Presents for baby Thomas

Mart's brother and his wife had a beautiful little boy recently and I made them a couple of personalised presents. We sent everything to Australia in the mail as we won't be able to meet the latest addition to the family for a couple of months. In the meanwhile they'll have these to remember us by! :-)

I printed the jumpsuit and mint cloth with templates I cut out of freezer paper and the Sydney changing mat is a crumpled city map I quilted together with thick grey tracksuit fabric. The white jumpsuit is a nod to the fact that Mart's brother has a craft beer wholesale company. 

Happy birthday me!

 
It's my birthday today! :-) 

I received the sweetest birthday message early this morning from my brother Mathieu who spelled my name with photos of my beloved little nephew... isn't it just adorable?

I'm a very lucky girl: I received dozens of messages and phone calls from all over the world. And I spent the day with Mart and with my mum who is visiting from Switzerland; my first birthday as a married woman was a truly wonderful one!

Working on something new...

I'll show you when it's done.

P.S. the little kiwi is from here.

For sale: set of 3 hand-printed onesies

Hello everyone!

I hope you're all having a lovely Sunday. Here a few rays of sun have appeared after a morning of crazy rain... everything is still really wet but it's good to see some light again!

Today I've decided to try something new; I'm quite curious to see what will come out of it!
:-)

From now on, and from time to time, I will offer one-off items for sale on this blog. The idea is to send some of the things I make off to greener pastures. I love creating stuff but cannot possibly keep them all for myself!

Here's the first item I am putting up for sale. It's actually a set of three. Three adorable hand-printed little onesies which you might remember from this guest post.

Fancy buying them?
Just click on the button below!

Stripes all around

I couldn't resist showing you two more photos mum took the other day... aren't we cute, all in stripes?

A new baby cousin

My cousin gave birth to a perfect little boy last week and so I put together a small set of matching onesies and t-shirt for the little one and his older brother. I printed them using this technique.

I can't wait to see them all when I'll go and visit soon!

Printing with bleach

I've put together a really easy and fun DIY for my second guest post at Fellow Fellow. Click here to see more!

Two favourites

I've just noticed that two of my current favourites feature adorable little bees...

On the left is the March screen saver I downloaded from the oh-so-talented Rebekka from Dear Friend (you can get your own here if you also want your computer to feel fresh and happy).
And on the right is the amazing baby oil from Burt's Bees. 100% natural and absolute goodness for my itchy dry legs.

I can't wait to see little bees buzzing around again. And flowers. And sun.
Ah Spring, please come soon!

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This is what I wrote two years ago exactly:

"For years and years my mum made my brothers and I the coolest Advent calendars, with pretty pictures building up through the days, coded hunts through the house, yummy surprises and funny toys. It was so thrilling that some of our neighbor kids use to come early to our house before going to school to participate in the daily excitement.

So, to keep with the tradition and to make every day until Christmas a little special, I’ve decided to have a calendar of my own, with photos taken in the past years, in the Netherlands, where we live, but also in Australia, Switzerland, the UK, Italy and America when we were traveling…"

I still feel exactly the same 730 days later and would like to offer you a third round of my advent calendar, with numbers gathered around the world in the past year or so. I hope you'll enjoy it!


Here is number one.

Lecce (Italy), in the city centre.


P.S. we have just heard the most wonderful news from our friends who have welcomed a beautiful little boy into the world this afternoon.
Félicitations! We are over the moon!
♥

Happy birthday Rosalie!

A cute little t-shirt and bandana for Rosalie's first birthday.
Had loads of fun making the anchor stamp and printing all over the shirt.
Am keeping my fingers crossed that the ink is indeed permanent!

:-)

0 to 100

All photos are screenshots from the 0 to 100 app on the iPad.

To my absolute delight, I discovered this app today. It contains 101 breathtakingly beautiful portrait photos of people of all ages between 0 and 100. Each single shot is more amazing than the next. So clear, so real, so beautiful...

Not only does the app allow you to see the truly exquisite portraits photographer Sandy Nicholson took of people in Australia and Canada, it also gives you the chance to read a quote from every single one of them, and to watch short videos from some of the participants. And there's even an amusing 'mix-and-match' section where you can create new faces by mixing existing ones.
If you don't have the chance to have an iPad yourself, you can see all the photos here, or buy the book!

This is definitely one of the best surprises I've had with apps on the iPad so far. And did I mention it's free? Aah... life is good...

Two little friends

Two little friends for Heloise's room.

Made them from the same self-adhesive blackboard sheet as these.


Pretty little garland made by Claire, from thisneckofthewoods.

Light blue

A little garland for baby Remy...

Baby cubes

Our friends had a little boy during the holidays. A cute little Marten, which we cannot wait to meet very soon.

As I had:

• plenty of free time,
• access to my mum's incredible collection of fabrics,
• and her great collection of ribbons,
• and all her sewing tools and diverse material,

I decided to make him a little set of fabric cubes to play with. They are all quite small and just adorable.