Knitted present

I knitted a shawl for an old lady in Holland, she is 92 years old.

It's my second 'Andrea's shawl', the first one was very small, this one is a bit bigger but not as big as I wanted. So there shall be a third one.....

Vroem vroem

I made these cars for a cute little boy's birthday.For him a car is vroem vroem.  His mother want to decorate his bedroom and she asked for some ideas. When I bought this fabric I had no specific plans.
I have cut out the cars, filled them and now you could make a mobile or just hang them on the wall.

Garden visit

A friend sent me some pictures which she made on our garden trip. I want to share them with you.......

A beautiful papaver.

Rhododendrons in bloom.

And some lovely pelargonium pictures....

Alphabe Thursday

U is for United Kingdom.
Last 5 days I was in United Kingdom for a garden trip with my garden club. We've seen beautiful gardens and amazing old houses.
We visited  Pashley Manor gardens. The rhododendrons were still in bloom; weather was warm and we had lunch in the garden....

In the private garden Bankton cottage we saw the motherswan with her 'child' walking in the garden......

There were also beautiful statues in this garden.

In Great Dixter, the garden of Christopher Lloyd(died in 2006), were many, many flowers. 

 

Christopher Lloyd with his dog Canna.

In the private garden KIng John's Lodge were, like in the other gardens many rhododendrons in bloom. Even beside the roads were walls of rhododendrons.

And , of course, we visited Sissinghurst castle and gardens.

Swap

I did a swap with Mel from melmakespretty. She sent me a lovely package.  A lovely pincushion, some very nice postcards, a beautiful necklace and delicious herb tea. And also 2 apronpatterns!

On the picture you also can see the 'flower'buttons that I won in her giveaway.  Very cute.

And of course there was fabric ..... Such cute owlfabric with matching treefabric and another birdfabric.

Thank you so much Mel for this lovely package.

Roses from my garden

Some pictures of my beautiful roses, I should wish that you could smell them, it's overwhelming........

Alphabe Thursday

This thursday we are talking about the S. S is for sac, the French word for bag.

I already told you that I am preparing a stand on the fleemarket on the 14th of July.

The 14th of July is a French national holiday, also called Bastille day. It commemorates the storming of the Bastille on the 14 th of July 1789.

Bastille fight , painting by Laurent Houel

This anniversaire of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison is  a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and the reconciliation of all French inside the costitutional monarchy which preceded the first republic, during the French revolution.

There are many festivities this day. This picture shows the fireworks at the Eiffel Tower on Bastille day.

Yesterday I showed you cute things for my stand.

I also made some bags for children.

I've bought some traditional Dutch fabric with mills, kissing little farmers, sailing boats....

 

There 'll be more blue ones within some weeks.

I also made 2 large 'adult' bags with many pockets.