Howling at the Moon

In the last four weeks I made another mochila, an order from my colleague. It's my fifth mochila and I'm a bit full of it. So I guess this will be the last mochila you will see from my hand for quite a while. www.betweennapsontheporch.net ~*~ My Cat Mochila is featured by  Creative Crochet Workshop !! Thanks, Joan ita!!  

After making the Boot Belts, I had some beads left and I used them for making bracelets.  www.betweennapsontheporch.net   ~*~   My Bir thda y C ake was featured this week by Scrapality , by Sew Can Do and by Crea tiv e Croche t Workshop !  Thanks, An drea, Cheryl and Joanita!   

Boatneck Striped Top by King Louie

As I promised you a while ago, here are the pictures of the mochila I made for my daughter, for her birthday.  www.betweennapsontheporch.net ~*~ My Confetti Invitations were featured by Sarah Celebrates ! Thank you so much, Sarah!

This week we celebrated my daughter's birthday and after making a couple of things in the last weeks, the party slowly got some sort of theme, namely Fruit. It started with the Confetti Cards , that had a sort of fruity colors.    www.betweennapsontheporch.net Then I made the garland in colors of tropical fruit and I think it was then that I thought fruit could be the theme.  I had found plastic fruit pendants a while ago, that I absolutely didn't know what to do with, but just bought because I had to have them. Now I could use them to make a chain for decoration. On Pinterest I saw this pattern for crocheted little pineapples that I couldn't resist. And I even found the cutest little pineapple cocktail picks, that I used to decorate a Texas Tornado Cake (I made a version with pineapple). ~*~ This week my Black Mochila was featured by Oombawka Design and by Creative Crochet Workshop ! Thank you, Rhondda and Joanita!

Popcorn Bikini by Banned

In just a couple of days it's my daughter's birthday. She will become nine and at this age, your birthday is A Thing. So we're counting down for weeks, not to say months now. I already made cards, a bag and a garland, and today I made a little cake. Just for fun.  www.betweennapsontheporch.net

It's been raining for about, well, almost all summer now, so since it looks like fall around here, I thought I could just as well take out my old boots. To give them a little make over, I made some boot belts. www.betweennapsontheporch.net ~*~   My Tropical Flower Garland was featured by City of Creative Dreams an d My Husband H as T oo Man y Hobbies !   Tha nk you!! My Confetti Birthday Cards were featured by Pieced Pastimes ! Thank you so much, Suzanne!

Elizabeth Dress Moth by Pinup Couture

Since making my first mochila, I got a taste for it, so I made another one. No pattern required for this one, just for the bottom , so it was finished in just a couple of days.   www.betweennapsontheporch.net One of my colleagues asked to make one for her, too. She chose a pattern and colors and I made a start a week ago.

My daughters still have summer holidays and although we have returned from our holiday destination a couple of days ago, we  will not sit at home for the rest of the holidays of course. Aside from the usual stuff like going to the movies, to the playground and to the zoo, we are going to a museum now and then.  Today we went to the Zaanse Schans. It's not really a museum, it's an outdoor area where you can find a couple of windmills and a lot of typical Dutch things (mostly old school Dutch things; nobody's walking around in folkloric costumes nowadays, other than for entertaining tourists). There's cheese, cloggs, tulips, cows and of course windmills. Some of the houses in the area are inhabited. Must be something you have to be into, I guess, having tourists walking around and over your property the whole day through. Of course I took some pictures: Entrance to a candy store and bakery The green paint on the outside of the houses is typi