Our daily pick of delicous fruit from our garden

Is there a better feeling

than eating something you've grown

and made yourself ?

Miss Amy enjoying the sunhine

It was really hot today,

almost too hot to be ouside in de garden,

but our Miss Amy loves sunbathing .

'Come and join me', she seems to be saying.

No darling , it's too warm,

let's go into the shade and enjoy the beautiful weather.

our strawberries

I can hardly believe how beautiful

our strawberries look this year,

not to mention how delicous they are !

crocheting outside in the wonderful sunshine

Wishing you all a great week,

with lots of creative inpiration.

I am having a good time ,

crocheting outside in the wonderful sunshine,

adding lots of flowers to my Etsy shop

sunshine

Did you enjoy the sunshine today ?
Our Miss Amy did :)

flowers today

“Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today;

And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest;

keep us here

All simply in the springing of the year.”
Robert Frost

It's Spring alright !

Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring!

William Wordsworth

Spring flowers

These soft pastel colours give me a real spring feeling.

I have been making lots and lots of flowers lately

and they are all in my Shop .

It's so lovely to make different color combinations

and I love designing new patters .

Whising you all a wonderful week !

whising you all a sunny Easter !

I crocheted some sunshine for you all.

Happy Easter weekend !

flower power

I am having so much fun,

working for my new Shop !

You are very welome to have a look !

Whishing you all a great weekend.

new Etsy shop trudette4crochet

What have I been doing a lot of lately ?
Can you guess ?
Yes , that's right, I have been doing a lot of crochet.
In fact I am happy to tell you that I have openend a second Etsy shop,

for all the crocheted items I designed and created in the last few months.

You are very welcome to visit my

new shop ,

hope you like it.

longing for some sunshine

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly

and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

Lesley Garrett

Valentine

How about putting this little messenger somewhere

to surprise someone you love .

Happy Valentine

xxx

trudette

the sun shined

I have done lots fo crocheting lately,

but it was too dark to take decent photographs.

Today , hooray..........the sun shined so I took lots of pictures.

One of them was of this sweet little gift bag ,

which will be for sale in my etsy shop soon.

Whishing you all a great sunny weekend !

Winter is the time for comfort

happy 2010

Whishing you all...........

the best year ever !

Merry Christmas everyone !

Miss Amy loves playing in the snow .

Our letterbox , looking very nostalgic

Thank you all so much, for visiting me,

all the support

and all lovely comments.

I really appreciate it very much.

Here's wishing you a wonderful christmas !

Lots of l ove to you all.........

Kindness is like snow

''Kindness is like snow ,

it beautifies everything it covers''

tagged for Christmas

I was tagged by Christine Burgess
to play along in this wonderful "Getting to Know You" meme.
Just check out her lovely blog!

Here are my answers to the questions asked:
1.Have you started your Christmas shopping?
Yes, but I sort of shop the whole year round :)
2.Tell me about one of your special traditions.
Can't think of one.
3. When do you put up your Tree?
I bought one yesterday , a fairly small one ,
one I can plant in the garden after Christmas.
4. Are you a Black Friday Shopper?
Oops I had to look up what it was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)
I am dutch so I am afraid we do not have this tradition .
5. Do you Travel at Christmas or Stay home?
We useally stay at home.
I love having 'a cosy stay at home' christmas,
surrounded by everything I love most.
6. What is your funniest Christmas memory?
I don't know , perhaps it's yet to come ? 7.
What is your favorite Christmas Movie of All time?
It's a Wonderful Life !


8. Do you do your own Christmas Baking, what’s your favorite treat ?
I do love to cook , and at Chistmas time I try new things every year,
so I don't really have a favourite treat.
9. Fake or Real Tree?
Defenitely real , I love the smell of a real tree.
10. What day (as a mom) does the actual panic set in to get it all done?
No panic , I plan things well ahead.
11. Are you still wrapping presents on Christmas Eve?
No , we don't do presents at Christmas, we have our good old Sinterklaas.
12. What is your favorite family fun time at Christmas?
I love the whole day, from hour to hour :)
13. What Christmas craft do you like the best?
Trying new things and making the house cosy .
14. Christmas music. Yes or No, and if yes What is your favorite song?
Hark the Herald Angels Sing!
15. When do you plan to finish all your shopping?
I have done most of my shopping ,there's only some delicous food shopping left to be done.

So, here are the 5 blogs I have tagged:

Nannieflash

Gerryart

Pink Princes

Snippers & Co

Just Be and Me

If you have been tagged it would be great if you would join in on the fun. This is what you need to do:
Just simply copy and paste the questions into your blog, and then answer them.Then tag 5 or more of your favorite blogs, and leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged.
When you post your blog, please spread some Christmas cheer, and leave a link back to this blog (Top 10 Christmas), and the blog that you were tagged by which for me was Audrey's Country Crafts.

Dag Sinterklaasje...........

Dag Sinterklaasje,

tot volgend jaar !