Lost January...

I can't belive how the days run -Januay done and almost February too.... Yes I have been busy,and had a lot of fun with the girls and the kids, but I have manage to do some stitching..
I have done this little stitchery by Melly and Me called Lemonade. Looking at it I wish summer will hurry up.I want sun and blue sky...:-)

I have also manage to play a little with my Go Baby... Magda helped me to make this Quilt,from Abyquilts leftovers and an old curtain. The goal was to use what I got in my piles. So now I got me a new Quilt for free. If I got it in my house it is free :-)

When I have been home and away lately I have been working on this jacket for Emma. My next project are one for Peder too - but I also have some serious plans to play a lot with Magda.There are some fabrics crying for me together with some new pattern... :-)

So untill next time -take care and be clever :-))

Hugs.

Happy New Year..

I hope every body has had a great start on the new year. I have been a lazy blogger, but I have been thinking a lot... I see a lot bloggers have new years goal,as I used to have. But for this year I have desided not to have any one. This will be my relaxing year- I will buy the fabrics who cry my name - start what I want to do and finish what I like to finish.I will spent time with my familie and friends, have a lot og fun and just enjoy my self. I have some great trips in front of me - one to Bergen - one to Tønsberg and one to Danmark... and I have a great dream I want to come true....
So as you see at the photo- the sky are golden ( some times) :-)

As a great start of 2012 I got this great mailing from Julie.It came all the way from Japan,beautifull fabrics and a thimble from Tokyo. Thank you so mutch Julie, I love it all :-)
Do you remember the challenge Lapphøna and I had, with the fabrics from Lappemor? Well here are my last one. So now I got 6 new tablerunnere... Thanks Anne Heidi for all the great fabrics. Hope you will do this again this year.
I have manage to start something this year too... I have been playing with Magda and leftovers that I got from Abyquilt:-) For the first time I have tryed to make Dresdenplates.. I have no plans for how it will turn out at the end...
And I have been playing with my new toy- Go! Baby. Wow it is so fun to cut fabrics.. At my first try I desided to try to sew Hexagons with help of Magda. And we manage... Clever girls :-)) No plans for this neither, just playing just because...

I hope you all remember to have some fun untill next time :-)

Laila

SCSS 2011...

This Cristmas I got a lot of great pressents, and as mutch as three from Australia. I got this great surprice from Donna - Chookyblue. Thank you for every thing- now I can look and dreem about getting there all through the year ;-) Her cards are so beautifull so I just have to have them for my self.
I got a Kangaroo jumping all the way from Beth in Australia bringing SCSS gifts to me.. I love this pincushion....
This are all the great gifts I got from Beth, the Higlandhen.Thank you - I love it all.
I even got a big parsell from Lisa, Cubbyhousecraft.Look at all the great gifts she made for me :-)
No wonder I feel spoiled. Thank you so mutch both my SCSS partners and a big hug to you Donna for making all this fun happen :-)
I was so blessed this Christmas, I got a lot of great pressent - a lot of new fabrics and sewing items- a lot of great gifts - but the greatest joy was to be able to spend the BIG evening with the most important peoples in our family- Emma and Peder :-)


Hugs from LAILA

Cristmas time..

It is starting to look as Christmas here in my home,the wallquilt I won on Red Brolly's giveaway are on the wall. It is beautifull- so thanks again Bronwyn.It is goig to be a long Christmas here :-)
Yesterday I got a big parsell at the post office. It almost took all the space at the" Spark" But I manage to get it home with me...
Blogline are plying with my photos,, so the one I want to show at last - didn't want to wait.. It is the christmas tree I have by the birds house.. It was lovely when it got snow on it- so I hope for more snow :-)
Ok - back to the big parsell... It was the Baby Go I won at Joy's giveaway... To big win in to days- I doubt it ever will happen to me again :-) I had to try my Go Baby last nigth. It was so fun and easy-- So now I got a lot of new ideas to work on at the new year. Thank you Joy, I love it :-)
I have been making Christmas gifts so fare in desember... A little Cat wall quilt......
The fifth of Christmas Challenge from Lappemor..
And this table runner after an idea from a Swedish quilt magacine......

At the end I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
I'm of to bed now, decoration almost done...and Emma and her mum are here- Peder are comming to morrow with his parents. I'm so blessed :-)

Big Christmas hugs to you all .. Laila

A great parcel....

To day I got a lovely message in my mail box: I have got a letter to big for my mail box... So I had to put on more clothes and walk to the postoffice... hmm actual I ride with Vigdis one way.. And yes it was one of the great gifts I won at a giveaway. This I got from Red Brolly....
At home I started to open it at once... First the packet was green....
and when I poend it I found a red pack....
when I open the red one I found a white one... Then I start to remember an old song , Eh... Old and old... Ok.. from some years ago... Little boxes... In the song they sing about boxes in all colours...
Back to the pack ... in the white pack I found this beautifull quilt. I love it and can't wait to show it to all my friends.. Thank you Bronwyn for giving this to me:-) It will be on my wall from Advent start untill easter , as we says here in Norway: Christmas last all the way to easter:-)
Here you can see a close up photo. As you can see I even got a beautifull card and a pad.( who I don't belive I can use. It is so great)

Have a great evening, I have to sit quilet and just enjoy my gift.
Thanks again Bronwyn , I wish I could have been able to give you a big hug :-)

The sun are always shining somewhere....

Last weekend I went on a trip to see the sun ....Yes I went to Nice to visit my brother and his family, and I did see the sun. It was as warm and yellow as it use to be in "old days" here in Trysil too :-) This summer has been a non risk for sunburn. So it was lovely to feel the sunshine at my face :-)
The plane left Norway in a hurry - thanks to Berit the storm who realy played at our coast. When we flew over the Alps we got this beautifull view.Not mutch snow to see, but sunny weather:-)
I had some realy great surprises when I was at my trip... I won some- eh-2 big giveaways.. It is almost like I feel a little ashamed by my luck... but I'm soo happy... I can't wait to show you the great prizes. Ok I will tell -I won both at Bronwyn and Joys blogs.. And when I got home there was even more gifts waiting for me , from my SCSS partners.I got two this year. I got this beautifull little bag from Lisa + a gift for under the Christmas tree....
And this sweet little bird + a Christmas gift ( for under the tree) from Beth. It is going to bee a long time to wait untill the 24. when I can open the gifts. Thank you both Lisa and Beth and not to forget Donna, who are making all this fun happen:-) Lucke for me I live here in Norway -so I can open my gifts on Christmas eve... :-)
I have only one big worry... Nemo tell me I don't deserve a gift from her, I have got to mutch... Wonder if she REAL mean that.... :-/
If you wonder why I just love to see the sun - take a look at this photo. This was what waited for me when I got home.. Grey sky and snow. I'm soo pleased we got snow atlas- it don't look so dark outside and IT is wintertime... :-)
Have a great Advent time.
I will be back when I got my great gifts in my home ... Hurry up mail man :-))

Angles and mice....

I have been playing a lot with Angels and mice lately.Great pattern from AnnAka. This is one of the Angels from the pillows. I have used it on an Advent Calendar for Emma , so she can get one small gift every day in Desember untill the 24 and our big gift evening :-)
Here you see some of my mice - I have made this tablerunner as a Christmas gift for.... Oh no.. Hehe.. Still AnnAka pattern... Wow she are a great pattern maker... :-)
This Desember has been strange so far. not mutch snow and cold . But some great mornings.Look at trhis beautifull sky. We are so luckey in Norway that the sun get up so late so even I are able to se the beauty it makes :-)
There are a lot of busy "people" eating the food on my birdshouse. I love to watch them . Hoping that I give them a great day- as they make mine :-)

I will spend my Advent with more angels... Yes - another AnnAka patter.. The lady keep me realy busy.. Hope to show you what I'm working on next time. Untill then enjoy Advent and remember to take some breakof...
Hugs