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Locking serged seam ends
I sometimes visit the forums on Oliver + S’s site. In fact it is where I met my circle of awesome sewing friends from around the world.When I visited today someone asked how you lock the thread after...
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Attic update
We’re picking up the floor for the attic today. So there will be package carrying tonight, I think. One pack contains 3 sq meters of floor boards and I’m pretty sure it weighs a ton. I’m not sure if we...
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Other places I’ve been online
I have an awesome circle of friends I’ve met online. Most of them I met at the Oliver + S discussion forums. Over time we have come to get to know each other well and share in our successes and...
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Lazy Saturday
We had a rainy and dreary day here today.I spent most of it running errands dropping off and picking up kids.Isabel went geocaching with her hiking group but since they were doing that in the little...
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Floored
On Friday I left the girls home alone and drove to pick Rickard up from work. Next stop was a gas station near home to rent a trailer then off to Staffanstorp to pick up 14 more liters of wall paint, 3...
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Cultured
I’m seeing Shakespeare on Wednesday. The RSC puts on Richard II in Stratford-upon-Avon and send it live in theatres around the world. I’m so excited to have a ticket to see it.And on Thursday next week...
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Walled
After two weeks of inactivity we finally got to finish the paint job in the attic. The walls are all painted now – we ran out of paint with a wall and a half left in the stairwell and had to thin it...
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Closeted
Once the girls’ rooms were painted I realised I had lots of blue and pink paint left over and so I do what you do when you’re bitten by a bug. I looked around to see what else I could get away with...
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Doctored
In these days of short-lived tv-shows (Firefly anyone?) it’s no small feat to have a tv-show last 50 years.I came to Doctor Who late and I haven’t seen any of the Classic Who episodes (other than the...
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Advent
We celebrate Advent in Sweden. Four Sundays before Christmas Eve we light a candle and meet with friends and family to celebrate with big cocktail parties or just coffee and cookies.This candle holder...
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Gingerbreaded
On Monday night I mixed up a batch of my great grandma Inez’s gingerbread.It’s a dead easy recipe to make but it needs to rest overnight or it will be too runny to work with. I dropped it all in a...
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Odour
After our lovely dinner last night (fried herring with mashed potatoes) we drove to the hardware store to get moulding for the hatches in the attic and for the window sills.Let me just say that the mix...
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Recipe: Gingerbread
I finished baking the gingerbread last night. I haven’t counted them and given that they are of such varying size I don’t think a number is really helpful.Like I said the recipe is super easy to make....
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Saffron
Another thing that is quintessentially Christmas to me is saffron. I rarely use it at other times of year. The usual way of using it is in sweet rolls where you shape the dough into s-shapes and...
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Windows and hatches
Rickard took the day off on Thursday and put in the wooden boards around the windows (embrasures, google translate tells me) in our windows in the attic.After a line of putty on the outside against the...
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Lucia Cats – Yule Boars
I made saffron rolls last week which were very tasty but the traditional use for saffron at Christmas is in “Lussebullar“.Traditionally made for Lucia which always fall on Dec 13th to celebrate the...
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The Dark is Rising
I joined a FB-group dedicated to re-reading The Dark is Rising sequence in honour of the 40th anniversary of the titular book’s release and it led me to this link with reviews of the books.I am reading...
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The Attic – Unveiling
Remember this?In almost exactly six month’s time it has become this:We did an epic IKEA run on Friday last week where we got beds, sofas, storage drawers, rugs, bedding, lamps etc. We assembled flat...
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New studio
Now that the attic is done (more or less) I have turned my attention to Isabel’s old room which is being turned into a studio for me. I say studio because it’s easier than “my new sewing room”, and...
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Slow going
I didn’t get as much done in the studio this week as I had hoped. The girls are both back in school and evening activities have started up.Tonight we bought Indian take-out and watched some Netflix...
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