Sailboat cardigan!

Another cardigan finished for my grandson. This was so much fun to make. I knitted the cardigan from the pattern I used previously and then embroidered the sailboat by hand.
It is the last one I will be making in size - up to 6 months - and will be concentrating on the next size up.

I am off to the UK next weekend to meet the little boy in question for the first time and will be taking this with me.

This week is a blur of preparation - packing and jobs that need to be completed before the trip. I am so excited at the thought of seeing him and my daughter and cannot wait to hold him at last.

Doll's House Netherlands Show. April 2013.

I had a wonderful time at the doll's house show on Saturday. There were so many stalls to look at. It took us 2 hours to walk around and I could have gone back to some stalls twice but we could not walk another step.

My aim this time was to buy mainly dishes and anything else that caught my eye.

Many of the stall holders from October were there. My favourite stall owned by Gaby Jansen was my first stop. She has bargain baskets on her table and I managed to buy a couple of rocking horses for 1 euro each from her. Other stalls were asking 6 euros for rocking horses so I was delighted with my find. Unfortunately she does not have a website. She lives here in The Netherlands.

It was a doll's house miniature's delight and I cannot wait for the next one in October.

http://www.amanspeakminiatures.com/

http://www.becks-miniaturen.de/

http://www.tumdee-dollshouse-miniatures.co.uk/

http://www.streetsaheaddollshouse.com/

http://www.mytinyworld.co.uk/dollshouse/default.asp

Dolls House show Netherlands

It is that time of the year again. Yes! The Dolls house show is back on Saturday and Sunday, the 
  6th and 7th April.


http://www.dhnshow.com/us/us.html

The Americahal - Apeldoorn.

On:

Saturday: 6th april 2013


At: 11.00 - 18.00

Sunday:  7th april 2013

At:  10.00 - 17.00

Tickets cost:   10 euro for a day pass.
children accompanied by an adult are free.

Car park is free also.

Happy Easter!

To me - Easter is a time for reflection and a time to give thanks for all we are blessed with. If you can have chocolate too - well that's a great bonus.
When visiting our shopping centre in the town - they had set up a delightful animated display for Easter with rabbits. My favourite books as a smaller child were the Brer Rabbit stories by Enid Blyton and I would read those over and over again. I just loved how Brer rabbit managed to outwit Brer Fox and Brer Wolf every time. When My daughter was small, I would read her the same stories from my original book of 1968 - timeless.

.......and then there is ....chocolate mmmh!

Have a wonderful Easter time and take time to reflect and give thanks. God bless.

Dr Who - new series.

New series of Dr Who - Yay! Tonight at 18.15 on BBC 1.

UFO's or helicopters?

On tuesday night around 8pm, I noticed lights in the sky over the opposite houses. I grabbed my camera and stood outside and watched. They came in a formation of  2 - then 3 came behind them and then another 2. Seven in all. They were large and an orangy red in colour. They all grouped together and went off in the opposite direction. There was not a sound to be heard. I managed to capture a picture of the 3 together and one on its own.

We looked on the UFO report sight for this area of The Netherlands the next day but no-one reported seeing anything. The only other thing we noted was that they were doing a simulation of a disaster practice that night in Apeldoorn so maybe it had something to do with that? Not sure. My husband is convinced it was helicopters related with the simulation - it may have been but it was too quiet and why 7 helicopters? I would like to think it could have been UFO's - but I have a feeling my husband is right.

A room made entirely of Chocolate - heavenly!

A lounge made entirely of chocolate is on show in a shopping centre in Minsk, Belarus. The sculptor - Elena Kliment - used over 600 kg of Belgian chocolate to make all the items in the 20sq metre room. It took 2 months to prepare and 2 weeks to construct.
The room will be on display at the shopping centre till the 14th April - then some of the chocolate will be cut into small pieces and offered to the visitors.

Apparently, it is not the first room to be made in chocolate. Last year another designer in Lithuania used 660lb of chocolate to make a dining room. The room featured everything from book shelves - to artwork - to lettuce leaves and was on display for two weeks over Valentines day in Vilarus, Lithuania.

I bet the shopping centre smelt like the streets of Zutphen did at their chocolate festival last year. My idea of heaven.