Today I made our christmas cards, I want to keep them a surprise for the receivers, but didn’t want to withhold this idea for you. So you only get a sneak peak at the end result.

I hand stitched the decoration to the linnen and then scanned the fabric with a white paper behind it. The most left picture was my first try, but I didn’t like the result enough, so then the second version came to live.

This one I submitted to the ‘Verhuiskaarten service’ of the TNT, this is an online service to order your own postcards. Normaly used to order cards to let people know your new address, but hey why not use it for all kind of other purposes :-) If everything is going ok, I will receive the postcards coming tuesday, perfect on time to send the cards before christmas. I have never been this organised before with christmas cards :-)

Today was my first christmas themed workshop. All the girls wanted to make a fabric wreath. It’s so nice to have a fabric wreath that you can decorate to your own taste, and you can use every year again. Just a nice handmade piece made with love.

What I still have to learn, is how much time it will take to create the projects I select. I always think I made it in an hour, but then, for example, I totally forgot the time I have spend to create the felt heart I hung in the wreath…. So all the girls left with homework today :-)

A while ago I bought those orange coloured chairs at the second hand store. It wasn’t quite my colour combination, but I could already picture what it should be when I saw them in the store.

Lucky me I’ve got such sweet and very handy parents, they did most of the painting and sanding job for me. The hardest part for me was to decide which fabrics to use for the seating. I love them very much now!

Tomorrow will be the first christmas decoration workshop, so I put a bit of christmas on the new window-sill in the atelier.

I have been making these christmas decorations as examples for my coming workshops. The fabric wreath is inspired on the beautiful wreaths of Holland Fabric House, the star is a design from Jenny from Allsorts, all others are my own design.

If you would like to come to my Atelier in Amsterdam to make christmas decorations, you could on Sunday december 6th or 13th. From 13:00 till 16:00 you are welcome to come and work on one or more of the projects. The price is € 40,- per person, this price includes 0,5m fabric of your choice, 4 pieces of wool felt, all ribbon and other haberdasheries you use, tea and/or coffee. Everything of the fabric and felt you don’t use during the workshop, is to bring home to make more.

If you would like to subscribe for one of those dates, please go to my website.