What have I been up to?

Just a simple answer: a lot! :)
Knitting, sewing, cross stitching, study, work, household, driving my children to korfball/hockey competition and training...

I will share the nice ones of it with you, so here are some pictures of progresses and new starts.
If you like, click on the pictures for a better look.

What's new?
I started today with my latest hobby: Tilda! Who's she or what is it? (click on the name for a look on the great website)

One of the seven books I own.
Tilda is a craft brand started by the Norwegian designer Tone Finnanger in 1999.

Tilda is most known for the whimsical, comical and naive characters in the form of animals and dolls. Tilda's world is without a doubt a feminine one, and the most recognisable features are the faces, with two dots for eyes and rosy cheeks.

The Tilda range consists of craft books and craft products for sewing and paper craft. The products are produced and distributed by Panduro Hobby and available in most of Europe. The books are also distributed to other parts of the world like USA, Australia and China.

I'm making a sort of "quilt" curtain. I've cut 30 blocks this afternoon, and it's now time for sewing them together. Fifteen for the front and the same for the back.
See the curtain in the upper left corner.
What's new also: knitting. Done it lots of years ago, and now I took the needles again.
First knitting a scarf for Dorine (orange) and then one for Emma (purple)!



Now a progress picture of my "old" hobby: cross stitch!
You all know that I'm currently working on ELIZABETH MINNICHS DECORATED TOWEL from the Carriage House Samplings. And this how it look this far:


On some days the postman (or woman) is very good to me. I've received my give-a-way present, and search through my stash for the right linnen and threads.


I'm gonna stitch it on 32-count Belfast Linnen with the recommended DMC, but I've changed some WDW in to Bluecoat Red and Hunter in stead of the pink and blue colours. I will also use some Wisper on some parts, but that will be a surprise.

At last but not least, I bought some new stuff and the postman brought it to me! :)
From Nina, my Facebook friend.
From De Handwerk Boetiek.

Thank you for stopping by and reading this post!
Till next time!

Some pictures to share!

As promised, I'm sharing some pictures about my latest finishes and new starts.

First one: Baubles September - SamSarah (based on the Fall)
















Second one: Baubles October - SamSarah (based on Halloween)
















And a new start on Baubles November - SamSarah (based on Thanksgiving)
















I'm going to try to finish this one and the one for December before the year is 2011.

Last Saturday we've had our first snow. Ofcourse the kids liked it very much.

In the afternoon there was a lot more of it. Now it's raining again and the tempatures are "warm" again. I hope that Christmas will be a white one this year.

Lots of love and hugs, till next time...

New progress on the Shores.

I made some progress and put the pictures from The Shores of Hawk Run Hollow by Carriage House Samplings on my blog.
You can see them here.

Feel free to look, leave a comment and if you want to: please join us!
I surely appreciate all comments and love to read them.

Till next time, lots of love and hugs!

Back from the holidays!

Hi all,

I'm back again; yes, from my short holiday with DH and kids:


We had lots of fun, but we also visit a War Museum: "Liberty Park" in Overloon:

Me and Dorine, still with wintercoats (cold animal also):


I even managed to do some stitching on The Shores. I've finished Block 2 and made a start on Block 3.

Lovely mermaid:


Some days earlier I had finished my first in a row of twelve needlerolls: A Mother's Love from Shephard Bush:


And if I made so much pictures, I could'nt forget this couple from Emma's 2nd performance of Streetdance:


Thuesday May 27th, we will celebrate her 9th birthday already. Kids growing fast!

Thank you for stopping by. Till next time...
Lots of love and hugs.

A big update and an award!!!!

Life can be cruel sometimes. In my family lots of things are happening right now. I put all my energy in working, study and relationsships. So not much stitching done and also not in the mood for stitching.

The sun is shining again when bloggerfriends sent me, for example, an award, named:
The sunshine award


Thank you so much Patti for this sunny award. I needed this a lot and still do. You made my day very sunny!

And the rules for this award are:

1. Put the logo on your blog or within a post
2. Pass the award to 12 Bloggers
3. Link the nominees within your post
4. Let them know they receive this award by communicating on their blog
5. Share the love and link to the person from whom you received the award

Here are my twelve bloggers:

1. Siobhan
2. Carin
3. Kim
4. Simone
5. Angela
6. Mylene
7. Lydia
8. Mayté
9. Terri
10. Melissa
11. Irina
12. Susan

Another example for a sunny day is when I received the PIF from Irina!
The hole package: a little notebook, chocolate, magnets and a very lovely sissorfob!

Did see know I'm a big coffee addict?

I didn't stitch much, but a little. So here is my newest progress: A mother's love needleroll from Shephard's Bush:


And two pictures of the Shores could be found here! You are all still welcome to join this blog.

And at least, but not least: my two big girls, Emma and Dorine, both have a new swimmingcertificate: Emma her 4th and Dorine her 3rd.





So also a lot of good things happened. And this is what keeps me going.
I hope you enjoyd reading my post again.

Lots of hugs and love and till next time...