It was fun and ‘gezellig’, so good to meet the bloggers I read in real life, and meet some new bloggers as well.
Thanks, Ladies for a fun afternoon! (ChezChouke, PrentjeMaakt, Zilverblauw, Enigheid and life stuff)

A few times we went to the city to explore the old Medina, which was super! All those colors and smells, I couldn’t resist buying some beautiful handwork.

Last Saturday was the book signing of the ‘Eline’s Huis’ book with Eline and all the other ladies that worked on the book. It was so great to meet Eline’s fans and we also signed some books ourselves.

Gepke did a great job welcoming everyone in her shop. I met some great inspiring people and it was a joy to meet family and friends of everyone who worked on the book, they were all so proud :-)

For me it was a bit overwhelming from time to time, then I just sneeked out for a bit of fresh air. And I loved Gepke’s shop, full of nice things and inspiration, I certainly will go back some time!

To read more (in Dutch) about this exciting day, and see some more pictures, please visit the blogs of Eline, Frences and Gepke, it’s a joy to read their stories.

When I was at the Olmenhorst Pinsterfair last Sunday, I bought this happy new summer dress. I was actually looking for a red/white dotted dress, but when I tried this one, I fell in love. I kept it on after I bought it and could wear it the day after, but now we will have to wait for summer again.

The dress is from  Talulabelle, on her website you can find a lot more creative dresses and skirts, have fun looking around!

These shops above are two of my favorite shops on Texel: ‘t Lant van Texsel and De Witte Engel.

‘t Lant van Texsel is full of lovely stuff for inspiration and just to have… they sell Rice, Anne-Claire Petit and lots of other stuff in my favorite colours. De Witte Engel is a shop full of crafting materials, especialy known for their felt and felting materials.

‘t Lant van Texsel is also called ‘Petra’s winkeltje’ (Petra’s store) by people who know me, I have no idea why…. ;-)

And look at those presents below, they make me happy every time I see them. the Pip cushions are a present from myself for myself. And the cute Anne-Claire Petit cat is a present from M. How did he know I’m such an Anne-Claire Petit fan…?

Yesterday I found an unexpected treasure at the bike shop, the Basil 2010 catalogue. I already own a very lovely shopper that I can hang on the back of my bike, so I knew the brand. But when my eye fell on this booklet in the rack, and I opened it up, my heart made a bump. It was full with lovely pictures and even paper cards that you can take out and use for tags on your presents or other things you like to liven up.

I just felt I needed to share this with you, maybe you have a bike shop nearby where you can pick up this little treausure.

I admire the work of Anne-Claire Petit. She designs funny crocheted things in the most adorable colors. All items are a huge inspiration to me, and some of them I would love to own myself, for example the vase with flowers seigh…..

Yesterday I was so lucky to find some anne-claire petit items on the ‘vrijmarkt’ in Amsterdam. And the funny coincidence was, I bought them from Anne-Claire Petit herself! I didn’t recognize her, but a lady next to me asked if she had made those items herself. I was thinking: ‘duh, no.. those are anne-claire petit items…’ But she answered: ‘no, but I designed them’. That answer made me look up with my mouth open, and asked ’so you are Anne-Claire?’ the answer was yes and that made me feel like a high-school girl again…. so funny!

Here some items from anne-claire petit I really love:

pictures from www.anneclairepetit.nl

I did this wrapping last week, I loved it so much I had to take a picture of it.

Yesterday I made these fancy pants for the daughter of a friend. I like to create such girlie stuff, and I was looking for someone I could create it for. As the model wasn’t around during the creation process, I was a bit unsure if everything would turn out fine. And lucky me, it did! I didn’t have to do any adjustments, joehoe! 

I have already selected the next crochet project, a flower garland. Look at this one Lucy created, I love it so much, it’s just too cute.