after a long time

hello all my dear blogger friends i have been away for a long time. But it was a well spend time for us.  We left the cold and wet winter in the Netherlands for a 2 moth stay in Spain with lots of sunny weather and good temperatures.

I'm home for two weeks now and the first thing i had to do was making a fabric album. Love those small albums. Beside that i will give you a impression of how beautiful Spain is away from the beaches.  I love the country it has so much different landscapes and historic places.

Granade with the Alhambra and his beautiful small streets. It has so much Arabic influences wich you find back in the qasbah streets with his colourful carpets and arabic things to buy and ofcourse the smell of incense.

 



And further to Cordoba the city i laying in the biggest olive area i ever see.

Cordoba is a vey old city with an very old juwish district and a magnificent old church wich is build covering an old mosque.  Inside the church you see the influences of the mosque.  Really breath taking.

Corboba is so pretty here our hotel, our dog watching outside our room and the old jewish district.

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Next time some pictures of  Sevilla, Ronda and a beautiful unknown coastline of Spain. 

Have all a nice day.

Yvonne









Doilies Bag.

When i lately changed hobbyrooms i found a box filled with doilies. Why i stored this doilies so far away i don't know cause i use them often in my collages and other work. On the moment i'm in to the bags and finding this doilies was a good moment for me to make a bag from doilies.

Doilies Bag.

It's a very greay and rainy day here iu the Netherlands and that doesn't any justice to the pictures.

Close up from the bag.

Back.

Hope you all have a nice day.  My thoughts are especially with all those Asutralian blogger friends whom suffers  from very high temperatures and extremely dangerous fires. Hope you all safe from the fires.

Hugs Yvonne 

French Bag

Pfff ...  I'm a little exhausted. Between all the hectic of christmas my daughter is moving to another house and have to rebuild and restyle and with a daughter of two around you that is very difficult. Though my granddaughter of almost 2 years old is a lot of time with us now and asborbs our energy for days.  At the end of the the day we are glad that we can lay her in bed for her sleep. Than my DH and we fall in our chairs and  have to fight to the sleep and keep our eyes open.for the evening. What a energy those kids have. Clearly we have forgotten how it was when our own four children grow up.  But than we where a lot younger and had more energy ourselves. But we love every minute of time we can spend with her, grandchildren are se special.

Yesterday she stayed with her other grandparents and i spend a day in my hobby room. Some time ago I downloaded a wonderful image from the site of The Grafics Fairy and someone changed that for me in a embroidery design. I made this bag from burlap, i love that fabric especially the natural color, and think the image fits perfectly with the ruffles, blue stripes and lace don't you think. I'm so glad with the embroidery design of the french label,  shall use that a lot.

Fabric collage

In the middle of all the X mass hectic i tought it was time for something else. Though i sat down in my new little hobbyroom and made this fabric collage. I couldn't help my self and gone completely out of my head with fabic,  lace, ruffles and buttons to create a little victorian style.
The next weeks there will be no time for creating cause my daughter is moving to another house and during that periode i have to watch my granddaughter of almost two. 
Wish you all a good time coming weeks.




Played a little with photoshop



Hugs and Love
Yvonne 



A brocante Ipad/phone wrap

I couldn't resist to make another ipad wrap. This time in a little brocante style and in one  of my favorite colors white and blue. Used an old skirt to make the pocket for the phone and a lot of cotton underdress  ruffles and embroidery for the Ipad pocket.

A couple of detail pics.

Front

Inside

Pocket cover

Pocket for an I pad

Two pockets.

A wrap for my phone and tablet.

PPPPFFFFFF finally our lives seems to be back to a little bit normal after a couple of very hectic months with our son. Never tought this could ever happen in our family but it did and it makes you feel so tiny and greatfull for every day we can close with a little hope and light.

So today for the first time in weeks i had some time to go to postoffice and send out all the give aways. Sorry ladies for being so late but it was out of my hands, but it is now coming your way.

Before all the hectic started i had signed up for Nellie Wortmans online wrapping class. I so admire her creativity and love to  attend her classes. This class started on the first of October and it was great as always. This is my project an I-wrap with small and big pockets to store my i-pad, phone and a small note book.

Front

The Inside with pockets for a phone, tablet and note book.

And under the flap a pocket for an I-pad

Back

The pictures are not as the should be but outside it is grey and rainy.  Hope all blogger friends on the east coast of the USA who suffer hurricane Sandy are soon having a better time again.

Love
Yvonne

And the winners are.

I'm a little late with announcing the winners of these giveaways but it was such a busy day i couldn't find the time for it earlier. To make it good with you i have two other art works that have to go.
One collage in pink tones called Those were the days and one white angel with an antique porcelain head. And of course the two in my other post, the book and the collage.

The winners are Wil15
Alexandra Eitel from Xelas Art Blog and Cottage dream
SuzyQ from Suziqusthreadworks
Robin from Robins nest


You can contact me and send me your address by clicking the emailbutton on the right side of my blog. tell me your prference and maybe i can do something with it.

Hope you alll have a nice evening.

The first two giveaways.

As i already wrote in my previous post i had to clean up my hobbyroom and move to anoher much smaller room. Whilecleaning upi found some old wor wich i don't have place for anymore so i decided to place it on my blog as giveaways. Maybe there is someone who like it and will give it a new place somewhere. The first Giveaway is not so old but it has to go, cause there is no place anymore, is my small fabric album "Risky Ladies".

The second one is a collage i made a year ago.

If you are the blogger friend who will takeover one of this artworks please leave me a comment. On the 17th of October I pick 2 winners and place the names on my blogs on the same day.

Hope you all have a beautiful creative week.

Small fabric book

Hehe, finally i have time to post something on my blog. Lately i have been very busy with other things. Making clothes and little crochet shoes for my granddaughter, going on vacation and a little bit sick. My son has moving back in the house and we had to make space for him. I had to give up my big hobby room and go back to a small room. Wow that was not very easy, had to throw away a lot. I have a lot of collages wich i made in the past where i don't have space for anymore. I will search them all out and make pictures of them and post them on my blog the next time. Maybe some of you would like to have a real "Yvonne" LOL.
Between all that work and mesh i have finnished an other small journal calles Risky Ladies and is made from scraps from old and new fabric and lace.

Front

Because of the scraps i used every page has a different colour and texture only the theme stays the same.

Pages

Girls having dreams.

More Pages

Now i have to go further with cleaning up and searching out my hobby room.
Hope you all have a nice creative day.

Hugs
Yvonne

I proudly present.

Yesterday my little granddaughter of 1,5 years old discovered the piano in the house and gave us a free interpertation of the music in her head. So serious!!! Must we give her up for Holland got talent already hahahahaha.



Hope you all have a good weekend

Lilibele and Blossom

Have i tell you that i'm totally in love with the dolls of Robin? The first time i saw them on the blog of Dorthe i instantly fell in love with them. They are all so special with their lovely faces and Robins is always telling a little story about them. So cute. So i bought Lilibele, i fell for her beautiful hairdo and the little bee in her hair. If you want to know where she is going to you have to read the story on Robins blog. Robin could not let Lilibele travel alone and sent Blossom with her. A cute little bird to show her the way i think. Thank you Robin i love them both. Lilibele and Blossom

Lilibele

Blossom

Little fabric book

Yesterday morning i decided to clean up my hobby room. What could i do better this day cause outside it was raining again this summer. Would like to throw away all the little bits of fabric and lace, leftovers from previous projects wich i never throw away but are now growing out of my room. But yeh know me.. again i find it difficult to throw them away you never know???? SO i want to do something with it at least with a little bit of them. I started with a little fabric book to use them and it still was raining outside so i finnished the whole book. It measures 5 x 3 inches without every thing that hangs out. The cover.

Sme of the pages

Oh.... My room is still a mesh and maybe even bigger after yesterday. But today the sun is shining so who cares??? Have a nice weekend