Phone cozy

Until mobile phones will come with a scratch-proof screen they must be carried in a phone-cozy. I made my phone cozy a little too late. My dear can't-live-without mobile has a little scratch right in the middle. But they will be no more because now it has a needle felted cozy. I have dyed the wool roving myself and needle felted with the embellisher with some bits purple yarn left over from making pom-poms.

Vintage button:
Phone-cozy near my new bright blue chic-from-the-market bag, that I bought because I really would like to figure out the pattern

Sunday findings - Dirty ovens

Do you think it is a brilliant poster? sooooo true and something to put on the refrigerator door?
Or do you like me a "party pooper" who find this poster sexist?

My friends saw in this a positive message - you don't have to do everything. choose your tasks, the children are important than the floor and children are happy even when (or just when) the floor is sticky.

I was surprised to realize that many of my female friends failed to noticed the "hidden"message.
let's see: moms, floors, ovens, kids.
If mom doesn't clean - the floor stays sticky,
the oven is dirty because mom cooks and bakes
children are happy because they get to make the floor sticky and eat home baked cookies.
And mom choose the happiness of the children over the cleanness of the floors - therefor she gets the title a good mom.

But I still have one question and that is - WHERE IS DAD?
can't he clean the floor? and if daddy cleans the floor and the floor is not sticky anymore and mom "got help" from daddy is she not a good mom anymore because she gets "help"?

At my home it is quite different because I am not the one who makes the oven dirty and you know what I mean and still my mother-in-law thinks that kitchen set for children is "girls toys" and when I saidI wish to buy my sons such a kitchen she objected. Of course I bought them a kitchen, I bought one in a second-hand market and than I started making accessories for their kitchen. I started of course with kitchen gloves and pot holders. and I am planning on making felt food.

I drew the pattern myself with the help of the hand of my almost 6 years old son

One fat quarter quilted with the machine on a piece of white fleece was big enought for 2 gloves and 3 pot holders of 6 inches





They love them!

There are lots of kitchen related items in Etsy. I don't make treasuries anymore. I have heard that Etsy plans to change the whole concept of the front page and it isn't exciting anymore as it was at the time whe had to catch the treasury window when the number of treasury went below 333. Now there are so many of them ever second and they never expires.
So I will just post in my blog every sunday 4 items




1. Vintage Set of 3 Caravelle Sizzling Servers. from WhitlockandCo
2. Mens Digital Camo Chef's Apron from annabelsaprons
3. Handmade ceramic baking dish from claylicious
4. Manzanita coffee scoops from KitchenCarvings

VariaHex progress - hexagons turn into diamonds

When John is rehearsing with the band (friends band. not yet performing in public) I turn hexagons into diamonds. 2 hourse of creating almost without interferences.
The results: 30 diamonds.
Here are some of them


Als John met de band aan het repeteren is maak ik van zeshoeken diamanten. Vrijwel zonder storingen kon ik 2 uren met BOM 2011 van Quilt&zo bezig zijn. Het resultaat: 30 diamanten. Hier zijn een aantal van hen

VariaHex progress - I see triangels

I was ready with all the blocks of the last issue of Quilt&zo so while waiting for the new issue I started making the triangels that would be patched between the hexagons.
I have recently learned how to baste the fabric to the paper template stitching only the corners of the fabric and not through the paper. It will be much easier to remove the papers at the end.


first I press one edge of the triangle (of any other shape), then stitch the corners (I don't even make a knot at the end of my thread and it goes faster so), I only pull the needle through the fabric and not through the paper! and at last I press the triangle again.

I choose moda marble swirls off white and already made lots of triangles to take with me when I am going on vacation next week

Sunday findings - Play time

In my previous post I wrote about how difficult is seaching for a present for a second child's first birthday because we already have so many toys at home and how I love wooden toys. I didn't tell how difficult it was searching for a present for our second son's first birthday WITH my mother in-law. We went in a wonderful store of wooden toys and she found everything is pale and doesn't looks like a car/train/truck/airplaine and kitchen is for girls (I will write about this in another post soon).


In de vorige blog post vertelde ik hoe moeilijk het was een verjaardagscadeau voor Saun te vinden omdat we zo veel speelgoed thuis al hebben en ik had het nog niet over hoe moeilijk het was met mijn schoon moeder te gaan winkelen. We gingen een houten speelgoed winkel binnen en ze vond niets mooi. Alles was of saai of lijkt niets op een echte auto/vrachtwachen/trein/vliegtuig (en ik wilde helemaal geen voertuigen meer!! ons huis ziet er al als een garage eruit) ze vond de keuken en toebehoren "speelgoed van meisjes". Volgende keer shop ik voor verjaardagscadeau in mijn eentje! liever op het internet, op Etsy bij voorbeeld.

I promised myself that next time I will shop for present alone and on the internet. Just for fun I have search Etsy and found a gold mine of organic/wooden/handmade toys. This is then the theme of my first Sunday findings: Play time


1. Dark soft penguin from timor from Israel
2. Double Rainbows, a Wooden Puzzle and Balancing Toy of Manzanita Kids toys
3. Vacation Gnomes - Mini Handmade Wooden Toy Play Set from Armadillo Dreams
4. Plush bear with green knitted hat and scarf of Zita Meilinger from Hungary

Check out this play time treasury and don't forget to give ♥

Shaun's first birthday

I can't believe it has been a year already since Shaun's birth. We celebrated today his first birthday.
Of course I made a cake. The first cake for Shaun. Now on I will have to make 2 cakes a year instead of one. Denzel already "ordered" a cake of CarsII, we'll see about that...



Shaun is already a year with us and I can't imagine our life without him. He is a happy laughing baby, very smart and very social. He loves his brother and always wants to be around him.
It was very difficult to decide what to give him for his first birthday because we have lots of stuff from Denzel. We went to the store of the wooden toys and we bought him a drum. I love wooden toys. They are made with so much thought and care. the drum has a curved opening on the upper side so hitting different area's gives different sound. Wooden toys cost more than other toys but they are durable.


And they have different uses too..





The banana's cake was good and Denzel already had eaten the head of Bumba the clown.


De Bananentaart van deleukstetaarten.nl was lekker en ook Bumba's hoofd is al opgegeten.