Suki is back and other mail surprises!

I really didn't expect it anymore, but i think my last (sad) blogpost about Suki did the trick: She's back! I'm so very happy she found her way home in the end. It took her much longer and she stayed in fewer places than planned, but she did travel the world, even made a stop in South Africa! I am very grateful to all who gave her a place to stay on her journey and took her lovingly along on their adventures. I LOVED reading all the stories in her little passport. And one of her hosts even made her a cute sleeping bag. I think i recognize Jonah's sewingskills, but i'm not sure since there wasn't a note about it. Thank you all!

The same day that i found Suki in my PO box, i also found a sweet surprise from Rima over at Willy Nilly Waterlilly! A supercute set of Japanese bookmarks i won in a recent giveaway. I adore! I'm planning a trip to the bookstore to find the perfect book to use them on!

One who shares my love for the Dutch department store "Hema" is Tizz from Tizzalicious. When i moved from Amsterdam to NY i didn't expect i would miss that store so much. Tizz understands. She was the sweetest when, on a recent trip, she picked up a couple of cute and pretty designed goodies for me. I so appreciate it!

Another thing i feel i need to address is that i haven't been blogging too much recently. I don't know why this is. No special reason. I lost the routine of doing it. I think about it daily. I am busy but not too busy to write a quick post sharing the creativity. Maybe it's a normal thing, i've been blogging since 2005 and it only makes sense that you go through phases. I'm definitely planning on getting back into the groove of daily blogging. Maybe i should schedule some posts ahead when i have the time and inspiration to write, or give myself a special time in every day to post. I just wanted to share these thoughts, maybe you have some insight, and to let you know all is well with me, no special reasons that i blog less frequently. I promise to do better again!

Remember Suki? Still missing...

Remember Suki? She went on a trip around the world. Everything went fine, she travelled to distant places and all her hosts were so kind to update me on how she was doing and where she would go next. There was an end date for her to be send back home before and unfortunately her last hostess (i won't name names) decided to keep Suki and not send her to another hostess or back home to me. I have no clue how Suki is doing. But i know her last host has gone missing in action. On a number of occasion i have send her emails asking her to send Suki back to me, and then like a month later i would get a message of apology and the promise she would send Suki. This happened a couple of times until i didn't hear anything anymore!
I feel sad about this. Suki went on her travelling trip with the intention of coming back home. I also was very curious to see what all her hostesses had wrote in her little passport. Guess i will never know.
I was also planning on sending another little friend on a world adventure, but having this as the first experience you understand that won't happen.

Suki, if you read this, i miss you. Hope we'll get to see each other again some day.

Suki needs a new place to stay

Suki has been located! She is currently staying in Canada. She still has a month to go on her trip around the world and is looking for a place to go next! Do you want to have Suki as a temporary houseguest? Please let me know and i will put you in contact with Rumi where she is staying now. It would be great if you have a blog so you can find her one more place to go before she returns home to NY!

Where is Suki?

Suki is still on her world trip. I don't exactly know where she is right now. Of course that was part of the whole thing when i sent her of in the world, i knew there would be moments i wouldn't hear from her. I just hope she is having too much fun to check in. You know how kids are, out partying, forget about time, not calling home, parents worrying, but no reason too, i have faith that she will appear somewhere again.

This picture was from when she was at Jonah's place in Washington. After that she went to Roxanne in South Africa! I guess she had an amazing time there since she stayed for a long time. I haven't seen any pictures but as far as i know she recently went to Rumi in Canada, but i haven't heard any more about that.

Hope to be able to update about Suki soon. Oh, i also gave her some more time to see the world so her estimated arrival time to be back home in NY is now end August/early September. Hope she is doing well!

Suki in Washington and Seattle!

While i was away on my trip, Suki's journey around the world proceeded too. She was having fun over at Jonah's place in Washington. There are loads of pictures on her blog and her flickr pages too. She took Suki to a lot of fun places in Washington and there was even a trip to Seattle! Suki visited the tulip and daffodil festival in Mt. Vernon, she went to a casino resort and to dinner at Applebee's and she played with a couple of cats. Or did the cats play with her?

Thank you so much Jonah for showing her such a great time!

I just found out that Suki will be travelling to Roxy in South Africa next! Whoohoo, how exiting!

If you want to give Suki a place to stay next, send Roxy an email: princessroxy1508 AT hotmail DOT com.

Suki in Orlando

Suki has officially started her trip around the world!
She has arrived at the home of Shibooya who made great pictures of Suki in the sun! Looks like they are having great fun.

She is still looking for someone to take in Suki as a short term house guest next, so if you want to play, hop over to her blog and leave her a message with your email and blog info etc and be Suki's next destination!
Looks like she found a new place to stay!

Travelling (times two)

My little friend Suki is currently still chilling on our purple couch, but is all ready to go on her big travel adventure around the world! I fixed her up with a small suitcase and a backpack which holds her passport and a letter to the ones who will give her a place to stay during her travels.
She is very excited to start her trip in Orlando staying with Shibooya!


The 'times two' in the post title means another person is going on a trip. Today the final projects for my book have been picked up by the courier to go to my publisher in London, and early April i will fly out there for a couple of days! Whoohoo! And what makes it even better is that i could manage to add a trip over to Amsterdam, so i can visit my friends and family! I'm soo excited about this. But before than i still have a lot of work to do to finish the book, but my heart is already in the plane and on its way over!

Wilbur the world traveller

Meet Wilbur the pink piggy. He is staying with us for a little while. He belongs to a 7th grade student from Des Moines, Iowa. His travels are part of a school project. So far he went from Iowa to a couple of places in The Netherlands, then to Iceland and now arrived in New York, the Big Apple.

He even has a cute backpack! There's a passport inside with stories about his adventures everywhere.
I think he is very happy sleeping over at our place. All our little friends love him very much.

He is already deep in conversation with Kuri and Suki, the two sock monkeys. Now Suki wants to travel the world too. But Kuri is scared of flying, so if she goes they will have a long distance relationship for a while. Kuri is a bit sad about this, but knows that if his girlfriend wants to go he will have to wish her well and bless her adventures.

With this post there are two questions.
1. I'm looking for somebody in the USA to take Wilbur in as a guest. After showing him a good time, send him back to his owner in Iowa. He is expected to be back from his journey before April 30th this year. Wilbur has found a place for his upcoming adventure! Thank you Roxanne!
2. Second question, is there anyone sweet out there who would want to give Suki, the pink sockmonkey, a place to stay if she would want to go on a trip around the world too? I don't want to send her off just like that, it would be nice to know that she has a place where she can stay for awhile and be taken care of. All you have to do is write in her little passport and send her on to someone else in the world with her passport and adventures. Thank you Mari! She would love to stay with you for awhile!

So i'm looking for two people, one in the USA to send Wilbur to, and one anywhere in the world as a first adventure spot for Suki. Please leave a comment (with email addy) if you want to play! I'll contact you for details.

Checkered couple

Oops. Bought socks in the wrong size...
Trashcan or reconstruct? What do you think?!
Turned them into this couple who have now created a home for themselves on top of my bookcase.

I just cut and sewn as it seemed logic to me. There are many tutorials of how to make sock monkeys and puppets to be found online. Webgoddess has a clear step by step tutorial which is a good starting point if you don't want to just wing it.

Oh yeah, stuffing a long looong and narrow tail is not a fun activity.