no minis but great fun

I've been working on a stuffed car for my favourite neighbourchild Bas. It's his parents car and he is very smart regarding cars. He knows all the brands and which neighbour rides which car.

 To my delight he recognized the car immediatly! (but maybe the photo's of his parents and him on the car gave it away, lol) He's a real model, isn't he!

 

I'm also crocheting a blanket. The size will be about 120 x 160 cm, so I have a lot of work ahead. I need to make 3 more rows like below and then attach them with a border in between.  

I found the pattern for this blanket over here: http://solgrim.blogspot.com/2009/06/sirkel-i-kvadrat.html She makes lovely items!!

Have a nice day and I'll post some mini's soon.

groetjes Evelien

a visit from Annemieke

After a lot of catching up and tea, we made these bags from a tutorial in American Miniaturist:

I also got some lovely miniatures for my house: a bed for Benz the Jack Russell and something to hang in my garden.

   Making the bags was so much fun I made another one that evening:

Thank you Annemieke for another great day!

groetjes Evelien

Gifts and decoration

Just look at this lovely present I got from my minimaking friend Annemieke for the Dutch 'Sinterklaas" celibration! She also made it as a swap that our dollhouseforum organized and at Josjes site you can read about her adventure with these tools. She also explains what Sinterklaas is about, so if you're curious....
Thank you so much Annemieke!


The decorations on the stairs I made from things I saw in magazines and advertising.
The little candles (waxinelichtjes) are sooo tiny, but very nice to make.

The doorhanger is made of wire and cottonyarn

And this couch hanger (1:1) is made of some old jeans. I made a hanger for remotecontrols and tvguides before (see http://picasaweb.google.nl/lh/photo/bcYoG_gEEns6ULHeDkCdTw?feat=directlink) and my brother liked the idea. He asked me to make him one to. Very hard to come up with something for a guy who has a really distinct tast, but luckily he liked it. I ironed his logo on it (took it from his website) to personalize it.

So that was all I could finally show you, hope you liked it!

groetjes Evelien

Finally

Finally I can show you what I've been up to lately. There were 2 presents I wanted to make for a really dear friend and my "little" brother. (He is younger, but waaaaay taller ;) )

My friend had a really darling birdcage she wanted to fill with miniatures. I thought it would make a nice birthdaygift, so started working on it. I worked on it untill I really had to leave to go and see her, so the quality of the photo's is bad..but I hope you can still see how it turned out.



Overall view with lots of light, darn flashlight lol

2 pigeons in the top part of the cage, I bought them in Rijswijk on a fair.


Corner with a little water ornament. In the bucket is a water lily and a goldfish (also bought in Rijswijk)


On the table her favourite cookmagazine, tea and a little candle.


There are tulips, lavender and a few plants in there. The fabric for the chair and the tablecloth are a gift from her to me, and she recognized it immediatly. I like these little surprises in gifts!

I hope to make some good pictures soon, but I couldn't wait any longer showing you this...

groetjes Evelien