DIY Winter Forrest Diarama

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Hi Bloesem readers, do you remember a guest post about Knot Magazine? We absolutely love that post and it's pictures. This craft project by Mereta from One More Mushroom reminds me of it with its similar colors. Dont you just love these shades of blue and green? A wonderful holiday decoration inspiration for you to try out.

Click here to check out the tutorial for this craft project on BKids.

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Stitch it Christmas Cards

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Let's start sending out those Christmas cards …or better start making your own and then start sending them! Our friends from the Netherlands Eefje and Maike who run the wonderful website MoodKids designed a set of stitch-it-yourself cards for Bloesem. There's 3 designs to choose from and we love them all. Pick any color thread and start stitching for a personalized mail. Gold thread would be our pick too!

Download MoodKids' template for Bloesem -Stitch it Christmas Cards here.

Enjoy! and have a merry Holiday!

 

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Download Free Holiday Season Wrapping Paper

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It's that time of the year again here at Bloesem … we are offcially starting the Holiday Season … meaning lot's and lot's of gift ideas will be coming your way. Perhaps you remember last years Gift Guide with the beautiful banner designed especially for Bloesem by Jessica Nielsen well this year we are doing it a bit differently …

Jessica created two wrapping papers for you to download for free … 
Snowmans and Presents …. which one do you like best or are you going to use them both too? Perhaps a nice idea: download the templates to your desktop and your local copy shop to print it in A3 size. 

Tomorrow we will also start sharing with you a 'Gift of the Day' every weekday… this can be something for your home, an accessory, a gadget or else … all the way up to Christmas. So many nice gift ideas choosen by us will be popping up on the Bloesem blogs. 

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Free download Trees and Packages
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Free download Snowman
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Thank you Jessica Nielsen
ps. riboons are from Carta inc.

Halloween ideas

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{1. DIY spider treats 2. orange candy buffet 3. cupcake 4. invites  5. DIY labels}

Halloween is just around the corner. Even though I wont be
walking the streets for candy here in KL but I’m always up for a themed party.
I’ve collaborated a board of some of the things I would love to have at my ‘Not
So Spooky Halloween Party’. Basically simple ideas made out of things you can
easily find everyday. I think its fun to play with colors in this case black
and orange. I would definitely have that table full of orange candy, and try my
best to bake that cupcake. Since I love paper, a simple do it yourself printed
invitation is perfect to invite your friends with. What do you think? ~Sufiya

Halloween treat for all of you!

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Happy Halloween! We’ve designed a treat for all of you. We
wanted to share a little Halloween spirit, but still keep it nice and simple. Two free down-loadable templates for you to use for your Halloween decoration.

Planning a party or not, I’m sure the kiddies in the house
will have a treat eating with Jack Lantern. Because it’ll be printed on paper,
you can also make it as a dinning table activity with some color pencils. Now
if you really love our print, laminate it and you’ll be able to re-use it
anytime you want.

Our favorite idea was for wrapping paper. We love how a
simple black and white wrapping paper looks with a hint of bright color.

To go along with the theme, we’ve also designed tags. Write
down those names for your party or use it as a tag for those October Birthday
presents.

I’m sure you will have lots of fun and other creative ideas.
If you have done something with our free downloads do share it with us on our Facebook
Fan Page

You can find the free templates at the end of this post

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FREE TEMPLATES:

Download Halloween_TAGS_BKIDS

Download Halloween_Wrap_BKIDS_pumpkin

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All images by Bloesem.

 

New year resolutions from Stylecookie

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Some visual New Year resolutions  … love them, creative eye-candy images by Maria Stijger and Styling by Wenda Torenbosch for the ever amazing, happy, fun and beautiful Stylecookie shop. (Can I tell you a little secret: during my visit to Amsterdam I met the lovely ladies behind StyleCookie and to our big surprise we found out that the three of us are from the same small city/village in the Netherlands… 

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More exercise

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Less tv

All images by Maria Stijger and Styling by Wenda Torenbosch for StyleCookie

All products in the images are available in Stylecookie online shop right here

Happy New Year Anke & Sanne xx

 

I wish you a Merry Christmas

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I feel like being in a constant Christmas mood since I arrived here in the Netherlands… cozy evenings with family and friends and seeing my kids enjoying every bit of it makes me very happy. And on top of this it was really fun to visit shops here in the Netherlands like Gosto design and lifestyle in Blaricum, a village in the middle part of the Netherlands.

A portugese lady called Sonia is the owner of Gosto and I could not have asked for a nicer and more appropriate way to end this year then visiting this shop were I could see with my own eyes and feel with my own hands many of the products that I have loved writing about in 2011.

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Sonia told me that she is still hoping more and more people understand and buy these products that we in blogland all love. So if you are in the neighborhood of Blaricum don't forget to visit this super nice shop or visit the online shop.

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Merry Christmas to everyone…

peace, love, happiness and health is what I wish for all of you…

irene xoxo

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ps. and if you would like to see how all these great products look like in an actual house just ask Sonia for the little catelogue she made of her own home … 


Christmas decoration ideas from Stylecookie

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Tomorrow my mom and I will start decorating for Christmas… and these beautiful images from Stylecookie gave us some nice ideas. Sanne and Anke were inspired by 'balls' in all sorts and colors…

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Bloesem Gift Guide 2011: the Office

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Yes it is this time of year already! With the Bloesem Gift Guide we would like to help you find fun, nice and interesting things in the easiest way possible for you… just follow the links in the guide and it will bring you either directly to the  porduct of your liking or to a shop where you can find what you are looking for.

Today we start with the first category: items for the Office 

Nine more categories will follow in the next four weeks… so stay tuned!           Read More>>>

 

Bloesem Gift Guide 2011

 

We made a seperate webpage for the Bloesem Gift Guide 2011. On the sidebanner you will find the sponsors of the Gift Guide, all specialised in great products. Would be great if you could visit them too.  

 

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