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

Spring Give Away.

More than 200 followers! A couple of years ago i started this blog just to share my art with my friends. Never expected that there were women outside that circle of friendsthat would like my art. But after a while blogger friends left me a comment and i was so proud! After that they became followers of my blog and left me even more comments. There are times that your comments keep me going. I'm so happy with my blogger friends and visiters, i realize that i never say that enough to you. Now spring is coming and my son is completely recovering from his surgery life is so wonderful. Time for a GIVE AWAY. I made this collage using my favorite colors blue and white. Old and new lace and fabric and ofcourse some buttons.

A close up

To get the change to win this collage you can leave a comment up till 30 April. On the first of May i ask my son to pick a winner and put the name on my blog. If your comment not shows up right away don't worry i'm going to Spain for 2 weeks and it take some time before u can update my blog.

Spring is coming!!

Spring is finally coming. When i look outside i see several singns of it. Bulbs coming out of the ground giving there delicate flowers in all kind of colors. Trees are showing fragile green leafs and little white flowers. I put some inside in a big bowl to enjoy them even when it's raining outside. Made a cloth bunny mamma with her baby to give my house a little spring touch. Have a nice time.

The last one for now

This the last doll for now. A Raggedy Annie with a little french twist. Made her for decoration in my house. The coming six weeks i'm busy with embroidery. I signed up for the embroidery class from Karen Ruane.I love her work and are so proud to follow one of her workshops. So i will be very quiet the next weeks-sitting in the back of the class and working hard. Love it

French Annie 36"- 90 cm

And another one.

I know i have to stop this doll making. It's getting to much. My granddaughters are already overloaded now haha. Maybe one as giveaway on this blog?? Mmmmm.. thinking about that. I can't put them all on my cupboard. When I create this doll the sun was shining into my studio so i decided to dress her in spring colors.




Hope you all have a nice week.

Home decoration??

Ok. When I started making a doll for my granddaughter I immediately knew that i had a new addiction. I had so much fun behind my sewing machine seeing how the dolls grow out of a piece of fabric. I made another doll for my granddaughter and a hanging doll for decoration in my home. And ofcourse all in pink. Musn't have every (big)girl have a pink cloth doll?? I think so even my friends ask for one now.
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Hanging doll for decoration.
70 CM - 28 inch







Doll for my granddaughter.
55 cm - 22 inch

Made something different.

My little granddaughter already became one year. Oh how time fly.. They grow up so fast leavng us behind a little bit older year by year. My daughter told me several times that she would love to have a ragdoll for her little girl. And Last week when the weather was very cold and we all have to stay inside i start looking on internet for some patterns. I searched for some fabric in my hobby room and after a couple of hours behind my sewing machine i had a ragdoll. Isn't she adorable with the little bunny in her pocket??



Tomorrow she goes to her new home where her little mother already waits for her.

The road to my house.

In October I signed up on the workshop "A road to my house" from Carole Brungar owner of the blog Madness and Mess . I love Carole her work very much, it's always suprising and very lovely. For me this workshop was a big challenge cause i never did any machine free motion stitching before. I loved it-and after stitching i took the piece with my on vacation to do the embroidery. My wallhanger goes about the little places and things that is daily around me and also gives a little impression about holland the country i live in. The pictures are not very good but the weather is cold and dark here and gave me no light to make better pictures. Hopefully it is enough for you to see it.





I wish you all a wonderful week.
XoXoXo
Yvonne

lang geleden // long time ago

Het is wel heel lang geleden dat ik hier gepost heb. Doordat ik veel problemen heb met mijn handen en schouders moet ik echt ,mijn hobby op een lager pitje zetten. Maar ja de creativiteit zit toch in mijn hoofd duus dan maar heel langzaam verder.
De afgelopen maanden heb ik dit fabric book gemaakt met als thema Birds. Het bestaat uit papier, oud en nieuw kant, stofjes en stempels. Het is nog niet helemaal klaar, op sommige bladzijden komt er nog journaling bij en de binnenkant van de kaften moet nog afgewerkt worden. Maar hier vast een stel foto's van de binnenkant. Totaal zijn er 22 pagina's.











It's alobg time agoo since i posted on my blog. The problems with my shoulder and hands are not gettig better. Creating costs me a lot of time this days. But my mind is full of ideas. The last months i made this. 22 pages, fabric book themed "BIRDS". It is made with lots of old and new lace, fabric, paint, paper and stamps. It is not complete finished but i want to show you some pictures already.

The most beautiful gift.

A week ago i won the most beautiful giveaway On the blog from Suzy named Suzyqu's Treadworks. Suzy makes the most beautiful journals, wallhangers and purses with fabric, lace and beads. You have to look at her blog its really magic how she manage to use colors and fabrics and let it all comes together in the most beautiful art. Yesterday i received this gorgeous purse.



See all the beautiful layers and details.



Even the back and inside of the purse are full with layers of beautiful lace.





And look was i was inside!!


Thank you dear Suzy for this beautiful giveaway. It's a real treassure. I love love love it.



This little matchbox i made for a challenge. It's 2 inches and we had to use only used materials for it. The cover is made from a dried and used teabag- ironed on fabric. The fabrics and lace are remnants from previous projects, the button from an old shirt. The inside paper from an advertising note bloc i received from a company. Ok all sew together with new tread. Isn't it a cute notebook for in a small purse??
Front



Inside


Back


As you all know i'm addicted to fabric and my sewing machine. Now 1,5 week ago my sewing machine broke down. I brought it to the dealer but had to wait before he could fix it. It was a really long and hard 1,5 week for me. What must i do??I found the this free patterns for cupcakes on the site of Norma Lynn. This is my effort for crotcheting some cupcakes. Aren't they delicious?


My granddaugter is very happy with them.

Hope you all have a nice day and TFL
Yvonne