*Happy* Times

The past few weeks were filled with Sping, craftiness, dancing and taking lots of photos. May has come and it's one of my fav months of the year. The weather is nice and warm, the days are long and the swallows have returned. It's time for picnics, discovering new music, yummy icecream, bike rides, and enjoying the outside! Here's a recap of the past weeks:

 These blossom trees are magical. Pinkness overload! To me, this IS Spring. When I walked past the white blossom tree, it was literally buzzing with bees. Kinda scary!

 The pirate boy turned 5. He wanted me to bake his favourite pie: supersweet merengue summerfruits pie! The first merengue didn't turn out quite as I had hoped, so I made another one. But the first was just fine, so we had lots of pie left. We ate it all! Or should I say 'I ate it all'. At teatime, desert, comfort food, you name it, we had merengue whenever we could in the days after the party.

Pirates it is! He drew this amazing pirate's ship and even gave the pirate a fierce look. AAAARGH! And check out that little treasure chest next to him. The detail he uses in his drawings is just awesome.

I also got crafty and knitted this yo-sd sized raglan sweater.

 I spun some yarn; this one reminds me of the Cheshire cat from Alice in Wonderland.

And a fat single. It's pretty 'balanced', but the colours remind me of Fall, so I won't be using it pretty soon.

 You can imagine I was thrilled to be featured in Gathered magazine. The green teapot even made centerpiece! It's kinda akward to see a photo you took in a magazine you love to read. They'll be using more of my photos in future issues, so I'll make sure to keep you posted.

Michiel made a garden bench and seats and table to match. Well done! 

Even the cat couldn't resist some icecream on a sunny afternoon. Well, who can? I've eaten more icecream the past week than I did the whole year before that! Chocolate and coffee flavour top my list(as well as snickers, cantuccuni, tiramisu, etc. ^_^).

 Funny how people react when you sit in a public place with some doll faceplates ready for carving. Liset and I went for a coffee and brought our things with us so she could show me how to customize faceplates and the woman behind the counter came up to us a couple of times to ask all kinds of questions about what we were doing. Guess we drew quite some attention sitting there ;) ! Anyway, we had a nice afternoon crafting, thrifting, and chatting over coffee and muffins, and I'm now more confident to start customizing my Middie. I'm really gonna miss these afternoons when she leaves for New-Zealand.

And Michiel, the kids and me spent a nice weekend enjoying cream tea at an English tearoom(oh, how I miss Engeland!) in Amersfoort. It was run by a very friendly English couple. The tearoom had rose covered wallpaper and a huge selection of teablends. The scones were delicious, the atmosphere great. I'm sure to visit again. Can't wait for the next short break! Just three more days of work. Sigh!

SprinG!

Stepping outside and all of sudden you realise it's here. The air smells great. Bird song wakes you up in the morning. Nature starts to bloom again. Bike rides without a jacket on. Frogs making babies. Pink blossom everywhere. Bright blue skies when you look up, yellow daffodils and dandelions when you look down. Spring, what took you so long?!

 Spring lifts my spirit. And hers.

 So, so pretty!

 Even my handspun yarn breathes Spring. Looks at those pretty colours. It kinda reminds me of Alice in Wonderland's Cheshire cat ^_^ !

 And the love of yarn continues with my first needle felting project form Mollie Makes magazine. Mr piggy is almost finished, it only needs eyes and a nose(the pink circles are chubby cheeks!). Needle felting is real fun to do. I did stab myself twice, ouch!

Speaking of 'ouch' I got tattooed again by the very talented Kimanh Nguyen. Her neo-traditional style is superb! 

I've waited a long time for this moment: a ride on the swing with the sun on my face!

Have a lovely week.
xoxo

Photo-heavy update

Some days time flies by, other days every minute seems to last an hour...

It's been a while since I wrote a post. A nasty cold kept me silent for a while, Winter decided to last, then Easter came. To kick off April, here's a photo-heavy update of the past weeks:

Despite the fact that it was colder on Easter's Day than it was on Christmas Day, we had a nice celebration. We dressed up to meet the family. My sister made the perfect brunch and my niece also made some yummy foods. The kiddos went on an egg hunt of course, because what's Easter without chocolate? For me, celebrating Easter means celebration of Spring. That's why I love it so much.

The day after Easter, it was nice enough to go outside. No Spring yet, but at least I wasn't freezing my ears off(my feet were still killing me though!).

All that chocolate called for some extra exercise, so more dance classes for me! I started hiphop class, and with the new schedule I only don't dance on Thursdays and weekends. It's rough, but I'm focused and driven to keep going!

Randomness

 

Tea from my favourite foxy lady cup.

 

Mr Cuddles.

Making progress on the Woodland sampler. I forgot how much I like to cross stitch!

 

{hearts}

Little Lambs = Spring!

 Peekaboo!

Waking up last Friday morning.

And some random shots from today:

 

 

{oh, how I would love to spend a night under the stars in this bed!}

Look up at the moon, howl at it and sweet dreams!