Oh deer flock

Homemade heat transfer design for Jade and Elias.

The idea for a fluorescent deer comes from Elias.

The red round neck shirt was purchased last summer at Hema.

The blue vest was purchased at Petit Bateau.

I really can’t tell you more about it.

Welcome to this world!

Since the day they left the hospital –they came home two months after they were born as they started their life in the incubator- our twins hardly ever wear identical clothes. We do buy and make identical items in different colors but they do not wear them the same days.

As parents we are not fond of putting them in identical clothes, because we want to raise them as two individual little boys, especially as they have two completely different characters.

On top of that Omar and Elias don’t like to be mistaken for each other and by wearing different outfits we reduce that problem significantly. Our boys would love to be just brothers and no longer twins!

Here a golden oldie (2006), they just left the hospital!

Regardless of my own aversion to identical outfits, as soon as someone else delivers twins, I do offer matching clothes!

Welcome to this world Enrico and Alessandro. We flocked a short and T-shirt with their names on it for the ‘identical’ brothers, as well as a vest (I love sleeveless shirts for little boys). One vest says ‘Copy’ and the other says ‘Paste’.

Also Baby M and her two brothers get a present today. The brothers of Baby M are members of the same rugby club as our kids –The Hurricanes. A member of the club is called a Hurricane. So we found some (P)inspiration at this blog and flocked Big Hurricane, Little Hurricane and Baby Hurricane. All three the kids get their own pajamas with matching slogan.

Congratulations to the proud parents!

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. 

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!

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!