I feel so privileged to have so many lovely friends all over the world (leaving Stockholm wasn't easy for me). a very dear friend in S...

a little bag for a little girl. I made this bag as a swap for family pictures taken by a friend who is a photographer. she did a lovely jo...

jilles was invited to a birthday party of one of the girls in his class. because it is not so often he get's invited by a girl I used ...

my dear friend Ayde gave me this beautiful piece of art from mexico to make a bag for her. the bag turned out as colorful as she is ;-) lo...

another bag, with the request to make a nice big summer bag to take to the beach as well. I gave this one a steady leather base.

it's been a long time, but I have been quite busy. we moved to oslo. and it all went very fast. we live in oslo now for a few weeks a...

it always takes a while before spring reaches stockholm. it is still cold and no sign of leaves on the trees, but we have a lot of bleu sk...

I had a small sample of POM scarf fabric and this pattern from Purlbee just fitted. this little fellow is on his way to Bejing to meet hi...

lots of new babies lately. I always try to make something as a gift... but unfortunately don't always find the time. I made this doll ...

another great tutorial I found via vlijtig. We are having a small valentine dinner at our house, think I will use them as table setting c...

made these cardholders using suede and leather. I started with this tutorial , but ended up using only the big shape and fold it with an a...

I had a small leftover of this swedish fabric and found this lovely tutorial at vlijtig. I gave them to a friend where we had dinner. she...

a little lady is born, anna-may. love that name. maybe that is what inspired me to embroider it on the owl. I thought it was hard to embro...

I had this embroidery with a tiger mum and her cubs for a while and it was waiting to become a bag.. I just didn't figure out how to m...

.....this is the theme for a wedding we are invited for this weekend....oke...what to do/wear? since I love wearing black. a specially the...

We still didn't find a chance to celebrate jilles his birthday with his friends. he wanted to invite his whole class including the ...

a good friend is always motivating me to experiment more. I love her for that and of course for being a fabulous friend. she loved this em...

as a class mum (of two classes) teacher's appreciation gift are a challenge, because I like to involve all children in the making of i...

oh dear.... i haven't been posting much...first of all happy new year! Lots has been going on here. I organized a christmas marke...

inspiration comes from funny places. the inspiration for this cushion came from a text my husband send me. Luckily I had the time to make ...

welcome sweet little olivia!

a swedish horse shopper for a good friend's birthday ;-))

my husband asked me to make something for a colleague who is expecting a baby girl. I used a pattern from cool baby . a book with very nic...

for a friend in sweden who just got married in the netherlands. a swedish embroidery I found in myrorna , one of my most favorite thrift s...

after the book presentation we had a crazy schedule. before we could enjoy a holiday on corfu we moved within sweden and we had some more vi...

finally the day was there, kristel and I had our bookpresentation. so excited and so much fun! a little unrealistic to see your own boo...

my sister found this lovely embroidery in belgium. a friend saw it and fell in love with it. In between the preparing for the moving and t...

yes, so great I can finally share this with you! Kristel and I have written a book about crafting for boys. It is published by ploegsma ...

oke...much going on in my life right now. we just found out that we have to move (this summer!!) we will stay in sweden, but will have to ...

a friend asked me to make a very big cushion. quite a challenge to find a cushion which would fit the size of the embroidery.....so i deci...

together with a Finnish friend I composed this bag. so nice to do the start up of a project together. for the first time I made a big bag ...

life in sweden! we celebrated 1 may here

yippeeee! fabrics from the states arrived...and no disappointments, bought them via this site

we will miss my niece's first communion (i don't know if this is the right translation from dutch). the disadvantage of living abr...

a week of easterholiday and my mum was visiting, but guess what I got sick, high fevers etc... so not much fun. by the end of the week whe...

very exciting. I won my very first bidding at an auction. here in stockholm we have bukowskis market . you can visit the place and see all...

let the spring begin!

together with madeline from POM-amsterdam  I organized a sale at our place. it was a lovely sale and very busy. when everybody was gone, w...

in sweden the thrift stores are great! this time i was lucky to find a whole lot of dmc thread and a delft blue pottery, which matches my ...

this thursday i will have a sale at my place together with a friend, she sells beautiful shawls from POM amsterdam . very excited about it...