Stretched cabinet

In our house we have quite a lot made of birch plywood. So is this little cabinet in L's bedroom. I love the bit strange and stretched proportions. In our former house it was designed for hanging with reading lamps above our bed.
Lately I covered the back with a nice fabric of Heather Bailey. The two lamps are still not in use, and plans are made to make a pinboard underneath the cabinet. I'll report about that, but be patient.

Busy

Okay, I said to myself, you have no time to do a self-made present for your birthday girl next door in these busy days. So I bought a present. But... when I made a supersmall present for Janne (I'll tell you later) I suddenly made another one for Jil.
And thanks to these girls I did my first button covering! See here (and soon after if you are curious) the result.

In secret

My youngest is really fond of several books of Elsa Beskow. On 5 December she may add Around the year to her small collection. I love to read them and together we admire the pictures.
For school we traditionally make Sinterklaas presents. This week I attended a cozy parents evening, where all parents painted the most beautiful music boxes for their children. This little box Sinterklaas will bring along for L. Hopefully she likes the little painting of her and her big sister...

Less popular

Another toy (that my children unfortunately kind of leave on the bottom of the toy basket...) is this embellished glove. I think I better reintroduce it to my youngest.
To comfort me, do you maybe like it?

Old toy

Long time ago I made my eldest this ball. Especially the beams of the sun collected a lot of love!
Now I notice the ball is still choosen to play with. This afternoon I discovered a little hole in the felt and repaired it right away.

Doing business

My boyfriend is freshly starting a new company. And he's enthusiastic! Last week he was suddenly in need of business cards, to spread on a network meeting. Though unquietly surrounded by children, we managed together this design. He ordered a stock at Moo and for direct use some at the local copy shop. The site of Moo makes me greedy too...
Yesterday the colorful cards arrived. M was the first receiver. She picked a pink one. Of course.

Forgotten...

Last sunday my jogging friend told me about the arrival of Sinterklaas in Rotterdam. I think it's because we were still in St. Martin's atmosfere, that we totally forgot to go there!
But since that day there are plenty of Sinterklaas activities in our house: M and L put their shoes next to the terrace door (we have no chimney) in great expectation, are wrapping fake presents (each of them got half a roll of Sinterklaas wrapping paper in their shoes), wore Sint and Piet costumes, made this Sinterklaas table (autumn disappeared in a box again...), read big red books again and again.
And I? Yesterday I was drawing, while M was watching, and this morning I added the drawing to the table. Next week we'll take our children to another entry of another Sinterklaas.

Comfort

We allways have been loving Birkenstock sandals, maybe because of the German blood in our family. Formerly in secondary school it was really not done to wear them, and I think it's amazing what is happening now. Women on super high heels and muscular men enter the specialised shop in Rotterdam and leave some later on Birkenstock sandals. I think the company has a genious formula and is able, just like Ikea, to design for everyone. Comfort obviously wins.
For M I bought these slippers and embellished them with a ribbon I ordered right here.

Precious

One of the first well-beloved items I made for baby M was a mobile, which is nowadays still hanging in her room. It is made by wrapping handspun wool around a wire. I added some green felt leaves and made some spirals of green wire. The little wooden gnomes are simply dressed in felt. A cristal is hanging in the middle, like a treasure of the gnomes, that is breaking daylight and can make beautiful light projections on the wall.
By the way, these lovely chubby little arms are belonging to baby L.

Dear Molly of Remedial Eating, I hope you enjoy this post :).

With daylight

This week L and her friend were lovely playing, while both mothers were sitting at the table making these transparents. Because all examples in this book are great, we for sure will do this again. Thank you Anja for this crafty afternoon.
When L opened her roller blind the morning after, she was very surprised!