And the winner is!!!!!

I'm a little late today with this announcement. The reason is a wonderful sunny national holliday here in the netherlands. It's our Queens birthday and the whole nation is wearing orange to honnour her. All over the Netherlands people are out on the streets. In every town and village there is music and fleamarkets. The queen and her family visits two little villages and the citizens of that villages plays all kind of music and plays for her. Children are singng songs - it's just a great day for her after the terrible ski accident of one of her sons in February this year. Ok so far about our national holliday. And now the winner of my spring give away. My son picked a name out of the list and the winner is. ANNI - from Fabric and Mixed Media Art. Congratulations Anni, please contact me on my email addres on the right side of my blog and I will send you the collage right away.

A very special journal.

This week i received this beautiful "Bird Inspire" journal from my dear blogger friend Suzy. Take a look on her blog and see for yourself how she makes the most beautiful artwork. Visiting her blog is making a tour through a world of fabulous delicate fabrics, beautiful lace, old vintage dolies and colors. All put together in fabric collages, journals and other artwork of an unbelieveble beauty. I was totally blown away when this journal arrives. Dear Suzy i love your work and feel so spoiled by you sending me this journal. Here are pictures of some of the pages from the journal. Every page is made with so much love for fabric and lace and a candy for your eyes.

So rich

look at this beautiful delicate fabric with the rose on it.

Look at all this small detail.

And this beautiful pocket.

Sending me this beautiful journal wasn't all. With the journal Suzy sent me some beautiful fabrics, lace and a lovely tag. All wrapped in a wonderful old doily. It immiditaely gave me some inspiration for using it.

Dear Suzy i already thanked you but want to say it again. I love, love, love your journal. I'm now going back to my bed again. Have picked up a very nasty flu last week with very high fevers and a lot of couching. My Lung specialist gave me antibiotic today. Hope it will work soon cause i'm feeling so bad and have to fly very soon. Hope your all have a nice day