Welcome Presents :)

My best friend had her baby a couple of weeks ago.

A darling little baby girl *heart*

Since she herself is a very talented seamstress plus she did already knit the cuuutest clothes for her baby girl, I planned to sew presents, which aren't clothing ;)

So I made two tiny bags for the Mum and Baby's first book for the baby girl.

Finally an excuse to buy a lot of great fabric!

For example this mushroom fabric I used for the smaller one:

and this one with the birds, white with violet birds on it,

The same fabric but "inverse" wanted to be the outer fabric for the bigger bag:



uuuh, what's in it?


A book!
One side is pink with teddy bears and flowers in it:







And the other side is blue with animals and flowers.
My favourite, I admit.

Zebra and mouse:

tiger (aaawwwww) and mouse

chick and hedgehog

and a baby seal.


And that's what it looks like when you open it:


It's mildly stuffed and you can even put it in the washing machine :)


Congrats again to your darling little daughter, dear K. !

denocte

Still alive and kicking.

Yes, I'm still there ;)

But I'm not sewing much these days.
Working and preparing for exams takes a lot of time ;)

So today I've got a nice video suggestion for you:

It's in german, I think it's also available in french.

Yesterday evening ARTE had this wonderful documentary about lingerie and dessous.
You can watch it online here:
http://videos.arte.tv/de/videos/kleine_geschichte_der_dessous-3741754.html

Enjoy!

Behold his Owliness...

...the Scandinavian owl-pants.

A very dear friend of mine has an important birthday coming up. It's his 2nd birthday, cheerio!

Since he lives in Finland with his parents I don't see him very often. Just the occasional Skype video-chat ;)

But I couldn't resist and had to sew something for him.

The really trve evil bib overall!

I used brown cord fabric and light blue jeans for the outside and really really cosy light blue flannel fabric for the lining. The pattern is from the Ottobre autumn 09 (everything fits, Scandinavian again ;) ).

After two weeks of worrying, the package somehow got lost in FIN, it arrived on the 17th and got delivered today, I finally and proudly present the cutest trousers ever. awww ;)






I like the big pockets and those seams on the knees. Looks very outdoorsy ;)


The lining (it's got leaves on it)







And look: Thanks to patchworkers' advice the crossing seams are really nicely done this time.

Merry Christmas! and the reallyreally easy christmas dress.

Merry Christmas to all my blogreaders!

I hope you all had a great time with you families.
In my family, christmas is a very important holiday. So it's also important to look nice :)
WEll, this year I kind of forgot, that I didn't really have a nice dress that would look good near a christmas tree and all the christmas cookies. So I thought I had to wear a nice pair of pants and some nice pullover.
Buuut somewhere around the 17th of december i stumblet upon this great fabric. It's just born to be a dress. Since its partly gathered/crinkled it's very elastic on this side.

So without much effort I made this very winterwonderlandy dress:







Butterfly :)


Fabric:

drumrrrroll - new clock for our livingroom

We've got a new clock!
Finally!
After two years it was about time.

We saw a really amazing clock in the "Drumhouse" Shop and decided to make one for our livingroom.

We (so to say: My BF and me, I think my BF actually did all the work, I just sat there and was nice to look at XD ) bought a clock unit and a 8" drumhead and *rrrr* <- drumroll Here it is! Our new clock :)



And of course, Isaac had to help us taking the pics:

something sweet

I just HAVE to post those pics.

On Friday a very good friend of mine threw a theme party: She and her roommate finally got a new kitchen. So the guests should wear something that remotely looks like something to eat. Or just bring food.
No need to say that I didn't want to go there just my normal self!

I thought about what to wear and then a friend and me came up with this idea: I dressed up as "something sweet". Like, you're sitting on the couch and then you think "hmmm, I need something sweet." Cupcakes, chocolate, sugar... like that.

Unfortunately I didn't think of taking pics _before_ going to the party. So, I dressed up at 6pm and came home at 2am - after standing in the street waiting for my cab for 15min.
Since it snowed a lot, my hair's all wet and my face shiny and my makeup a bit worn out, BUT still I think I look pretty cute.

So, have a look at a new me:
Princess denocte *grin*







I don't have any pics of the whole outfit, but I think you get the point.

I wore the same skirts and boots as in my "goodbye violin" outfit.

Hope you like it!

holidays.

After my first week of regular work I had a wonderful weekend with my bf and his parents in the very eastern region of Austria, Burgenland.
Very flat, very special, very beautiful.
Very good wine.





I'm busy crafting all the time, but since most of the projects are christmas presents I can't post them yet. So there'll be a lot of news in January ;)