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NieNie Dialoques

I'm saving a new mom-story for tomorrow, because today I want to dedicate this day to an incredible strong Mom ...at least once a week I make a stop on the internet to visit the astounding story and life of Nie ... Stephanie Aurora Clark Nielson, who a little over one year ago returned from an almost fatal plane crash ...

Stephanie, a mom of four and wife to Mr. Nielson writes her journal with so much love and is a great example for me ... her life brings it all in perspective for me, Thank You Stephanie and here's to another year of great recovery for you! ..irene..

..Nie Dialoques..

#368 Linea Carta

...everything from Linea Carta is very welcome in our home :) .... i love everything i see on the website, the colors, materials and illustrations are just perfect to me ... in 2007 Diva Pyari designed her first collection of paper goods and since then is bringing new forms of craft :: painting, printing, jewelry-making, clothing design, graphic design, calligraphy... her latest new linen collection is made together with the talented Gina Pericini of Flock Home. And all of the prettiest photos here are by the amazing Marc Virata.
 

..Linea Carta..     ..Linea Carta blog..    ..Linea Carta shop..

#367 Alyson Beaton

Via Notes, Fawn&Forest's blog I discovered the amazing 'baby's first words letterpressed cards' by Alyson Beaton design ... the card help you to record your child's first words in a very unique way ... once recorded you can either store them in the beautiful box that comes with it or use the cards as wall-decoration!

When I searched the internet a bit more for Alyson Beaton, I ran into her website and a new project she recently started with KJ Bradley :: Grow-Book ... fantastic initiative about saving the environment and teaching your children with the help of this book ...

..baby's first words letterpressed cards..

..Alyson Beaton design..

..Grow Book..

win a beautiful wall decal set from Lola&Ben

What can you win :: a lovely and artistic Children of the World’ New Zealand made fabric wall decals which are exclusive to Lola & Ben, based on hand painted originals, these re-positionable wall decals are beautiful and reflect the differing cultures across the world…a great talking point, celebrate diversity with your children...

What do you have to do :: sign up for Lola&Ben's newsletter and leave a comment right below

Winner will be announced :: Wednesday September 2 and notified by email.

Trina, the lovely women behind Lola&Ben would also like to offer you FREE postage on all September orders to the US/Canada over $70 NZD and all orders over $250 (NZD) are posted for FREE worldwide.

Last weeks winner from the fabulous Trifle package is :: Bree Adams!

..Lola & Ben..

#366 making dollhouses

scrolling to one of new favorite blogs this morning, sweet sweet life from Amy and there I saw this great dollhouse Amy made with her kids using these instructions from Cookie Magazine. Amy couldn't have found better dolls for the house ... Charlie and Lola always make me laugh ... it's going to be a busy weekend for us, making handcarved stamps, making dollhouses :) nahhh won't be able to make it all, but I love showing these carft ideas with you! Thanks Amy.

..sweet sweet life..

#365 Birds from Geninne

An ABC of Birds and sooooo beautiful, I love to see how Yvonne framed it, but more important to finally discover the fantastic work and art blog from the fabulous artist Geninne (where have I been???) Via the Style-files I found Geninne's hand-carved-stamp-tutorial which I think you dear readers might like to see too right here ... it looks so easy, the way she explains it and what the result looks like, I definitely have to give it a try too.

..Geninne's shop..

..Geninne's blog..

Fede's Open House

Brittni has sent over another beautiful Open House Tour for us. This week she invited Fiona from Fede, a former interior designer who started creating the most funky and lovely baby rattles after giving birth to two children herself.  As a mid-century furniture lover this Open House tour truly gave me some nice inspiration and I enjoyed reading Fiona's answers very much ... and I hope you do too, please click here to see the whole Tour....thanks Brittni and Fiona!

my giveaway on Soulemama

Hola! Did you enjoy your weekend? We did! Yesterday was also a bit exciting for me, the lovely Amanda for Soulemama featured a giveaway from me ... a handmade baby set and yes, knitted by me! I have been a sponsor of Soulemama during the last month and it's super fun for me to see so many new readers, so a big welcome to all of you who have found me via Soulemama ... if you haven't entered the contest yet, you can still do....

Dog Blue

Unfortunately the internet connection was really bad again yesterday, so the promised book review comes a bit later, but better late than never...a new book-review by me about a little boy looking for a dog ...but not your average dog, no a Blue Dog ... a new favorite in our home I can tell you, maybe having a new puppy ourselves makes it even more special :) ... please click here for the review

..the book is available right here..

..Dog Blue by Polly Dunbar..

Wish you a lovely weekend and hope to see you back on Monday with a wonderful new Open House.

some things...

Okay, I think we all agree that this week's giveaway is sooooo nice, but what makes these giveaways very nice for me as well is that I discover so many wonderful blogs, online shops via your comments ... of course it's impossible for me to show you all, but today I made a small selection of the things I enjoyed when visiting your links ...

 

...clips, magnets, hair-accessories and quilts over at auburn studios and blogging at mr.monkeysuit...

 

I loved scrolling throught this blog, Giant Peach Industries where I found this cool doll-house ...

...lovely handmade blankets from AbleMable

Of course there is so much more to show from other artisits and bloggers, so I will continue this post sometime next week and tomorrow I will end this week with a new book review, see you tomorrow!

Win a girl's package worth 796!

OMG ... yes that is what I thought when Louise from Trifle told me about the PRICE she would like to GiveAway to one of you my dear readers ... a little girls favorites pack… filled with gorgeous things for girls 3-7 (ish) ... with an VALUE of $796.- AUD ... wow, for you who are parent of a boy, please enter anyway ... you might win and what is nicer than be able to giveaway again yourselves!

What can you win :: a little girls favorites pack from Trifle, including items *from minimink :: a faux fur blanket - in colour milk *from Li'l Ludy :: a girls swimsuit of winners choice :: *from Yunginz :: winners choice of 2X pairs of girls summer styles :: *from Little Bubble and tree :: a little treasure birdie dance necklace :: *from Let Them Eat Cake :: T Shirt :: *from Little Lotti :: a Jane twirl skirt :: *from Flirty Bird :: winners choice of merchandise to the value of $50 AUD :: *from Elephantberry :: a Starlett dress (choice of colour and size) :: *from RBB :: a reversible dress, empire tee shirt and shrug (size 4T-5T) for the giveaway :: *from Holly Chic :: a Moon Mum wall art :: *from Petit :: a Lace Icing with Sprinkles leggings – coco / size 4 as well as matching headband ...

What do you have to do :: sign up for Trifle's newsletter right here and leave a comment about your favorite designer from Trifle ...

Winner will be announced :: Wednesday August 26 and notified by email.

Last weeks winner from the Mae giveaway is :: Susie Trinh

..Trifle..     ..Trifle Notebook..

Lode's room

{Lode's room, do you love the Ida Pearle alphabet cards just as much as I do?} A big Thank you to Holly from Decor8 for inviting me to show you my favorite things in our home ... making the images made me realise that it is probably fun if I show you some more images of our children's rooms too...so i will do my best and make some more images next week and give you a mini tour of Lode and Kiet's room...here just one preview ...

Mom story :: Louise from Trifle

       Sorry for not showing you any posts yesterday...my sister and her wonderful family are still here (they live in the for me very far away UK) and we spent our last vacation day together here in KL ....arghhh saying goodbye is always soooo hard...but here i'm again with a wonderful new Mom-Story from an incredibly hard working mom and woman, who not only raises three children, she also runs several fantastic blogs and yesterday opened a her new online shop ... Trifle

In the Trifle shop you will find 60 designers hand picked from around the world, like Seesawclothing who make these super-nice organic hoodies, definitely one of my favorites! Congratulations Lou the shop looks really nice ... would you like to read a little more about Lou and her life in New Zealand please click here for the full Mom-Story from Louise ...

Louise's websites :: Skout Trade Fair :: Skout Blog :: KPD:: Trifle

#363 Fidoodle

The last two days I have been working on a small interview for the lovely Holly from Decor8, she invited me to share five of my favorite things in our home on Decor8 next week ... and one of these things are the fantastic handmade wooden puzzles from Fidoodle ... I was so lucky that Jen sent me some as a gift when Kiet was born and I have displayed them downstairs in our livingroom because I think they are soooo beautiful and make the best gift for a baby, a child or a grownup ....

Wish you a lovely weekend and hope to see you again next week...lot's of nice posts I promise you! irene xx

..Fidoodle..

..Fidoodle online shop..

Fabric wallstickers for you to win today

These Give-aways are so much fun for me to organize and it gives me a lot of pleasure to know that every week somebody gets something very beautiful like the fantastic artwork from last week and this week you can win a set of the gorgeous FABRIC wall stickers from mae. This Australian based company came with the brilliant idea to make wall stickers from fabric to add some extra warm and cozy feel to the walls ...

What can you win :: a set of the lovely Forest Critters, girl or boy version...
What you have to do to win :: just answer this question in a comment below, which season dress up dolls would you pick and why?

Winner will be announced :: Wednesday August 19 and notified by email.

Peta, the lovely founder from Mae also would like to offer a 10% discount to anyone who mentions BloesemKids when purchasing a set of the completely reusable fabric wall-stickers.

Last weeks winner from the kindergallery giveaway is :: Carmen Rigby

..Mae..            ..Mae online shop..          ..Mae stickers also available here..