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Oilcloth Apron For A Little Painter

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 Posted in Frida, Sewing | 13 Comments »

Frida loves to paint. A LOT. And so far she has been using an oversize bib as an apron, but yesterday I decided we should be able to do better than that. So I made her an apron. The oilcloth is ...

Sunny and Freezing

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 Posted in Family, Sewing, Winter | 7 Comments »

Yesterday afternoon, while Mads was working on the preparations for installing the exhaust hood in the kitchen, the girls and I went to a nearby playground. The weather was beautiful, which was such a thrill after what seems like an ...

Butterfly Pouch and Costumes

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in Family, Ronja, Sewing | 13 Comments »

For 10 weeks, Ronja has been saving her pocket money in order to be able to buy a Nintendo DSi. The rest of the money has been given to her through birthday presents, but she needed to save up for ...

Pettiskirt for a Ballerina

Sunday, February 7th, 2010 Posted in Ronja, Sewing | 17 Comments »

Shrovetide (fastelavn) is coming up here in Denmark, and Ronja wants to go as a ballerina. I decided to try to make her a pettiskirt, and even though the rest of the costume isn't there yet, I wanted to show ...

Going Downstairs

Sunday, January 24th, 2010 Posted in Frida, Sewing | 19 Comments »

Just wanted to show you Frida in her new dress - I think she's beautiful, but I may be biased...

Send More Sunshine

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 Posted in Frida, Sewing, Winter | 5 Comments »

The sun showed itself yesterday! Following days and days of nothing but greyness, it was quite amazing to see the long shadows that were cast on the snow. I was driving in the car with Frida, and she complained about ...

Amy’s Mini Dress

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Posted in Sewing | 6 Comments »

Besides the Simply Stylish Handbag, another thing that has been waiting for me to get on with it, is the Mini Dress from Amy Butler. It's rather funny actually, because I first saw it in a friends Flickr-photostream. She made two ...

The Simply Stylish Handbag

Sunday, January 10th, 2010 Posted in Sewing | 11 Comments »

I have started looking at my pile of unfinished pre-kitchen projects, and this is the first one I decided to pick up again. I bought the pattern from U-handbag a little while ago - before I went into my non-sewing ...