Wednesday 23 February 2011

Twitter freebie

It's hard to find nice twitter freebies other than the usual, so feel free to use those two from us, the canary from the childrensfarm will be extremely proud.
Just copy the image with your right mouse and save it, and link it to your twitter address.



this weeks favourite artist

The grand lady of all centuries, Maria Callas

Photograph via silvanachu

Hug ME

Sometimes you have a sweater you really really like, but can't wear anymore because there's a stain in it that won't come out, or a little hole somewhere. This sweater had both and I kept it for years (12 actually). A second life is the best option, but why leave the arms out? So we came up with the HUG ME cushion. Want to order one? shoot us an email. We're working on 'give me the ultimate pleasure cushion' hahaha.

Wednesday 16 February 2011

Fase II

So with the cabinet in place we could start with Fase II, meaning cleaning everything out of the little gardenhouse, let me tell you it took 3 full days! going through everything, deciding what could go, what should stay in the new storage.

When it was finaly empty the painting started, again & again. Big thanks for my dad giving me a helping hand. And than..., what do we hang in front of the windows? what about the light? how do I want the table to look like etc. etc.

The table was quite an issue, I found a suitable one weeks ago at one of the places that sell our cards, old, used, exactly how I wanted it, but it was blue, not my colour (won't see any of that now). The issue was about the top of the table, I couldn't decide how I wanted it. Than it hit me, what are we never allowed to do but want to ever since we are at school, cut in the table! So that's what I did and I asked my kids and some other people as well to do so. Now it looks perfect.

Below you see some pictures of the previous situation and a sneak preview of what it looks now, 2 weeks later.

On Saturday I'm starting the final Fase III, the childrens playroom. All should be done before the 1st of March. Oh and yes I do work in between all this.



Fase I

I've been quiet for a while, not intentially, but at my home we needed some reorganisation. Why?, well I needed a space to give palmistry readings and I selected the little gardenhouse as a very suitable place for this. Problem was, it was full with fabrics and all kind of stuff we need to make what we make (and that is a lot).

So I needed storage and in my opinion one of the walls of our son's bedroom could be used for this. So, out with the lovely small cupboard my dad made for him years ago and in with the huge cabinet. I had to make a deal with him, he wanted a couch in return and he wanted at least the same number of cupboards (10) as I had.

So that's fase I, completed as you see below (before & after).

Tuesday 8 February 2011

You want pillow, you get pillow

My god, I just came across Sew Mama Sew, with a huge pile of pillow tutorials, excellent!

These four I definitely want to make & Mo wants to make the blue big one (two please dearest).


1. 3 Punk Mom;
2. Sew4home;
3. Cluck Cluck Sew;
4. Sew Home Grown.

this weeks favourite artists

In our final goodbye to the winter, we're letting the Snow boys Patrol for one last time before we put on our bikinis, Beach Boys next?


Photograph via The latest.co.uk
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A brand born from the creative minds of two friends, Joyce & Monique. Sharing their imagination, using the old, mixing it with the new, creating a product which is sweet 'lief' & good 'goed'. Sweet in the sense you want it, good in the sense: good for the environment. This blog is about what inspires us, things we love & updates. Thanks for coming around. *********************************************************************** What else? Well Joyce is married, having two small childeren, and one large one, a cat, has her own palmistry practice. Hates cooking but realizes its a necessity having a family. Vegetarian. Loves Bali & can't wait to move there permanently. Monique has two dogs and two chicken who refuse to do their job. Works at a financial advising agency. Is dieing to come back to Amsterdam. Drives a very cool cabrio, adores the sun and long walks on the beach. Likes gardening (minus the worms). She does like cooking (that's why she picks the recipes). Loves Pearl Jam, but Joyce refuses to have that on the blog.