A wonderful day, NDSM shipyard Amsterdam

My sister, my kids and me had a wonderful day at the Amsterdam shipyard called NDSM. It’s a wonderful mysterious and very very inspiring place. Traveling there is an adventure by itself for little two and four year olds. There is a ferry going there from Amsterdam central station. It was a extremely bright and sunny day. Which was perfect whether to take pictures in.

And on top of that I came across a few still blossoming elderflower bushes. I was so happy! Elderflowers blossoms hold my total attention this year. Last year I already was dying silk and cotton fabric with them, but this year I tried some more, currently I am making syrup to make fresh and delightful lemonade with. Because of this year’s extremely warm and dry whether their blossoms turn into berries a lot earlier then normally, so I was out harvesting the blossoms a few times last week and could find just enough blossoms to dye another batch of fabrics and make the lemonade. What I would like to try next year is to make fried elderflower blossom as an entrée at a dinner party and to make some facial cleaning tonic as well. As I read the list of what one can do with this magical flower it seems so incredible this can all be done with these blossoms. Their smell alone is mesmerizing...Coming up in a new blog post are some pics of the lemonade being made and a translation of the syrup recipe.....

Some beautiful architecture pics seen at the NDSM shipyard...

Anxiously waiting for the ferry to pick us up..

In the water behind my son you see an old black submarine ones owned by the Russians. The colors in this picture remind me of those old pictures of me and my sister when we were little. Hurray for I-Phone photographs :))

 This building i find sooo beautiful! It's an apartment building build partly over the water.