It's more than an year....

More than an year ago I posted my last message here. It wasn't a good year unfortunately.

Didn't stitch much on my stitching projects, and most important, my father passed away on September 16th, 2012. After a long time with Parkinson, his body gave up with a pneumonia. 

It's was hard to cope with, but slowly live come back. 

Summertime right now and a holiday in prospect with my family will keep me going. 

Early this year I've started as a student Law for a new business opportunity. 

Live goes on! 

My current stitching project is the Mystery Sampler from LHN:

Till next time....

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!

Look what I won!!!!

Unbelievable, just put my name in the comment for 1 day, and I won the give away from Carin. Feeling very lucky! Great start for a new year.


Vintage Christmas - Country Cottage Needleworks

Thanks again, Carin!

I didn't stitch today, so I'm putting my laptop down and go stitch some more on The Towel till bedtime!

Happy New Year for everybody!

Till next time....

Happy 2012!

For all my friends who visit my blog, the last couple of years!


Happy New Year Graphics

Last week of the year! Time to look forward!

2011 was a terrible year: almost bankrupted with my company and my health.....

I hope you haven't forgot me, and forgive me for the long time I wasn't here.

This is the last week of 2011 and I'm looking forward, not looking back. That's the only way to keep going.
We had a great Christmas time with the family this year! And my girls are doing great... I love them so much.

Dorine (8 years) on the left and Emma (10 years) on the right


I've started stitching again and finished a couple of little christmas projects:




This week I'm not working, so I made the first stitches again on Elizabeth Minnich's Decorated Towel:
Row 3

I'm stitching row 4 right now.
My plans for 2012 is spending a lot of time with family and friends; blogging at least ones a week, stitching a lot, and....
I'm going to start my own designing company. This is something that I wanted to do for many years and I think I have to do it now and don't wait any longer. Why should I?
Life is to short, isn't it?!

Do you have plans for 2012? I'd like to hear them very much!

This is it for today. So till next time... lots of hugs!

I'm still alive!

I'm still alive, but I'm having lot of troubles with my company, and I still have.
So that's why I hardly put any stitch right now.

I'm gonna survive this, and then I come back again.

First the holidays to look forward to, and then a new good time, I hope!

You're all in my mind.

Lots of love.... till next time!

Happy 2011

More widgets at Widgia.com

I wish all my friends a very healthy and happy new year.

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

Merry Christmas!

I wish everybody a very Merry Christmas!

Click here for my message to you!

Follow the instructions and enjoy!

Baubles December Finished!!!!!

Some days later than expected. But I did it; I finished Baubles December from SamSarah just a couple of minutes ago.


Nine pieces of gloves. And you really need them right now with all the snow outside and the low temperatures.

Now I'm gonna stitch some more on Christmas Trees II from Prairie Schooler:



Can anyone give me a hint for a good (web)shop where to buy any of this kind of wooden spools?

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

Snow, snow, snow and two finishes and Christmas WIP's!

This morning I decided to go to my office but I went home again after 2 hours. Look at the pictures... and it's still snowing!

For all the pictures, click to enlarge, if you like.

Yesterday I've finished two (!) pieces:


Baubles November from SamSarah.

Traveling stitcher from Little House Needleworks.

And for the holidays I took one of my WIP's: Christmas Trees II from The Prairie Schooler.





Now stitching on number 5!

After this, still two to go! Great project for the Christmas holiday, don't you think?

Yesterday evening I've started on Baubles December and I hope to finish this today.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures again!

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...

Just a quick note!

Hi all,

So sorry that you haven't heard from me, for a very long time.

Carin... I'm still stitching, but not that much I really want. I'm currently working on Baubles November and I've just finished October.
For the Shores, I've finished a block, number 3 and started on block 4. I'm still stitching for my PIF-members. I won't forget them.

What happened you may think.... a lot. Lets try to explain some.

I've troubles with my business for a couple of months now. So I decided to search for a businesspartner and we are going to start a new accountancybusiness together next month. We had to search for a new office also and we have a lot of other stuff to take care off. Lots of stress and lots of headaches.

Also I had my knee surgery on August 20th, and it's still not good. I have therapy every week, and the doctor said to me: it will never be good again for 100%. My knees will always stay bad. :(

My father is going worse every day. Lots of visits in the hospital and more troubles with this body. He is getting a colostomy next Friday. The doctors decided that after removing 3,9 liter of urine out his belly.

So lots of things happened and are still happening. I'm a lot on Facebook now to play eggbuddies, just to relax a little.

But... my DH and two girls are doing great and we are now planning a pleasant Christmas with the whole family.

I will try to put some pictures soon, I promise. From december 24th till the end of the year, I won't be working, so.... I should must have the time to do it then.

You are all in mind.
Lots of love and hugs...

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!

Baubles August finished!

I just put the buttons on and finish this lovely one from Sam Sarah Design Studio:

Click to enlarge.

"Baubles August" is stitched over two on Zweigart Newport Natural 28 count linen with The Gentle Art and WDW floss.

For me it's a cute reminder of our last boattrip on the Greek sea, with the jumping fish and ofcourse the beautiful Caretta Caretta turtles.

Now I'm going to stitch some more on the Shores. I hope I can show you some progress at the end of the week.

So till next time...

Finally a little update!

I feel very ashamed; it's almost 2 months ago, since my last post. I even doesn't read any blogpost of you all, simply I hadn't got the time. Lots of stress with my business is the biggest reason.

I didn't stitch much, but I managed to finish this one:


We came home last monday from our summer holiday, Zakynthos - Greece. We had a great time and the weather was very hot; above the 34 degrees in the second week.

Dorine and Emma in Water Village.

Me, during our boottrip, spotting turtles. I smiled, but I wasn't really happy, because I'm afraid of the sea.

Emma, dancing on Greek night.

Robert, dancing on Greek night.

I also didn't stitch anything during our vacation; it was to hot to handle.

When we were home, I made a start on SamSarah August, with boats on it. I will show you the pictures as soon as possible.

Next Friday I will be in the hospital for my left knee, so I hope to post soon again.

Lots of love and hugs, till next time.

Little pillow made in 4 hours!

Just a quick update from me! Life can be hectic sometimes. So I'm glad today I had some time to make this cute pillow from Pine Mountain Designs: Bats in Flight.



About a week I have to go to the orthopedist. And that after 24 years with pain in my both knees. I hope he can help me! The rheumatologist sent her advice to him: operate and look inside! Mmmmm, but not before my vacation to Greece. I don't want to go there with crutches.

I'm planning to read al my friend blogs next weekend, because I missed your stories a lot.

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.