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Thrifted Goods

My daughter and I went thrifting the other day. We have 4 thrift shops in this tiny town of 15.000 inhabitants. I was looking for some storage cans for my craft room and since I already use this model, I was delighted to find some more. Of course she found some goods too and I let her pick out 2 plastic figurines, as I think they're pretty rad. One of the Power Puff Girls and Piglet.

I also found another brown bottle for my collection. Now I can put them out on display. I think they look quite good. As do Little My in my type case.

10::10

I've decided to do a "little" project. The plan is to do 10 projects in 10 weeks. I figured I could manage a project a week? I want to get back in crafting gear, so to speak, so I came up with this idea. The catch is that I have to use what I have, except for times when I run out of thread or doggie eyes.

I've made a list of things that I want to make and each week I will pick a new subject. Here it is in random order:

1. Elephant Card
2. Giraffe Card
3. Bird Card
4. Elephant Softie
5. Giraffe Softie
6. Cat Softie
7. Dino Softie
8. Knitted Dog
9. *New* Softie
10. Pillow

I hope to post a finished project every Sunday and to mark the end of my 10::10 project, in the beginning of June, I will set up a little shop where I will sell the goods. Sounds interesting? 'Course I hope to do more than ONE thing a week, but to keep my spirit high, ONE is my goal.

June also marks the beginning of my daughters new life - Kindergarten life that is - and my new life. What ever that'll be. Maybe I should aim for 10 projects a week, so I can make a living out of it and pay for my Sweeties Kindergarten?

Here's some W.I.P.: A knitted snake for my daughter and stitchery for a pillow. The "Four-Blossom Flower" is from this book, that I borrowed at the library. Lots of inspiration and "how-to's" for a beginner like me....

Russian All Over

Now this is a love/hate thing for me. Russian dolls. As with a lot of stuff, coming back,getting popular, I didn't appreciate these dolls when they returned. Like leggings. What's up with those? To 80's for me and still they've grown on me. They do look quite cute, cut off under a skirt or something. Though I wouldn't wear them. But back to the dolls. My daughter has a few. I've even purchased some fabric.

My sweet girlfriend Laila at ViOhlin gave me the wee ones - cute, eh?

So now I'm going to do a little Russian Doll thing myself! I found this pattern, at the local thrift store and thought I'd throw myself into a little stitchery! Maybe in some other colors - whaddaya say? And maybe not until Winter. It IS a Winter project, I'd say.

Oh and I just ordered one of these from Mette in her Erleperle shop. And do you remember these I got from Run Amok? I guess it's more love now, than hate?

Guest Blogging

This week I am guest blogging at Emmas Design Blog!

Emma blogs mainly about everything interior decorating wise. I am a huge fan of her blog, so I was VERY honored, when she asked me to do this. She finds a lot of interesting stuff from around the world, most of it in the Scandinavian spirit, I think. She just started writing in English too, so go ahead and flip through her pages of super inspiring photos and links!

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Thank you Emma for asking me to do this. It's so much fun.

I'll be back here one of these days! Today was the final Post I did for Emma. It has sure been a lot of fun Guest Blogging and I'm looking forward to see the next Guest Blogger at Emmas!

They live thousands of Miles apart....

...and still they wear the same sweater! Let me present my sweet little daughter and Tracy's ever adorable Little Bug. Tracy told me that the hearty sweater was an H&M thrift find, where as my girls hearts were made by a friend of her Great Grandmas. When she got it for Christmas, I immediately remembered Little Bug - funny, huh? - and of course my babe just LOVES her sweater. She wants to wear it all the time. It's hardly even Spring here yet!

Made For A Good Cause

These 10 Chinese girls went to Carol's Made For China project and I can see they already arrived! I think it's such a great idea. I just had to support it. Carol's sister has adopted a little girl - Jane - and will be going back to China in late March to visit orphanages. Carol then planned to make 325 little gifts for her, to take along and give to the kids there, since they don't have anything. She asked if anyone was interested to help her and if you take a look through her "pages" and "loot" - I would say a lot was interested in supporting such a great project! If you're super fast, you can still contribute, as she will need the gifts by March 20 th.

(More here, here and here.)

I've had some more packages going out of here lately. Since Amy send me such sweet gifts I wanted to send something back. She has 2 boys, so I made a blue giraffe and the boat elephant for them all to enjoy!

Liberating Spring

I'm feeling Spring. The other day the Danish mail order catalog from Bon Aparte arrived and don't you think these fabric prints says LIBERTY OF LONDON? I think so. I LOVE Liberty prints and I'm gonna need some to decorate my daughters room. I also found this at the library last week. It features 2 of my favorite stylists Andrea Larsson and Iben Windsmose.

 

I have to go to Copenhagen to get a hold of these fabrics (or order on line). I usually stop by Skipper Stoffer, because they also have STRIPES! I'll have to check out Grønlykke.com. They have lots of prints and flowers. For a tour around some of Copenhagen's most FABULOUS shops, visit Alexa at Lille Hus (scroll down).

Liberty prints in corduroy, twill and knits with Lycra from Skipper Stoffer.

Sundays Paper

Last Sundays paper had an interesting article on Wall Stickers. I must say I love this idea, as they come of easily. And we ARE in the middle of rearranging our house, so the kids gets their own separate rooms....

The article featured 2 Danish company's - Ferm Living and Boligtrend - which both has some amazing stickers. I've only been familiar with Blik, Barbapapa, maybe a few others and of course wallpaper by Inke.

(These 4 are by Boligtrend)

Go check out Ferm Livings more natural stickers, like branches and flies. Of course my son wants the Water World ones. He thinks they will go quite nice with his Garfield Wallpaper. I dunno. I was going for a more ME, retro, seventies kinda feel to his new room, but he gets the last word. It's his room. Now my daughters room, that's a whole other story. She gets the Barbapapa sticker and of course the flowery wallpaper I got for her last year......

Swapparoo

Kristy and I did a little swapparoo and look! I got Reginald!!!! I sent her one of these in exchange and a little mushroom. We also traded some fabrics and Kristy sent me some of that fabulous fabric, that Reginald is made of! I so needed some blues, as I just bought my daughter some turquoise stockings, to go with her turquoise long sleeved T, she inherited from her brother. I think there will be enough fabric to make a tiny skirt. Thank you Kristy!

I also got a package from Amy - who is no longer blogging :o( but she still shares her photo's on Flickr ;o) I had commented on her LOVELY coasters (on her blog) and she offered to send me some! Isn't she the nicest? She even included a needle case, which I really needed - the one I had made was awful - and an Otedama Bag. I really love her fabric choices. They are so cheerful. So me. It was all beautifully wrapped, but of course I tore of the pore paper, before I could get a chance of taking any photo's. Well I would've had to wait a few days for photo's though, we've had so much rain and cloudy weather here....anyway I'm thinking of things to send in return, but it's a secret for now ;o)

I want to THANK EVERYBODY for the super nice comments on my Giraffe, Elephant and Mice Softies. It's just amazing and I am overwhelmed! I have some sneaky plans on patterns for them, but more on that later....