Felt Party

A while ago Rebekka asked me if I was interested in going to a felting workshop, which would cost about 60euro's. I told her I'd love to, but only if finances allowed me to.
Well, I didn't even have to wait and see, because a couple of days later she asked me if I was interested in doing a workshop at her place, with a couple of her friends (and our colleague Elisabeth), which would cost 10euro's.... Guess what I told her? YES!
So I got invited to a "felt party".

We were all asked if we could bring something for lunch and she would provide the materials and teach us a couple of techniques.

So I went over on a Saturday, with a leak and cheese pie (recipe coming soon!).

Rebekka ordered loads of goodies at Meervilt.









We got started with wetfelting a ball. We felted around a foam stressball, so we had something substantial to start with.
I made a marbeled ball, on which I needlefelted stars after it dried.

After lunch, Rebekka taught us how to needlefelt.
I made a whale, ofcourse...

This is what we made during the day:

We divided the remaining materials between the 6 of us, so could make some more projects at home.

I already felted a little mouse...

Love, Caroline

PS: I shamelessly borrowed most of the pictures from Rebekka's blog...

Here's the link: Click

Organic Babyfood

I've been really busy trying out all kinds of organic babyfoods from the supermarket.
Why? That's one of the things that has been keeping me really busy lately, but I can't (won't) tell you why, yet...

What I can tell you, is that I've started making my own babyfood last week.
Joshua ate potato/carrot puree last week, but that was just because we ate "hutspot" and I held back a couple of pieces carrot and potato.

Today I made some things just for him.

We went to the local farmersmarket and I bought quite a lot of fresh, organic veggies. I totally forgot to take a picture, but I got lots and not really a bad price.

Fruit cooking away

I got:
- 2 huge pears (800gr)
- 4 apples (1kg)
- 4 tomato's (420gr)
- mushrooms (500gr)
- beans (180gr)
- a bunch of carrots
For just €14,-

When we got home, I peeled and chopped the apples and pears and cooked them to a puree in a large pot. It's reeeeeaaaally good and no additions of any kind.

Veggies

I also tried out the babycook I bought a while ago.
Peeled and diced a potato, a large carrot and a handfull of beans, put themm in the steambasket and steamed them for about 15 minutes.
When they were cooked through, I mashed them in the blender and I had a small jar full of veggies.

Joshua ate the whole jar and about the same amount of fruitpuree.
Succes in my opinion!

 I still need to fill a lot of jars with the fruitpuree, so I don't know how many jars I get from this amount of fruit, but I did get creative and made a couple of cute labels...

Love, Caroline

Finished puree

Labels

Ribbon Storage

I found this idea on Pinterest.
Storage for extra cables and that gave me a "lightbulb-moment"...

I can soooooo do this for ribbonstorage, or actually, to organise my ribbonstorage.

So I rummaged around for some cardboard and tape and a pile of toiletrolls.
This is the result:















































The top layer is nicely sorted, and when you take out the tray, there are rolls and bags, which were already nice and neat... I'm a very happy lady...!

Love,

Caroline

(PS: the next blogpost is already in the making, but my babyboy is crying upstair, so you can probably guess what has my priority...! ;-P)

Long time, no see

Sorry, I've made a lot of promises, I didn't keep... (Shame on me, hides behind couch)
Been REALLY busy, but I'm back.

First update coming in a couple of minutes...!

Sunday Recap #

So much for good resolutions... I have so much on my mind, I keep forgetting stuff. Writing down what I did this week, is one of the things I forgot...
But the most important thing, I can probably remember!

So here goes:
This week I:

- finished "Groen Doen", I also let my colleague (and friend!) Rebekka borrow it. She seems to have more time to read it and she beat me to writing a post about the book... But don't worry, mine is coming! As is the post on what's keeping me this busy!

- went to the doctor again for Joshua. This time because he keep coughing. I'm not worried easily, but this didn't sound good at all... It's a very raspy cough and at times he couldn't stop couching almost to the point he would throw op or get no air.
But the acting doctor told us that the rasping was good. It's a sign he can get rid of all the mucus. If he got a fever or is he started to squeak we should call again...

- did all the parent-teacher talks myself, since my duo called in sick. She wanted to come, but I thought she was being too optimisting and it turned out she was.

- started crocheting again. I put my needles away, because I was too busy doing other stuff. I'm about half way through crocheting an owlhat for Andries, but I'm a bit affraid it's too big.

Today we (Andries and I) celebrated our 60th birthday. Andries turned 31 January 29th and I turned 29 Februari 1st. We had lots of people over and got some great gifts!

The rest of my week was more of the same old stuff.

Coming week I'm reeeeaaally busy with some fun stuff...!

Love,

Caroline

PS No pictures right now, maybe I'll add them later...

No Sunday Recap

Sorry, no Sunday Recap this week, but I'll try to do a double one next Sunday...
I'm also planning on doing a blogpost just about "Groen Doen" and one about all the cool stuff I'm working on...!

So bare with me please!

Love,

Caroline

ScrubSalts

I'm in love with Rituals products... But they're soooooo expensive.... And not organic... I also love scrubsalt and my Rituals jar was empty... :-(((

So I googled a bit, and found out, you can easily make you own scrubsalt.

I recycled the jar and made my own.
I bought a kilogram rocksalt (about €0,70) at our organic supermarket and mixd it with some almond bodyoil I had laying around. It was too fatty and the salt was too coarse, but it worked...

This week, my jar was empty again, so I made another batch of scrubsalt and it turned out soooooo much better this time....

Here's my "recipe":
- Pour your rocksalt in the blender and pulse it a couple of times.
Leave it alone, so the cloud of salt can settle down.
(You could probably use Celtic-rocksalt, which seems a little flakey-er. I'm trying that, when this bag af salt is empty.)

- Put two 100ml scoops in a jar or bowl and mix it with 60ml Natusan Babyoil, to get the right consistancy and "fattiness".

It turned out great this time! Blending it made the salt a little less rough on my skin, and since the grains are smaller, they dissolve a bit more in the water.

On the internet it said you could use Olive-oil of Sunflower-oil and a couple of drops essential oil, but since I had the Natusan (which I don't really use for Joshua), I used that (And it smells reaaaaally good!)


You should really try it!

This is all for now..

Love,

Caroline