Look at these curious little lady's!

Today I want to share a fun project with you.
But first I have to tell that my family always is laughing at me because of a strange habit. When I see a box with a nice shape I always want to save it instead of trowing it away. So you can imagine that my house is full of boxes in all sizes. Lately I saw this little box and I thought: I can make a lovely little present of it by using the shape. It is very easy to do. No need to buy expensive books or download patterns.
You only need a box, a scrap of paper and scissors and glue. Lay the shape down on a piece of paper as you see here below. Draw a line around it and cut it out. After that, glue it together as the original box was.

The final thing is, to add some embellishments as you like. I used the little bees of a stamp set by Hero Arts. It is called: "Be Happy". ( CL377) I also added a little tag, made with my cricut.

This is the inside of the little box. I can insert a little present of some candy.

Thanks for looking. Hope you liked it. Be sure to be back next week for another fun project

Berries and Bees
I like to show you some beauty's of nature.
Love the colors of these berries.




So fun to see how these bees come out of the flowers.
Wish you could smell the flowers. It's a very heavy sweet and spicy smell.
And they have so much tones of pink.

Utrecht
Recently we went to Utrecht, to buy school supplies for our children. What you see here is the "Dom" tower. You can climb in top of it, but I choose to see it this way. Made this photo at the roof of V&D. Of course, we ate some ice cream! I choose a "snickers" flavour. Didn't know it , but this is super yummy!!! They have a lot of pigeons out there flying around. One of them hit Caspers ice cream with his wings. We were speachless for a moment....

Later on we ate a pancake, down the street at the side of a canal. And just above my head I saw this. ( You can see a bike at street level, in the upper left corner of the photo)

It seems to me there are some nons singing with an organ. Although I've been there before I never saw it. I like it. At the left side of the terrace was the water of the canal and a cruise boat just went by.

We had a lovely day!!!!

I saw this grasshopper when we went for a walk in our little forest, this afternoon. Lucky me, I had my camera with me! I don't see a grasshopper of this size quite often, so I went on my knees to make a photo. Miraculous creature, isn't it?!!!

I want to share another memory of our vacation in France. Along the cost of the Vendee you find lovely white houses with blue windowshutters. They not use one kind of blue, but you can find a lot of different kinds of bluetones. Poolblue, lavenderblue, skyblue, greyblue, .......A lot of the houses have hollyhocks in their gardens. Super beautiful. I tried it several times in our own garden but didn't succeed. I think because we don't have enough sun and warmth. So, I tried to make a card wich expresses my adoration of what I saw. It is not a piece of art, but it has something sweet.
And here is a photo to explain what I meant with the white houses and the blue windowshutters.

While we were in the Vendee we visited "Bourinne du Bois Juquaud". A lovely farm of former days. They say : "..it is a reminder of what was life like in the Vendee Breton Marshes during the early part of the 20th century". It now is used as a kind of museum. You can get an idea of how people lived then.

Made this little card while we were in France. The background is a leftover of a former project. I took some of those scraps with me on vacation. The stamp is by Hero Arts. I got it just before we left home, and I want to use it of course. I colored it with Derwent Color Soft Pencils. This is a photo of a evening walk along the borders of "Lac du Gue Gorand" .The light was so beautiful. You can't see it on this photo unfortunately. But it was an inspiration, thats for sure!