IlonaH

I'm a mom to 5 boys, age range 5 to 13 yo. My oldest is living on his own, he's 21. My ears are pierced (once) and my socksize is 37/38 (uk 9-10, US 5/5,5 ; according to a card on socks I got). I love fun sneaker- or short socks!

I love:

• beautiful pendants
• bracelets
• cupcake themed stuff
• bags, I'm addicted to them! Small, shoulder, big ones, (coin-)purses... you name it.
• all things matryoshka
• kawaii, but new to it. So not picky on brand. Cute is cute in my opinion
• fav. patterns: polkadots, paisley, damask, kid's characters (see profile kids below) or general themed, like animals, camo-print or vehicles. Fabric with those victorian images... it's got a name, but forgot how it was called! Usually on white, images in outlines, in blue or pink or something. >> Toile

And this site with fabric makes me drool: Marieke's stoffen

• reading
• music
• lipbalm
• samples of care-products and perfumes
• long relaxing baths... must be because I rarely get them with all the boys in the house... If you feel your kids don't need you anymore, try going to the bathroom! Guaranteed they call "MOM! I need this, can you help me with that", etc.
• my fav. perfume is l'Eau d'Issey. I don't like the heavy scents. I also love scents like patchouli and sandalwood.
• little creatures like owls, turtles, squirrels, birds, cats, dogs. Shortly, basically woodland-, sea- and jungle-creatures.
• felt/fabric pins and cute buttons to put on my bag
• crafting, all sorts... and learning new ones!

My boys

René (13) He loves:

• dragons
• drawing
• Nintendo ds
• computer games
• survival
• jungle print (zebra, tiger, panter)
• technic lego

He loves all colors of the rainbow, but it looks like his fav is red. He's got Ehlers-Danlos syndrom, hypermobility type.

Alexander (12) He loves:

• k'nex
• reading, anything. Adventure mostly, but also history and "how-to".
• swimming
• crafting
• camo-print
• (geeky) gadgets
• fav. color is yellow
• his bento lunch-box
• archeology-kits (small bricks in which bones or stones are hidden, which you have to dig out)
• his science-kit
• games
• loves tea, especially "dragon-tea" (Celestial Seasonings tension tamer).

He's the technician of the family, he has no problems with technical drawings. He's pdd-nos, a mix of autism and adhd. He loves to learn new things.

Dorian (7) He loves:

• his bike
• playing soccer
• side-walk chalk
• lego
• drawing
• Nintendo DS
• computer games
• cars and also Disney Cars
• Toy Story, Shrek
• collecting key-rings
• monkeys are his favourite animals.

His favorite color is green. He loves his Eeyore-blankie, and Eeyore in general.

Martin (5) He loves:

• Thomas the Tank-engine
• lego, duplo and much to the displeasure of his brother, k'nex
• cars and Disney Cars (he has a fav. Cars pillow, can't sleep without it)
• trains
• Dora/Diego/Blues Clues
• riding his bike
• playing outside, preferably in mud
• construction vehicles
• octopus/squid.
• DOGS!
• he loves tea.Has his own 1-person tea-pot (^_^)
• his fav. color is blue. Already since he was 2!

He also has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, like his brother. Gotta love genes!

The all love camo-bandaid, dinosaurs, stickers and whatever boys love further. Please don't send sticks, rocks, or bugs, got quite a supply of those already!

• classic
• country
• International
• easy listening

• Sacajawea
• Harry Potter
• all kinds of Fantasy
• detectives/thrillers
• History real and fiction
• Science Fiction (I like Isaac Asimov's books)

• Scrapbooking, digital as well as hybrid/paper
• softies
• sewing
• altering items (my strangest thing ever was a hubcap)
• matchboxes
• making paper
• dotees
• VERY basic in knitting
• I love crocheting, amigurumi, hats, bags, whatever :)
• sculptures (soapstone, albast)
• mini-books (accordion, matchbook, tagbook, etc.)
• hybrid projects (design digitally, print and embellish with real stuff), like boxes, cards/envelopes and covers.
• making soap
• wet felting, needle felting

• chocolate (absolutely, unfortunately for my silhouette #1), in all forms, liquid and bars, but not too fond of the combo chocolate/cookie (but you'd make my hubby and kids very happy with a twix!)
• (tuna-)salad
• cupcakes (love to decorate them mostly, kids eat them)
• cookies
• coffee-flavoured anything
• banana-milkshake
• coffee specialties
• tea (not to fond of Jasmin tea), fav is Celestial Seasonings Tension Tamer, or dragon tea is my 12-yo calls it, hence the pic on the package. Also I like fruity tea, Lipton pyramids, mint, white and green teas.
• diet coke
• apples
• bananas
• Surinaams/Indian/Chinese/Japanese (NO sushi!)
• My 12-yo and 5-yo love to drink tea

• tulip (hey, I'm Dutch!)
• lilac
• gardenia (but I don't like the smell in perfumes very much. It's never right.)

lime, pink, blue, purple. In that order :). I don't like pastels very much, more the bold side. I like all other colors too, but these are my favs. So don't feel limited to those!

Combo-colors: red/purple, red/aqua, red/pink/orange, brown/blue, brown/pink, brown/pink/orange, lime/pink/orange, lime/aqua, black/white, black/any color in fact.

• Winnie the Pooh & friends (especially Eeyore and Piglet)
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Popples
• Shrek & friends (especially Fiona, Donkey and Puss in Boots, and Shrek himself of course. Also love the babies of Donkey and Dragon!)
• Nemo
• Smurfs
• Mamegoma

• Dried lavender
• fragrance and/or essential oils (no Jasmin), for soap-making
• Felt in all colors of the rainbow (especially skin-colors, green and brown. But any color is welcome!)
• Carded wool to felt
• pretty fabric
• Bath & Bodyworks Aromatherapy Blackcurrant & vanilla scented ANYTHING
• little knick knacks to spy for to put in an I Spy-bag
• Also see Etsy-wishlist, if you have/can do something similar it's great too.
• Gingham and grossgrain ribbons, patterned ribbons
• maple syrup
• rotary cutter! I can't cut straight, really terrible.
• prima (like) flowers/ fabric flowers.
• rub-ons.
• Boy scrap-stuff. I LOVE the girly stuff, but I have only boys, so more use for that. Blues, greens, browns, yellow, orange... you get it. I can use girly stuff for cards though, now I think of it, which I make too every now and then.
• puffy- and gel stickers,
• chipboard. Elements, albums/boxes to alter
• distressing ink
• stamppad for fabric (black)
• charms, for scrapbooking, sewing, as well as jewelry.
• Oh, and CANDY MELTS, haven't found those either!
• Food-colors,
• colors for chocolate (oil-based),
• I love Bakerella's blog, but can't do half the things that look so adorable there, because I have no idea where to get it here. I mean, pens to write on icing? Never heard of them before I found her blog! I'd love some.
• Bento Stitch or Mickey Mouse egg-mold (I have the fish/car-set and rabbit/bear-set )
• other Bento-accessories like little cups, grass-dividers, cute sauce-boxes...
• Jello! We don't have that here, I'd love some. Please no lemon or lime, any other flavour is perfect!
• patterns of softies, bags and baby shoes/boots (see my etsy-favs)... sewing, crocheting
• beautiful beads, and findings that I need to start making jewelry. I love beautiful pendants and bracelets.
• In a candy-swap I got a piece of Hershey's Symphony... now I'm dreaming about it every night! I'd love to try another piece again :)
• safety eyes for softies
• you'd make me happy with any left-overs of Zpaghetti
• any tea, hot chocolate or coffee.
• See "About me" for more of my favs.