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Seen on a sunny bikeride 

Thursday fries-date with friend E. 

Preparing an order of 15 totebags, they're on their way to England right now!

A surprise visit from Mandy at work, she got me this book filled with Karl Lagerfeld quotes, and homemade banana bread, that we enjoyed in the sun 

Cute tiles over at Atelier Luna

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Every couple of weeks I have a little get-together with friend L. and we spend an afternoon of crafting (good food is in on the party as well!). I forgot about these photo's of our first adventure of this year until I started organising the photos on my laptop last weekend. We try planning what it is we'll make, and that day we planned on getting some stamping done that day. 

Making potato stamps was on my to do list, but after the results weren't as good as I had hoped for, I started working with other materials, like rope and erasers. It had been years since I last made stamps (probably the last time was in kindergarten. A long, long time ago), and I had so much fun! 

I wrapped some rope around the erasers and secured the edges on the back with thumbtacks. Not very clear to see in the photo, but you could actually see the texture better on the stamped paper. I was pretty happy with the result!

Being a big fan of all things cross patterned, I wanted to make a cross stamp. I made a cross with washi tape and cut away the part of the eraser that wasn't covered with the washi tape.

My favourite part of the afternoon was that I had this whole plan in advance, ended up experimenting, and liking those results more. A reminder that sometimes things don't go exactly the way you planned it, but that doesn't need to be a bad thing. If you know what I mean :-)

Do you like crafting alone or with a group of people? Do you like planning ahead, or are you more of a fan of just starting and seeing how things will work out? L. also did a stamp themed post, and that's over here.

The one with two threes

Of the things I don't like, celebrating my own birthday is somewhere at the top of the list (not quite sure which one is the winner, but top contenders for the coveted number one spot are definitely my own birthday, getting up early, spiders, and winter). I do have mixed feelings about my b'day: on the one hand, I am grateful to be in good health and being able to add another year. On the other hand, I always feel that the year went by too quickly and I could have accomplished more. And 33... Does that sound old or what?

The day started with a morning walk combined with some grocery shopping (cheese! prosecco! pie!). I almost never buy flowers for myself, but I think I did deserve some on my birthday. So I treated myself to ranunculus, my favourite kind of flowers, next to peonies. I had some friends over during the day, and in the evening we had a snack food type of dinner.

Besides birthdays and spiders, I'm also not a big fan of having my picture taken. I did discover I made an accidental selfie though  :-)

How do you feel when it comes to celebrating your own birthday?

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(finally) got some DIY-ing done!

 Can't wait for the temperatures to rise and eating lots of fresh fruits

 Mandy's birthday is the day after mine, and we always celebrate with a pre-birthday dinner

 with hot cocoa for dessert

  This post should be renamed to 'the food I liked this week', I celebrated Easter with lots of chocolate

I received this awesome card from Diane last week

The one with (more) doors

As you might know, I have a thing for doors. When taking little walks across town, I am always on the look out for pretty ones. I haven't done any door-post so far this year (I did a couple of them last year, here and here), so I think a post dedicated to the beautiful ones found is in order. Hope you'll love them as much as I do! 

Do you see the hands?

 

The above door is a winner, except for the hands, it has one more little surprise. I have seen quite the amount of door knockers, but I have never seen one that is shaped like a cow!

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New York is at the top of the list of places I want to visit. Until that trip becomes reality, I'll swoon over these photo's of New York

Random acts of kindness, my fave are the guerrilla gardeners

This guys Instagram account

I would love to see the Iris Apfel documentary, here's the trailer

This is what a five month hike looks like

I want this pasta for dinner

and this vegan blueberry, lemon & almond cake for dessert

Mo-bee ;-)

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This print is the best 

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Took a walk with mom last friday to an old factory, on our way we came across this

And this. More about our 'adventure' next week

Makes me want to bake something

Lots and lots of eggs

 Getting supplies for a new DIY-project

 Don't these look lovely?

My hometown's soccer club won their match last friday, and by that, made it back to our countries top division again. Even the church was in on the celebration.

Hope you're having a wonderful Easter, enjoy the rest of the weekend!

The one with pretty DaWanda picks (and there's a little sale going on!)

Triangle necklace from Pikfine

Across the canal print by Laura Amiss

Grapefruit trivet by Funny Knitting

 Breakfast board by Wide Eyed

Bangle by Stories to Wear

Some of these shops joined the DaWanda Spring Sale. That means lots of discount on lots of goodies. The products on sale vary from day to day, but today the participating shops have a 12% discount on everything. If you feel like someone special deserves something special, head on over to DaWanda for cool presents. Or maybe you want to treat yourself?! My prints, notebooks, postcards, and bags are up for grabs over here.

The one with some tunes for your monday

Some tunes I've been listening to lately, hope you'll enjoy them too!

Hollow Wood - Seasons

Misterwives - Our own house

Mika - Talk about you

Churches - Cry me a river

Selah Sue - the Light

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Street art

A whole family of chocolate bunnies

Spring in a vase

Most of the time I don´t really dig modern architecture, but this is pretty cool

 Someone hasn´t found the on-switch yet, lots of rain this week.

But I do like this sign!

This cutie of a car

Hope you had a great week, and are having a fantastic weekend so far!