Heavy duty

In our hall our two children have their own coat hooks, that I like to recommend. They are big, made of heavy duty solid steel and visiting friends can add there coats easily. The so-called Hooek is designed by Belgian Anthony Duffeleer, Dutch manufacturer is Van Esch.

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My mother always was handicrafting. As a young child I loved watching my mother sewing and soon I joined her sewing, knitting, crochetting, everything. I'm really so grateful for that.
When embroidering this tablecloth, L was sitting on the table and made me happy.

Lot

This summer we cycled from Maastricht to Rotterdam; along border and coast it was 550 km. Actually we cycled around the Netherlands in four years: when my eldest turned 6 we went from Rotterdam to Bergen, North Holland. When she turned 7 we continued in Bergen and over all Waddenislands we went to Groningen. Last year, M was 8, the route was from Groningen to Maastricht and this year we finished our tour. We showed our homeland to our children, something I really recommend! This year my youngest (4,5 years old) wouldn't like sitting on a bike seat for three weeks, so we bought a children's bike that can be attached to mine. She loved it so much; at the first ride she called: 'how fast we are going!' I think it's comparable to our first driving lesson. She also liked to ask me to stop cycling so she was able to do the cycling all alone.
After a cotton version I made her this more durable flag, made from kite fabric.

Wobbling nines

This summer my eldest turned 9. For years she (no, not at all my youngest!) wants to treat something healthy at school. She really loves fruit. The treat may not be too strange, too. We drilled skew holes randomly into a wooden remnant of our terrace. In our city people don't sell beads anymore (what do kids do nowadays? I loved to make necklaces for years as a child!), so I ordered beads on internet. Somewhere in the house we found the perfect brass thread to make the nines wobbling.
Ok, a strange treat, but she loved it.

Yes, I do

My Greek colleague reminds me at when my eldest turned 6. I made her this wedding dress without any pattern. I even estimated the length of the dress. The wonder is that it fitted so fine. You should have seen her glance!
Recently it sadly cracked, and it's on my to do list to repair it. Hopefully next weekend?

Greek colleague

Last weekend a colleague married in Greece. I couldn't make it to Greece, but attended her bachelor party. For this occasion I remembered my dear friends blog on vlijtig. I took good quality lightbluegrey linen and sewed this tablecloth with two matching napkins. After embroidering I wanted to copy the idea of the initials, but that didn't work out. My daughter was at the same time making a drawing of a bride and groom, with roses. Et voilà, see here the result! The roses are 1,5 cm only and are cut out of a HEMA eraser. In the end the most difficult part of the job seemed to make a nice and recognizable drawing of a rose. 

Joining

Two years ago I bought an iPhone. From that time I'm no more reading books in bed, but I enjoy reading blogs. Some bloggers I even follow daily. I think I spend half an hour a day to do so. The question is, am I spoiling time? But I like it!
This afternoon I was calling my best friend and suddenly she made me starting an own blog. I'm sure not able to post so many blogs a week or even per month like my adored bloggers, but this doesn't stop me.
We'll see.