Teatime

Time for tea

(The ikea kids table with a patchwork top of oilcloth stapled underneath : )

and time for cakes.

Aprons are on but still a very messy activity ; )

March photos

The first snow drops

On your marks, get set, go!

Off to get firewood...

In the garden with the chickens.

We've been busy having Grandad over to stay; who did a great job looking after us all while I was having a little operation, visiting UK and an easter weekend in the summerhouse,lots more photos to come!

hygge

Molly in her favourite chair.

Alfie has started at kindergarten now he's 3 years old. He seems to be happy there and is too busy to have a nap! Its a nature kindergarten which means they play outside alot. They have a special place in the woods with a hut where they go to play and eat their lunches. He takes a packed lunch every day and here's a pic of some mini rugbrøds we made.

Alfie playing memory, his birthday prezzie from Johannes and Lotte, with his birthday jumper handknit by Farmor. This is an unusually quiet few minutes for Alfie who is usually running all over the house with Molly closely following!

Other news, yesterday I saw some grass!! I think the snow is finally starting to melt : )
Happy weekend to you...

snow, snow and more snow

Summer house/Winter house

The snow plough came to clear the road and made some enormous mounds of snow.

Molly the mountaineer......

and Alfred the snowman creator.

Dresses

Check out the matching dresses ; )
Tak til Faster Hanne i Kbh, vi er rigtig glad for dem/
Thanks to aunt Hanne in Copehagen for the dresses.
Now Alfie and Christian matching shirt and ties..... Hee hee, chance would be a fine thing!

Mere fastelavn

More pictures from Fastelavn....

We're having another snow storm today so there's still lots of dressing up to do.

Faster Lotte made the fab apple costume for Johannes last year and conviently it fits Molly this year. I made the bear outfit for alfie by making some simple trousers and copied one of his hats and added ears. I'm investigating patterns for princess skirts now, I feel we need a big dressing up box!

I was a magician, using my old uni. gown and a witches hat : )

Fastelavn er mit navn...

In Denmark they have a festival called Fastleavn. It is vaguely related to lent and a story about danish soiders.
It is a dress-up festival. Here's Alfie the bear, ready to to go the party,

and Molly the apple.

All the children take it in turns the hit barrel until it cracks open with sweets and fruit.

There was a local party in our vilage hall which we went to. Alfred's børnehaven also had a party as did the one I work at.

New baby quilt

Steffan and Ane, the co owners of our farm and our good friends have just had their first baby. I made them this quilt as a new baby present.


It was super easy to sew and I was really pleased with the finished quilt. It is just big squares of cotton fabric sewn together and zig zagged together for extra strength. Then the squares are quilted onto a wool blanket... I did straight line quilting on my sewing machine.

There always a 'little helper' around ; )

I made some binding out of strips of leftover fabric, using patterned fabric and plain. I machine sewed it onto the front and folded it over to the back and hand sewed it in place while watching 24. Christian and I are just getting in to the series after Viki has been raving about it for ages!

Alfie's 3rd birthday

Here's the birthday boy : )

We had a party with Farfar, Farmor, Olde, Faster Lotte, Johannes and Grandad.

We had a lovely time, Alfie got some lovely prezzie including books, clothes, games, kindergarten bag and dvds. He was a very happy 3 year old!

Johannes, Farmor and Alfie playing games, Farfar won pass the parcel.

Alfie's birthday cont.

Christian made Alfie this wagon for his birthday, so when the snow finally starts to melt we can go for rides outside and transport picnics, toys and kiddies around the garden and field.

The birthday flags came out ; ) Grandad is staying with us for 2 weeks, his bed is conviently placed for climbing on the window sill so Alfie and Molly are constantly climbing up and jumping down, climbing up and jumping down...

This is the cake we made for Alfie to take to kindergarten.
Alfie now being 3 years old started at kindergarten last week. He has been off 3 days already with a sickness bug but otherwise seems happy to be going to the BIG kindergarten with the BIG children!

We're giving the von trapp family a run for their money!

weekend

It's so icy in the courtyard, the chickens are skating and flapping all over the place!

Alfie and I have been making some jam buns/fastelavn bolle...

they were yummy!

Molly just after her nap, she's got more teeth on the way.
We're hoping they will stop bothering her so much soon.