Road Trip Essentials and things to do on your holiday!

It is coming up to holiday season and I thought it would be nice to list a few great things to do on journeys.
Not sure how my own holiday will turn out since freelance mayhem has got its claws into me the last month and doesnt seem to stop for the next 6 months! So if my blogging is somewhat sporadic you just have to picture me sitting in front of my sewing machine or leaning at the cutting table staring into space thinking about some pattern problem to solve.

                                  PLAY TIME

Fingerpuppets from Raindropstops on Etsy of course.

 

We always used to play with paper dolls an draw new clothes for them.You could find them in back of magasines and if I remember rightly sometimes you could get famous people and that was just the best!

I love the crayon wallets perfect for taking with you on journeys instead of the kids watching dvds or when going to restaurants you can have this as your secret weapon when the kids start playing up and getting bored!

And the spool knitter is brilliant just check out the shop with lots of different faces. 

Car bingo cards from personalityplus from Etsy again. Not many trams where I live but that will keep the kids busy!

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Ideas for childrens room

The lamps I saw in a little shop on a backstreet in Malmö last weekend. The patch work quilts I make from old handwooven kitchen towels that is quilted with organic cotton wadding. It is a great way of using towels and I sometimes leave  the old monograms showing to give it a special feeling. They can be made to fit any size bed or kitchen sofa. To order send an e-mail of size bed you want it to fit and I will give you a price estimate. I can even use your old towels with your grandmother monograms to make it a special heirloom.

 I like the idea of these floorbeds for when the kids outgrow their cots. Maria Montessori recommended beds like these from the age of 6months or older. You dont have to worry that they will fall out of bed, the kids themself can get into the bed when they feel sleepy and its big enough that you can lie down and read a bedtime story and maybe sleep a little bit yourself.

Mass producer of art and soon to come homegrown veggies- I hope

We have got a mass producer of  art in our house. It can be very mixed media when he decides to go loose on the interior and his grand dad sends him car stickers to use. Luckily for me the stickers where not very sticky. Then I've got a very handy elastic line with clips on to display his artwork that a very kind friend bough for me at Granit. Wish they had a webshop for people like me who live 300km to nearest store.

He seems to be going threw a red phase.. could it somehow be connected with being two and a half

and having a very strong will I wonder ? Maybe I should swap the paint for lots of greens and calm blues and see if it will have an effect.

As you can see we are getting a layered effect and what to do next?

Where to store all this art and does he then get it when he moves out? What does other parents do?

Any suggestions on keeping and displaying your childrens paintings and stuff?

When we go to London I always try to get a lunch or two at Leons and I also got the cookbook to inspire me. They have things like Morrocan meatballs,Sunshine sallad and home made Leon lemonade on the menu.
They also got a kids menu that your kids will eat from and you can feel like your kid is  getting some healthy food. Not the easiest task whe you are travelling.



New cookbook. Not for sale in sweden
 but  you can get it at amazon.


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  Soon it will be growing season here and I'm going to donate some of the black currant bushes so that I can extend my vegetable patch and grow lots of great stuff and then make some fabolous food. I want to grow things kids can eat straight from the patch. Carrots ,wild strawberries and maybe sugarpeas.
Warm up world and shake off last bits of winter even here in Sweden!



Had a thought about making nice looking seed packets and then I found a shop that does just that. In England of course. Looks great I think.