early and you're just fiddling around the house, what are you going to do?.
Well I start reorganizing, and here I found a collection of my journals/noteboeks. I have a lot more and use them for all sorts of things. drawing, writing, etc.
The big leather one on the bottum I bought in Siena Italy, its all blank inside and when I write and draw in it, I feel a bit like Leonardo (da vinci, afcorse). Its so beautiful, that I wish I got some more.



















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Right now there is a storm outside and we can hardly look through the window's because the salt from the sea sticks on it.
Till next time.

CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS


















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I never had a pin-cushion, so I got some fabric and made myself an EXTRA LARGE pin-cushion. So much fun! Then I realised that at times my teapot looked very cold, so I made it a nice warm coat. (i had some fabric left).
I also made a pillow for the cats, (I don't even have it finised yet) but they keep
racíng eachother for it, with the pins still in it, believe it or not. So that is still in the making!
















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