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Oh, chickenpox!

What happens when you are stranded at home with a kid with chickenpox? When he has happily agreed to watch a Barbapapa DVD and you have gathered all your lime green fabric scraps to make a few bunny cushions? Your iron dies. Sigh.

Well, it was old, but it has been a good companion, my mother's auntie bought it for me for my first home. I guess it was about time for a new one anyway! Any good tips? I've sen irons with a narrower top and am thinking that might be good for ironing quilts and such. A long cord is also on the wish list, I want to be able to walk around with my iron :)

  

I had promised my daughter do something crafty with her yesterday so we decided to paint some tins and make pots for our small geranium babies. Aren't they pretty? Big E chose white geraniums for her pots, little e wanted red ones for his! Now we just have to keep them alive!

I hope your Monday is going more according to plans than mine!

Etsy in Helsinki + new cards!

Last Thursday Etsy had a meet up here in Helsinki and I was very happy to see so many people show up! There is now some 500 Etsy users in Finland, when I joined back in 2006 I think we were around 10... Etsy has established an office in Berlin, part of an effort to make Etsy easier to use for Europeans.I can't wait to get a currency converter on the site! Minna of karuski has got some nice pictures from the meeting on her blog, I was so busy chatting away so I didn't manage to take any pictures...

 

I got my new postcards today, just when I needed some cheering up the door bell rang! Had to take a picture immediately, but I didn't have the best light with all wet snow coming down outside :/ Give us some sun tomorrow and I'll take a better shot! Please.

The cards are inspired by the best things in life: sewing, gardening and kids! My personal favourite is the love machine! Thanks to my mum who figured out what to call the machine! I had sewn the hearts on the quilt and wanted some text on the machine, but couldn't figure out what to write, it felt so obvious when she came up with it! My kiddos like the linen Easter bunny here best.

 

And some flowers! I will need a lot of them to manage through the wet days of Spring, it will take time before all that snow has melted and the earth is dry! Sigh.

 

I hope you have a lovely lazy Sunday!

 

Free to work

The kids have been away for two whole days and we have enjoyed ourselves! At least I have loved to work from the morning til late in the evening. I made myself a schedule for this week last weekend, trying to make an effort and be a better boss for myself, it has worked great so far and I have managed to keep on track doing one thing at the time. I have finished the troll princess baby quilt I talked about in this post. I tried out some loopy quilting for it and I think it works great with the fluffy polyester batting. My BSR-foot (=Bernina Stitch Regulator, a special quilting foot for Bernina Aurora) did not like it however (it seems to prefer low-loft cotton batting and thinner materials) so I had to use the mending foot, so the quilting isn't as even as it could have been. Anyway it's finished, now I just need to deliver it. I've got many photos of it in my flickr album, if you are interested in seeing the back and more detailed pictures.

 

I have also been busy making some new postcards, this is a little sneaky peek of how it looks in my new card file today. One little bunny still needs to be finished and after that, off to the printers! It's about kids and babies, sewing and flowers, the important things in life!

  

Thank you for your concerns about my little boy! He is alright, but we have an appointment with the doctor again this week. We are crossing our fingers that the coughing and huffing will stop when Spring comes and the air gets more humid.