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Craft project: 3D confetti

Are you loving paper, dots, graphics as much as I do ... then start making 3D confetti like Véronique from Pichouline did. She wrote down the steps for us and made very clear pictures that will also help your children to understand exactly what to do.

I would use let my boys choose their favorite colors and once finished hang the confetti confetti dots on their bedroom wall or use them as garlands for a party!

Follow this link to the tutorial how to make 3Dwall confetti...

 

.. 3D Wall Confetti

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Welcome Colette!

You might wonder why I haven't shared any craft projects with you lately .. well my friend and wonderful contributor Véronique Senorans Osorio from online shop Pichouline just gave birth to her third child ... baby Colette was born last month and I would like to Welcome her with lot's of love to this world and wishing her all things fabulous for her life.

Colette is very lucky to have such an amazing and sweet mom (and dad of course) who has created the most beautiful and awesome birth announcement AND gifts you can imagine.

A giraffe themed package arrived in my mailbox ... a little box with a wallet and key hanger, a cute little giraffe, some delicious golden wrapped chocolate all packed in a small linen bag and last but not least the letter-pressed card with golden sides.

Just perfect! Thank you my dear Véronique and we all hope you will be back soon with a craft project for us!

All images by me, Irene Hoofs.

The card was printed by Tiny Risselada from Letterpers

Véronique on pinterest
Pichouline

 

We made Easter Butterflies...

Lovely readers I hope you have had a very beautiful Easter weekend ... egg hunting games fun with the kids? In the Netherlands we actually have a Second Easter Day, any other countries too?? ... but in any case it helps me today with not being too late to share with you some Easter buns we made last week.

While Ruth (our nanny) was kind enough to make the dough for us, Kiet and I did some shaping and decorating... and as you can see the result wasn't too bad.

I used MerMag's lovely free downloadable stickers!

TimeCapsules

Often the idea of creating a memory box came to my mind, because there just aren't many nice ones and I love keeping little notes, things and memorabilia  ... but never ever could I have created a 'box' this beautiful ... the word memory box doesn't even do justice ... TimeCapsule is much more appropriate and sounds so much nicer, intriguing and exciting.

I LOVE TimeCapsules.

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Four years old and counting!

Crazy busy lately... moving house ( tell you more about that later this week), a new school for the boys (always good for exciting times) and my baby boy turns 4 today! ... even more excitement in the house!

I am so very thankful for this little guy in our life. He is a happy, pleasant, naughty, funny and just a very sweet boy. I am also very proud of him and his brother for cooping so well with this move to a new country and going to a new school, sleeping in a new bedroom and all the chaos that comes with moving house.

Normally I like to make things myself to decorate the cupcakes, but this year there just wasn't any time. So I was very happy when I found the beautiful meri meri products in a shop here in Singapore yesterday.

I bought the Brave Knights kit and that was a very smart move of me... Kiet LOVED it and I think the kids in his class too .. or were it the delicious cupcakes :)

We celebrated early this morning at the breakfast table singing songs for our little boy and gave him his presents. A puzzle from djeco and cowboy playmobil. Both brought happy smiles to his face... and ours :) ~ irene xoxo

 

photo-credit: all images by Irene from Bloesem

HomemadeHappiness for Lode

Two weeks ago I was preparing Lode's Birthday party. Together with his best friend Matthew he invited 20 of his friends to celebrate both their Birthdays at our home. In a Flow magazine (magazine from the Netherlands that i really LOVE) I had found this poster with 'Donkey and the tail' game, illustrated by Caroline Ellerbeck from HomeMadeHappiness, which I kept to use as one of the many games Lode wanted to do with his friends. To be honest I like keeping Birthday parties for the kids a bit low-key and very important with a homy feel... the excitement of having all their friends over is already causing sleepless nights ... :)

So just like last year we decided to play old-fashioned games like musical-statues, watergames, eating the Birthday cake and end the wonderful morning with cracking down a Pinata..... read more>>