I have been participating in the Spring fling swap from the Sweet Goodness Swaps.I absolutely LOVE this swap. Just take a look at all the wonderful things that Dita, my swap partner has send to me. Some are thrifted items and others are made by her.The swap theme was pink and green and it should spell the word SPRING.For me Dita changed it into the Dutch word for Spring, Lente.
And that's a wonderful idea.

She also send some lovely fabric and buttons.

I love the colours of this scarf. I had to hold on to it or else my daughters had took it.

I never had a crochet case, so I was very thrilled to see it in my package.It's beautiful.

A lovely notebook.

And this is amazing! A thrifted cup and Dita made the candle in it , and it smells so wonderful!

And some lovelty tea with a heart shaped tea ball.

This was a wonderful swap and I'm looking forward to their summer swap.

Again thank you very much for all the wonderfull things that you gave me Dita.

And also I want to thank the swap hosts Lucy and Rebecca for organising this swap.

These geraniums are from last year. During the summer they where outside and in the fall I brought them inside.They still are doing great, with lots of flowers.
I really love these plants and I have tried to make cutlings from them a couple of weeks ago. They are also doing great.
Now I also want some pink ones.
I used to work for an elderly woman and she had the most beautiful geraniums.She had some that I had never seen in the shops.She gave me a cutling but unfortunately it didn't last long.Since then I always look for that kind of geranium everywhere but still no luck.

This is a wreath made with small, thin pieces of branches, I found it at a craft fair.

This is a country prim decoration I made last year.I'm very fond of it and I want to make a couple more of those country prim stitcheries.

And this is a photo of our toilet. Here is another country prim stitchery and I made the white wreath with macaroni and then I painted it white. It hing in our kitchen for a while and now I thought that this is also a nice place to hang it.

Today we're having some lovely, sunny weather again. It still looks like summer instead of spring.After I have posted this I'm going to sit in our garden, have a cup of tea and read a book.Lovely!
Here are some photo's taken from corners in our livingroom.

I hope that you all have a wonderful day.

Last week I have received a very lovely swap from Simmy.
It was from the Cool crafty chic swap from swap-bot. I really like to participate in their swaps, there is a great variety of swaps to choose from. So often there are some nice swaps to sing up for.
Here are some photo's of the wonderful things I received.

Finally I can post again!!!!!
I don't know what was wrong with blogger, it just looks like blogger doesn't like me! All I was able to do was looking at wonderful blogs but I wasn't able to post any comments or post on my own blog.

This picture is very blurry but I wanted to show it anyway. it's my oldest daughter walking on the catwalk in clothes made by herself. She is has fashion lessons on school and they also learn to make clothes. Last week they had a big fashion show in a theatre. In the beginning she was a bit nervous but after the first round all the nerves where calm again. She did really great out there on stage! We where all real, proud of here.


Here are some photo's taken allmost 2 weeks ago. This is our view of the street when we're standing with our back to the front door.
Those trees are very new. There where big, lovely trees first but after several storms they had to be taken out unfortunately. The new trees are also lovely and they grow into nice big trees also .

Here are some lovely Spring flowers that I planted in old canning jars. I just love to make little corners like that.

I want to wish everybody a Happy Easter.

Just a couple of photo's I took yesterday.

It's very difficult to take a good photo of my cat Diesel.


Our cute dogs.

This is a picture of my son Marco, here he is at the wedding of his uncle in the trunk of their wedding car.

Here he was 3 years old so that's 10 years ago.

Just a couple of photo's of some nice things in our livingroom.

And again we're having some lovely Spring weather. Very slowly everything starts to grow, is getting green and starts flowering in our garden. Here are 2 photo's of our skimmia with some branches of the larix hanging over and our magnolia.

I just love to decorate my house.

So every now and then I'm changing the decorations. Now I have some pink decorations in our livingroom.

I have made this shrug last week. It was very easy because I have used big needles and it was done in no time at all.I really love such knitting projects between some bigger knitting projects. I have also added a couple of colours to my ripple afghan. I want to make some a photo of it this weekend.
And here is my Easter cactus, ready to bloom. I just love this plant. It was very small when I bought it last year and it has grown a lot.It really has lovely flowers.

And some beautiful Spring flowers I just had to buy.

We allready had a couple of days of lovely Spring weather. Unfortunately it looks more like Fall at the moment.

This is a photo of my helleborus, it has gorgious purple flowers.

I have planted some lovely Spring flowers last week. They also have this lovely purple colour.

I'm finally back to posting on my blog again!
Every time I forgot to take some photo's that I wanted to post...

This photo shows the wonderful swap I received from Stella. She send me the most beautiful things.I wanted to make a photo of the things that I send her, but I completely forgot.......



A while ago I noticed these lovely ripple blankets on some blogs. They looked so lovely that I wanted to make one too. I looked at my yarn stash and found some great colours.Some yarns are left over from sweaters I made for my kids when they where very young. Working on this ripple blanket is like a walk on memory lane for me Ü.
When I started with this ripple blanket I joined the ripple-along where lots of people making beautiful ripple blankets : http://neisripplealong.blogspot.com/

This is how my ripple blanket looked like 10 days ago.

And here it is 2 days ago. First I wasn't very happy with the colours but as I was rippling along I began to like it.

Here are the beautiful hearts I received from the nostalgic heart swap organised by Anita.
They are all so lovely and beautiful made! I'm real glad that I have joined this swap.

This heart is made by Anita.


This heart is made by Henny.



This heart is made by Mia.

And this heart is made by Jo.

Thank you very much ladies for these beautiful hearts!