Love at first sight

Vintage Bird Tin found at Lesfilles.nl

Little pleasures

 Enjoying little visitors!

Painting logs inspired by Rabbit Portal. 

Eating plum cake with prums from our plot. Very easy to make - it was my first trie and it turned out to be a really fresh, light summer pie.


So give some loving- bake a pie for friends or family!







Here comes the recipe:
Cook time: 1 hour
Serves: 6-8

150 gram melted butter
3 egs
150 g sugar ( i used caster sugar)
8 g vanilla sugar 
250 g self-rising flour 
1,2 dl milk
900 g plums

Use a round cake pan.

Beat eggs with sugar and vanilla sugar until it is sparkling. Using a spatula, mix it gentle with the self-rising flower. Add the milk and butter and mix it with a hand guard.
Set the oven at 170C (338 degrees F). Cut the ripe plums in half and remove their stones. 

Put a small layer batter in the cake pan and put 3/4 of the plums on it. Then add rest batter and pressure the last plums in it.
Bake for one hour. Cool down in cake pan. Serve cold.

Share & indulge! 

Modern Birdhouse StudioLiscious

 

Modern walnut birdhouse from Studioliscious

LOVE the design!

Down on the allotment

There is an ugly old cave in the middle of my To-be-Yoga-Spot. Yesterday i tacked it with authentic patterns (from 1930's) Mexican oilcloth, we now use the place as fridge for our drinks.  The orange oil-can is a heritage from the former owner of our land and made me think about those biutiful bottle vases from Foekje Fleur (on my wishlist for the new kitchen!). So inspired by Foekje i now use the can
as a vase for purple weed i can't have the heart to throw away.

Masking Tape collage

My Happy Wall at the allotment was easy made with Masking Tape during this morning rain shower.

Ps Sorry for the toe!

East Indian Cherry

Seeds of East Indian Cherry- uploaded by Fem30

The flower comes from our abandoned neighbour allotment- please let me know if you know its name. I love it!

Patchwork Curtain

The last 3 days, my mum and i were immersed in the Curtain Project for our new kitchen. A couple of years ago i was inspirered by this curtain, hanging in a Museum in Haarlem (Netherlands). Since then it stayed in my head, so i was pretty pleased to start holiday times with this great DIY project!

Mum did the thinking, i was in the priviliged position
to follow her instructions and learn a bit about sewing (i am unskilled when it comes to needlework). It tooke some hours to design the curtain, we had saved so many unique old patches that it was hard to choose! The "youngest fabric" is 4 years old, the "oldest" was used as bedspread more the 40 years ago.


Ultimate, we made a curtain  Drop 2.50 m x Width 2.20 m and used 8 different types of textiles (20 patches in total). The groundwork of all the patches is a standard Ikea curtain with rings (we will use scaffolding for hanging).



The project is not yet finished- we have great ideas for the other side! So at the end of the summer i will be sitting again behind the sewing -machine and when when the new kitchen is installed you will see the result!

Work in progress

To be continued............

Invasion

Invasion of young talent at De invasie

Not too arty shirt (EcoFabFashion)

Noah Craddle Joost van Veldhuizen

 Cool collectible Flap key-ring

Words of encouragement for Tough Times

 

Go easy on Yourself

When ever you feel blue

or in pain

give yourself a "compassion break"

and treat yourself 

with this quote of Oscar Wilde

When someone you know is hurting

you might feel lost about what 

you’re supposed to say or do.

You do not have to undo the pain.

You even do not have to understand this pain.

Just let them know that you now

that they are in pain.

Today

for a minute
there was this a little smile

upon the sad face of my colleague

who got the sack yesterday.

Finding this card on his desk.

It is all i can do right now.

I-D: Mother's Garden