Herbal sun teas & simple syrups

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I wanted to share this great post from the Design Sponge website about making HERBAL SUN TEA.

I have to admit that I had never heard about this before but it seems so obvious when I read about it. Here’s a taster from the article:

“Making herbal sun tea couldn’t possibly be easier. Depending on what you’ve got on hand, or what moves you (do you like the refreshing chill of mint? the spice and heat of cardamom? the floral bouquet of lavender?), simply combine a handful of fresh herbs with water and set it out in the sun.”

Read more at Design*Sponge  and enjoy making your own!!!

The Eat and Slide table

The Eat and Slide table by Studio KLASS in Italy

Back from my lovely 4 day break with my husband, 2 year old and 1year old dog. 
Checking and sorting emails and trying to organise myself for the upcoming week seems to be taking for EVER !

I found this fun table concept by Italian Design company Studio Klass. 
It’s called the Eat & Slide table. 

I don’t know how practical it is for everyday uses, 
not to mention I don’t have the space to accommodate it at home, 
but for little one’s parties and events it’s just fab!!!

Off for a few days

Finally we are having our first summer break. Packing our bags, preparing stuff for 2-year-old Dazaï, 1-year-old dog Sheeva, husband Nicolas and myself.

Looking forward to it! Catch up on Monday x

My two year old boy

My "baby" has recently turned two.

Here he is modelling one of my designs of toddler’s jackets.

I found the perfect spot to take pictures:

the tomato patch.

I can’t say it was the safest for the partially unripe fruit,

as he picks them regardless.

He looks happy enough though,

he usually gets fed up of the modelling right from the word go!!!

Baby album cover

Seeing as the mayor who married us gave us a big fat photo album, I didn’t see the point in making another smaller one with this book I was given. Rather I wanted to use it as a photo album for our son’s first month of existence. It’s a time where there are so many pictures of a newborn, and friends and relatives visiting. 100 pictures were actually hard to pick out!


So here’s my before and after. Before a wedding photo album, after, transformed with a little linen and sewing and printing...

Market shop Gignac

Here’s another local market in the nearby town of Gignac. It’s a place you can get pretty much everything from locally grown fruit & vegs, garden plants, clothes for all ages, olives, bread, meat, fish, prepared dishes, ... get some live chicken too if you need them!

 I love the feel of this market – it’s on every Saturday morning BTW .

Market shop

This is what you can get at my local village market on a Thursday morning for 23.50 euros. 


Cherries, cucumbers, lemons, oranges, apples, bread, pain au chocolat, apricots, peaches...


I thought I’d have that pain au chocolat for breakfast, but forget about that, I’m working my way through those cherries. The last of the season...

Recycled fabric stressballs

I'm making a variety of textile balls at the moment. They are as relaxing to make as they are to fiddle about with once done. Hence my latest creation of a set of antistress fabric balls, all available on my Etsy online shop.


It’s not easy to find time with my very busy toddler. Also the sudden heat is making me really uncomfortable. I think I’m at a funny stage of the pregnancy where the baby is slowly finding its place and my body having to adjust completely now. 

5 month baby number 2 scan

Number two is coming along nicely. We’ve been for my 5 month scan this morning. He’s half a kilo and everything is looking perfect. His profile even looks like me already. Amazing what technology enables us to see! Number one was a bit restless after half an hour waiting for our appointment, but could have been worse. We’ll go without him for the next one. I could tell the Doctor was feeling a bit stressed out!
Here’s my big belly a couple of weeks ago. And my nearly two-year old yesterday!

Oldschool Child desk in need of a bit of love and fixing

A friend of ours came by today to drop off this cool old desk. One of the seats is bashed in. It’s painted green (including all metalwork) with yellow flower shapes on it. But once the seat is fixed and I’ve sanded the paint a little it should be just fantastic as an outdoors desk for our nearly two-years old. 

After his nap he discovered it and had a few hours of fun with it – had his afternoon tea on it, then a session of drawing, finished by a little bit of climbing...