Easy Little Things DIY

Quickly ready and still a pleasure for the creativity:)

1.White matroushkas bought by the Action. I drew on them with a black pen:

2. A blue Sharpie on white ceramic cup, 'cause why couldn't we make our own Delft Blue?

3. And just to have more smiling faces around me:

Birthday and New Project

Nice flowers and yummie breakfast for my birthday.
I love the ranunculus (and also the home made croissants)!

And the metamorphosis of the new yarn:
A few more days needed to get it ready...

Cushion Collection

This leaf crochet (Japanese maple pattern) was a great challenge. I was so proud that it turned out well!
I put it on a cushion:

And if talking about cushions, that's what they look like all together: all my crochet cushions:

Lovely Flowers

At the Moment

I came home from the library with two German crime novels and three crochet books:

The crochet book of Erica Knight is so inspiring, lots of beautiful pictures with very nice, quiet colours. 

And the snowflakes crochet was something that I wanted to try since a long time, I 'm happy to have found such a good tutorial!  (Btw. this novel of Wolf Haas is also brilliant, he is the funniest crime novelist ever!)

And I bought also a XXL Tweed yarn, it's actually bigger than my head:) 

So, I have enough to do! The holiday should last much more longer! 

But: "Keep calm and crochet along!"

And Again...

If somebody would wonder whether it is an obsession by me with the shawls: yes, it is!
It's the seventh one made in a period of approximately one year (although gave away two of them!)
But yeah, I feel necessary to have one in every possible colour combination... and I couldn't explain why.

Little Houses DIY

Easy diy found on the lovely Yvestown Blog.
Print, cut, fold, put a candle in it and tadaa! (I'm using electric candles, otherwise I wouldn't be sure that the house won't be burning down.)

You can print the houses and the roofs from here:
http://downloads.yvestown.com/christmashouse-house.pdf
http://downloads.yvestown.com/christmashouse-roofs.pdf

The Table Runner; Ready, Steady, Go!

A crochet table runner of 110x45cm, it got ready this morning (oh, happy vacation time!).
I had some doubts whether I should make a blanket of it or not. At the moment I like having it on our table and later I will see..

Pictures of the Bedroom

The blue bedspread was my hugest crochet project ever.
With the yellow sheets together they are making a happy bed (yes, it does exist a happy bed!)

I found this retro Ikea lamp in a second hand shop. The cheapest lamp ever and in my opinion also quite pretty.

My Tulips

Mohair Shawl

So soft and warm... the pattern is as usual, but the colors are a bit more elegant

Small Beauties

In January, I spent a short weekend in Hungary in order to find the prefect wedding dress (mission accomplished!). I had very little time in Budapest, but I managed to find these two beauties (in a small pottery shop behind the Basilica). For cafe latte and tea just perfect!
I also crocheted two table mats for under them.

 And this one is a leftover of the Xmas decoration. Put a little flower in its hands, so it can be considered as a spring elf:)

More hat than head

It's almost a pity that winter isn't really cold, as I have so many hats. Actually, I should have also more heads to be able to wear all of them :)
I made these two in December:

The Purple Bag

The purple bag took a long time, because I didn't really know how it should be. But since it got ready, I'm using it almost every day. I love the colours and everything fits in it.

More Flowers

Another way to decorate a wall: instead of a painting a living still life.
These are astrantia's, never seen this type of flowers before, so beautiful!

Almost Spring

These are my flowers now.
As our living room is huge, I try to put everywhere something nice to look at.
And they give us the feeling it's almost spring!

My quiet reading corner under the cranes

Back again, after a very long break...
I've been buzy making the house nice and friendly. I've never had so many place before, so it's a challenge, but interieur styling is so much fun!
More pictures coming and also of my crocheted thingies of the last weeks!


I like this lovely place and to create this small universe I only needed a television table with a rug and some crocheted pillows. And a branch with a few origami birds, of course!