Puppy Loooove

I think my youngest (11 in March) has a girlfriend....she has been texting him during the Christmas break and just now she called his cell....how cute is that?? :=D

Over the weekend I made a new cover for 2010 calender, but forgot to take a pic.. Nothing very fancy, very nice paisly fabric that I embelished with seed pearls and some metalic variegated threads. At least better than storebought covers in fake leather :-)

The good and the bad

There has been some sadness in our house the last week or so, because three of the four salamanders the kids adopted last summer has died. Yesterday John's girlie Lea was found all dried up and did he suffer all day long...cried his little (nah, that boy do have a big) heart out. We figured out that this sudden onslaught of death probably is due to the fact that in captivity these little guys couldn't hibernate and without hibernation they couldn't just make it.

Well, yesterday the fabrics I ordered from Hancocks Paduca finally arrived after have been on their merry way over the ocean. Did it arrive by rowboat one might wonder, since it took four weeks...Happily they looked exactly as I thought they would and I think they will work very well on the tables in the RV.

And finally - after having waited two years or something, Sam finally got a place in his former school and will start there on Tuesday. The current school hasn't worked out for him at all (but it works splendidly for John), well the learning has been OK but many other pupils leaves a lot to be desired from - specially when all the good ones have given up left for "better" schools and the badasses have staid on. Sam can hardly believe it's true - one of his biggest wishes has come true and he will be back with his friends that he went to day care, 1-3 grade and plays soccer with. And as a mom, I feel proud of having managed to finally pull this of for him.

This weekend is the end of Christmas in our house, so all ornaments and Christmassy table cloths and placemats will be stored away and I will get my dinner table back and can start to sew again - yipiieeee!! I think I will start with a small makeup bag for my nailtools

PS What do you think of the new template design? Me like it a looooot:- )

Happy New Year

to all and everyone!!
Thanks to the dining room table that acts like my sewing table, is decorated for Christmas and all sewing stuff is stored in the study, not even a new cover for the 2010 almanack can be made.

So instead I have be re-reading novels from the 90th (Sally Bauman) cause my stack of new and unread books is zilch and - since I figured that nail polish and sewing don't exactly go hand in hand - I created a new blog for just for decorating nails and occational other beauty stuff. If anyone might be interested, you can find it here
Believe it or not, polsihing your nails is great fun LOL.
That blog has had patheicaly small number of hits, so if anyone has any good advice on how to direct traffic there, just holler.

Hugs from a very snowy and coooooold Stockholm!

Lookie lookie

Just look what I got for Christmas from my darling Sis



and my oh so sweet and über generous niece Mathilda



Both the jelly roll and the 6 FQs scream Wolfie and it's evident that they where choosen with the heart.

Love both of you!!!

NOTD No 1

Now my quilting friends will think that I have gone totally bonkers, not a word about sewing, just nails.....
Today I did manage to take one acceptable picture of my Christmasy painted nails - thank g-d for little favours - huh? The burple Viva la Diva coated with Mavalas Violet Diamonds simply refused to cooperate with the camera, no matter how many pics I took or which camera I used. Today I used Mavalas Satin Red and coated it with Mavalas Glitter Gold and it does look very Christmasy, but the friggin red thing takes forever to dry and of coerce it puckers. I do understand why I haven't read anything in the Swedish make-up blogs about Mavala - it is simply not good enough to spend time and money on, even though it is very cheap.

Well - it's Christmas Eve which is the main celebration day here in Sweden and in a while we will sit down to have Christmas lunch. At 3pm me and my sis who is in Västerås and probably a lot of people at our age, will sit down in front of the TV and watch "Donald Ducks Christmas Eve". Can't help but giggle a bit since our kids do not understand why I have to watch that show...you can watch it anytime you want on DVD!! But for me and sis, that show is the harbinger of Christmas and one of the few fond memories of our childhood.

So from us all, to all of you A Very Merry Christmas!!

Let it snow

The last week it has snowed here in Stockholm and even though I am not a winterysnowy kind of person, the whole world looks better with it than without. The weathermen sais it will fall some more during the night, so hopefully we will have a white Christmas and the kids can have a real wintery Christmas leave from school.

The Christmas ham is in the oven and me, I have still not managed to be able take any good pics of the burple glittering nails - buhuuu.

If anyone (yohoooo - The DH!!!) would feel inclinded to surprise the socks of me at Christmas (even though we stopped gifts among the grown up years and years ago) this is a fail proof hint;-) I simply swoon at the endless possibilities....

If anyone can/would be sweet to send me instructions on how to take great pics of polished nails that actualy look like the nails do IRL, I would be most grateful. No matter what I try, they still turn out wrong and purple polish is the worse. It's like trying to take great pics of dark blue and purple flowers - they only turn out wrong kind of blueish.

Meanwhile I'm going to sort through my fabrics stashes to find some fitting ones for a pair of owen mitts :-)