Happy Birthday Discount

It's my mans' birthday this saturday, that's why it's time to PARTY!! From today until sunday the 13th there will be a 15% discount in my shop. So if your mother needs a good spoiling, if your best friend needs some cheering up or if you deserve a little something-something, go over to the Color 'n Cream Shop and benefit from this opportunity!

The CouponCode is: HBDAY

And if you spent over 25 USD you will get the first Color 'n Cream Postcard for free!

Have a festive day!

Update

Been busy busy on the crochet front. About a 100 projects at the same time. Should try to finish more before I start something new (haven't I said that before???)... But after all my Pastel Action of the last few weeks I was in need of a die hard color fix and decided to start a Color Bomb project right away. How you like my choice of colors?

I love this old pattern. I used it on a few of my earlier blankets and with this one I would still have been going on if there weren't so much 'time suckers', like kids, moving, cooking, cleaning, constantly working through piles of laundry (they never seem to shrink, do they?) and wanting to spend some quality time with the man of the house. Pfjeww, I always wonder where I find the time to sleep...

But I must say, I have a great man and kids for support. We had our first family meeting last sunday, since our kids are now 4 and almost 8 I thought it was time to make some change around here. I told them how my blog and shop are making me busier and busier and how I thought it was no longer fair for me to clean up after everybody else, since they all have their responsibilities. They promised to make an effort and next sunday we will evaluate... Exciting right??

Anywho, I'm also working on a new flower square. I know, I know, my latest pattern still needs to be turned into a tutorial (almost done!) and I will try to make it as quick as I can. But you know me, I like to stay in action, and sometimes one needs to create, or design, or just crochet instead of making a 1000 pic's and writing down instructions. It will be in my shop soon, I promise!!

That's it for me today. Have a wonderful wednesday!

Moving And A Give-Away

So, please excuse me for my absence yesterday... I had a busy weekend and monday. As I told you, the little one was sick. She kept being sick until yesterday afternoon, so I had my hands kinda full... But that didn't keep me from either crochet or coming up with rather tiring projects like moving our bedroom to the attic and my craft room to our 'old' bedroom on the second floor.

I always tend to get these ideas on the most inconvenient moments, like when one of the kids is sick and my man is about to go kite surfing in 2 hours. But since we're both quite impulsive, we did it right away!! And after running the stairs about a zillion times, it was done... Well, the bedroom was done. My craft room was still a raving mess.

That's what I did yesterday. Tidying up and decorating my new room. Ohhhh, how I love to do that. And even though it's far from done (I still need to paint the walls, hang the new roller blinds, getting lots of new accessories,  hanging 'art' on the wall) I feel at home here in my new place and don't understand why I didn't think of this sooner...

 

O, well, I'm here now and enjoying this new opportunity to do something else than crochet all day for a change. I went to the thrift store right away and bought some beautiful stuff, that needs to be painted before I show you.

These are some of the results of my decorating. I'm having so much fun with all my stuff. What color would you paint the walls?? I'm not sure yet. Plan to go color shopping today...

But, It's april by now and time for a Give-Away. I have a funny one this month. It's a crochet book on amigurumi's (we all know how much I love them...) and hats & scarfs. I got it when living in Thailand, but am not the amigurumi type. It's with instructions and charts. If you want to enter, make sure it is possible for me to contact you!!! If you're not really interested, please don't enter. The winner will be announced on monday the 14th.

Wow, had a lot to share with you today. Hope I made up for yesterday. 

Have a haily day (I am and I love it. And I loved all the rain on the roof all night long too, in my new attic bedroom...)!!

Flower Coaster Tutorial II

I've been working on it for a while, but it's done now! The Flower Coaster II Tutorial. It's in my shop as of today. You can find it here. Go over and have a look!

It's of the same quality as my previous tutorial, the Flower Coaster I and has a little addition. I've included photo's on the finishing of. You will be able to finish of like I do; without visual beginning or end.

My little one came home sick the yesterday. She has an ear infection and both didn't get a lot of sleep last night... I think we'll spend the day watching cartoons or Disney Classics on the couch. With my hook and yarn ready off course... 

Have a happy weekend!

Flower Square Tutorial Upgrade

Hi everyone. Just a very short update. I've upgraded my Flower Square Tutorial II. Go over and take a look.  You will also find the brands and numbers of this color combination...

Some of you ask me for PDF versions of my tutorials. This one will be in my Etsy shop shortly.

Enjoy!!