More fun!

We had such fun with the kids on L's cats birthday party! After putting these caps on their heads the kids immediately changed into cats, that means that they behaved like scratching cats and made a lot of noise together.

But after some games the caps were too hot to wear... Didn't mind, they looked like cats anyway during their milk licking from a little plate, climbing in a tree called F, testing their sense of smell and testing their cat ears, searching for another singing cat somewhere hiding in our house (a YouTube song on an iPhone...).

Sewing these caps reminded me of when M turned 6 and I sewed (very simple!) pink dresses and light blue blouses for all girls and boys on her birthday party. The pink insides of the caps are a fabric leftover.
Btw, I used the pattern of the hood of this coat.

Fun!

F has given L a pulley as a birthday gift. And she's loving it! It suits our house very much as we have a high void next to our stairs.

During her birthday party all kids tackled their presents to L. Here you can see them at work. Do you see M's head upstairs?

Miaow

Tomorrow L will have her third special day: she invited her friends to come to her cats party. This theme idea I found here.

We organized it our way using the play capacities of our house. Tonight I'll finish sewing 7 furry cats caps! Hope all girls will enjoy it very much.

To rattle

Today L was giving her treats to her classmates. Lucky me was there! Thanks neighbours for all collected toilet rolls. We had a great family craft afternoon yesterday. L helped a lot, something I'm very glad about. The paper rolls were covered on the inside with bakery paper, that we also used for bottom and top. Different kind of nuts, some covered with chocolat, were put inside, so the kids were making some music together.

(As usual finished at darkness, so pics with flash.)

Paper for L

As I told you L turned 6 last Friday! For this special day I suddenly came to this paper design. Wanted to use it for her treats in school (see later), but also used it for decorating our hall ...

... and wrapping her presents.

Solving a 'problem'

Yesterday L turned 6! But today she was invited by her 3-days-junger best friend Gaia. We were a bit in a hurry to leave for her birthday party due to a discussion of mother and daughter about choosing cloths. I wished her to wear her new checkered dress, but L had problems with the waist width. Very quickly solved this (during my morning coffee) by crocheting a chain.
To achieve the desired color with available materials, a thick dark pink and a thin red thread were mixed. Mmmm, pink with a touch of red.

2012

Dear all, this year my blog has been my favorite hobby, because of you! I loved to read your comments with sweet words. Especially the stick horses have been spread over the www. That's how it ment to be. And so many followers (what a beautiful amount on the end of the year!)... it makes me shy. Thank you all for appreciating my posts and please come by and join me again next year!

A happy 2012!

Work in progress

It's wintertime. In need of plenty of rest I'm sitting on the couch and knit. Striped and on the bias. It's my cup of tea at the moment.

The different pieces look like tea towels but will be ...

Tradition

This 'Linzertorte' was made by F, something he does every year in December. A tasteful habit from his German roots. This week he baked one for school, one for today and one for tomorrow. Mmmm... For today's diner in our house F will make an appetizer, M a soup, I will prepare a quiche and L is going to make her first dessert.
May this year's Xmas taste good to you all!

Temporary dress

Yesterday morning all school tables in M's class were set with tablecloths, candles and lovely food. To let the breakfast taste even better all kids were asked to dress theirselves in Christmas style.
For me these days before Christmas were crazy busy in the office. Gives me double feelings: exhausting on one hand, but on the other hand I'm grateful, because compared to other architectural firms suffering huge crises in the Netherlands, we must be glad to have such a full portfolio right now. Thursday evening I attended a great Christmas diner in the office (like last year). Late in the evening I suddenly remembered my promise to M: turning a shiny skirt of mine into a dress for her! So back home at midnight the sewing machine quickly did his 5-minute job. Used stitches are long so I'll be able to turn it into a skirt again easily. But not before Christmas is over, M assured me.