My blog's 4th Anniversary!

It's the 4th year Anniversary of my blog today and I thought it was a good occasion to thank my dear and fantastic "companion" without which I could not have done all the fun things I have been doing until now: my sewing machine!

I bought it new at a local supermarket when I arrived to Denmark for the equivalent of  94 EUR! Unbelievable n'est-ce pas ?

And here is a recap of all the banners I've had since the beginning of the blog

Cherry on top Award!

I just learned today that I have been tagged for the "Cherry on top Award" what a fantastic news! It comes from Christine - Frk Turkis, thanks so much for the Award! She does totally amazing things with her sewing machine, I am very honoured :-)

The Award consists in mentioning 3 things one likes about oneself and give the Award to 3 other bloggers, so here are the 3 things I like about myself :

- that I have such a fantastic baby boy

- such an amazing partner in life (lucky me)

- and that I always at least try, even when times are tough, to improve myself in many ways

The 3 nominees are:

Lille Bitte Fnug: for her new but oh so inspiring blog

MollyMy: for the very nice and delicate creations

Lille a : for the great energy that comes out of her crafty experiences with her children

Essais de broderie

More more suttesnor

Og en Elefant

I purchased the tutorial on etsy from : matsutake

Gaveleg retur

Til Frk Turkis

Nogle yo-yo "ting"

A new type of pacifier holder

I finally got myself to do some new type of pacifier holder that are easier to wash as you can take the metal clip away, they have at both ends snap fasteners, it's so smart!

yo-yo fabric manic

Recently purchased a Clover yo-yo maker! And I'm going bananas...

Cathedral windows cushion

Working on ...

Rollie Pollie - Pouf seat

Using the pattern from Dana Made it.com for her Rollie Pollie

Apart from the fact that I put the handle on the bottom, it looks quite good  :-)

I used little sagex balls as filling, maybe next time I'll try some softer material

Pouf seat without baby

Pouf seat with happy baby

Pouf with handle

The fabric is from Ikea, I really love the design

Crafty weekend

Mr. Guapo recently purchased this book "Leg & lær, 1001 sjove aktiviteter til børn fra 0-6 år" because it was assessed that we need to stimulate our child... mmm.. so here we are Mr. Cutie Pie and I trying to make a tambourine :

First we gathered two paper plates on which he could draw

Then according to the book we had to take some cornflakes, let him put them on one of the plate, but what actually happened is him almost eating all the cornflakes...

so after some tough battle to get them on the plate and not in his mouth, I quickly sealed the two plates together with some hot glue.

Again according to the book one has to then play with the tambourine with some background music and show to the child how to beat the rythme, what actually happened is him desperatly trying to open it and get to the cornflakes

He eventually opened the damn tambourine! Stakkels lille dreng :-)

PS: on my book the authors are Dr. Roni Cohen Leiderman and Dr. Wendy S. so I assume there is an english version, the curious thing is that on the web I found the same book with the same cover pictures where the author is Susan Elisabeth, go figure

Loppemarked på christianshavn

Scrap months 2

Another contribution to the scrap month of Frk Turkis, I had to try this from Cocon, hers are so precious!

Scrap month contribution

Once again Frk Turkis came up with a great idea: the scrap month ! So here is my little contribution: I took the idea from ComfortStitching - scrap happy lounging , illustrated the steps with some pics and used the project as an applique to this cute shoebag from makingitfun.blogspot.com (tutorial) .

Here it goes: the final result

1. my bunch of fabric scraps

2. a matching thread

3. an elephant template that I drew on the wrong side of a piece of fabric

4. on the right side of the fabric I started sewing my little fabric scraps in a random way

5. until the whole area was covered

6. then I cut out the elephant

7. Applied it on the piece of fabric (applique) that I used to make the shoebag

and done!

PS: sorry for the quality of the pics sth went wrong with my cam...

First craft project with my son !

Oh wow it's so exciting we just had some fantastic time me and my little boy with a great craft prject from Made by Joel (paper clip puppets) - I just cut the shapes and he "drew on it", it was lots of fun

Hjemmelavet sodavand

From time to time I like to try out the super cool recipes from Kvalimad (youtube channel) , he recently posted a video on how to make your own  homemade soda! He has a link to his website with more info it's easily understandable without prior knowledge of the danish language ;-p

 He used Ginger, but I tried with some little red berries

ball in a bowl

For some reason my son likes to put plastic balls in our salad bowls... I thought he was funny...

Frk Turkis Gavelege

What a nice surprise I got recently from the post! I participated in a swap game with Frk Turkis, she has spoiled us all!!! She can sew fantastic things, here they are in a very cute wrapping pocket

it's a hairband

The rules of the game are to invite two other people to play along: if you want to participate you just need to leave a comment below, and I will send you a surprise and in return you will have to send me a surprise too  - so like a swap but one is free to choose what to give to one another

It will be pretty hard for me to fulfill the second part of the game as she can sew anything! 

To be continued...

Baby drawings