Thanks for asking...

where I am... :o)

Thank you my friends...

Im still here...

just a little bit down due to darkness and weather

I HATE THE DARK and COLD DAYS...

pheew... and they will long for very VERY long...

Dont have any energy when coming home and

don't feel for either blogging or sewing..

and I don´t like that... so I feel sad for that too...

...from my window at the sewing room...

white and light...

and after that it started to rain and getting grey and DARK...

Even Viktor complained about the short daylight...

But this weekend the weather have changed a bit and I have

 seen the sun for two days...

so I hope it will stay like this for a  while...

In the middle of all the "darkness" a little sunshine was sent

 to me as an early Christmas gift...

from Lyn At BlueBird Quilts in

Australia...

Stina..she said.. you have to open it right away...

and she didn't have to tell me that twice!!!! :o)

 Isn't this the most beautiful and fantastic little tree...

Love the little yo yo flowers in Christmas colours...

It will be a real pride and joy to decorate next weekend

It will look wonderful beside my other white tree...

Thank you Lyn!!!

Nothing much have been made around here...

sent some blocks to Marica in our Mini block swap with Louise..

recived Louise´s beautiful blocks...

but these I cant show yet... :o)

And this weekend I hoped for some sewing...

but still nothing have been done...

sigh..

but I made a blogentry.. didn´t I??

So what have happened ...

The Yearly Old fashioned Christmas Market

was held this weekend in Öjebyn where I live...

It is held in the old part with the Church and the old small

church cottages...

(This is by the way on my way to work..

and I love walking around among the old houses...)

And see.. the sun is shining...and NO snow!!!

I love to go here...

a lot of nice handcrafted items are for sale...

just wish I had LOTS of Money!! :o)

See ...what I mean...

Love the bracelets made of tin thread and leather...

And the Yule Goats made of spruce rice...

and lovely Wirework... this I would love to learn!!!

follow the link and take a look at what he makes!!!

I did some shopping there... :o)

And I also shopped here...

at Marias lovely shop
"JAG BLOMMAR"
(Take a look at her lovely blog!)
I bought myself a PEP talk picture!!!

A reminder...to have a

"Happy Day"

So..

I hope from now on.. it will only be light and

happy days..and some sewing for me!!!

And a quick recovery for my Mum that took a nasty fall

this week and hurt her shoulder and arm really bad..

hope it wont be necessary with an operation..

Hang in there Mum!!

See you soon I hope.. hope it wont be this long until next time!!!

Where was I ???

Hmmm...

Quiltweekend  last weekend

and a challenge with scraps from Marica...

She told us before we went to take small scraps with us..

so okidoki I grabbed my small pieces and

wondered what could be made from them... :o)

How was I to know it was going to be something

I definetly needed!!!!

Marica had prepared small bags with

snaphooks, cute buttons...and a tiny little flower...

And this is what it became...

...Lanyards....

Thanks for a fantastic idea Marica..

I have used mine all the time since then...

and it is GREAT!!! :o)

Earlier that week I got this in the mail...

...a fantastic pre Christmas gift...

Pink scissorfob.... Christmas Pincushion..

and sweet red buttons... :o)

from Sandy at

Peek A Boo

in Argentina...

Thankyou so much Sandy...!!

Ok.. after showing my picture of the quilt in the machine the other day.. I have had lots of questions regarding the black "thing" ontop of my quilt!!!

When we went to Norway last month

I visited my Machine Doc...

and he fixed my machine so I could quilt..Thankyou for that..

but then he also had this ...

Fab-U-Motion...
You can check this link too... to see how it works....

Ok.. I had looked on it before..and asked and you know all that kind of questions..Is it good...does it work??? And so on..

So he said.. take it home and test...:o)

And so I did...finally.. after backproblems..and whatever...

So did I like it???

Definitely not at first...

didn't get the hang of it...

(need that DVD... that was supposed to come along with it)

Does anyone else have the Fab-U-motion???

TIPS thankyou!!! :o)

But after a while I kind of got along...

and best of all I could sit pretty long times behind the machine

 quilting with no stress on arms and shoulders...

So I shall quilt one more to test..

but I think I like it! :o)

Took my schnibble out for some air today....

and took pictures...l

..and I have hanged my new quilt on its

place in the livingroom/kitchen...

Do you think husband have seen it yet??? ;o)

Hope for another and better week than the last one..

WITHOUT nasty surprises...

To make long story very short..

Make sure friends are friends...

my daughter found out this the hard way!!

HUGS to you all...

My Schnibble is finished!!!!

One hour before midnight...

:o)

And I love it...

But I promise to be back in the morning with another post

 and to answer emails... sorry for the delay!!!!

Good night..

See you tomorrow!!!

Wow

A finish!!! :o)

I´m working like a maniac....

....but I don't think I will make the deadline...

for my Schnibble!!!

At least half is quilted... and will get up in the morning and quilt some...

 and after that it is tennis all day!!!

So I will be back with news from last weekend...

PROMISE!!!!! :o)

Life has been UP And DOWN!!!!

Quick report...

Having fun....

Just the word friends and quilting sounds good doesn't it???

So just a quick report this morning  for

for you to see what I worked on  yesterday!!

..and this was actually finished within an hour...

back with pictures... :o)

And then I got working with this one....

OHHH.. I opened up a Layer Cake...

My first...lol...

and fast....just within a day...huh...

not even standing on a shelf for months...:o)

and a little progress to show... :o)

No.. now it´s time to go...

for another day with quilting!!!

See you later