Felt flower tutorial

After getting Sietse a tie, I needed to make something for Elke too. I wanted to make her a little flower. First I thought about making one out of the leftover pieces of Sietse's tie. But when looking for ideas on Pinterest, I found a really good tutorial on making felt flowers. Here is my version!

This is the end result

Take some small pieces of felt

Cut rectangles. Mine were about 12cm by 2,5cm. But you can make any size of course.

Iron them flat, then fold and press again.

Use some hot glue to stick the long ends together.

All glued!

I cut the pieces to make two flowers.

 

Use your scissors to make small cuts, make sure you cut towards the  glued side and not all the way to the end.

Then use hot glue to roll up the pieces. Start with the shortest piece of felt.

Keep glueing and rolling until you get to the end. Fasten the end with some glue.

It should look like this.

Press down to make it look like a flower. 

Elke loves it!

Knitting progress

The first bit of the second rainbow is finished. Slow but steady progress.

I spend the rest of the time playing with Sietse

Having lunch in the park

Boy's tie

Martijn's brother is getting married next month. The dressing code is "a touch of purple". Sietse is the ring bearer, so he needs to be properly dressed.  I looked for a little boy's tie in purple. But I could only find them in blue an red. But then I found a tutorial on Pinterest. It worked perfectly.

MM: Sun!

We spend our week in the garden and camping. In the sunshine, in the water, in the sand.

Drinking our morning tea and coffee outside

"I like sitting outside, a lot!"

Potty training

"There is still some water in there mum!"

"Where did it go?"

Ready for lunch in the sun

And Elke started smiling. Smiling all the time. Well, at least when she is not sleeping ;).

Out camping for the first time

Looking after our camera, good girl!

And for Mirror Monday. Here are we again. This is how you see me walk through the house, most of the time ;).

50

Yet another colleague of mine is turning 50 this week. So I made another 50-badge :). They are fun and easy to make. You just need some scrap felt and some left over ribbon. 

I decorated the card with some felt flags. Again: easy yet nice! The badge is attached using a safety pin. My colleague can use the pin to wear the badge all day, just in case she forgot how old she is :D.

People ask me: how do you do it? How do you get things done with a baby and toddler around. The answer is simple: toddler at day care (hooray for maternity leave!) and baby in a wrap! Everybody is happy that way. Elke has the best and deepest sleep in the wrap and I treasure our moments together.

Elke - one month old

Sietse - one month old

What do you think? Do Elke and Sietse look alike?

Here are two pictures. The first of Elke, the second of Sietse. Taken around the same time. I can't see much resemblance. You?

On the needles

Fixing some pants

I had a pair of pants for Sietse that had holes on the knees. Time for a repair. I used this idea to add some kneepads to the pants. This way they should last until Sietse grows out of this size. Easy peasy, and perfect pants to wear to day care. Especially since we are trying to get Sietse potty trained. So dry pants are needed in abundance. 

This is what our clothes line looked like this weekend. I'm glad I stocked up on underwear a while ago. We seem to be going through quite a few a day at the moment.