KissKus

Scenes from today

Sewing a blouse for Amber

Caught this beast, obviously looking for trouble

Ugh (still there)

Good company

We had a nice weekend. A trip to the pet farm and some mild housekeeping. A little pottering about in the garden and quite some chicken research done: hopefully not long now before we have our very own chickens (can't wait)!

Also, lots of cooking, because we had a lovely English guest coming over. Who brought me beautiful Liberty fabrics! So very generous and thoughtful.

Feeling refreshed and ready to tackle a new week!

My nursery

Things are going great in the garden plus the extension of the garden (my house). The seeds both indoors and outdoors are growing happily. I have my very own nursery going on. And I like working there.

Today more seeds arrived and they were planted swiftly. Yes, I'm a bit obsessed, but in a very harmless way :)

It won't be long before we will be able to eat fresh rocket from the garden!

I'm truly enjoying seeing everything grow, it makes spring all the more fun. And it already was so much fun.. can you imagine!

Cheerful

I'm feeling cheerful like these pretty flowers that I got for my birthday.

However, I don't feel as fresh... but hopefully that will be solved with a good night's sleep ;)

Now headless...

Crazy week.

I weathered a bit of a storm and was pleased to discover that I kept both feet on the ground throughout it all... I wasn't blown away!

However, looking forward to a little more peace and quiet now :)

He is four

And he was the man on his birthday. Good day.

Here, there, everywhere

Busy days in our household. Lots of things going on, mostly good. Some not so good, but mostly good...

We've been out and about and a certain little someone is about to celebrate his 4th birthday. Big stuff!

Today's treasures

I'm not hanging out at the thriftstore an awful lot these day, but today there was a spontaneous quick trip after the children went to school (still weird, but Linus likes it now).

I was selective (good girl!), but I couldn't leave the two German folklore teatowels and the Japanese coasters that I found.

So colourful.

Now what to do with that cute fabric??

A shirt with cars on it

I finished Linus' birthday shirt with SIX days to spare! Amazing, isn't it? I love my sewing class where I can steadily work on my projects every week.

I used an Ottobre pattern and the fabric came from the Ottobre Etsy shop. I'd never sewn a polo shirt before and it wasn't particularly difficult, just quite a few bits and pieces. I made two (small) mistakes, which I'm not going to point out ;) I'm thinking of sewing up another shirt, but then without those mistakes. Me, a perfectionist?!

Anyway, I'm really pleased with how it turned out. And I know for sure that Linus will like to wear it on his birthday. Now I just need to finish the trousers that I'm also making for him. They are nearly finished. Will this mean that I will have no last minute stress sewing this time? There must be something wrong with me ;)