Pink and Barbara

Midsummer with Molly

Last weekend was the Midsummer celebrations. Molly celebrated it at her daycare where they made a small pole. For their lunch they had the traditional dinner with the meatballs, fish and fresh potatoes and of-course ice-cream with strawberries after:-)

I must say that I was not a big fan of sending molly so early to daycare. But the teachers there are so wonderful. I don't know how the manage to do everything. They are outside all day and play with them. Often they go to the forest for the day and they have this cart they can pull with a grill on it so then the kids get to cook on that making things like hot-dogs and so on. They even have big projects where the kids get to discover things. Last week it was all about how water and how it can make things move like it can make a waterwheel turn. Molly does this big cheer every time we park the car and she knows she gets to spent the day at daycare. It is the reason that I felt I could open the shop now that I got this opportunity..without them I wouldn't be able  too. I know that she is taken care of and  that the teachers are awesome!

They are always outside..rain or shine

And I actually think molly loves it even better if it does rain:

I took this picture when I came to pick her up one day. As you can see everybody is eating their snacks under the small roof. The teachers are calling her to have something to eat..but she is lying in the rain...:-) 

They have this big playing field where they have swings and stuff...but also rocks and trees they can "climb"

 

And everyday we have to do her hair so she can play all day and even sleep on it...

 This is what she looks like when she wakes up every morning and can't see a thing...poor girl :

Do all 1,5 year olds have so much hair???

Last week we had a storm (the kids were inside that day:-) ) So we didn't have electricity for the whole day. You don't realize how much you use power for everything until it isn't working, cooking, light, hot water, entertainment, computers everything....Supermarkets where closed...the freezer started to defrost...what a day!

Hope you are having better weather:-)

Come and visit me!

I will be at the Vallby frilufts museum every weekend quilting... Please stop by and visit me!

Greetings from Barbara
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The BIG news: Quiltshop Fröken Flink

 

Quiltshop Fröken Flink

 

I have some BIG news! On september 29th I will be opening my own quiltshop called Fröken Flink! It is located in an open air museum in Västerås called Vallby Frilufts Museum. You can read more about the museum here.

The Cottage in the picture is going to be my quiltshop. It is called Flink Stugan ( Flink cottage) Flink is an old name that some soldiers where given as a last name if they had done something heroic or good. We still have the word flink in swedish meaning productive, good, welll done, well made. I know the word also is used in Dutch and in German. Fröken is the "old" word for miss. There is even a saying in Sweden "flink i handen" which mean that your are "good or gifted" with your hands. So it was the perfect name!

 

It has 2 rooms. One room will be quiltshop and the other room the workshop area. In the workshop area there is an old fireplace made out of tiles and there is a big fireplace in the shop area.

The cottage will undergo a renovation soon (starting monday) and I will be writing a lott about it:-)

I am so excited about this new adventure. I have been dreaming about it for years and I have finally found the perfect place for it!

 

Big hugs!

Barbara...or Fröken Flink:-)

Tildas new magazine

I found tildas new magazine in the newsstand. It is filled with all kinds of fun ideas and patterns.. I really liked it!

It was a bit expensive 21 euro's, but you did get a kit for a small bags which was pretty...it was issue one and it seems to come out 4 times a year...

And look Dorry! It even has a dotty doll:-))

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An award again:-)

I got an award again! Thank you Jane.Please visit her and see her wonderful quilts. She is a real inspiration!

The next 5 people I want to give the award to are:

Soed Idee

Ann's Embroidery and Quilt Journey

Martinas, Elke dag een steekje

Lucy, quilting with past

The quiltlodge

 

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Sorting

I was planning to clean out and organize my sewing room this weekend. I started by organizing my fabric and didn't get much further then that :-)... I do feel that it would be time to start a scrap quilt soon! One whole big laundry basket full of scraps so far and not even close to done!

Greetings from Barbara
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I am back...I think

I am so sorry that it has taken time for me to update the blog. After I got home from holliday me and Molly got really sick. It was the first time for Molly and all she wanted to do was sit in my arms. She was awake all night with bad coughs..poor girl.

I have been working on some VERY exciting things and I can tell you about them soon! I can't wait to share!

I have been doing some sewing on the stitchery club:

I also got a package today which means I can finish everything this weekend and sent it too you!

I have been writing more on facebook as I did before so please friend me! I will give away one kit for this quilt with pattern among all my friends!

So friend me and you have a chance to win!

I will be getting back into the swing of things now I hope and write to you soon again...

Have a nice weekend!

Barbara