I always wanted to make a piece of ceramic with only one line, it's a quite stupid wish, but somehow I never made the right piece of ceramic for it, now I finally succeded and I am happy with the result. how simple can life be..
Florien is born, she is the daughter of a friend. Her eldest son is born on the same day as my youngest, even almost at the same time, so amazing! I made Florien a bag with her name, so she can put in al her girly stuff. 
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My parents bought me this nice gift, they conquered it at a "marché aux puces". Ribbons, buttons and a sweet little book with felt figures. Now I have to figure out what to make with it.
a sunny day with family, my father turned 65 and we had a lovely day with sun, 10 little ones running around, sharing icecreams, swimming and ofcourse singing for opa.
This weekend we visited good friends in Langweer who came over from the states. With easter, they visited holland as well and we had easter breakfast together, I made eggcovers for the children, so I decided it was time to make something for the mom. This big brown bag is the result, handy for extra luggage.
Because sunday was a rainy day, we decided to visit Naturalis in Leiden. We wanted to go there for a long time, but never went. It was great! Jilles enjoys books with animals a lot and here he could take a close look to all the animals. They had a game were children could feed the animals with different kind of food, when the animal didn't like the food, they shook their head and when they liked the food offered they opened their mouth, a nice way to teach children what different animals eat. The special exhibition is called like monkeys, like people (zo apen, zo mensen), which was really funny, asspecialy the mask, how simple can it be.
Yes, I made a felt bag with a zipper and lining! I am not so good in placing a zipper correct, but this time it turned out just fine. The lining is made of flannel, I love this material for it's softness. 
What a suprise! I got an award from vlijtig. I just started blogging an already recieved this honour. This weekend I read a small article in a dutch magazine about blogging. It said that blogging makes you more happy, funny that I saw the article just now. But anyway, the award is a good reason to treat someone with a small gift. I considered a ceramic piece, but since it is hard to send by post, I made a felt animal keychain. I also added pictures of the process. For this animalform I got inspiration during clay modelling with my boys, a remainder mould of a christmas tree (yes, my boys clay christmas trees in the middle of summer) was lmost this shape, so an animal was born. If you leave a message the next two weeks, I pick the winner and post the keychain.
we didn't have a protective cover for our ipod, so I decided to make one myself. Although it is nice, I think I am going to make a new one which has also space for the chains and ear plugs. But I first will have to figure out how that looks like.
my sister and her family visited us last weekend, we had a great time. They gave us a present, which brings up memories, a holiday action book (vakantie doe boek). It's very amusing because it's not for children but for adult, "search the 10 differences", memory games, even coloring prints, it's all in there. It is made by fashion designer Hans Ubbink.
last week a friend told me she is pregnant. great news, because I know she is going to be a great mom! I made her a felt star which makes a sound when you pinch it.
Yesterday I forgot to take some bread for the ducks. My boys came up with a great idea; they decided to feed the wooden crocodile some branches, problem solved.
I love to work with different kind of materials. Last week I decided with two friends we will follow a course on ceramics again. It's been two years since I finished years of courses on ceramics so it's time to get my hands dirty again with clay. I prefer to make my work very thin, it's fragile this way but I love the texture it gives the objects and it's always a surprise how it turns out in the oven.
I already made this felt owl keychain for a friend of mine; she just finished her lovely new home. Because Jilles loved it so much I made him his own, he can use it to mark his backpack. 
A son of friends of our turned one last weekend and since my boys love the animals of schleich so much, we bought him a few. I made a little bag so he can keep his collection together.
Because my parents moved a few years ago, they have thrown a way a lot of the fabrics my mom had (she had a big collection). Luckely some fabrics survived. This is one of my favourites, old curtains. I made a keycoard out of it for my parents house (unfortunatly I don't have a picture of that). But I also made this pin cushion of it.
