Achterop en opgeruimd

Eindelijk..... het stoeltje was al bijna een jaar in huis en Mare was al bijna een jaar te groot, maar ze bleef voorop. Dit weekend is ze naar achter verhuisd. Ze is er erg trots op "ikke glote meid" Maar voor ons is het best wel even wennen, veel minder gezellig.

Finally, the back-chair has been in our house for a year, and for about the same time Mare has been to big for the front-seat. But this weekend we finally changed seats. She is very proud to be a "big girl". But for us it is just not as much fun.

Voor wie ons kent, zal het even schrikken zijn, maar zo leeg is ons huis dus nu! Kleed weg, banken verschoven, heerlijk!
For who knows us, this will be a little scare. This empty our house is now, rug gone, couches changed, and much, much more space.

En wie wil weten wat dit zijn..... kom vrijdag vooral even kijken :)

And for who wants to know what these are, please check in on creative friday!

Creatieve vrijdag - Creative friday

Eigenlijk wilde ik iets heel anders laten zien deze creatieve vrijdag! Ik heb namelijk het meest geweldige project in mijn klas gedaan met verf, foto's en gekleurd papier. Helaas ben ik vergeten de foto's door te mailen naar huis, dus nu zullen jullie er een week op moeten wachten. Daarom hier een wat ouder project (3 weken). Ik heb deze tas gebreid van dit patroon. En toen heeft mijn moeder er een mooi randje aan gehaakt. Vilten in de wasmachine en een geweldig cadeautje voor een heel speciaal vriendinnetje was af

Actually I wanted to show something different on this creative friday. I did the most fabulous art work in my class today, but forgot to email the pictures to myself. So that will be swapped to next week. Instead I wanted to show you this bag I made from this patern. I knitted it, and my mum crochet an edging on it. I felted it in the washing machine and that way it became the perfect present for a very special friend!

Ook deze week zijn er weer flink wat familieleden bijgekomen, voor de familie vis.

Also I made a lot of new familymembers for the fish family.

En natuurlijk is de sjaal van vorige week ook af.

And ofcourse I finished the scarf I started last week.

Meer inspiratie? Kijk hier eens!

More inspiration, take a look here!

Goede start - Good start

We zijn het nieuwe jaar goed begonnen, en niet alleen wij, de zon ook. Op nieuwjaarsdag was het echt het mooiste weer van de wereld. Dus we zijn naar Zandvoort gefietst.
We started good in the new year, and not just us, the sun aswell. On newyears day it was the most amazing weather. Cold but clear blue and sunny. We biked to Zandvoort (beach).

En dit was hoe de weg eruit zag!

And this was the scenery!

Ik probeerde het eerste konijntje te fotograferen maar dt lukt dus niet met een telefooncamera.

Tried to photograph the first bunny of the new year, but phone camera was not good enough. Nice picture though.

2 Januari gingen we naar de dierenuin. Alweer was het zulk mooi weer. Mare, papa, mama en pop vertrokken naar Artis.

The 2nd of january we went to the zoo. The weather was great again and, mum, dad, Mare and doll went to Artis

En opeens was pop weg, wat een drama, vooral voor papa en mama. Mare riep gewoon steeds: poppie kwijt, poppie kwijt met een grote lach op haar gezicht.

And all of a sudden DOLL was gone! How terrible especially for mum and dad! Mare just keept saying dolly gone, dolly gone, with a big smile on her face.

Vlak voor de uitgang zag Mare haar onder in een buggy liggen Mensen hadden haar gevonden en wilden haar afgeven bij de uitgang. Toen was mare toch wel erg blij, en anders wij wel. Waar was je nou??? Bleef ze roepen tot ze uitgeput in de auto in slaap viel.
Right before the exit Mare spotted her in a buggy. The people that found her, were going to bring her to the entrance. Where were you? Mare kept asking her doll, untill she fell asleep in the car.

Creative friday - Happy new year!!

Ten eerste allemaal een mooi, gezond en gezellig 2011 gewenst!
To start: we wish you all a beautifull, healthy and funfull 2011!!

Geinspireerd op de creative friday blogposts van een van mijn favo site's waar iedere vrijdag iedereen zijn creatieve uitspattingen deelt, hier ook mijn bijdrage. Je herinnert je wellicht mijn potsok.

Inspired by one of my fav blogs, where people are inspired to share there creative outlets every friday, here my creative-ness. You might remember the jarsock

Nou ik heb er nog 2 gemaakt, en nog een op de pennen staan

Well, I made two more, and one is hanging on the needles.

Gezellig setje (slechte beeld kwaliteit, eigenlijk al te weinig licht voor de telefoon camera)

Nice pair (bad pic quality due to little light for the phone-camera)

Vandaag heeft Mare bij haar vriendinnetje Benthe gespeeld, en aangezien ze de leeftijd krijgen dat ze helemaal alleen boven gaan spelen, konden de mama's lekker knutselen. Ik heb deze twee vissen gemaakt. En mama Famke een hoofd voor een van haar poppen

Today Mare played with her friend Benthe, but as they are now big enough to play alone upstairs in her room, the mummy's could do some crafting. I made these two fish

Ze gaan samen met deze andere vissen de traktatie voor Mare op de peuterschool vormen.

Together with these fish They will be Mares giveaway's on her birthday at pre-school.

En tot slot was ik op mijn verjaardag verwend met de mooiste rowan drift wol, en daar ben ik op enorme pennen van 12 mm deze sjaal van aan het breien van dit patroon.

To finish, I was spoild on my birthday with this amazing yarn (Rowan Drift) 100% merino. I am making it into a nice scarf by this patern. Using needles 12 mm wow that is big!

Onze kerstdagen - Our christmas

Tweede kerstdag zijn Mare en papa naar het wed geweest. Daar kon je geweldig naar beneden met de slee.
Boxingday Mare and daddy went to aa little lake nearby. You could sleigh down the hill onto the ice there.

Dat was niet hun eigen idee, maar dat van Jorien. Haar zus met 3 kinderen hadden daar eerste kerstdag ook al gespeeld en dat was goed bevallen. Daarom waren wij uitgenodigd tweede kerstdag mee te gaan.

This wasn't their own idea, but Jorien's. Here sister and 3 children went there on christmas day too, and invited us the next day.

Ze hebben het heerlijk gehad

They had a fabulous time!

Thuis hebben we voor het eerst nat in nat geschilderd. Ik vind dat erg mooi want de kleuren blijven zo helder en mooi. De verf die we op de vrije school gebruikten kon ik niet vinden, maar ecoline is ook prachtig.

At home we painted wet in wet for the first time. I love that because the colours stay so bright when you use it. When I was in Waldorf school we had a type of paint that I couldn't find now, but i used some other waterbased colours.

Mare vond het heerlijk om te kijken hoe de kleuren uitliepen.

Mare loved to watch the colours run over the paper.

En mijn laatste crea-bea project: de potsok

And my latest crafty project: the jarsock

Ik was geinspireerd door dit patroon maar heb het niet gebruikt, ik heb er zelf een draai aan gegeven. Ik moet toegeven dat ik het er hip uit vind zien!

I was inspired by this patern, i didn't use it though, i made it custom fit to my jar.

I think it does look quit trendy.

Merry Christmas!!!

First of all, a very very mery christmas for everyone!!
This picture of Mare might not be her best, but for those who know her, can probably see that her hair is cut!! This christmas morning Mare had her first haircut. Bart and I can't stop looking at her and saying.... she looks so good!!! Whahahha
This morning Mare woke up very early, she came to our bed, and we had the best christmas morning, just plaing in the bed, reading books and making fun.
Lateer today we will visit Barts family, but for now we enjoy being with just us!

Yesterday three friends came over to make a felt doll. They are teachers too, just like me, and always liked the waldorf dolls i have in my class. They wanted to make something for their class too. So we decided to make a simple king-winter. This was the example, I made a couple of years ago.

This is the one I made yesterday. (There are no pictures of the other ones because it was dark when they were ready, and I still have no camera, the phone camera doesn't work in the dark)

I really liked the crown of the new king winter, so I made a new crown for the old king. I will probably give one king to mare's pre-school.... but wich one should i choose???

As a gift one of my friends yesterday brought a kit for making these elfes. When Mare saw them this morning she insisted on me making them right away.

What a way to start christmas morning. All relaxed with the little one making dolls.

Enjoy your days!!!

Life at the geweerstraat

It has been extremely quiet at the geweerstraat. Our camera broke, and that means no pic's. And be honoust what is a blog without pic's?
Well we still have to figure out wether we get it reapired or have to buy a new one. In the mean time we boroughed my mums camera and found out that my telephone makes quit nice pictures too!
Lets start where we stopped last time. It was sinterklaas!! And Mare got a sinterklaas cloak. I made her a Mijter to go with that, and she absolutely loved it!

First she got to celebrate sinterklaas at her pre-school! That was so much fun, they visited her school, and brought presents and pepernoten for all the children!

The children were alowed to dress up, all the other children were dressed as black Peters, so she stood out....

Then we celebrated sinterklaas here at our home. My mother, sister and brother in law came here and sinterklaas brought us a big pile of presents.

The opening of the presents was the best part of the celebration!

It all goes so fast because a bit more then a week later there was a christmas celebration. At both Bart and my school, but also at Mare's school! So she got to dress up all nicely and had diner with all the other 2 and 3 year olds. The parents were not alowed to stay, they could come again after an hour!

And were surprised with a dance the children made for all the parents. I was very sad to miss this all because I had christmas diner at my own school, Bart was there to see it all, and he enjoyed our big girl very much!!

Bye bye sweet children see you in 2011!!

Now we all are enjoying our hollidays, wich for me means I can finally get some time to clean thoe places that really need cleaning! I cleaned the lamp shades and the spice-reck. Mare likes to take over a good idea.... :)

She decided all by her self that she should clean the kitchen floor!!

In the mean time the wintery weather is back. Right after sinterklaas the snow and the freezing stopped for a few days but it totally came back again, the snow stopped now again, but because it hardly gets warmer then 0 degrees celsius, it all stays in the streets. We have amazing ice sculptures everywhere!

Here Mare is playing with the neighbour on our sled.

If you wonder who the other passenger is, it is my doll that Mare took over.... :)

The wintery weather and the fact taht we don't have to work are also good reasons to do some crafting. Mare and I paint and glitter a lot, and i get to knit up left over bits and pieces. MAde this little hat for.... don't know just made it.

AAnd tonight I made this mirror together with my friend Jorien. She has a pink toilet seat and here complete toilet is now decorated in pink. Big reason to make this terribly ugly but so great mirror. We had the best time, with some plastic flowers and an old mirror that lay in my attic. We both loved it and just couldn't stop looking at it :))

For a while I tried to keep 2 blogs, one with my creative outlets and one about Mare. But i decided to make it all one blog where you can just read about our live at the geweerstraat.