On family, children, sewing, running, renovating – and this and that

Chicken Pants with Heart Pockets

Monday, June 8th, 2009 Posted in Day to day, Our garden, Sewing | 21 Comments »

After a few weeks without sewing, I made Frida these: I altered them slightly from the pattern which is from Ottobre 2/2003. The smallest size was an 86, and normally I would make Frida an 8, so I made them slightly ...

Abundance of Colours

Sunday, May 31st, 2009 Posted in Day to day, Family, Our garden | 14 Comments »

Tomorrow it'll be June. Today however, summer arrived! Gorgeous, right? The garden is an amazing place at the moment - we have flowers in all colours. Today the temperatures went up to around 23 degrees Celsius. Tomorrow is supposed to be even better... And my ...

After the rain

Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Our garden, Ronja, Sewing, The house | 3 Comments »

Mads is out biking with the cycling club, even though he was checking the sky every two minutes trying to foresee whether the next heavy shower was on its way. Ronja is dancing and singing on the couch to the tones ...

Fireworks in the garden

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Our garden | 6 Comments »

We had a wonderful evening yesterday. In spite of it being a bit windy, it was quite warm enough to have dinner in the garden, and I think Mads enjoyed his birthday a great deal. Today the peonies have been popping ...

Thirtysomething

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Birthdays, Day to day | 5 Comments »

   ♥ Happy Birthday, Mads! ♥ The girls and I woke up Mads at around 6:30 singing birthday song and bringing his present. He has gone off to work now, but we had breakfast together and we'll continue celebrating him, when he ...

Five girls in the good old days

Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Our garden, Outings, Ronja | 7 Comments »

Tomorrow we're really moving on to summer. And what a way to do it - May has officially been the sun-richest month in Denmark since DMI (the Danish Meteorological Institute) started measuring in 1920. The last record is from 1947 - back ...

A thief in the night…

Sunday, May 25th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Our garden, Ronja | 8 Comments »

  What you see here is my very first blooming poppy (yep, that's the one I posted about last time) - and another one with it. That must have been the second one, and I never got to see it in the ...