Praise to Prym Vario

Not only I won't bang anymore with the hammer, I will also never be afraid to use snaps. Oh, I had so many idea's that I neglected just because of a snap... Because the snap is in most case the last thing to insert it can ruin the whole bag!

Many months ago (or is it years?) I made a purple-orange bag with a crazy quilted flap.
I made the bag in one weekend and that is why I think it could be last summer because I think I remember me sitting outside in the camping embroidering the beads..
Anyway, I was stuck at the point of making a hole to attach the strap with a jeans-jacket style buttons. The fabric of the bag is thicker than quilting cotton and the strap is one piece folded in 4. that makes it a hole through 12 layers!!

I can't believe how easy it was making the holes with my new Prym Vario-Snap Kit that I wrote about in the previous post!

I can't believe I waited that long....

as they say in the home shopping program on TV:
Prym Vario-snaps kit has changed my life!

No more banging

I am done with banging snaps with a hammer. I hate the not knowing if I hit hard enough when I bang with the hammer and when I check what I did I realize it is only half inserted or bended... one down.. the plastic tool breaks usually before I use all the snaps. I hate these plastic tools.
But no more because I bought in my vacation the set of prym. found it by coincidence on the Wednesday market. My boyfriend had cash so I bought it right away before anyone else got his hands on it. it was the last one...


And WOW. what a difference! When I make the hole I actually feel it being created and when I attach the snap I hear and feel it's done! one click and over.

No more banging then!

I am back

The vacation was fun and now over and we actually came back home a day before planned. It wasn't my idea although I secretly felt it was already the right time to take a break-off-mother-in-low.

I still have huge piles of laundry and ironing to do and to take care of some orders so here are some photo's

Denzel new tractor

One crocheted flower already attached to a new eyeglass case.
not yet on Etsy.

Denzel and I playing with water on a hot day

They've got mail.

Check out Denzel's new trend: sleeveless t-shirt on top of the t-shirt he sleeps in.

A short message from vacation

The day before we went away on vacation finally my new sandals arrived!
I bought them from BABOUCHESHOP in Etsy. They write:
All cuts, seams and joints are made entirely by hand, in a small leather workshop in Marrakech.
I like it.



It took a while for my surprise.Marokko is not that far from holland. but they arrived and I am wearing and enjoying them endlessly almost a week now!


The party was a success and I had my layers skirt with tule on. It is always great to get compliments for self made clothes. It is
I am sitting these days in the sunny garden learning myself to crochet. I made some flowers. It took me hours to understand the instruction but I never give up!