May 5, 2013

May 1, 2013

I AM MOVING!!!!

yepp you heard me...

I decided to end my time here at blogger

 and move to my own site...




Hope that you all will follow me here and see whatever I will be up to!!!
Hopefully more than 2012!!


See you soon...:o)

---XOX---


April 16, 2013

A dream come true...:0) please HELP...:0)

Did I tell you that I love my family and friends...
If I haven't ...I'll do it again...
LOVE YOU!!!!

Why do I need your help in all this then...
read on and please share what ever you know!!:0)

I got firewood!!!:0)
WHAT!!
Yepp...I got firewood...:0)
Aha...a puzzle fit for a 50 year old...
not that many pieces...lol...
Holy macaroni!!!
Crazy crazy family and friends....
I am going on a paid vacation!!!!!
Oh yes I am...:0)))

Isn't this the most wonderful gift so say!!

THANKYOU THANKYOU....

AND THANKYOU!!!:0)

I am so so happy for it...
and have just recently taken all this in...

And there is more to it...
I will have a travelling companion...
LOUISE!!!:0))))

So friends out there!!!
This is why I need your help!!!

I want to go somewhere "QUILTY" of course...
but the world is big...

So friends...
please share the news on fun things going on
at your place in the world...

Because STINA...and Louise
are going on a TRIP!!!

If someone doesn't want to write here on the blog...
Email me at
kviltstina at gmail dot com
Love always!!!

Btw...
Do you see me smiling
and maybe doing a little happy dance...:0))

---XOX---

April 15, 2013

Gifts from family ...

Back again with more gifts...

Lovely lovely family made me a photo album
with photos from my childhood and until today...
Wasn't too big at this time...in 1963...:0)
look at those little bootees...wonder who made them...:0)
Inside the album...
my family had left me lots of wonderful greetings...
and it all became very emotional...
cried some but laughed a lot too...
Lucia...
with a pretty crown made out of straw...
Here I am with my brother Anders...
I remembering him putting the candle to close
to his hair once...ouachhhh!!!

Won't show the last photo....
smile...
they added a photomontage of me probably 80 years old...:0))

It was REALLY wonderful getting this one...
thanks to especially my dear daughters and Jimmy
who had put all this together...
More tea ...
from Anders and his family...
rose tea in an absolutely wonderful pink tin!!
And this absolutely heavenly scented package
came from France...
where my cousin Eve lives with her family...
Once visiting there...
I had them to stop at every spot I could find
where I could smell the lavender...
Mmmmmmm...
easily dreaming my self away with that scent!

Eve...thanks for remembering
and to add those lovely lavender fabrics...
Also remembering me hunting patchwork stores
while visiting her...
had looked out a shop in Lyon...
and when getting there...hah..
they had closed to celebrate the 14th of July...;0)))

Have one last gift to show you...
and dear dear friends...now I will need your help...
So hang on ... wait for the next post!!

Love...

---XOX---
 

April 14, 2013

More gifts...from friends ...

Wow...three post in a day...lol...
More gifts coming....
This time from my lovely friends from former work...
They came with a huge pink bundle...
filled with lots of pink recycled things...:0))
An Easter egg filled with
buttons ...ribbons and pink threads...
Lovely old laces...handmade...treasures!!!
A pink and lovely bundle...filled with
all sorts of things...
It was super fun to receive all this!!
Maria and Tommy also gave me...
a pretty note book and colourful pencils...
so I can fill it with new ideas...
And while thinking of new ideas....
why not brew myself a nice cup of tea....
With these new to me tea brand...
Kusmi tea
Maria sure thought of everything...;0)
tea and ideas...:0)

Thankyou dear dear friends...

Love to you!!!

---XOX---
 

My gifts...friends...

I'm saying it again...
WHAT A PARTY!!!:0)
So it is...
I'm so thankful for my wonderful friends...
Real life friends...cyber friends...
they all are meaningful and so very special ...
Makes life complete...
Here are the GIFTS from my friends...
First up was from my lovely super talented friend Shirley...
...Loveliest house bag ever ...Chocolat...yarn...
crochet hook...pink button...
This gorgeous quilt made by dearest Louise...
speechless...
Prettiest knitted wrist warmers....
with lots of pearls...
from my dear friend Britt-Inger in Östersund ...
Barbro and Alf gave me a pretty GreenGate
tea towel and sugar shaker....
a little bird had told them I love GreenGate ...:0)
My super talented friend Ã…sa
made me this lovely bag....
Full of prettiness...just adorable...
Have used it every day now...:0)
Beautiful pins from sweet Marica and her dear family...
...and a lovely pink tea towel...
matches in a pretty box...
and a pretty white candlestick...
the pink candy I have eaten up...;0)))
...and this lovely lovely pink and orange
leather bracelet...
made with tin wire...
have wished for a bracelet like this for years...
LOVE IT!!!

Well I think I have to stop here...to much photos...:0))
Promise just a few more from friends and family..;0)


Finally I want to thank everyone
that gave me theese lovely and thoughtful gifts...
They are very much loved...

THANKYOU!!

---XOX---
 
 

...and the party kept going and going...

SURPRISE!!!!
Guess who stood on our doorstep the morning after...
This little cutie pie with all her brothers and parents...
I do know I have a crazy brother...;0)
but I never thought they would come for a visit...
and especially not that early they came...
( around nine o'clock )

he must have milked the cows with the speed of lightning...
and I don't think I want to know how fast he drove
the 23 Swedish miles to our place...pheeww...
But I'm happy they came...
now I finally could see and hold baby
Snöfrid for the first time
Lovely hairdo this morning...:0)
Jarl, the oldest ...
digging in on the best breakfast they had eaten...
cake and cupcakes...:0)
This is brother number two, Agnar...
(Who loves pink...:0)
with his mother Anna in the background...
And the third guy Seved ...
who never stops talking...;0)
This is my youngest brother Gussar...
the happy father of Snöfrid...
The younger boys were so much more interested in Viktor playing...
than talking to us...:0)
The rest of us took turns in carrying baby Snöfrid...
Anders ...:0) a proud uncle...
And Louise...
took the opportunity to cuddle some with the baby...
And back to the parents again...
This picture is kind of funny...
it looks like we have the baby hung in a rope...
but not...it's the lamp...:0)
Even Molly found time to enjoy little Märtas visit...:0))

No more surprises...
but I must say...all of them ...
have been the most lovely surprises!!

And to finally meet this little beautiful girl...
It was wonderful...
Thanks brother and family!!!

Maybe we should do this all over again...lol...

Kind of sad when everyone was leaving...the guests...
mum and dad...
Anders to Stockholm ...
Happy I still had Louise here for one day more...:0)

Love to all...and
thanks for stopping by...

---XOX---
 

April 13, 2013

Party kept on going...

More family and friends arrived...
My creative Auntie Jörel decorated her gorgeous red shoes
with pink fabric bows...cute...
Lots of family...and some friends...
Dearest friend Ã…sa arrived with her parents
Barbro and Alf....
always such a pleasure to meet this happy and funny family!!
Dear daughter Linda in her pretty pink and orange dress...:0)
and Viktor my dear son ready to help...
Lars mother Lotten and sister Lotta
came with lovely flowers and a present...
Lovely shade of pink on this pretty Begonia...
A lot of happy tears come when reading
in this lovely gift from my family...
Will show more from it later...
My dear daughter Petra and her Jimmy...
Who were so tired this day...
no wonder with all that they had prepared...

Finally somebody had the guts to dig into that delicious cake....
My cousin Ylva's Sonja was first out...
Mmmmmmm....

And after this...my photographer must have eaten too much cake
and sweets because no more photos were taken on the guests that
arrived later...Hmmmm....but he's forgotten...:0)

My dear dear best friend Marica came with her husband Roger...didn't know this...but what did I know??
Not much...:0)
They came with lovely lovely gifts and so nice to see them...
And talk...:0)
fun for Marica to see and talk to Louise...

And after them my lovely friends from work came...
Maria and her husband Tommy...
and I'm so sorry that there arent any photos of Maria's outfit...
she NEVER EVER wears pink....
she said...once in a lifetime and just for you...:0))

She had found a pink leatherjacket and a wonderful dress...
at work...all recycled of course...
but none the less absolutely perfect...

Ã…sa...had found a sweet soft and dusky pink outfit...

Sara...I think she had her own pink dress...
her daughter had styled her with pretty socks...

And sweet Ulla...who had missed that the party was this day...
came in a hurry and joined in ...happily found a pink jumper ...because her dress were somewhere else...

What a lovely party I have had...
With Wonderful family and friends...

So so happy and what can I say...
I love you all!!!

The GIFTS...ahh... Are you curious...:0)
thought so...I would have been too...
Back with my lovely GIFTS...

But wait...
there is more...surprise the morning after as well
...so see you soon...:0)

---XOX---