Stitches and Thrills

After last years success Imke from LoveJohnny organised another #creasint . This is a social media celebration of Sinterklaas. About 50 creative Dutch people exchanged handmade gifts. In the weeks before nervous tweets and updates started to appear on twitter and facebook: What to make? Do I have enough time? Will she or he like what I made? The Sinterklaas celebration is on December 5th, but lot of people celebrate it with family that evening. So we opened our gifts on Friday December 6th. My "creasint" turned out to be Daan of maandagdaandag ! She gave me a wonderful hand printed teapot with a text from Where The Wild Things Are. She added some delicious herbal teas as well. And on top of that she gave me 2 fabulous handmade stamps. Can't wait to use that strawberry with my fabric paint. I'm surely very spoiled! The person I made gifts for is Marike . I made her a mobile inspired on the movie UP! (see the bottom of this page for a basic tutorial) ...

The pretty boxes of Higher Living tea looked very appealing to me in the shop De Tuinen . Of course I couldn't choose, and as they were on a special offer I decided to try a couple of flavours. For a ginger freak like me they have an awesome selection, but also for non ginger lovers they have plenty of choice. The pretty package turned out also to have a nice print on the inside. Cute, but not really necessary. However it is a challenge to reuse the boxes.  With 4 staples, a ribbon and 4 buttons I made a sweet display for postcards.