Enjoying the Spring

With flowers from the garden and the first easter eggs and a cat who remembers us that if you have sunshine you have everything you need.

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...

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!"

My Tulips

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!

Winter and Peppernoten

Autumn Atmosphere and My 7 New Selfmade Necklaces

A box of stroopwafel with my pine cones

A real leaf with a crochet leaf and acorn

My new necklaces: with porcelain and felt pearls

All together: the seven beauties

From the Kringloop

I need to show this one too! I found this picture in the second hand shop /kringloop/ for just one Euro. It´s standing now on our mirror and we like it so much! I think this could be called a cheap pleasure...

Dutch Nature

After having spent a whole year in the Netherlands I finally realized, I have the most special Dutch nature reserve just here ''around the corner'', between Almere and Lelystad. It's called the Oostvaardersplassen and like the whole Flevoland, it's a polder, an area gained from the sea. Ever since it became land (or on most places a marsh), it has been a place for pure nature, has never been never used by people. 

It's breathtaking nature with surprising diversity of species! And what made me aware of it? There is a beautiful nature film coming, De Nieuwe Wildernis showing the wild life on the Oostvaardersplassen.

I saw this trailer and said: I must go there!

So, we made a bike tour of 60 km...

 And saw lots of wild horses..

  And biked on the dam of the lake Markermeer...

And ohh, the famous Dutch air...

   I absolutely fell in love with silhouette of the gooses...

 Aren't they beautiful?

Holiday pictures from Portugal

It's been a long time since I last wrote here. I took a really long vacation and this week the school got already started.
It doesn't mean that I was not crocheting, of course I was busy as a bee, just no time for making photo's, but it's coming soooon!
Meantime, I thought I'd make a selection of the nicest pic's from our holiday in Portugal... Enjoy!

The 25 de Abril Bridge

Belem, view from the Monument to Henry the Navigator

The beautiful castle of Sintra

Collage from different Portuguese tiles (on buildings + collection of the Museum Azulejos)

The view of Lisbon on tiles

Lisbon, by the Tagus

The ocean by Cascais

Tropical garden in Lisbon

Tropical garden in Lisbon

We should probably just take a nap... (Dudli, a délutáni szunyókálás reklámarca :)

The trees have eyes

The watching trees, they are overall in the town. They have eyes like on the ancient Egyptian paintings:
A környéken mindenhol ilyen csupaszem nyírfák vannak:

Playing around with nature photos