God Jul - Merry Christmas - Joyeux Noel

Julefest

This year we decided to organise our own little "julefest" a christmas party to gather friends and family. Besides baking biscuits, biscuits and biscuits...I used two decoration ideas from the Marie Claire Idees of December


The "Papillottes"




And the candle light deco touch

Swap 7 merveilles

Ma swappée Coquelicot a bien reçu mon colis

Voilà ce qu'il contenait dans le détail:

La carte



Le sac, à partir d'un modèle du livre "Bend the rules sewing" d'Amy Karol



et sa pochette


Dans laquelle il y avait un vernis à ongle argenté


Et comme j'ai cru comprendre qu'elle n'était pas trop maquillage, j'ai opté pour un petit accessoire pratique: une écharpe avec son petit détail argenté

Le modèle pour l'écharpe vient de ce livre: "Last-Minute knitted gifts" de Joelle Hoverson


La déco: une poupée tilda avec des cheveux argentés, je trouve que cela fait très nordique :-)


La gourmandise: du marcipain, quelque chose qui se consomme beaucoup ici


Et pour la lecture, un magazine danois
Bolig = Maison
Jul = Noël

Je n'ai malheureusement pas pu en trouver un en anglais que je trouvais approprié pour le thème de ce swap.


Et enfin, une mini peluche pour la petite de Coquelicot, un truc tout chou que j'ai trouvé chez un fleuriste! Très diversifié comme commerce...


Ah j'oubliais le bijou: un bracelet qui se vend ici pour collecter des fonds pour la prévention du cancer du sein, j'ai malheureusement oublié d'en faire une photo.

J'espère que le tout lui a plu, j'ai eu en tout cas beaucoup de plaisir à réaliser ce swap car la combinaison noir/argent m'a beaucoup inspirée...

Wall Sticker - Baby's room

A friend of mine lives in a very small flat and has a little bundle of joy of about 9 months, it was decided that it was time for her to sleep in her own "room" but they have no extra room for her so she very cleverly managed to decorate a "hall/corridor/corner" with a super nice wallpaper, fairy tale stickers and added a curtain to be able to close this little space. I was very impressed by her craft skills and unfortunately I just can't manage with wallpaper! But the new trend anyway nowadays is to use wall stickers, but as they are quite expensive, I decided to try to make my own with the help of Threadbanger's tutorial on wall decals and the inspiration of this online shop:the wall company

Bought some contact paper on e-bay (no idea where I could buy this in DK), drew my shapes directly on it


And paste it on the wall next to baby's bed

Kurt baby doll

In a Panduro shop in Copenhagen, I saw this very nice craft idea, took a pic and tried to reproduce it at home. My son loves it, especially because it's sooo big compared to him :-)

Here is the original

I cut twice the following parts in different fabrics: the body - the arms - the legs - and the head

Adorned the body with scraps, added some eyes and a smile to the face and glued 8 cm long wool threads on the top of the head

After sewing the legs and the arms right sides together leaving an opening to turn them inside out and filled them with stuffing material, I placed the parts on the body facing up and covered it with the back of the body facing down. Pinned it and sewed leaving the top of the body open to turn it inside out.

Sewed the head, turned it inside out, stuffed it and then attached it to the body with hand stitches

Bobito and Kurt

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Mei-Tei - tutorial

I have been looking for new ways to carry my baby - I am currently using the baby björn but I find it a bit tough on my back and can't wear it for too long, I thought the best would be to carry my baby like a backpack and found out that the Mei-Tei could do that. There is a person in Denmark that does super nice Mei-Teis but are a bit expensive (Kleinsmekker)...and I was afraid to buy once more a new item that would not serve my needs like soooo many other things I've bought for the baby in the past... So I decided it would be safer to start with a "homemade version" made out of old curtains with the help of this great tutorial from Jan Andrea. I've taken some pictures along the way to illustrate the process:

I started by cutting two pieces for the body - a big square (mine measured 50 cm X 50 cm) I added a little half ellipse on top to give it that curved look

8 long stripes (1m60 X 13 cm)

Cut 2 "padding" fleece (30cm X 13cm), that I attached to the two shoulder straps (the padding stripe is folded in two on the picture)

I sew the stripes two by two right sides together, left an opening to turn them inside out and machine stitch 0,5 cm from the border

Then I placed the stripes on the body of the Mei-Tei (right side facing up)

and covered it with the "lining" of the Mei-Tei body, right side facing down. Secured with pins, sew 1 cm from the border of the fabric and left a little opening to turn the whole thing inside out. Topstitch to secure the straps.

And voilà

M-Budget Baby Bib

I was desperatly in need of more bibs for my baby and decided to recycle an old towel we had in our closet

I reproduced the pattern of a bib I like on a piece of paper and cut a few shapes from the towel



Then I did some bias tape (easy with this tool you see on the first picture) and then applied it all around the bib





And here is the result - I have to say I like the texture of these bibs because they absorb very well the water that unavoidably will drop from my sweetie pie's mouth