Pink and Barbara

The Cottage part 2

On the way to the cottage you pass a village called Stenjö By. It is about 20 minutes from our Cottage. It is an old village and they try and keep it that way. It is very rustic. They also use it sometimes to record old movies. One series was in some parts recorded here. It is called Emil in Lönneberga by Astrid Lindgren.

Some of you might remember this:

 

Some of the pictures we took.

Enjoy!

The cottage part 1

As some of you know we have this lovely cottage in the South of Sweden where we normally spent our holidays and also celebrate Midsummer solstice.

This time we went down and celebrated midsummer solstice and had a wonderful time. We had 2 Dutch guests over and some Swedish friends as well. I have taken a lot of pictures to share with you so I will do this in some parts...

Part 1 is about the lake. We have "our own lake" about a 3 minute drive or a 15 minute walk from us. It has some great rocks by the edges so that you can sunbathe and swim there. We don't really know how big our lake is because it goes around a bend. but on the maps it looks big.

Here is a satellite picture:

Visa större karta

The arrow is our cottage and the lake is on the left.

Here are some pictures on of the lake:

Enjoy!

Part 2 coming soon...

Day planner

I spent some time looking for a new day planner. I couldn't find one I liked. I wanted one with some interest to it, but not overly designed. I also wanted room to doodle new designs and ideas,  write a to do list and a "to contact" list. So after looking for one for some time I made one myself.

I wanted one in a flexible form because I don't get the whole thing of carrying around a whole year of stuff of things that you have already done and then coming to december and being able to plan for January. So the idea is that I will fill these up as I go along and take out the old ones and save those for reference.

The planner closed:

First title page:

The day planner pages:

The address title page:

The contact pages:

The Notes title page:

the notes pages are just normal pages and some plastic pockets for things:

So this is the whole day planner. I will be testing it out soon and hope it will all work. You can also order these from Pink and Barbara. It will be handmade by me and made to fit your needs and your style. Contact me for more information.

Enjoy!

Birthday cake

My dh had his birthday last weekend. He is the kind of person who never has a wishlist of presents and things and is generally happy with small things.

He does have one request. He mom used to always make him strawberry birthday cake. So also this year he got his birthday cake...but made by me... It was yummie..

Baskets....

Here are blocks 17,18,19,20 and 21... 

It has been busy here the last week. I have 3 new bag patterns that will be coming out soon. The classes all booked for the fall. There is a new website coming and some new packaging for the Pink and Barbara Patterns. So loads of new things coming soon...

Baskets weekend ...

Hi!

This weekend I transformed this old basket into a sewing basket for my baskets..isn't it cute?

It has room for everything on the inside...perfect!

I have also been working on my baskets and I have 16 of them now.

Block 13

Block 14

block 15

block 16

I actually have 17 blocks now but one got rejected. It was to messy and to little contrast. But how knows...it might end up in the quilt later anyway.

This is the quilt now pinned up on my designwall