These cute little feet and the rest my of my youngest child went to school for the first time today.
What a heartbreaking and beautiful moment!
After a bit of a rough start he came home full of enthusiasm and cool stories to tell.
Be still my heart... they grow (and grow and grow) and that's the way it's supposed to be.
Happy weekend, everyone!
I got my hands all sorts of dirty today, covered in soil and flour. Keeping busy doing such basic jobs literally helps me feel grounded. Creating something in whatever shape or way is so purely satisfying. I'm grateful for my drive to create, even though it can feel like a burden sometimes.
So more seeds were sown and more bread was baked. The house is a mess though and let's hope that I have the urge to "create" clean windows soon (gah, what will the neighbours think!) ;)
Spring.
Undeniably.
Happy me.
I ordered vegetable seed for the garden and I went and got a truckload of soil at the garden centre. This afternoon I dug my way around the garden (blisters, muscle ache), all for the good cause of homegrown vegetables. This year I will be more successful at growing vegetables! Not a hard feat since last year's harvest was quite pathetic. Hopefully this will be a bad year for the snail...
Did I mention I was happy about spring approaching? So very happy.
Well, there must still be some life in me after all, because today I found myself rearranging some of my treasures. I even wiped a little dust away! Isn't that Villeroy & Boch plate just gorgeous? One of last month's discoveries.
And it was undeniably spring-like outside. That does a body good, too.
Now the weekend ahead of us. Two birthday parties to go to, a baking session tomorrow and hopefully catching up on a lot of sleep. Sounds good to me.
Happy weekend!
These past days I found myself at a bit of a standstill, I'm indecisive about a lot of things and I can't seem to get motivated to get going with just about anything. I don't know whether it's just the end of winter that's bringing me down, I do know that the start of spring -with hopefully lots of sun- will be very wellcome.
Creatively, I'm stuck as well. There are plenty of vague ideas going through my mind, but it's hard to find the energy to really dig into a project. And some of the things that I have tried lately didn't work out the way I wanted.
The only thing that just keeps going is my baking. It's a new obsession, as I've had so many before this. But a good one, that brings me pleasure and comfort and that feeds me and my family well.
A few of the things that came out of the oven last week:
Muesli bread. Excellent in one go. Already made another.
Cheese & onion rolls. Very good with homemade soup, great hit with the kids.
Amber's delicious chocolate cake which we devoured this weekend. Seems the baking bug is contagious!
Ok, I suddenly see a lot more pyjamas, t-shirts, leggings and anything else that's stretchy in my future... yesterday's post is a little outdated now that I'm the owner of a serger!
Now to figure out how it works... It comes with an instruction dvd... in German! Strangly enough, I understood it all. Tomorrow my thread arrives and then the super sewing can begin :)
Oh, and I have new shoes too. A materialistic kind of day, but those days are neccesary sometimes ;)
I still attend sewing classes. I like it. It's fun and I learn something every week. Everyone present just works on their own projects and the teacher is there to help.
I tend to go for the quick and easy projects. I want FAST results, I talked about that a while back. But it wasn't before long that even I started to get bored of the pyjama pants... and furthermore: how many pyjamas do my children need?
So I needed a project that I could sink my teeth in. And that project became Ottobre's outdoor pants (I love Ottobre. Everything is so clear.).
Now really, the trousers are pretty straight forward and not too difficult, but normally I leave out all the small details. But not now!
Those pockets were just too fiddly for my taste, but in the end I got there. They're not perfect, but I was just glad they were finally done.
All in all, a practice in patience for me and some cool new pants for Linus. Now onto the next project!
This is such a strange winter. So autumn like... but with a few hints of spring already as well.
It's difficult to imagine that we may still have cold weather ahead of us. I'm ready for spring, but then again... aren't I always?
Happy weekend, everyone!
Two weeks ago the children and I went and explored a thrifstore in a new-ish part of the Netherlands. Supposedly, it is one of the biggest thrifstores in Europe. I wasn't really feeling the love though, there was lots of high street store stuff and not nearly enough old, faded and vintage treasures.
However, finding this lonesome Arcopal mug made it all worthwhile for me.
Then a few days ago a friend gave me these fabulous bowls. What a spot-on present! I love them. Just looking at them makes me happy.
That day was great anyway, as it included sewing, crochet, chatting and tea :)
