Scary

In school L loves to make colorful meters with her knitting fork. This week her teacher created a snake of it; now L has a new friend that she's carrying everywhere she goes.

Just met...

... Petra of Vervlogen Dagen! My first exciting, sort of blind blogger date. She and I started a blog at the same time and ever since we have a kind of digital friendship by leaving comments on each other's posts. Now she was my guest and I must say: she is in real even more great and beautiful than her blog is! 
And sweet... she brought this such beautiful bag (see comments in link) for M ('may I say you once again that I love it?'), a pencil case in L's favorite colors and some fat quarters for me :), of course all designed and made by herself, even the fabrics. Please bring me more visitors like this. It was a long, but still to short being together for both mothers and daughters.

Her own Penny

Let's unwrap the small present on the left! M is still a horse lover, very much, even more. And like all girls like her she is fond of the Penny, a Dutch kids magazine for horse lovers. She can't wait for a new one; every second Tuesday our postman makes her very happy.
Now her mother: I don't like the Penny. Don't like the kitschy style, the level, the fact that she's no longer reading a normal book... And I can't stop telling her that once in a while. Poor girl.
To compensate my complaining I made her a special edition of the Penny: a mini photo album full of pictures of her, hugging 10 horses in the Schwarzwald last Mai. A little surprise for her birthday, that made her more happy than the chair she got as well.

Update: the posted animation doesn't work anymore.... I'll repair it after holidays.

HEMA

Here's another happy HEMA-tape-shopper! Look at M's presents, wrapped in the middle of the night... In reality the fluo tape is even more bright, it almost shined in the darkness!
Btw, in the large package on the right she found a chair (in almost fluo red), because next holidays we will make a new worktop in her room. More about that later. And later more about the little present on the left... Hope you feel as curious as M did ;).

Masu

Look what M treated her classmates on her birthday this morning: paper sheets printed by mama, folded into boxes by the two of us (we used squares of 18 and 17 cm)...

... filled with mmmm cookies (based on this recipe, without coffee and with or without chocolate), homemade by papa.

Dots everywhere

Yeah, my first result on my brand new sewing machine. Funny that I first was a bit scared to touch it, at the same time knowing that after touching I wouldn't let go anymore. Wow, sewing was never this easy. 
I couldn't test my new toy better than with this super cheap market buy, a thin jersey of which colors and dessin attracted me. What is the header of my blog doing to me again ;)?

This comfi jumpsuit is M's birthday outfit. She loves it! As she does love her accessories. And her fresh haircut. She feels 11!

This weekend she already was in the spotlight of family and neighbours. Now I'm washing her jumpsuit to be clean next Tuesday.

For those who think the trousers are short...