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DIY crochet advent calendar 2018

Every year I try to make something nice for Christmas. I’m doing this for some time now, so I have already a little collection op DIY Christmas projects (Find my other Christmas project here). Of course I wanted to make something for 2018 too. A couple of weeks ago I saw on Instagram at Minkesthuis that she made a beautiful advent calendar. Last year she also made a real beauty, but because of my thesis I didn’t had time to make it. This year I have a little bit more time, so I decided to make an advent calendar this yeas too. I checked the yarn in my webshop Okariconcepts, if there was some nice yarn to use for the advent calendar.

DIY mothersday gift

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A few weeks ago I was at the #letsmeetlunch, organised by Joandi Loes from Hemelryk. We did a great workshop, given by Sanne (lille.hus on Instagram), on wich we made a living Eco system with small plants in a big Mason jar. When I drove home, I was already thinking about how I can make a great mothersday gift out of this.

Finally graduated for the Master in Controlling

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Na heel veel jaren studeren ben ik afgelopen vrijdag eindelijk afgestudeerd voor de Master of Science in Controlling op Nyenrode Business universiteit, op het onderwerp “ERP bij MKB – een oplossing om de kwaliteit van informatie te verhogen?”
Het schrijven van de scriptie was niet echt mijn ding om het zachtjes uit te drukken, maar het is me uiteindelijk gelukt. En nu dus gewoon klaar, ik kan het bijna nog niet geloven. De studie heeft toch best veel tijd gekost, onder andere door de vele pauzes tussendoor.

Serena’s Art factory Curaçao

If you really want to take a nice souvenir back home and also want to visit a special place, then you should definitely visit Serena’s Art factory. When I’m travelling, I like it a lot to take different souvenirs home, and for me that’s the case with a Chichi.

DIY mini Christmas crib

After working very hard on my Master Thesis the last couple of weeks, it’s finally finished. At least for me. It’s now at my Thesis supervisor, who promises me a lot, but is not doing what he promises. It’s the first time he is reading something from my Thesis. I asked him several times to read parts. But he didn’t do that. And now the time is there, that I am probably too late to sent my Thesis to Nyenrode, because the deadline is very close.
I’m frustrated about it, because I can’t do anything about it.
Right now I need a little distraction, so I searched for a little Christmas DIY project. And it became a mini Christmas crib. I was looking for one for a while, but most of the time I found them too colorful, or too expensive.
So last week I saw a nice one on Instagram. I searched for a shop, but it was sold out everywhere.
After some more searching I found the wooden dolls, so plans for a DIY are ready. Are you in?

Crocheting a flag with a heart in it for the World record

I wrote it before in my earlier Blogpost, that I have joined the attempt the worldrecord for the Guinness book of records, to crochet the longest Flag Line of “Het Nijehuis”. In that post I put some information about this attempt and also some examples of nice flags to crochet (including the links where to find the the patterns or descriptions). It’s quite an addiction to crochet all those flags, I’m working on it almost every day. I get more and more Ideas, and searching all over the internet to find new patterns;-). It’s not only fun, I’m also learning a lot of new things about crocheting. On the facebookpage Hakenvoorwereldrecord (Sorry it’s a dutch page), I saw these super nice flags from Mary Timmer – de Croon with a heart in the middle of it. There was no pattern, so I tried to make one on my own. I search on the internet for examples of hearts and started trying. I finally succeeded with a good flag, so now I wrote the pattern down for you, so you can all start crocheting this great flag. Read further for the pattern

DIY: Pillow for in the Teepee

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It’s more than half a year ago since I wrote a blog. Time flies, I was so busy with all kind of things and all the time I had some half finished posts for the Blog waiting for me. Like the Teepee pillow for with the teepee that I made last year in october. Next to my two Blogs I also have a job as Business controller for three days in a week and also a webshop for hobbymaterials and beads. Last year I started to move some products from the old wbeshop tot the new site Cottonandcandles (edit: it’s now Okariconcepts). With the old site I had to do all the programming myself and I also didn’t liked the name anymore. That’s why I decided to go for the new site, which gives me much more opportunities, and no more programming myself. But in the end it turned out to be much more work than I thought it would be to move all the 2500 products to the new site. So for the last 4 months I was working on the site. It’s still not finished yet, but it starts to look like something. Next to the beads, I’m also selling yarn to knit or crochet, other hobbymaterials and Sewing stuff. If you want to, you can see it for yourself here You can change the language into English on top of the site, left

Christmas 2016, a couple of pictures

The year is over so fast this year, less than two weeks and it’s Christmas 2016 already. This year I don’t feel like putting too much Christmas decorations. I always try to make something for Christmas, but I’m a little tired. All the work for my masterthesis cost me a lot of energy.
So i only made a couple corners with Christmas decorations which were easy to pick from the attick or that I bought this year. I you read further you can find some pictures of the Christmas corner in our house for Christmas 2016.

A new warm blanket with pattern to knit (#DIY)

In winter I always like it to sit on the couch, watching tv and at the same time knitting or crocheting a blanket. Mostly I’m working on a couple of projects and it’s sometimes not easy to really finish a blanket. The knitting is not the problem, but after that all the loose ends need to be fixed in the blanket. And I really don’t like that. And I also want to share the blankets with you here on my blog. For now I have two plaids (with this one) finished to blog about and two blankets that need some loose-ends-work and also writing a blog about. And two new ones are on their way, which more than halfway with the knitting part. Oeps a lot of work to do then (while I first have to work on my Master Thesis to get that finished too).

DIY: make your own tipi / teepee tent

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Like a lot of little kids, my son Lars is crazy about tents. So it seems nice to make him a teepee (tipi) tent. After some search on the internet I found a couple examples. Then the search for the perfect fabric started. I knew the teepee shouldn’t be too small, because I could imagine that papa and mama need to play with Larsman in the teepee too. And a big teepee means a lot of fabric, so I wanted not to expansive fabric. And preferabel one that fits on different places in the house. And be great for a boy. Pfew, that made it difficult to find the perfect fabric.