The summer project

Being here, in Sweden at the country side, can be somewhat long. 

I have no car, so can't just go somewhere, and there are barely any buses to take me anywhere. 

So most of the time, I help out here at the house. Doing things that they have been talking about for as long as I almost can remember. 

My mother has always wanted a bigger patio, is hasn't really been any...

So this summer I helped out to do the patio. 

Me digging out the soil, to make the patio bigger. 

My little girl helping out as well!

Here you can see the are where the "old patio" where. I have taken out the old stone plates. 

We needed to do that, to cover the sand with a special plastic cover, so the weed don't start o grow. 

The back with sand and plates again. 

And here we are today!

You can see the plastic cover for the soil, in the edges of the coming patio. 

We dig it out, and filled it again with lots and lots of sand. 

That is heavy to pull, I can promise you!

Here you can somewhat see how it will look like. 

In the end, it will almost be twice as broad as before!

Don't believe that I've done it all myself, I haven't! 

But I've been apart in all the processes and have done a lot.  

Göteborg

So, back from some days Göteborg, the second largest city in Sweden. I used to live there, before i moved to Prague. Such a cute city, it has a lovely character, and the spirit in that city  is just so nice. 

We're there to celebrate one, of my many, sisters birthday. And we took one extra day to just be in the town as well. 

I really felt I missed the city and it would be so fun, if the future would let me visit more often. 

I met an old friend, that I haven't talk to or have had any contact with over the last 3 years. we talked talked talked one evening, and with so much better mood can I come back to my lovely Prague. 

Been thinking so much of old friends, that I losted contact with, and that I missed and wanted to talk to, and at least I have reconected with one. Feels just good. 

Do that

craftmanship fair part 2

Tried to upload some more pictures of the fair I attended.Wasn't very easy, takes ages. 

Here comes three more at least. 

This is how the sellers stand looked like. 

Very light. 

This is ours, very dark as you can see. 

We also has a little sheep with us one of the days. 

Fabric from South America-Bolivia

If anyone are interested in fabrics from South America, more specific Bolivia, you have just found the right place. 

I've got fabrics from just this area, imported from a local fabric factory in Bolivia. 

Lovely to use in pillows, bags, as decorations in dresses etc. 

Email me on maria@maria-madgalena.com for mor informations and prices. 

Im also on etsy!

As from today, I do not only have my website

Maria-Madgalena 

I also have a shop on Etsy.

Shop name is Mariamadgalena

 

Craftmanship fare

One reason I went to sweden was to attend a craftmanship fare. 

 

From selling point of view, it was a disaster but from connecting and meeting people point of view it went rather good. 

But all of the sellers said that the firt time, in a new market always goes bad. 

 

It was also terribly weather, so almost none showed up. 

 I will most definately do it again though and try to find other to go to. 

 

 

Oh gosh, after 15 minutes of uploading did I manage to upload one picture...

 

 

One year anniversery

One year ago I started this blog. I posted my first about something about replanting plants. 

Has been very fun to do it, to write and show what I'm doing. I had a plan with the whole thing. And Idea where I want to go with this blog, plus web site and all. I had an idea of how I want to live my life and what to do. 

And it is that idea that I'm thinking about today, on this anniversary, as it hasn't really happen. 

I've learned so much this year, about what I want to do, and how I want to live. But today I', sitting here and are wondering about it. I can't see that I have moved one single step forward from how it was one year ago. 

And it makes me tired and sad. 

Will it ever? Will I ever be able to do what I really want to, or  will I be forced into something else, just because it takes so long?