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Showing posts with label Delftware houses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Delftware houses. Show all posts

Monday, April 25, 2022

Our Amaryllis Bloomed Beautifully

 Amaryllis can be so REWARDING!
On April 3, I made this photo of our Amaryllis in the veranda.
It had three blooms on a rather thick stem!
You can see our Delftware houses on the ledge in the window.
A collection from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines over the years...
On April 16, this photo got taken.
 After we'd returned from Charleston, a second stem had come up with three more huge blooms!
Amaryllis are so rewarding and we got this already for years, see links below post.


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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Make you the world A bit better...

In our veranda we enjoy looking at our sun catcher with quote from Edward W. Bok that we purchased at the Bok Tower, highest point in Florida.
Just want to share it with you here:
Click to find it on my Pinterest in: QUOTES & WORDS OF WISDOM with info for ordering it from the Bok Tower Giftshop.
It is hanging to the right, next to another one from the Bok Tower.
Below my Hand Crocheted Fleur de Lys curtains...
A bit more close but still hard to actually catch it well, against the light!
Together with the Delftware houses we collected over the years from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines it looks great!
This is it, looking outside...

Wishing you a lovely day and thanks for your visit and comment!

Related links:
{Bok Tower in Lake Wales, Florida} | previous post about our visit to Bok Tower, HIGHEST point in Florida
{The Kiss of the Sun for Pardon} | previous post about the other sun catcher from Bok Tower
Mega Task Crocheting DONE | previous post where you can see the sun catcher
My 2nd Fleur de Lys Crocheted Curtain is Hanging | previous post by me
{1903 Ladies Home Journal by Edward Bok - The Mother of America & Dutch American Heritage Day} | previous post by me
{Edward Bok Quote} | previous post by me

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

My 2nd Fleur de Lys Crocheted Curtain is Hanging

Well, by hand crocheting those huge Fleur de Lys Curtains; I learned anew about PERSEVERANCE.
Feeling so very happy to have this 2nd Fleur de Lys curtain up and hanging; after only some 50 hours of crocheting!
On March 14, Speed Crochet... My final 1.5 Fleur de Lys.
After all, it was only HALF the size of the first one I did crochet in about 100 hours.
The crocheted table topper with roses was a gift from my dear friend Ellie.
An elderly lady Mia Keizers, in her 70s, did crochet that one.
The woolen rug also has the Fleur de Lys pattern.
Both of us are very pleased with the new curtains.
Husband Pieter even called it our home's prettiest room. Also with the view we have from here.
Our proud collection of Delfware houses, earned on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
If we only had the time to sit here, relax and read...
Having done this task, I need to catch up on so many other things!
And we are getting slower as we age.
Cannot complain though.

Thanks for your visit!

Related links:
Mega Task Crocheting DONE | previous post by me about the 100 hours of crocheting
{After 40 years Something's Gotta GIVE...} | previous post by me about the reason and the start...
{Our Veranda} | previous post by me
{Fleur de Lys in our Veranda} | previous post by me


Saturday, February 4, 2017

Mega Task Crocheting DONE

On Sunday morning, January 22, at 4:30 AM the new hand crocheted curtain was hanging!

Mega Task Crocheting DONE
Photos taken later on Sunday, after I'd slept a couple of hours...
They also are perfectly in length, not touching our Delftware houses that we earned by flying KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (we got often an upgrade with our Royal Wing cards!).
On January 11, on my sister's 67th Birthday in heaven, I started...
'ONLY' 12 segments with Fleur de Lys to go and crocheting at a rapid, robotic pace without errors would yield one Fleur de Lys every 6.5 hours...
BUT how can a human being work without any errors?!
Impossible and I had to undo many times 2 rows.
You only 'spot' the error on the returning row... Arg.
It teaches patience and concentration!
Since it was such a Mega Task, I was determined though to have it hanging by Sunday!
It became heavy and harder to handle.
See the cone to the left, on the floor?!
Days were dark and the artificial light had to be used.
After breakfast, getting dressed and barely time for doing anything with my hair, I sat there.
Husband Pieter was the Chef for that time... He did well!
Using 2 sticky notes taped together I moved up, row by row.
On the left I wrote: 8 l (lossen in Dutch) for the 8 Chain Stitches it would take to add on.
I must say that the directions were POOR!
Lots of errors in this drawing too. Where I marked with the pen, bottom right, those should be openings for creating that wide V-shaped stitch. 
3 Chain Stitches and 1 Single Crochet done inside the 5 Chain Stitches of alternative rows!
So not 'around' but I did make those Single Crochets inside the Center Chain Stitches!
Harder to do but looking a lot neater.
One X stands for 4 Double Crochet and two XX = 7 Double Crochet etc.
For those that love this pattern:
Starting out on 156+3 (for Double Crochet at the beginning!) Chain Stitches and make your 1st Double Crochet inside the 4th Chain Stitch = 157 Double Crochet total.
At the end for adding XX you make 8 Chain Stitches and insert into the 4th for making Double Crochet = 7 added total.
12 Fleur de Lys done!
I had to sew on the 11 brass rings, that I have from my dear Mom, old ones for curtains that hung from a thinner rod.
Then I proceeded to launder them in short cycle and pressing the pointed area.
Should have pressed the entire Fleur de Lys however...
Had to use the hammer for first putting the 2 lower brass nails on the sides.
So they got hung wet and stretched up into perfect shape.
Love the quality of this 100% Egyptian Cotton by Lizbeth in a 6-cord Cordonnet!
Next day my left index finger and middle finger were still red and very tender from working with that steel crochet hook over 100+ hours!
My tip of the thumb is still kind of numb and index and thumb feel like a mix between callous and blister...
Before I fell onto the mattress, I wrote this for Pieter:
Bid maar voor mij..  In English: Pray also for me... meaning that I would not join him to Church!).
Pieter wrote in Dutch: Jij bent een verbazend iemand! 
Pracht resultaat!
English: You are an amazing person!
Splendid result!

It will take a while before I will create the smaller, half sized one and even that will take 50+ hours.
So happy that I had enough thread and that my design worked out perfect for these windows at this scale.

Hope you like them too.

Catching up on lots of things...


Related link:
{After 40 years Something's Gotta GIVE...} | previous post by me about the reason and the start...
{Our Veranda} | previous post by me
{Fleur de Lys in our Veranda} | previous post by me

Thursday, January 26, 2017

{After 40 years Something's Gotta GIVE...}

Well, life happens and not everything we love will last forever...
It was August 10 of 2016, that I had cleaned our veranda windows and also laundered my hand crocheted curtains.
Next day I would have a group of girls for Etiquette Class so everything would be perfect...
NOT perfect...
All torn up but I hung them up anyway!
There are certain days that we too feel like these curtains look and life goes on! 
But our Delftware houses still stand neatly lined up...
Well, that's how they look after hanging up for 40 years!
I made them for our home in Panningen, The Netherlands, and adjusted them for Horst, The Netherlands and then they went to Dublin, Georgia where they hung and in Cornuda, TV in Italy and back again here in our new home in Dublin, Georgia.
They always did fit; a miracle in itself.
They have endured many hours of sunshine.
It was High Quality Cotton a 6-Cord Mercerized Cordonnet that I purchased from 3Suisses.
One thing I learned to never ever make again those tassels. 
What a job to untangle them after each laundry...
This is taken on August 17, 2016 and showing the short wall, where there are NO holes yet... Only one tassel (not shown here) had come off.
But I got the message.
The search for new high quality Cotton 6-Cord Cordonnet in a similar Mercerized type.
Well, we went to Europe in September so I tried my luck.
NOPE! Nothing...
But I was determined for using a pattern with Fleur de Lys from this very Anna Burda that I'd taken over from my Mom.
Dating from September 1995 and Mom had handwritten 'mooie kantjes' - beautiful laces...
So glad that I bought this over from her!
Mom loved this Fleur de Lys pattern and I was determined to work it into a curtain with some tweaking.
In our veranda there is a theme of Fleur de Lys, see the links below this post.
So I did search on line and found a Handy Hands Lizbeth 6-Cord Cordonnet Cotton Crochet Thread size 3.
I've never worked with a size 3... so I ordered just one 50g ball to work with it for assessing its gauze.
This came in a Scottish Thistle color, a purplish green...
Yep, all what I wanted!
High quality 6-Cord Cordonnet
Mercerized Gas-Singed
Outstanding body that holds its shape
Size 3 thread
100% Egyptian Cotton 
Made in China!
50g = 120 yds
With my 2mm steel crochet hook I managed to work this (black & white photo) only to assess the total weight I would need.
Loved the high quality as it glides on my crochet hook very easily.
So I found one lady in Colorado Springs, CO at DS9Designs Tatting and Beads who just had 3 one kg cones left in white!
As I have assessed by this piece, I would need 2.3 kg total so I needed to order 3.
Today, on my Angel Sister's 67th Birthday in Heaven, it arrived and I'm delighted that it is not a pure white! I'd love an ecru but planned to tea-dye it myself. No need now.
So here it is!
Ready for me to start my Mega Task...
These were the last 3 1 kg cones left!
Will let you know and meanwhile you know what I'm at for the time being!

Thanks for your visits and kind comments.


Related links:
{Our Veranda} | previous post by me
{Fleur de Lys in our Veranda} | previous post by me




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Saturday, August 29, 2015

{KLM Delft Blue House 95}

When my dear friend Mariëlle, did come to visit us in early May, she also gifted us with the latest of Delftware houses by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. So now we have the series complete with this number 95!
{Royal Dutch Airlines 91 years on October 7}
HEINEKEN'S BIERBROUWERIJ

This number 95, is the Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam and that did celebrate its 150th anniversary last year.
It proudly resides on the narrow ledge of our veranda windows.


On October 7, is the 96th Birthday of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and the next house will be presented to the public...


Very interesting short video about several Canal Houses and the Heineken Brewery in Amsterdam, The Netherlands


At KLM-HUISJES.NL you can purchase the entire collection.
We both were lucky that we got lots of upgrades to KLM's World Business Class, while being International Consultants.

Related link:
{Angel Candle Snuffer Gift} | previous post by me
{Royal Dutch Airlines 91 years on October 7} | previous post by me explaining about our many flights as international consultants.
{KLM Royal Dutch Airlines miniature blue Delftware houses 1 to 90} | previous post by me



Tuesday, April 30, 2013

{Our Bird Cages from Exotic Indonesia}


  • Living and working in Indonesia did give us many opportunities for exploring exotic places and also for finding unique gifts to bring home with us. 
  • On November 29 of 1999 we did go to a huge market for birdcages. Pasar Ngasem west of Kraton Palace in Yogyakarta, was the place to go to! BATIK DARMO Sangkar Burung & Aneka Kerajinan.
  • Speaking the language is always helpful in finding out where exactly to go for certain items. In one of our hotels in Yogyakarta those birdcages were hanging above the buffet line in the restaurant. It was at the Hotel Santika Jogja
  • Most people have no idea  how exotic Indonesia really is!

This is the one hanging in our Veranda...
Also did get one for dear friend Becky.
Those were the days we could still travel with additional luggage; not as many restrictions then!
Two large ones, now finding me two smaller ones... One for my sister Diny  and one hangs in our Living Room. Links are shown below post.
How I would have loved to take lots of them home but when flying, there is a limit!
Asians in general do keep birds in cages so the choice is big!
Does any of you have a bird or a bird cage for decoration?
This makes a nice Indonesian corner in our Veranda (see link below post) with the Bali wood carved statue and the Balinese silk batik, framed on the wall. The larger bird cage just hangs from the ceiling down, in front of my hand crocheted curtains.
The blue Delftware houses show that we made many trips back and forth to Indonesia; 21 times we went for work on KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines.
The smaller one, hanging in our Living Room, see link below post.
This is available here in the USA from Cost Plus World Market... and you also find them here on their FB Cost Plus World Market's Page. We came home with our bird cages on the plane; four of them and we paid probably a fraction of the sales price elsewhere with our Rupiah 250,000 but that is also several years ago. It was at the time we were still millionairs... see post about that below as well!

Related links:
{Our Veranda} | previous post by me where you can see the large bird cage
{Our Living Room} | previous post by me where you can see the smaller bird cage
{Winter Sale | At the time we were Millionaires} | previous post by me

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

{Our Veranda}

As promised yesterday, where I did show you our Phalaenopsis orchid, I will show you Our Veranda. Please come inside and make yourself comfortable in our most sunny room of the house. We did buy our property by driving around one afternoon to see where the sun would be... We planned it very thoroughly. This is indeed the brightest and prettiest room in the house. The hand crocheted filet lace curtains are done by me. They hung in several homes before finally 'retiring' here. They only need to hang in there... 
We do have a house full of memories. We both did not let our house being decorated by an interior designer, as we think a HOME should reflect our walk of life, our heritage. Adding some heirlooms and photos and that truly creates the soul of a home. Would love to hear your opinion or idea about the soul of your home; please leave me a comment and if you have more questions, I will reply. For generating an email reply please click 'subscribe by email' below the comment box. That will generate the email whenever I reply to any comment! 
French Country Style solid oak furniture with Fleur de Lys cotton and viscose fabric.
Even the wool rug shows Fleur de Lys...
Below this post you can read about My French Connection!
That door to the left leads to our kitchen.
Another lovely orchid...
Many sandel wood carvings that we received from Pond's India Ltd. while working for them as consultants. 
Our window sills we had custom made from white Corian.
The door leads to the steps and the tiled walk way to our gazebo...
We got all 92 Delft blue Dutch houses from Royal Dutch Airlines.
Each year they add another one for their anniversary of years they've been in the air.
We got very often an upgrade into business class; with house!
The last Delftware houses I bought on eBay since we retired from consulting.
This Hindu statue is from Bali, Indonesia and made of ebony wood.
A view from the other  side...
You also see the brass laser cut, polished and lacquered window decorations.
In the door are the four seasons of a tree...
To the right is my own design of a brass mushroom family, see below post under related links.
My private collection vintage Lampe Berger, rose vases and pill boxes...
Blue is the color for our veranda.
The bird cage hanging is from Yogjakarta, Indonesia...
Detail of the crocheted filet lace curtain, the Delft blue houses and my own design of a brass happy mushroom family. See link below.
Why don't you have a seat and have a tea with us?
Overlooking the pond area...
The huge evergreen oak tree provides nice shade.
Now you look at the living room door...
The large framed blue silk batik birds are from Indonesia, see link below.
Above the blue silk batik is a bird done on rice paper, from India. 
You can read about it in a link below post as well.
Another Balinese ebony wood Hindu statue.
Also a vintage Lampe Berger with Angel Cameo.
Blogger Friend Celia M. High Heeled Life & Resilientista does have the other one... 
She loves angels as much as I  do!
Healthy house plant in solid French oak planter box.
That makes the exotic and tropical look more complete with all our memories from countries we worked in.
The leather deer was a gift from India.
The huge iron wood statue is Hanoman from the Hindu Ramayana play.
This was given to husband Pieter for his first consulting work in Indonesia.
Framed silk embroidered birds from husband Pieter's trip to China with People to People Citizen Ambassador Program. 
Solid French oak corner cabinet with beveled glass.
Rayon fleur de lys tassel...
Fleur de Lys vintage Lampe Berger and angel frame, see link below post about more details.
We almost came full circle.
More blue and here you see the first and original map of New Netherland as Dutch Colony with New Amsterdam, now New York.
Full circle...
Have a seat...
A peak through the door into our kitchen...
Hope you enjoyed our veranda.
Any questions are welcome and I will reply.
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It was a pleasure showing you some more about our walk of life.
A warm welcome also to all my new readers!

Related links:
{My Own Design of Brass Mushrooms} | previous post by me
{Birds as Artwork, we bought in India} | previous post by me
{Silk embroidered Birds from China Trip} | previous post by me
{Batik Birds from Indonesia on Silk and Cotton} | previous post by me
{Fleur de Lys in our Veranda} | previous post by me
{March 2, 1809 and My French Connection} | previous post by me
{Tuesday May 4, dinner with friends} | previous post by me
My 2nd Fleur de Lys Crocheted Curtain is Hanging | updated veranda with new curtains

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