* Fashion Friday *

   

I bought this  simple sweater today for more then one reason

1. Love the color
2. Love the sweater style

2 reasons that attracted me to it, but on a closer inspection it has a sentimental reason.
The text on it: Holland America Line on top
and Rotterdam Amsterdam on the bottom

Many, many years ago my mother, father and brother left Holland, Rotterdam with this Ocean Liner on a trip to Australia. It took them about 6 weeks to get there, my brother was 2 years old.
My parents started a new adventure on the other side of the world.
7 years later I was born.
Yes, I was born in Australia, in a small town called Whyalla, Adelaide the closest big city a day traveling away.
2 years after I was born my Mum, brother and me headed back to Rotterdam with this same Ocean liner.
My dad took an airplane back to get back early to get everything organized.
My father got homesick and wanted to get back.
I know absolutely nothing about this trip but this sweater is a big part of my family history
and I just had to have it!


Have a FABULOUS weekend Chicas!

*Fashion Friday*

see a bit more of this here

In  the light of the Craft Challenge over at Craftbotic

I started a little project that I had on my mind for a while now.

But although it is not the same as one of the contesters PJ from Planned in Pencil 

It has the same starting point….Part of an old pair of jeans

So started to look for something else and turned to internet for inspiration.

And lately starting to wonder about this, maybe it´s time I start with looking everywhere BUT internet.

Because there are some AMAZING people out there.

They make it look so easy to make your own stuff or just pimp up a t-shirt or a pair of jeans!

here are 2 of my favorites

WobiSobi

&

Trash To Couture

But be warned!

EVERYTHING that you ever could think of these girls have already done and then some!

And that right here is the problem with internet for me at the moment.

What ever you have dreamed up there is somebody out there who has already made it, took pictures and put it on the World Wide Web it seems.

I am making a promise to myself to try to keep it as authentic as I possible can. Staying true to myself and try to make the things that I come up with a bit sooner then I do at the moment.

So it´s back to the drawing board  for me and hope that I will come up with something else,

SOON

Hope you all have a great weekend!

*Fashion Friday*

Missing pieces

This week has gone by sooooooooo quick! I can´t believe its Friday again.

And somewhere around wednesday I noticed that I completely forgot to post for 

Fashion Friday or What is she wearing!? last week.

We had a lot going on at the house this week, lots of people, lots of rain, lots of storm

and because the last 2 we were without internet for 3 long days :-(

And while not having internet my blog was full of spam comments :-(((

Here are three looks I really like!

And the fun part is that yesterday I bought the Denim Shirt, the Grey Sweater and the White Jacket.

And this are some ideas of how to rock them!

Since I not heard a single peep out of the folks and Object I turned to H&M this time ;-)

To find more details you can look here

Denim Shirt

Grey Sweater

White Jacket

The only three things that are not so easy to find are the black little clutch in the top one, the mustache ring in the middle one and the striped top in the bottom one.
All the other stuff I already have somewhere in my closet or are not that difficult to come by.

Next week when I drop of HB at the airport I will be on the look out for the missing pieces.
I make sure I have a list to not get confused and come home with something  different….

Hope you all have a FANTASTIC weekend, may the sun shine upon you all!

XX Carol 

Pinterest Moment

Today day when I was flipping through a spanish magazine called ENCASA, not reading mind you, but flipping!

 I came across this step by step picture in true Pinterest Style.

I kinda liked it so I thought I´d share it with you. 

Because I can not Pin it, 

I scanned it, cropped it and uploaded it….

What did we do before Pinterest?

The quality is a bit grainy because of the many edits it´s been through but you get the idea, right?

It´s in an Spanish magazine, and because you do not 

understand, speak or read Spanish you do not look at them. 

I am ( almost ) the same as you.

But because it´s what I see in the shops I buy them anyway. 

And then go to their website and look at the pictures which you then of course can PIN.

Maybe if you look at  ENCASA  you will find this picture and you can hit the pin button, just like that!

Or PIN this one right here….

Another route you can follow is to go to here and REPIN

( yes, I had to publish this post, pin it myself to link you to my Pinterest page and then update this post)

Or just follow me here

I love to have you over and start sharing and REPIN with you!

Now about this orange peel rose? What do you think?

I think it looks kinda cute and I will try it myself, someday, like true Pinterest Style….

xx

* Fashion Friday*

Here is a little bit of a color inspiration for you!

ton sur ton van hibiscuschica

blue ton sur ton van hibiscuschica

Have a great weekend Chicas!

Carol

Crochet Rug from T-shirts

The fun part of reorganizing my craft room is making these little projects from left overs that I just can not find a place for any more.

The weird thing is that I have saved all this stuff up to make projects with and now I am trying to find a place for them…… It is getting a bit ridicules to be organizing projects I want to make, some day?

Why not do it NOW?

The organizing is taking a so much more time like this but I feel the need to clean every thing out and make room for new ideas. I am a bit smothered with "old" ideas that never came to live.

So with the T-shirts I saved up I made this rug. It will return to my room but no longer is taking up space in a box. It is now going to be on the floor underneath the table, and add a bit of color to the room.

It took me 19 T-shirts and 3 nights to make this one. It´s just the simplest stitch there is and there is no special pattern for it. I just started with no plan of how big it was going to be. 

The colors are also very random and I cut up a T-shirt when I finished another. 

I started cutting at the bottom (took off the seem) and going a bit diagonal all the way up till the armpits.  It´s  an about 3 cm wide strip and pulled it and then rolled it into a ball. I just went with the new color as I would have if it was one "thread" so I used a needle and thread to fasten the loose ends underneath.

And used a hook which says 9.0 mm. ( but its from a china store, so it could be any size!)

It is a bit of hard work with the ones that were a bit old and stiff. So my thumb and index finger nails are a bit sore but I love how it turned out.  It´s heavy and sturdy.

I  still  have a few T-shirts left….

So started a new one. It´s gonna be made of 8 T-shirts so half as big as the other one but in my favorite color combination, pink and blue. 

I have a thing for this color combo, I don´t know why, I always want to touch it whenever I see it somewhere. And if I was all by myself I probably would have it everywhere! But I do not live by myself so…… Just this little rug in my room is going to have to do.

The sacrifices a girl has to make :-)

Do you have the same interior that you would have if you would be living alone?

linked up to PolkaDot Pretties

Sunny Simple Life

Rooted in Thyme

Flamingo Toes

Or so she says…

Felt Slippers

I´ve made me some felt slippers!

I love how the turned out and it was really easy!

I have a bought pair similar to these but I was on the look out for some new ones, just incase.

I do like to have a back up of the stuff I like, and these slippers are my :

  "go to the toilet at midnight slippers"

Yes, I need to pee like three times at night people! 

( that makes sleeping over at friends a bit difficult, I tell ya)

The marble floors are FREEZING during the night and when I go to pee without my slippers I can not get to sleep when I get back in bed, times three.

So now you know why I need to have a back up pair.

It´s my first time working with felt and it is fun to do. 

I LOVE quick projects!

I do not have the patience for  projects that go on for days….I love the fact that you do not have to do something with the edges on a sewing machine and you do not need any other crazy expensive tools for this stuff.

 I ordered some different thicknesses and different colors just to check it out. 

I am currently OBSESSED with a bit of neon color so I choose some bright colors and some black and greys.

And this is what I came up with, it took me about 2 hours from start to finish. But if you are like me it will take a day :-)) Always doing three things at a time here. 

The pattern took a bit of time to figure out, but once I had it, it was pretty easy. I used the old slippers as a template.

I think I will make some more for guests that stay over. I am thinking: put their name on or the name of the house. And they can take them home after as a gift. 

NOW… I started this project out with some planning of taking pictures in the different stage to be sure I did not forget anything afterwards….and doing a sort of tutorial. 

So I took these for example:

When you are familiar with working with felt, you are probably smiling ( behind your hands…or not..)

Hahaha, I did when I started the cutting!

 No way I got the scissors through this stuff, the tool to make small holes was a total waist of space in this picture as well.

So I used these:

Yes. that is rust on that disc… one of the fun parts of living so close to the sea. I forgot I had this knife so did not protect it. But it has been dealt with, trust me!

And also preoccupied with taking photos I made a small mistake…. yes, you may smile again if you really need to…..out loud if need be :-)

I messed up people! I had NO intention of making them different…

Good thing is I use them to go pee in the middle of the night….

I still love them!

If you want to make them and trust me enough to help you out, let me know! I promise I will not confuse you with the left and right stuff.