It starts as a hangover every morning. A hangover without you having enjoyed a fun night out the night before. It gradually gets worse. Ever been to the airport really early in the morning? Remember how your tummy ached and you felt severely dehydrated? That is exactly how I felt every single morning. After a […]
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Ever lied about how much you sleep?
Posted in Sewing on April 27, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Doc Silja McStuffins
Posted in Costumes, Ottobre, Sewing, Tutorials on March 12, 2014 | 3 Comments »
I honestly cannot recommend anything other than buying your kid a Carnival costume. Why would you even consider spending every single minute of your free time for few weeks trying to make your kid one? Sacrificing sleep should be reserved for partying and not to redo a piece that you aren’t too happy with. Why […]
Reoccurring nightmares in real life
Posted in Sewing on February 23, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
I have two reoccurring nightmares that keep haunting me. One involves not finding a clean or a suitable restroom when I need to do you know what. Half of those dreams involve nasty, dirty bathrooms (think Trainspotting) and the rest involves the inability to get privacy. Sadly the sports people in Sochi seem to have […]
The lie that worked
Posted in Sewing on February 12, 2014 | 3 Comments »
My daughter is not easily fooled. She sees through all the little tricks that you can normally fool kids with. There is however one blatant lie that I have been able to get her to believe. That one thing out of all the other things I have tried to trick her with is that she […]
Christmas Dress – Express Version
Posted in Dresses, Sewing on January 1, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
Right now my little darling is making her dad’s chess pieces sing the Santa Lucia song. She is drilling them quite hard to behave and sing. It is absolutely adorable to watch and it makes me sad that we loose this childhood ability to imagine that the simplest things are some completely different than what […]
Scary things and failures
Posted in Sewing on October 31, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
No, this isn’t a halloween post, there are more scary things in life. I did something last weekend that I wouldn’t ever have imagined doing just couple of years ago. I went to a sewing meet-up. Not only have I never imagined myself as the crafty type of person, I am also really scared of […]
The Fall Memory Dress
Posted in Dresses, Sewing on October 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Fall is a season of vibrant colors and beauty and yet it always brings up an intense sense of loss in me. Old memories come back to haunt me and everything becomes a bit bittersweet. I keep getting glimpses from previous falls and even the simplest memories can bring up intense feelings of loss in […]
Holding onto summer
Posted in Dresses, Sewing on September 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I probably should have started the summer by making summer dresses for my daughter. Instead I am ending the summer with a summer dress sprint. There is a certain risk she will have grown out of them next summer but it is first now that I have a little bit of time each evening to […]
Princesses don’t just wear pink. Really!
Posted in Dresses, Sewing on August 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
It has gotten to a point where my little girl refuses to wear anything other than a dress. Preferably a pink one! I am really not sure where she is getting all those girly genes from, maybe they were just silent in my generation? Winter will be tough for her when you have to wear […]
My super insane project: Upphlutur
Posted in Sewing on May 20, 2013 | 1 Comment »
I have a tendency to get over ambitious ideas. Last year’s idea was to make my own national custom. Not only did I get the idea, I was stupid enough to post a goal for myself on Facebook to get it finished before 17th of May this year. I am pretty sure there was a […]