Friday is my day: Swiedebie

Today we travel to Netherlands and meet Swee aka Swiedebie who makes super cute and fun sock monster plushies. She is so chatty and sweet girl that she already told everything about herself so let's peek to her Friday. And lucky Friday 13th to everybody :)

swiedebie.etsy.com

Holla Wolla!
I am Swee as everyone calls me here, and am in my prime 30s. I am happily married to the best man I know, Marcel, and we have a 2.5 year old daughter, Kirsten. Going back to the past, I used to work as a fashion+wedding designer. Today or should I say after my 3 years of marriage, my time per day is split to being a good 40% mommy, 20% housewife+gardener+telephone-operator (because the phone just keeps ringing!), 20% being a good+sometimes wacky wife, and last but not least being a 20% designer for my plushie label, Swiedebie. (*did i get my sums right, for I am bad in Maths?*)

I am very honoured to be featured in this coming "Friday Is My Day" for my dear EST friend, Heli. To my surprise on today's feature, it is Friday the 13th! Oh yah, my broken toe is still healing from the accident it had that occured exactly on the same Friday 13th last month. However, no more sulking, smiles on my face as always, I move on to better days ahead.

7.30am
... ... ... Marcel was off to work. *zombified* Still in my dream-world, I sleep walked to pick my crying little one up from her bed, and carried her to the bathroom. I thought I dreamt a piano fell on my head, only to wake up realising Kirsten had given me a hard smack on my head. I placed her standing on the floor, and looked around the bathroom. It was day break! *Yawn*... time for me to change the little one's diaper and fed her glass of warm chocolate milk & egg. *Still yawning & slouching with a bed-head*

8.30am

I would always have my breakfast right after Kirsten finished hers. While she was being fully amused and entertained by the morning Dora programme, I slipped off to the kitchen and made myself a nice breakfast set which I deserves after all the "hard" morning work. 2 eggs, a cuppa coffee (double caffeine dosage), a nice little mandarin orange, and of course to kick off the day - a nice little Snickers bar! While reading my Dutch newspaper (due to my insufficient Dutch vocabulary, I am only seeing the pictures and reading small articles). In addition, music is a MUST HAVE thing for a good day start!

9.30am

My daughter was playing on her own & was chewing on her apple as brunch, I made a little time to read up a chapter on my book and quickly catch a glimpse of what were the updates in the EST thread. The usual morning greetings and seeing all the familiar and of course new names there made me smile (as always). Oh well, of course I did not miss out on checking up my Etsy shop, which was still as stagnant as ever. Man... where did all the clients go???

10.45am

Time to check the fridge to find out what is missing from it! Hmmmm... We have rats in the house! Yes, those rats I mean are US! Stock replenishment time! I filled up my shopping list and, Kirsten and I dressed ourselves to go to the central for a nice little shopping! (*Yippppppeeee*)

11.30am

Brrrrrr...! Windy and at the temperature of 5 degrees, Kirsten and I were trembling as we walk. However, the little one, being just like Mommy dearest, was doing her window shopping! Nice pinky sequined detailed shoes caught her eyes. I looked at it, and thought to myself, "EEeeeeekkks! I may like pink, but not to this extend of wearing blinks blinks all over my feet... Time give on my little one so good pink tips."

12.00pm

Lunch time!!! But no lunch for us yet as we were shopping with an empty stomach. LOL! My advice, never shop with an empty stomach... because you will end up buying more than you need. Look at little Kirsten, who was very helpful when it came to packing the groceries in my bag!

1.00pm

We gobbled our store-bought fresh bread like 2 hungry vultures, as we made our way to the Friday weekly market. I did my supply shopping at a few of my favourite stalls. Oh boy! What a delightful moment!!! I love shopping with my little one, because she can never warn me (for the time being for now, I guess...) to watch my budget the way my husband does.

2.30pm

Home at last! Unloaded the groceries and supplies, and the little one wanted to play in the garden. As we have lots of water that seperates my garden (with bridges over them) into 5 small ones, I locked the gate to one of the bridges to make sure my little one did not fall into the water. Somehow or somewhat, she has this super-rubbery body and squeezed herself through the little gap of my gate! Oh my golly wolly!!! I ran out in fear that she would fall into the water. Well, she landed herself right on the bridge, thank God! I looked at her, and she pointed to the duckies swimming along the bridge. How sweet... Then I gave her some bread crumbs to feed them. My... those ducks sure do look abd taste good in their roasted bodies. mmmMMmmm... yummy!

3.00pm

As Spring is showing it's little sign of life to my plants, I began to clean up the mess Winter had left for us. Worms slimed themselves everywhere too! Yucks & Whoops... I realised I wore the wrong coloured socks for today! Hahaaha... What a dope I am.

4.00pm

Off to rush inventing my new monster in my "lab". I had to get this done to be listed in my Etsy shop. Cut, stitch, cut, stitch, cut, stitch... & m little Effie's coming into place. (*give a mad scientist laugh*)

5.00pm

Effie was completed. The day got dark, and it was too late to take some shots of her for the listing. So, I did my text editing on my interview answers for a feature in a design magazine in Asia.

5.30pm

Before I headed to the kitchen to make dinner, Friday vacuuming time! I love having all those mean, ugly looking dirts all sucked up into this monstrous-machine! (*wicked grin*)

6.00pm

Oh my, it was getting really late... I 'didn't know what to cook for today! Off to my cuisine magazines and cookbooks for a search for a recipe that matched the ingredients I had. Voila, I found one, and zoomed off to the kitchen like a mad cook.

7.30pm - 8pm

After a satisfying meal, Kirsten asked for a nice bottle of warm chocolate milk. Aftershe got her pearly whites all brushed up, she was totally "konked" out on her own in her little bed. Then my husband and I will have our very own free time together by catching up with our daily happenings and of course snuggled up on the couch like 2 potatoes watching the TV.

A portrait photo of me who had a monstrous day! Looking tired here.

I wish my future days will be as nice as this. *Fingers crossed*

Friday is my day: Jealousydesign

Hej allihopa! Today we will jump to Sweden and meet Carita from Jealousydesign. She is a jewellery designer who likes to use silver and gems and lately we have seen some natural materials like lava and coral placed on the ring. All her designs are very original. Please peek to her Etsy shop after this visit.

(click any picture to go to the shop)

jealousydesign.etsy.com

9:30am

I wake up… Just ask anyone who knows me; you don’t want to meet me yet.
I am having a really bad morning mood so:

10:30am
Hello! Nice to see you and welcome to my Friday!
Time to feed my cute little cat (the big cat is outside and hanging out with friends)

11am

our little lizard have just wake up and waiting for some fresh vegetables for breakfast.

1pm

time for a tea break and some breakfast (yep I know it is afternoon)

When I having my tea break I also logging in to Etsy and say Hi to all in the wonderful people in the European street team. And of course I must log in and check out what happened in twitter world.

The computer isn’t standing on its regular place so it looks more messy around here than usual (yeah right)

2pm

now I really should do some work and also clean up my studio,

This area I don’t use much at all anymore and should clean it up and get room for other things…
But after all it is Friday today and I feel that I need some inspiration, so I go out and take a walk in the enchanted forest we live in:

I just love this forest, I always finds new things to look at.

3pm

Now I really have inspiration to do some work in my studio

Today’s work is some different things, some rings; a necklace and I need to drill and polish some new lava stones... (Nope; I will not show any bigger photos of my messy studio)

6:30pm

time to stop the work and get ready to pick up my boyfriend at the train station, he is coming home early from work on Fridays.
7pm ready to go:

Ok, ok I didn’t take this photo at home took it at my grandmothers yesterday but hey; I am in a hurry now!
7:15pm on the road…..

9pm

finally back home, had to do some food shopping on the way.
9:30 Dinner time:

Yes, we always have lightened candles when we eat.

11pm

after some chilling in front of the TV I need to sew together some new wood boxes that my boyfriend has made; it is in these I ship my jewelry:

1am

done with the sewing and now I need to catch up in the virtual world, and also edit some of the photos I took earlier this week.
3am

, just like always I work best and are most creative at night but today I decided not to go back to the studio so I will do some sketches of both art and some jewelry designs I have in my mind.

4:30

I need to get up early in the morning so I will say good night now!

Thank you Helis for asking me to do this and Thanks for following me on my Friday :)

Friday is my day: Vivianne Galli

Remember when I found the well hugged looking Circus elephants by Vivianne Galli? Well, right after I had to ask her to join Friday is my day, just because I am sooo curious and because I love her little hairy friends. So let's travel to Netherlands and take a peek on Vivianne's day.

And after that you can go and lose your heart at her etsy shop :)

(click any photo to go to the shop)

VivianneGalli.etsy.com

Good morning !It's about 8.30 and my husband Remco and our daughter Roos just left the house, he's the one bringing her to school every morning and I'm the one trying to get the two little ones in our house washed, dressed and ready for school. Remco always helps out besides getting him self ready for work. This particular morning, our son Robin had a school's day-off so he didn't need to be taken there, so me and Robin were taking it easy .... With the PJ's still comfy and warm, no hurries to get dressed quickly :-)

Today is a Wednesday and this will be "my day on Friday". My name is Inge Vivianne Galli, living together with Remco and our 4 year old daughter Roos, 2 year old son Robin, a very old dog called Morris and three cats.After waving my sweethearts goodbye, one of our cats.



Molly is eager to get in, i totally see my first opening photo opportunity here. I'm running to get the camera, so Molly needs to wait a bit, but she doesn't like it and that shows on her face!

I have a few nice household chores, so i gave Robin a jigsaw puzzle to keep him busy for a little while. He's a real puzzle wizard!

Running through the house kind of fast, cleaning up a bit and opening the windows for some nice fresh air! Unfortunately there's no spring in it just yet.Also rushing to take the garbage out, the garbage-men have the nasty habit of coming early when I'm late.

Starting to get time for a break now. When giving my little boy a hug, i notice that coffee needs to wait, because there's a certain smell hinting that I need to really .. really .. really.. need to change a diaper first ! While I'm at it, i decided to put some clothes on the little boy as well.

OK, time for coffee !!! Robin found something to play with again so I've a spare moment for reading email and peeking a bit at my Etsy shop and visiting a few blogs, see whats new. I use the small laptop on the kitchen table so I won't need to go upstairs.

In the mean time Robin is entertaining me on the guitar, my little puzzle wizard is a musical genius as well :-)

Need to make two little Ellie's ready to be shipped today, will have to wait until this afternoon cause laundry is waiting to be hanged :-)

Won't have time to work on any little mohair friends so my beloved Froggy needs to wait a bit longer for a new friend to come!

While I'm sorting and storing the laundry, Robin is letting me have a listen to his first early version of his new No.1 hit record .... Rockin' Robin !

Our laundry spot :-)



And out comes Rikkie, the washing machine must have woken him up ! He likes to take his naps somewhere in the Laundry area ! Rikkie is famous for being in front of the camera when he's not suppose to be :-)



While I'm doing dishes in our kitchen





Robin is cleaning the rest of our house firmly and of course he tells me how it's done!!





Time to take the dog for a walk ! Our 18 year old youngster needs a pee or two :-) He's not to happy with the weather as well!



Heading back home again as it's about time to pick up Roos from school so we are about to jump in my little car. Robin always falls a sleep during this "5 minute" rides to school, I'm sure he will do so again today :-)









Lunch time ! Roos and Robin really wanted to eat their lunch in front of the telly, watching their favorite called "Wallace and Gromit". Well, thats completely fine with me since I need the table anyway to wrap up the two tiny Elephants.









While wrapping my Ellie's Roos and Robin got pretty wild and started changing into little prince and princesses ! That means time for fruits to get some extra energy in. After all they need to be fit helping me getting the parcels to the post office :-)

It's almost 18.00 when we arrived home again, and we've got "Goulash" for dinner (i've hungarian roots, you know :-)

actually it's a leftover from yesterday, so luckily for mommy there's no cooking to be done today, yay ! Just gonna read the little ones a story instead until Remco comes home from work.

After dinner we tucked the kids in bed, and about 20.30 we're having time for ourselfs again. I took a shower and went upstairs to write this report and I finished it around 3 o'clock, phew. I've no idea how on earth I will be able to wake up in about four hours from now ....Just adding one last pic and then I'm of to bed, Remco is having a really bad cold and will probably stay in bed tomorrow so I will have to be the one bringing both kids to school.I sincerely hope you've enjoyed taking a glimpse at our lives over here in the Netherlands.

You're more than welcome to visit my "Hug me again" Etsy store or view examples of my work at gallibearcollection.com

Read about me & my family or my creations at,

vivianne-galli.blogspot.com/

One last picture, Thank you so very much Heli!

Wishing all readers a wonderful weekend !

Cheers,

Hugs,

Vivianne & Family