<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400</id><updated>2012-01-28T06:17:44.229+01:00</updated><category term='Siggies'/><category term='whirl into winter'/><category term='Amsterdam'/><category term='Tilda'/><category term='Christmas Swap'/><category term='Magical Christmas'/><category term='Award'/><category term='jelly roll sampler'/><category term='Alden Biesen'/><category term='vintage'/><category term='cinderberry stitches'/><category term='Ursula Schertz'/><category term='Web Sampler Block'/><category term='Sweetest treats'/><category term='pillowcases'/><category term='Clare&apos;s giveaway'/><category term='Hexagons'/><category term='Black and white quilt challenge'/><category term='Once upon a time'/><category term='Free BOM'/><category term='Swap'/><category term='Apron'/><category term='sew-in'/><category term='50 jaar'/><category term='Pennslvania Dutch'/><category term='Christmas Wish Gail Pan'/><category term='Christmas Elves'/><category term='Melly and Me'/><category term='Viktor and Rolf'/><category term='Roda JC'/><category term='Charms for Charity'/><category term='Nordic House Ornament'/><category term='Pay it forward'/><category term='Spring'/><category term='Quilting Bee'/><category term='truly scrumptious'/><category term='strings'/><category term='crochet'/><category term='Challenges'/><category term='Giggle Buttons'/><category term='stichery'/><category term='Apron swap'/><category term='Teeny Tiny Squares Quilt Swap'/><category term='4 season quilt'/><category term='applique'/><category term='Placemats'/><category term='Calendar quilt challenge 2009'/><category term='Popjes van Laura'/><category term='kaarten'/><category term='Louise&apos;s visit'/><category term='stitchery'/><category term='Valentines Day'/><category term='Lynette Anderson'/><category term='Spring sewing party'/><category term='pencil roll'/><category term='Pincushions'/><category term='Schnibbles'/><category term='Heerlen'/><category term='charity quilt'/><category term='patterns'/><category term='Bunny Hill BOM'/><category term='Christmas'/><category term='Advent'/><category term='Winter'/><category term='Gail Pan Designs'/><category term='Note taker'/><category term='sewing mat'/><category term='tablerunner'/><category term='Challenge'/><category term='Giveaway wins'/><category term='Blue Block Quilt'/><category term='embroidery'/><category term='Memory Quilt'/><category term='hearts'/><category term='kleur'/><category term='friendship'/><category term='thread holder'/><category term='autumn'/><category term='Lyn&apos;s Silent Auction'/><category term='sneeuwklokje'/><category term='bag'/><category term='New layout'/><category term='Free patterns'/><category term='Beertje Zonn'/><category term='Calendar quilt challenge'/><category term='Pink Chalk Studio'/><category term='pin cushion club'/><category term='Spring Fling Round Robin-3'/><category term='Leanne&apos;s House'/><category term='Verandah view'/><category term='Giveaway'/><category term='dolls'/><category term='12 Days of Christmas'/><category term='Quilt'/><title type='text'>Simone de Klerk</title><subtitle type='html'>Quilting and Stitchery Diary</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>235</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-2518551242545782614</id><published>2012-01-27T17:20:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-27T17:20:15.921+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Full House Pip</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kyXcvGpiwNY/TyLFz9E-GNI/AAAAAAAADSc/gay_Vpy11F4/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kyXcvGpiwNY/TyLFz9E-GNI/AAAAAAAADSc/gay_Vpy11F4/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another Pip finished. I finished &lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-bow-wow-wow-bag.html"&gt;the top &lt;/a&gt;last year in September for Le Petite. It is my version of the Schnibbles &lt;a href="http://www.missrosiesquiltco.com/Schnibbles.html"&gt;Full House&lt;/a&gt;. Carrie, who designs the Schnibbles &lt;a href="http://lavieenrosie.typepad.com/lavieenrosie/2011/11/building-permit.html"&gt;used this design for a pillow&lt;/a&gt; she made. And I have seen more people using this layout as their Full House version of this month's Another Year of Schnibbles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Weer een Pip af! Vorig jaar september heb ik &lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-bow-wow-wow-bag.html"&gt;de top van deze quilt&lt;/a&gt; gemaakt voor Le Petite. Het is mijn versie van de &lt;a href="http://www.missrosiesquiltco.com/Schnibbles.html"&gt;Full House&lt;/a&gt; Schnibbles. Carrie heeft&lt;a href="http://lavieenrosie.typepad.com/lavieenrosie/2011/11/building-permit.html"&gt; dit ontwerp gebruikt voor een kussenhoes&lt;/a&gt;. En, ik heb al gezien dat enkele mensen hun Full House Schnibble ook op een dergelijke manier gemaakt hebben voor de maand januari van Another Year of Schnibbles.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7h3oCPwAo8I/TyLGIu8MXnI/AAAAAAAADS8/uzAO_5bU9vA/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7h3oCPwAo8I/TyLGIu8MXnI/AAAAAAAADS8/uzAO_5bU9vA/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's the first time I worked with a disappearing marker. It actually works very well. I was always a bit afraid, that the marker wouldn't go away, but that was false alarm. Now I'm starting to wonder if I should start learning Free Motion Quilting, because I just love straight lines!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Het is voor het eerst, dat ik met een verdwijnstift heb gewerkt. Ik vertrouwde het eigenlijk nooit. Maar, de lijnen verdwijnen daadwerkelijk als je ze met water nat maakt. Nu vraag ik me af of ik mezelf Free Motion Quilting zal aanleren. Ik vind rechte lijnen toch eigenlijk heel erg mooi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1CBBDb_Fu9w/TyLF1pzfgWI/AAAAAAAADSk/uzqm_u6uHxs/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1CBBDb_Fu9w/TyLF1pzfgWI/AAAAAAAADSk/uzqm_u6uHxs/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With the scraps from my Designer Mystery BOM 2010, I decided to join the &lt;a href="http://incolororder.blogspot.com/"&gt;Half Square Triangle BOM&lt;/a&gt;. I am also using an extra charm pack that I still had. Just love those fabric colors!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Met de resten van de Designer Mystery BOM 2010 maak ik de &lt;a href="http://incolororder.blogspot.com/"&gt;Half Square Triangle BOM&lt;/a&gt;. Ik heb ook nog een extra charm pack. De kleuren blijven mooi!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xZUuYRUnXTI/TyLF22r6ZjI/AAAAAAAADSs/ECAms3_9w5E/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xZUuYRUnXTI/TyLF22r6ZjI/AAAAAAAADSs/ECAms3_9w5E/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here are the first three blocks of the&lt;a href="http://www.fatquartershop.com/store/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?sid=80131271114518013&amp;amp;Store_id=499&amp;amp;page_id=23&amp;amp;Item_ID=52376&amp;amp;Parent_Ids="&gt; Designer Mystery BOM 2011&lt;/a&gt;. I have 5 more to go, to catch up, so next month I'll make three more. Then by the end of March I will be all up to date. I've already seen that I don't like one of the blocks. But I'll have to decide with my sister Adriënne, for whom I am making this quilt, if she agrees with me. I'm sure there are enough other 12.5" blocks to be found.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;En hier zijn de eerste drie blokken van de &lt;a href="http://www.fatquartershop.com/store/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?sid=80131271114518013&amp;amp;Store_id=499&amp;amp;page_id=23&amp;amp;Item_ID=52376&amp;amp;Parent_Ids="&gt;Designer Mystery BOM 2011&lt;/a&gt;. Ik moet er nog 5 maken, zodat ik weer bij ben. Dus volgende maand opnieuw drie en eind maart ben ik dan helemaal bij. een van de blokken vind ik niet mooi. Maar, ik zal eerst met mijn zus Adriënne overleggen, voor wie ik deze quilt maak, of zij het met mij eens is.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T1Mdas8yG04/TyLF4WNZVNI/AAAAAAAADS0/PSz1WpU6moQ/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T1Mdas8yG04/TyLF4WNZVNI/AAAAAAAADS0/PSz1WpU6moQ/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow Laura will be back after 6 months, so I made this banner for her. The letters are from the fabric I used for the Full House quilt.&lt;br /&gt;Right now Laura is flying for 16 hours to Frankfurt and from there she will be traveling to Aachen, where we will pick her up tomorrow morning at around 9.30 am. So happy to have her back, but I know she will miss Mexico and Costa Rica!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Morgen komt Laura weer na 6 maanden naar huis, dus heb ik deze banner gemaakt. De letters zijn van de stof van Full House.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Op dit moment zit Laura 16 uur in het vliegtuig naar Frankfurt. Van daaruit neemt ze de trein naar Aken, waar we haar rond 9.30 uur zullen afhalen. Ik ben zo blij dat ze terug is, maar ik weet dat ze Mexico en Costa Rica zal missen!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- N. Smith -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-2518551242545782614?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/2518551242545782614/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=2518551242545782614&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/2518551242545782614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/2518551242545782614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2012/01/full-house-pip.html' title='Full House Pip'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kyXcvGpiwNY/TyLFz9E-GNI/AAAAAAAADSc/gay_Vpy11F4/s72-c/aaa+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-9007509257934509803</id><published>2012-01-23T19:28:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-23T19:36:13.213+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Designer's Mystery BOM 2010 - finished!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HKrefQbLyYM/Tx2dfaLNsOI/AAAAAAAADRk/VQRV8lKdX0k/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HKrefQbLyYM/Tx2dfaLNsOI/AAAAAAAADRk/VQRV8lKdX0k/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yeah, I did it. Another Pip done (o: All it needs now is a label, but I am sure I can manage that soon. I hope. I'm not good at labeling ...&lt;br /&gt;The colors are much prettier and even though I was able to take the pictures in the sun today, the colors don't come out well.&lt;br /&gt;I 'copied' &lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/2011/07/4th-of-july-blog-tour.html"&gt;Sherri's&lt;/a&gt; layout for this quilt. The white sashing makes the blocks come our perfectly. Now I'll have to wait another 10 months or so, before I can use it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Joepie, de quilt is af! Weer een Pip die klaar is (o: Nu moet er nog een label op en daar ben ik niet goed in. Misschien volgend jaar ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;De kleuren zijn in het echt veel mooier. Ik heb de foto vandaag zowaar in de zon kunnen nemen, maar toch komen de kleuren niet tot hun recht. Jammer.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;De layout van deze quilt heb ik van &lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/2011/07/4th-of-july-blog-tour.html"&gt;Sherri&lt;/a&gt; overgenomen. Door de witte sashing komen de blokken veel beter uit.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nu nog 10 maanden wachten en dan kan ik de quilt gebruiken. Yeah!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7uMTd38QgfQ/Tx2dg4KSdrI/AAAAAAAADRs/PHI-MPxbcNE/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7uMTd38QgfQ/Tx2dg4KSdrI/AAAAAAAADRs/PHI-MPxbcNE/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;the back - &lt;i&gt;de achterkant&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;*-*-*-*-*-*-*&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now what do you do if you get lovely pens like these and you find &lt;a href="http://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/2012/01/how-to-make-pencil-case.html"&gt;this tutorial &lt;/a&gt;for a case that would be perfect for it? Right, you make it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wat doe je als je deze mooie pennen krijgt en je &lt;a href="http://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/2012/01/how-to-make-pencil-case.html"&gt;deze tutorial &lt;/a&gt;vindt voor een etui? Juist, dan maak je de etui (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MzbUbAsgnx4/Tx2diGSDi-I/AAAAAAAADR0/RJGNIlD5JaI/s1600/aaa+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MzbUbAsgnx4/Tx2diGSDi-I/AAAAAAAADR0/RJGNIlD5JaI/s320/aaa+006.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pen(cil) case was designed by the very talented &lt;a href="http://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/"&gt;Lisa from A Spoonful of Sugar&lt;/a&gt;. If you have never visited her blog, you better take a nice cup of coffee or tea and take your time exploring it. She has so many lovely ideas and tutorials.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;De etui is ontworpen door&lt;a href="http://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/"&gt; Lisa van A Spoonful of Sugar&lt;/a&gt;. Als je haar blog nog niet eerder bezocht hebt, neem &amp;nbsp;dan de tijd met een lekker kopje koffie of thee. Lisa heeft heel leuke ideeën en tutorials!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LBX2HWHWXKQ/Tx2dkUUnoMI/AAAAAAAADR8/V9xusMGN084/s1600/aaa+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LBX2HWHWXKQ/Tx2dkUUnoMI/AAAAAAAADR8/V9xusMGN084/s320/aaa+009.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w4C1pMn4bew/Tx2gU8INkuI/AAAAAAAADSE/eUZy8Uyr7vs/s1600/aaa+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w4C1pMn4bew/Tx2gU8INkuI/AAAAAAAADSE/eUZy8Uyr7vs/s320/aaa+010.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Let us be grateful&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;to people who make us happy;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;They are the charming gardeners&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;who make our souls blossom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;-Marcel Proust-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-9007509257934509803?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/9007509257934509803/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=9007509257934509803&amp;isPopup=true' title='26 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/9007509257934509803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/9007509257934509803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2012/01/mystery-bom-2010-finished.html' title='Designer&apos;s Mystery BOM 2010 - finished!'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HKrefQbLyYM/Tx2dfaLNsOI/AAAAAAAADRk/VQRV8lKdX0k/s72-c/aaa+002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>26</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-374437510214097224</id><published>2012-01-18T17:42:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-18T17:42:33.129+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Teeny tiny cushion and winners</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUOdv5zzmHg/TxbwrPlRoFI/AAAAAAAADRA/KHoSzwKu_dc/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUOdv5zzmHg/TxbwrPlRoFI/AAAAAAAADRA/KHoSzwKu_dc/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Two teeny projects from small scraps. The little cushion is a bit bigger than 2 inches. So much fun to make (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Twee mini projecten van kleine scraps. Het kussentje is iets groter dan 2 inches. Zo leuk om te maken (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e58crReyPVA/TxbwtajFqoI/AAAAAAAADRI/vXXzGx4_ff0/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e58crReyPVA/TxbwtajFqoI/AAAAAAAADRI/vXXzGx4_ff0/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And this is the back. I am really enjoying making this. Always nice to discover a new passion.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En dit is de achterkant. Ik vind het zo leuk, dit te doen. Altijd leuk, een nieuwe passie te ontdekken.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kRMaWIYGWnI/TxbwvS643SI/AAAAAAAADRQ/TwzgWfvE1xk/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kRMaWIYGWnI/TxbwvS643SI/AAAAAAAADRQ/TwzgWfvE1xk/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I found this picture in my New York book, which I hadn't looked into for a long time. How time flies. We had such a good time there with my parents. Some day we want to take our kids for a visit to New York!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze foto vond ik in mijn New York boek. Ik had er al lang niet meer in gekeken. Wat gaat de tijd toch snel. New York is een geweldige stad. Het was er zo fijn met mijn ouders. Ooit willen we onze kinderen mee naar New York nemen. Een stad die je gezien, gevoeld, geroken en geproefd moet hebben!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-23DLvhT3waE/TxbzEtN0YEI/AAAAAAAADRY/MOvQ2Z7MwdI/s1600/Wringer+Washer+Hard+Copy+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-23DLvhT3waE/TxbzEtN0YEI/AAAAAAAADRY/MOvQ2Z7MwdI/s320/Wringer+Washer+Hard+Copy+Cover.jpg" width="207" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(picture taken from &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Loft Creation&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;And now the winners of the Wringer Washer pattern. I have two winners, because &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie &lt;/a&gt;was so kind to give away a pattern and she gave me an extra one.&lt;br /&gt;The winners are &lt;a href="http://sweetp-paulette.blogspot.com/"&gt;Paulette &lt;/a&gt;(7) and &lt;a href="http://aquiltlady.blogspot.com/"&gt;Grethe&lt;/a&gt; (14). The winning numbers were 7 and 13, but because Carrie P (13) already has this gorgeous pattern, I took the next person in line.&lt;br /&gt;Congratulations, ladies! I will send you an email!&lt;br /&gt;I also want to thank you all for your great advise concerning quilting with golden thread. Key words: I will need to use another needle and maybe play with the tension (I don't like playing with tension...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;En nu de winnaars van het Wringer Washer patroon. Ik heb twee winnaars, omdat &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt; zo aardig was een patroon weg te geven en ze had mij nog een extra patroon toegestuurd.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;De winnaars zijn &lt;a href="http://sweetp-paulette.blogspot.com/"&gt;Paulette&lt;/a&gt; (7) en&lt;a href="http://aquiltlady.blogspot.com/"&gt; Grethe&lt;/a&gt; (14). De winnende getallen waren 7 en 13, maar omdat Carrie P (13) het patroon al heeft, heb ik de volgende persoon genomen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gefeliciteerd dames! Ik zal jullie een email sturen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ook wil ik iedereen bedanken betreffende de adviezen voor het gebruik van gouddraad. Ik ga het de volgende keer met een speciale naald proberen en wat meer met de spanning spelen. Maar, ik houd er niet van, met de spanning van de machine te 'spelen'. Misschien toch maar eens doen ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-374437510214097224?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/374437510214097224/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=374437510214097224&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/374437510214097224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/374437510214097224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2012/01/teeny-tiny-cushion-and-winners.html' title='Teeny tiny cushion and winners'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUOdv5zzmHg/TxbwrPlRoFI/AAAAAAAADRA/KHoSzwKu_dc/s72-c/aaa+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-3427091776008223739</id><published>2012-01-16T13:50:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-16T13:56:27.336+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A Wringer Washer Giveaway</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6cfPq6TCA7Y/TxQZRyT6pdI/AAAAAAAADQg/dkiHrsu_wR4/s1600/aaa+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6cfPq6TCA7Y/TxQZRyT6pdI/AAAAAAAADQg/dkiHrsu_wR4/s320/aaa+006.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;This is&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations?ref=seller_info"&gt;Loft Creations' newest pattern,&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;designed by&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt;. A very fun quilt to make and what I liked most about it is the dark background used in the border blocks&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;using the same block design &amp;nbsp;for the middle piece as for the border, but than in two different sizes. I quilted with golden thread, which gives a nice effect, but cost me 4 machine needles ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Please head over to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt;, to admire Stephanie's beautiful version and the story behind this pattern!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit is&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations?ref=seller_info"&gt;Loft Creations nieuwste patroon,&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;ontworpen door&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt;. Een heel leuke quilt om te maken en wat ik zo leuk vond aan deze quilt is de donkere achtergrond die in de border gebruikt wordt&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;en&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;het gebruik van hetzelfde blok voor zowel het middenstuk als de border, maar dan in twee verschillende groottes. Ik heb de quilt met gouddraad doorgequilt. Geeft wel een leuk effect, maar heeft me 4 naalden gekost ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Op&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanies blog&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;kun je haar heldere versie bewonderen en het verhaal achter dit patroon.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KkmnYYiW2vM/TxQZUFxfUrI/AAAAAAAADQo/w7hMpKRNtVc/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KkmnYYiW2vM/TxQZUFxfUrI/AAAAAAAADQo/w7hMpKRNtVc/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Big block&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xwaZN6hoWAU/TxQZY62uevI/AAAAAAAADQw/CqZuPsotBTk/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xwaZN6hoWAU/TxQZY62uevI/AAAAAAAADQw/CqZuPsotBTk/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Small blocks&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y03T3t9ck6E/TxQZaQbHPTI/AAAAAAAADQ4/SXIdLt6b1aI/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y03T3t9ck6E/TxQZaQbHPTI/AAAAAAAADQ4/SXIdLt6b1aI/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I was lucky the weather was so sunny. Makes the quilt even more beautiful!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gelukkig schijnt de zon heerlijk vandaag. Dat maakt de quilt nog mooier!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stephanie is so kind to give away a copy of her newest pattern. If you want a chance to win, please leave a comment and if possible tell me if you have any tips when machine quilting with golden thread. I will let you know who the winner is on Wednesday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Stepanie is zo aardig om een kopie van haar nieuwste patroon weg te geven. Als je wilt winnen, laat dan een comment achter en misschien kun je me een tip geven voor het doorquilten met gouddraad op de machine. Op woensdag zal ik de winnaar bekend maken.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Albert Einstein -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-3427091776008223739?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/3427091776008223739/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=3427091776008223739&amp;isPopup=true' title='39 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3427091776008223739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3427091776008223739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2012/01/wringer-washer-giveaway.html' title='A Wringer Washer Giveaway'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6cfPq6TCA7Y/TxQZRyT6pdI/AAAAAAAADQg/dkiHrsu_wR4/s72-c/aaa+006.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>39</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-429716000918252305</id><published>2012-01-14T19:11:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-14T19:13:42.744+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Designer's Mystery BOM 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jEMoyzN0IcM/TxHAEuHAE8I/AAAAAAAADPw/ElfSl20dgBc/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jEMoyzN0IcM/TxHAEuHAE8I/AAAAAAAADPw/ElfSl20dgBc/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week I started working on the Designer Mystery BOM 2011. This time I will be making it for my sister Adriënne. This is the first block and on the top left you can see parts of the second block. Once again lots of fun and the design is often so clever!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze week ben ik begonnen met de Designer Mystery BOM 2011. Dit keer zal ik het voor mijn zus Adriënne maken. Boven zie je het eerste blok en links zie je delen van het tweede blok. Opnieuw is dit heel leuk te maken, net als de BOM van 2010.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qSqZsoW2XMw/TxHB_T3lDHI/AAAAAAAADQI/0dcjeUV6xNg/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qSqZsoW2XMw/TxHB_T3lDHI/AAAAAAAADQI/0dcjeUV6xNg/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am planning not to throw away the tiniest pieces of scraps this time and see what I can come up with. . These are scraps from the first block, the four corner blocks. I still need to add some hearts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik ben van plan om dit keer geen restjes van de blokken weg te gooien. Zelfs niet de kleinste. Eens kijken wat ik ervan zal maken. Het mini quiltje hierboven is van de restjes van de vier hoekblokken van het eerste blok gemaakt. Er moeten nog een paar hartjes aan.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vUXvTdmHNF8/TxHAGEjUBgI/AAAAAAAADP4/uri-_Rq9_GQ/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vUXvTdmHNF8/TxHAGEjUBgI/AAAAAAAADP4/uri-_Rq9_GQ/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-align: center;"&gt;These are some of the left overs from the second block. But this time there is much more!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit zijn een paar overblijfsels van blok 2. Maar, er is nog veel meer!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SSvde1KhiE0/TxHAGxOr-9I/AAAAAAAADQA/br_4HCKDp3U/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SSvde1KhiE0/TxHAGxOr-9I/AAAAAAAADQA/br_4HCKDp3U/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mini pinwheel block is about 1 3/4". I am starting to re-discover that I love working on tiny projects, with tiny pieces!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;De mini pinwheel is ongeveer 1 3/4". Ik begin opnieuw te ontdekken hoe leuk ik het eigenlijk vind, aan heel kleine projectjes te werken, met heel kleine stukjes!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;live a balanced life&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;learn some and think some&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and draw and paint&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and sing and dance&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and play and work&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;everyday&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;some&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;- Robert Fulghum -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-429716000918252305?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/429716000918252305/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=429716000918252305&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/429716000918252305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/429716000918252305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2012/01/designers-mystery-bom-2011.html' title='Designer&apos;s Mystery BOM 2011'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jEMoyzN0IcM/TxHAEuHAE8I/AAAAAAAADPw/ElfSl20dgBc/s72-c/aaa+004.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-8357021933221680707</id><published>2012-01-11T16:24:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-11T17:21:58.148+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pip progress</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zW-QrsmdIwo/Tw2k-NIgMwI/AAAAAAAADPg/bWyj7ubu2L0/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zW-QrsmdIwo/Tw2k-NIgMwI/AAAAAAAADPg/bWyj7ubu2L0/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last part of my Designer's Mystery BOM 2010: binding. Focus seems to be the keyword here. Hope I can keep it up (o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Het laatste deel van mijn Designer's Mystery BOM 2010: de bies. Focussen schijnt het magische woord te zijn.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;x-x-x-x-x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-onCLY0d7wpI/Tw2k6LWjHdI/AAAAAAAADPQ/mOUHN-5NLpE/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-onCLY0d7wpI/Tw2k6LWjHdI/AAAAAAAADPQ/mOUHN-5NLpE/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have also started my &lt;a href="http://www.fatquartershop.com/store/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?sid=96461111012589646&amp;amp;Store_id=499&amp;amp;page_id=23&amp;amp;Item_ID=52376&amp;amp;Parent_Ids="&gt;Designer's Mystery BOM 2011&lt;/a&gt;. First block. I am going to call it a Pip, since I started receiving the blocks in June 2011. It's once again so much fun to make! And, I decided to save the HST scraps. The fabric is too pretty, to just throw away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik ben ook met de &lt;a href="http://www.fatquartershop.com/store/stores_app/Browse_Item_Details.asp?sid=96461111012589646&amp;amp;Store_id=499&amp;amp;page_id=23&amp;amp;Item_ID=52376&amp;amp;Parent_Ids="&gt;Designer's Mystery BOM 2011 &lt;/a&gt;begonnen. Het eerst blok. Ook dit wordt een Pip, omdat ik de blokken al vanaf juni 2011 binnen krijg. Dit blok is weer zo leuk to maken! En, ik bewaar de HST restjes. De stof is te mooi om weg te gooien, ook al zijn het maar kleine stukje.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;x-x-x-x-x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4sNN5zpz7lk/Tw2k7PA5zXI/AAAAAAAADPY/CpugQYRnrpI/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4sNN5zpz7lk/Tw2k7PA5zXI/AAAAAAAADPY/CpugQYRnrpI/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the start of a bag my 11 year old niece is making. It is one of &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2007/07/patterns-by-loft-creations.html"&gt;Stephanie's patterns &lt;/a&gt;of &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt;, Oak Park. She took the fabrics from a jelly roll and realized that making a nice balance is not so easy. She did have lots of fun doing it though and it was the first time she worked on a sewing machine. Unfortunately, my niece lives a few hours away from us, so we'll have to plan our next meeting soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit is het begin van een tas van mijn 11-jarig nichtje. Het is van &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2007/07/patterns-by-loft-creations.html"&gt;een patroon van Stephanie&lt;/a&gt; van&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt; Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt;, Oak Park. De stofjes zijn van een jelly roll. M'n nichtje ontdekte al snel, dat het helemaal niet zo makelijk is, de stofjes zo bij elkaar te leggen. Ze vond het wel heel leuk te doen. Voor het eerst heeft ze achter een naaimachine gezeten en ze vond het geweldig. Ik weet niet of ze nog zo snel met de hand zal naaien. Helaas woont m'n nichtje in Oegstgeest, dus moeten we een volgende afspraak plannen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Knowing others is intelligence; &lt;br /&gt;knowing yourself is true wisdom. &lt;br /&gt;Mastering others is strength; &lt;br /&gt;mastering yourself is true power."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Laozi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-8357021933221680707?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/8357021933221680707/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=8357021933221680707&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8357021933221680707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8357021933221680707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2012/01/pip-progress.html' title='Pip progress'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zW-QrsmdIwo/Tw2k-NIgMwI/AAAAAAAADPg/bWyj7ubu2L0/s72-c/aaa+002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-1111355632251719570</id><published>2012-01-08T19:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-08T19:04:48.110+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Another Pip</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-laJlblV7hbQ/TwnO4ZK3KOI/AAAAAAAADOs/oiwZdLRVg2Q/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-laJlblV7hbQ/TwnO4ZK3KOI/AAAAAAAADOs/oiwZdLRVg2Q/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is another Pip I am working on, the Web Sampler Quilt 2009. I finished the blocks in 2009, the top in 2010 and I was going to finish it for Ger's birthday in 2011. It is now 2012. With some luck, I will be able to finish it for his 50th birthday (o: It takes so much time, because I am hand quilting it. I love doing that, but can only do it about 1/2 an hour a day. No worries. There are enough days until April 2012!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Weer een Pip, de Web Sampler 2009. De blokken heb ik in 2009 afgemaakt, de top in 2010 en ik wilde de quilt voor de verjaardag van Ger af hebben in 2011. Niet dus. Nu is het 2012. Met een beetje geluk, zal ik de quilt voor Gers 50e verjaardag afhebben in april. Het duurt lang, omdat ik de quilt met de hand quilt en ik maar zo'n half uurtje per dag kan quilten. Maar, tot april 2012 zijn er nog heel wat dagen, dus het zou moeten lukken (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please have a look at the 'fun' tab above. Lots of great links for new projects you might want to start (one day).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Neem even een kijkje naar de 'fun' tab hierboven. Een aantal leuke links, voor projecten die je (ooit) kunt beginnen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow them."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;- Louisa May Alcott&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-1111355632251719570?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/1111355632251719570/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=1111355632251719570&amp;isPopup=true' title='15 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/1111355632251719570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/1111355632251719570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2012/01/another-pip.html' title='Another Pip'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-laJlblV7hbQ/TwnO4ZK3KOI/AAAAAAAADOs/oiwZdLRVg2Q/s72-c/aaa+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-3530506352389324313</id><published>2012-01-06T18:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-06T18:09:22.091+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Finished Pip nr. 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I did it! I finished my first Pip. It's a Schnibbles - Plan C that I made in &lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2010/08/last-schnibbles-for-year-of-schnibbles.html"&gt;August 2010&lt;/a&gt;. I have had it quilted for a while (a year) and it only needed a border. Ta-da. Done!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ja, het is me gelukt! Mijn eerst Pip is af. Het is een Schnibbles - Plan C, die ik in &lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2010/08/last-schnibbles-for-year-of-schnibbles.html"&gt;augustus 2010&lt;/a&gt; heb gemaakt. &amp;nbsp;De quilt is al bijna een jaar door gequilt. Alleen de border moest er nog aan. Ta-da. Helemaal klaar!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LYDqTvaMKPA/TwcmYC-dr0I/AAAAAAAADNc/WpKRvdcrY3E/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LYDqTvaMKPA/TwcmYC-dr0I/AAAAAAAADNc/WpKRvdcrY3E/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;+-+-+-+&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;And today I got distracted. I made a diary for my Pips. I made it a bit too small for the booklet I put in, but I took a good picture, so you can't see it ;o)&lt;br /&gt;I have also been working on a small Christmas quilt. You can see some of the blocks, but I won't be showing you the finish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;En vandaag werd ik afgeleid. Ik heb een dagboek gemaakt voor mijn Pips. Het hoesje is een beetje te klein voor het schrift, maar de foto laat het niet zien ;o)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb ook aan blokjes voor een kerstquilt gewerkt. Het hele quiltje laat ik niet zien. Wel heel leuk om te doen!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hjq6QCYo6Fc/Twcm0HFc6UI/AAAAAAAADNs/LRYOokgPwxY/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hjq6QCYo6Fc/Twcm0HFc6UI/AAAAAAAADNs/LRYOokgPwxY/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"There  is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own  brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Dalai Lama&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-3530506352389324313?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/3530506352389324313/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=3530506352389324313&amp;isPopup=true' title='19 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3530506352389324313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3530506352389324313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2012/01/finished-pip-nr-1.html' title='Finished Pip nr. 1'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LYDqTvaMKPA/TwcmYC-dr0I/AAAAAAAADNc/WpKRvdcrY3E/s72-c/aaa+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-4214237003303547928</id><published>2012-01-04T16:08:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-04T16:08:46.456+01:00</updated><title type='text'>My first Pips and a scraptacular happening</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i6gEF4EU3tI/TwRlWanbzoI/AAAAAAAADMw/kA9PKDeHZpg/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i6gEF4EU3tI/TwRlWanbzoI/AAAAAAAADMw/kA9PKDeHZpg/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my first Pip. I have already quilted 8 blocks. Only 4 more to go. My Janome is perfect for this size of quilt. I could never have done it with my old Pfaff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit is mijn eerst Pip. Ik heb al 8 blokken gequilt en hoef er nog maar 4 te doen. Mijn Janame is perfect voor dit werkje! Ik had het nooit met mijn Pfaff gekund.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;+-+-+-+&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xAxkpIDQMMc/TwRlX2iFF3I/AAAAAAAADM4/RAGhYTJrRpE/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xAxkpIDQMMc/TwRlX2iFF3I/AAAAAAAADM4/RAGhYTJrRpE/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My second Pip. The above picture is how it looked this morning, after 2 days of work and the bottom picture shows the top finished with sashing. Now I have three borders to go and then the top will be done (o: Not my colors, but very pretty. I am making it for a dear friend!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mijn tweede Pip. De bovenste foto laat zien hoever ik vanochtend was, na 2 dagen eraan gewerkt te hebben en hieronder zie je hoe de top eruit ziet zonder de 3 borders die ik er nog aan moet zetten. Nog eventjes en de top is klaar! Niet mijn kleuren maar wel heel mooi! Ik maak de quilt voor een lieve vriendin.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PTXTfsru1I4/TwRlZfJ2NjI/AAAAAAAADNA/UgfmbFo5CE4/s1600/aaa+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PTXTfsru1I4/TwRlZfJ2NjI/AAAAAAAADNA/UgfmbFo5CE4/s320/aaa+007.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;+-+-+-+&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MzPkmIsu0-g/TwRlaS9_ADI/AAAAAAAADNI/4N-IVH8XoVU/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MzPkmIsu0-g/TwRlaS9_ADI/AAAAAAAADNI/4N-IVH8XoVU/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today Bibi decided to join me upstairs in my sewing room. She has never done that before. It was nice having her company and hearing her groan every now and then when I was making too much noice. The older she gets, the more she does it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vandaag is Bibi voor het eerst boven gebleven, terwijl ik aan het naaien was. Heel gezellig en ook heel grappig, haar regelmatig te horen kreunen als ik te veel lawaai maakte. Hoe ouder ze wordt, hoe meer ze het doet.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;+-+-+-+&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B_2XJt1gCDY/TwRpN-XeSNI/AAAAAAAADNU/6qCeA7KaDUU/s1600/borderbuttonpng.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B_2XJt1gCDY/TwRpN-XeSNI/AAAAAAAADNU/6qCeA7KaDUU/s1600/borderbuttonpng.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please go over to &lt;a href="http://www.pleasant-home.com/"&gt;Jodi's blog&lt;/a&gt;. She is having a Sew Scraps Along. There is something happening there everyday and hey, don't we all have scraps! You can already find the first '&lt;a href="http://www.pleasant-home.com/2012/01/scraptacular-picnic-quilt.html"&gt;scraptacular' tutorial here&lt;/a&gt;, designed by Nanette, one of the first bloggers I 'met' when I started blogging. Enjoy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wanneer je naar &lt;a href="http://www.pleasant-home.com/"&gt;Jodi's blog&lt;/a&gt; gaat, zul je je snel weten, wat je met je scraps moet doen in haar Sew Scraps Along. Er is de komende 4 weken wel iedere dag iets te doen! Het eerste '&lt;a href="http://www.pleasant-home.com/2012/01/scraptacular-picnic-quilt.html"&gt;scraptacular' patroon&lt;/a&gt; is er al, ontworpen door Nanette, een van de eerste bloggers die ik heb leren kennen, toen ik met bloggen begon. Veel plezier!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;+-+-+-+&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"The world only exists in your eyes - your conception of it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;You can make it as big or as small as you want to."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;- F. Scott Fitzgerald -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-4214237003303547928?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/4214237003303547928/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=4214237003303547928&amp;isPopup=true' title='21 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4214237003303547928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4214237003303547928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-first-pips-and-scraptacular.html' title='My first Pips and a scraptacular happening'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-i6gEF4EU3tI/TwRlWanbzoI/AAAAAAAADMw/kA9PKDeHZpg/s72-c/aaa+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-1267834609860458400</id><published>2012-01-02T20:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-02T20:08:20.097+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The happiest wishes for 2012!</title><content type='html'>Like every year, I think about good plans for the year to come. One thing is sure, I want to finish Pips (Projects in Progress), a name introduced by Stephanie at&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt; Loft Creations.&lt;/a&gt; Please read &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/12/be-pipster-in-2012.html"&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt; and join the fun!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zoals ieder nieuw jaar maak ik plannen voor het jaar dat voor me staat. Een ding staat vast: ik wil Pips afmaken (Projects in Progress). Stephanie van &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt; heeft deze naam bedacht. &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/12/be-pipster-in-2012.html"&gt;Lees er hier&lt;/a&gt; meer over en doe mee!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w6E5qYCy5P4/TwH7pSOce2I/AAAAAAAADMk/qvnGpHvzjnA/s1600/sewing+machine+clip+art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w6E5qYCy5P4/TwH7pSOce2I/AAAAAAAADMk/qvnGpHvzjnA/s1600/sewing+machine+clip+art.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I came across the &lt;a href="http://www.mysimplerlife.com/decluttercalendar.htm"&gt;2012 Declutter Calendar&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://sharonsfavorites.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sharon's blog&lt;/a&gt;. I can make a start and see how far I come...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ook kwam ik de &lt;a href="http://www.mysimplerlife.com/decluttercalendar.htm"&gt;2012 Ceclutter Calendar&lt;/a&gt; tegen op &lt;a href="http://sharonsfavorites.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sharon's blog&lt;/a&gt;. Ik kan allicht een begin maken ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QM8Cm7Dy3rg/TwH7RVvekGI/AAAAAAAADMY/f-M46FlTlsQ/s1600/decluttercalendar2009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QM8Cm7Dy3rg/TwH7RVvekGI/AAAAAAAADMY/f-M46FlTlsQ/s1600/decluttercalendar2009.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A short while ago, my father gave me the following quote:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een tijdje geleden gaf mijn vader mij de volgende spreuk:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Geef mensen een pluim&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;en ze krijgen vleugels.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;-Marleen Borzée-&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;~.~.~.~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Give people praise&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;and you give them wings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;(free translation)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-1267834609860458400?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/1267834609860458400/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=1267834609860458400&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/1267834609860458400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/1267834609860458400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2012/01/happiest-wishes-for-2012.html' title='The happiest wishes for 2012!'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w6E5qYCy5P4/TwH7pSOce2I/AAAAAAAADMk/qvnGpHvzjnA/s72-c/sewing+machine+clip+art.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-5495716210286583867</id><published>2011-12-29T14:34:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T14:39:26.322+01:00</updated><title type='text'>SSCS 2011 with Santa Liz</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;On Christmas Day&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;At half past three&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I thought of Liz&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;and Liz thought of me (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MjvVL0TaoUE/TvxlOS6nPpI/AAAAAAAADLU/4LptiGcPVo0/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MjvVL0TaoUE/TvxlOS6nPpI/AAAAAAAADLU/4LptiGcPVo0/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://luv2cre8te.blogspot.com/"&gt;Liz &lt;/a&gt;really did a very good job to get to know me on my blog. She already made the sweetest ornament in my favorite color and look what I opened on Christmas Day. This lovely table runner. The fabrics are so pretty and the stitcheries are so sweet. I'll wait until Spring starts to shine, before I put this on our table.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://luv2cre8te.blogspot.com/"&gt;Liz&lt;/a&gt; heeft echt haar best gedaan, mijn smaak te ontdekken. De ornament was al helemaal in mijn kleuren, maar &amp;nbsp;kijk eens naar de tablerunner. Zulke mooie stofjes en de stitchery past er zo leuk bij! Ik wacht tot het lente wordt, voordat ik de tablerunner ga gebruiken. Dus lente, kom maar op ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WTXE6nEMllk/TvxlP3U-yaI/AAAAAAAADLc/v7Y0_orqP-A/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WTXE6nEMllk/TvxlP3U-yaI/AAAAAAAADLc/v7Y0_orqP-A/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that was not all. Liz also discovered that I really enjoy making bags and she got a special Handmade for me: Bags for all occasions. I already found 2 bags I really want to make in 2012.&lt;br /&gt;And look at the cutest kangeroo hanger for Christmas. We can definitely not find those in the Netherlands!&lt;br /&gt;There was something else ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Maar, dat was niet alles. Liz heeft ook ontdekt, dat ik heel graag tassen maak en kijk eens naar het speciale tijdschrift dat ze voor me heeft gevonden van Handmade. Ik heb al 2 tassen gezien, die ik wil gaan maken.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zie je ook de&amp;nbsp;kangoeroe&amp;nbsp;voor kerst. Geweldig toch, met muts, sjaar en kerstboom.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Er was nog iets ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TIqzuEqXuyM/TvxlRD1MYLI/AAAAAAAADLk/kiPyhtp1NJE/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TIqzuEqXuyM/TvxlRD1MYLI/AAAAAAAADLk/kiPyhtp1NJE/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... a scarf, knitted by Liz. So nice and soft and once again, such a pretty color. Take a close look at the right picture. You will see the stucture of the yarn Liz used.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... een sjaal, gebreid door Liz. Zo lekker zacht en ook de kleur is zo mooi! Als je goed naar de rechtse foto kijkt, kun je de&amp;nbsp;structuur&amp;nbsp;van het garen zien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G4IW8B47CZs/TvxlRjqmXSI/AAAAAAAADLo/Nj-d_ubGqtg/s1600/Picnik+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="190" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G4IW8B47CZs/TvxlRjqmXSI/AAAAAAAADLo/Nj-d_ubGqtg/s320/Picnik+collage.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A big big THANK YOU to you dear &lt;a href="http://luv2cre8te.blogspot.com/"&gt;Liz&lt;/a&gt;, for being such a wonderful Secret Santa for me!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And thank you &lt;a href="http://chookyblue.blogspot.com/"&gt;Chookyblue &lt;/a&gt;for once again organizing this great adventure!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Heel erg bedankt, lieve &lt;a href="http://luv2cre8te.blogspot.com/"&gt;Liz&lt;/a&gt;! Je was een echt een geweldige Secret Santa voor mij!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En ook &lt;a href="http://chookyblue.blogspot.com/"&gt;Chookyblue &lt;/a&gt;bedankt voor het organiseren van weer een gezellig avontuur!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;*-*-*-*&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dp_Ve6w-_6s/TvxlS604LzI/AAAAAAAADL0/yqhqxJv-_Vk/s1600/aaa+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dp_Ve6w-_6s/TvxlS604LzI/AAAAAAAADL0/yqhqxJv-_Vk/s320/aaa+007.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see, I have not sat still, since we came back from our vacation. But, I am still not quite back yet with me thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;Bibi inspected my layering. She didn't quite agree, as I was taking her space to walk. I eventually finished the layering, but frequently asked myself : why I am doing this? Oh yes, that's right. I want to finish quilt tops that have been patiently waiting ... My knees still don't agree, but they have some time off now till the next quilt top is done ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am thinking about how I want to fill in 2012 with blogging and quilting. Difficult. I do know, that I want to finish quilts. Lots of quilts. And, start as few big quilts (read: non)&amp;nbsp;as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zoals je ziet, heb ik niet stil gezeten, sinds we van vakantie terug zijn. Maar mijn gedachten zijn er nog steeds niet helemaal bij.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bibi inspecteert mijn werk. Ze is het er niet helemaal mee eens, aangezien ik haar plek om gewoon te kunnen lopen en uitrekken heb weggenomen. Maar, ik ben nu klaar en heb me regelmatig afgevraagd: waarom doe ik dit eigenlijk? Oh ja, om de quilts die al zo lang geduldig liggen te wachten, af te krijgen ... Mijn knieën zijn het er niet mee eens, maar die hebben even rust, totdat de volgende top klaar is.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Momenteel ben ik aan het nadenken over hoe ik in 2012 verder wil gaan met bloggen en quilten. Moeilijk. Ik weet in ieder geval wel dat ik quilts wil afmaken. Heel veel quilts. En aan zo min mogelijk (lees: geen) grote quilts beginnen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-5495716210286583867?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/5495716210286583867/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=5495716210286583867&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5495716210286583867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5495716210286583867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/12/sscs-2012-with-santa-liz.html' title='SSCS 2011 with Santa Liz'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MjvVL0TaoUE/TvxlOS6nPpI/AAAAAAAADLU/4LptiGcPVo0/s72-c/aaa+003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-1703709404725790525</id><published>2011-12-20T17:55:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T17:57:56.170+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Back, but still not quite there and Secret Santa Christmas Swap</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rMyY-fiNNas/TvC54QcCuLI/AAAAAAAADK4/UT3NpC0l45M/s1600/aaa+159.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rMyY-fiNNas/TvC54QcCuLI/AAAAAAAADK4/UT3NpC0l45M/s320/aaa+159.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That has been quite a while, that I wrote my last post. I have been back for more than a week now, but somehow I am still not back to earth. And I have only been away for three weeks. But, we had such a wonderful time in California with Louise and in Mexico, that it is difficult to be back.&lt;br /&gt;More about our vacation in next posts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Het is weer een tijdje geleden, dat ik voor het laatst heb geschreven. Ik ben nu meer dan een week terug, maar op de een of andere manier kan ik er nog niet echt aan wennen. En we zijn 'maar' 3 weken weggeweest. California met Louise en Mexico met Laura waren zo fijn, dat het moeilijk is weer aan het normale dagelijkse leven te wennen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Meer over onze vakantie in berichten die volgen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This year I joined only one organized swap, the Secret Santa Christmas Swap (SSCS) with&lt;a href="http://chookyblue.blogspot.com/"&gt; Chookyblue&lt;/a&gt;. Liz from &lt;a href="http://luv2cre8te.blogspot.com/"&gt;Luv 2 Cre8te&lt;/a&gt; is/was my Secret Santa.&lt;br /&gt;Once we get our parcel, we are allowed to open the ornament. Look at what Liz made me. It's so pretty!!! And ... &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"&gt;PINK!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love the saying on the back, that Liz stitched! And she added a tea bag (o: I'll be thinking of you then, Liz!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit jaar heb ik aan één georganiseerde swap meegedaan, nl. die van &lt;a href="http://chookyblue.blogspot.com/"&gt;Chookyblue&lt;/a&gt;, de Secret Santa Christmas Swap (SSCS). Liz van&lt;a href="http://luv2cre8te.blogspot.com/"&gt; Luv 2 Cre8te&lt;/a&gt; is/was mijn Secret Santa.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Als we het pakketje krijgen, mogen wij het cadeautje met de ornament openmaken. Kijk eens wat Liz voor me heeft gemaakt. Het is zo mooi!!! En ... &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;"&gt;PINK!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Is het gedichtje dat Liz op de achterkant gestitcht heeft niet leuk! Er zit ook een theezakje bij (o: Ik zal aan je denken, Liz!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bJ0lcNre0pk/TvC7_yN1SOI/AAAAAAAADLA/Q6x1vs8mTMg/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bJ0lcNre0pk/TvC7_yN1SOI/AAAAAAAADLA/Q6x1vs8mTMg/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Rw5c7oTqQ9I/TvC8C2ujFjI/AAAAAAAADLI/eYSnM_ic07Q/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Rw5c7oTqQ9I/TvC8C2ujFjI/AAAAAAAADLI/eYSnM_ic07Q/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;On Christmas Day&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;At half past 3 ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I'll think of you&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;You think of me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-1703709404725790525?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/1703709404725790525/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=1703709404725790525&amp;isPopup=true' title='26 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/1703709404725790525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/1703709404725790525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/12/back-but-still-not-quite-there-and.html' title='Back, but still not quite there and Secret Santa Christmas Swap'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rMyY-fiNNas/TvC54QcCuLI/AAAAAAAADK4/UT3NpC0l45M/s72-c/aaa+159.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>26</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-3875121333703498349</id><published>2011-11-19T20:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-19T20:09:03.347+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog break</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YQx3ZcykmrE/Tsf8RCh30eI/AAAAAAAADJQ/1XALlqiFC5E/s1600/aaa+011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YQx3ZcykmrE/Tsf8RCh30eI/AAAAAAAADJQ/1XALlqiFC5E/s320/aaa+011.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;I won't be blogging for quite a while. However, I do want to share some more autumn pictures with you, taken last Thursday. I always walk the same route, so Bibi can walk on her own, but, everyday I see and find something new!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik zal een tijdje niet bloggen. Toch wil ik nog een paar foto's met jullie delen van de prachtige herfst dit jaar. De foto's zijn afgelopen donderdag genomen. Iedere dag loop ik dezelfde route, zodat Bibi los kan lopen. Het verveelt nooit! Iedere dag ontdek ik wel iets nieuws! Geniet.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CgutZselzKc/Tsf8UG2A6-I/AAAAAAAADJY/G9Wp4OKYMQ8/s1600/aaa+017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CgutZselzKc/Tsf8UG2A6-I/AAAAAAAADJY/G9Wp4OKYMQ8/s320/aaa+017.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aheRIWsoFbI/Tsf8WWnCYlI/AAAAAAAADJg/PbpPni1sX-s/s1600/aaa+018.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aheRIWsoFbI/Tsf8WWnCYlI/AAAAAAAADJg/PbpPni1sX-s/s320/aaa+018.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BQHyQYdfW9c/Tsf8YvdfNiI/AAAAAAAADJo/H1cpYLIqV3U/s1600/aaa+019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BQHyQYdfW9c/Tsf8YvdfNiI/AAAAAAAADJo/H1cpYLIqV3U/s320/aaa+019.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XHqQz5OfatM/Tsf8cxB3C6I/AAAAAAAADJw/o3cRZ2X8tL0/s1600/aaa+020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XHqQz5OfatM/Tsf8cxB3C6I/AAAAAAAADJw/o3cRZ2X8tL0/s320/aaa+020.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k418Jk_0J84/Tsf8dw_y4sI/AAAAAAAADJ4/OrfM3YEtYEU/s1600/aaa+022.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k418Jk_0J84/Tsf8dw_y4sI/AAAAAAAADJ4/OrfM3YEtYEU/s320/aaa+022.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was such a kind crow. It sat there waiting for me with something in its beak. Thank you, crow!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit was zo'n geduldige kraai! Hij zat daar te wachten met iets in zijn bek, totdat ik eindelijk een foto had genomen. Dank je wel kraai!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong style="color: black; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Khalil Gibran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-3875121333703498349?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/3875121333703498349/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=3875121333703498349&amp;isPopup=true' title='31 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3875121333703498349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3875121333703498349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-break.html' title='Blog break'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YQx3ZcykmrE/Tsf8RCh30eI/AAAAAAAADJQ/1XALlqiFC5E/s72-c/aaa+011.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>31</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-8295513579474008081</id><published>2011-11-14T17:42:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-14T17:44:01.425+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Old Beauty</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eJOB8POJDv0/TsE-_wzpoHI/AAAAAAAADIE/w139Pnsi6pQ/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eJOB8POJDv0/TsE-_wzpoHI/AAAAAAAADIE/w139Pnsi6pQ/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Friday I talked with a lady, who told me she had wooden spools and lots of 'grandmother' buttons, as she called them. She would be happy to give them to me and wanted nothing for them. Well, of course I couldn't say 'no' to that! Above the spools and below lots and lots of buttons. Oh happiness!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vrijdag sprak ik een mevrouw die nog houten spoeltjes had en 'grootmoeder' knopen, zoals zij ze noemde. Of ik ze wilde hebben. Nou en of! Daar kun je toch geen 'nee' tegen zeggen. Boven zie je de spoeltjes en hieronder de knopen. Wat een schat!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iKg6VblsrVM/TsE_FjrCxPI/AAAAAAAADIM/PW2_8QUHVOY/s1600/aaa+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iKg6VblsrVM/TsE_FjrCxPI/AAAAAAAADIM/PW2_8QUHVOY/s320/aaa+007.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AVrxiJpujA4/TsE_HY006MI/AAAAAAAADIU/PBdwg4r27D0/s1600/aaa+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AVrxiJpujA4/TsE_HY006MI/AAAAAAAADIU/PBdwg4r27D0/s320/aaa+006.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Just a handful from the box ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Zomaar een paar uit de doos ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VC0QJtDrcNE/TsFAEXvo3WI/AAAAAAAADIk/EChAZsR3wh4/s1600/Picnik+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="161" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VC0QJtDrcNE/TsFAEXvo3WI/AAAAAAAADIk/EChAZsR3wh4/s320/Picnik+collage.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;It was an anniversary tin from 1957. Isn't that something!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En het was ook nog een jubileums blik van De Spar uit 1957. Dat is toch geweldig!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gJw3FFp_0qc/TsE_LTabdSI/AAAAAAAADIc/djJUKje2u_E/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gJw3FFp_0qc/TsE_LTabdSI/AAAAAAAADIc/djJUKje2u_E/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Last week I visited &lt;a href="http://cybelespatch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jos from Cybele's Patch&lt;/a&gt;. Look what she found while cleaning up and reorganizing: this cutest apron, which I think was from Switzerland and she had given to her mother a long time ago. Isn't it very sweet that Jos asked me if I wanted it. She told me I should wear it, but I am not sure I will. Thank you, lieve Jos!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vorige week ben ik bij &lt;a href="http://cybelespatch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jos&lt;/a&gt; geweest van &lt;a href="http://cybelespatch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Cybele's Patch&lt;/a&gt;. Kijk eens hier, wat ze tijdens het opruimen vond: een schortje, ik dacht uit Zwitserland, dat ze ooit haar moeder cadeau heeft gedaan. Wat heel erg lief van Jos, om mij te vragen of ik het wilde hebben. Ze zei, dat ik het maar gewoon moet dragen, maar ik weet niet of ik dat zal doen. Bedankt, lieve Jos!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TIWeuBQYoog/TsFAFg80P7I/AAAAAAAADIs/kEmW6L0Fihc/s1600/Picnik+collage1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TIWeuBQYoog/TsFAFg80P7I/AAAAAAAADIs/kEmW6L0Fihc/s320/Picnik+collage1.jpg" width="161" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Khalil Gibran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-8295513579474008081?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/8295513579474008081/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=8295513579474008081&amp;isPopup=true' title='25 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8295513579474008081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8295513579474008081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/11/old-beauty.html' title='Old Beauty'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eJOB8POJDv0/TsE-_wzpoHI/AAAAAAAADIE/w139Pnsi6pQ/s72-c/aaa+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>25</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-9099358220360802718</id><published>2011-11-12T07:26:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T07:27:01.510+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Oops I did it again ... (part III)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J3KeZwsg11E/Tr4LHliOFQI/AAAAAAAADGs/x_LMkdZPAzY/s1600/aaa+020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J3KeZwsg11E/Tr4LHliOFQI/AAAAAAAADGs/x_LMkdZPAzY/s320/aaa+020.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Another bag ... this time a Christmas bag. It was supposed to be a simple shopping bag, but somehow it turned into this. I think all &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;Stephanie's bag patterns&lt;/a&gt; somehow have to do with it (o: Look at the cute little covered button (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En weer een tas ... dit keer voor de kerst. Het had een eenvoudige boodschappentas moeten worden, maar op de een of andere manier was dit het resultaat. Volgens mij hebben de&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt; tas patronen van Stephanie&lt;/a&gt; hiermee te maken (o: Die kleine knoop vind ik het leukste detail (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NRiy-1BuwOU/Tr4LLXOFhxI/AAAAAAAADG0/65PiyKEauWU/s1600/aaa+021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NRiy-1BuwOU/Tr4LLXOFhxI/AAAAAAAADG0/65PiyKEauWU/s320/aaa+021.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-o-o-o-o-o-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mvNv7swFWaE/Tr4LNcuBMeI/AAAAAAAADG8/qnLOv4nUOIc/s1600/Picnik+collage1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="161" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mvNv7swFWaE/Tr4LNcuBMeI/AAAAAAAADG8/qnLOv4nUOIc/s320/Picnik+collage1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last weekend I made an &lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/11/getting-ready-for-christmas.html"&gt;Advent calendar&lt;/a&gt;. Each day a button should be put on until 24 December. But where to leave the buttons that are not used yet? When I saw&lt;a href="http://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/2011/11/fabric-gift-pouch-christmas.html"&gt; this&lt;/a&gt;, I knew right away where to put them and this is the result. The little pouch is so much fun to make and done in no time. You must admit, that this is much prettier than a plastic bag!&lt;br /&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/"&gt;Lisa's blog&lt;/a&gt;. She has more great tutorials &lt;u&gt;and&lt;/u&gt; lovely recipes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vorig weekeinde heb ik een &lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/11/getting-ready-for-christmas.html"&gt;Adventskalender&lt;/a&gt; gemaakt. Ieder dag vanaf 1 December zet ik er een button aan vast. Maar, wat doe je met de buttons die nog niet zijn gebruikt? Toen ik&lt;a href="http://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/2011/11/fabric-gift-pouch-christmas.html"&gt; dit &lt;/a&gt;zag, wist ik het meteen. Dit kleine zakje is heel leuk en snel te maken! En, het ziet er toch veel beter uit dan wanneer je de buttons in een plastic zakje doet.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wanneer je &lt;a href="http://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/"&gt;Lisa's blog&lt;/a&gt; bezoekt, zul je nog veel meer tutorials vinden én heerlijke recepten!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YHeR1zPAHBo/Tr4LPX1iPkI/AAAAAAAADHE/1ofHluLWpQs/s1600/Picnik+collage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="161" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YHeR1zPAHBo/Tr4LPX1iPkI/AAAAAAAADHE/1ofHluLWpQs/s320/Picnik+collage.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;A while back I bought &lt;a href="http://www.pinkchalkfabrics.com/index.php?main_page=index&amp;amp;cPath=3_700"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;. And this week I finally came to making buttons, since I needed one for my Christmas bag. I still had this tiny stitchery, so turned it into a button. I think I will have to make the right bag to it now&amp;nbsp;;o)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een tijdje geleden heb ik &lt;a href="http://www.pinkchalkfabrics.com/index.php?main_page=index&amp;amp;cPath=3_700"&gt;dit &lt;/a&gt;gekocht. En deze week heb ik eindelijk knopen gemaakt, omdat ik er eentje voor de Kersttas nodig had. Ik had ook nog een klein Stitchery. En zie daar, een knoop. Ik denk dat de knoop om een tas vraagt ;o)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-o-o-o-o-o-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have had some beautiful days again today. I couldn't resist sharing the pictures with you. I don't think autumn has ever been so long, bringing so many treasures. Or, I might be looking with other eyes!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deze week hebben we weer een aantal heel mooie dagen gehad. Ik heb al veel herfst laten zien, maar toch wil ik nog meer met jullie delen. Volgens mij is de herfst nog niet eerder zo mooi geweest en heeft die nog niet eerder zo lang geduurd. Of kijk ik dit jaar met andere ogen ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5kyixIqpKu0/Tr4LZybEzII/AAAAAAAADHM/SGr4LCBPfXo/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5kyixIqpKu0/Tr4LZybEzII/AAAAAAAADHM/SGr4LCBPfXo/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LCoYvU0ju_Q/Tr4LbWND7BI/AAAAAAAADHU/PBa3G9zGWwY/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LCoYvU0ju_Q/Tr4LbWND7BI/AAAAAAAADHU/PBa3G9zGWwY/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qzIvlr2iqe4/Tr4LdbHV5FI/AAAAAAAADHc/D5zwcVoNUqs/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qzIvlr2iqe4/Tr4LdbHV5FI/AAAAAAAADHc/D5zwcVoNUqs/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uo-7S_Zsrsc/Tr4LjZfk0mI/AAAAAAAADHk/r-cqVKyRWtU/s1600/Picnik+collage3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="294" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uo-7S_Zsrsc/Tr4LjZfk0mI/AAAAAAAADHk/r-cqVKyRWtU/s320/Picnik+collage3.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H2_8C4XdgLk/Tr4LlayG54I/AAAAAAAADHs/1LgWt2GPuVI/s1600/Picnik+collage4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="294" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H2_8C4XdgLk/Tr4LlayG54I/AAAAAAAADHs/1LgWt2GPuVI/s320/Picnik+collage4.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VOXkVOEzr0M/Tr4LrlaBOQI/AAAAAAAADH0/hEd66aExi68/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VOXkVOEzr0M/Tr4LrlaBOQI/AAAAAAAADH0/hEd66aExi68/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vzeUP7uVkJw/Tr4L3JR78bI/AAAAAAAADH8/eoGkCHaG3I0/s1600/aaa+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vzeUP7uVkJw/Tr4L3JR78bI/AAAAAAAADH8/eoGkCHaG3I0/s320/aaa+006.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="color: #666666; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Thomas á Kempis&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-9099358220360802718?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/9099358220360802718/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=9099358220360802718&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/9099358220360802718'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/9099358220360802718'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/11/oops-i-did-it-again-part-iii.html' title='Oops I did it again ... (part III)'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J3KeZwsg11E/Tr4LHliOFQI/AAAAAAAADGs/x_LMkdZPAzY/s72-c/aaa+020.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-6805401272466123497</id><published>2011-11-06T18:44:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-15T18:05:08.209+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Getting ready for Christmas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Aw7NxG7ZOaw/Tra1K1-I16I/AAAAAAAADEE/jnbtSOgL2Ec/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Aw7NxG7ZOaw/Tra1K1-I16I/AAAAAAAADEE/jnbtSOgL2Ec/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday afternoon Ger and I went to Aachen, to enjoy the beautiful weather with a cappuccino and some lovely chocolate cake.&amp;nbsp;After that, we took a nice walk through the city, and look what I found: Advent buttons. I knew directly how I would use them. So, today I made this little quilt for the buttons (o: Can't wait till it is December 1!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vrijdagmiddag zijn Ger en ik naar Aken gegaan om van het heerlijke weer te genieten met cappuccino en overheerlijke chocolade taart. Aansluitend hebben we wat rondgelopen en kijk eens wat ik gevonden heb: Advent buttons. Ik wist meteen wat ik zou maken; een klein quiltje, dat ik vandaag gemaakt heb. Ik kan niet wachten tot 1 december!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Urrv1-nal7Q/Tra1MgHg0pI/AAAAAAAADEM/2BDqe11T5Lc/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Urrv1-nal7Q/Tra1MgHg0pI/AAAAAAAADEM/2BDqe11T5Lc/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UduCTtDamfs/Tra1O901y3I/AAAAAAAADEU/axRCMrD4FOo/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UduCTtDamfs/Tra1O901y3I/AAAAAAAADEU/axRCMrD4FOo/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-o-o-&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gXl7wcrRnFI/TsKaDBRW_lI/AAAAAAAADI0/OBb6Jq72py4/s1600/miniquiltS%2526T-button.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gXl7wcrRnFI/TsKaDBRW_lI/AAAAAAAADI0/OBb6Jq72py4/s1600/miniquiltS%2526T-button.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am entering this quilt in &lt;a href="http://www.amylouwhosews.com/2011/11/amylouwho-sew-tell-v38-mini-quilt-party.html"&gt;Amy's mini quilt challenge&lt;/a&gt;. Head over to &lt;a href="http://www.amylouwhosews.com/2011/11/amylouwho-sew-tell-v38-mini-quilt-party.html"&gt;her blog&lt;/a&gt; to see many very very cute mini quilts. You won't be sorry!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Note: I was too late LOL. But head over anyway. Lots of cuteness (o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday I saw these geese flying over. I just have a small digital camera, so the pictures aren't that good. I couldn't even get all geese on the picture. The noise they make is always so impressive!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gisteren vlogen deze ganzen over ons huis. De foto's zijn met een kleine, digitale camera gemaakt, dus de kwaliteit is niet echt goed. Ik kon niet eens alle ganzen op de foto krijgen. Het geluid dat ze maken is altijd zo indrukwekkend.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qiCYc47vvh0/Tra1QMcV0WI/AAAAAAAADEc/D1AoJ5oqDEU/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qiCYc47vvh0/Tra1QMcV0WI/AAAAAAAADEc/D1AoJ5oqDEU/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5RWnClsPj10/Tra1R5JQtAI/AAAAAAAADEk/av2hUhNtgqA/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5RWnClsPj10/Tra1R5JQtAI/AAAAAAAADEk/av2hUhNtgqA/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this is my dear daughter, with whom I skype on a regular basis. I am so happy that the modern communication works so well. Otherwise I would miss her even more. In a few weeks we will finally be able to be with her for several days (o: &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Doesn't she look happy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;En hier is mijn lieve dochter. We skypen regelmatig. Ik ben zo blij dat de moderne communicatie zo goed werkt, anders zou ik haar nog meer missen. Over een tijdje zullen we eindelijk een dikke week bij haar zijn (o: &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ziet ze er niet blijuit!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v_MFyxdXuek/Tra1VPYKwfI/AAAAAAAADEs/FMgG0S9ZYes/s1600/aaa+020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-v_MFyxdXuek/Tra1VPYKwfI/AAAAAAAADEs/FMgG0S9ZYes/s320/aaa+020.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Of  all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the  whole of life, by far the most important is friendship."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Epicurus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-6805401272466123497?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/6805401272466123497/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=6805401272466123497&amp;isPopup=true' title='21 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/6805401272466123497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/6805401272466123497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/11/getting-ready-for-christmas.html' title='Getting ready for Christmas'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Aw7NxG7ZOaw/Tra1K1-I16I/AAAAAAAADEE/jnbtSOgL2Ec/s72-c/aaa+005.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-3892297878289251069</id><published>2011-11-04T18:16:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-04T18:16:06.728+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Autumn and getting ready for the winter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k-ToglM8Xhc/TrQYfzaMMVI/AAAAAAAADD8/KRLlr2HvSiQ/s1600/aaa+018.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k-ToglM8Xhc/TrQYfzaMMVI/AAAAAAAADD8/KRLlr2HvSiQ/s320/aaa+018.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Last week I have been paper piecing for the first time since very long. And ... it actually worked out well (o: Magical tip for me: cut big pieces. This might be a waste of fabric, but with the tiny pieces of this pattern, there wasn't that much to waste (o: Patience was a golden rule too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;The pattern was designed by Kerry at&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://verykerryberry.blogspot.com/"&gt;verykerryberry&lt;/a&gt;, which you can buy&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84129212/paper-pieced-winter-woolies-pdf-pattern?ref=sr_gallery_1&amp;amp;ga_search_submit=&amp;amp;ga_search_query=winter+woolies&amp;amp;ga_order=most_relevant&amp;amp;ga_ship_to=GB&amp;amp;ga_view_type=gallery&amp;amp;ga_item_language=en-US&amp;amp;ga_language_carousel=yes&amp;amp;ga_search_type=all&amp;amp;ga_facet="&gt;&amp;nbsp;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vorige week heb ik me dan toch weer eens aan paper piecing gewaagd. Ik vond dit zo'n leuk patroon. En ja hoor, het lukte! Gouden tip voor mij: stukken groot genoeg knippen en geduld. Heel veel geduld. Aangezien de stukjes klein zijn van dit werkje, ging er niet veel stof verloren.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Het patroon is ontworpen door Kerry van&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://verykerryberry.blogspot.com/"&gt;verykerryberry&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;en kun je&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84129212/paper-pieced-winter-woolies-pdf-pattern?ref=sr_gallery_1&amp;amp;ga_search_submit=&amp;amp;ga_search_query=winter+woolies&amp;amp;ga_order=most_relevant&amp;amp;ga_ship_to=GB&amp;amp;ga_view_type=gallery&amp;amp;ga_item_language=en-US&amp;amp;ga_language_carousel=yes&amp;amp;ga_search_type=all&amp;amp;ga_facet="&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;kopen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I'll now take you with me on my walk I took this morning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nu neem ik jullie mee met mijn wandeling vanochtend.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K67wbUPmID4/TrQYH7GtsTI/AAAAAAAADC8/N7Ns2K44qPI/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K67wbUPmID4/TrQYH7GtsTI/AAAAAAAADC8/N7Ns2K44qPI/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o4_7j9jA5Pw/TrQYKTCLuPI/AAAAAAAADDE/J8PJsjwBmi4/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o4_7j9jA5Pw/TrQYKTCLuPI/AAAAAAAADDE/J8PJsjwBmi4/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E8UinqttqEI/TrQYMS598tI/AAAAAAAADDM/0ZPobMwZLZA/s1600/aaa+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E8UinqttqEI/TrQYMS598tI/AAAAAAAADDM/0ZPobMwZLZA/s320/aaa+006.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Long shadows.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lange shaduw.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrSRKumOylc/TrQYOMKTsLI/AAAAAAAADDU/RyXen1wWb6s/s1600/aaa+008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xrSRKumOylc/TrQYOMKTsLI/AAAAAAAADDU/RyXen1wWb6s/s320/aaa+008.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The colors of these trees are changing every day. Slowly they are loosing their leaves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De kleuren van deze bomen veranderen iedere dag. Langzaamaan verliezen ze hun bladeren.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5WQkWRTwC70/TrQYPcDLKOI/AAAAAAAADDc/79o2SSoAIAc/s1600/aaa+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5WQkWRTwC70/TrQYPcDLKOI/AAAAAAAADDc/79o2SSoAIAc/s320/aaa+009.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Autumn and&amp;nbsp;graffiti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Herfst en graffiti.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-htQsaL-vIZ4/TrQYTCxbrNI/AAAAAAAADDk/smJMw_rL0rI/s1600/aaa+011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-htQsaL-vIZ4/TrQYTCxbrNI/AAAAAAAADDk/smJMw_rL0rI/s320/aaa+011.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2pulKvkQc8Q/TrQYVOdHb6I/AAAAAAAADDs/8ONve8wTwAc/s1600/aaa+014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2pulKvkQc8Q/TrQYVOdHb6I/AAAAAAAADDs/8ONve8wTwAc/s320/aaa+014.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Treasures, all for free.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Schatten om gratis van te genieten.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KCPAB80NrjU/TrQYev1oQJI/AAAAAAAADD0/8ZcPRBN5tNA/s1600/aaa+016.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KCPAB80NrjU/TrQYev1oQJI/AAAAAAAADD0/8ZcPRBN5tNA/s320/aaa+016.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I felt like a child, walking through the falling leaves (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik voelde me weer kind, door al die droge bladeren te lopen (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Khalil Gibran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-3892297878289251069?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/3892297878289251069/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=3892297878289251069&amp;isPopup=true' title='19 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3892297878289251069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3892297878289251069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/11/autumn-and-getting-ready-for-winter.html' title='Autumn and getting ready for the winter'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k-ToglM8Xhc/TrQYfzaMMVI/AAAAAAAADD8/KRLlr2HvSiQ/s72-c/aaa+018.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-86152793405367319</id><published>2011-10-31T18:00:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-10-31T18:01:00.067+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Autumn ~ Happy Halloween</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"&gt;Happy Spooky Halloween&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gVcWEL0596w/Tq7OFqVkZjI/AAAAAAAADBo/bp5qPwJAqrM/s1600/aaa%2B003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gVcWEL0596w/Tq7OFqVkZjI/AAAAAAAADBo/bp5qPwJAqrM/s320/aaa%2B003.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have had some lovely autumn days last week. Below you can see some off the things Ger and I saw during our walk yesterday morning, when the sun was not shining yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wat hebben we vorige week toch een aantal mooie dagen gehad! Tijdens onze wandeling gisteren, toen de zon nog niet scheen, zijn Ger en ik veel moois tegengekomen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vwtgF0miyXk/Tq7ODrBOOdI/AAAAAAAADA4/jCJx2EGCMUI/s1600/aaa%2B034.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vwtgF0miyXk/Tq7ODrBOOdI/AAAAAAAADA4/jCJx2EGCMUI/s320/aaa%2B034.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4nDS2eVtuvI/Tq7ODwHKitI/AAAAAAAADBE/yEH5LUTKzo4/s1600/aaa%2B018.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4nDS2eVtuvI/Tq7ODwHKitI/AAAAAAAADBE/yEH5LUTKzo4/s320/aaa%2B018.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fPs4pPs7Zwk/Tq7OERMGvaI/AAAAAAAADBQ/0FcYJJQcdJg/s1600/aaa%2B014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fPs4pPs7Zwk/Tq7OERMGvaI/AAAAAAAADBQ/0FcYJJQcdJg/s320/aaa%2B014.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ClAknBHH28k/Tq7OrPcQ7aI/AAAAAAAADB0/mrt6LY3_yaM/s1600/aaa%2B037.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ClAknBHH28k/Tq7OrPcQ7aI/AAAAAAAADB0/mrt6LY3_yaM/s320/aaa%2B037.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The wind playing with a leave hanging from a tree.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hier speelt de wind met een blad dat aan een heel fijne rag hangt.Zo leuk om te zien.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VI47UXNMUd8/Tq7OrQymxQI/AAAAAAAADCA/OzPmHp3i9Pk/s1600/aaa%2B031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VI47UXNMUd8/Tq7OrQymxQI/AAAAAAAADCA/OzPmHp3i9Pk/s320/aaa%2B031.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;turning and ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9UgSmIKV0LU/Tq7OsCo5y_I/AAAAAAAADCM/EKbofSM5yN8/s1600/aaa%2B030.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9UgSmIKV0LU/Tq7OsCo5y_I/AAAAAAAADCM/EKbofSM5yN8/s320/aaa%2B030.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;turning ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uC2w1J7IxaE/Tq7O9lAB77I/AAAAAAAADCk/thJp-AR6P9g/s1600/aaa+032.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uC2w1J7IxaE/Tq7O9lAB77I/AAAAAAAADCk/thJp-AR6P9g/s320/aaa+032.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bibi also had a very good time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bibi had het ook reuze naar haar zin.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m1SHG59ECLE/Tq7PHE_5QWI/AAAAAAAADCs/uASbkoCopxU/s1600/aaa+027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m1SHG59ECLE/Tq7PHE_5QWI/AAAAAAAADCs/uASbkoCopxU/s320/aaa+027.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Tm4JJygJCEo/Tq7PKz6EqiI/AAAAAAAADC0/zClHVK9qIw4/s1600/aaa+022.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Tm4JJygJCEo/Tq7PKz6EqiI/AAAAAAAADC0/zClHVK9qIw4/s320/aaa+022.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I have been working on some smaller projects last week, which I will soon show you. I've even done some paper piecing!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De afgelopen week heb ik aan verschillende projectjes gewerkt, die ik eerdaags zal laten zien. Ik heb zelfs iets met paper piecing gemaakt!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;h1 class="textXLarge" style="font-family: verdana, arial; font-size: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;A Halloween Wish&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 4px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 4px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;Author: Nancy Hughes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 12px; padding-right: 12px; padding-top: 12px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;I'd like to go fishing&lt;br /&gt;for a star&lt;br /&gt;and send it to you&lt;br /&gt;wherever you are...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...to wrap you once more&lt;br /&gt;in the spells of the night&lt;br /&gt;and fill all your senses&lt;br /&gt;with awe and delight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To make you a pirate&lt;br /&gt;or perhaps a queen;&lt;br /&gt;to experience the magic&lt;br /&gt;of Halloween.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To capture again&lt;br /&gt;the mystery and surprise&lt;br /&gt;as can only be seen&lt;br /&gt;through a small child's eyes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-86152793405367319?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/86152793405367319/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=86152793405367319&amp;isPopup=true' title='20 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/86152793405367319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/86152793405367319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/10/happy-autumn-happy-halloween.html' title='Happy Autumn ~ Happy Halloween'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gVcWEL0596w/Tq7OFqVkZjI/AAAAAAAADBo/bp5qPwJAqrM/s72-c/aaa%2B003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-9147459126204010072</id><published>2011-10-26T10:05:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-28T17:16:57.394+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Celebrate Color with Gypsy Wagon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6lUSPIpoyfg/Tqe4EUG83pI/AAAAAAAADAc/ouuj5eGMOjw/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="310" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6lUSPIpoyfg/Tqe4EUG83pI/AAAAAAAADAc/ouuj5eGMOjw/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="470" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lately, my stitching has been newly inspired by some wonderful blogs. One of them is &lt;a href="http://littledeartracks.blogspot.com/"&gt;Aimee's Little Dear Tracks&lt;/a&gt;. An amazing blog. She also published some&lt;a href="http://littledeartracks.blogspot.com/p/my-books.html"&gt; very interesting books&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Because the colors and design really inspired me, I decided to join &lt;a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/p/celebrate-color.html"&gt;Celebrate Color&lt;/a&gt;, Needlepoint. &lt;b&gt;Please click on the picture for a closer look.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The fabrics I used are Kate Spain's Terrain. Only after finishing the stitchery, did I notice that this line fit perfectly to the stitchery.&lt;br /&gt;You can find Aimee's patterns &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/littledear?ref=em"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. She has some very cute gnomes there (o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;De laatste tijd ben ik in mijn stitchery geïnspireerd door verschillende nieuwe blogs. Één daarvan is die van&lt;a href="http://littledeartracks.blogspot.com/"&gt; Aimee, van Little Dear Tracks&lt;/a&gt;. Een ongelooflijk mooie blog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Omdat de kleuren en het onderwerp mij zo geïnspireerd hebben, heb ik besloten mee te doen aan &lt;a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/p/celebrate-color.html"&gt;Celebrate Color&lt;/a&gt;, Needlepoint. &lt;b&gt;Klik op de foto om de stitchery beter te kunnen bekijken.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;De stofjes die ik gebruikt heb zijn van Kate Spain, Terrain. Dat ze er zo goed bij pasten, ontdekte ik nadat de stitchery klaar was.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;De patronen van Aimee kun je &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/littledear?ref=em"&gt;hier &lt;/a&gt;vinden. Daar heeft ze ook heel schattige dwergjes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q6bYH_4eGM8/Tqe84JsZF4I/AAAAAAAADAk/_l0OXiLdMWU/s1600/Celebrate+Color+bowl+150.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q6bYH_4eGM8/Tqe84JsZF4I/AAAAAAAADAk/_l0OXiLdMWU/s1600/Celebrate+Color+bowl+150.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please visit &lt;a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/"&gt;Stitched in Color&lt;/a&gt; for more information on &lt;a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/p/celebrate-color.html"&gt;Celebrate Color&lt;/a&gt;. Some amazing projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bezoek eens &lt;a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/"&gt;Stitched in Color&lt;/a&gt; voor meer informatie over &lt;a href="http://www.stitchedincolor.com/p/celebrate-color.html"&gt;Celebrate Color&lt;/a&gt;. Er zijn heel mooie projecten te zien.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="display: inline !important;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote style="display: inline !important;"&gt;&lt;div style="display: inline !important; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;- Satchel Paige&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-9147459126204010072?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/9147459126204010072/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=9147459126204010072&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/9147459126204010072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/9147459126204010072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/10/celebrate-color-with-gypsy-wagon.html' title='Celebrate Color with Gypsy Wagon'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6lUSPIpoyfg/Tqe4EUG83pI/AAAAAAAADAc/ouuj5eGMOjw/s72-c/aaa+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-4384357572904508621</id><published>2011-10-22T11:40:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-22T17:07:10.594+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Goodbye, Blue Quilt</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0yvjCsFTM2E/TqKKDYP5igI/AAAAAAAAC_s/mUInneXAqFc/s1600/Photo+19-10-11+12+29+26+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0yvjCsFTM2E/TqKKDYP5igI/AAAAAAAAC_s/mUInneXAqFc/s320/Photo+19-10-11+12+29+26+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As many of you know, blue is not my color. But, after finishing this one, I think blue can be very pretty.&lt;br /&gt;This quilt does have a little history. I think I started making it about 10 years ago. It was to be a king size quilt, but half way I stopped. It didn't make me happy.&lt;br /&gt;Then, about 2 years ago my SIL told me she would love me to make her a quilt ... someday. When I asked her what color, she said blue. And look there. The middle part was already finished. The outer borders give it a great touch, I think!&lt;br /&gt;First I wanted to quilt it along the squares, but Laura had a better idea (click on the picture below). I was a teeny tiny bit sad, to give this quilt a new home. But, I know it will be cared for (o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zoals de meesten van jullie weten, is blauw niet mijn kleur. Maar het eindresultaat van deze brengt mij toch op andere gedachten. Deze blauwe quilt heeft een kleine geschiedenis. Ongeveer 10 jaar geleden ben ik ermee begonnen. Het moest een quilt voor een tweepersoonsbed worden. Halverwege had ik er geen zin meer in, omdat de quilt me niet blij maakte.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;En toen kwam mijn schoonzus in de picture. Ze vertelde me dat ze het heel leuk zou vinden, als ik haar eens een quilt wilde maken. Goed, maar welke kleur. Blauw. Blauw - ja, aan zoiets was ik ooit eens begonnen. En ja hoor, het middenstuk was al af. De buitenranden maken de quilt helemaal af.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Eerst wilde ik vierkanten quilten, maar Laura bracht me op een ander idee. Klik op de foto hieronder om het te zien. Het deed mij een ietsie pietsie beetje pijn om deze quilt een nieuw thuis te geven, maar ik weet dat er goed voor gezorgd zal worden (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7sKwswDmoCk/TqKKFaORHBI/AAAAAAAAC_0/DHOU1LzC-PY/s1600/Photo+19-10-11+12+27+54+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7sKwswDmoCk/TqKKFaORHBI/AAAAAAAAC_0/DHOU1LzC-PY/s320/Photo+19-10-11+12+27+54+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are the last roses from my parent's garden this fall. Look at the lovely vase one of my nieces made for my mother's birthday. The perfect fit for these beautiful roses. I know my parents can't wait until next year, when they start blooming again, so that they have a rose on their kitchen table every day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit zijn de laatste rozen van de rozenstruik van mijn ouders dit jaar. Kijk eens naar het mooie vaasje, dat een van mijn nichtjes voor mijn moeder heeft gemaakt. Hét vaasje voor deze rozen! Ik weet dat mijn ouders niet kunnen wachten, totdat ze het vaasje weer met deze rozen kunnen vullen, zodat ze er iedere dag van kunnen genieten!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8qIzdmVbBDg/TqKKPtt9FkI/AAAAAAAAC_8/roQrpNZgH88/s1600/Photo+19-10-11+11+40+37+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8qIzdmVbBDg/TqKKPtt9FkI/AAAAAAAAC_8/roQrpNZgH88/s320/Photo+19-10-11+11+40+37+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;"&gt;- Thomas Merton&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-4384357572904508621?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/4384357572904508621/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=4384357572904508621&amp;isPopup=true' title='25 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4384357572904508621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4384357572904508621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/10/goodbye-blue-quilt.html' title='Goodbye, Blue Quilt'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0yvjCsFTM2E/TqKKDYP5igI/AAAAAAAAC_s/mUInneXAqFc/s72-c/Photo+19-10-11+12+29+26+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>25</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-8133225393598888186</id><published>2011-10-17T17:42:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-17T17:42:01.231+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Oops I did it again ... (part II)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Beware ~ this is a post with lots of photos!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Let op ~ dit is een post met veel foto's!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ucUCNNgPLVI/TpxHC55HIpI/AAAAAAAAC94/Dc5gd6zegl4/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ucUCNNgPLVI/TpxHC55HIpI/AAAAAAAAC94/Dc5gd6zegl4/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4UpQ3rR8gP4/TpxHEVzhC1I/AAAAAAAAC-A/JZ9CXdFzRQM/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4UpQ3rR8gP4/TpxHEVzhC1I/AAAAAAAAC-A/JZ9CXdFzRQM/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I did it again. I made another bag. This time for my 10 year old niece. She needed a new bag, so her shoes would fit in better. I was almost going to keep it myself ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ja, ik heb het weer gedaan. Nog een tas genaaid. Dit keer voor mijn nichtje van 10. Ze had een nieuwe tas nodig, zodat haar schoenen er goed in zouden passen. Ik had de tas bijna zelf gehouden.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PZJQEhIHCDw/TpxHHevdQoI/AAAAAAAAC-I/cJwjv6dhY6Y/s1600/aaa+019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PZJQEhIHCDw/TpxHHevdQoI/AAAAAAAAC-I/cJwjv6dhY6Y/s320/aaa+019.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;On Saturday my mother turned 75. Another niece made this beautiful wreath for her. So fresh, so pretty.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Op zaterdag is mijn moeder 75 jaar geworden. Een ander nichtje heeft deze krans gemaakt. Zo mooi en fris!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-77FfkX74078/TpxHLKJHMUI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/iETMrQp0Fkw/s1600/aaa+014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-77FfkX74078/TpxHLKJHMUI/AAAAAAAAC-Q/iETMrQp0Fkw/s320/aaa+014.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;One of the delicious &amp;nbsp;birthday cakes. It is sooooo good!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een van de heerlijke verjaardagstaarten. Zooooooo ontzettend lekker!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MG85vlZ-Zwk/TpxHNmyPVlI/AAAAAAAAC-Y/nbQSd3G3RZw/s1600/aaa+017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MG85vlZ-Zwk/TpxHNmyPVlI/AAAAAAAAC-Y/nbQSd3G3RZw/s320/aaa+017.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Each candle stood for 15 years (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The girl holding the cake is my niece for who I made the bag. The girl in the middle is the one who made the beautiful wreath!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Iedere kaars stond voor 15 jaar (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Voor het meisje dat de taart vasthoudt heb ik de tas gemaakt. Het meisje achter in het midden heeft de mooie krans gemaakt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K4nOM6MyeXc/TpxHREmUFEI/AAAAAAAAC-g/c8cCXVO40A8/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K4nOM6MyeXc/TpxHREmUFEI/AAAAAAAAC-g/c8cCXVO40A8/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I made this little doll for my mother. It is one of the first patterns by &lt;a href="http://vintagericrac.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jodie at Ric Rac&lt;/a&gt;. Lots of fun to make. I think I will be making one for myself too now!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit kleine poppetje heb ik voor mijn moeder gemaakt. Het is een van de eerste patronen van &lt;a href="http://vintagericrac.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jodie van Ric Rac&lt;/a&gt;. het is heel leuk te maken. Ik denk dat ik er nu ook maar eens eentje voor mezelf ga maken (o:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cb8B8K6VRcA/TpxHUZ94dfI/AAAAAAAAC-o/raI9BioilzI/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Cb8B8K6VRcA/TpxHUZ94dfI/AAAAAAAAC-o/raI9BioilzI/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nS9D4udomKo/TpxHWqcwGPI/AAAAAAAAC-w/r9LNaB8RmCk/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nS9D4udomKo/TpxHWqcwGPI/AAAAAAAAC-w/r9LNaB8RmCk/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Last week I received a package from Melanie with some beautiful pieces of fabric she took with her from her visit to Egypt with her daughter. She cut the pieces from scarfs and sent them to her Helping Hands. While playing with the pieces, suddenly a scarf popped up in my mind and I made it immediately. I am wearing it right now. Perfect weather for it! the colors are so pretty!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vorige week kwam er een pakketje met stofjes binnen van Melanie, die zij had meegenomen toen ze met haar dochter in Egypte was. De stofjes komen van verschillende sjaals, die ze aan haar Helping Hands heeft gestuurd. Terwijl ik met de stofjes aan het spelen was, wist ik opeens wat ik ermee zou doen. Ik ben meteen aan de slag gegaan en dit is het resultaat. Heerlijke sjaal, die ik op dit moment draag. De kleuren zijn zo mooi!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Morning walk impressions taken last week&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ks5bGu_2plc/TpxHl0pCQTI/AAAAAAAAC-4/MO0jedmn8Fo/s1600/aaa+020.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ks5bGu_2plc/TpxHl0pCQTI/AAAAAAAAC-4/MO0jedmn8Fo/s320/aaa+020.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JY2ZkWo0eVQ/TpxHpH1ap4I/AAAAAAAAC_A/1PQT-WlIiKs/s1600/aaa+023.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JY2ZkWo0eVQ/TpxHpH1ap4I/AAAAAAAAC_A/1PQT-WlIiKs/s320/aaa+023.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MYcXrKhZu_Q/TpxHrnx3V4I/AAAAAAAAC_I/THgp0o85e0M/s1600/aaa+024.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MYcXrKhZu_Q/TpxHrnx3V4I/AAAAAAAAC_I/THgp0o85e0M/s320/aaa+024.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-56cIdvcl-Do/TpxHw552QlI/AAAAAAAAC_Q/sZ7iP7YdnPY/s1600/aaa+008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-56cIdvcl-Do/TpxHw552QlI/AAAAAAAAC_Q/sZ7iP7YdnPY/s320/aaa+008.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The top of the trees catching the sun light and sending away the moon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De toppen van de bomen vangen het zonlicht op en sturen de maan weg.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IAhYOyt9cSY/TpxHy6oRzYI/AAAAAAAAC_Y/mfbzFaoZF98/s1600/aaa+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IAhYOyt9cSY/TpxHy6oRzYI/AAAAAAAAC_Y/mfbzFaoZF98/s320/aaa+010.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4S1oM7h508/TpxH1HxeL-I/AAAAAAAAC_g/i88hIubJv3Q/s1600/aaa+027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4S1oM7h508/TpxH1HxeL-I/AAAAAAAAC_g/i88hIubJv3Q/s320/aaa+027.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Man  is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he  counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough  happiness provided for it."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;- Fyodor Dostoevsky&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-8133225393598888186?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/8133225393598888186/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=8133225393598888186&amp;isPopup=true' title='27 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8133225393598888186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8133225393598888186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/10/oops-i-did-it-again-part-ii.html' title='Oops I did it again ... (part II)'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ucUCNNgPLVI/TpxHC55HIpI/AAAAAAAAC94/Dc5gd6zegl4/s72-c/aaa+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-7548834663952096460</id><published>2011-10-12T18:02:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-13T14:29:43.297+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Oops I did it again ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-amyvItasEI0/TpWs9r7Qs0I/AAAAAAAAC8o/rG8Y3yRSn3U/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-amyvItasEI0/TpWs9r7Qs0I/AAAAAAAAC8o/rG8Y3yRSn3U/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hsfMTg0xrUs/TpWs_CbyLQI/AAAAAAAAC8w/0KSgfHt0Z5Q/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hsfMTg0xrUs/TpWs_CbyLQI/AAAAAAAAC8w/0KSgfHt0Z5Q/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;Yes, I made another bag. The bag in the previous post was meant to be for my trip to California and Mexico, to take with me on the plain, but it is way too big.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;So, when I saw&lt;a href="http://www.noodle-head.com/2011/08/go-anywhere-bag-pattern_26.html"&gt; this bag&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.gwennypenny.com/2011/10/go-anywhere-bag.html"&gt;Gwen's blog&lt;/a&gt;, I knew it would be the perfect one. Not too big, not too small and lots of pockets. Seven!! 6 on the outside (my e-reader even fits into it) and one pocket inside. Oh, I love it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;And, just like &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie's &lt;/a&gt;patterns, this pattern was also tested by quite some people. It makes a pattern good and easy to follow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ja, ik heb weer een tas gemaakt. De tas in het vorige bericht was bestemd voor mijn reis naar California en Mexico om mee te nemen in het vliegtuig, maar hij is echt veel te groot!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dus, toen ik &lt;a href="http://www.noodle-head.com/2011/08/go-anywhere-bag-pattern_26.html"&gt;deze tas&lt;/a&gt; op &lt;a href="http://www.gwennypenny.com/2011/10/go-anywhere-bag.html"&gt;Gwens blog&lt;/a&gt; zag, wist ik dat dit de juiste tas zou zijn. Niet te groot, niet te klein en met veel zakken. Zeven in totaal! 6 aan de buitenkant (zelfs mijn e-reader past erin) en eentje van binnen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Helemaal ik!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En net als de patronen van &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt;, is dit patroon ook door meerdere mensen getest. Dat maakt een patroon zo veel beter!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tt0g-PUanrY/TpWtDzpDEnI/AAAAAAAAC84/ncQotD0H-ng/s1600/HPIM0900.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="238" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Tt0g-PUanrY/TpWtDzpDEnI/AAAAAAAAC84/ncQotD0H-ng/s320/HPIM0900.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I really enjoyed making this little pouch. It is a Japanese pattern. So much fun to make (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Het was echt leuk, dit klein tasje te maken. Het is een Japans patroon.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;From/uit: Omiyage, by Kumiko Sudo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--WagG7iEXOs/TpWtJ1He2LI/AAAAAAAAC9A/DcNbi_jMh60/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--WagG7iEXOs/TpWtJ1He2LI/AAAAAAAAC9A/DcNbi_jMh60/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week we had some lovely late summer days. Oh, it was so pretty outside during my morning walks with Bibi. Here you can see a few impressions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vorige week hebben we zulke mooie nazomerse dagen gehad, dat het een genot was om 's ochtends met Bibi te wandelen. De natuur is zo mooi! Hier een paar indrukken.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YpGj9a1wsyQ/TpW5AJ3eRKI/AAAAAAAAC9Y/VFuBUvPmrK0/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YpGj9a1wsyQ/TpW5AJ3eRKI/AAAAAAAAC9Y/VFuBUvPmrK0/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eUNw6SVmHO0/TpW5DYWMy1I/AAAAAAAAC9g/mMP17m33mT8/s1600/aaa+011.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eUNw6SVmHO0/TpW5DYWMy1I/AAAAAAAAC9g/mMP17m33mT8/s320/aaa+011.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AzzNIz_xGYs/TpW5EpuCFDI/AAAAAAAAC9o/9T0nS9xbpXk/s1600/aaa+009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FdmiUhY-HVk/ToXnY01n-kI/AAAAAAAAC8U/xqsiOHrjHUs/s1600/aaa+008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FdmiUhY-HVk/ToXnY01n-kI/AAAAAAAAC8U/xqsiOHrjHUs/s320/aaa+008.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Together with &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt;, I finished another bag for our Bag Club. &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; stayed with the plan, to make a bag from the Bag Bible, but I wanted to finish a bag that I had cut at the beginning of this year and wanted to finish. To tell you the truth, I never thought I could make a bag like this, but I think it has a lot to do with the experience I got from making the so well described bag patterns by &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Samen met &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt; heb ik weer een tas gemaakt voor onze Bag Club. &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;en &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; hebben een tas uit de Bag Bible gemaakt, maar ik wilde dit keer liever de tas afmaken waaraan ik begin dit jaar begonnen was. Om eerlijk te zijn, had ik niet gedacht ooit zo een tas te kunnen maken. Maar, oefening baart kunst en de oefening heb ik gehad, dank zij de goede patronen van &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eqIxjpRUe_s/ToXnbXY0ogI/AAAAAAAAC8Y/xUaDSWiOGyo/s1600/aaa+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eqIxjpRUe_s/ToXnbXY0ogI/AAAAAAAAC8Y/xUaDSWiOGyo/s320/aaa+006.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;There is a bag at the front and bag side.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Er zijn zakjes aan de voor- en achterkant.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JDxjOUcTOAw/ToXndS36K1I/AAAAAAAAC8c/2aUgDSzS7Vc/s1600/aaa+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JDxjOUcTOAw/ToXndS36K1I/AAAAAAAAC8c/2aUgDSzS7Vc/s320/aaa+010.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bibi wasn't really impressed ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bibi was niet echt onder de indruk.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vz8cbBv8g4A/ToXniOpRa5I/AAAAAAAAC8g/SGF2QrsPH54/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Vz8cbBv8g4A/ToXniOpRa5I/AAAAAAAAC8g/SGF2QrsPH54/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Even though I wasn't going to make another Le Petite, I couldn't resisit making Full House in my own version. I was also inspired by &lt;a href="http://www.missrosiesquiltco.com/Schnibbles.html"&gt;Carrie&lt;/a&gt;'s pattern Cracked Pots. The quilt makes me very happy! So bright and colorful.&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to to go to the September Parade&lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/"&gt; here &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik had me voorgenomen geen Le Petite meer te maken, maar moest gewoon Full House maken. Ik heb dan wel mijn eigen versie gemaakt, waardoor ik ook door het patroon Cracked Pots van &lt;a href="http://www.missrosiesquiltco.com/Schnibbles.html"&gt;Carrie&lt;/a&gt; geïnspireerd ben. Dit quiltje maakt mij echt blij, met de vrolijke en heldere kleuren!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vergeet niet naar de September Parade te gaan, &lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3jGnkaz1FPo/ToXnnC6qupI/AAAAAAAAC8k/uOa7_D_A49U/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3jGnkaz1FPo/ToXnnC6qupI/AAAAAAAAC8k/uOa7_D_A49U/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Treasures found during my morning walk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;- Anne Frank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-5209014646302226350?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/5209014646302226350/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=5209014646302226350&amp;isPopup=true' title='30 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5209014646302226350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5209014646302226350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-bow-wow-wow-bag.html' title='September Bow-Wow-Wow Bag'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FdmiUhY-HVk/ToXnY01n-kI/AAAAAAAAC8U/xqsiOHrjHUs/s72-c/aaa+008.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>30</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-8349956409954881081</id><published>2011-09-18T13:29:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-18T13:34:21.222+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Pink and green</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UYnGJ7YVlz0/TnXRE4C4kWI/AAAAAAAAC78/v-oluoojWyo/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UYnGJ7YVlz0/TnXRE4C4kWI/AAAAAAAAC78/v-oluoojWyo/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This gorgeous little kitten came with the post this week, all the way from Australia, from my dear friend Lyn! Isn't Kitty a darling. She even has her own quilt. And the colors are so me! Thank you so much, Lyn, for making my days less lonely (o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit schattig katje kwam van mijn lieve vriendin Lyn uit Australië. Is ze niet lief! Ze heeft zelfs haar eigen quiltje. &amp;nbsp; En dit zijn absoluut mijn kleuren. Bedankt Lyn, om dit lieve gezelschap in mijn huis te brengen (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SUtn5_xukxY/TnXRHzS58uI/AAAAAAAAC8A/WEEUVNgyDew/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SUtn5_xukxY/TnXRHzS58uI/AAAAAAAAC8A/WEEUVNgyDew/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I finally finished my giveaway bag for Ria. I did let her know it would come later. The bag was designed by &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie from Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt;. I hope I don't bore you, by telling once again how much fun it is to make her patterns. And somehow I always have to more than one version. This is my third &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;Mary Jane Bag&lt;/a&gt; (o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Voor Ria heb ik eindelijk de tas af, die ze gewonnen heeft bij mijn giveaway. Ik heb haar wel laten weten, dat de tas later zou komen. De tas is ontworpen door &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie van Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt;. Ik hoop dat ik jullie niet verveel door nog eens te zeggen hoe leuk het toch is haar patronen te maken! En op de een of andere manier moet ik altijd meer versies van haar tas maken. Dit is de derde &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;Mary Jane Bag &lt;/a&gt;(o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zEefMwxZQeQ/TnXRMAwfRTI/AAAAAAAAC8E/6FbYOPaAk0k/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zEefMwxZQeQ/TnXRMAwfRTI/AAAAAAAAC8E/6FbYOPaAk0k/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;You can't see it clearly on this picture, but I hand stitched around this figure. Please click on the picture to get a better look. It is the first time I did this and I really enjoyed it!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Je kunt niet echt goed zien, dat ik rondom het figuur geborduurd heb. Als je op de foto klikt, kun je het beter zien.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O8s7AfKTJB0/TnXRQD_v-mI/AAAAAAAAC8I/ZRfCDz5jl0c/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O8s7AfKTJB0/TnXRQD_v-mI/AAAAAAAAC8I/ZRfCDz5jl0c/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The hexagon cushion I made for my father's birthday (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;De hexagon kussen, die ik voor mijn vaders verjaardag heb gemaakt (o:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jDQuMMsYEh0/TnXRTCA5o1I/AAAAAAAAC8M/FKEC5-sChUY/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jDQuMMsYEh0/TnXRTCA5o1I/AAAAAAAAC8M/FKEC5-sChUY/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Smart phone and iPod cover for my youngest sister and my cousin (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hoesje voor mijn jongste zus en een nichtje (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DIQxcArG0Qo/TnXRU6fv37I/AAAAAAAAC8Q/XHil3RgfYy4/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DIQxcArG0Qo/TnXRU6fv37I/AAAAAAAAC8Q/XHil3RgfYy4/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A candle mat for a friend of mine.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een kaarsen matje voor een vriendin van mij.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I just discovered that blogger deleted most of the links on my blogroll. I certainly hope this will restore soon, because I wouldn't want to miss the posts of those blogs and I don't think I will be able to find them back again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb net ondekt, dat blogger bijna al mijn links op mijn blogroll heeft verwijderd. Hopelijk zal het snel hersteld worden, want ik wil toch zeker niet de blogposts missen en ik denk niet dat ik ze allemaal kan terugvinden.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;- James Michener&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-8349956409954881081?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/8349956409954881081/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=8349956409954881081&amp;isPopup=true' title='30 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8349956409954881081'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8349956409954881081'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/09/pink-and-green.html' title='Pink and green'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UYnGJ7YVlz0/TnXRE4C4kWI/AAAAAAAAC78/v-oluoojWyo/s72-c/aaa+003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>30</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-5829935610400302716</id><published>2011-09-13T19:34:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-13T19:35:25.672+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Celebrating (o:</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PokTEXu6grU/Tm-CkaPDW-I/AAAAAAAAC7g/ppr_P-E0sHU/s1600/310179_220280941364062_100001464728678_628613_1341426651_s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PokTEXu6grU/Tm-CkaPDW-I/AAAAAAAAC7g/ppr_P-E0sHU/s1600/310179_220280941364062_100001464728678_628613_1341426651_s.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;On Sunday we celebrated my father's birthday. My sisters didn't quite manage to get the 85 candles on the birthday cake, but my dad is still able to blow them out in one blow (I think ...). Next to him my mother, who will turn 75 in October. And, in June they were married 45 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zondag is mijn vader 85 jaar geworden. En, zoals jullie zien, hebben we dat o.a. met een heerlijke taart gevierd. Ik denk niet dat het mijn zussen gelukt is 85 kaarsjes op de taart te plaatsen, maar het zijn er in ieder geval heel veel. Naast mijn vader staat mijn moeder, die in oktober 75 wordt. En, in juni waren ze 45 jaar getrouwd.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hd8Bvah1Q-M/Tm-Cm83-ljI/AAAAAAAAC7k/SyTWUl3Z5nk/s1600/304363_220282148030608_100001464728678_628617_831376281_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hd8Bvah1Q-M/Tm-Cm83-ljI/AAAAAAAAC7k/SyTWUl3Z5nk/s320/304363_220282148030608_100001464728678_628617_831376281_n.jpg" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My niece Noor made this lovely ring (o:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Het kunstwerkje van mijn nichtje Noor (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WBq_nFOg3-U/Tm-C-V3w-HI/AAAAAAAAC7o/YUTqGpAkZb0/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WBq_nFOg3-U/Tm-C-V3w-HI/AAAAAAAAC7o/YUTqGpAkZb0/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of my sisters loves giraffes! So, what else could I do than stitch this for her when I saw it. It is a poem by &amp;nbsp;Shel Silverstein. Click on the picture to read it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een van mijn zussen is dol op giraffen. Dus, toen ik dit zag, moest ik het gewoon voor haar maken. Het gedicht is van Shel Silverstein. Om het gedicht te kunnen lezen, even op de foto klikken.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3ugfaF96Zqw/Tm-DE06R0OI/AAAAAAAAC7s/hTN4UiRpBhU/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3ugfaF96Zqw/Tm-DE06R0OI/AAAAAAAAC7s/hTN4UiRpBhU/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This is the bag I will be working on this month, for the European Bag Club.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Aan deze tas zal ik deze maand werken voor de European Bag Club.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yWWA8TZFaSQ/Tm-DZyYMpAI/AAAAAAAAC7w/AcQqPGG9hQI/s1600/Photo+07-09-11+17+04+03.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yWWA8TZFaSQ/Tm-DZyYMpAI/AAAAAAAAC7w/AcQqPGG9hQI/s320/Photo+07-09-11+17+04+03.jpeg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;And another cover. This time for my godchild Marieke (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En opnieuw een hoesje (o: Dit keer voor mijn petekind Marieke.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iRQC89c5ObY/Tm-Dgh2B-TI/AAAAAAAAC70/-gMxYVlt91I/s1600/Photo+02-06-11+13+33+08+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iRQC89c5ObY/Tm-Dgh2B-TI/AAAAAAAAC70/-gMxYVlt91I/s320/Photo+02-06-11+13+33+08+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RiiLO4DvAWU/Tm-Dje0mgxI/AAAAAAAAC74/X3rlcljo-vc/s1600/Photo+02-06-11+13+32+24+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RiiLO4DvAWU/Tm-Dje0mgxI/AAAAAAAAC74/X3rlcljo-vc/s320/Photo+02-06-11+13+32+24+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Roses from my parent's garden.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Rozen uit de tuin van mijn ouders.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"That  the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change,  but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; - Chinese Proverb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1892242301"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="goog_1892242302"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-5829935610400302716?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/5829935610400302716/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=5829935610400302716&amp;isPopup=true' title='19 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5829935610400302716'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5829935610400302716'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/09/celebrating-o.html' title='Celebrating (o:'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PokTEXu6grU/Tm-CkaPDW-I/AAAAAAAAC7g/ppr_P-E0sHU/s72-c/310179_220280941364062_100001464728678_628613_1341426651_s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-535760384360364827</id><published>2011-08-30T17:36:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-30T17:36:50.323+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Another visit to Den Bosch (o:</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v88zqqKdZYs/Tlz-fYkZ9jI/AAAAAAAAC6w/ZoDofjMIAJU/s1600/Picnik+collage30.08.2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="270" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v88zqqKdZYs/Tlz-fYkZ9jI/AAAAAAAAC6w/ZoDofjMIAJU/s320/Picnik+collage30.08.2.jpg" width="530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Today Ger took a day off and we decided to go to Den Bosch. It the place above, Pink Lemon, we had our lunch. It's a great place to have lunch (o: Ger noticed that there were mainly chatting women ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vandaag heeft Ger een dagje vrij genomen. We zijn gezellig naar Den Bosch geweest. Uiteraard zijn we met een Bossche bol en een lekkere kop cappuccino begonnen (o:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;'s Middags hebben we lekker &amp;nbsp;bij Pink Lemon geluncht. Een heel leuke plek. Het viel Ger op, dat er vooral vrouwen waren ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QSEIWABHhDo/Tlz-k-NV1MI/AAAAAAAAC60/0JwNJ20RrB0/s1600/Photo+30-08-11+14+02+18.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QSEIWABHhDo/Tlz-k-NV1MI/AAAAAAAAC60/0JwNJ20RrB0/s320/Photo+30-08-11+14+02+18.jpeg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;So pretty and cute!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lUBlW7uT-hA/Tlz-pOpIZ-I/AAAAAAAAC64/etQanDOnMio/s1600/Photo+03-08-11+13+26+49+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lUBlW7uT-hA/Tlz-pOpIZ-I/AAAAAAAAC64/etQanDOnMio/s320/Photo+03-08-11+13+26+49+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;This picture was taken when I was there with my sister a few weeks ago (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze foto is genomen toen ik er een paar weken geleden met m'n zus was (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IRXgKOJRhRw/Tlz-r9MwF_I/AAAAAAAAC68/-txOcOA0WUw/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IRXgKOJRhRw/Tlz-r9MwF_I/AAAAAAAAC68/-txOcOA0WUw/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Look at the bright silicone moulds I found for small cakes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kijk eens naar de vrolijke silicone vormpjes die ik heb gevonden om kleine cakes in te bakken.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4DZBVPoWqy4/Tlz-shmQLeI/AAAAAAAAC7A/9NL7clYwodE/s1600/Picnik+collage30.08.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="175" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4DZBVPoWqy4/Tlz-shmQLeI/AAAAAAAAC7A/9NL7clYwodE/s320/Picnik+collage30.08.jpg" width="530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had finished my handles to the four baskets of the Retro Nine Patch basket blocks, however, I was &amp;nbsp;not happy with them. So, I decided to unpick them (which I don't do often) and do them differently. This quilt is too pretty to have ugly handles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik had de hendels van de mandjes af voor de Retro Nine Patch mandjes blokken, maar ik vond ze echt niet mooi. Dus, heb ik ze uitgehaald (dat doe ik echt niet vaak - dan moet het al heel erg zijn) en heb ze anders gemaakt. De quilt is te mooi om mandjes met lelijke hendels te hebben!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Spread  love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your  children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one  ever come to you without leaving better and happier." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Mother Teresa -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-535760384360364827?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/535760384360364827/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=535760384360364827&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/535760384360364827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/535760384360364827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/08/another-visit-to-den-bosch-o.html' title='Another visit to Den Bosch (o:'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v88zqqKdZYs/Tlz-fYkZ9jI/AAAAAAAAC6w/ZoDofjMIAJU/s72-c/Picnik+collage30.08.2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-6471461124492019797</id><published>2011-08-28T20:49:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-28T20:49:23.855+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Bari's Sampler, Retro Nine Patch Paper Piecing and Baking</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lMsSUOMP1QY/TlqATyi6XCI/AAAAAAAAC6c/Y_mSkYGs3mI/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lMsSUOMP1QY/TlqATyi6XCI/AAAAAAAAC6c/Y_mSkYGs3mI/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I finished Barí's Sampler and love it (o: &lt;a href="http://www.welovefrenchknots.com/"&gt;Bari&lt;/a&gt; did a wonderful job in tutoring stitches and now she has a very good post on the basics on stitchery. Even if you're an experienced stitcher, should read it. I have learned some new things about threads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb &lt;a href="http://www.welovefrenchknots.com/"&gt;Bari&lt;/a&gt;'s Sampler afgemaakt en ben er erg tevreden mee! Ze heeft veel tutorials voor bepaalde steken en nu heeft ze een post gemaakt over de beginselen van stitchery. Zelfs ervaren stitchers kunnen er iets nieuws leren!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LRyziP2ZoDQ/TlqAWV1KxwI/AAAAAAAAC6g/g-LU5V-2gDU/s1600/aa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LRyziP2ZoDQ/TlqAWV1KxwI/AAAAAAAAC6g/g-LU5V-2gDU/s320/aa+002.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I've been paper piecing this weekend. Some people who know me, know that I don't like paper piecing. But, I must say, I did enjoy making these baskets for the Retro Nine Patch quilt I am making which &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lyn from Bluebird Quilts&lt;/a&gt; has designed. It's a very pretty and happy quilt. Thank you so much, Lyn for having shared this free pattern!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mensen die mij een beetje kennen, weten dat ik paper piecing eigenlijk maar niet vind. Maar, ik moet zeggen, dat ik veel plezier had bij het maken van deze mandjes. Het zijn de mandjes voor de Retro Nine Patch quilt, ontworpen door&lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt; Lyn van Bluebird Quilts&lt;/a&gt;. Heel erg bedankt, Lyn, voor het delen van dit gratis patroon!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vTijVbGmVGc/TlqAfFclecI/AAAAAAAAC6k/1K3fz4BYiK8/s1600/Photo+20-07-11+12+29+19+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vTijVbGmVGc/TlqAfFclecI/AAAAAAAAC6k/1K3fz4BYiK8/s320/Photo+20-07-11+12+29+19+%2528HDR%2529.jpeg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;These are labels made for Laura's suitcase and bags she took with her to Mexico (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze labels hangen aan Laura's koffer en tassen, die ze meegenomen heeft naar Mexico (o:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2fabDe1LcRU/TlqAkwuR36I/AAAAAAAAC6o/TZPEnleRqBU/s1600/Photo+22-08-11+19+23+46.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2fabDe1LcRU/TlqAkwuR36I/AAAAAAAAC6o/TZPEnleRqBU/s320/Photo+22-08-11+19+23+46.jpeg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Lazy Lemon Pie that I found on &lt;a href="http://kaingahappenings.blogspot.com/2011/08/real-food-is-making-me-happy-this.html"&gt;Bev's blog&lt;/a&gt;. Easy and yummie!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De Lazy Lemon Pie, die ik op &lt;a href="http://kaingahappenings.blogspot.com/2011/08/real-food-is-making-me-happy-this.html"&gt;Bev's blog&lt;/a&gt; zag. Makkelijk en heerlijk!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p61gZ-83ZQU/TlqAs6TUoTI/AAAAAAAAC6s/7iEDuxYGU34/s1600/aa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-p61gZ-83ZQU/TlqAs6TUoTI/AAAAAAAAC6s/7iEDuxYGU34/s320/aa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I wanted to bake something special for Thijme being home this Sunday (o:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/"&gt;Lisa and Sarah&lt;/a&gt; have their weekly Weekend Baking at A Spoonful of Sugar. This weekend they had the best chocolate chip cookies, with only 65 grams of butter and 1 egg for ca. 20 large cookies. YUMMIE!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik wilde iets lekkers voor Thijme bakken, omdat hij zondag thuis was (o:&lt;a href="http://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/"&gt; Lisa en Sarah&lt;/a&gt; delen wekelijks Weekend Baking at A Spoonful of Sugar. Dit weekeinde hadden ze een recept voor chocolate cookies met slechts 65 gram boter en één ei voor ca. 20 grote koekjes. HEERLIJK!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"The first duty of love is to listen." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Paul Tillich -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-6471461124492019797?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/6471461124492019797/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=6471461124492019797&amp;isPopup=true' title='25 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/6471461124492019797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/6471461124492019797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/08/baris-sampler-retro-nine-patch-paper.html' title='Bari&apos;s Sampler, Retro Nine Patch Paper Piecing and Baking'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lMsSUOMP1QY/TlqATyi6XCI/AAAAAAAAC6c/Y_mSkYGs3mI/s72-c/aaa+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>25</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-711353729097583809</id><published>2011-08-21T19:45:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-21T19:45:59.369+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tea love, sampler, gnome, owls and Thijme</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I have been stitching quite a lot lately and have really been enjoying it (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;De laatste tijd heb ik veel gestitcht. Heerlijk!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HS21mwuj668/TlE_KcT5sHI/AAAAAAAAC5A/GErbETAT6s4/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HS21mwuj668/TlE_KcT5sHI/AAAAAAAAC5A/GErbETAT6s4/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Two mug rugs&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Twee 'mok-matjes'&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cyIiBvk9S58/TlE_Lu6YLNI/AAAAAAAAC5E/ozbbz2_XGc8/s1600/Picnik+collage1d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="294" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cyIiBvk9S58/TlE_Lu6YLNI/AAAAAAAAC5E/ozbbz2_XGc8/s320/Picnik+collage1d.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Detail stitchery&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-90MSZa65NTQ/TlE_PeeyF_I/AAAAAAAAC5I/Qg4X8JY2L08/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-90MSZa65NTQ/TlE_PeeyF_I/AAAAAAAAC5I/Qg4X8JY2L08/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Gnome turned into another mug rug.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En nog een mug rug. Dit keer met een kaboutertje.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pbt3VgtEjJY/TlE_SPn_N-I/AAAAAAAAC5M/aU8wj9aerQM/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pbt3VgtEjJY/TlE_SPn_N-I/AAAAAAAAC5M/aU8wj9aerQM/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A fish mat to keep my sister's 'chickens' company.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een vis matje voor de 'kippetjes' van mijn zus.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dMhwIg69kJA/TlE_U3beQoI/AAAAAAAAC5Q/7dn7Br-tUG4/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dMhwIg69kJA/TlE_U3beQoI/AAAAAAAAC5Q/7dn7Br-tUG4/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Another phone cover.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En nog een telefoonhoesje.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Np5CqRbiF-o/TlE_cgPVt0I/AAAAAAAAC5U/IsXl3dQt8sU/s1600/Picnik+collage1c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="108" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Np5CqRbiF-o/TlE_cgPVt0I/AAAAAAAAC5U/IsXl3dQt8sU/s320/Picnik+collage1c.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Bari's &lt;a href="http://www.welovefrenchknots.com/"&gt;Sewing Room Sampler&lt;/a&gt;. I 'cheated' on the sewing machinge. In the pattern it is filled with French knots. I only added the French knots to some parts. Lots and lots of French knots don't make me happy. A few are okay (o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bari's &lt;a href="http://www.welovefrenchknots.com/"&gt;Sewing Room Sampler&lt;/a&gt;. Ik heb een beetje gefoeteld (echt Limburgs!) met de naaimachine. In het patroon wordt de machine gevuld met French knots. Ik heb maar een paar onderdelen gevuld. Een paar French knots wil ik nog wel maken, maar er een heel stuk mee opvullen. Nee, dat is echt niets mijn ding.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RcsBzYkD_oI/TlE_eGtDriI/AAAAAAAAC5Y/3mBI7G8rBvE/s1600/Picnik+collage1a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RcsBzYkD_oI/TlE_eGtDriI/AAAAAAAAC5Y/3mBI7G8rBvE/s320/Picnik+collage1a.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Yesterday we moved the last things to Thijme's own new living space in Tilburg. He did a wonderful job furnishing it with second hand furniture that he was able to find via Marktplaats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gisteren hebben we de laatste spulletjes naar Thijme's nieuwe woonplek in Tilburg verhuisd. Bijna al zijn meubels heeft hij voor in prikkie op Marktplaats gevonden. Ongelooflijk, wat voor moois je daar kunt vinden. En Thijme heeft er echt een neus voor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C6SsJh8Gbaw/TlE_fbsf-xI/AAAAAAAAC5c/nVeh2-ie2_w/s1600/Picnik+collage1b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C6SsJh8Gbaw/TlE_fbsf-xI/AAAAAAAAC5c/nVeh2-ie2_w/s320/Picnik+collage1b.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. " &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Edith Wharton&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-711353729097583809?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/711353729097583809/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=711353729097583809&amp;isPopup=true' title='24 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/711353729097583809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/711353729097583809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/08/tea-love-sampler-gnome-owls-and-thijme.html' title='Tea love, sampler, gnome, owls and Thijme'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HS21mwuj668/TlE_KcT5sHI/AAAAAAAAC5A/GErbETAT6s4/s72-c/aaa+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>24</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-2475437501823669439</id><published>2011-08-08T17:32:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-08T17:32:06.223+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The third European-Bag-Club bag</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0QR2RbL5c2k/Tj_9miR3bdI/AAAAAAAAC38/moDHwpRZ9K4/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0QR2RbL5c2k/Tj_9miR3bdI/AAAAAAAAC38/moDHwpRZ9K4/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today I finished Stephanie's Loft Tote, another gorgeous bag designed by Stephanie and written and designed in such a way, that it was fun, easy and quite fast to make. This time I made no mistakes, because I read the directions closely and followed them the way they were described. Why don't I always do that?&lt;br /&gt;This is the third bag I have made together with the European-Bag-Club ladies, &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt;. We all chose a different Loft Creations bag, that we bought &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Please go to the other two ladies, to see their gorgeous bags! And while you're traveling around, also take a look at &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie's cover shooting&lt;/a&gt; for her newest bag pattern. She hasn't revealed her bag yet, but I am sure it is going to be one of the next bags I will be making!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vandaag heb ik Stephanies Loft Tote afgemaakt. Dit is openieuw een heel leuk patroon, dat gemakkelijk en vrij snel te maken is. Dit keer heb ik geen fouten gemaakt, omdat ik de duidelijke aanwijzingen nauwkeurig gelezen en gevolgd heb. Dat maakt het leven zo veel eenvoudiger!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit is de derde tas die ik samen met European-Bag-Club dames heb gemaakt, &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt; en&lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt; Melanie&lt;/a&gt;. We hebben ieder een ander patroon gekozen, dat we &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; gekocht hebben. Ga ook eens bij de andere twee dames langs en terwijl je toch aan het reizen bent, ga dan ook even naar &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanies blog&lt;/a&gt;. Daar laat ze een cover shooting zien van haar nieuwste tas patroon. Ze laat de tas nog niet in zijn geheel zien, maar ik ben er zeker van, dat het een van mijn volgende tassen wordt (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UnUQog7dgJs/Tj_9nzNDtCI/AAAAAAAAC4A/T98m3psN_q4/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UnUQog7dgJs/Tj_9nzNDtCI/AAAAAAAAC4A/T98m3psN_q4/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k_Z9nGZqG74/Tj_9pu5ls_I/AAAAAAAAC4E/_uRXa5ndhqY/s1600/aaa+007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k_Z9nGZqG74/Tj_9pu5ls_I/AAAAAAAAC4E/_uRXa5ndhqY/s320/aaa+007.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The inside of the bag.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De binnenkant.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; line-height: 14px;"&gt;"Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed."&lt;br /&gt;— Corita Kent&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-2475437501823669439?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/2475437501823669439/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=2475437501823669439&amp;isPopup=true' title='28 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/2475437501823669439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/2475437501823669439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/08/third-european-bag-club-bag.html' title='The third European-Bag-Club bag'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0QR2RbL5c2k/Tj_9miR3bdI/AAAAAAAAC38/moDHwpRZ9K4/s72-c/aaa+003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-4346155156207456084</id><published>2011-08-04T17:05:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-08-04T17:08:16.476+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Small projects being made</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SvnyjoNqqOQ/Tjqx3AQV8EI/AAAAAAAAC3s/CalEMyYdqAE/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SvnyjoNqqOQ/Tjqx3AQV8EI/AAAAAAAAC3s/CalEMyYdqAE/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I have been working on some small stitcheries and am really enjoying it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb aan een aantal kleine stitcheries gewerkt en vind het reuze leuk.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GQjixhY7XUs/Tjqx4XOufyI/AAAAAAAAC3w/_c4lwpucov0/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GQjixhY7XUs/Tjqx4XOufyI/AAAAAAAAC3w/_c4lwpucov0/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;I think I made the fabric choice due to the autumn weather we have had last week.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik denk dat ik voor herfst stofjes gekozen heb, gezien het weer van vorige week.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gcLh544veZU/Tjqx6PX2_QI/AAAAAAAAC30/8pHoPGwe10Q/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gcLh544veZU/Tjqx6PX2_QI/AAAAAAAAC30/8pHoPGwe10Q/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Now that I have made my fabric choice I will be using for the bag that I forgot to make together with my bag friends &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt; (thank you bag ladies for waiting for me before you post yours) and have practiced on making bis (that's fun!!!) I am now ready to make the bag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik was helemaal vergeten, dat ik samen met &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt; voor 1 augustus een tas zou maken. Nu dat ik de stof heb uitgezocht en geoefend heb bias band te maken, kan ik aan de tas beginnen. Melanie en Ulla waren zo aardig op mij te wachten, voordat ze het zouden posten. Bedankt dames!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5WrnNhM07gY/Tjqx9rzZF-I/AAAAAAAAC34/S0F0FkGwM6w/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5WrnNhM07gY/Tjqx9rzZF-I/AAAAAAAAC34/S0F0FkGwM6w/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I don't think I have ever seen an air balloon so near by. I thought it was going to land in our front yard ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Volgens mij is er nog nooit een luchtballon zo dicht bij ons huis geweest. Even dacht ik dat die in onze tuin ging landen ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Words are just words and without heart they have no meaning." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Chinese Proverb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-4346155156207456084?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/4346155156207456084/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=4346155156207456084&amp;isPopup=true' title='19 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4346155156207456084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4346155156207456084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/08/small-projects-being-made.html' title='Small projects being made'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SvnyjoNqqOQ/Tjqx3AQV8EI/AAAAAAAAC3s/CalEMyYdqAE/s72-c/aaa+003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-4359201006247430337</id><published>2011-07-31T17:39:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-31T17:39:01.785+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Good reads and a sampler</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NbtVnvqJ9rw/TjV0zf_uD9I/AAAAAAAAC3I/_0Y3oY6z-gU/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NbtVnvqJ9rw/TjV0zf_uD9I/AAAAAAAAC3I/_0Y3oY6z-gU/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Lately this magazine and book arrived with the post. Such beautiful and happy projects!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De afgelopen tijd is dit tijdschrift en boek bij mij op de mat beland. Zoveel moois!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uLsp2DtjLFE/TjV005eRJQI/AAAAAAAAC3M/17MhWoxwsSc/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uLsp2DtjLFE/TjV005eRJQI/AAAAAAAAC3M/17MhWoxwsSc/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am working on a stitchery sampler, provided by Bari, which you can get here. It's fun to follow her blog &lt;a href="http://www.welovefrenchknots.com/"&gt;We love French Knots&lt;/a&gt;, if you like to stitch! And if you don't like to stitch, it is fun to look at the beautiful projects (o:&lt;br /&gt;Momenteel maak ik de stitchery sampler van Bari. Ze is een heel leuke nieuwe blog begonnen, &lt;a href="http://www.welovefrenchknots.com/"&gt;We love French Knots&lt;/a&gt;, met veel moois over stitchery. Daar vind je ook het patroon van de vorige post (o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-etjEdNCJBBY/TjV02JtisuI/AAAAAAAAC3Q/qQ8w5eL45LU/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-etjEdNCJBBY/TjV02JtisuI/AAAAAAAAC3Q/qQ8w5eL45LU/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Words are just words and without heart they have no meaning." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Chinese Proverb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-4359201006247430337?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/4359201006247430337/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=4359201006247430337&amp;isPopup=true' title='19 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4359201006247430337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4359201006247430337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/07/good-reads-and-sampler.html' title='Good reads and a sampler'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NbtVnvqJ9rw/TjV0zf_uD9I/AAAAAAAAC3I/_0Y3oY6z-gU/s72-c/aaa+004.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-6401982702834916887</id><published>2011-07-29T19:24:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-29T19:24:42.769+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Happiness is ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEjhycxj8S8/TjLr_Nrt4iI/AAAAAAAAC3A/F7_ePPkfvzY/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEjhycxj8S8/TjLr_Nrt4iI/AAAAAAAAC3A/F7_ePPkfvzY/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;... making a mug rug like this ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qoLhVDSfKzY/TjLsASvmRRI/AAAAAAAAC3E/PBfVUq9XK08/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qoLhVDSfKzY/TjLsASvmRRI/AAAAAAAAC3E/PBfVUq9XK08/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;... to a cup like this ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;                     &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- H. G. Wells -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-6401982702834916887?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/6401982702834916887/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=6401982702834916887&amp;isPopup=true' title='29 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/6401982702834916887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/6401982702834916887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/07/happiness-is.html' title='Happiness is ...'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEjhycxj8S8/TjLr_Nrt4iI/AAAAAAAAC3A/F7_ePPkfvzY/s72-c/aaa+004.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>29</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-4717765087003207615</id><published>2011-07-28T14:18:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-28T14:23:55.726+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Vintage Spools meets French General</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-65rATcmorj0/TjFQtbfX9vI/AAAAAAAAC2g/Bi0WBYNafI0/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-65rATcmorj0/TjFQtbfX9vI/AAAAAAAAC2g/Bi0WBYNafI0/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I finished my&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/75081008/vintage-spools-a-little-quilt-pdf"&gt; Vintage Spools&lt;/a&gt; quilt, designed by&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt; Sephanie from Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt;. This was a wonderful fun project to make and I love the result with the French General fabrics! If you click on the picture, you can take a closer look and see that the borders are made with the sides of the fabrics. French General always has such pretty borders on their fabrics and now I could finally use them (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;In the original pattern, Stephanie used ric rac for the sashing. I am still not quite sure whether I will do that. I think it looks very pretty this way!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vandaag heb ik &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/75081008/vintage-spools-a-little-quilt-pdf"&gt;Vintage Spools&lt;/a&gt; af kunnen maken, een quilt die ontworpen is door &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie van Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt;. Dit is een heel leuke quilt te maken en de stofjes vind ik er erg mooi voor passen. Als je op de foto klikt, kun je de randen beter bekijken. Deze heb ik van de randen van de stof gemaakt. French General maakt altijd zulke mooie randen en nu wist ik eindelijk waarvoor ik ze kon gebruiken (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In het originele patroon wordt ricrac gebruikt voor de sashing. Ik ben nog aan het twijfelen, maar ik denk dat ik het zo laat!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-064S2Gopn7c/TjFQudj4MjI/AAAAAAAAC2k/M3SL3Xdalu0/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-064S2Gopn7c/TjFQudj4MjI/AAAAAAAAC2k/M3SL3Xdalu0/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And I could actually sit outside for a while today, to finish the Vintage Spools. Bibi decided to join me (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik kon vandaag zelfs buiten zitten om de bies van de quilt af te maken. Bibi hield mij gezelschap (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong.&lt;br /&gt;The amount of work is the same."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Carlos Castaneda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-4717765087003207615?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/4717765087003207615/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=4717765087003207615&amp;isPopup=true' title='22 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4717765087003207615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4717765087003207615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/07/vintage-spools-meets-french-general.html' title='Vintage Spools meets French General'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-65rATcmorj0/TjFQtbfX9vI/AAAAAAAAC2g/Bi0WBYNafI0/s72-c/aaa+001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-5149542276506861580</id><published>2011-07-25T14:19:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-25T16:38:07.027+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Mexcio, here she comes!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Yesterday we brought Laura to Airport Brussels to fetch her plane to Mexico (o: The luggage you see below is what she took with her, to stay there for 180 days, including backpacking for 2 months. Early this morning she let us know she arrived safely!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gisteren hebben we Laura naar vliegveld Zaventum gebracht voor haar reis naar Mexico. De koffers die ze mee heeft zijn voor 180 dagen verblijf. Daarin zitten ook de spullen voor als ze 2 maanden erop uit trekt.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vanochtend vroeg heeft ze ons laten weten, dat ze veilig aangekomen is!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cpCWptu_qwg/Ti1YbPrkGVI/AAAAAAAAC2A/oEtyhCgklbw/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cpCWptu_qwg/Ti1YbPrkGVI/AAAAAAAAC2A/oEtyhCgklbw/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xwCT4JaQZo0/Ti1ZWO-N-FI/AAAAAAAAC2c/iZrQdn79PpA/s1600/aaa+008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xwCT4JaQZo0/Ti1ZWO-N-FI/AAAAAAAAC2c/iZrQdn79PpA/s320/aaa+008.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;~ bye ~ bye ~&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I stitched this little pillow for Laura, to give her comfort, whenever she needs it. It's the Princess on the Pea.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb dit kussentje voor Laura gemaakt, de Prinses op de Erwt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PuaTcCkm3nY/Ti1YtwbCSCI/AAAAAAAAC2M/Xjy46cx3ML4/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PuaTcCkm3nY/Ti1YtwbCSCI/AAAAAAAAC2M/Xjy46cx3ML4/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The back - &lt;i&gt;de achterkant&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eAEeMyGGko8/Ti1YwX4MwUI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/zXXOs87LY58/s1600/aaa+005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eAEeMyGGko8/Ti1YwX4MwUI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/zXXOs87LY58/s320/aaa+005.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I made some more covers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb nog een aantal hoesjes gemaakt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PuHfw_fpOD4/Ti1Y1wXNfPI/AAAAAAAAC2U/xstn53TQFBQ/s1600/aaa+002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PuHfw_fpOD4/Ti1Y1wXNfPI/AAAAAAAAC2U/xstn53TQFBQ/s320/aaa+002.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And I made this cute matryoshka, which you can get &lt;a href="http://webshop.jitdesign.nl/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kijk eens wat een schattige matroesjka. De kit kun je &lt;a href="http://webshop.jitdesign.nl/"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; krijgen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-naBQrVyoFhY/Ti1Y3yEvPTI/AAAAAAAAC2Y/wqJODTbPamA/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-naBQrVyoFhY/Ti1Y3yEvPTI/AAAAAAAAC2Y/wqJODTbPamA/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Two quilts are ready for binding by hand (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De bies van twee quilts kan er nu met de hand aangenaaid worden (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-poAx94Cihyo/Ti1YgdjSDSI/AAAAAAAAC2E/aDWN1dHI9zo/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-poAx94Cihyo/Ti1YgdjSDSI/AAAAAAAAC2E/aDWN1dHI9zo/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;- Charles Dickens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-5149542276506861580?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/5149542276506861580/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=5149542276506861580&amp;isPopup=true' title='25 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5149542276506861580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5149542276506861580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/07/mexcio-here-she-comes.html' title='Mexcio, here she comes!'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cpCWptu_qwg/Ti1YbPrkGVI/AAAAAAAAC2A/oEtyhCgklbw/s72-c/aaa+004.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>25</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-6495309950507220790</id><published>2011-07-20T14:42:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-20T15:57:42.995+02:00</updated><title type='text'>And the winners are ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MOP2l0t2lYw/TibMn69ZdAI/AAAAAAAAC10/WIVHG1zAB_c/s1600/Ella%2527s+Wishes+baby+spools.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MOP2l0t2lYw/TibMn69ZdAI/AAAAAAAAC10/WIVHG1zAB_c/s320/Ella%2527s+Wishes+baby+spools.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h2 style="background-color: white; color: #6f6fc4; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;Vintage Spools (taken from &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie's Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 style="background-color: white; color: #6f6fc4; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Random Integer Generator&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;Here are your random numbers:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;pre class="data" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px; margin-left: 2em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;21 56 33 41 54&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;Timestamp: 2011-07-20 11:59:42 UTC&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Random Integer Generator chose the numbers for me&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;21 - &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Ria Vogelzang&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Ria, you will receive the Mary Jane bag made by me&amp;nbsp;and a PDF pattern from and provided by &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie at Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt; which you&amp;nbsp;can choose &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;56 -&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt; Amy&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Amy, you can choose 2 PDF patterns&amp;nbsp;from and provided by &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&amp;nbsp;at Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;which you can choose&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt; here&lt;/a&gt; and I will send you&amp;nbsp;a charm pack&amp;nbsp;which you might&amp;nbsp;be able to use for one of the patterns.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;33 - &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mary&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Mary you can choose one PDF&amp;nbsp;pattern&amp;nbsp;from Stephanie at Loft Creations&amp;nbsp;which you can choose &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and I will send you&amp;nbsp;a mini charm pack which you&amp;nbsp;can use for the Oak Park bag (o:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;I added two more winners to the list, who will each receive a PDF pattern&amp;nbsp;from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie at Loft Creations&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;which you can choose &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, also provided by Stephanie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;41 - &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Corners of Life&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;54 -&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt; Ilene&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Congratulations, ladies!!! You will soon receive an email from me to let you know you are a winner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Thank you so much, &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt;, for your generosity of providing the patterns to this giveaway. I am sure the ladies will enjoy making their projects as much as I did (and still do!).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;*-*-*-*-*-*-*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;De Random Integer Generator heeft de nummers voor mij gekozen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;21 - &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Ria Vogelzang&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. Ria, jij bent de gelukkige winnaar van de Mary Jane tas, die ik voor jou zal maken. Ook mag jij een PDF patroon uitkiezen van &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie van Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt;, die je&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt; hier &lt;/a&gt;kunt vinden.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;(De tekst bij de andere winnaars zal ik niet vertalen, omdat het toch alleen&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"&gt;Engelstalige&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;dames betreft)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Gefeliciteerd Ria en natuurlijk ook de andere dames. Je zult snel een email van mij krijgen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Bedankt&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt; Stephanie &lt;/a&gt;voor de patronen voor deze giveaway! Ik hoop dat jullie net zoveel plezier met de patronen beleven als ik (o:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.7em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"Kindness can become its own motive.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;We are made kind by being kind."&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; - Eric Hoffer -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; 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text-align: center;"&gt;Mary Jane's Vintage spools at Oak Park joining Hailee Barefoot in the Park to go to the Saturday Market to search for Ladyfingers, Sugar Baby and Prickly Pear &amp;nbsp;with their Loft Tote and West Linn bag&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3m137Q5O1YE/ThBjpJPY5PI/AAAAAAAAC04/E8Lw8hQAa-M/s1600/Picnik+collage3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="135" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3m137Q5O1YE/ThBjpJPY5PI/AAAAAAAAC04/E8Lw8hQAa-M/s400/Picnik+collage3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As my regular readers know, I am a big fan of &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2007/07/patterns-by-loft-creations.html"&gt;Stephanie's patterns&lt;/a&gt;. They are well written, step by step, always tested by her supremes and fun and easy to make. The result is stunning everytime I finish one of her projects.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wie mijn blog regelmatig leest, weet dat ik een fan ben van &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2007/07/patterns-by-loft-creations.html"&gt;Stephanie's patronen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;. Ze zijn erg goed geschreven, worden altijd door haar supremes getest en zijn leuk en eenvoudig te maken. Het resultaat is iedere keer opnieuw weer heel mooi.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4JAompGQtBY/ThBtYoQOq7I/AAAAAAAAC1I/_si9WmOMfsg/s1600/Picnik+collage4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="161" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4JAompGQtBY/ThBtYoQOq7I/AAAAAAAAC1I/_si9WmOMfsg/s320/Picnik+collage4.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Below you can see the&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/06/playing-with-spools.html"&gt; latest pattern Stephanie designed: Vintage Spools.&lt;/a&gt; I decided to use my French General stash for this quilt, since it really emphasizes the vintage look to me. I am going to make a modern version too, but first I'll finish the top to this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hier zie je&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/06/playing-with-spools.html"&gt; haar laatste ontwerp: Vintage Spools&lt;/a&gt;. Hiervoor heb ik mijn French General stash aangebroken, aangezien die echt de vintage uitstraling geven. Ik ga een moderne versie maken, maar eerst wil ik deze af hebben.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ctt8DTVQxjc/ThBmSLoG2fI/AAAAAAAAC1E/ynIo9idNe3E/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ctt8DTVQxjc/ThBmSLoG2fI/AAAAAAAAC1E/ynIo9idNe3E/s400/aaa+001.JPG" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This part of the post was fun, but now comes the best part. I told &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt; that I was going to have a giveaway with her patterns, since I want others to join the fun I am experiencing in making her patterns. &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt; very kindly offered to provide the patterns for this! Thank you so much, &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt; (o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit deel van de post was al leuk, maar nu komt het beste deel. Ik vertelde &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt; dat ik een giveaway zou hebben met haar patronen, aangezien ik graag wil dat anderen ook het plezier van het maken van haar patronen ervaren. &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt; is zo aardig de patronen hiervoor te verzorgen. Bedankt, &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt; (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s9bV3JVEnXg/ThBujVEZ49I/AAAAAAAAC1M/pt_KW32Vs9s/s1600/Barefoot+back.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s9bV3JVEnXg/ThBujVEZ49I/AAAAAAAAC1M/pt_KW32Vs9s/s320/Barefoot+back.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Barefoot in the Park (picture taken van Stephanie's blog)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So, this is what you can win:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; First prize&lt;/b&gt;: &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; A Modern Mary Jane bag, made by me and&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;a PDF pattern&amp;nbsp;which you can find &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations?ref=seller_info"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; Second prize&lt;/b&gt;: &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Two PDF patterns which you can find &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations?ref=seller_info"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;and a charm pack (Spring Fever).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt; Third prize&lt;/b&gt;: &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; One PDF pattern which you can find &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations?ref=seller_info"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;and a mini charm pack (Collection for a&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Cause).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit kun je winnen:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Eerste prijs&lt;/b&gt;: &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Een Modern Mary Jane bag, door mij&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;gemaakt en een PDF&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;patroon, dat je&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations?ref=seller_info"&gt; hier&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;kunt vinden.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Tweede prijs&lt;/b&gt;: &amp;nbsp; Twee PDF patronen, die je hier kunt&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;vinden en een charm pack (Spring Fever).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Derde prijs&lt;/b&gt;: &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Eén PDF patroon, dat je hier kunt&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;vinden en een mini charm pack&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;(Collection for a Cause).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In order to win, please leave behind a comment and let me know what &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;your favorite Loft Creation pattern&lt;/a&gt; is. Who knows you might win it (o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Schrijf een comment, om in aanmerking te komen voor één van de prijzen en laat me weten wat&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt; je favoriete Loft Creation patroon&lt;/a&gt; is. Wie weet, win je het (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The choices we make,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;not the changes we take,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #e06666; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;determine our destiny.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"&gt;(a quote my father sent me this week :o)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-4529176182546240505?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/4529176182546240505/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=4529176182546240505&amp;isPopup=true' title='57 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4529176182546240505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4529176182546240505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/07/mary-janes-vintage-spools-at-oak-park.html' title='Giveaway time for my readers (o:'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3m137Q5O1YE/ThBjpJPY5PI/AAAAAAAAC04/E8Lw8hQAa-M/s72-c/Picnik+collage3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>57</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-8077095793514919186</id><published>2011-06-25T19:23:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-06-25T19:25:35.433+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Mary Jane joining Oak Park</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Together with &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt;, I made the Mary Jane bag, designed by &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt;. You might remember&lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/05/modern-mary-jane-retro-bag-and.html"&gt; this one&lt;/a&gt;, which was so much fun, that I decided to join &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; in making another one. I made it for a special friend of mine, who uses it almost every day!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;You might have guessed, that her favorite color is purple.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Samen met &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt; heb ik nog eens de Mary Jane tas gemaakt, ontworpen door &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt;. Misschien herinner je je &lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/05/modern-mary-jane-retro-bag-and.html"&gt;deze&lt;/a&gt; nog. Ik heb de tas voor een speciale vriendin gemaakt, die hem bijna iedere dag gebruikt.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Misschien kon je het al raden: haar favoriete kleur is paars.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PqJ3hdHDgHk/TgYRdmJnhzI/AAAAAAAACzs/2YpTEDX9Si4/s1600/004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PqJ3hdHDgHk/TgYRdmJnhzI/AAAAAAAACzs/2YpTEDX9Si4/s320/004.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Front - &lt;i&gt;voorkant&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aPBLZygp7VQ/TgYRoLHCrkI/AAAAAAAACzw/9u1I2BJOVXc/s1600/002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aPBLZygp7VQ/TgYRoLHCrkI/AAAAAAAACzw/9u1I2BJOVXc/s320/002.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Back - &lt;i&gt;achterkant&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NvXLqUQBigY/TgYSj0BdJiI/AAAAAAAAC0E/Jcvbc2HgMtI/s1600/001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NvXLqUQBigY/TgYSj0BdJiI/AAAAAAAAC0E/Jcvbc2HgMtI/s320/001.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made another&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/73677787/oak-park-bag-a-pdf-pattern"&gt; Oak Park bag&lt;/a&gt;, which you might remember from other posts,&lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/06/proud-of-my-son.html"&gt; here&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/05/oak-park-and-dogs.html"&gt; here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;Stephanie's patterns&lt;/a&gt; are so securely and well written, that it is a joy to make the bags!&lt;br /&gt;This one was specially made for Laura, who 'needed' one for her intership.&lt;br /&gt;Jutta, do you recognize the little siccor, buttons and iron?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb nog een &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/73677787/oak-park-bag-a-pdf-pattern"&gt;Oak Park tas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/06/proud-of-my-son.html"&gt; Hier &lt;/a&gt;en &lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/05/oak-park-and-dogs.html"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; heb ik de tas ook al eens gemaakt. &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;De patronen van Stephanie &lt;/a&gt;zijn zo goed en secuur geschreven, dat het gewoon een genot is, ze te maken!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;De tas heb ik voor Laura gemaakt, die hem 'nodig' had voor haar stage.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ERK5214fOg/TgYR08rbV2I/AAAAAAAACz0/9Uj7fdLtNoo/s1600/aaa+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ERK5214fOg/TgYR08rbV2I/AAAAAAAACz0/9Uj7fdLtNoo/s320/aaa+001.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Front - &lt;i&gt;voorkant&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TuOO-WGD8Mg/TgYR6kq3TXI/AAAAAAAACz4/JBDl-u9YP_E/s1600/aaa+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TuOO-WGD8Mg/TgYR6kq3TXI/AAAAAAAACz4/JBDl-u9YP_E/s320/aaa+004.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Inside - &lt;i&gt;binnen&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ydvlQ5jxUz0/TgYSeS6lg5I/AAAAAAAAC0A/vzjzMwMI9Ls/s1600/005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ydvlQ5jxUz0/TgYSeS6lg5I/AAAAAAAAC0A/vzjzMwMI9Ls/s320/005.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A rose in our garden - een roos uit onze tuin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"&gt;There will be a surprise on my blog next week, so stay in touch!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e06666; font-size: large;"&gt;Volgende week heb ik een verrassing op mijn blog, dus hou het in de gaten!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-8077095793514919186?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/8077095793514919186/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=8077095793514919186&amp;isPopup=true' title='26 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8077095793514919186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8077095793514919186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/06/mary-jane-joining-oak-park.html' title='Mary Jane joining Oak Park'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PqJ3hdHDgHk/TgYRdmJnhzI/AAAAAAAACzs/2YpTEDX9Si4/s72-c/004.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>26</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-1361317221910894068</id><published>2011-06-21T10:13:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-06-22T09:32:08.664+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Helen is having Stitched Sundays!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Please read &lt;a href="http://kaholly.blogspot.com/2011/06/quilters-helping-tornado-victims_15.html"&gt;Karen's post&lt;/a&gt; for the help for a charity quilting group, who lost everything in a tornado.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lees aub &lt;a href="http://kaholly.blogspot.com/2011/06/quilters-helping-tornado-victims_15.html"&gt;deze post van Karen&lt;/a&gt;, zodat jullie misschien de dames van een charity quilt groep kunnen helpen, die alles in een tornado verloren hebben.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F5-1wRAHrDE/TgBRTy3EAzI/AAAAAAAACzg/5p1reZohui8/s1600/6a00e5538b8229883301543321365b970c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F5-1wRAHrDE/TgBRTy3EAzI/AAAAAAAACzg/5p1reZohui8/s320/6a00e5538b8229883301543321365b970c.jpg" width="319" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, I wasn't going to join another swap, tutorial, BOM etc. but how can I resist this? &lt;a href="http://www.hugsnkisses.typepad.com/"&gt;Helen&lt;/a&gt; described her passion for stitching just the way I feel about it.&amp;nbsp;And now she'll have a &lt;a href="http://www.hugsnkisses.typepad.com/"&gt;Stitched Sunday&lt;/a&gt; the coming weeks.&lt;br /&gt;I know I will join, even though .....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Goed, ik zou nergens meer aan meedoen en niets nieuws beginnen, maar hoe kan ik dit weerstaan? &lt;a href="http://www.hugsnkisses.typepad.com/"&gt;Helen &lt;/a&gt;heeft haar passie voor stitching precies omschreven zoals ik het voel. En nu heeft ze de komende tijd iedere zondag een &lt;a href="http://www.hugsnkisses.typepad.com/"&gt;Stitched Sunday&lt;/a&gt;. Ik doe mee, ook al .........&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-1361317221910894068?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/1361317221910894068/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=1361317221910894068&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/1361317221910894068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/1361317221910894068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/06/helen-is-having-stitched-sundays.html' title='Helen is having Stitched Sundays!'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F5-1wRAHrDE/TgBRTy3EAzI/AAAAAAAACzg/5p1reZohui8/s72-c/6a00e5538b8229883301543321365b970c.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-7345271037690684863</id><published>2011-06-16T17:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-06-16T17:54:19.293+02:00</updated><title type='text'>GESLAAGD!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cF3zIF1_g4M/TfojVR5XfMI/AAAAAAAACzY/f0IeKOQAdDo/s1600/aaa+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cF3zIF1_g4M/TfojVR5XfMI/AAAAAAAACzY/f0IeKOQAdDo/s320/aaa+003.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Thijme &amp;nbsp;is&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"&gt;geslaagd!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;Vanmiddag kwam dan eindelijk het verlossende telefoontje. Het is en blijft spannend!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;Nu is hij naar school om zijn cijferlijst te halen en een glas te heffen op de goede afloop.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;Wat is het toch een heerlijk gevoel, vooral voor Thijme, maar ook voor zijn ouders (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thijme graduated from High School!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This afternoon he was finally called to tell him he graduated. It is always exciting.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;He is now at school, to pick up his grade list and drink a glass to the good ending.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;This is such a wonderful feeling, mainly for Thijme, but also for his parents!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gisteren zijn Thijme en ik naar Tilburg geweest, naar zijn eerdaags nieuwe woonplaats. Hij weet al waar hij gaat wonen en kan begin augustus intrekken. Jeetje, dan zal ons huis echt leeg worden ...&lt;br /&gt;Zal Thijme de aanwijzing van Laura opvolgen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Yesterday Thijme and I went to Tilburg, his soon to be new home town. He already knows where he will be living and can move in in August. Oh dear, our home will be empty ... soon.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Will he follow Laura's directions:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9EzLzd-9Rnc/TfojZ6okSyI/AAAAAAAACzc/XpdSAqNG_N0/s1600/tumblr_l7mditVNta1qcvt0eo1_400_thumb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9EzLzd-9Rnc/TfojZ6okSyI/AAAAAAAACzc/XpdSAqNG_N0/s1600/tumblr_l7mditVNta1qcvt0eo1_400_thumb.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;"You cannot raise a man up by calling him down."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"&gt;- William Boetcker -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-7345271037690684863?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/7345271037690684863/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=7345271037690684863&amp;isPopup=true' title='29 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/7345271037690684863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/7345271037690684863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/06/geslaagd.html' title='GESLAAGD!!!'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cF3zIF1_g4M/TfojVR5XfMI/AAAAAAAACzY/f0IeKOQAdDo/s72-c/aaa+003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>29</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-5314458127731740801</id><published>2011-06-02T18:56:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-06-02T20:37:42.064+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Proud of my son</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C47E5F1M1pE/TefCE83aX9I/AAAAAAAACvg/UMEmTcqepkg/s1600/008.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C47E5F1M1pE/TefCE83aX9I/AAAAAAAACvg/UMEmTcqepkg/s320/008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613668850854420434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here is a proud mother with her son. It was taken last Friday after Thijme had his final exam in Latin, ready for the prom that same evening.&lt;div&gt;He is now having a good time in Spain with friends for 10 days (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hier staat een trotse moeder met haar zoon. De foto is afgelopen vrijdag genomen, na zijn laatste examen en klaar voor het gala, diezelfde avond.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thijme zit nu voor 10 dagen lekker in Spanje. Een welverdiende vakantie!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J7WMiNs622c/TefBP01lt8I/AAAAAAAACvQ/47Ci5DonuHA/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J7WMiNs622c/TefBP01lt8I/AAAAAAAACvQ/47Ci5DonuHA/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613667938166224834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I couldn't help myself to make another Oak Park bag, designed by &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt; which you can find &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2007/07/patterns-by-loft-creations.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. This time I decided to make a natural version. As you can see, the handles are different. I didn't read the directions while making this one. The panels were all quilted and then I noticed I had to sew in the tabs. Oh well, it looks nice like this too, I think (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lesson learned (as &lt;a href="http://jackiecastson.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jackie &lt;/a&gt;often writes and I love her lessons): read and follow directions closely, even if you are making a pattern a second time!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik kon het niet laten om nog een Oak Park tas te maken, ontworpen door &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie&lt;/a&gt; en die je &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2007/07/patterns-by-loft-creations.html"&gt;hier &lt;/a&gt;kunt krijgen. Dit keer heb ik voor een meer naturelle kleur gekozen. Zoals je kunt zien, zijn de hengsels anders. Ik had de beschrijving niet gelezen, terwijl ik deze tas aan het maken was. De pandjes waren al helemaal gequilt, toen ik erachter kwam, dat de tabs er nog tussen moesten. Ach ja, zo ziet die er ook wel leuk uit (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Geleerde les (zoals &lt;a href="http://jackiecastson.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jackie &lt;/a&gt;altijd schrijft als iets fout is gegaan): lees en volg de beschrijving nauwkeurig, ook als je een patroon voor de tweede keer maakt!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W9q15GamPSQ/TefBPuF6YHI/AAAAAAAACvI/J1iIykcwvJ0/s1600/aaa%2B003.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-W9q15GamPSQ/TefBPuF6YHI/AAAAAAAACvI/J1iIykcwvJ0/s320/aaa%2B003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613667936355639410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Detail of the button. These are two vintage buttons that I bought in a very old sewing shop in Tongeren, Belgium.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Detail van de knoop. Dit zijn twee knopen, die ik in een heel oud naaiwinkeltje heb gekocht in Tongeren, België.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ncDuFVSOLsw/TefBPOdacPI/AAAAAAAACvA/0DYBD7hxDfA/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ncDuFVSOLsw/TefBPOdacPI/AAAAAAAACvA/0DYBD7hxDfA/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5613667927864275186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And this is my May Le Petite version. It is a free pattern from Moda Bake Shop, &lt;a href="http://www.modabakeshop.com/2010/09/candy-bar-pinwheels.html"&gt;Candy Bar Pinwheels. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Please take a look on &lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/"&gt;Sherri's&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sinta's&lt;/a&gt; blog to see the lovely Le Petite parades!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;En dit is mijn Le Petite van mei. Het patroon is &lt;a href="http://www.modabakeshop.com/2010/09/candy-bar-pinwheels.html"&gt;Candy Bar Pinwheels&lt;/a&gt;, van Moda Bake Shop.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Om nog meer quilts met dit patroon te zien, kun naar &lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/"&gt;Sherri's&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sinta's&lt;/a&gt; Le Petite Parades gaan!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;"We  tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting  something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what  we do have." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;- Frederick Keonig&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-5314458127731740801?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/5314458127731740801/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=5314458127731740801&amp;isPopup=true' title='39 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5314458127731740801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5314458127731740801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/06/proud-of-my-son.html' title='Proud of my son'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C47E5F1M1pE/TefCE83aX9I/AAAAAAAACvg/UMEmTcqepkg/s72-c/008.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>39</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-4847100218440905249</id><published>2011-05-29T17:59:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T08:04:01.244+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Oak Park and Dogs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YsoiRvWGUcs/TeJts9TvRtI/AAAAAAAACuw/4g54aVRuH58/s1600/aaa%2B006.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YsoiRvWGUcs/TeJts9TvRtI/AAAAAAAACuw/4g54aVRuH58/s1600/aaa%2B006.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YsoiRvWGUcs/TeJts9TvRtI/AAAAAAAACuw/4g54aVRuH58/s320/aaa%2B006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612168704796083922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have been enjoying myself with making three bags this week. I was inspired by &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2007/07/patterns-by-loft-creations.html"&gt;Stephanie's Modern Mary Jane retro bag &lt;/a&gt;which I won, including the lovely kit (o: It reminded me of how fun &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2007/07/patterns-by-loft-creations.html"&gt;Stephanie's patterns&lt;/a&gt; are to make, so after finishing the retro bag for a second time, I decided to order her Oak Park pattern. I fell in love with it again, after I saw &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/05/gi-jane.html"&gt;this version&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This bag has been quite a challenge for me, because I wasn't sure about the green fabric. But since it comes back in the flower fabric, which &lt;a href="http://quilttales.blogspot.com/"&gt;Satu&lt;/a&gt; gave to me a while back, I thought it would be okay. It will be me fancy summer bag (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze week heb ik mezelf vermaakt met het maken van drie tassen. Ik werd geïnspireerd door &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2007/07/patterns-by-loft-creations.html"&gt;Stephanie's Modern Mary Jane retro tas&lt;/a&gt;, die ik gewonnen had, samen met de stofjes. Tijdens het maken herinnerde ik me, hoe leuk het is om &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2007/07/patterns-by-loft-creations.html"&gt;Stephanie's patronen&lt;/a&gt; te maken en hoe goed ze omschreven zijn. En toen ik niet zo lang geleden d&lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/05/gi-jane.html"&gt;e nieuwe versie van Oak Park&lt;/a&gt; zag, wist ik dat ik deze ook wilde maken.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze tas was een aardige uitdaging voor mij, omdat ik twijfelde over het groene stofje. Maar omdat het in de bloemen stof terugkomt, die ik een tijdje geleden van &lt;a href="http://quilttales.blogspot.com/"&gt;Satu&lt;/a&gt; heb gekregen, vond ik toch wel dat het bij elkaar paste. Dit wordt mijn fancy zomer tas (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AVdEyOBmQJg/TeJtsqUo2TI/AAAAAAAACuo/xvE6NchyBf4/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollagetas.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AVdEyOBmQJg/TeJtsqUo2TI/AAAAAAAACuo/xvE6NchyBf4/s320/Picnik%2Bcollagetas.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612168699699583282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I found the &lt;a href="http://kayray.org/crafts/red_tutorial/"&gt;pattern of this bag&lt;/a&gt; on internet. I am glad I had made two of Stephanie's bags before starting this one, because there was a lot of figuring out. At the end I just took over the templates and made the bag the way I thought was right. Next time I will make the handles a bit longer, so that I can also carry it over my shoulder. Inside the bag there are two pockets, one for my smart phone and one for my car papers. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;PS: Stephanie, do you recognize the button?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Het &lt;a href="http://kayray.org/crafts/red_tutorial/"&gt;patroon van deze tas&lt;/a&gt; heb ik op internet gevonden. Ik was wel blij, dat ik twee tassen van Stephanie had gemaakt, voordat ik hiermee begon. Uiteindelijk heb ik de patroondelen overgenomen en heb de tas gemaakt zoals ik dacht dat het moest.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;De volgende keer zal ik de hengsels wat langer maken, zodat ik de tas ook over mijn schouder kan dragen. Binnen in de tas zijn nog twee zakjes voor m'n smart phone en autopapieren.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;                     &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;"The  appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see  magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in  ourselves." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;                     &lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;- Kahlil Gilbran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-4847100218440905249?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/4847100218440905249/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=4847100218440905249&amp;isPopup=true' title='29 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4847100218440905249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4847100218440905249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/05/oak-park-and-dogs.html' title='Oak Park and Dogs'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YsoiRvWGUcs/TeJts9TvRtI/AAAAAAAACuw/4g54aVRuH58/s72-c/aaa%2B006.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>29</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-8879996025324147185</id><published>2011-05-22T19:16:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-22T20:26:21.674+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Modern Mary Jane Retro Bag and Elephants</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Please join this lovely lady while reading this post. She was so patient!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Jullie kunnen deze vriendelijk dame volgen bij het lezen van deze post. Ze had zo veel geduld!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IiEqiKG7aIY/TdlKvVvlMII/AAAAAAAACtw/Z2nkfiRfIuE/s1600/aaa%2B119.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IiEqiKG7aIY/TdlKvVvlMII/AAAAAAAACtw/Z2nkfiRfIuE/s320/aaa%2B119.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609596988017684610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;A few weeks back I was the lucky winner of not only &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie's &lt;/a&gt;newest bag pattern &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/04/modern-mary-jane.html"&gt;Modern Mary Jane&lt;/a&gt;, but also of the kit that went to it. This bag was so much fun to make. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Stephanie has designed many more lovely bag patterns, which you can find &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and just recently she designed and published her very first quilt with the lovely name &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/05/barefoot-in-park.html"&gt;"Barefoot in the park"&lt;/a&gt;. If you are going for a picnic this summer, you should definitely make this quilt!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een paar weken geleden, was ik de gelukkige winnar van het patroon EN de kit van &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/"&gt;Stephanie's&lt;/a&gt; nieuwste tas &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/04/modern-mary-jane.html"&gt;Modern Mary Jane&lt;/a&gt;. Deze tas was weer zo leuk te maken.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Stephanie heeft nog meer mooie tassen ontworpen, die je &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/loftcreations"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; kunt vinden, voor een leuke prijs. En onlangs heeft ze ook haar eerste quilt ontworpen met de naam &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/05/barefoot-in-park.html"&gt;"Barefoot in the park"&lt;/a&gt;. Als je deze zomer van plan bent te gaan picknicken, dan zou je eigenlijk deze quilt moeten maken.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ANZAhUIVs6o/TdlKvvEESRI/AAAAAAAACt4/I9yEjUUec5Q/s1600/aaa%2B009.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ANZAhUIVs6o/TdlKvvEESRI/AAAAAAAACt4/I9yEjUUec5Q/s320/aaa%2B009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609596994814494994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Back to &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/04/modern-mary-jane.html"&gt;Modern Mary Jane&lt;/a&gt;. Here she is, all finished. Isn't she lovely. And so nice to take with me when I take my handwork and e-reader with me. The bag has 2 pockects on the backside. Thank you so much, dear Stephanie, for the lovely surprise! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Terug naar &lt;a href="http://www.designsbyloftcreations.com/2011/04/modern-mary-jane.html"&gt;Modern Mary Jane&lt;/a&gt;. Hier is ze dan, helemaal af. Is ze niet mooi! En de tas is zo handig om mee te nemen, met m'n handwerkspulletjes en e-reader. Er zitten nog 2 kleine zakjes aan de achterkant.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Heel erg bedankt, lieve Stephanie, voor de mooie verrassing!!!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mW473h066bg/TdlKvPTxzsI/AAAAAAAACto/djdvgWjVw4g/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mW473h066bg/TdlKvPTxzsI/AAAAAAAACto/djdvgWjVw4g/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609596986290458306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have also been working on &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lyn's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.4shared.com/document/X_RQJZhW/RetroNinePatchBlock5.html"&gt;Retro Nine Patch free BOM&lt;/a&gt;. After I finished the fifth and last stitchery, I will take a close-up of each stitchery. The patterns are so pretty and Lyn chose such happy and bright colors. This picture doesn't do the blocks right!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thank you lieve &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lyn&lt;/a&gt; for the lovely pattern! I look forward to the pattern to put the blocks together!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb ook aan de &lt;a href="http://www.4shared.com/document/X_RQJZhW/RetroNinePatchBlock5.html"&gt;Retro Nine Patch free BOM &lt;/a&gt;van &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lyn&lt;/a&gt; gewerkt. Wanneer ik de vijfde en laatste stitchery af heb, zal ik betere foto's maken, want de kleuren en de patronen komen hier niet tot hun recht. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dank you wel, lieve &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lyn&lt;/a&gt;, voor de mooie patronen! Ik kan niet wachten, tot het patroon om de blokken samen te voegen uitkomt!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kqPRPtXjYAQ/TdlKuigROQI/AAAAAAAACtg/l9WjEF8CJU0/s1600/aaa%2B008.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kqPRPtXjYAQ/TdlKuigROQI/AAAAAAAACtg/l9WjEF8CJU0/s320/aaa%2B008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609596974263253250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And now I will take you with us to the &lt;a href="http://elephantparade.com/nl/parade/heerlen-2011/elephants"&gt;Elephant Parade - lets Heerlen smile&lt;/a&gt;. It has been in Heerlen for several weeks and we took Louise to see them. The elephants were made by different artists with very different themes. There were 37 of them, but we didn't see them all. I will show you the ones that impressed us most.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;En nu neem ik jullie mee naar de &lt;a href="http://elephantparade.com/nl/parade/heerlen-2011/elephants"&gt;Elephant Parade - laat Heerlen glimlachen&lt;/a&gt;. Deze was een paar weken in Heerlen te zien. We hebben Louise meegenomen om ze te bewonderen en te laten zien dat Heerlen ook zijn mooie kanten heeft. De olifanten zijn door verschillende artiesten gemaakt, met verschillende thema's. Er waren 37 olifanten, maar we hebben ze niet allemaal gezien. Ik laat jullie die zien, die de meeste indruk op ons hebben gemaakt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7Y6h-o4L7rQ/TdlKuL6Up0I/AAAAAAAACtY/VqUGc0Hk27E/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7Y6h-o4L7rQ/TdlKuL6Up0I/AAAAAAAACtY/VqUGc0Hk27E/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609596968198514498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I really wanted to tickle the one at the bottom right.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De olifant links onder moest gewoon gekieteld worden...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d6igWWHPdvI/TdlNSXBt6FI/AAAAAAAACug/5-EvVns7rKY/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d6igWWHPdvI/TdlNSXBt6FI/AAAAAAAACug/5-EvVns7rKY/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609599788680865874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Look at this beauty ... the eyes ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kijk eens naar deze schoonheid ... de ogen ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o1U7y5uPDJ0/TdlNRG7jjwI/AAAAAAAACuA/DDMmPtX8Kmo/s1600/aaa%2B106.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o1U7y5uPDJ0/TdlNRG7jjwI/AAAAAAAACuA/DDMmPtX8Kmo/s320/aaa%2B106.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609599767180185346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The Euro Elephant, which Ger handles with care ;o)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De Euro olifant, die Ger met veel zorg behandeld ;o)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1qEXnlMFm7E/TdlNSG_xi4I/AAAAAAAACuY/jUgSUPCyTEA/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1qEXnlMFm7E/TdlNSG_xi4I/AAAAAAAACuY/jUgSUPCyTEA/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609599784377748354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I think this was Louise's favorite.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit was geloof ik de favoriet van Louise.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r6NktRRm_0w/TdlNRkVv_FI/AAAAAAAACuQ/oSOPue54x-g/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage4.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r6NktRRm_0w/TdlNRkVv_FI/AAAAAAAACuQ/oSOPue54x-g/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609599775074679890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Colorful and sometimes strange.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kleurrijk en soms een beetje vreemd - rivella. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hQxWKoX7iQI/TdlNRfGA25I/AAAAAAAACuI/RoFvKEHXlO4/s1600/aaa%2B130.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hQxWKoX7iQI/TdlNRfGA25I/AAAAAAAACuI/RoFvKEHXlO4/s320/aaa%2B130.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609599773666499474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Louise and I couldn't help joining the patient lady.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Louise en ik moesten de geduldige dame gezelschap houden.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;"The power of imagination makes us infinite."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;John Muir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-8879996025324147185?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/8879996025324147185/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=8879996025324147185&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8879996025324147185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8879996025324147185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/05/modern-mary-jane-retro-bag-and.html' title='The Modern Mary Jane Retro Bag and Elephants'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IiEqiKG7aIY/TdlKvVvlMII/AAAAAAAACtw/Z2nkfiRfIuE/s72-c/aaa%2B119.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-5088741888620630993</id><published>2011-05-15T18:52:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-15T20:20:39.620+02:00</updated><title type='text'>My dear friend Louise</title><content type='html'>This week my dear friend Louise from San José, California came to visit us. Louise was my fourth and fifth grade teacher and thanks to her, I decided to become a teacher.&lt;div&gt;Over the past three years we have seen each others every May! She was with us twice; we were with her last year. We hope to visit her again in November.&lt;div&gt;Here we are having a nice Café Latte and Cappuccino in Aachen, together with Ger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze week was mijn lieve vriendin Louise uit San José, California er. Louise was mijn basisschool juf in de 4e en 5e klas (nu groep 6 en 7). Door haar ben ik juf van de basisschool geworden.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;De afgelopen drie jaar hebben we elkaar steeds in mei gezien. Zij was twee keer bij on en vorig jaar waren wij bij haar. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hier zijn we in Aken met een Café Latte en Cappuccino, in Aken, samen met Ger.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qiJVLq_hqVQ/TdAJI2z4-jI/AAAAAAAACrI/izXph0OwD8A/s1600/aaa%2B003.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qiJVLq_hqVQ/TdAJI2z4-jI/AAAAAAAACrI/izXph0OwD8A/s320/aaa%2B003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606991583833029170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I was able to finish the quilt for Louise just on time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De quilt voor Louise had ik op tijd klaar.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QfZ441w1Lvg/TdAJIg6Z9gI/AAAAAAAACrA/fmbRxwNtOr8/s1600/aaa%2B006.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QfZ441w1Lvg/TdAJIg6Z9gI/AAAAAAAACrA/fmbRxwNtOr8/s320/aaa%2B006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606991577954776578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I started the stitching in January and I wonder if I would have finished so soon, if Louise had not come...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zou de quilt af zijn geweest als Louise niet gekomen was ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MjTLWhHF6g0/TdAJIUqtd9I/AAAAAAAACq4/m-SLryM0rOw/s1600/aaa%2B007.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MjTLWhHF6g0/TdAJIUqtd9I/AAAAAAAACq4/m-SLryM0rOw/s320/aaa%2B007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606991574667720658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Another owl pincushion, this time for Louise's daughter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nog een uilen speldenkussen voor de dochter van Louise.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-beuVGyNwArc/TdAJIGONKoI/AAAAAAAACqw/eqfn5q_fQUY/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-beuVGyNwArc/TdAJIGONKoI/AAAAAAAACqw/eqfn5q_fQUY/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606991570790066818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;MAASEIK&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Here we are enjoying a nice cup of coffee together with my parents on the market in the sun!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hier zitten we samen met m'n ouders van een heerlijk kopje koffie te genieten op de markt van Maaseik.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ize_dCXm0S0/TdAJH8C7z8I/AAAAAAAACqo/3nCezjRb6Zo/s1600/aaa%2B031.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ize_dCXm0S0/TdAJH8C7z8I/AAAAAAAACqo/3nCezjRb6Zo/s320/aaa%2B031.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606991568058437570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nearby there was this beautiful sculpture. You could open the books and each page showed a building on the market.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hier een mooi beeld op de markt van Maaseik. De boeken konden worden geopend, met daarin een afbeelding van een van de gebouwen op de markt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LfeuXfw7apU/TdAKhvGFonI/AAAAAAAACrw/ljp3a70SF40/s1600/aaa%2B008.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LfeuXfw7apU/TdAKhvGFonI/AAAAAAAACrw/ljp3a70SF40/s320/aaa%2B008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606993110770229874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--P05bISwzqk/TdAKheyEEyI/AAAAAAAACro/63Me-VCZkk0/s1600/aaa%2B010.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--P05bISwzqk/TdAKheyEEyI/AAAAAAAACro/63Me-VCZkk0/s320/aaa%2B010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606993106391274274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A lock.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een slot.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ouOAM0B-KSo/TdAKg0ylBFI/AAAAAAAACrY/C2gtfKTvmRM/s1600/aaa%2B029.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ouOAM0B-KSo/TdAKg0ylBFI/AAAAAAAACrY/C2gtfKTvmRM/s320/aaa%2B029.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606993095119144018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zJofzOGDpQY/TdAKgi68KII/AAAAAAAACrQ/lQtCAanmZxE/s1600/aaa%2B005.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zJofzOGDpQY/TdAKgi68KII/AAAAAAAACrQ/lQtCAanmZxE/s320/aaa%2B005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5606993090322376834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;'S-HERTOGENBOSCH&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A part of the market and City Hall in the back.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een deel van de markt en het stadhuis.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cUvrpy2rj0A/TdAReie5bAI/AAAAAAAACtA/XDNtgNfg7EY/s1600/aaa%2B023.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cUvrpy2rj0A/TdAReie5bAI/AAAAAAAACtA/XDNtgNfg7EY/s320/aaa%2B023.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607000752426413058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our shadows.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Onze schaduw.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xNhAPJw9Q8c/TdAReVj8x1I/AAAAAAAACs4/hNjAc2dR_Qk/s1600/aaa%2B014.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xNhAPJw9Q8c/TdAReVj8x1I/AAAAAAAACs4/hNjAc2dR_Qk/s320/aaa%2B014.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607000748957943634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BeEcUqU97Qg/TdAReTKlW-I/AAAAAAAACsw/_0MySXyIYjg/s1600/aaa%2B021.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BeEcUqU97Qg/TdAReTKlW-I/AAAAAAAACsw/_0MySXyIYjg/s320/aaa%2B021.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607000748314680290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Jan de Groot, famous for its wonderful Bossche bollen. Here we met my oldest sister.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zoals menigeen zal weten, is Jan de Groot beroemd voor zijn heerlijke Bossche bollen!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hier hebben we samen met mijn oudste zus gegeten.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p1t2VKiVgjQ/TdAReC0vOnI/AAAAAAAACso/QLtDlj9P4jM/s1600/aaa%2B025.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p1t2VKiVgjQ/TdAReC0vOnI/AAAAAAAACso/QLtDlj9P4jM/s320/aaa%2B025.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607000743928085106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bossche bollen - covered with chocolate, with sweet whipped cream inside. They are so very good! We took some home for Ger (who had to work) and Thijme (who had to study for his exams) and of course for the two of us (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik denk niet dat ik hoef uit te leggen wat een Bossche bol is... Voor Ger, die moest werken, Thijme, die voor zijn examens moest studeren en natuurlijk voor ons hadden een paar heerlijke bollen mee naar huis genomen (o:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hZxe-eEXi3A/TdARd8z-frI/AAAAAAAACsg/5awcPWlavyo/s1600/aaa%2B026.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hZxe-eEXi3A/TdARd8z-frI/AAAAAAAACsg/5awcPWlavyo/s1600/aaa%2B026.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hZxe-eEXi3A/TdARd8z-frI/AAAAAAAACsg/5awcPWlavyo/s320/aaa%2B026.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607000742314278578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A  FRIEND  IS  A  PRESENT  WE  GIVE  OURSELF!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-5088741888620630993?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/5088741888620630993/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=5088741888620630993&amp;isPopup=true' title='27 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5088741888620630993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5088741888620630993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-dear-friend-louise.html' title='My dear friend Louise'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qiJVLq_hqVQ/TdAJI2z4-jI/AAAAAAAACrI/izXph0OwD8A/s72-c/aaa%2B003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-9088080012553913013</id><published>2011-04-30T17:03:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-30T17:55:34.897+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Main colors: pink, red and green</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WDJFJS4bONc/TbwnAeKPkkI/AAAAAAAACqQ/VVdnB-fabcI/s1600/aaa%2B003.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WDJFJS4bONc/TbwnAeKPkkI/AAAAAAAACqQ/VVdnB-fabcI/s320/aaa%2B003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601394925591564866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is Marie Patisserie. Isn't she a sweetheart. And look at the little cup cake she made. With whipped cream and a cherry. Marie is designed by &lt;a href="http://www.jitdesign.nl/jit/index.html"&gt;Jit Design&lt;/a&gt; and lots of fun to make and look at once she is finished.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit is Marie Patisserie. Is het geen schatje! En kijk eens naar de cup cake die ze gemaakt heeft, met slagroom en een kers. Marie is een ontwerp van &lt;a href="http://www.jitdesign.nl/jit/index.html"&gt;Jit Design&lt;/a&gt; en heel leuk te maken en naar te kijken als ze eenmaal klaar is!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7C7u-zTZTmM/TbwnAEL4GZI/AAAAAAAACqI/qr-L_Az2Hls/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7C7u-zTZTmM/TbwnAEL4GZI/AAAAAAAACqI/qr-L_Az2Hls/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601394918619093394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;My Le Petite Schnibbles, Brocante. It looks like lots and lots of work. It is lots of work, but less than I had expected, due to the clever cutting. Carrie (&lt;a href="http://www.missrosiesquiltco.com/"&gt;Miss Rosie's Quilts&lt;/a&gt;)once again made an incredible pattern which was lots of fun to make! The fabrics are by Pink Tula - Plum.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit is mijn Le Petite Schnibbles, Brocante. Het ziet er naar heel veel werk uit. Het is veel werk, maar veel minder dan ik had verwacht, dank zij het slimme snijwerk. Carrie (&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.missrosiesquiltco.com/"&gt;Miss Rosie's Quilts&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;i&gt;heeft weer eens een heel mooi patroon gemaakt, dat weer heel leuk te maken was. De stof is van Pink Tula - Plum.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ioAfeikznFE/Tbwm_6To2lI/AAAAAAAACqA/fhpzS9lyl78/s1600/aaa%2B005.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ioAfeikznFE/Tbwm_6To2lI/AAAAAAAACqA/fhpzS9lyl78/s320/aaa%2B005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601394915967294034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Together with the ladies of the European Bag Club, &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://littlebusybee.blogspot.com/"&gt;Suzie&lt;/a&gt;, we made the Reversible Bag from Lisa Liam's book The Bag Making Bible. I still have to make the button for it; typical me, not finishing the finishing touch.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Samen met de dames van de European Bag Club, &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://kotkarankki.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ulla&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://littlebusybee.blogspot.com/"&gt;Suzie&lt;/a&gt;, hebben we de Reversible Bag uit Lisa Liam's boek The Bag Making Bible gemaakt. Natuurlijk moet ik nog steeds de knoop maken, typisch iets voor mij ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z7AXPAhgq7I/Tbwm_j1WbLI/AAAAAAAACp4/Aer-tNO0MPI/s1600/aaa%2B008.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z7AXPAhgq7I/Tbwm_j1WbLI/AAAAAAAACp4/Aer-tNO0MPI/s320/aaa%2B008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601394909934677170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FEqRIVF8wOk/Tbwm_iYLI9I/AAAAAAAACpw/FyPUjuBLHZk/s1600/aaa%2B005.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FEqRIVF8wOk/Tbwm_iYLI9I/AAAAAAAACpw/FyPUjuBLHZk/s320/aaa%2B005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601394909543867346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The inside.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De binnenkant.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span   &gt;"Character  cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial  and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and  success achieved. " &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;                     &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span   &gt;- Helen Keller&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-9088080012553913013?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/9088080012553913013/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=9088080012553913013&amp;isPopup=true' title='37 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/9088080012553913013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/9088080012553913013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/04/main-colors-pink-red-and-green.html' title='Main colors: pink, red and green'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WDJFJS4bONc/TbwnAeKPkkI/AAAAAAAACqQ/VVdnB-fabcI/s72-c/aaa%2B003.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>37</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-170037147484213409</id><published>2011-04-09T16:20:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-09T17:23:13.358+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Show and tell</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A wonderful suprise that was given to me this week! It brings so much sun in our home!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een grote verrassing werd deze week gebracht. De bos bloemen geeft zo veel licht!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2RdP42qsku0/TaBrttydxwI/AAAAAAAACn8/tPApTqfDMfo/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2RdP42qsku0/TaBrttydxwI/AAAAAAAACn8/tPApTqfDMfo/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593589170323703554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;And see here, a lovely bag &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; gave me when we met in Amsterdam. I called it 'The moving bag', because it moved from Southport to Amsterdam to Heerlen and the trees give so much movement to the whole. Click on the picture and you will see that the two sides of the bag are different. And also take a close look at the braided handles. Thank you so much, my dear friend &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;En kijk eens wat &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; mij in Amsterdam gaf. Ik heb de tas 'The moving bag' genoemd, omdat de tas van Southport naar Amsterdam naar Heerlen is gereisd en de bomen geven zo veel beweging in het geheel. Als je op de foto klikt, kun je zien dat beide kanten van de tas anders zijn. En kijk ook eens naar de gevlochten hengsels. Bedankt lieve &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Js6_bJPQvhI/TaBrtDFRnBI/AAAAAAAACn0/WALvHwARzo8/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Js6_bJPQvhI/TaBrtDFRnBI/AAAAAAAACn0/WALvHwARzo8/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593589158859873298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Melanie knows that Ger and Thijme are big football fans. Look at the lovely fan items she got them: 2 different mugs, guest towels and beautiful coasters. Thijme decided that he should have both mugs when he is going to live on his own in August. I am not sure yet, if Ger will agree to this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Melanie weet dat Ger en Thijme grote passieve voetbalfanaten zijn. Ze heeft voor hen fan artikelen meegebracht van Liverpool. Voor ieder een andere mok, gastendoekjes en onderzetters. Thijme vindt dat de 2 mokken met hem moeten meegaan, als hij op kamers gaat wonen. Ik weet nog niet of Ger het daarmee eens is.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sqzmlzC8B60/TaBrtO7U0DI/AAAAAAAACns/sVg4GY-7Tdo/s1600/aaa%2B005.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sqzmlzC8B60/TaBrtO7U0DI/AAAAAAAACns/sVg4GY-7Tdo/s320/aaa%2B005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593589162039365682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And here are two matching tea towels to the bag &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt; made me. I know I should use them, but somehow can't. And to the towels. I added some typical English articles &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie &lt;/a&gt;brought from England for us. Have you ever had a chocolate waffle syrup bath? Well, I soon will have (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;En hier twee bijpassende theedoeken bij de tas van &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt;. Ik weet dat ik ze zou moeten gebruiken, maar op de een of andere manier vind ik dat altijd zo zonde. Bij de theedoeken ook nog enkele typische Engelse artikelen die &lt;a href="http://houseelf-doings.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie &lt;/a&gt;had meegenomen. Heb jij ooit wel eens een chocolade wafel siroop bad gehad? Nou, ik eerdaags wel (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9HMmtx4iC9c/TaBrsjsBNVI/AAAAAAAACnk/dJEJPLHEn98/s1600/aaa%2B007.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9HMmtx4iC9c/TaBrsjsBNVI/AAAAAAAACnk/dJEJPLHEn98/s320/aaa%2B007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593589150432441682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A week ago on Friday, I was suddenly inspired to make some small things. A pink bag for my sister, 2 iPhone covers and an iPad2 sleeve for Laura. Thijme even asked me to make a sleeve for his iPad2. Wow, this is the first time he actually asked me to make him something. I didn't know how fast I had to finish it!!! I'll show it to you in the next post.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vrijdag een week geleden werd ik opeens geïnspireerd een aantal kleine dingen te maken. Een roze tas voor een zus, 2 iPhone etuis en een iPad2 sleeve voor Laura. Zelfs Thijme vroeg my hem een sleeve te maken. Dit was de eerste keer dat hij mij gevraagd heeft iets voor hem te maken. Ik wist niet hoe snel ik ermee beginnen moest!!! In de volgende post laat ik die zien. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tSN2lGLOAqE/TaBrsX_eg0I/AAAAAAAACnc/4Q7NGSydc58/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tSN2lGLOAqE/TaBrsX_eg0I/AAAAAAAACnc/4Q7NGSydc58/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593589147292828482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My second Dresden Plate with some yummy fabrics for a dear friend!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mijn tweede Dresden Plate voor een lieve vriendin! &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UVCCofACk5Q/TaBsmst2KTI/AAAAAAAACoM/eFhNYAbggtc/s1600/aaa%2B020.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UVCCofACk5Q/TaBsmst2KTI/AAAAAAAACoM/eFhNYAbggtc/s320/aaa%2B020.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593590149288438066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I won this beautiful handwoven towel made by &lt;a href="http://atelier44.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marion&lt;/a&gt;. I so much enjoy reading Marion's blog, because she has such surprising skills, that I don't have and don't think I will ever develop. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And once again, I have not used this towel yet, even though Marion told me it would get even prettier if I use it. Thank you &lt;a href="http://atelier44.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marion &lt;/a&gt;for this very special and oh so pretty gift!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze handgeweven theedoek van &lt;a href="http://atelier44.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marion &lt;/a&gt;heb ik gewonnen. Vol bewondering lees ik iedere keer Marions blog, omdat zij vaardigheden heeft die ik niet bezit en waarschijnlijk ook nooit zal hebben. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ook deze theedoek heb ik nog niet gebruikt. &lt;a href="http://atelier44.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marion &lt;/a&gt;heeft nadrukkelijk gezegd dat ik hem juist moet gebruiken, want dan wat die mooier. Ik weet het niet ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bedankt lieve &lt;a href="http://atelier44.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marion&lt;/a&gt;, voor dit heel mooie cadeau!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-INJ33GdERso/TaBsmXGw8lI/AAAAAAAACoE/VXuIjUjdWy8/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-INJ33GdERso/TaBsmXGw8lI/AAAAAAAACoE/VXuIjUjdWy8/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593590143487373906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A while back my youngest sister visited me with her three children. When her oldest daughter Lieselot saw these stamps, she asked me if she could have the sheet. I said she could, but did want her to do something with it. And look what she did: she framed the sheet and glued jig saw puzzle pieces on it. Now, if that is not original and pretty, I don't know what is!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een tijdje geleden was mijn jongste zus bij me met haar drie kinderen. Toen de oudste dochter, Lieselot deze postzegels zag, vroeg ze of ze ze mocht hebben. 'Als je er maar iets mee doet', had ik haar gezegd. En kijk eens wat ze ermee gedaan heeft. Op het lijstje heeft ze puzzelstukjes geplakt. Eerst wilde ze van twee verschillende puzzels stukjes gebruiken, maar dat vond me zus net iets te veel van het goede.  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Als dit niet origineel en mooi is, dan weet ik het niet meer.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bTqm1a0s17Y/TaBs_ENa2DI/AAAAAAAACoc/df4MBcP1IfY/s1600/DSC_0067.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bTqm1a0s17Y/TaBs_ENa2DI/AAAAAAAACoc/df4MBcP1IfY/s320/DSC_0067.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593590567911741490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And here is Bibi, enjoying the sun we have had the last few days and looking at the birds that are disturbing her...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;En hier is Bibi die van het heerlijke weer geniet, dat we de afgelopen dagen hebben gehan. Ze kijkt naar de vogels die haar rust verstoren...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cBDR9nbyYNI/TaBsmwDpJhI/AAAAAAAACoU/I47qbOxedXY/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cBDR9nbyYNI/TaBsmwDpJhI/AAAAAAAACoU/I47qbOxedXY/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593590150185166354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;"Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;- Dr. Karl Menninger&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-170037147484213409?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/170037147484213409/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=170037147484213409&amp;isPopup=true' title='27 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/170037147484213409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/170037147484213409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/04/show-and-tell.html' title='Show and tell'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2RdP42qsku0/TaBrttydxwI/AAAAAAAACn8/tPApTqfDMfo/s72-c/aaa%2B001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-7479026662279086967</id><published>2011-03-28T14:57:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-28T16:32:20.934+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Amsterdam - small projects - endless summer - Heerlen and more</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;If you are really going to read this post, you might want to take a cup of tea or coffee, before you start.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Als je deze post echt gaat lezen, pak dan alvast een kop thee of koffie, voordat je begint.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BHRv8ZiOPg4/TZCGcWGtQZI/AAAAAAAACmU/a5uo1nTgOuM/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage4.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BHRv8ZiOPg4/TZCGcWGtQZI/AAAAAAAACmU/a5uo1nTgOuM/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589114959094956434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On Tuesday Ger and I headed for Amsterdam to meet dear Melanie from House Elves and her husband, who stayed in Amsterdam for several days. What a delight it was, to finally meet Melanie (o: The weather was beautiful and we had a wonderful time, chatting, going to the quilting shop &lt;a href="http://www.dutchquilts.net/index.html"&gt;Den Haan en Wagenmakers&lt;/a&gt;, meeting &lt;a href="http://www.quiltsandsiggies.web-log.nl/"&gt;Annelies&lt;/a&gt;, who works there, chatting, more chatting, walking, having a nice drink outside, chatting, visiting the Begijnhof, chatting, another nice sit outside etc. etc. Laura joined us half way, which was lots of fun too (o:&lt;div&gt;Thank you so much, Melanie, for visiting Amsterdam and giving me the chance to meet you!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Op dinsdag zijn hebben Ger en ik de trein naar Amsterdam genomen om daar eindelijk Melanie van House Elves en haar man te ontmoeten. Zij verbleven een paar dagen in Amsterdam. Wat was het leuk, om Melanie eindelijk in 'het echt' te mogen ontmoeten! Het weer was prachtig die dag en we hebben samen een heel mooie tijd gehad, al pratende de quiltwinkel &lt;a href="http://www.dutchquilts.net/index_nl.html"&gt;Den Haan en Wagenmakers&lt;/a&gt; te bezoeken, waar ook &lt;a href="http://www.quiltsandsiggies.web-log.nl/"&gt;Annelies&lt;/a&gt; was, die daar werkt. We konden heerlijk buiten zitten en halverwege kwam Laura er ook gezellig bij. Wat was het een heerlijk gezellige dag!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xK6-D9L3Ess/TZCGca8SU8I/AAAAAAAACmM/VI-K4l7aGtE/s1600/aaa%2B011.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xK6-D9L3Ess/TZCGca8SU8I/AAAAAAAACmM/VI-K4l7aGtE/s320/aaa%2B011.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589114960393425858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;In the hall way to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begijnhof,_Amsterdam"&gt;Begijnhof.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In het halletje naar het &lt;a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begijnhof_(Amsterdam)"&gt;Begijnhof&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SHllLUPJPFQ/TZCGb4M1OEI/AAAAAAAACmE/ZIyVVUm5Q6A/s1600/aaa%2B005.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SHllLUPJPFQ/TZCGb4M1OEI/AAAAAAAACmE/ZIyVVUm5Q6A/s320/aaa%2B005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589114951067580482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Melanie taking a picture (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Melanie die een foto neemt (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rDQXjirVECs/TZCGbkKs2_I/AAAAAAAACl8/5kO5jQN67ZY/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage6.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rDQXjirVECs/TZCGbkKs2_I/AAAAAAAACl8/5kO5jQN67ZY/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage6.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589114945689934834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A mug warmer, that I made for Melanie.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een mokwarmer, die ik voor Melanie heb gemaakt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gu4FF5cpNEM/TZCGbuCPjyI/AAAAAAAACl0/NTcqiE_cBCk/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage5.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 109px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gu4FF5cpNEM/TZCGbuCPjyI/AAAAAAAACl0/NTcqiE_cBCk/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589114948338814754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Some more mug rugs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nog een paar mok matten.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZrDMqBG_9I/TZCHYFMaZII/AAAAAAAACm8/VoxKAZCbexY/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JZrDMqBG_9I/TZCHYFMaZII/AAAAAAAACm8/VoxKAZCbexY/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589115985347634306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Le Petite for March, a design by Pam Buda called Endless Summer. If you look closely, you can see, that the pinwheel within the star was not made seperately. Such a clever pattern! And so much fun to make. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Remember to go to &lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/"&gt;Sherri's&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sinta's&lt;/a&gt; blog on the 31st of this month to see all those other Endless Summers!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Le Petite voor maart, een ontwerp van Pam Buda : Endless Summer. Als je goed kijkt, dan kun je zien dat de pinwheel in de ster niet apart is gemaakt. Zo slim bedacht! Dit was echt een leuk patroon te maken!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vergeet op de 31e niet &lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/"&gt;Sherri's&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sinta's &lt;/a&gt;blog te bezoeken om daar nog meer Endless Summers te zien!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v36zn5IdP0I/TZCHX262QFI/AAAAAAAACm0/EakkVafx32o/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v36zn5IdP0I/TZCHX262QFI/AAAAAAAACm0/EakkVafx32o/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589115981515866194" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My very first Dresden Plate made for Lyn with 23 different fabrics from De Haan en Wageman.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mijn eerste Dresden Plate, gemaakt voor Lyn met 23 verschillende stofjes van De Haan en Wageman.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A9JMgEKeOtU/TZCHXvgmkqI/AAAAAAAACms/C7xXfLGn7Wk/s1600/aaa%2B003.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A9JMgEKeOtU/TZCHXvgmkqI/AAAAAAAACms/C7xXfLGn7Wk/s320/aaa%2B003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589115979526738594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A matching mug rug.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een bijpassende mok mat.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WjKn72CKEWo/TZCHXZpj30I/AAAAAAAACmk/OWEexXBsric/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WjKn72CKEWo/TZCHXZpj30I/AAAAAAAACmk/OWEexXBsric/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589115973658730306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On Sunday Ger and I took a wonderful walk from our home. The weather was beautiful once again. On the pictures you can see, that spring is really there! Look at the buds above, that are almost exploding to reach for the sun!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Op zondag zijn Ger en ik heerlijk gaan wandelen vanuit on huis. Het weer was weer eens prachtig. Op de foto's kun je zien, dat de lente er echt is! En kijk eens naar die knoppen, die niet kunnen wachten, om eruit te komen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PcNJ3tpC6Us/TZCHXCgmheI/AAAAAAAACmc/03YTekD-rMo/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PcNJ3tpC6Us/TZCHXCgmheI/AAAAAAAACmc/03YTekD-rMo/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589115967447139810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Look at the gifts above. All for free. You just have to keep you eyes opened.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kijk eens wat een traktatie. Gratis en voor niets. Gewoon goed blijven kijken tijdens het wandelen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b8-jfZ2kvSk/TZCIBk_B3rI/AAAAAAAACnU/Gu3P_g-o7EM/s1600/aaa%2B006.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-b8-jfZ2kvSk/TZCIBk_B3rI/AAAAAAAACnU/Gu3P_g-o7EM/s320/aaa%2B006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589116698256072370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Just a view during our walk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zomaar een opname.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PIxJ2x7mUKA/TZCIBPbo8AI/AAAAAAAACnM/Y-LGNsD5n8M/s1600/aaa%2B011.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PIxJ2x7mUKA/TZCIBPbo8AI/AAAAAAAACnM/Y-LGNsD5n8M/s320/aaa%2B011.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589116692470493186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nature can be so impressive!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De natuur kan zo indrukwekkend zijn!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xpBwLuSULp8/TZCIA9MRE1I/AAAAAAAACnE/Nhmf7HjQeYI/s1600/aaa%2B021.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xpBwLuSULp8/TZCIA9MRE1I/AAAAAAAACnE/Nhmf7HjQeYI/s1600/aaa%2B021.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xpBwLuSULp8/TZCIA9MRE1I/AAAAAAAACnE/Nhmf7HjQeYI/s320/aaa%2B021.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589116687574176594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Every year this tree shows itself from its prettiest side in the spring.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ieder jaar opnieuw laat deze boom zich in het voorjaar van zijn mooiste kant zien.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span &gt;"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span  &gt;&lt;span &gt;but do so with all your heart."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span  &gt;- Marcus Aurelius&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-7479026662279086967?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/7479026662279086967/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=7479026662279086967&amp;isPopup=true' title='32 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/7479026662279086967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/7479026662279086967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/03/amsterdam-small-projects-endless-summer.html' title='Amsterdam - small projects - endless summer - Heerlen and more'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BHRv8ZiOPg4/TZCGcWGtQZI/AAAAAAAACmU/a5uo1nTgOuM/s72-c/Picnik%2Bcollage4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>32</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-4324853447353730299</id><published>2011-03-24T14:25:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-24T14:34:07.384+01:00</updated><title type='text'>1,000 Cranes of Hope giveaway for Japan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X7AFku70yys/TYtG7cRRenI/AAAAAAAAClk/3DjZmNEgAGM/s1600/Abby%2Band%2Bquilt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X7AFku70yys/TYtG7cRRenI/AAAAAAAAClk/3DjZmNEgAGM/s320/Abby%2Band%2Bquilt.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5587637749698099826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;(picture taken from Loft Creations)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://loftcreations.blogspot.com/2011/03/special-plea-for-help.html"&gt;Stephanie and Abby&lt;/a&gt; at Loft Creations are giving away this beautiful quilt, to help Japan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Please go&lt;a href="http://loftcreations.blogspot.com/2011/03/special-plea-for-help.html"&gt; here &lt;/a&gt;to see how you can join in!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Be fast, because the drawing of the quilt will be on the 26th of this month!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-4324853447353730299?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/4324853447353730299/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=4324853447353730299&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4324853447353730299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4324853447353730299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/03/1000-cranes-of-hope-giveaway-for-japan.html' title='1,000 Cranes of Hope giveaway for Japan'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X7AFku70yys/TYtG7cRRenI/AAAAAAAAClk/3DjZmNEgAGM/s72-c/Abby%2Band%2Bquilt.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-4216331187993573076</id><published>2011-03-20T18:58:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-20T19:49:12.202+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Some more mug rugs and the other side of Heerlen</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Here are some of the mug rugs that reached their recipients. I am still making more. They are so much fun, being able to experiment in the most fun way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hier zijn enkele van de mok matten die nu hun nieuw huis hebben gevonden. Er zijn er nog enkele in de maak. Ze zijn zo leuk om te doen, juist omdat ze zo klein zijn en je van alles kunt proberen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x3ssngUazeY/TYZDVSudoII/AAAAAAAACkM/adyWudcSvjE/s1600/aaa%2B007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x3ssngUazeY/TYZDVSudoII/AAAAAAAACkM/adyWudcSvjE/s320/aaa%2B007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586226420882710658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a44KPWtZRso/TYZDUyducJI/AAAAAAAACkE/A0kVZLL_WQA/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a44KPWtZRso/TYZDUyducJI/AAAAAAAACkE/A0kVZLL_WQA/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586226412222574738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The mug that I got from &lt;a href="http://cybelespatch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jos&lt;/a&gt; at a Christmas swap fits perfectly to this mug rug!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De mok die ik met een kerstruil van &lt;a href="http://cybelespatch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jos&lt;/a&gt; heb gekregen past perfect bij deze mok mat!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4SsqlOQ66WA/TYZDUd2LPAI/AAAAAAAACj8/iIgdMOiBjX0/s1600/aaa%2B022.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4SsqlOQ66WA/TYZDUd2LPAI/AAAAAAAACj8/iIgdMOiBjX0/s320/aaa%2B022.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586226406687980546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is a drawing one of my nieces, Noor colored for me. Such accurate coloring. I love presents like this! I was also going to show a picture of what her sister made, but somehow it got lost. Better go look for it ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit is een tekening die een van mijn nichtjes voor mij heeft ingekleurd. Zo secuur gedaan. Ik ben altijd zo blij met zulke cadeautjes! Ik wilde jullie ook iets van een ander nichtje laten zien, maar ik ben de foto's kwijt. Mmmm, moet maar eens gaan zoeken...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JoIuPXDbAKs/TYZDUEYHNaI/AAAAAAAACj0/_kVFQ1Q5F9c/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JoIuPXDbAKs/TYZDUEYHNaI/AAAAAAAACj0/_kVFQ1Q5F9c/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586226399851001250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It has been a long time, since Ger and I could take a nice long walk on a Sunday morning. It was was cold, but the sun warmed our faces. I keep loving these trees with mistletoe!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Het is heel wat weken geleden, dat Ger en ik een lekkere zondagochtend wandeling hebben kunnen maken. Het was koud, maar de zon warmde onze gezichten. Deze bomen met maretak blijven me boeien! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3DPeUX03Uno/TYZDT9fSo2I/AAAAAAAACjs/0rWtwC81Wnk/s1600/aaa%2B003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3DPeUX03Uno/TYZDT9fSo2I/AAAAAAAACjs/0rWtwC81Wnk/s320/aaa%2B003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586226398002062178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Bibi enjoyed herself too!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bibi had er ook zin in!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H_in1OweI-4/TYZHLJ_6uNI/AAAAAAAAClc/iedQ9oGMkeA/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-H_in1OweI-4/TYZHLJ_6uNI/AAAAAAAAClc/iedQ9oGMkeA/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586230644787820754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Look at the year that was engraved in the tree. Next time I should take a closer look to see what it says. I have walked along this tree so often, but have never seen it. It is quite high in the tree. I should take a picture of that next time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kijk eens naar het jaartal dat in de boom is gegraveerd. De volgende keer zou ik het nog beter moeten bekijken om te zien wat er staat. En langs deze boom zijn we al heel wat keren gelopen, maar het is me nog nooit opgevallen. De gravering is aardig hoog in de boom. Daar zou ik de volgende keer een foto van moeten nemen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b2_WK8naowQ/TYZHKrfxKiI/AAAAAAAAClU/G9wARlNjPKI/s1600/aaa%2B007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-b2_WK8naowQ/TYZHKrfxKiI/AAAAAAAAClU/G9wARlNjPKI/s320/aaa%2B007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586230636599912994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This tree offers lots of plants a space to grow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze boom geeft heel wat andere planten een plaats om te groeien.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hkjkCGAKKdM/TYZHKHuZSTI/AAAAAAAAClM/w8-Z6JZ9Rpw/s1600/aaa%2B012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hkjkCGAKKdM/TYZHKHuZSTI/AAAAAAAAClM/w8-Z6JZ9Rpw/s320/aaa%2B012.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586230626997586226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A bridge that will soon be broken down. Too dangerous.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een brug die eerdaags afgebroken wordt. Te gevaarlijk.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xwu38Q75jpU/TYZHJwB7twI/AAAAAAAAClE/yOcQPQzon18/s1600/aaa%2B013.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xwu38Q75jpU/TYZHJwB7twI/AAAAAAAAClE/yOcQPQzon18/s320/aaa%2B013.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586230620637083394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Along the path.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Langs het pad.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xNtEoX8qvpA/TYZHJdlX8LI/AAAAAAAACk8/h2-H2DSTckI/s1600/aaa%2B017.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xNtEoX8qvpA/TYZHJdlX8LI/AAAAAAAACk8/h2-H2DSTckI/s1600/aaa%2B017.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xNtEoX8qvpA/TYZHJdlX8LI/AAAAAAAACk8/h2-H2DSTckI/s320/aaa%2B017.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586230615685460146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;A Peutz building, an architect from Heerlen. It used to be a theological school and cloister, with a very pretty chapel inside. It is now a building for various architectural businesses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een Peutz gebouw, een Heerlense architect. Vroeger was het een theologische school en klooster, met een heel mooi kapel. Het is nu een gebouw voor verschillende architectuur bedrijven. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;This week I will be meeting my second blogging friend from abroad in Amsterdam! I am so looking forward to it (o:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze week ontmoet ik in Amsterdam mijn tweede blogging vriendin uit het buitenland. Ik kijk er zo naar uit!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;"Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;- Denis Diderot&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-4216331187993573076?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/4216331187993573076/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=4216331187993573076&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4216331187993573076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4216331187993573076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/03/some-more-mug-rugs-and-other-side-of.html' title='Some more mug rugs and the other side of Heerlen'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x3ssngUazeY/TYZDVSudoII/AAAAAAAACkM/adyWudcSvjE/s72-c/aaa%2B007.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-8910471759660938323</id><published>2011-03-13T19:39:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-13T20:09:16.961+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Tilburg and some sneak peeks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lpi0OT6Rtxc/TX0Q8Mt9L8I/AAAAAAAACjM/4KHEwIjFouY/s1600/aaa%2B007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lpi0OT6Rtxc/TX0Q8Mt9L8I/AAAAAAAACjM/4KHEwIjFouY/s320/aaa%2B007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583637739401457602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On Friday Ger, Thijme and I visited Tilburg. It will very likely be the place where Thijme is going to study next school year. It is a very nice city with lovely building and a textile history. I hope to show you more about the textile history the next time I go there.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vrijdag zijn Ger, Thijme en ik naar Tilburg gegaan. Het zal zeer waarschijnlijk de stad zijn, waar Thijme gaat studeren. Het is een mooie stad met oude gebouwen en textiel verleden. Ik hoop jullie daar een andere keer meer over te kunnen laten zien.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LDr5D0bSvf0/TX0Q7mC8DMI/AAAAAAAACjE/iNCR3W4Ul64/s1600/aaa%2B008.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LDr5D0bSvf0/TX0Q7mC8DMI/AAAAAAAACjE/iNCR3W4Ul64/s320/aaa%2B008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583637729020480706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The door to ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;De deur naar ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mrd8MnwwvRs/TX0Q7YV7SLI/AAAAAAAACi8/zSrxMj_nySc/s1600/aaa%2B011.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mrd8MnwwvRs/TX0Q7YV7SLI/AAAAAAAACi8/zSrxMj_nySc/s320/aaa%2B011.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583637725342025906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;If you look closely, you can see it is a round building. I love those!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Wanneer je goed kijkt, kun je zien dat het een rond gebouw is. Vind ik altijd heel indrukwekkend.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w_i2JqZR2Y8/TX0Q7M7k9KI/AAAAAAAACi0/X9zKwo0x5sA/s1600/aaa%2B014.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w_i2JqZR2Y8/TX0Q7M7k9KI/AAAAAAAACi0/X9zKwo0x5sA/s320/aaa%2B014.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583637722278720674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Buildings can have such surprising details.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gebouwen kunnen zulke verrassende details hebben.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0l_yx_C6N9s/TX0Q6hWuY4I/AAAAAAAACis/ZomAsjgHSh8/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0l_yx_C6N9s/TX0Q6hWuY4I/AAAAAAAACis/ZomAsjgHSh8/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583637710581425026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This will probably be the university where Thijme is going to study.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit wordt waarschijnlijk de universiteit waar Thijme gaat studeren.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h92Pr7YzeFU/TX0RQ6hdkPI/AAAAAAAACjk/YLh0EXsARfM/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h92Pr7YzeFU/TX0RQ6hdkPI/AAAAAAAACjk/YLh0EXsARfM/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583638095294468338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And this will be the branch.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En dit zal de tak zijn.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A9OVk7qbuBw/TX0RQg_LuyI/AAAAAAAACjc/H2asxyZNqdA/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A9OVk7qbuBw/TX0RQg_LuyI/AAAAAAAACjc/H2asxyZNqdA/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583638088439806754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I have many birthdays coming up between the 19 and 27 March of people that are dear to me (8). That is why I can't show you what I am working on. Here is a sneak peek of one of the projects I have been working on. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tussen 19 en 27 maart heb ik heel wat verjaardagen van mensen die mij dierbaar zijn (8). Daarom kan ik niet laten zien, waarmee ik bezig ben. Hier een glimp van één van de projecten waar ik aan gewerkt heb.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_lcdBEHFHQo/TX0RQVjno4I/AAAAAAAACjU/FEDtuMkxWcg/s1600/aaa%2B005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_lcdBEHFHQo/TX0RQVjno4I/AAAAAAAACjU/FEDtuMkxWcg/s320/aaa%2B005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583638085371405186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And another sneak peek ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En nog een glimp ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I am very sorry if I have not answered your comment over my last post. Somehow I can't catch up with all the things I am doing. I am trying to find a balance, but it seems to be very difficult. Do know that I appreciate and am very happy with every single comment I get from you!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sorry, dat ik jullie commentaar van mijn vorige post niet beantwoord heb. Op de een of andere manier lukt het mij momenteel niet een balans te vinden in de dingen waarmee ik bezig ben. Weet wel, dat ik jullie commentaar heel erg op prijs stel en dat ik altijd blij ben, het te lezen!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;p style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span  &gt;"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;p style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span  &gt;Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span &gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;p style="display: inline !important; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;span &gt;- Carl Jung&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-8910471759660938323?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/8910471759660938323/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=8910471759660938323&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8910471759660938323'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8910471759660938323'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/03/tilburg-and-some-sneak-peeks.html' title='Tilburg and some sneak peeks'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lpi0OT6Rtxc/TX0Q8Mt9L8I/AAAAAAAACjM/4KHEwIjFouY/s72-c/aaa%2B007.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-5348471500978160366</id><published>2011-03-09T15:51:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-09T16:19:18.362+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Time flies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uPFm3q46ZMA/TXeUxeRS26I/AAAAAAAACiE/AAQKzUaI6fE/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uPFm3q46ZMA/TXeUxeRS26I/AAAAAAAACiE/AAQKzUaI6fE/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582093840809122722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;During our last Quilting Bee, &lt;a href="http://mariejoze.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mai &lt;/a&gt;had the great idea, to make Mug Rugs and introduced me to a new addiction. Since last Thursday, I have completed seven MR of which two have already found a new home. The top one below I made for myself.&lt;div&gt;Since I needed my Dresden Plate ruler for this pattern, I finally got the chance to experiment with it. If you look closely, I have made part of a Dresden Plate on one of the MRs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tijdens de laatste Quilting Bee had &lt;a href="http://mariejoze.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mai &lt;/a&gt;het geweldige idee, Mug Rugs (mok matjes) te maken en sindsdien heb ik er een nieuwe verslaving bij. Sinds vorige week donderdag heb ik er al 7 gemaakt, waarvan er 2 een nieuw huisje gevonden hebben. De bovenste op de foto heb ik voor mezelf gemaakt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;En omdat we de Dresden Plate liniaal voor dit patroon nodig hadden, ben ik eindelijk eens met die liniaal gaan experimenteren. Als je goed kijkt, zie je dat een van de MRs een deel van een Dresden Plate heeft.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GQg5SbxLlQI/TXeUxK42axI/AAAAAAAACh8/VVFWoExqI9I/s1600/aaa%2B005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GQg5SbxLlQI/TXeUxK42axI/AAAAAAAACh8/VVFWoExqI9I/s320/aaa%2B005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582093835606321938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have also been working on my Garden Flowers. It's the first time I've sewn the flowers together and I must say, I do like the result. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb ook aan mijn bloementuintje gewerkt. Het is de eerste keer dat ik hexagon bloemen aan elkaar naai en ik moet zeggen, dat ik het resultaat toch wel heel leuk vind!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Z19kwEHC8s/TXeUwuRJzGI/AAAAAAAACh0/K4QPwl044m0/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Z19kwEHC8s/TXeUwuRJzGI/AAAAAAAACh0/K4QPwl044m0/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582093827923627106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On Sunday Ger and I went to Laura in Amsterdam, to escape the carnaval craziness. This statue meets you, when you enter the bus station in Heerlen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Op zondag zijn Ger en ik naar Laura gegaan in Amsterdam om de carnavalsgekte te ontvluchten. Dit beeldje is het eerste wat je ziet als je het busstation van Heerlen binnenkomt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eL0yKTK1z4w/TXeUwvoYyJI/AAAAAAAAChs/Al8_Rkdk1t4/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eL0yKTK1z4w/TXeUwvoYyJI/AAAAAAAAChs/Al8_Rkdk1t4/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582093828289513618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;As you can see, we had a beautiful sunny day! I just love the diversity of Amsterdam!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zoals je kunt zien, hadden we prachtig weer. Ik ben dol op de diversiteit van Amsterdam!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eOf7aO67_Zo/TXeUwGrFNfI/AAAAAAAAChk/S2H8ppVlE0o/s1600/aaa%2B006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eOf7aO67_Zo/TXeUwGrFNfI/AAAAAAAAChk/S2H8ppVlE0o/s320/aaa%2B006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582093817294960114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IhJoszN3Y1Y/TXeVTow8gsI/AAAAAAAACik/2ZAU884S_xE/s1600/aaa%2B009.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IhJoszN3Y1Y/TXeVTow8gsI/AAAAAAAACik/2ZAU884S_xE/s320/aaa%2B009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582094427741782722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You might wonder why I took this picture. Well, there were four trams standing on the bridge crossing and couldn't move on, because they were blocking each others way on the crossings. It took quite some time, before everything got settled.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Je vraagt je misschien af, waarom ik deze foto heb genomen. Hier staan vier trams op een kruising op een brug en blokkeren elkaars weg, doordat ze op de kruising staan. Het heeft een tijdje geduurd, voordat het tramverkeer weer verder kon.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iCCl4JlZ7Rs/TXeVTWHMzOI/AAAAAAAACic/0e-0BA1Ut0Q/s1600/aaa%2B012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iCCl4JlZ7Rs/TXeVTWHMzOI/AAAAAAAACic/0e-0BA1Ut0Q/s320/aaa%2B012.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582094422734851298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_M5Rg232mio/TXeVTIHli7I/AAAAAAAACiU/cxd6bVg-QYo/s1600/aaa%2B013.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_M5Rg232mio/TXeVTIHli7I/AAAAAAAACiU/cxd6bVg-QYo/s320/aaa%2B013.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582094418978376626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JJie9uuldjI/TXeVS3Cku5I/AAAAAAAACiM/H1xCP_78tjA/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JJie9uuldjI/TXeVS3Cku5I/AAAAAAAACiM/H1xCP_78tjA/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582094414393949074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Back in Heerlen, the statue looks at you when you go up the stairs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Terug in Heerlen, kijkt het beeld je tegemoet, als je de trap oploopt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span   &gt;"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span   &gt;- Lena Horne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-5348471500978160366?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/5348471500978160366/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=5348471500978160366&amp;isPopup=true' title='28 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5348471500978160366'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/5348471500978160366'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/03/time-flies.html' title='Time flies'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uPFm3q46ZMA/TXeUxeRS26I/AAAAAAAACiE/AAQKzUaI6fE/s72-c/aaa%2B001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-2039589329311282910</id><published>2011-02-28T19:29:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-28T20:00:47.074+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Another Le Petite and more stars</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;I finished my Le Petite project for February, the Sweet Spot Schnibbles, just in time. It is made with stash fabrics from my mother. The solid pink is much brighter. I tried to get it into the picture, but I guess the weather was just too gloomy, to make the pink shine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Please visit&lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/"&gt; Sherri's&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sinta's&lt;/a&gt; blog on Tuesday, to see the Le Petite parade. So many talented ladies!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb net op tijd mijn Le Petite project voor februari afgekregen, Sweet Spot Schnibbles. Het is met stofjes gemaakt, die mijn moeder me onlangs gegeven heeft. Het roze is veel feller, maar ik kreeg het niet beter op de foto vanwege het slechte weer. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bezoek dinsdag &lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/"&gt;Sherri's &lt;/a&gt;en&lt;a href="http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/"&gt; Sinta's&lt;/a&gt; blog voor de Le Petite parade, die ze elke maand houden.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vn9QF1AKU6M/TWvqyUrsYzI/AAAAAAAAChQ/eQx7g63DOfM/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vn9QF1AKU6M/TWvqyUrsYzI/AAAAAAAAChQ/eQx7g63DOfM/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578810713694823218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aFy5xlFZQCI/TWvqx8KT7WI/AAAAAAAAChI/R1cyHe6lrvI/s1600/aaa%2B006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aFy5xlFZQCI/TWvqx8KT7WI/AAAAAAAAChI/R1cyHe6lrvI/s320/aaa%2B006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578810707112357218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HkkXCq1Quk4/TWvqwyNjErI/AAAAAAAACg4/OjDJn5quj5s/s1600/aaa%2B007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HkkXCq1Quk4/TWvqwyNjErI/AAAAAAAACg4/OjDJn5quj5s/s320/aaa%2B007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578810687261708978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here are the first two blocks for the &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Retro Nine Patch free BOM&lt;/a&gt; that Lyn is offering. I also added the fabrics that I will be using with it. Please click on the picture to get a closer look.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hier zijn de eerste twee blokken van de &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Retro Nine Patch free BOM&lt;/a&gt;, die door Lyn aangeboden wordt. Ik heb er ook de stofjes bijgevoegd, die ik erbij ga gebruiken. Als je op de foto klikt, dan kun je het geheel beter zien.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kk7Edrty6xI/TWvqwVS45_I/AAAAAAAACgw/kgGSgDEPvaw/s1600/aaa%2B008.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kk7Edrty6xI/TWvqwVS45_I/AAAAAAAACgw/kgGSgDEPvaw/s320/aaa%2B008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578810679499483122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here are twelve of the 24 blocks that go to the mystery quilt we started at the quilting bee. Twelve more to go in two days. Okay, we had 2 months to finish the blocks. And when did I start ... yep, last Friday. I can't believe it. Why does it always take so long before I start? I hope Mai won't be angry with me, if I don't finish them all ;o) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hier zijn twaalf van de 24 blokken die voor de mystery quilt zijn, die we op de quilting bee begonnen zijn. Nog twaalf te gaan, in twee dagen. Goed, we hadden twee maanden, deze blokken te maken. En, wanneer ben ik begonnen? Juist ja, afgelopen vrijdag. Ongelooflijk! Ik hoop dat Mai niet boos op me zal zijn, als ik ze niet alle 24 af heb ;o) Krijg ik dan toch het patroon om de quilt af te maken?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;"The  life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn  another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place  my touch will be felt." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;- Frederick Buechner&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-2039589329311282910?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/2039589329311282910/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=2039589329311282910&amp;isPopup=true' title='28 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/2039589329311282910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/2039589329311282910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/02/another-le-petite-and-more-stars.html' title='Another Le Petite and more stars'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vn9QF1AKU6M/TWvqyUrsYzI/AAAAAAAAChQ/eQx7g63DOfM/s72-c/aaa%2B002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-8400523728766638650</id><published>2011-02-20T19:02:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T09:39:44.877+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Work in progress</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fT1eS0YXFPM/TWFXvEEDUeI/AAAAAAAACgM/EgIZMlB_BSw/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fT1eS0YXFPM/TWFXvEEDUeI/AAAAAAAACgM/EgIZMlB_BSw/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575834279717589474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On Friday I went to my aunt's 79th birthday in Egmond. I made these two mug rugs for her. So much fun to make!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vrijdag ben ik naar de verjaardag van mijn tante geweest, in Egmond. Ze is 79 jaar geworden! Ik heb twee mug rugs voor haar gemaakt. Ze zijn zo leuk om te maken!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R6FYySD6sW0/TWFXu9aCICI/AAAAAAAACgE/frfgFQbTfcY/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R6FYySD6sW0/TWFXu9aCICI/AAAAAAAACgE/frfgFQbTfcY/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575834277930737698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I also worked on my &lt;i&gt;Love Is&lt;/i&gt; stitchery quilt. The stitcheries are fun and fast to make. Only eight more to go (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb ook aan mijn &lt;/i&gt;Love Is&lt;i&gt; stitchery quilt gewerkt. Het is erg leuk om hier aan te werken, ook omdat de stitcheries klein zijn. Nog maar acht te gaan (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BtoPi3r43K8/TWFXulAx8DI/AAAAAAAACf8/3KHDathKuxQ/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BtoPi3r43K8/TWFXulAx8DI/AAAAAAAACf8/3KHDathKuxQ/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575834271382368306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A sneak peek of my Sweet Spot Schnibbels. I want to have it finished by the end of the month.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een sneak peek van mijn Sweet Spot Schnibbels. Ik wil deze voor het einde van de maand af hebben.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rrizJ1fKfLI/TWFXvedN2wI/AAAAAAAACgU/OBE-RFeikCY/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rrizJ1fKfLI/TWFXvedN2wI/AAAAAAAACgU/OBE-RFeikCY/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5575834286802459394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I finally got my idea for the backing of my sampler quilt. I finished the 12 blocks for this quilt in 2009, the top in 2010 and now I want to finish the whole quilt by April 2011 (hubby's birthday ;o) What you see is a stripe that is to join the two parts of the backing. I didn't want it to be too plain, with all the star blocks.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Eindelijk weet ik nu hoe ik de achterkant van mijn sampler quilt wil maken. De 12 blokken voor deze quilt heb ik in 2009 gemaakt, de bovenkant in 2010 en het is de bedoeling dat de quilt in zijn geheel af is in april 2011 (verjaardag van mijn mannetje ;o). Op de foto zie je een strip, die de twee delen van de achterkant moeten verbinden. Ik wilde de achterkant niet te eenvoudig maken, met al die sterren aan de voorkant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have also been working on &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lyn's&lt;/a&gt; second stitchery to the&lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/2011/02/block-2-retro-nine-patch-free-bom.html"&gt; Retro Nine Patch BOM&lt;/a&gt;, but haven't quite finished it. It is so much fun, to work on that stitchery, with the lovely colors she chose.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb ook aan &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lyn's&lt;/a&gt; tweede stitchery gewerkt van de &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/2011/02/block-2-retro-nine-patch-free-bom.html"&gt;Retro Nine Patch BOM&lt;/a&gt;. Ik heb het nog niet helemaal af. Het is zo leuk hieraan te werken met de mooie kleuren die Lyn heeft uitgezocht!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;"Far  away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach  them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try  to follow them." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;- Louisa May Alcott&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-8400523728766638650?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/8400523728766638650/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=8400523728766638650&amp;isPopup=true' title='29 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8400523728766638650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/8400523728766638650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/02/on-friday-i-went-to-my-aunts-79th.html' title='Work in progress'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fT1eS0YXFPM/TWFXvEEDUeI/AAAAAAAACgM/EgIZMlB_BSw/s72-c/aaa%2B001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>29</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-3428070375650989442</id><published>2011-02-13T18:46:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-13T19:20:13.466+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Valentine's Hearts</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OmSZZNZnWws/TVgaP_G0cBI/AAAAAAAACfk/OgSmAW0m0_Y/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OmSZZNZnWws/TVgaP_G0cBI/AAAAAAAACfk/OgSmAW0m0_Y/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573233400811384850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;I finished my February Hearts, a sew-along designed by &lt;a href="http://daisyquilts.blogspot.com/"&gt;Robyn at Daisy Quilts&lt;/a&gt;. It was a fun project to finish, for this time of the year!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;De February Hearts, een sew-along ontworpen door &lt;a href="http://daisyquilts.blogspot.com/"&gt;Robyn van Daisy Quilts&lt;/a&gt; is af. Het was een erg leuk project om te maken voor deze tijd van het jaar. De quilt hangt al boven de bank (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QrFCUdnm25E/TVgaPp1D9cI/AAAAAAAACfc/AxmGPc6CRc4/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QrFCUdnm25E/TVgaPp1D9cI/AAAAAAAACfc/AxmGPc6CRc4/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573233395099760066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I was able to find the binding in my stash (o: And, it fits perfectly: white little hearts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb de stof voor de rand in mijn voorraad kunnen vinden (o: En die kleine witte hartjes zijn er perfect voor.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JDQmr47_NAc/TVgaPWMlcgI/AAAAAAAACfU/M_-HmwJR6S4/s1600/aaa%2B006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JDQmr47_NAc/TVgaPWMlcgI/AAAAAAAACfU/M_-HmwJR6S4/s320/aaa%2B006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573233389829714434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is the February Le Petite, organized by &lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/"&gt;Sherri&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sinta&lt;/a&gt;, that I am working on. It is a Schnibbles, my favorite patterns, this time Sweet Spot.&lt;div&gt;The fabrics I used are from my mother, who was cleaning up her fabric stash. I only had to add the beige solid from my stash. So, once again, no new fabrics bought!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit is de Le Petite van februari, die door &lt;a href="http://www.aquiltinglife.com/"&gt;Sherri&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/"&gt;Sinta&lt;/a&gt; georganiseerd wordt. Het middenstuk en het eerste deel van de eerste rand is af. Het is opnieuw een Schnibbles, mijn favoriete patronen, dit keer Sweet Spot.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;De stofjes heb ik van mijn moeder gekregen, die haar voorraad aan het opruimen was. Ik heb alleen de beige stof hoeven toe te voegen uit mijn voorraad. Dus, opnieuw geen stofjes gekocht!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I finished the top of the Christmas Elves by Gail Pan, but won't show it until I have the whole top finished. Furthermore, I finished the set for a New Beginnings, organized by the Gum Tree Designers, but forgot to take a picture of the set.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;De top van de Christmas Elves van Gail Pan is af, maar ik laat pas een foto zien, als de quilt helemaal af is. Verder heb ik het setje voor New Beginnings gemaakt, dat door Gum Tree Designers is georganiseerd, maar ben vergeten een foto ervan te nemen.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span   &gt;"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span &gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span  &gt;- Louisa May Alcott&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-3428070375650989442?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/3428070375650989442/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=3428070375650989442&amp;isPopup=true' title='31 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3428070375650989442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3428070375650989442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/02/valentines-hearts.html' title='Valentine&apos;s Hearts'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OmSZZNZnWws/TVgaP_G0cBI/AAAAAAAACfk/OgSmAW0m0_Y/s72-c/aaa%2B001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>31</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-1246948721304616978</id><published>2011-02-06T17:47:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-06T18:34:50.146+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cute hearts</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TU7R5VPEF2I/AAAAAAAACec/jdXFnupA90k/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TU7R5VPEF2I/AAAAAAAACec/jdXFnupA90k/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570620571986958178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I showed you the first heart to the &lt;a href="http://daisyquilts.blogspot.com/"&gt;February-Hearts-sew-along&lt;/a&gt; last week. And here is the quilt top. I hadn't realized that I should have used a solid for the background fabric, so I won't make &lt;a href="http://daisyquilts.blogspot.com/"&gt;part 3 &lt;/a&gt;to this pattern, a cute stitchery to the hearts. One day I will make this quilt again, with the stitchery. So, now I am ready to finish it. One more week to go (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vorige week heb ik jullie het eerste hartje laten zien voor de &lt;a href="http://daisyquilts.blogspot.com/"&gt;February-Hearts-sew-along&lt;/a&gt;. En hier is dan de top. Ik had niet begrepen dat je een effe stof moest gebruiken voor de achtergrond, dus maak ik &lt;a href="http://daisyquilts.blogspot.com/"&gt;deel 3&lt;/a&gt; niet, een stitchery. Ooit zak ik deze quilt nog eens maken en dan met de stitchery (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TU7R43L2KxI/AAAAAAAACeU/UKH15AWA4mA/s1600/aaa%2B005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TU7R43L2KxI/AAAAAAAACeU/UKH15AWA4mA/s320/aaa%2B005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570620563920399122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And, I finished the last four blocks of the Christmas Elves stitchery quilt by Gail Pan. I ordered the backing yesterday at &lt;a href="http://www.cvquiltworks.com/shop/"&gt;Canton Village Quilt Works&lt;/a&gt;, so now it is time to sew the blocks together, make the border and wait for the backing to come.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;En, ik heb de laatste 4 blokken van de Christmas Elves stitchery quilt gemaakt, van Gail Pan. Gisteren heb ik de achtergrond besteld bij &lt;a href="http://www.cvquiltworks.com/shop/"&gt;Canton Village Quilt Works&lt;/a&gt;, dus deze week ga ik de blokken samennaaien, de rand eromheen zetten en wachten op de achtergrond.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TU7R4ZfWcUI/AAAAAAAACeM/PU_jIncqDKA/s1600/aaa%2B006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TU7R4ZfWcUI/AAAAAAAACeM/PU_jIncqDKA/s320/aaa%2B006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570620555949142338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I also finished the first block to the &lt;a href="http://thelogcabin.web-log.nl/the_log_cabin/2011/01/visions-of-christmas-blok-1.html"&gt;Visions of Christmas BOM&lt;/a&gt;. I am stitching these blocks for a dear friend of mine, who will then make a quilt with it (o: (I put the block on a piece of Christmas fabric, so it is not the border ;o)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ook heb ik het eerste blokje van de &lt;a href="http://thelogcabin.web-log.nl/the_log_cabin/2011/01/visions-of-christmas-blok-1.html"&gt;Visions of Christmas&lt;/a&gt; af. Die blokken stitch ik voor een lieve vriendin. Zij mag er dan uiteindelijk een quilt van maken (o: (het blokje is op een stuk kerststof gelegd, dus het is niet de rand ;o)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TU7XOx9PwTI/AAAAAAAACek/nnKzsMU1GVU/s1600/aaa%2B007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TU7XOx9PwTI/AAAAAAAACek/nnKzsMU1GVU/s320/aaa%2B007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5570626438032245042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Last but not least, I made four more blocks to the stitchery quilt &lt;a href="http://pacificpatchwork.typepad.com/quilt_happy_quilt_often/2010/01/redwork-love-is.html"&gt;Love Is by Paula&lt;/a&gt;. If you want to make this quilt, then please &lt;a href="http://pacificpatchwork.typepad.com/quilt_happy_quilt_often/2010/01/redwork-love-is.html"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt; the pattern, because Paula will soon take it from her blog.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;En tenslotte heb ik nog vier blokken voor de stitchery quilt &lt;a href="http://pacificpatchwork.typepad.com/quilt_happy_quilt_often/2010/01/redwork-love-is.html"&gt;Love Is van Paula&lt;/a&gt; gemaakt. Als je van plan bent, deze ooit eens te maken, zorg er dan voor dat je het patroon zo snel mogelijk &lt;a href="http://pacificpatchwork.typepad.com/quilt_happy_quilt_often/2010/01/redwork-love-is.html"&gt;download&lt;/a&gt;, want Paula haalt het eerdaags van haar blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I promissed myself, that I would not order any new fabrics, except (yes, there is always an 'except') if I need some for the border, backing and/or binding to finish a quilt. And, I came through January not ordering any fabrics. It is so nice to use fabrics from my lovely stash (lots of FQ bundles :o) Sometimes it does hurt a bit to cut into them, but like the Hearts-Sew-Along and the Love Is stitchery, it does look very pretty! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb mezelf beloofd, geen nieuwe stoffen te bestellen, behalve (ja, er zijn altijd uitzonderingen die de regel bevestigen), als ik het nodig heb voor de rand, achterkant en binding om een quilt af te maken. En, ik ben door januari gekomen, zonder een cm stof te bestellen. Is dat goed of is dat goed!?! Het is heerlijk, om stofjes uit mijn verzameling te gebruiken (ik heb veel FQ bundles ;o), maar soms doet het ook een beetje pijn. Maar, zoals de Heart-Sew-Along en de Love Is stitchery quilt, ziet het er wel heel mooi uit!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;"The conclusion is always the same: love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy in the world." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-1246948721304616978?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/1246948721304616978/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=1246948721304616978&amp;isPopup=true' title='22 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/1246948721304616978'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/1246948721304616978'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/02/cute-hearts.html' title='Cute hearts'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TU7R5VPEF2I/AAAAAAAACec/jdXFnupA90k/s72-c/aaa%2B002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-4012733163314310644</id><published>2011-01-31T19:02:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-31T19:43:42.213+01:00</updated><title type='text'>I couldn't help myself starting new projects ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb5yyhIdXI/AAAAAAAACdQ/pu1m-crGyDc/s1600/aaa%2B006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb5yyhIdXI/AAAAAAAACdQ/pu1m-crGyDc/s320/aaa%2B006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568412640239711602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;When I saw&lt;a href="http://kaingahappenings.blogspot.com/2011/01/redwork-love-is-and-bungarra.html"&gt; this on Bev's blog&lt;/a&gt; and found &lt;a href="http://pacificpatchwork.typepad.com/quilt_happy_quilt_often/2010/01/redwork-love-is.html"&gt;this link to it on Paula's blog&lt;/a&gt;, I knew I had to make it for my dear friend Louise! I found the fabrics in my stash, the  FQ bundle Tulip Time by Renee Nanneman. It is the perfect match to this project!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Toen ik &lt;a href="http://kaingahappenings.blogspot.com/2011/01/redwork-love-is-and-bungarra.html"&gt;dit op Bev's blog&lt;/a&gt; vond en &lt;a href="http://pacificpatchwork.typepad.com/quilt_happy_quilt_often/2010/01/redwork-love-is.html"&gt;deze link naar Paula's blog&lt;/a&gt;, wist ik dat ik deze moest maken voor mijn lieve vriendin Louise! De stoffen die ik ervoor gebruik heb ik in mijn voorraad gevonden, de FQ bundle Tulip Time van Renee Nanneman. Het is de perfecte stof voor dit project!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb5yTGQ0PI/AAAAAAAACdI/TUBLad8nkDY/s1600/aaa%2B008.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb5yTGQ0PI/AAAAAAAACdI/TUBLad8nkDY/s320/aaa%2B008.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568412631805513970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I made two more blocks for my Christmas Elves quilt, cut the squares and made the stars and pinwheels for the other blocks. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik heb nog twee blokken gemaakt voor mijn Christmas Elves quilt, de vierkantjes ervoor gesneden en de pinwheels en sterren voor de andere blokken.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb5x6_GPCI/AAAAAAAACdA/9rdZ0GWjK9o/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb5x6_GPCI/AAAAAAAACdA/9rdZ0GWjK9o/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568412625333009442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My Christmas tree is ready to be quilted (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mijn kerstboom kan nu gequilt worden (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb8Bozv0pI/AAAAAAAACdY/TCktwBS5WJI/s1600/February%2BHearts%2Bbutton-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb8Bozv0pI/AAAAAAAACdY/TCktwBS5WJI/s320/February%2BHearts%2Bbutton-1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568415094354727570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;OK, I wasn't going to start a new project, but how can I resist a &lt;a href="http://daisyquilts.blogspot.com/"&gt;Valentine's sew-along wall hanging&lt;/a&gt;, offered by Robin at Daisy Quilts. I already made the first heart (bad picture!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;OK, ik zou nog eventjes geen nieuw project beginnen, maar hoe kan ik de &lt;a href="http://daisyquilts.blogspot.com/"&gt;Valentine's sew-along wall hanging &lt;/a&gt;van Robin van Daisy Quilts nu weerstaan! Het eerste blok heb ik al gemaakt (slechte foto!)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb9kVlpUeI/AAAAAAAACdg/vulBqY8AcBE/s1600/aaa%2B009.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb9kVlpUeI/AAAAAAAACdg/vulBqY8AcBE/s320/aaa%2B009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568416790002356706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Furthermore, Jacqueline at The Log Cabin has started a free &lt;a href="http://thelogcabin.web-log.nl/the_log_cabin/2011/01/visions-of-christmas-blok-1.html"&gt;Christmas BOM: Visions of Christmas&lt;/a&gt;, from a pattern by Debbie Mumm. Nine blocks, so that should make you a finish for Christmas 2011. Take a look and get started (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Verder is Jacqueline van The Log Cabin begonnen met een nieuwe gratis &lt;a href="http://thelogcabin.web-log.nl/the_log_cabin/2011/01/visions-of-christmas-blok-1.html"&gt;Kerst BOM: Visions of Christmas&lt;/a&gt;, naar een patroon van Debbie Mumm. Negen blokken in totaal, dus een makkie om vóór de kerst af te krijgen. Ga snel kijken en begin!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb_hKAOrFI/AAAAAAAACdo/_GUbWkX59Rg/s1600/6a0133ee7755de970b0148c8041ea4970c-800wi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 109px; height: 137px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb_hKAOrFI/AAAAAAAACdo/_GUbWkX59Rg/s320/6a0133ee7755de970b0148c8041ea4970c-800wi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568418934376279122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And then &lt;a href="http://loftcreations.blogspot.com/"&gt;Stephanie at Loft Creations&lt;/a&gt; is offering a very cute &lt;a href="http://loftcreations.blogspot.com/2011/01/from-me-to-you.html"&gt;Cup Cake pattern&lt;/a&gt;. Please have a look. It is now on my list of projects I definitely want to make very soon!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;En dan heeft&lt;a href="http://loftcreations.blogspot.com/"&gt; Stephanie van Loft Creations &lt;/a&gt;nog een schattig &lt;a href="http://loftcreations.blogspot.com/2011/01/from-me-to-you.html"&gt;Cup Cake patroon&lt;/a&gt;. Het staat nu op mijn lijst van projecten, dat ik absoluut wil maken en snel ook!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUcBuphL7AI/AAAAAAAACdw/TTgZxlKAhOg/s1600/cupcakes%2B3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 251px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUcBuphL7AI/AAAAAAAACdw/TTgZxlKAhOg/s320/cupcakes%2B3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568421365197564930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;- Khalil Gibran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-4012733163314310644?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/4012733163314310644/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=4012733163314310644&amp;isPopup=true' title='32 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4012733163314310644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/4012733163314310644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-couldnt-help-myself-starting-new.html' title='I couldn&apos;t help myself starting new projects ...'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TUb5yyhIdXI/AAAAAAAACdQ/pu1m-crGyDc/s72-c/aaa%2B006.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>32</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-2070058050853064652</id><published>2011-01-23T17:54:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-24T19:53:25.386+01:00</updated><title type='text'>This and that and more (2)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTxd5jW5D6I/AAAAAAAACcI/XtYxEiVMyXE/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTxd5jW5D6I/AAAAAAAACcI/XtYxEiVMyXE/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565426482848272290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;My &lt;a href="http://www.missrosiesquiltco.com/Schnibbles.html"&gt;Schnibbles&lt;/a&gt; for January is done: Mon Ami. Quilted and all. Instead of 25 stars, I made 16 stars and I changed the border. I didn't want the wallhanging to be too big, because it is a swap present for the KerStruil. The S for Schnibbles (o: Once again, I really enjoyed making a Schnibbles!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mijn &lt;a href="http://www.missrosiesquiltco.com/Schnibbles.html"&gt;Schnibbles&lt;/a&gt; voor januari is af: Mon Ami. Hij is gequilt en al. In plaats van 25 sterren, heb ik er 16 gemaakt en ik heb de rand veranderd. Ik wilde niet dat het wandkleed te groot zou worden, omdat het voor de kerStruil is: de S voor Schnibbles (o: En opnieuw heb ik veel plezier gehad in het maken van een Schnibbles!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTxd5RxUYzI/AAAAAAAACcA/eZDW1x6rtAQ/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTxd5RxUYzI/AAAAAAAACcA/eZDW1x6rtAQ/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565426478127276850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This week I finished the three blocks I was behind on the Mystery quilt and I made the January block. At the end of one of the blocks, I had piece left over. I am still wondering if I should put it in, because you can't really see it. Funny, how that works.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze week heb ik de drie blokken van de Mystery quilt afgemaakt, die ik achter lag en ik heb die voor januari gemaakt. Bij een blok bleef er op het einde een stukje over. Ik vond iets al vreemd, maar dacht dat ik te grote naden had gemaakt... Ik weet nog niet of ik het stukje ertussen zet. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTxd4vaL1WI/AAAAAAAACb4/wy3HRsVh8r4/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTxd4vaL1WI/AAAAAAAACb4/wy3HRsVh8r4/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565426468903441762" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After reading &lt;a href="http://littlebusybee.blogspot.com/2011/01/sew-many-blocks.html"&gt;Suzie's post&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to make some &lt;a href="http://sewmanyquiltstoolittletime.blogspot.com/2009/02/quilt-as-you-go-block-tutorial.html"&gt;Quilt As You Go blocks &lt;/a&gt;for &lt;a href="http://ozcomfortquilts.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jan&lt;/a&gt;, who is using them to make quilts for those who lost so much in Queensland. I only made three, but then I thought if 11 more people join me to make three from their scraps, then Jan will have enough to make a quilt of ca. 40"x 70". So please have a look and start searching for some scraps. It is also a great way to use your batting scraps! Have fun!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Nadat ik &lt;a href="http://littlebusybee.blogspot.com/2011/01/sew-many-blocks.html"&gt;Suzie's post&lt;/a&gt; had gelezen, besloot ik om ook een paar &lt;a href="http://sewmanyquiltstoolittletime.blogspot.com/2009/02/quilt-as-you-go-block-tutorial.html"&gt;Quilt As You Go blocks&lt;/a&gt; voor &lt;a href="http://ozcomfortquilts.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jan&lt;/a&gt; te maken. Ze gebruikt ze om quilts te maken voor al die mensen die alles verloren hebben in Queensland. Ik heb er maar drie gemaakt, maar ik dacht als nu nog eens 11 mensen er drie maken, dan heeft Jan er genoeg om een quilt van 40" x 70" te maken. Neem dus even een kijkje en verzamel je scraps. Het is ook een goede manier om je batting scraps te verwerken! Veel plezier.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTxd4VeCfBI/AAAAAAAACbw/pv-IvSLOEeI/s1600/aaa%2B003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTxd4VeCfBI/AAAAAAAACbw/pv-IvSLOEeI/s320/aaa%2B003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565426461940284434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This year I am planning to finish projects I have started over the past few years, but never finished. This is the stitchery quilt Christmas Elves by Gail Pan, that I started last year with &lt;a href="http://jellybeanangel2.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://quiltecke.blogspot.com/"&gt;Diana&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://littlebusybee.blogspot.com/"&gt;Suzie&lt;/a&gt;. Melanie and Diana finished theirs (see &lt;a href="http://quiltecke.blogspot.com/2010/11/busy-little-christmas-elves-fertig.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://jellybeanangel2.blogspot.com/2010/10/fireworks-pendants-makings.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;), I only finished the stitcheries and three blocks. So this week's plan is to work on the other 6 blocks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit jaar wil ik aan projecten werken, waar ik de afgelopen jaren aan begonnen ben, maar nooit heb afgemaakt. Dit is de stitchery quilt Christmas Elves van Gail Pan, die ik vorig jaar samen met &lt;a href="http://jellybeanangel2.blogspot.com/"&gt;Melanie&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://quiltecke.blogspot.com/"&gt;Diana&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://littlebusybee.blogspot.com/"&gt;Suzie &lt;/a&gt;begonnen ben. Melanie en Diana hebben die van hen af (zie &lt;a href="http://quiltecke.blogspot.com/2010/11/busy-little-christmas-elves-fertig.html"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://jellybeanangel2.blogspot.com/2010/10/fireworks-pendants-makings.html"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt;) en ik heb alleen de stitcheries af en drie van de negen blokken. Het plan voor deze week is om aan de volgende 6 blokken te werken. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;"Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;- Sydney Smith&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-2070058050853064652?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/2070058050853064652/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=2070058050853064652&amp;isPopup=true' title='28 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/2070058050853064652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/2070058050853064652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/01/this-and-that-and-more-2.html' title='This and that and more (2)'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTxd5jW5D6I/AAAAAAAACcI/XtYxEiVMyXE/s72-c/aaa%2B001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-3285385966626724497</id><published>2011-01-17T13:37:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-17T15:27:17.427+01:00</updated><title type='text'>A new BOM and an owl pincushion</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lyn's&lt;/a&gt; first block to her Retro Nine Patch free BOM is out and I already finished it! Isn't it pretty! I love the colors she used for it and the design is so pretty. And I have the perfect fabrics to it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thank you so much, Lyn, for this lovely pattern (o: Please go to the button on the left sidebar and read more about it. Join the fun!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Het eerst patroon voor &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lyn'&lt;/a&gt;s Retro Nine Patch free BOM is uit! Is het niet mooi! De kleuren die ze heeft uitgekozen, maken mij helemaal blij! En ik heb er stof bij gevonden die er heel goed bij past.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Heel erg bedankt, Lyn, voor dit heel mooie patroon (o: Wanneer je op de button klikt aan de linker kant van mijn blog, dan kun je er meer over lezen. Doe ook mee!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTQ4X8jcTpI/AAAAAAAACag/bll-AXUB5sI/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTQ4X8jcTpI/AAAAAAAACag/bll-AXUB5sI/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563133423752334994" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTQ4X8jcTpI/AAAAAAAACag/bll-AXUB5sI/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And here you can see the little owls I showed in my last post. They join happily together to function as a pincushion. The owls were lots of fun to make, but sewing them to the pincushion was less fun. It was worth it though (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;En hier zijn de uiltjes van mijn vorige post verwerkt tot een pincushion. De uiltjes zijn erg leuk te maken, maar het aannaaien aan het kussentje gaat iets minder. Het is me uiteindelijk toch gelukt (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTQ4X8jcTpI/AAAAAAAACag/bll-AXUB5sI/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTQ4XbSe_RI/AAAAAAAACaY/4YDkSmRzSGo/s1600/aaa%2B003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTQ4XbSe_RI/AAAAAAAACaY/4YDkSmRzSGo/s320/aaa%2B003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563133414822837522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Many of you have probably read about those wonderful auctions (see &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/2011/01/queensland-flood-relief-auction.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://ifonlyihadchocolate.blogspot.com/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - but there are &lt;a href="http://www.tonicoward.blogspot.com/"&gt;many more&lt;/a&gt;!), donations and the help you can give for those affected by the waters in Queensland. The Gum Tree Designers "want to collect and then distribute, a 'New Beginnings' sewing kit for those who need to start over with their craft." Please read more about it &lt;a href="http://www.gumtree-designers.com/2011/01/we-need-your-help.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Velen van jullie zullen wel gelezen hebben over de veilingen (kijk &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/2011/01/queensland-flood-relief-auction.html"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://ifonlyihadchocolate.blogspot.com/"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; - maar er wordt nog&lt;a href="http://www.tonicoward.blogspot.com/"&gt; veel meer&lt;/a&gt; aangeboden!), donaties en de hulp die je kunt bieden aan de inwoners van Queensland. De Gum Tree Designers vragen om hulp, door een 'New Beginnings' naai set te maken voor hen die helemaal opnieuw moeten beginnen met hun hobby. Lees er &lt;a href="http://www.gumtree-designers.com/2011/01/we-need-your-help.html"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; meer over.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTQ41xjIOKI/AAAAAAAACao/omWDrC6hfqk/s1600/S6301185.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 310px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTQ41xjIOKI/AAAAAAAACao/omWDrC6hfqk/s320/S6301185.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5563133936194304162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;- Flora Whittemore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-3285385966626724497?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/3285385966626724497/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=3285385966626724497&amp;isPopup=true' title='32 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3285385966626724497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3285385966626724497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-bom-and-owl-pincushion.html' title='A new BOM and an owl pincushion'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TTQ4X8jcTpI/AAAAAAAACag/bll-AXUB5sI/s72-c/aaa%2B002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>32</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-7662390461767563127</id><published>2011-01-09T17:54:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-09T19:30:46.908+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The love for my children, hubby, dog, owls, quilts, stars and more</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnowri_StI/AAAAAAAACZw/-_sBiPDa8mc/s1600/aaa%2B009.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnowri_StI/AAAAAAAACZw/-_sBiPDa8mc/s320/aaa%2B009.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560231137986431698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This week we had our monthly Quilting Bee, that is organized by &lt;a href="http://mariejoze.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marie-Jozé&lt;/a&gt;. Last year we started a mystery quilt. The first part was the heart and the second part the pinwheels. Since I didn't have enough yellow and I really want to use my stash, I decided to use other solids. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The next part will be making 24 stars and after that we will be told how to put those into the quilt. Very mysterious!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze week was de eerste maandelijkse Quilting Bee van 2011, die door &lt;a href="http://mariejoze.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marie-Jozé&lt;/a&gt; georganiseerd wordt. Vorig jaar zijn we met een mystery quilt begonnen. Dit zijn de eerste twee delen samengevoegd. Ik had niet genoeg geel, maar omdat ik alles uit mijn stash wil pakken, heb ik voor andere solids gekozen. Voor de volgende keer maken we 24 sterren waarna we te horen krijgen, hoe deze tot een quilt gevormd worden. Heel mysterieus!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnov-y2oxI/AAAAAAAACZo/59qmdYpOLlY/s1600/aaa%2B003.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnov-y2oxI/AAAAAAAACZo/59qmdYpOLlY/s320/aaa%2B003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560231125973377810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;At the QB, &lt;a href="http://thequiltwitches.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gerda, Mariëlle&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://mariejoze.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marie-Jozé&lt;/a&gt; showed us how to make these gorgeous little owls. We also got the pattern for a large owl, but that one will have to wait. I will be making a pincushion with all those cute little pink owls. Mmmm, I need to find those eyes!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tijdens de QB hebben &lt;a href="http://thequiltwitches.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gerda, Mariëlle&lt;/a&gt; en &lt;a href="http://mariejoze.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marie-Jozé &lt;/a&gt;laten zien hoe je deze schattige uiltjes maakt. We hebben ook een patroon voor een grote uil gekregen, maar die moet nog even wachten. Van al die roze uiltjes zal ik een pincushion maken. En nu nog de oogjes vinden!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnovq8ZKSI/AAAAAAAACZg/ko7TJCMCRL0/s1600/aaa%2B005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnovq8ZKSI/AAAAAAAACZg/ko7TJCMCRL0/s320/aaa%2B005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560231120644679970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is my Le Petit project for Janaury: Schnibbles Mon Ami. I'm still having Christmas ... my swap presents for the Kerstruil never reached my partner. This time I am using very different fabrics for her, so that if her previous presents ever arrive, she will have very different sets (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit is mijn Le Petit project voor januari: Schnibbles Mon Ami. Bij mij is het nog kerst ... mijn kerstruil cadeaus zijn nooit bij mijn partner aangekomen. Dit keer zal ik heel andere stofjes voor de ruil gebruiken, zodat wanneer de eerste cadeaus toch nog mochten aankomen, ze hele verschillende dingen krijgt.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnovSUUqNI/AAAAAAAACZY/xIbWpxbKHBc/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnovSUUqNI/AAAAAAAACZY/xIbWpxbKHBc/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560231114034161874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnou5fHKFI/AAAAAAAACZQ/UkFQX59Ges8/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnou5fHKFI/AAAAAAAACZQ/UkFQX59Ges8/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560231107368527954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I think you can imagine why Bibi misses Laura ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Waarschijnlijk snap je wel, waarom Bibi Laura mist ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnpC3wy9_I/AAAAAAAACaA/lvcKGKT85Sc/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnpC3wy9_I/AAAAAAAACaA/lvcKGKT85Sc/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560231450503215090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Small boys grow up. And this is my dear son Thijme. It is the first time he is wearing a suit. Not such a good picture, but I had to be fast because he didn't want me to take one...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kleine kindjes worden groot ... en Thijme is het bewijs. Dit is de eerste keer dat hij een pak draagt. Niet zo'n heel goede foto, maar ik moest snel zijn, omdat hij niet wilde dat ik een foto nam.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnpCoiLRkI/AAAAAAAACZ4/tT1RBEY64TI/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnpCoiLRkI/AAAAAAAACZ4/tT1RBEY64TI/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560231446415361602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, and if Laura isn't there, Bibi will go for Ger. But, I think Ger's iPad is more important than Bibi. And from her look, she seems to know ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ok, en als Laura er niet is, dan gaat Bibi ook wel eens bij Ger zitten. Maar, ik denk dat de iPad belangrijker is dan Bibi. Zou Bibi het in de gaten hebben ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnqF9JVDXI/AAAAAAAACaI/lT-Ouf-SdwA/s1600/buttonsize.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnqF9JVDXI/AAAAAAAACaI/lT-Ouf-SdwA/s320/buttonsize.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560232602999524722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I know several BOMs have started again and I decided to join only one for the moment. It is &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/2011/01/retro-nine-patch-free-bom-2010.html"&gt;Lyn's Retro Nine Patch Free BOM&lt;/a&gt;! Please have a look here and read all about it! Let her know if you want to join the fun! The first part will be posted on January 15th (o: Can't wait...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Er zijn weer verschillende BOMs van start gegaan en ik heb me voorgenomen slechts aan eentje deel te nemen. Het is &lt;a href="http://bluebirdquilts-lyn.blogspot.com/2011/01/retro-nine-patch-free-bom-2010.html"&gt;Lyn's Retro Nine Patch Free BOM&lt;/a&gt;! Neem een kijkje hier en lees er alles over. Laat haar weten wanneer je mee wilt doen! Het eerste deel zal op 15 januari uitgebracht worden. Ik kan niet wachten ...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"There  is a fountain of youth: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;it is your mind, your talents, the creativity  you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you  learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age."&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;- Sophia Loren&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-7662390461767563127?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/7662390461767563127/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=7662390461767563127&amp;isPopup=true' title='33 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/7662390461767563127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/7662390461767563127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2011/01/love-for-my-children-hubby-dog-owls.html' title='The love for my children, hubby, dog, owls, quilts, stars and more'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TSnowri_StI/AAAAAAAACZw/-_sBiPDa8mc/s72-c/aaa%2B009.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>33</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-7580585865816209413</id><published>2010-12-31T10:44:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T10:57:13.068+01:00</updated><title type='text'>De allerbeste wensen voor 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TR2nhyxqZNI/AAAAAAAACZA/G_D0NPhOEr0/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TR2nhyxqZNI/AAAAAAAACZA/G_D0NPhOEr0/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556781714252653778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Threads of loveliness from all over the world.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;(Please click on the picture)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;wishing you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;threads of happiness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;and colors of joy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;woven throughout&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;the fabric&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;of your life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-7580585865816209413?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/7580585865816209413/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=7580585865816209413&amp;isPopup=true' title='22 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/7580585865816209413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/7580585865816209413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2010/12/de-allerbeste-wensen-voor-2011.html' title='De allerbeste wensen voor 2011'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TR2nhyxqZNI/AAAAAAAACZA/G_D0NPhOEr0/s72-c/aaa%2B004.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-6834804989713802311</id><published>2010-12-27T18:48:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-28T07:59:50.476+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Swaps and Lots of Snow</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;This year I joined two Christmas swaps, one organized by Chookyblue, Secret Santa Christmas Swap and one by Katrien, Kerstruil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Dit jaar heb ik aan twee Kerst swaps meegedaan. Eentje werd georganiseerd door Chookyblue - Secret Santa Christmas Swap en eentje door Katrien - Kerstruil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjSJl90XfI/AAAAAAAACYQ/RLouNiU95Zg/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjSJl90XfI/AAAAAAAACYQ/RLouNiU95Zg/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555421202613558770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;These are the lovely presents I received from my SSCS partner, &lt;a href="http://jewells58.blogspot.com/"&gt;Julie&lt;/a&gt;. Look at the lovely Christmas items she made for my kitchen. Aren't they adorable! Paper pieced Santa's for an apron and pot holder. And if you click on the picture, you can see the lovely fabric Julie used for the towel. It really makes me smile.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I know the knitted cloth is for the dishes, but I won't be using it for that. Way to pretty. I will be using it as a small table topper (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thank you so much, &lt;a href="http://jewells58.blogspot.com/"&gt;Julie&lt;/a&gt;, for these lovely presents!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit zijn de mooie cadeautjes die ik van mijn SSCS partner &lt;a href="http://jewells58.blogspot.com/"&gt;Julie&lt;/a&gt; heb gekregen. Kijk eens naar al het moois dat ze voor mijn keuken heeft gemaakt. Paper pieced Santa's op een schort en een pannenlap. En als je op de foto klikt, kun je het grappige stofje zien dat ze voor de theedoek heeft gebruikt (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ik weet dat de gebreide lap voor de afwas is, maar geef toe, dat is toch veel te zonde! Ik leg het mooi ergens neer.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dank je wel, &lt;a href="http://jewells58.blogspot.com/"&gt;Julie&lt;/a&gt;, voor de heel mooie cadeautjes!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjSJLxRsHI/AAAAAAAACYI/NfDZyDa8apI/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjSJLxRsHI/AAAAAAAACYI/NfDZyDa8apI/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555421195581632626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;And these are the presents I received for the Kerstruil. For each letter of Kerst (short for Christmas in Dutch - Kerstmis) we were asked to have a present for each letter. Lovely Ingrid was my partner. K - klosjes (bobbins), E - etui (pouch), R - rood (red), S - speldenkussen (pin cushion), T - theelichtjes (tea lights). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The pin cushion I will make myself. All the items are added to make an Amish pin cushion - the materials to make it symbolize the Amish traditions. I have never seen anything like it. Lovely!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Thank you too, &lt;a href="http://quiltingingrid.web-log.nl/"&gt;Ingrid&lt;/a&gt;, for these lovely presents!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Unfortunately my swap presents have not arrived my partner yet )o: I hope the will get to her soon!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;En dit zijn de cadeautjes die ik voor de Kerstruil heb gekregen. Voor iedere letter voor Kerst werd gevraagd een cadeautje toe te voegen. K - klosje, E - etui, R - rood, S - speldenkussen, T - theelichtjes.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Het speldenkussentje ga ik nog zelf maken. De materialen ervoor symboliseren de Amish tradities. Heel erg leuk. Bedankt, &lt;a href="http://quiltingingrid.web-log.nl/"&gt;Ingrid&lt;/a&gt;, voor deze mooie KERSTcadeautjes!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Helaas is mijn kerstruil niet aangekomen )o: Ik hoop dat het aan de stakingen ligt en het feit dat in België de post niet iedere dag bezorgd is met al die sneeuw. Hopelijk komt het deze week aan!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjSIVUfHlI/AAAAAAAACYA/3KGeWE_QSiM/s1600/aaa%2B007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjSIVUfHlI/AAAAAAAACYA/3KGeWE_QSiM/s320/aaa%2B007.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555421180965363282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A close up of the sewing pouch.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Een close-up van het naai etuitje.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Meanwhile, we have about 40 cm of snow, which is very unusual for here. And ... we had our very white Christmas (o: Here are some more impressions ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ondertussen hebben we ongeveer 40 cm sneeuw, wat heel ongebruikelijk is voor hier. En, zoals alle Nederlanders, hadden we een heel witte Kerst (o: Het heeft toch wel wat, ondanks de gladheid. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjSIIrQv4I/AAAAAAAACX4/8ALQw_vzMk0/s1600/aaa%2B001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjSIIrQv4I/AAAAAAAACX4/8ALQw_vzMk0/s320/aaa%2B001.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555421177571229570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjSHihbUBI/AAAAAAAACXw/y4NfOjOmSG0/s1600/aaa%2B004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjSHihbUBI/AAAAAAAACXw/y4NfOjOmSG0/s320/aaa%2B004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555421167329431570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;My car hidden in the snow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mijn auto onder de sneeuw.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjWKPoBDGI/AAAAAAAACYw/boMDGUEPwGY/s1600/aaa%2B006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjWKPoBDGI/AAAAAAAACYw/boMDGUEPwGY/s320/aaa%2B006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555425611842915426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjWJgOKtMI/AAAAAAAACYo/oUDjfQDXgVg/s1600/aaa%2B012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjWJgOKtMI/AAAAAAAACYo/oUDjfQDXgVg/s320/aaa%2B012.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555425599118030018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Thijme and his friend Bjorn decided to build a snow fort on the second day of Christmas. They were outside for hours and as a reward they had a barbecue inside their palace (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thijme en zijn vriend Bjorn hebben op tweede kerstdag een sneeuw hut gebouwd. Ze waren er uren zoet mee en als beloning hebben ze in hun paleis een barbecue gehand (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjWJNUSN5I/AAAAAAAACYg/9kOXNQFP0ZY/s1600/aaa%2B013.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjWJNUSN5I/AAAAAAAACYg/9kOXNQFP0ZY/s320/aaa%2B013.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555425594043414418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;As you can see, Thijme was very proud!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Zoals je kunt zien, was Thijme erg trots!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;If you don't start,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;You won't arrive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;-anonymous-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-6834804989713802311?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/6834804989713802311/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=6834804989713802311&amp;isPopup=true' title='30 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/6834804989713802311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/6834804989713802311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-swaps-and-lots-of-snow.html' title='Christmas Swaps and Lots of Snow'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRjSJl90XfI/AAAAAAAACYQ/RLouNiU95Zg/s72-c/aaa%2B001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>30</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-3567751999729533457</id><published>2010-12-25T20:59:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-25T21:09:29.349+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Vrolijk Kerstfeest!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;b&gt;Heel gezellige kerstdagen!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRZNw825D_I/AAAAAAAACWY/ddjZiYUM_rE/s1600/aaa%2B005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRZNw825D_I/AAAAAAAACWY/ddjZiYUM_rE/s320/aaa%2B005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5554712693773504498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Made by &lt;a href="http://quilttales.blogspot.com/"&gt;Satu&lt;/a&gt; at Quilttales&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-3567751999729533457?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/3567751999729533457/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=3567751999729533457&amp;isPopup=true' title='15 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3567751999729533457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/3567751999729533457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2010/12/vrolijk-kerstfeest.html' title='Vrolijk Kerstfeest!'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRZNw825D_I/AAAAAAAACWY/ddjZiYUM_rE/s72-c/aaa%2B005.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-6965736731144748840</id><published>2010-12-21T09:16:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-21T09:28:13.399+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Winter Snowland</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;This is how much snow we have had since Saturday.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Dit is de hoeveelheid sneeuw die er gevallen is sinds zaterdag.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBiwV_6_EI/AAAAAAAACWA/Qvq1B9HlhF8/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBiwV_6_EI/AAAAAAAACWA/Qvq1B9HlhF8/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553046923226315842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Impressions of my morning walks with Bibi&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Impressies van mijn ochtendwandelingen met Bibi.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBiwIfxvnI/AAAAAAAACV4/7I6jSM4W744/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBiwIfxvnI/AAAAAAAACV4/7I6jSM4W744/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553046919601831538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBiwHVN52I/AAAAAAAACVw/e_8XqUnG6Z0/s1600/aaa%2B011.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBiwHVN52I/AAAAAAAACVw/e_8XqUnG6Z0/s320/aaa%2B011.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553046919289104226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBiv3nFFnI/AAAAAAAACVo/v9lhPleRRxU/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 162px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBiv3nFFnI/AAAAAAAACVo/v9lhPleRRxU/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553046915069056626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Bibi is always searching for something (o:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Bibi is altijd op zoek naar iets (o:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBivjwSExI/AAAAAAAACVg/PCOqAOSMWPs/s1600/Picnik%2Bcollage3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 294px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBivjwSExI/AAAAAAAACVg/PCOqAOSMWPs/s320/Picnik%2Bcollage3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553046909738947346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBjAQEYVpI/AAAAAAAACWI/eGSQeIsp-gc/s1600/aaa%2B015.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBjAQEYVpI/AAAAAAAACWI/eGSQeIsp-gc/s1600/aaa%2B015.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBjAQEYVpI/AAAAAAAACWI/eGSQeIsp-gc/s320/aaa%2B015.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553047196512310930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;-James Oppenheim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4823714511225940400-6965736731144748840?l=simonedeklerk.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/feeds/6965736731144748840/comments/default' title='Reacties plaatsen'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4823714511225940400&amp;postID=6965736731144748840&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 reacties'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/6965736731144748840'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4823714511225940400/posts/default/6965736731144748840'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2010/12/winter-snowland.html' title='Winter Snowland'/><author><name>Simone de Klerk</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14229832556762075177</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B7HSCwHLqaE/TvBmNosbsOI/AAAAAAAADKM/rEXlaePkigY/s220/aaa%2B018.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TRBiwV_6_EI/AAAAAAAACWA/Qvq1B9HlhF8/s72-c/aaa%2B002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823714511225940400.post-7213119635222242225</id><published>2010-12-19T19:01:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-19T19:59:53.598+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Lovely pressies, and fancy stars</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;This week &lt;a href="http://cybelespatch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jos&lt;/a&gt; and I got together again for a nice Christmas tea. We had been matched in a Christmas swap last year, so this year we decided to do one again (o:&lt;div&gt;Look at all the lovely things she got and made for me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Deze week hebben &lt;a href="http://cybelespatch.blogspot.com/"&gt;Jos &lt;/a&gt;en ik onze tweede Christmas swap gehad. Vorig jaar werden we bij een Christmas swap aan elkaar gekoppeld en dit jaar dachten we het over te doen (o:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Kijk eens naar al het moois dat ze voor mij had.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TQ5LjP-6tzI/AAAAAAAACVA/cbSIpjs_o2s/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TQ5LjP-6tzI/AAAAAAAACVA/cbSIpjs_o2s/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552458459552331570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;She put everything in the cute little white bag which is embroidered on both sides, which she then put it the Janome bag from ........... Houston (o: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ze had alles in een heel lief klein tasje gedaan, dat aan beide kanten prachtig geborduurd is. En dat tasje heeft ze weer in de Janome tas gedaan, die ze had meegenomen uit ............ Houston (o:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TQ5Li_zk6oI/AAAAAAAACU4/TrlihlKpVzs/s1600/aaa%2B006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TQ5Li_zk6oI/AAAAAAAACU4/TrlihlKpVzs/s320/aaa%2B006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552458455209798274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Jos knows what my favorite color is (o: Do you see the beautiful pincushion. I will be using it for my appliqué pins. And look at the PINK thread. Ah, that is so my color!!! (the picture doesn't do it all right)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Jos weet echt wat mijn favoriete kleur is (o: Kijk eens naar het prachtige speldenkussentje. Deze zal ik voor mijn appliqué spelden gebruiken. En kijk eens naar het PINK garen. Dat is nu echt mijn kleur!!! (de foto laat het niet echt goed zien).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TQ5LioY0_DI/AAAAAAAACUw/Sm1-ff4aFVU/s1600/aaa%2B005.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TQ5LioY0_DI/AAAAAAAACUw/Sm1-ff4aFVU/s320/aaa%2B005.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552458448923589682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jos was one of the lucky ones to go to the Quilt Market in Houston and she told me she would bring a gadget for me. See the green little square. Well, I attached a siccor to it and now I am able to attach it to a vest or so and that way I will always have my siccors with me. I will use it upstairs with my sewing machine, where I am always looking for my siccors! Jos knows what a girl wants, just like Lyn did with &lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2010/12/yoyos-hexagons-and-prairie-points.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down to third picture).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Isn't the Christmas ornament beautiful! Thank you Jos, for all the loveliness!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Jos was een van de gelukkige dit naar the Quilt Market in Houston is gegaan. Ze vertelde me dat ze me een leuke gadget zou meenemen. Kijk eens naar het groene vierkantje. Ik heb er een schaartje aan bevestigd en nu kan ik het speldje aan mijn vest of trui bevestigen en heb ik altijd een schaar bij de hand! Deze gaat mee naar boven naar mijn naaimachine. Daar ben ik altijd op zoek naar mijn schaartje, tussen al de rommel. Jos weet wat een quiltster wilt, net als Lyn met &lt;a href="http://simonedeklerk.blogspot.com/2010/12/yoyos-hexagons-and-prairie-points.html"&gt;dit&lt;/a&gt; (scroll naar beneden, derde foto).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Is de kerstbal niet prachtig! Bedankt Jos, voor al het moois!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TQ5LicymKKI/AAAAAAAACUo/Z1fmsh8QxPI/s1600/aaa%2B002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kKKiFPpQ48E/TQ5LicymKKI/AAAAAAAACUo/Z1fmsh8QxPI/s320/aaa%2B002.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552458445810444450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;These are the last blocks I made for the virtual Euro Quilting Bee. They were a lot of fun to make and I love the fabrics that were added to it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dit zijn de laatste blokken voor de virtuele Euro Quilting Bee. Het was erg leuk, deze sterren te maken. De stofjes die erbij gevoegd waren, zijn erg vrolijk!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blo
