Because mama’s know it all.. washing, loving, cooking, cleaning, careing, organising,
teaching, loving, knowing, crafting, loving and more loving..
Mom’s are the best. My mom is the best. Happy mothersday to all the mom’s!!

Jason Lee is a wedding photographer. He started taking photos of his two little daughters back in 2006 when his mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The girls were constantly sick, with colds and coughs so he couldn’t always bring them to visit their grandmother. Jason wanted her to be able to see her granddaughters without catching their kid germs so he started a blog where his mom could see what was going on in their lives.

On his blog he has the most beautiful and most creative pictures by/with his girls. I love his creativity and I love to see how much fun the girls are having.. Some of my favourites here but please check out his blog/site.

And don’t forget to get really inspired for Mothers and Fathers day!!!

all pictures and picture credits are from jwlphotography

This wasn’t my weekend. Which can happen because it can’t be your day, all the time. I had no inspiration or what so ever. And everything I tried didn’t work, wasn’t my taste or style, went wrong or around halve the project, I stopped and the project ended in the trash.

Like with the coasters I wanted to make for Mothers Day. Above is just not what I wanted, not the right size, not the right colours.. Down under is a complete other version coaster with micro thread, and crocheted in a lace pattern around a cork coaster. Don’t like that either. It just isn’t what I imagined.
But as said, we don’t always have a good day, or a good weekend! That comes with live..

I really don’t have any time to do some fabric stamping but if you can’t do it, you can think about it! Ha! Anyway I love the idea of thrifting a piece of nice fabric (okay did that.. already have a beautiful piece of thrifted ecru linen). A good quality sheet or curtain, stamp it myself.. and my idea is to make a cushion from it. But off course all is possible with your own printed fabric!

Some stamping inspirations! Above: Lovely idea of stamping with the back of a pencil, by Colour me There!! And with all these colours it’s so happy and fresh. And imagine how many patterns can be made with just a pencil.

Here is a pattern found on the Print & Pattern blog. Nice and simple to make. Don’t forget to think about all the possibilities you have when you glue something on a piece of wood. Like buttons, cut foam/cork, check the toolbox..

On this Swedish site they made/carved a stamp from a piece of round wood but I can imagine it’s easier to use a piece of pipe, a cut plastic (food) pot or whatever shape you’ll see in something to stamp with!

(credits and pictures from the named websites, linked under the photo)

Had to say goodbye to a colleague yesterday. A lovely, sweet lady I worked with for a while.
I made a little bundle of three lovely daffodils. Made on a little iron wire, so these are beautiful into a small vase.
Glad she liked them.. Not so glad I will have to miss her!

So we did some painting yesterday.. and we made this smashing, bright, colourful painting. A very large canvas. About 110 cm wide! Made with scraps of paper, felt, pages from the vintage book shown a post below, stamps, off course paint and more. My friend and I had a really good time making the painting and the result is amazing. Here are some close-ups.

In the next issue of Handwerken zonder Grenzen (you know the craft magazine I’m writing for) I made a macramé bracelet. No not the one above!! Something complete different and I used another knot. You’ll have to wait for the end of May for that issue.
For the August issue I’m going to continue with macramé. You’ll be able now to make a small macramé piece, so let’s move a step forward. A bigger piece, way more complicated. So for days and days I’m working on a macramé design. Doing a lot of experiment with knots, with colours and with patterns. Off course I don’t do big pieces immediately! I practice the knotting, do experiments with smaller pieces. Like above… An experiment with a red and white chevron pattern. Have to day that I do love that one.

And now I’m heading off to my friend. We’re going to paint, cut, glue, write and paint some more, all day. Which means we bought a canvas from almost 110 cm wide and we’re spending all day to make a mixed media canvas from it, for her families living room. I’m excited and can’t wait to get started!
Enjoy your Sunday too!

I love this bib dress made by ‘very purple person’. It’s simple, yet very stylish. It’s casual but elegant at the same time. Novita made this dress with a Burda pattern, you can buy but the original pattern is for a blouse. Just check out Novita’s site. Would really love this one for summer…

Found this vintage children’s book in the thriftstore yesterday. It’s a very book big (from 1971) with large pages and the most beautiful drawings. The book falls apart, all the pages are loose and the book only costed 25 ct. Going to use the pages for wrapping.. maybe I’ll make a paper bunting from it or some gift tags..