At the moment we have summerholiday.

However we do not spent our free time going to the beach or camping in the South of France... No we are working very hard to re-decorate our livingroom and kitchen and when that's finished we need to make space in our backyard to put in an extra shed so I will finally have my own studio.

So in there will not be any blog-entries about beads and such for at least two weeks because I don't have time for playing around ;0)

I'm totally happy because finally I will get a special place for my beadmaking instead of using my livingroom as kind of a studio.

This is what we are going to build in our backyard:

Yesterday in between rain my husband Albert and our friend Eric started placing concrete bands and tiles to form a base in a corner of our backyard:

My brother in law is checking they are doing well:

This morning when I woke up Albert already was working again, bringing more sand into the garden to put under the tiles:

After Eric arrived they started placing the concrete tiles:

Some of the tiles needed to be made smaller and ofcourse they worked safe:

And here's the result of the first two days... a perfectly levelled platform to form the base of the shed:

Next step is to place the impregnated beams and the wooden floor and start building some walls...and hoping it will not rain!

Remember I had some exciting news back in februari?

Well today a parcel arrived from "down under" containing the book which is named More softies.
I already was thrilled to be in there, but now I discovered my softie also made it to the cover which makes it even more wonderful ;) The book looks really well and contains lots of beautiful softiepatterns. Since the release-date officially is the 29th of september and they haven't placed a picture of the cover on their website yet, you will have to do with a little sneakpeak of what my finished softie looks like.

After last week some very bad weather arrived around here so we couldn't start building the studio. But this morning while looking outside my window and checking the showers radar I started smiling again, because today we finally would be able to go on and start building!

Just like last week Eric helped us out again, so things went really well. We started with the impregnated beams and decided it was a good idea give them an extra coating just for sure. After that we fixed them to the concrete floor and started building the first three layers wood for the walls.

Next step was to put in the wooden floor and while Eric and Albert were busy doing that, I started painting the wood for the walls.

It's time to put in the doorjamb. Carolien (that's Eric's wife came along to see if everything goes well...

Because there still was a small possiblity that is could start raining again we decide to build and put on the first coating simultaneously.

At the end of the day this is were we ended, halfway finishing the studio and I must say I didn't think we would come this far!

This is what the cover looks like and do you see that funny Rooster.... that's my mister Rooster and that's the Softie I designed for this book.

The official date for publishing is September 29th and more info can be found here

The book really is as wonderful as the first one with a lot of lovely patterns, here's another preview of one of "my pages" as well.