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Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Commercial Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html

Saturday, October 6, 2012

{Welcome to Our Rose Suite - Entrance}

As promised earlier, now you will get to see the finished Rose Suite, after showing you the Construction Part I and II. Thus: Welcome to Our Rose Suite - Entrance...
This is the concrete path from the driveway leading up to the Rose Suite Entrance with its private patio.
Yes, for our guests, we always hang out the banner with the Welcome Rose!
Photos are from yesterday after lots of rain... Acorns are all over the patio tiles.
The white vinyl fence and wall has been added by husband Pieter after his middle brother told him it looked sloppy with the view of those air-conditioning units... Our garden and everything looked too neat he found, for leaving it like that. Indeed, this looks great now!
There is a garden hose coiled up in a rack for cleaning the patio tiles.
This CAT door bell is a gift from dear friends.
Come on in!
Mind your steps...
A nice cotton rug from Tuesday Morning is on the Spanish tiles.
Photo taken from the bedroom, looking into the entrance hall and you see the hallway going to the right. Boiler room in the back and in the front (r) you look at the mini walk in closet where guests can hang their clothes.
Here you see the door to the boiler room.
On the left is the open door to the bedroom...
Some of my on line boutique items are hanging on the wall here.
Mariette's Back to Basics is only by appointment or on line 24/7 for world wide delivery.
Again, some of the French Country Style Toile de Jouy Totes and Door-Knob-Pillow Sachets.
Sorry, the bedroom door is closed again... I will show you another time!
See that little Corian shelf above the pillar that husband Pieter had to wack off in order to make them nice and square? This is what we made of it. 
An IKEA White Godmorgon cabinet is hanging above.
Just a look around the corner into the long hall way...
Above the big pillar is another cupboard that husband Pieter used in front of the narrow pillar.
Closing with the solid oak window-shutters that we had in our bedroom before changing to the French sliding doors onto the balcony. Genial idea from Pieter. I keep all the bed linens in there for the Rose Suite bedroom.
Antique French oak coat rack with shelf.
Found on eBay and I had it shipped.
From Fashion Fabrics Club in St. Louis, Missouri I got this tapestry gobelin fabric with roses. I created this myself.
Back in The Netherlands I had a beautiful oak coat rack from my maternal Grandmother but I did not want to take it across the Ocean, being it a family heirloom.
Now it no longer is in the family... a pity as I  would have loved to still have it!
The Delft Polychrome Toeback jar was a gift from my dear Mother in law.
The oak coat hangers are from Germany.
Okay, please do hang your coat and stay for a tea!
Will show you the rest too but meanwhile I have to post some boutique items in-between.

Thanks for your visit!

Tell me if you liked this entrance and if you had thought it would turn out like this?
The two links below show the videos with the construction part, if you want to go back...

Related links:
{The Construction of Our Rose Suite - Part II} | previous post by me
{The Construction of Our Rose Suite - Part I} | previous post by me

Friday, October 5, 2012

{Claudia a Blogger I Admire and her Gift for Baby Stef}

On August 25, I did post about HAPPY NEWS, see link below post. Our Goddaughter Elvira delivered baby boy Stef into the world. For several years I've been following and admiring Claudia from NuNu's Garn- und Stofflabor and it is time to share some of her incredible work with you. My first encounter with her was at Carolyn's, Little Bear Studio, understandably as both do make BEARS! Now let's have a look at what she did create for Baby Stef:
Claudia did even create this special card!
Her stitching is fabulous.
Here she designed the personal label for Stef...
Perfect bag for taking to the Day Care when Stef's Mommy is going back to work!
NuNu's own label is sewn onto each of her creations.
Stef's parents have a tiled living room so this special padded blanket will make for perfect playing on the floor.
The padded blanket is completely double.
Fun text with dinos...
All spread out...
THANKS CLAUDIA for creating these fun pieces and for shipping them out to Stef!
Please pay Claudia a visit and know that her English is perfect too, besides her native German.
Her husband is likewise gifted but he only works with wood...


Related link:
NuNu´s Garn-und Stofflabor
{HAPPY NEWS!}

Thursday, October 4, 2012

{81st WORLD ANIMAL DAY + Wabbies from Sweden}

October 4th is officially WORLD ANIMAL DAY. Let's hope there will be more awareness and respect towards all animals! This year will be the 81st WORLD ANIMAL DAY, since its start in Florence, Italy. You can see more in a link below post, also photos from my Dachshund Mauzie...
Staying with animals, I'd like to show you here one more Blogger I Admire; Astrid from Sweden, from the blog: AstridsHandarbeten, just click this hyperlink. It will show you how she makes her lovely Wabbies, rabbits from sheep's wool. Clicking on the link above will show you how she does prepare the sheep's wool for her artful needle felting. She is incredible in creating the funniest animals out of them. So I decided to have a 'Wabbie Family' sent to Germany to our German son and his family. Have a look at the result of Astrid's needle felting:
From Sweden to the Eifel in Germany.
Each Wabbie holds a letter A, E, L and M and a black kitten.
Incredible handwork by Astrid.
The Wabbies reside on the kitchen window sill, in their new home.
 Look at all the details artfully made by Astrid...
Holding their A, E and black kitten...
Those Wabbies did bring their own gift-tag:
With L♥ve from Mariette 
THANKS ASTRID!

By Mariette VandenMunckhof-Vedder

Related link:
{World Animal Day started in 1931 in Florence, Italy}

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