I’ve been captivated by the topic of greeting cards. In anticipation of the holidays, I tried making different versions of Dutch New Year’s and Christmas cards.

Soon, Anna will have a celebratory dinner at school that her class is preparing for all the school teachers. The children must prepare and arrange everything themselves. The main topic of the dinner will be the Dance4life project, aimed at combating sexual violence in Indonesia. And here I made them a couple of candle holders to decorate the tables with paper cutouts of this organization’s logo.

Continuing charitable beading. Today I finished making snowflake earrings and various little stars. And Anya finished making more friendship bracelets to sell.

Participated in decorating the stage at the Mariyas School for the Sinterklaas celebration. I and another mom were painting the backdrop. It turned out beautifully! We received a lot of praise, and that’s nice!

For the charity fair at Anya’s school, I made various New Year’s origami stars. Let’s see how much we can sell…

Today I asked Anya to photograph her work. After all, she’s already beaded a bunch of little things and different friendship bracelets, but these works aren’t on the website yet.

Dear husband returned from a business trip to Spain! And of course, we had to stop by the Disney store. There he bought us two new Mulan and Tiana Princesses. Princesses with articulated arms and rubberized legs. Mulan was accompanied by a little dragon named Mushu, and Tiana had a beautiful greenish stone ring, but it got lost during unpacking. And at the FC Barcelona official store, my husband bought us a doll of the club’s greatest all-time top scorer – Lionel Messi. The man is very charismatic, but somewhat lacking in mobility for a footballer; only his neck, waist, feet, and wrists move.

Maple leaves are falling under the windows. So much beauty rustles underfoot! I decided to gather little pink flowers from leaves and made bouquets out of them. One of them is now at my friend’s workstation, and I’ve left the other one at home for now.

I made some new beaded crafts today for sale at Anya’s school charity fair. These are penguin earrings, angel earrings, a tiny bullfinch, a New Year’s wreath pendant, and a maple leaf brooch.