Back home

Now I´m back home again and can use my ordinary broadband. I don´t like the mobile one, yesterday it was slower than slow. So slow that I couldn´t use it.
But now....here come a lot of pictures from our trip. I will start with stitchery pics to show you that I found some time to do stitch too.

My mother´s face has got colours

I love midsummer.

Flowers

Food

Öland is a windy island and the people use it....

....today....

....and yesterday.

More pictures:

Yes, it was a lot....

Tomorrow I´m going to Denmark.....

I´m on a roadtrip

These are my companions for this weekend, both of them are 20+ and still going strong.
It´s our first trip this year, destination Öland. It´s a beautiful island on the Swedish eastcoast.

The stop for this evening is here by the sea, the village is called Degerhamn. This is what I see looking through the window.

Food time!

There was a beautiful sunset!

Of course I have made "fabric things" today too. When my hubby was driving I finished the binding on my house. There will be better pictures when I´m back home.

And tomorrow I will start stitching.....

The last couple has moved in

One of the last persons who moved into my house was Freaky Fred....

.....together with his girlfriend.

I will add a button to the door, and maybe in the middle of the flowers too.

Just one thing left - the binding. Dark brown, the same fabric as the windows.

An old photo

This old, red photo album is a treasure. It´s my mother´s, filled with photos from when she was a child and a teenager.

It´s like "old time" scrapbooking inside.

This is the photo I wrote about yesterday. My mother is the tall girl on the right staying together with friends who lived in the same house.

A while ago my mother made this watercolour painting from the photo. It helps me with the colours of clothes and hair. So I searched in my stash for fabrics and look what I found.

Could it be better? The striped one could have been leftovers from that dress.

So I picked up my pencil and started to sketch. I have thought about making this for a long time now, but yesterday the inspiration was there. Here are some sneak peeks from my version.

It was fun to make them my way. I had to do some small changes to make it work with stitchery and applique, but I think that´s ok. It wasn´t meant to be a copy.

These are the fabrics I´m going to play with to make the stitchery into a wallhanger. Don´t know if I will use them all.

It´s raining and raining and raining......

.....but here inside by me it´s warm and cosy. I don´t have to go to the beach, no picnic and no barbeque tonight, just sitting here by my sewing machine. It´s wonderful, isn´t it.....positive thinking. Of course I want to do the summer things too, but when I can´t, I like it here together with my fabrics.

A couple of weeks ago I found an old project on my shelf and went on finishing it. It was my guardian angels which I started when a friend of mine really needed guardian angels. But life turned into another direction and the angels were put aside. Until now. I finished the quilting, stitched the pillowcase together and made the bindings.

 Here is the result, a pillow and a wallhanger.

 On the pillow I stitched in two different colours.

 On the wallhanger I only used one colour but made an applique cloud.

I added two blocks to the wallhanger as a decoration.

Then I  made a pattern of the project, "Guardian Angels". You will find it in the shop on my website.

Now I´m going to eat some yummy, Swedish strawberries for lunch and at the same time visit the nice blogs I´m following. I think I will have a wonderful lunch break.

Update: For some reason Í can´t leave comments on your blogs....frustrating! But I love what I´ve seen and read.....

Later I´m going to scan a photo of my mother and her friends. It´s about 70 years old. Then I will make a stitchery out of it, and in the end it will become a wallhanger together with fabrics from the 30s.
More about that next time.

I´m proud of myself today!

I have tought about some kind of make over for my blog for a long time now and today was the day.
I decided to make it look like my website. Then I managed to figure out how to fix the header and the background to fit into Blogger´s templates. It wasn´t easy but maybe I´m smart or just had a lucky day....
Then I fixed the labels and gadgets and now I´m satisfied with how my blog looks.

This is what he looks like. A brown and green little man with a big heart....maybe he´s in love?

Now I will go on cleaning up the mess in my mailbox and my laptop and...lots to do. It´s so satisfying having the strength to do this.

 I think today is a good day, wish you all feel it that way!

More people have moved in

These two lives on the same floor. Do you think they will have fun together?