Lucky kids

This week the kids don't have school or daycare, I was able to take Monday and Tuesday off from work, but the rest of the week my parents are here - so Mr Sødeste and I can go to work.

Today they got to go to the coolest place in town - Tivoli

Picture from www.tivoli.dk

 It is all decorated for Halloween, and the kids loved it!
I would have loved to go too, but I had to go to work today :/ Which is okay, I like my job, and I know the kids were thrilled to be with my parents.

Picture from www.tivoli.dk

 I love Halloween decorations - maybe it has to do with my love of orange? Or maybe it's because I like fall a lot?

Picture from www.tivoli.dk

Looking at the pumpkins on this roof, you have to agree with me, don't you?! It looks amazing!

A little sewing

I am so behind in my Row10 online quilting bee :/ No fun, these women are my dear friends, and I hate being late sewing their rows.
My parents took me and the kids to an awesome fabric store yesterday. And I had the best time picking out these prints for Lucindas row

 

Lu asked for sherbert colors, and I didn't really have any in my stash. Now that I have these, I see that not having worked with this colorscheme before is a great mistake! I love these colors!

I managed to sew 2 blocks last night, then I had to stop because I was using my moms machine and it is in my parents' bedroom. 

I can't wait to get back home so I can make some more!!
These are so much fun! The colors are fab and the square in square pattern is showing off the prints in such a nice way.

My sushi-loving daughter

The kids have next week off from school and daycare. I have been able to take Monday and Tuesday off from work, so yesterday the kids and I went to stay with my parents for a long weekend.
My sister lives in the same apartment building as my parents (they recently moved here), and that works out so great for the kids, because then they get to see everyone everytime we come here!

The sushi-chef made these special for my kids!!

As some of you may know, Miss V, my sister and I love sushi. So my sister was very excited to invite us all to a resturant with a conveyor belt sushi buffet -the picture is not of where we went, but the same idea. Miss V LOVED it! I have never seen her eat so much. Ever. She ate almost as much as I did - and I could have rolled out of there!
The small protions meant she could try new kinds of sushi and not worry about having ordered too much and then not liking it. Perfect! She loved being able to pick makis off the buffet.

Ask doesn't like sushi, so he had chicken and fries :)

Another Nintendo cozy

I bought a Nintendo DSi for Little A this past week. He is so happy with it, and he loves that he got a blue one :) So naturally I needed to make a cozy for his Nintendo as well - also we had to ride the train to my parents' house, and I really wanted him to be able to bring it :)

Miss V helped pick the fabrics

Again I can only encourage you all to set your strippy scraps aside, it makes it so much easier to make projects like this!

Self Portrait Friday -on Saturday

I am part of a self portrait challenge over on Flickr. We all hate having our picture taken, and the group is meant as a way of helping us get past that...

This was my portrait from yesterday

I am thinking the challenge may be working....I can look at pictures of myself without being horrified ;)

Favourites

1. Notenschlüssel, 2. I'm A Maverick Star, 3. Quilt Show, 4. Batik Kaleidoskop, 5. The Magic Hour, 6. Mini Lone Star, 7. DSCN1605, 8. My Winner, 9. Busy Bees - Tacha, 10. Kaleidoscope quilt for Riley, 11. United She Stands, 12. Travel Quilt #3, 13. DQS9 from my partner, 14. The Wild Geese Quilt, 15. DSCN2410, 16. Jelly Roll Christmas Quilt

Looking at curtains

I really really need to do something about the curtains in our living room....if I can say that when in fact we don't have any curtains in our living room.

Our living room windows face north, and we are on the third floor (fourth floor to you Americans!) so the sun is a "problem" in the way that the room gets too hot and stuffy and everything is bleached/ruined. Sooooo....I need to do something. We have been looking for curtains for a while (a couple of years...shhhhh...) and I have been planning to sew curtains for at least one year now.

I like the curtains in the pictures, they have a country-cabin feel that I really like ;)