Oh my gosh, it seems like forever, since I posted some pictures on my lovely website. The reason for that was not, that I am the laziest person in the world, no, I was really down with the flu, but it seems like everybody has that at the moment. But Friday was the first day, when I felt a little better and I immediately turned into crafty-Andrea. I can show you my new bunting, made out of different sized doilies…
My hubby is getting a supercute gift, which I secretly finished last week already! Well, the original idea I had in mind, seems to be unworkably. I wanted to scratch our both initials in some wooden bark. but: how do I get the tree inside our house? and: how should I wrap the tree up?! so, at the end I decided to embroider everything, and I am quite happy with the outcome! But of course I need a supercute valentine's…
Valentine's week starts today with "crafty Monday". You guessed it, this might be the first of many Valentine´s Day related posts that I am planning to do. Last week I have already finished these cute miniature cookie etageres but the things that I wanted to put on them were still missing. I think it´s kind of boring if there are cookies on a cookie etagere. So I had to find something else that would also relate to the overall Valentine`s…
Ever since I saw this in London as store decoration at Spitalfields market, I knew I wanted to make such a vintage lace curtain for our porch door. The only problem was to get enough lace and doily pieces together. But, Thanx to my lovely colleagues Nina and Christina it did not take very long. In order to make it look vintage, I dyed every cutting or collar individually with black tea. After drying I sewed everything together. You guessed…
This is the weekend, where even I have to admit that the Christmas season has ended. However since we still got some new snow yesterday, it´s a good time to make some baked apples, for old times sake, of course, with a little 'christmassy' rum flavored filling.
A very cool post-Christmas surprise. Yesterday, we received a couple of copies from Swedish "Allt i Hemmet" magazine which featured our house in their Christmas 2012 special. Click on the pic to see all pages.
With the new year, new ideas pop into my head. This is great, the only problem with them is that they are around Christmas. So even if it´s already mid Jan, I keep working on Christmas ideas. I have found out that the only way to stay 'in the mood' and keep them coming is by still having the seasonal decoration up. My husband keeps asking when we will be removing things, but they need to stay as long as…