Spring fever

We cleared out the whole house. Once per year we check all the cabinets, drawers, every box and shelf. This ‘spring fever clean’ session resulted in some colorful storage improvements.

I finally found a way to properly store our collection of washi tape; by using an old branch of the garden.

Conclusion I do not need to buy any more washi tape as I currently have enough tape.

The cones of embroidery thread finally got neatly arranged. We attached a wooden board on the wall the cones can be slide over long nails.

This is not an idea from pinterest, I saw it in the workroom of a local tailor in Sharjah.

We arranged our cones by color.

Party time

The end of the school year is approaching: so time for some last minute birthday parties. Louka her party should have been in January but the poor thing broke her wrist. So the party was postponed to a later date. Four months she needed to convince me to finally throw her party. And then, I decided two organize all the 2012 birthday parties at once, not the actual party of course! I chose two consecutive Saturdays, so the party fever is a little distributed and I do not see myself running around in our garden, checking on about 20 kids aged between 3 and 9 years old! But so I can send out the emails and make the party bags all in one go. Regarding those party bags: the result actually made me feel happy. (Not the pictures, as I do not seem to get them pictured properly). Every kid chose his own decoration for on the outside of the bag.

Inside the bags we put a T-shirt decorated with a drawing of the party animal and a matching badge. We also added a little bag with homemade kids tattoos, of course also with drawings the kids made their selves.

The party bags were sealed with some Washi Tape. Finally a container of gorgeous, colourful tape found its way to the Middle-East.

After the party, we enjoyed a warm bath and then we were ready to go to bed. The new Tshirts served as sleeping dresses.