The new Ariadne - Athome kinderen is available in Holland. It is a great magazine with all sorts of goodies for kids and a lot of home make ideas. I place some sneak previews.
This present was made by the children of Nic´s kindergarden class. It contained a bib for Ruben. I am really proud of all the children that worked together to make this nice little cardboard suitcase. Thank you very much.
I made this happy apple of a kit I bought from Sewing stars. 
This morning, I was almost run over by a UPS truck, since we don´t have that many houses in our neighbourhood, I wondered if it was going to deliver something at our place, but I continued driving to the grocery shop.
So thank you very much, dear colleagues, I really, really love it.
I haven´t been online much, since we have been redecorating the kitchen. It is painted again, and some minor things have been fixed. I also bought new 'pullers' for the kitchen cabinets. Hmm, I don´t know what they are called in english...
This is one example of a car that is decorated with flowers. Rijnsburg lies near Aalsmeer, where the big dutch flower auction is. In Rijnsburg they also have a big flower auction called Flora. That is why they have the flower corso every year. Almost everybody in Rijnsburg is connected with the flower trade in one way or the other.
This is us, I am in the back, feeding Ruben. My PIL's and the kids are on teh front row, this is the way everybody is watching the corso.
Even local law enforcement has to participate so all the motor cops have a bouquet on theback of their motor or on top of their car.
This gorgeous little quilt arrived yesterday by mail. It was part of the summer swap of the 4 season quilt swap. Julie from Firefly Lane made it. she also made a nice burping cloth which always comes i h handy with a little baby. It is made of a very nice looking owl fabric.
Thank you very much Julie, great swap.
Yesterday, my friend Evelyn from Eve's little things came to visit us with her 'kind of husband' and daughter. She made Ruben these gorgeous crocheted cars and the colors of our nursery. Aren´t they the cutest?
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She also bought him these lovely gifts of which mum is very jealous. However the stamps Evelyn bought for me, so I als got a little present. The mushroom stamps are wonderful. have to thibk what I will stamp with them.
We had a great time and went to have an icecream with the two families at a local farm that makes farmmade icecream, very delicious.
We visited the children´s farm in Brasschaat, where my parents live. As you can see, boys will be boys as both of them want to steer the old tractor.
A mum of a classmate of Nic came by for a quick baby visit. She is also a teacher at Nic´s school. Her eldest son is in Nic´s class and her youngest son will start school together with Peter next November.
I found some time to make this little felt strawberry tart which fits nicely with the little tea set I bought just before I got Ruben, still thinking it could be a girl. But Boys can also play ´Tea´ , can´t they? We also bought a new car yesterday since DH´s car is broken and it is so old that there is not much use in getting it fixed, so we decided to buy a new one. Will let you know more when we get it.
These gorgeous little russian dolls, aren´t they just lovely? I love them and so did the kids, so I had to take this picture very quickly before they started playing with them. At the moment they are save indoors with my collection of russian dolls.
This boomerang for Nic, as you can see, he loves boy toys, you can´t see it on the pic, but so does his dad...
And this wonderful outfit for Ruben... OK, it is still a little big, but he will grow into it. And DH loved the color... Orange is the national dutch color...
All these goodies came from Marie at Protect the cookie. She is a wonderful lady and a great swap buddy. Thank you very much Marie. The presents were lovely.
This morning a wonderful surpise awaited me. This beautiful ´Bade dag ´ (washing day in Norwegian) mini quilt was waiting for me in my mailbox. It is from Laila in norway. Thank you very much for this wonderful little quilt and the cute socks for Ruben. Since he has very cold feet, they will come in handy.
Update on Ruben, a nurse came by the house and performed a hearing test on Ruben, which was OK, so now we know that he can hear, let´s wait and see if he also can listen... But she was a bit worried about his weight. He has gained weightbut not enough so we will start with one bottle of formula at night and see if he starts gaining weight. This (gain weight) is something DH and I have never heard, LOL. Ruben had to gain at least 100 grams by next week, so we will do our best.
This weekend we went to Rijnsburg in Holland. It is a town near Katwijk, which is a small sea side town. It is not very crowded in the summer time so it is very relaxed to go to the beach in Katwijk. Some of our friends were also at the beach, so we and the kids had a great time yesterday. It was not to hot but it felt great.
We left around 5.30 pm and by the time we packed all our stuff, Nic was gone, we couldn´t find him anywhere and the beach was not very populated, so for a moment my heart made overtime, all our friends helped looking for Nic and finally he was found by the site of the road where we agreed to meet with the car... For some reason he understood that we were leaving and started the walk to the road, and both Niels and I missed that he left... It happened in less than a minute, so this was a great lesson for us.
We agreed to go to the beach today as well, but it rained, so we drove back home. When we arrived back home, I found these packages in the mailbox...
And this is what was inside. Nita, I love all your stuff, it is all so cute. My DH liked the bunny very much. Thank you very much, it is gorgeous, and I will find a nice place for it in the nursery.
Nita made Ruben a little cushion with a R, a toadstool rattler and a cute little bunny. Here they are with Ruben.
And the previous post was my 150th, and since only two persons gave a comment I will make them both a lottle something for my giveaway. Can you both please given my your snail mail addresses? You can mail me at: denheijer00(at)yahoo(dot)com.
Here is an update on Ruben, this is him. He is doing very well and he also eats very well, so no problems thre. he is a very nice little boy that doesn´t cry much, so mummy has time to do some crafting.
This morning Ruben stayed at my parents since I went to the hairdresser, which was a very necessary thing, I wanted to go before the delivery, but that didn´t turn out they way I wanted, so I went now and I am very happy with my new short haircut.
I promised that I would show the whole mini quilt that I made for the 4-season quilt swap as soon as my partner had received it. So I got a mail that she received my quilt so here are the pics. My inspiration was Holland since the kids where in Holland on vacation and I am making a ´dutch´ quilt for Ruben. So this is the back which has a high ´Dutch´ contents and the front which was made from different dutch fabrics, which I bought from a dutch store that specializes in traditional fabrics. To finish it, I added the little wooden shoes in the middle.
And as for the giveaway. I am almost at my 150th post, almost. I will pick a winner from the ones that comment on that 150th post. I don´t know what I will make, but I will make the lucky one something handmade. So leave your comments and who knows..., you may be a winner.
Well, here he is... Peter and Nic meet their new brother Ruben for the first time. Ruben is born on wednesday afternoon at 5.39 pm and weighted 3575 g and is 51,5 cm.
This is Ruben on a a quilt that I made earlier and I think they are great boy colors. I also am making on with a dutch theme, red and blue to match Ruben´s nursery.
Yesterday, all the new mums on the maternity ward of the hospital got a piece of cake with the name of their baby. A very nice gesture of the hospital, espcially since they keep you on a low sugar diet in hospital.
This is the crib all our chlindren slept in, so it is made ready for the wee one. And again, red and white.
The commode is white and blue but again, I added the red details. I love this red and white toadstool lamp that I bought in Antwerp, it is great. the boys also love it and it gives a nice glow at night. No regrets on that buy. The little fabric bag and shoes are form ´Blij als mij´. Check out this lady´s website, she makes lovely stuff.
So I think we are ready for the baby, will keep you all updated on the events that are coming.
This little doll is the doll I made for Nic´s kindergarten teacher for the end of the schoolyear. He found it looked like hime and he gave me a new assignment... Nic wants a spider man doll. Will have to think how I will make that.
These are the goodies I received from my swap partner. It is a wonderful dottee matroyska doll with baby. I love it, she looks fabulous. Thank you, Jennifer.
And these are some goodies that I bought yesterday during the sales that started here in belgium. In Belgium ´sales´ start on July 1st for all stores together, so I went to Zara Home and they had some gorgeous doorknobs, which I couldn´t resist for the nursery. I also bought a hand crocheted baby blanket in red and white and a red and whit polka dot pillowcase.
Next was Huey the hamster. We had a huey before we had kids, but he was all tan but I think this is also a nice hamster. I will have to make him a small sleeping bag.
Saturday morning we learned that friends of ours had their first baby, a lovely girl named Suzanne. Good luck to you, Martin en Arina.
On Saturday we also went to the birthday party of Julian, the son of friends of ours turned 2 and had a party, so we drove to Holland to visit him. We had some great ´kibbelingen´ small pieces of fish deepfried. They are great, even our children like them.
And today, I drove my eldest son to grandpa and grandma, because there is a circus in town and they went with him. He was delighted and told us, he even touched a real snake. I did some little household jobs around the house, bought paint for the nursery, etc.
And now I will go and have do some quilting. Have nice evening.
