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Butterfly Pouch and Costumes

Thursday, February 11th, 2010 Posted in Family, Ronja, Sewing | 14 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 ...

Clowns and Angels

Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Day to day, Family, Frida, Ronja, Sewing, Special occasions | 13 Comments »

Yesterday, we all went to Fastelavn - you know, the thing I told you about the other day. And Ronja was indeed an angel - here she is on the wings.      Saturday I had been making an outfit for Frida as ...

Ottilia angel

Friday, February 6th, 2009 Posted in Sewing | 22 Comments »

Yesterday evening, I finished Ronja's angel costume, which is based on the Ottilia dress from Ottobre winter, 2007.   It's made up of a dress, an underdress, a headband (as a halo), and a pair of wings. For most of the dress, ...

A year of sewing

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 Posted in Blogging, Day to day, Internet, Sewing | 21 Comments »

I'll just start this post off with a reminder: There are still lots and lots of links out there pointing to my old url http://astrid.thusgaard.com - so please update your links and feeds, as the new url is www.connectingthedots.dk. Same blog, ...

Back from the break

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Cleft Palate, Day to day, Frida, Sewing | 4 Comments »

After a few months break due to a bit of blog-technical difficulties, I'm going to give it a go again. The blog will look slightly different, so bear with me, if something comes out the wrong way at first. I have to find ...

I’m siiiiinging in the rain…..

Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 Posted in Day to day, Family, Outings, Ronja, Running | No Comments »

Yep - that's right! It has been raining a lot the past week, and I know that some people complain about it, but really, it's just a sign that the temperature is so high the snow comes down in the ...

No more winter!

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006 Posted in Day to day, Family, Ronja, Running, Winter | No Comments »

  Ronja on the sled The snow has almost melted, and the weather is getting milder every day now. There is bird’s twitter in the morning and the spring flowers are beginning to show in the garden. Ronja had her last sled ...