A good weekend

My dad and his wife came to visit (and help) us. We wanted a washing machine and a freezer. We do have a freezer already, of course, but it's so small that it's always full and I can never bake a lot of bread and put there, or buy local organic meet in bigger amounts, not to mention when it's harvesting time at my allotment. I can't carry anything now when I'm pregnant, but even if I was not the machine was way too heavy for my, so I was glad my dad could help Magnus carrying it up the stairs.



Our orchid is in bloom again. We got it on our wedding day 2,5 years ago and since then it's seemed quite sad, but I think it liked moving to this house and to another window.

Slippers and a boring book

Crazy looking slippers and a very interesting book ...



You wouldn't guess, but that slipper is for Nora's little foot. Yes, it's big. It fits me. But I will put it in the washing machine together with its friend (aka the other one) and felt it. I made slippers like these to my sister for Christmas and they were huge before felting. She seems to really like them, as she asked if I could make some for her kids as well :-)

Nora's current slippers are outgrown by far, and through a hole her toe is peaking out. She still wears them.

You hear, I really need to focus on finishing the second one. She choose the colors with me in the yarn shop so there's a great chance she might actually throw away her old ones and use these. I hope they will fit. You never know excatly which size they'll come out as when felting them in the machine.

The book. It's about book-keeping and annual closing. I have a business. It's that time of the year, yes. I wouldn't have read it if I didn't have too. But, it's helpful :-)

Yarn along with Ginny.

smoothie, dolls and winter

The last two days it's been snowing. Our car looks like a snowman every morning when I come out. While writing this I chat with my sister. We talk about what we will do in July and look at photos on the Internet of the island Gotland where we will go with our families, my mom and her boyfriend.

But it's Februari now. We drink smoothies with berries, fruits and vegetables. Nora and I make dolls for her to play with.




Keep calm craft on :-)

Trying something new

It's quite long ago I read about Action Pack the first time, but I checked the page out and really liked the concept. However Nora was so little and I thought it was nothing for us then.

But as this pregnancy goes torwards its end I'm finding myself too tired to come up with ideas, let alone do things that require me to leave my chair. Nora, who is soon five, needs things to do though. Recently I saw the Preschool Compilation Issue and felt that was just what we needed.




As most children she loves to play with water and she's also very curious and asks many question. An experiment of some kind would be something for her, I thought, so we begun with oily fireworks. As we were making it we talked about what we were doing and why it behaved as it did. She was really fascinated and the first thing she did the following day when we visited "Open Kindergarden" was to tell about our little "experiment" and how it worked :-)

There are so many more things in this issue that we want to try out. Like the volcano, the pretzel house, making our own butter - just to mention a few. I'll tell you more later about our future adventures in Action Pack Land ;-) (The picture below is a link.)

We need butterflies

When I was little my grandma once brought farfalle pasta when she visited us. With my sister we painted butterflies as an Easter decoration. I thought of those butterflies the other day when it was snowing. I want spring. I want flowers. I want butterflies.

Well, let's make some.


More inspiration to be found at Friday's Nature Table.

Childroom: dream and reality

I got pregnant just after moving in here and because of my health everything still looks lika a mess. My husband is busy with all daily chores (like laundry, cleaning, doing the dishes etc) besides working full time, so he hasn't got any energy or time to make it more nice at home.

On Pinterest I look a children's rooms and get inspired. I just want to go to Nora's room and make it more tidy and inspiring (but my pain is stopping me). Look at these rooms:

Source: fraupilli.blogspot.de via milly o on Pinterest

I love the wall hanging with the animals.

Source: Uploaded by user via milly o on Pinterest

From Niños... y no tan niños...
Doesn't this look very cozy?! I'd love to sit there and read myself.

And below ... our reality. After playing. Christmas curtains still up (at least there are no Santas on them).

winterland

Winter can be so beautiful. Sunshine through ice crystals. Going for walks in deep snow. Going in to drink something warm. Snowfall, like today.



Still -

all I want is SPRING. And I want it now.

Spring, a baby, the ability to walk without pain again, birds singing, tulips ...

Yarn along: wool and confident birth

This isn't what I'm actually reading. This is the book that I should be reading. I think the title in English is "Confident Birth". When Nora was born five years ago it was with a C-section, because she didn't think arriving with her head first was such a very good idea. So far, this baby seems to like the idea though. I hope it stays in this position until it's time to arrive :-)

The knitting. What to say about it. It's not so much yet. I made a pattern the other evening of a lady from a much loved child book and now I'm giving it a try knitting it in this yarn (100% wool from Swedish sheep). Maybe the wool is too thin. I'm not sure yet.

More knitting and reading over at Ginny's blog.

A secret message

Valentine's Day is not a big thing here, although it's grown since I was little (especially among younger people). However, creating or recieving a secret love message is always nice so I played around a little with oil pastel crayon and water colors.

dinner time

When dinnner's boring, there are always ways to make it more funny ;-) Nora giggled until there was almost no food left on the plate.