Set

My daughters both love sets. Underwear, but also this hat and scarf. M was so happy, especially with the yellow kisses! I hope she is not going to sleep with it...

This hat is really simple, so you don't need a pattern. To obtain the right size M only let me fit a few times. I prefer simple, classic patterns, but a site like Ravelry is a tip for those who don't know it yet. Go there to download thousands of amazing free patterns!

Reading

Last winter our little L finally could join her big sister at school. We loved to give her a matching present: a schoolbag with a lunchbox and her first reading book. The book was a personalised one: for every letter of the alphabet I made drawings of her dress, her softie, her bike, and so on. But also things in our house like the lamp above our kitchen table, her little wooden kitchen, etcetera.
 

Just take a look!

L loves blue

This treat L gave to the toddlers when she got four. Because she was going to leave them, we wanted to give them a little L as a souvenir. I painted each little L by hand. Presented proudly on a gigant tangerine, which we wrapped in a festive paper. Through the holes you can peep at the bright orange present.

P2 k2, p2 k2, k2 p2, k2 p2

Great wool to warm my daughter, that's a lovely thought. Just finished this scarf. Made of this soft yarn, quickly done with needle 10 and finished with a colorful thread.
Autumn can do his job!

Not yet five

I know L allready is going to be five in a few months, but I can't resist showing some pics of her anniversary last winter. We had have such great days! Especially the goodbye at the toddler daycare was so heartwarming!
Later on I'm going to show you some crafting I did and what was inside the wrapping paper...

Rewarded with an award

Now I feel I'm a real part of Blogland: I got a first award of Tante Ekster. Thank you Belinda!
The award means that the receiver should share 7 random personal things. Mmmm, that's not easy... But here they come:

• I always go to bed too late.
• I jog an hour once a week, busy chatting with my friend.
• I cycle a lot: 7 km to school, 7 km from school to work, 7 km from work to home. Children are taken with me, so especially M has expanded muscles. You'll believe it after reading this post.
• I cycle fast, I even can't go slow.
• I terribly bite my nails, now followed by my children. I'm very ashamed.
• I love to drive a car, but also try to avoid it.
• I think my observation skills are extraordinary.
• I love a shop like Koekela in Rotterdam.

Sorry, I gave you some more secrets...
After doing this I may send the award to other bloggers. Here comes the one and only Versatile Blogger Award to you, Boventonen, Vervlogen Dagen and Rare Rusk, for being starters in Blogland. Wish you all the best!

In the early morning

One of our traditions is to make a beautiful birthday table. The following elements should at least be displayed on this table: off course all presents (wrapped with love), posts, little flowers, the yellow birthday circle with little candles and in the middle the little light woman and some sweets in the same quantity of the number of years.
When my eldest turned 5 the whole table (and present!) was very pink. Off course L's table should be blue. I allways take time to make a nice composition of everything what's on the table. And to make a picture in the late evening...

Little feet

When our little girl next door was born I wanted to give her something self-made. On several places on the internet I was triggered by these little booties and this link. When you go to Flickr you see hundreds of exemplars to inspire you. So it's a piece of cake! Nevertheless I tried to be original. If you look closely you'll notice I used in color changing DMC yarn.
The joke is that for this healthy baby the booties were made to small. So I made a second pair and the first pair is now belonging to Zusje, the doll of L.

Hard to stop

I stopped doing it for too many years. It's so relaxing, lining up all stitches. I'm talking about knitting: I started again and just like former times can hardly stop again.
Last week I shortly searched the internet for sheep wool and coincidentally the same day I passed by Wernerkinck in Delft, selling beautiful woolen yarns. I prefer natural materials and colors and looking around in this shop, which actually looks like an old loft, is a feast to the eye. Sadly I can't link you to the shop because they have no site, but here you can find online the yarn I used. I even like the ball of wool as an object.
I feel like exercising for grandmotherhood, because they are going to be blankets for the sleeping dolls of my daughters. I decided the blankets should be as simple and pure as possible and off course finished before wintertime!

Collection

Since we don't hang our baby clothes on these little hooks anymore as you saw here, I use them for my collection of necklaces. The everybody-has-it shelf of Ikea we painted in the same color as our lightbluegrey wall.
On the shelf you can see the framed birth announcements of our daughters. What a happiness to design and make them!