Lucas' 1st birthday / naming day present

Dit weekend gingen we naar het eerste verjaardagsfeestje van Lucas.  Het was meteen ook het ventje zijn naamdag (de niet-religieuze versie van een doopfeest) en mijn schat van een man is nu trotse 'guideparent'.

Naast de mooie houten puzzel met de letters van zijn naam wilde ik ook zelf iets maken voor Lucas.

Herinnert u zich dit?  Ik kan eindelijk tonen wat die leuke stofjes geworden zijn!  Het werd geen vlaggenlijn  en ook geen dekentje, maar wel...

... tien beestjes en een mandje om alles netjes bij elkaar te houden. 

Krokodil, (baby) ijsbeer, (baby) olifant, giraf, kangoeroe x2, zebra en tijger.
Crocodile, (baby) polar bear, (baby) elephant, giraffe, kangaroo x2, zebra and tiger.

We were invited to Lucas' first birthday party this weekend.  It was his naming day too (non-religious version of a christening) and my lovely hubby is now a proud guideparent!
We chose to give him a beautiful natural wood puzzle spelling his name but I really wanted to make Lucas something myself.  Do you remember me posting about this?  Well it didn't become a blanket or bunting flags... instead Lucas got ten soft toy animals and a zoo basket to keep everything tidy.


Het patroontje vond ik hier in Maggie's etsy winkel Maggierama en arriveerde via email.  Toen ik mijn zoo-patroontje bestelde had ze wat problemen met haar internetverbinding.  Maggie vond dat ze mij te lang had laten wachten (3 dagen - wat ik zelf eigenlijk een normale wachttijd vind om iets te ontvangen over een weekend)  en dus liet ze mij een extra patroontje kiezen.  Wauw - een aanbod te mooi om te weigeren.  Ik koos deze schatten want O is helemaal weg van 'woefs'! Merci Maggie!

I found the pattern for the softies and zoo basket in Maggie's etsy shop called Maggierama.  Her patterns are PDF files and so they are emailed to you rather than posted.  When I ordered my pattern Maggie was having some internet issues.  She felt I'd been waiting too long for my order (only 3 days - which I personally think is a normal waiting time to receive something, especially with a weekend in between) and so she let me choose an extra pattern for free!  Wow - so very kind and an offer too good not to take her up on!  I chose these cuties because O loves 'woofs' at the moment.  Thank you Maggie!

Comments

  1. Babs06/11/2011, 12:33

    Oh die zijn schattig, een perfect cadeautje voor een kindje, of grote meisjes die net 25 zijn lol

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  2. Marina17/11/2011, 14:27

    Ooh, zo fantastisch, ik ben er wild van, en wat een mooie uitvoering heb je er van gemaakt, echt beestig :0)!!!

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