Pink and Barbara

updating a dress for new years eve

I had this dress with a wonderfull fit..but...the sleeves where terrible:

Horrible sleeves right?

So I took it apart and changed the sleeves and the fit just a bit:

Much better now...so new years eve...here I come...

Hugs Barbara

Building houses bee

You might have heard about Jeanneke's Building houses project 2012.

I loved it. Jeanneke and others will be making one a day for 2012.  I don't think I will make 365 but I would to make some. I organised a bee for some of my friends and we started making a try-out block.

This is mine! The blocks are 7,5 x 7,5 cm and I think I will be doing a quilt as you go method to put them together.

We ate some cookies and drank some tea before we got started,.. As you can see on the table I gave away small scrap-bags and we are thinking about doing a small swap later this spring.

we had a wonderful time!

Hugs Barbara

The window att Villa Vanilla

Hi!

I just wanted to show you the lovely christmas advents calender Tuula at Villa Vanilla had:

She had all these small boxes with houses in it:

it was hard to take pictures trough the window..but it looked lovely..

Hope you had a wonderfull christmas!

Wrapping

Tonight I finished wrapping the final gifts. I love wrapping gifts. When I was little girl I dreamed about having a wrapping service as a company as an adult:-)
But I still love spending some extra time making every gift look nice. This is paper and labels from tilda.

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A block

I am at a game of dh floorball with Molly.. In the middle of our Christmas shopping.. And I finished a block here while watching.. Every minute counts when you have a little one!

Greetings from Barbara
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Pink and Barbara Christmas Party

We had wonderful tim at Villa Vanilla for my Christmas Party. The whole shop was decorated in a christmas theme so the pillow from Soed Idee looked wonderful there. The christmas music was playing and there was a real christmas spirit

There was quite a big group of people..some of them did a lot of christmas and clothes shopping as well at Villa Vanilla :-)

We drank some glögg (red spiced wine) and at some ginger cookies to start with. Tuula made some traditional porridge and ham sandwiches as well:

Maybe you can join us next time. Thank you all who came and Merry Christmas! I am taking a bit of a blogging Holiday since I am preparing things for the syfestival in February which is going to be a first for Pink and Barbara...lots to do!

 

 

The weather

This is a picture of what the weather is like today! But it is the perfect weather for a christmas party this weekend!

Greetings from Barbara
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a new quilt for Molly

I made this new supersoft quilt for Molly out of Shannon Fabrics Cuddle Cube. It is so soft..she is playing and cuddling with it all day long! It was also so fast and easy to sew...always nice!

Hugs Barbara

 

 

Home from England!

I had such a wonderful time in England. I had so much fun and laughed until I cried. It was also very nice to finally meet some colleagues that I only knew from the phone. It is so nice to have faces with the voices on the phone!

So let start at the beginning.

Otto brought me to the lovely hotel here are some pictures of my room:

I waited in the Pub downstairs and had a cup of tea:

I arrived late saturday and went out to dinner with Otto, his wife and some ladies from the Sampler in Haarlem, Holland. I had some lovely Lamb roast with mint sause.. so good!

Here are some pictures of the outside:

I also went on a morning walk. I had to jump over a fence..but I had a nice view over the valley and there was a lott of fog:

Everyday we had a lovely full english breakfast. With we I mean ..me, Petra, Mary and her husband Joe:

At ANBO we had a lovely time. I saw the new fabrics and met my collegues:

Otto's wife told me that there was a Cath Kidston shop in town which made me very very happy! I asked Petra and Mary to join me...... So we kidnapped Sally and she took us to the shop...and we shopped! I was so lucky that my shipment to Sweden hadn't left ANBO when we got back so I was able to to squeeze it all in with the help of sweet Daryl who opened all the packages for me again!

I got everything today...2 big boxes of new samples...JUMMY...I love my job!

Have a nice evening!

Barbara

 

 

 

Stitchery club

Tonight we had stitchery club again! So much fun with tea and chocolate cake! I am stitching the christmas party pillow.. So cute!

Greetings from Barbara
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