A month ago I was asked if I wanted to be in a Taiwanese D.I.Y. magazine and I thought "why not!" I gave this lovely interview and they sent me the result of the magazine pages in PDF, I'm going to get the actual magazine in the post. My first reaction was "whhhhaaaa, this is so cool" but I can't read it. For my part they could've said " Yvonne Eijkenduijn is a troll and her house smells like poop and you know that Bo is also a weird bloke with no hair". I hope they didn't say that.

I really think they have done a nice job because it doesn't feel like all the stuff on the photos is actually mine - the husband included.

Have a peek inside.

The girl in the wii photo isn't me but my friend Mandy.

I also found out through Victoria's blog that she's in the same mag.

Another thing I can't read but absolutely love is the new Paumes book, Recettes des mamans à Paris. It's a cook book and the images are as usual super lovely. You can pre-order a copy in the shop so I can order a whole bunch in one go. I'm planning to do that by the end of this month so hurry and get a copy.

In the ten years that the Bo and I are a couple we've moved six times, renovated two homes from scratch and lived for six months just out of one suitcase and a laptop and yet we're doing it again. I sometimes do not quite understand myself, because all this moving around is my fault. I honestly do hope that this is going to be one of our last moves.

The papers are going to be signed and the money paid on the 5th of August but we have been tackling the garden already for a couple of days. We wanted to get rid of all the ivy because they destroy the house. We also have a double garage and a brewery (the house used to be a brewery) in the back but we have to take them down because the ivy made the roofs cave in, plus it will give us a lovely garden. We also trimmed the willows of access leaves, we only have to do the grass but we're thinking of taking that out and planting new because we need to dig a tunnel for the gas pipe through it. And that's just the garden ...

In the meantime I've been starting little projects to distract myself from phone calls, car rides, meeting realtors, banks, plumbing and insurance people.

I really fell in love with this bird mobile over at Spool that I have to make one for my new studio/office. I also spotted the Park Slope by Erin McMorris fabric on Spool and absolutely love it.

I've started to make some birds with this fabric for the mobile.

I bought my Park Slope at the Fat Quarter Shop.

I've made these strawberry pincushions using this Martha Stewart template but made the leaves myself.

Yay, renovating will start in 3 weeks ... can't wait!!

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Oops! Forgot to mention that you can download the free bird mobile pattern here.