Of birthdays and beasts

Well, I did promise I’d be back :o)

You see, I have about 120 pictures left to share with you, and now is as good a time as any to do so. Well, not on one go, obviously, because I think Mr. Blogger wouldn’t appreciate that, but you know, an update every once in a while should do the trick of making up for lost time.

Righty-oh then, let’s start with the most important day of the year in this wee little yellow house, i.e. Pelle’s birthday. That took place -- gulp -- 4 months ago.

As any crafty Mum will affirm, it is simply impossible to let such a day go by without inflicting her craftiness on her young, and so here’s what I did

I made a snake. I found the free pattern here. Well, I did the head and then made the rest up as I went along. The snakes’s name is Sniek Sneek, which, as it so happens, is pronounced in exactly the same way as Sneak Snake. For Pelle’s birthday, I also wrote Sniek Sneek’s life story (as it is quite a story), but I fear it would be lost in translation, so I won’t inflict it on you.

Even after 4 months, Pelle and Sniek are still the best of friends, I’m happy to say. That fabulous crown that Pelle is wearing in these pics was inspired by this one. The pattern is in Dutch, but the pictures are so clear that any non-Dutch-speaking idiot could follow them. And as you know, I’m not a seamstress by any stretch of the imagination, so if I can do this, so can you. Try it. Your little ones will love you for it. Well, mine did, but he’s pretty chuffed with just about anything I make for him. I indoctrinated raised him well.

Yours craftily,

Annemarie.