We had some friends over and celebrated Claire’s birthday on Saturday because we are going to be in Spain (yipeee!) on her real birthday. Before I write some sappy stuff about my sweetheart – a funny thing: Bea bought Claire some play money for her birthday and we all got laughing because some Swiss 1,000…

Look what I got from our friends – and all I had to do is invite them over and make a very ordinary meal. Lucky me!

What is it about clothes that I make? I had to plead and plead to get her to try these on for 5 minutes. I made two more things for the Kids Clothes Challenge. The blue shirt is another one of Brian’s old work shirts. I left part of the pocket on the back so we’ll…

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In preparation for the big move – Brian and I have been going through our clothes and getting rid of things we don’t wear. I made a strange little dress out of one of Brian’s old shirts because I just can’t stand to get rid of that nice shirting fabric. It’s made from the Popover…

They know how to make a fantastic parade in Zurich!

Before Bea was born I embroidered this little bee onto some onesies for her. The other day Bea found the little paper pattern that I used to trace the bee in my sewing stuff and she asked me to put it on this hat that she found at the brocki. I like to sew for…

We soaked up lots of sun this weekend and it felt so good! On Saturday we went to a part of Zurich that we haven’t explored much before. This is an ineresting store made of shipping containers. You can go up to the top to look out over the city. It was timely to be…