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...

Lots of finished stitching pieces!

I haven't been sitting "still" lately. With a lot of work at the office, I managed to take some time to stitch. I've finished stitching three pieces. Just in time for the next month.
Two monthly Christmas ornaments from LHN and one February Floss Tag from The Needle's Content. All I have to do is to finish-finish them.

For all the pictures: click to enlarge, if you want!

The first one: Fa-La-La by LHN:

The second one: Pear Tree by LHN:

And least but not least: The February Floss Tag by The Needle's Content:


Today I went to the yearly market in Zwolle: De Handwerkbeurs. And look what I brought home with me. Lots of goodies.
A banddesign with birdhouses by UB-Design, 24(!) pieces of fabric (Romance style), a little purse to make with quiltfabrics and other little goodies (see below).
Isn't it adorable; with a tiny sewing machine.
Ribbon's and pins.

So the finishing of the 3 pieces mentioned earlier will be done the next Sunday. I hope you can't blame me!

Till next time, lots of love and hugs!

Started on my first ornament for this year!

The package with the first two ornaments arrived!

I've started on the first one: All Dolled Up! from Little House Needleworks.


I stitch it on 30-count Cappucino with Venus threads instead of the recommended DMC.

Last week I finished stitching my third PIF project. Only two to go! I can't show you any pictures yet, but I can tell you, this one is adorable. I bought the finishing stuff for it yesterday; I surely hope the PIF members will like what I made for them.

Today I haven't stitch much, because I had to do some work done at the office. I also have a lot of reading to do, on all the blogs I love. Maybe next week.

Till next time, lots of love and hugs.

Your opinion, please!

More than a month ago, I had my give-a-way for my first anniversary of my blog.
The winner never sent me her name and address. She doesn't react to messages on her blog or email. What should I do?
The give-a-way is still waiting for his next happy owner, but who?

By the way, I doesn't have any pictures to show yet. I started on my third project for my PIF-members(yes ladies, I haven't forget all of you!), and when I have enough time left I'm stitching on the Shores.
January is almost over fortunately, so I must get more time to stitch instead of working all the time.

Thank you for comments and stopping by. I appriciate them all very much.

Till next time, lots of love and hugs!

Just a little progress!

I had promised myself that I had to put a new message here this weekend. Just to let you all know that I'm still here, but not very often. My work keeps me very busy this month. It even caused stomach-ache every morning. To much stress I think. Right now I also have to work on Saterdays and in the evenings.

That's also the reason for less time for my Shores unfortunately. But I managed to put some more stitches on it. So this is my progress for Block 1 so far:



And a little sneak peak...



Today I'm gonna prepare the first talk for school for Dorine. She's gonna speak about practise gymnastics. She will have it on March 30, so we have enough time to do it. Here are at least two pictures she want to show to her classmates:

and one with here coach:


When I have more time, I will read all your lovely blogs again.

Till next time, lots of love and hugs!

January FLoss Tag Finished!!!!!

My first finish in this new year, the January Floss Tag from The Needle's Content.
I finish stitching yesterday and put it together today. My DH put the eyelet in for me.


Stitched on 32 count Heritage Linen from Picture This Plus with Simply Shaker threads by The Gente Art.

This is part of my goal for January, up to the next one! I hope that the Christmasornaments will arrive soon.

Till next time....