{Escada Pastel Green Jeans Suit}

Don't know about you but I do love wearing jeans and also jeans suits with skirts. One of those is my pastel green Escada jeans suit.

On Sunday, April 20 next to our Indian Hawthorn along the driveway.

Wearing a sleeveless silk cashmere mock turtleneck under the longer jeans jacket.

Husband Pieter in his charcoal Ermenegildo Zegna suit in tropical weight wool.

Matching Escada purse as well...

The silk cashmere sleeveless top has a very nice knitted lace edging.

It is the perfect outfit for early spring!

Do you like to wear jeans outfits?

{Dutch Twin Down Duvets Altered to American Size}

WHY is there such a difference in sizing between continents? Clothes, shoes and even for bedding and bed linens there is quite a difference. So due to the problem of maximum baggage weight we no longer can bring home Dutch duvet covers etc. The only solution was to change them in American sizing and that's what I did. For adding some 40 cm or 16 inches to each twin duvet, I did use a down duvet that I had gotten on sale at The Company Store  for only $ 99.00. Not much to risk! 

Here it is... one segment of down squares added on and ready to be slipped into the ocelot flannel duvet cover from Garnet Hill that I got at their winter sale!

So how did I do it?

Using the smocking stitch setting on my sewing machine, I went on both sides of the stepping.

This is how it looked...

That way I could cut it in the center with the serger, right on the stepping and it did not cause any mess. 

All the down stayed neatly inside.

With a single stepping stitch I than proceeded to sew them together.

The Dutch twin duvets happened to be in a beige color but that will not be visible once inside the duvet covers.

This table from Yves Delorme shows the differences between US sizing and Dutch sizing...

The US Twin size is 42.7 cm wider and also 18.4 cm longer!

So glad for having tackled that so now all American duvet covers fit perfectly.
Mainly I have those from Yves Delorme from their Outlet.

Is any of you having had to deal with different sizing for bed linens?

{Our Patio Pot Plants}

On April 10 you could read my blog post {Our Patio Tiles Are DONE!} and since that day we have been adding Pot Plants to Our Patio...

This is the kitchen bay window area on April 10...

Moving to the right where you can see the front porch as well.

Pieter has been painting several pots so they better match.

Stepping a little bit closer now.

The white trellis with our Clematis lanuginosa 'Candida' got made by Pieter himself.

Stepping further back towards our white vinyl picket fence you can better see the house.

Here is also an Oxalis patch near the lantern.

So happy to see green leaves on all our trees by now!

The patio starts looking nice with these pot plants.

This photo is taken on April 23, from underneath the huge Dogwood tree's canapy.

You can see the bird feeder hanging down from it.

When stepping back you can also see our squirrel proof bird feeder that will close down access to the bird feed when a squirrel's weight is on its bar. BUT those acrobats hang upside down from its roof and get what they want...

The Japanese style bird bath is also in sight here.

Closer towards the steps to our veranda...

Zooming in on this group of Pot Plants.

The purple one is the Patio Peach that I have shown earlier when it was blooming. See below post.

Our Clematis lanuginosa 'Candida' next to our Bonfire Prunus Persica - Patio Peach

Our front patio also is getting more and more Pot Plants out.

Will follow up when more are added...

Do you like the way they are being added on to the tiles?

Related link:
{Our Patio Tiles in the Front} | previous post by me
{Our Bonfire Prunus Persica - Patio Peach} | previous post by me
{Our Patio Tiles Are DONE!} | previous post by me
{Our Patio Tiles & Freeze Warning} | previous post by me
{Water Control Project Finished} | previous post showing you the tile sample on the concrete