Midsommar

Midsommar is a holiday you usually celebrates with your family or very good friends.

This time we went to Henrik's parents and celebrated with the whole family. 

The weather wasn't that great but the company was amazing as always. I love my husband family.

Thank god she fell asleep on the way to Jonstorp.

 I love this house

The garden

We kept her amused by the "house pets" like: the family cat and dog, spiders and snails   :-)

 Despite the rain, we were outside eating, drinking and Shira was drawing on the ground

  

At the evening we celebrated the holiday with traditional food and drinks like soused herring and lax, eggs, sour cream, beer, home made snaps and the traditional strawberries whipped cream cake.

 

 And then it was night... My father in law took out the guitar and we sang midsommar's songs.

DIY - Renovating chairs

Remember my post on the chairs that I bought from ReFurn?

Well, this week was a very tense week. I was waiting for some news - and the tension was everywhere... 

So instead of give in to it, I took the time renovating the chairs and kept myself busy :-)

Fabric (not in the picture), basic paint,  "final" color paint, wood spackle, sandpapers, brushes and lots of time....

This how it looked before I started fixing the chair's legs 

 Scrubbed off (a bit) the paint where its needed

Used my fingers to seal up the cracks 

After few hours, time to scrub off gently the spackle 

Basic color is the next step!

The next day, opened up with coffee and paint :-)

Painting the chairs with the final paint - light Baby blue :-)

The end of the second day - all chairs were painted with one layer

After the second layer - the final step: replacing the upholstery's old fabric  

My fabric!!! Gorgeous right???

That is it!

Before and after

Many many thanks to my supporting Henrik - Love you babe!!!

Waldorf Doll for Shira

My friend DileK is amazingly talent. She agreed teaching me how to make a Waldorf Doll for Shira.

It's started with her special coffee and cookies...  

We went by Karin Neuschutz's book

The doll made from polyester because wool is really expensive and very hard to fined.

   

We made the doll according to the special traditional technique by Anthroposophy.

My doll's head is to the left!

The next step is the body

And then the head

The table at the end of the first day....

The second day - we started with putting the body parts together

Sawing the parts and preparing for stuffing up the body 

Stuffing it up...

After the filling, sewing "handmade" all the parts together. 

Starting with the arms...

And after the body...

Third day - Tea, cookies and dolls!

Time to give her the face (yes, it's a she! :-))

First - the eyes...

Then - the mouth...

Next step - the hair! It can take a long time to knit the base and the hair...

 

Last step - Making her cloths.

And the same dress for Shira... Well almost the same :-)

And Ta Daaa! She is ready!

And here are my dolls ❤