I'm back!

Hello my dear old blog!

I think I'm back. Ever since I stopped blogging in 2009 I have waited for my inspiration to come back. I really missed it. But it only came back in small portions and never stayed for long. This was such a big part of me that were gone. Over the summer I got married and tried blogging in Swedish. But that too failed me. I have been thinking of it for a long time and come to the conclusion that it will never come back if I don't work on it. I have to force the creativity to come back in my life!
If you have any tips out there on how to get the inspiration and creativity back into my life, let's hear them!

So slowly I will be opening this blogg up again. Perhaps only once a week to start with and then more often. And I could need all the encouragement I can get, so if I have some old readers out there, let me know!?

So what is going on you creative life? Do you have any tips and ideas to share? As for me, I've just wrapped up some cute gifts for my nephew in all pastel colours well suited for a boy. But I also have my thoughts on Christmas, Christmas card to be more specific. Perhaps I should get started early this year? So that I will finish on time and actually send them!

Above, you see pictures of the birthday boy with his grandmother and my view writhing this. I think that if I'm going to get this blog going again I need to look over the tags, layout and update my profile. This is going to be fun!

/Cecilia

A quick Hello

Hi everyone!
A lot of things are happening here in the end of the semester. I've been away for three days on camp with my class. Which has been really fun but tiring on me when we got back...This week has been full of outdoor activities and tests/examinations. Yes, we have that for 5 graders here:-) I love going to work and having so many challenging and fun activities planed for the pupils. Tomorrow we are going to sing at concert hall and before that we are going orienteering in the woods! But I'm not going to talk about work here on my crafting blog, instead I'll show you my latest buy:

New fabric from tilda

Simple sewing by Lotta Jansdotter and Bend the rules sewing by Amy Karol. It's obvious what I plan to do when work is over in less than two weeks!? I'm still just flicking through both books but there are already things that I can't wait to start!

Now I finally have some time to read your blogs!

I love old furniture

Once again a picture of my home. This is an old chest I've had since I was 18. It's made my my mothers grandfather and is over a hundred years old. I re-painted it and gave it new knobs a couple of years ago. The chair next to the chest is also an old inheritance from the same man, but I haven't done anything with it except change the fabric. These are my two most cherished furniture. Do you also have furniture with a history?

time for both coffee and tea

A place for both coffee and tea in our new kitchen

The café part of the kitchen finished!

white buttons...

I spent Sunday morning looking through boxes with buttons and knitting needles at a local flea market. When I came home I sorted them by colour: These are my favourites at the moment:

This is for a white Sunday...

Lovely blogfriends!

A couple of weeks ago I won a give-away over on Laurence blog be crafty be happy
This is what I got!
A beautiful pendant and this lovely fabric!

and this egg decorating book!

I had forgot all about the give-away so when a saw the big package from the post-office I was more than thrilled :-)

Thank you so much, L!

a sunny Ceramic Tuesday

Eggs or just lumps in a bowl

Peas on steel wire to be put down in those pots with growing veggies?

Reading in the sun (taken by Mr J from the second floor)

I have no more words

I haven't been a good blogger lately and that is not because I don't feel like blogging any more.
O no, more like I don't have enough hours of the day to do all the things that I want to do! I'm sure you all familiar this problem. I'm therefore contemplating only having pictures here for a while until I manage to catch up on life. So, for a couple of weeks this will be a photo blog. I hope that you'll still come by and sometimes even leave a comment. I'll be back with words on my thoughts again when it's closer to summer and my summer break:-) so, with those words I'll leave you with some new picture of the place slowly coming together:

Talk to you soon!

We are back!

Yesterday we came back from New York. What a great trip we had! I bought so much I'm a bit ashamed....I revisited my favourite American store anthropologie and bought some really cute things there! Here's a blog that's all about this store! We also bought a new camera, our new sweetheart,the Sony a350. We love it sooo much! It will take me some time to get to know it and learn how to take good pic but I'll enjoy learning!

Here's a dark picture on my new knitted boots:-)

Here's our darling ;-)

And here's a pic from Macy's flowers show. To see more pictures from our trip go here
I'll soon be posting picture from some stuff I'm making. if you feel up to a swap we could use some more participants in this swap group!

Now I have a lot of blog reading to do!:-)

Interesting thoughts

Have a cup of tea

and listen to this and tell me what you think! Why don't I create more with my students!?

Back to work...

I'm back to work this week but thought I'd still keep the blogging mode. Since I've not been able to craft like I used to with this whole moving and stating to work- thing. I've bought a lot of crafting material and hand made things on etsy and Dawanda. So, I'd thought I show some of the nice things I've gotten in the mail lately.

Three catnip hairballs (one is already eaten...) from the lovely Felicia at Fluffy Flowers

This lovely green polka dot fabric is from a shop called The secret garden. I can't wait to start sewing again!

Happy Monday!

A day with my mother

The last day of spring/winter break I spent with my mother, in Copenhagen! We went shopping, had some good tea and an even better lunch. I bought a beautiful dress form Noa noa for a wedding we are attending later this spring. (you'll see pictures later when I have the complete outfit ready) Some little things for my craft room and a new electric water boiler for the kitchen! From this British company.

This is inside the wonderful store gronlykke.com filled with fabric swatches and fabric rolls. It's a miracle that I didn't buy anything in here. I guess there was just too much!

Fabric! Fabric! Fabric!

Me and my mother walking with our shopping bags!

A little spring inspiration!

We had tea at a Japanese tea house in the middle of Copenhagen. I had a lovely white tea and a chocolate tart! On the train home I read about this exact tea house in a magazine and there was the website as well!

Hope you'll have a lovely weekend!

Inspiration: Thursday

Before Christmas I ordered my very first Japanese crafting magazine from this little shop over at etsy. I have been drooling over it ever since and i thought I'd show you what is on top of my list of things to sew!

This pretty bag would be perfect as my spring bag!

I've been wanting to do covers for my notebooks forever! Also it would be perfect a little gift!

A travel pouch is much needed for all the travels I'm going to make this year! ;-)

This I don't think I'll ever make, but you never know! And it's awfully cute!