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For weeks facial masks have been a big issue in the sewing and embroidering groups as they are hard to come by in shops. A couple of designers offer ebooks and embroidery designs for free. Interested I have followed the discussion and now I have to start with the making as from tomorrow on it is the citizens duty to wear such a mask when shopping or using public transport.
Continue reading “A new duty: Wear a mask!”
After the short return of winter two weeks ago when I put up my winter garden flag again now spring is there.
Continue reading “A springlike Easter monday”
This year it took long to feel the Easter feeling as our everyday life is too topsy-turvey. But on Easter Saturday it had a grip on us and so we decorated our long year Easter wreath made of polystyrene eggs.
Continue reading “Happy Easter 2020”
Whenever I buy an embroidery design (which is too often the case), than I always have an idea what to do with it. But as children often take to much food on their plate so I buy too many designs and then I am overwhelmed with all my ideas. Therefore I am so thankful for FruBlomgrens little contests. Through the frame she sets with the contests my block dissolves and I start stitiching again.
Continue reading “Motivator”
Officially we have spring for the last 10 days. Therefore I took our winter garden flag down even though I haven’t started on the spring flag yet.
Continue reading “Return of winter”
This night it was time again for setting the clock to summertime. Even though the Europeans voted in autumn 2018 to give this habit up. But the politicians do not have any plans to do so this year. Let’s hope for a change soon.
Continue reading “Clock work”
Do you love to read? Are you a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien? Then today is the perfect day to look for The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings or The Silmarillion on your shelves and browse through them. As today is the Tolkien-Reading-Day that the British Tolkien Society launchend in 2003.
Continue reading “For Tolkien Fans”
Though my children love embroidery my daughter declines to have every piece of her wardrobe to be embroidered – understandably. But I think that such a big grey hoodie is quite boring. So what could be done?
Continue reading “A gracile ballet dancer”
Ten days ago I had thought that after a couple of days in self-quarantine there would be some sort of routine and that people would get used to it. But it seems that I was quite wrong about that.
Continue reading “Hand washing for everyone”
Due to the abundunce of spare time in Corona self-isolation my son discovered reading for himself. Therefore he needed a reading pillow of his own just as his older sister and their sitters.
Continue reading “Galactic reading pillow”