Potatoe stamped pots

I bought some simple (and cheap) terracotta pots and decided to decorate them myself using home made stamps. Only thing you need to do this is a potatoe (and a sharp little knife) and a bit of paint. I used acrylic based paint and a good old Dutch potatoe. Just cut the potatoe in half, then draw the shape you like to use on the potatoe and follow that shape with a knife, cutting out the shape about a quarter inch deep. Now slice the extra pieces of potatoe away from the side. It's a good idea to take a piece of kitchen towel and press your stamp on it to make sure your stamp is as dry as possible. Now pour some paint in a dish, dip the potatoe in the paint and stamp!
It's so easy!

My "project"

The potatoe stamp I used.

Lookbook Fashion Finds

My favourite Lookbook-looks of the moment:

The boots are amazing!

Love the off-shoulder top. Buttons on the back!

Nice coloured skinny jeans.

Great color combination. Love the metallic skinny.

Too cute! Lace, metallic, vintage, cardigan, updo.

Funny pose, like the black and white outfit.

Pretty girl. Gorgeous boots and muffler.

I just love this picture. And the big boyfriend cardi combined with the pretty underwear.

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Vintage Postcards

Vintage postcards can add a special touch to your walls. Especially if you put 'm in some pretty frames.
You can buy vintage postcards at your local antique store, but you can also buy them online. Websites like Etsy, Amazon and eBay are a great place to get one-of-a-kind vintage cards for bargain prices.
I personally love vintage postcards with real pictures of horses on them. Here are a few of my finds:

Morgan horse prepared for a parade

"Just a pal"

Nasik, an Arabian stallion.

Dressage

Shetland ponies.

Thoroughbred mare and foal (cardcow.com)

Woman on pretty horse (cardcow.com)

Circus Horses (cardcow.com) 

Pretty Pony (cardcow.com) 

My favourite baby; Biscuit

 Biscuit (Peppy Coosa Biscuit is his full name) was born in april, last year. He's Pride's thirth baby and her first son. He's an amazing little guy. Very kind, very patient and very very handsome. Biscuit's dad is Peppy Dun It Chex, an amazing buckskin stallion. 

Biscuit in september 2011.

Pride

Today I would like to introduce to you our amazing mare, Pride Kid (Kid Coosa x Conslsive Ciji), with her second filly Prides Big D of Faith (Pride Kid x Indian Bigstep) in 2008. Pride had 3 foals up to now, paint fillies Ayla and Faith and last year her first son, quarter Biscuit (Pride Kid x Peppy Dun It Chex), was born. She's an amazing mom and a very pretty girl. She's very patient with kids and people who are scared of horses.

Birds in the garden

If you, like me, love to read blogs from people all around the world, you start to notice that the things that are very common to you might be very special to others. I'm not only talking about cultural differences, but also about our surroundings. The way houses are build, ways of transportation and , off course, nature.
So, I thought it would be fun to show you what birds are common visitors to our garden this winter.

European Robin/Robin Red-Breast (Erithacus rubecula)
In Dutch: Roodborst

Great tit (Parus major)
In Dutch: Koolmees

Blackbird (Turdus merula)
In Dutch: Merel

Blue tit (Cyanistes caerulus)
In Dutch: Pimpelmees

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
In Dutch: Huismus

European Magpie (Pica pica)
In Dutch: Ekster

The house sparrows live in the hedges near the chicken coops (and in the swallow nests in the barn in the winter). They love chicken food, especially grains, and eat together with our chickens. The great tits (well that's an awkward name,grin) and blue tits (even more awkward I think) love peanuts and fat balls (little balls made out of fat and grains). If you want them to really like you; give these birds a big jar of peanut butter. The robins eat insects, little seeds, berries and raisins.
I love the color the tits (can't stop grinning, sorry) and robins bring to the garden.
Blackbirds like bread crumbs and fruit. They sing beautifully. Makes you happy in an instant.
Magpies are trashcans with wings. They eat whatever they find and are very curious.

Our garden is covered with a thin snow blanket at the moment and it's been freezing for over a week, so I try to help the wild birds by feeding them twice a day.

Something to make you smile

Pallet Heaven

I got totally inspired by this article on the Home Edit website . How to make amazing furniture out of (old) wooden pallets.

My favourite; the kitchen shelves. 

Pallets are made of strong wood, and used pallets can have that beautiful worn-out look that makes it unnecessary to paint them. But if you like to add some color, pallets are very easy to paint.

Lakenvelder Chickens

Our four "wicked sisters"; the lakenvelder hens. In the lower left corner you can see rooster Dirk. He's half wyandotte, half chickus-unknownus.

Cherry Nails

It's so easy to try something new on your nails. Thanks to stamping kits, decals and thousands of nail art tutorials on the internet everybody can be a nail artist.

With the help of a Bundle Monster image plate (Amazon.com) and some fine paint brushes I created some "Cherry Nails".

The base color is a pretty mint green color by catrice. I used a special black Konad polish for stamping the cherry print on the base and a simple red polish as a base color for the cherries. With some white polish I created highlights on the cherries and with a dark green polish I painted some small leaves. 


Nail art is all about fun. If you're not satisfied with the result, the only thing you need to start over is a big bottle of nail polish remover and some cotton wool.

Our golden girl

It's a pleasure to introduce you all our pretty girl "Faith".
She's the first American Paint Horse in Europe registered as champagne gold tobiano.
Faith was born in 2008, and on this picture she just turned one.

Another picture taken at the same day. Here you see Faith with her big sis, Ayla. Ayla was born in 2005 and she's a full sister of Faith, but she didn't get the champagne gene so she's a chestnut tobiano. We still own both sisters and they are inseparable.

The picture below was taken last summer. It's hard to find a pic of her where she's actually clean. This girl loves rolling in the dirt.

So, what do you think of our "golden girl"?

Bathroom Ideas

My favourite pin of the day. We're planning on completely renovating the bathroom this year and Pinterest is a perfect place for some inspiration.

Source: michaelanoelledesigns.blogspot.com via Daphne on Pinterest