Butterfly butterfly...

I can't believe how warm it has been here lately. It certainly doesn't feel like March. The week end was really warm and sunny... so hot that I could walk around the garden without a jumper or jacket on. The girls have been playing in their bare feet on the decking and I've managed to tidy most of my flower beds. I wonder how long it will last.... It won't be much snow left for easter, that's for sure....

I bought some new embossing folders and butterfly dies on saturday, and I could hardly wait for the sun to set on sunday so I could go inside and play... I've just been playing around with my new stash and this is what I came up with...

I have used QuicKutz flowers and retro squares embossingfolders. The butterflies are Cheery Lynn Exotic Butterfly small. I also got the QuicKutz parquet metal embossing die and some sentiments stamps, but I didn't use any of that on this card.... which means, of course, that I have to go and play some more soon....

Here's a peek of the inside....

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday- challenge 209- Anything goes.

Maja and Milo

Things are really busy at work at the moment. I'm preparing one to one meetings with all the parents of my class to tell them about their young ones progress at school (can't, for the life of me, remember what it's called in english....), so I haven't had any time to play with my stamps and paper this week, which means I don't have anything to show....

So I thought I'd share a couple of photos of Maja from this weeks riding lesson instead.... Maja's always complaining that she never gets to ride the bigger horses in the stable.... But this week she rode Milo.... Isn't he just beautiful??

She was sooo chuffed! Really enjoying herself. I was just scared he would take off and run away with her.... or make her fall off... and hurt herself.... but I guess that's just the mum talking... lol... They looked really good together.

Maja and Milo.... so cute!

Two new dresses for Barbie

All of a sudden Susie really needed some more clothes for her Barbie dolls. I guess I wasn't really hard to persuade to knit her some... :) We had a look at THIS great web site for something to knit, and Susie picked out quite a few things she wanted....

I started by knitting the dress on the right in the pic (this is pattern no 10 on the web site). I'm not sure about the green "fur", but that was the only furry yarn I could find in my stash. I know I have some other colours somewhere, but I didn't want to spend the entire day looking for it. And Susie really wanted the green trim anyway.... I have knitted the dress in the round, even though the pattern said to knit back and forth... I couldn't be bothered with sewing it together after knitting... The dress is really snug and it fits perfectly!

It was quite a quick knit, so I decided to cast on for a second dress. The one on the left is no 1005 on the web site (wich is Swedish by the way).... I have knitted this one in the round as well, AND I've altered the back by knitting some shaped ribbing for a snugger fit on the doll.

I finished the second dress after Susie went to bed, so I'm quite excited about what she has to say tomorrow morning when she sees it....