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Tropical Blend Dress

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011 Posted in Frida, Ronja, Sewing | 10 Comments »

We have weather for summer dresses here in late April. I can hardly believe it - 20 degrees (Celsius) during Easter holidays, isn't it amazing? It definitely makes me want to sew summer clothing, so yesterday I made another dress from ...

Lickety Spring

Friday, March 26th, 2010 Posted in Family, Our garden, Sewing | 4 Comments »

I made a Lickety Split bag for spring a while ago as a gift for a special blog-friend. I didn't show you then, but it's more than appropriate now, because I think I can say with confidence, that spring is ...

The girl in the window

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Day to day, Ronja, Sewing | 5 Comments »

I just left work, and while I was walking to the train, a bird was singing - you know, spring-like! I immediately started dreaming of bursting buds, sunshine, and warmer temperatures. It won't be long - right?   This is Ronja modeling her ...

Our house so far!

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Ronja, The house | No Comments »

Our house is finally starting to look the way we imagined it some 4 years ago. It isn't finished yet, but this past weekend it has definitely been taking shape. Sometimes it feels like we have been waiting way too ...

Our sandblasted house

Monday, April 28th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Ronja, The house | No Comments »

 Saturday the girls and I were banned from the property due to the house being sandblasted. The awful noise it creates is not for kids (or anyone else for that matter), so we decided to go to the ZOO with Sandra from ...

Weekend at Konga in Sweden

Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Holiday, Ronja | 3 Comments »

Yesterday afternoon we got back home from our weekend at Kongagården in Sweden.      We had a wonderful weekend - Kongagården is a beautiful place. The house is BIG, and we had lots of space to relax, play, and just spend time ...

Spring apron

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Holiday, Ronja, Sewing | 4 Comments »

I finished a little apron blouse for Frida tonight. I found a pattern for an apron in a Danish sewing book called "Sådan syr du" ("How to sew") by Rikke Misciattelli, and I totally wanted to see it made with Amy Schimler's ...

More 2nd floor – less scrap yard

Sunday, March 4th, 2007 Posted in Day to day, Ronja, The house | No Comments »

The 2nd floor so far It's too late in the evening for me to write a novel, but I can tell you that a lot is happening upstairs at the moment. Today Mads and one of our friends made the concrete floor ...