Crocodile - winner Give-Away -

TADAAAAA

it was a crocodile!

Winner

Peppy

Please mail me your address, so I can send you the handspun miniskeins and stitchmarkers!

Photo was made by me in the zoo (Blijdorp), with my cellphone camera.

Do you live in Rotterdam and want to learn how to knit

or crochet?

Take a look overhere

There's place for new people!

Site will be soon in English too.

handspun and nice pictures

Fresh from the wheel:

100% bfl handspun

handdyed by Limegreenjelly

handspun by me

buy it here

N. first day at school
love the hands on this picture

she likes it a lot


last weekend
silence before the storm of the party

we were preparing for the traditional familyportret
(on every birthday, we make a selfportrait with the "zelfontspanner")
this is the testfoto



do you see all the shades in this yarn?!

So, just sleep 2 nights, and the give-away winner will be announced!
You can still enter (see posts below)

give-away

You can still enter the give-away!

winner will be shown here on monday 31 august
(my birthday!)

knittingcruise and give-away-question!

We celebrated our birthdays on saturday

and on sunday..

Ballee was selling in the Cruise Terminal

of Port Rotterdam

The MS Rotterdam was leaving for a nordic cruise,

including a group of ladies who are doing a knittingcruise!


Sorry for the crappy pictures, made with my cellphone.

It was great to meet Ravelry people in real life and hear all kind of
nice and good words about my handspun and stitchmarkers.
Above all: I have to get back on the spinningwheel, almost every skein is sold!

It was a great weekend, thanks!




Question:

what is this?

You can enter once, and the winner will win
miniskein of handspun
and
stitchmarkers


All readers can comment!

tutorial paper bunting and RAK

On Ravelry is a group:

RAK Europe

(Random Acts of Kindness)

and this is what I received today!

Yummie yummie!

paper bunting tutorial

find all the nice paper in your home

and a string of thread

the white paper doilies are found at Action

(really cheap store in NL)

decorate the paper

fold it double

and attach it to the string

Tadaaa

our new birthday bunting!


N. will be 4 this sunday
36 is my number next week (last day of august)

so we party this saturday with friends and family

mittens in summer

We had our weekly knitnight yesterday

with a guestknitter: Linnaliina from Estonia

I've picked her up at her hotel, walked a little tour trough the city

and had a very good night with her and the other knittingladies!

She gave me 2 skeins of beautifull real Estonian wool, thank you!

And this is the first thing I've made with it:

Mittens for Pientje

My daughter (in a few days we celebrate her 4th birthday)

has a big little wish
mittens for her child Pientje

As a good mother I knit her a pair

its 32 C. outside....

::::in love::::

Ballee Handspun Summer Collection 2009

I'm in love


more pictures overhere (Flickr)

more info here (Ravelry)

buy it here (Etsy Shop)

About the mystery picture :

it has something to do with Oysters (oesters)

to catch them I think

I liked the shapes, so took a picture!

stamping

The table is covered with bags and cards, ready to be stamped

with my custommade stamp (great service, take a look at the shop)

I'm preparing for a new sale

and for our coming birthdays (N. and mine)

the kids have their last week summerholiday

and the man started working again today

Life is getting back to traditional routine..

cards

Made just a few stitches these summer.

Too busy with doing nothing :)

new batch of cards in the shop

buy it here

great for you secret pal, just another knittingfreak, your sister

or ...

back home

After almost 4 weeks in France, back home.

We went camping in the Dordogne and near Bordeaux

It was great,

good weather

nice people

super places

good food


and just the 4 of us
super