Okay so I haven't been here in ages, sorry! Here's a really overdue update on how things have been for us. My midwifery training got very hectic, I helped delivering four babies myself, of whom two were born at home. Witnessed 11 births in total this schoolyear. I scored straight A's for all of my tests, I was so thrilled with those results!
Our tiny happy home will become quite a bigger home from next year on as we're moving, it will still be just as happy though ;) I've been collecting loads of ideas and tons of inspiration on my pinterest boards for that. I'm really looking forward to decorating our new house, the kids rooms etcetera. Will be posting some of the inspiration later on.
Also, I'll be writing more about food and cooking the coming time. My youngest daughter is most likely celiac, we're waiting for a biopsy to confirm the diagnosis, but the odds are against us. It would explain a lot of things actually (why is she always crying, why does it always look like she has stomachpains, how come her growth has stunted so much, why is she quite lethargic during the day. Why are her legs bend is if she has rickets? Etc. the list goes on and on.) The same goes for her older sister. So we are entering the mysterious world glutenfree cooking and living with a celiac diagnosis. I'm not a big fan of ready packed and pre cooked foods, so I'll most likely be making our own foods and experimenting a lot. Follow us on this trip! And if you have any tips or advice, it is most welcome.
For the rest, I'll be entering my 2nd year now, my eldest daughter has started dancing classes and apart from the health issues, we're still a very happy bunch!
02/09/2012
16/02/2012
p.. p... p... pinterest!
Yes, okay, so, I'm kinda hooked. Big time~!
Find me on pinterest as well!
http://pinterest.com/tinyhappyhouse/
Find me on pinterest as well!
http://pinterest.com/tinyhappyhouse/
15/02/2012
Heidi and Finn's urban unisex hoodie
Oh my, I'm going to make a lot more of these!
What a great pattern to make, I've had so much fun making this hoodie.
The Urban Unisex Hoodie.
Pattern can be bought in their Etsy shop, here.
First version I made, I used leftovers of some sort of thick cheap fleece. Very synthetic, probably very warm. But my 2 year old is fond of it and won't take it off anymore. I had great fun puzzling the pieces together and sewing the whole project. It can be done fairly quickly.
my camera-flash makes the color and fabric look very erhm... strange, but in reality it's just dark-blue fleece. (I wish I had this color fleece though ;) )
It is lined with red riding hood fabric and I used big red-and-white dots buttons. I think they look cute together.
Then I remembered having quite some knit jersey lying around and I decided to make another hoodie.
she picked the buttons herself!
I made a mistake in the lower left corner of the hoodie and also at the hood, will fix this later but for now I'm done with hoodies.
The girl absolutely loved it so I'm happy ;)
What a great pattern to make, I've had so much fun making this hoodie.
The Urban Unisex Hoodie.
Pattern can be bought in their Etsy shop, here.
First version I made, I used leftovers of some sort of thick cheap fleece. Very synthetic, probably very warm. But my 2 year old is fond of it and won't take it off anymore. I had great fun puzzling the pieces together and sewing the whole project. It can be done fairly quickly.
my camera-flash makes the color and fabric look very erhm... strange, but in reality it's just dark-blue fleece. (I wish I had this color fleece though ;) )
It is lined with red riding hood fabric and I used big red-and-white dots buttons. I think they look cute together.
Then I remembered having quite some knit jersey lying around and I decided to make another hoodie.
she picked the buttons herself!
I made a mistake in the lower left corner of the hoodie and also at the hood, will fix this later but for now I'm done with hoodies.
The girl absolutely loved it so I'm happy ;)
I got a partial thyroidectomy for my birthday...
In the category for most original birthday gift, I definately win.
One day I found a lump in my neck, went to see my GP and he concluded that it had to by thyroid (ah so that's where the thyroid is was my only thought...) almost a year went by, the first punction was fine, then the second punction... I forgot the appointment, what a fail; Came back for a second-second punction and didn't expect anything weird coming from it. Then the docter told me she wanted the thyroid to be partially removed to check if it was cancerous. Can you imagine my shock?
An appointment with the surgeon was made, he said it could be done fairly quickly, he had an open spot only a few days later! However, it was my birthday that day. Fine with me, and so I went, on my birthday. I don't think I've ever received so many birthday wishes, since half of the hospital staff came by to wish me well and to wish me a happy birthday!
I went there at 8.30 in the morning, nurse directed me to my room and there was my OR-shirt ready for me. Yikes... Also a calming pill (1 pill of dormicon I think), which was welcome and there we went.
All went very well, apparently I woke up quite quickly but I don't remember that, I do remember annoying the nurses because I kept pulling out something they stuck in my nose.
I had a visitor who dropped by several times a day.
After a night in the hospital I returned home. A whole week followed of recovery in which I could barely moved my head or tilt it. I had never realised how many muscles you use while moving your head! Then after a week and a half the bandage was removed and the scar became visible. It's a tiny scar and I have good hopes that it will be hardly visible in a year from now.
And the results from the operation? All was well, fortunately it was not cancerous. I don't think I've ever been that relieved.
For my birthday, I have the best boyfriend ever! We celebrated one day early, he got me a gorgeous bag filled with all kinds of goodies, from magazines to facial masks and Rituals shower/bath products. Oh and chocolate, loads of chocolate!
He also gave me another two of those vintage looking metallic commercial plates. I love those <3 I'll blog about that later though ;)
My friends and family gave me very nice gifts as well, I received a Sabon scrub. I love Sabon! And I received gift certificates from my favourite webshop, from which I ordered a bunch of stuff, amongst others, this:
Also, my dad and his girlfriend gave me a Tamron 18-200 objective for my Canon camera! I'm soooo thrilled! I'm not too good at handeling it though, so if anyone has some tips on great tutorials, I'm looking forward to hearing about them.
And on top of that, the next day, my boyfriend gave me another bag, which he knew I liked. Yay! I'm a lucky girl.
One day I found a lump in my neck, went to see my GP and he concluded that it had to by thyroid (ah so that's where the thyroid is was my only thought...) almost a year went by, the first punction was fine, then the second punction... I forgot the appointment, what a fail; Came back for a second-second punction and didn't expect anything weird coming from it. Then the docter told me she wanted the thyroid to be partially removed to check if it was cancerous. Can you imagine my shock?
An appointment with the surgeon was made, he said it could be done fairly quickly, he had an open spot only a few days later! However, it was my birthday that day. Fine with me, and so I went, on my birthday. I don't think I've ever received so many birthday wishes, since half of the hospital staff came by to wish me well and to wish me a happy birthday!
I went there at 8.30 in the morning, nurse directed me to my room and there was my OR-shirt ready for me. Yikes... Also a calming pill (1 pill of dormicon I think), which was welcome and there we went.
All went very well, apparently I woke up quite quickly but I don't remember that, I do remember annoying the nurses because I kept pulling out something they stuck in my nose.
I had a visitor who dropped by several times a day.
After a night in the hospital I returned home. A whole week followed of recovery in which I could barely moved my head or tilt it. I had never realised how many muscles you use while moving your head! Then after a week and a half the bandage was removed and the scar became visible. It's a tiny scar and I have good hopes that it will be hardly visible in a year from now.
And the results from the operation? All was well, fortunately it was not cancerous. I don't think I've ever been that relieved.
For my birthday, I have the best boyfriend ever! We celebrated one day early, he got me a gorgeous bag filled with all kinds of goodies, from magazines to facial masks and Rituals shower/bath products. Oh and chocolate, loads of chocolate!
He also gave me another two of those vintage looking metallic commercial plates. I love those <3 I'll blog about that later though ;)
My friends and family gave me very nice gifts as well, I received a Sabon scrub. I love Sabon! And I received gift certificates from my favourite webshop, from which I ordered a bunch of stuff, amongst others, this:
Also, my dad and his girlfriend gave me a Tamron 18-200 objective for my Canon camera! I'm soooo thrilled! I'm not too good at handeling it though, so if anyone has some tips on great tutorials, I'm looking forward to hearing about them.
And on top of that, the next day, my boyfriend gave me another bag, which he knew I liked. Yay! I'm a lucky girl.
22/01/2012
upcycling daddy's old jeans
My boyfriend quite frequently needs new jeans because he totally wears his jeans out. I always find it a shame to throw out these jeans because other than some holes here and there, the fabric is fine. I decided to see what I'd be able to make from one of his old pair of jeans.
Turns out, I can totally make a pair of skinny jeans for my 2,5 years old, and then I'm still left with enough fabric to make a dress for my 1 year old. Yay! Ofcourse they won't be there tiny selves forever so in the future I'll be able to get less from one pair, but so far, I'm quite pleased! No wasting of perfectly fine fabric, and, as a bonus, nice jeans for my girls ;)
Eventually I lef out the application, I'm still undecided as to whether or not I should add grey fabric on the bottom as well...
Men... I should really work on my photography skills... Lost my cardreader so most pictures are taken by phone... sorry ;)
Turns out, I can totally make a pair of skinny jeans for my 2,5 years old, and then I'm still left with enough fabric to make a dress for my 1 year old. Yay! Ofcourse they won't be there tiny selves forever so in the future I'll be able to get less from one pair, but so far, I'm quite pleased! No wasting of perfectly fine fabric, and, as a bonus, nice jeans for my girls ;)
Eventually I lef out the application, I'm still undecided as to whether or not I should add grey fabric on the bottom as well...
Men... I should really work on my photography skills... Lost my cardreader so most pictures are taken by phone... sorry ;)
20/01/2012
Recykleren // Upcycling
Aaah yes... a few months ago I was planning on taking part in the upcycling project by Oon and others. I loved the idea and I certainly worked on it. But it turned out I was so crazy busy that it wasn't doable for me to really follow the project.
However I did upcycle some things, some are transformed into new items, some have been changed but remain basically the same. I hope to finish all the projects that I had in mind. Should be doable, so as long as I don't set myself a timelimit. ;)
This is what I started out with:
A pile of fabrics and stuff. Most of them were handed down but were not to our taste or they had minor things like tiny holes in them. I decided to use them for this project.
First of, the shoes. The print wasn't entirely my taste. So I grab some nail-polish remover and it came right off!
Before
After
After, I washed the inside fabric. The girl is thrilled with her pink shoes, I'm happy to have another pair of croc-ish shoes that are easy to clean when playing outside. No good shoes wasted because of a print! Yay!
Then there was a pair of long pants that was also not to my taste (I'm sorry, I'm very specific with what I like...)
I decided to turn these into board-shorts, giving them a biais and shortening them. They are now very cool for summer, I can see my girl wearing them when's she's tan and with a white t-shirt or whatever above. Surf-chique!
This is what I started out with...
And this is how it turned out. I'm quite pleased with the result and how the biais works nicely to establish that surfy look.
More coming up soon!
However I did upcycle some things, some are transformed into new items, some have been changed but remain basically the same. I hope to finish all the projects that I had in mind. Should be doable, so as long as I don't set myself a timelimit. ;)
This is what I started out with:
A pile of fabrics and stuff. Most of them were handed down but were not to our taste or they had minor things like tiny holes in them. I decided to use them for this project.
First of, the shoes. The print wasn't entirely my taste. So I grab some nail-polish remover and it came right off!
Before
After
After, I washed the inside fabric. The girl is thrilled with her pink shoes, I'm happy to have another pair of croc-ish shoes that are easy to clean when playing outside. No good shoes wasted because of a print! Yay!
Then there was a pair of long pants that was also not to my taste (I'm sorry, I'm very specific with what I like...)
I decided to turn these into board-shorts, giving them a biais and shortening them. They are now very cool for summer, I can see my girl wearing them when's she's tan and with a white t-shirt or whatever above. Surf-chique!
This is what I started out with...
And this is how it turned out. I'm quite pleased with the result and how the biais works nicely to establish that surfy look.
More coming up soon!
Japanese shirt
I love those Japanese pattern books. I got one as a present for Christmas in 2010, and finally, last month I found the courage to make a shirt from it ;) It was fine for me to work with but hey, I studied Chinese, though Japanese and Chinese are hugely different, It makes all the difference in the world if you can make up the characters for back/front left/right up/down etcetera. This made it easier for me to work with these patterns.
I really like the simplicity of those clothes in the books, though I often find that there cut is quite "Asian" or "Japanese". With that I mean, wide, or square, or however you want to describe it. Some of you will probably know what I mean.
Anyways, for Christmas I also received some fabric, buttons and ribbons so I decided to use them for this project. The colour of the fabric is not something I'd have picked myself, but it looks fine on my 2-years-old.
Initially I wanted to make the shirt using Elephant-buttons, since the eldest adores elephants.
But along the way I decided that these buttons look a lot better with the flowery ribbon. These are buttons that come of from a pair of H&M pants. My friend bought a pair of pants for her son and replaced the girly buttons, she handed them to me. Yay!
I decided to sew in a small ribbon in the neckline, I think it gives it a more polished look.
ofcourse it needed a robot... everyting needs a robot <3
tadaam... I'm not quite the neat seemstress that I'd like to be, but I'm learning ;) (neither am I a great photographer or good with photography software... should train myself in that a little more.)
And here you can probably see best what I mean with the square boxy look. Though the girl loves it and didn't want to take it off.
I really like the simplicity of those clothes in the books, though I often find that there cut is quite "Asian" or "Japanese". With that I mean, wide, or square, or however you want to describe it. Some of you will probably know what I mean.
Anyways, for Christmas I also received some fabric, buttons and ribbons so I decided to use them for this project. The colour of the fabric is not something I'd have picked myself, but it looks fine on my 2-years-old.
Initially I wanted to make the shirt using Elephant-buttons, since the eldest adores elephants.
But along the way I decided that these buttons look a lot better with the flowery ribbon. These are buttons that come of from a pair of H&M pants. My friend bought a pair of pants for her son and replaced the girly buttons, she handed them to me. Yay!
I decided to sew in a small ribbon in the neckline, I think it gives it a more polished look.
ofcourse it needed a robot... everyting needs a robot <3
tadaam... I'm not quite the neat seemstress that I'd like to be, but I'm learning ;) (neither am I a great photographer or good with photography software... should train myself in that a little more.)
And here you can probably see best what I mean with the square boxy look. Though the girl loves it and didn't want to take it off.
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