http://bypetra.nl/blog I will post on the projects I work on, I designed, or not working on anymore Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:49:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en <Please click the image for a larger version> I made this notebook cover for a dear friend of mine. It was her birthday, and she recently started her own writing blog, and I wanted too encourage her to keep up her writing sessions, as I love her writings very much. You ... http://bypetra.nl/blog/2012/01/29/fabric-notebook-cover/ These paper balls are inspired on this design by Heather Bailey. I made it a bit easier by creating a printable PDF template, you can print directly on the stock paper. I made two sizes: large for a ball with a diameter of approximately 17 cm and a small one for ... http://bypetra.nl/blog/2011/12/10/diy-paper-balls/ Last Wednesday was the Eline's Huis book party at the 'Smidshuis' in Veenendaal. In the morning the, almost complete, Eline's Winterhuis crew got together. We chatted, ate cupcakes and had lunch, before we set everything up for the afternoon. It was so nice to meet all the 'Eline's Huis' enthusiastics, friends and ... http://bypetra.nl/blog/2011/12/04/elines-winterhuis-book-party-the-pictures/ Tonight I used the random number generator to draw the two winners of the free tickets to Flavourites Live. The lucky winners are: Gemma van der Velden and Petra Zevenbergen-Karamoij Congrats ladies, and please come by and say hi in the byPetra stand at number 74 :-) http://bypetra.nl/blog/2011/11/11/weve-got-two-winners/ A few months ago my shop, byPetra, was added to the happy Flavourites library. With this came the opportunity to participate in the yearly Flavourites Live event in November. As Eline Pellinkhof visited this fair a few times before, and is a big fan, she realy wanted to be present ... http://bypetra.nl/blog/2011/11/06/flavourites-live-2011/ The coming three days, October 27, 28 and 29, I have a stand at the Handwerkbeurs Rotterdam. It was a hard days work today to build the stand. But with great help of my dad, I'm very proud of the result. I find it a happy place where I love to ... http://bypetra.nl/blog/2011/10/26/handwerkbeurs-rotterdam-2011/ Ever since I saw Nina (Ninainvorm) wearing this scarf made by Ingrid (wood & wool stool), I was in love..... with the scarf. So when I got this amazing birthday present from M last December, the full color range of Rowan Belle organic DK by Amy Butler, I knew I wanted ... http://bypetra.nl/blog/2011/10/09/my-new-favourite-scarf/ Last Saturday, on the first day of the Woonbeurs Amsterdam 2011, ± 30 bloggers met at the 'Bloggers Meet Up' organised by VT Wonen and 101 Woonideeën. It was a wonderfull day with tours in the houses of VT Wonen, 101 Woonideeën and Eigen Huis. So nice to meet colleague bloggers ... http://bypetra.nl/blog/2011/09/28/woonbeurs-amsterdam-2011/ To get in the hag of blogging again (I have been away for soooo long) I start today with two new inspiring blogs. I chose these blogs, off course for the yummy use of color by these two ladies, but also for the most gorgeous projects they both create. The first ... http://bypetra.nl/blog/2011/09/18/inspiring-blogs-on-sunday-14/ Eline is busy finalizing her second book 'Eline's Winterhuis', and I can tell you, it's going to be full of great inspiration again. This time the book will have a wintery theme, and I also contributed with a few projects. From two of them you see here a sneak peak. On Eline's ... http://bypetra.nl/blog/2011/07/11/sneak-peak-into-elines-winterhuis/