Thursday, November 29, 2007

More birds

I miss the birds' singing these days. It means a whole lot to me to hear them early in the morning - I love it and it makes such a beautiful start of the day...

But when I can't HEAR birds then I need to SEE birds! Actually I collect wooden birds - like the ones in the picture. Brought home from Sweden from skiing trips and lovely summer holidays in one of my favourite countries. And what about blue birds - aren't they adorable? With their nice hats and dresses. They belong to this talented artist, Marmeecraft. I LOVE her drawings and wonderful expression..... Real living birds are sadly not an issue in our garden. Our cats have made that quite clear...I do however love to gaze at tiny birds eating seeds, while tilting their little fluffy heads or flapping their wings. To be able to do that again I think I need to get a new bird table. One of those that stick to the window glass in heights where cats can't go!!

Friday, November 23, 2007

A swap

The fabric with the tiny flowers was the reason why I am going to make my first "swap". All of you, who has been blogging for a long time, have probably tried it before - but to me it is a whole new world.....

It is a nice girl from Uruguay who asked me to make a swap. She really liked the flower fabric. At first I had to think whether I wanted to or not. But having seen the fabulous stuff that some of you have swapped, I decided to give it a go!

Pale pink, pale blue and lime green are the colours we have to find for each other. The swap can be buttons, beads, trims, candy and that kind of stuff - and of course fabric. The question I didn't know was: how MUCH fabric do I send of to Urguay? Luckily this wonderful girl knew, because she has swapped a lot of times.

So.......now I am figuring out what to send. I think it could become very interesting to find the things for Natalia - I only hope it doesn't cost a fortune to send the package in the mail. (Well, who am i kidding? It is all the way to Uruguay....!!!!)

But never the less, I am looking forward to receiving a package from Uruguay. What is in it, I will tell you all about later on..

Too bad that the guys at the picture doesn't come in pale blue, pale pink or limegreen!!

Thursday, November 22, 2007

White and red

I have found several things in the colours red and white. They are synonymous with this time of year - at least they are to me... Christmas has many other shades these days! I embroidered this paper aeroplane the other day on a little white linen shirt that I made. It is hard to see it, but the plane is on its way into the pocket.... Or what about these WONDERFUL felt slippers with tiny red dots. I saw these in this Swedish shop . They have the exact same shape as a pair my daugther felted for herself. Perhaps I could make her felt a pair for me? I love dots.....