First 2013 present

During Christmas holidays a group of our Belgian friends came over to visit us. We offered to celebrate New Year at our house. So we did grocery shopping, cooking, set the table, …; all of this for 15 adults and 14 children.

And then it was time to make each of them a present! The adults got a home decorated napkin.

The children got a T-shirt or a vest decorated with ‘SuperSky’.

Dubai has an amazing ‘skyline’ and the teenagers taught the link with the brand SuperDry was SuperCool!

As we watched –from our garden- the fireworks displayed on the Burj Khalifa the caption in Arabic writing says ‘828 Burj Khalifa’ (the height and the name of the tallest building in the world).

The presents were wrapped with a home stamped name tag and placed at the dinner table.

To anticipate your doubts: the prints were not carved by hand! I made the designs with the computer and consequently they were cut out with our plotter. 

Bye bye 2012

We did many, but the day before yesterday was our last trip to the desert for 2012!

BYE BYE 2012!
Hope to see you all in 2013!

Petit Pan

I adore the Petit Pan fabric collection! So after discovering the joy of giving a gift to other passionate sewers, I decided to launch another ‘give away’!

This time you can win a meter of Wasabi Blue cotton and a meter of Calamity Orage oilcloth.

The only thing you have to do is follow/join this blog and cross your fingers. Once we have 207 followers, on the English and Dutch blog altogether we will randomly pick two winners!

Petit Pan lovers you know what to do!

Multicultural attire

Elias has a ‘Marcelleke’ in wear; he claims a genuine Marcel is a foil to his super muscles.

Yesterday it was pretty warm in the desert and the man in the background got an extra headscarf out of his car to prevent Elias would suffer from heat stroke.

Not a bad combination this keffiyeh and Le Fabuleux Marcel de Bruxelles.

Skirts with flocked stars

The first trimester is finished and since this weekend our kids are officially on Christmas break. So that gives us three weeks of playing, reading, partying, doing craftwork, and occupying them. As I cannot bake cookies every day; mummy made two skirts. The simplest patron ever, a 2/3 circular skirt with knit hem fabric and elastic as waistband.

The girls decorated their own skirt. The stars were cut by myself, but the girls choose the color, size and location of each star.

Besides the skirt, Louka also placed some stars on a white roundneck shirt. Christmas is all over her clothes; in the brightest colors.

Louka was in tears when we were taking the pictures, so I had to promise to take only pictures without showing her head and her tears!

And the winner is ...

Anu*miki, congratulations you just won the 2.5 metres of retro rocket rascals and some knickknacks; homemade magnets, Chinese needles, a Happy Home needle book, and a surprise.

Hopefully you will enjoy making nice things with the fabric!

The second winner is Jozefien - Les Mademoiselles.

Keep an eye on this blog as another give away is on its way!

Saint Nicolas!

Our friend Saint Nicolas came by our house this night! He seems to be a very creative man. He brought a gunny sack filled with oranges and clementines. The outside of the bag was nicely decorated with a flock vinyl decoration of Saint Nicolas and Piet.

The kids also got a mini decorated gunny sack, filled with sweets made by two lovely assistants of Saint Nicolas and of course a letter for each of them.

Thanks Saint Nicolas!