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This is the end!

So dear readers. 

I feel it's time to start something new. 

I feel it's time to take this a step higher. To a name I really feel good with, with a logo that I like. With a facebook page as everyone else. 

I want to succeed in this, and I need to do it just a bit more professional. 

So from today and onwards this blog will be no more. 

Visit me on my new blog, with my new name, new layout but the same me :)

www.mankasfashion.blogspot.com

I also have a new web address 

www.manka.nu

and facebook page

www.facebook.com/mankasfahion

go in and hit LIKE

Gosh

I'm getting stressed. Stressed, stressed, stressed. 

Everywhere I see, or hear or read now a days there are talk about children. 

And about 2 year old children that are using IPADs, Android phones, computers. Children that barley can write are chatting and using Facebook. 

Talks about preschools and kindergarten to children not even big enough to talk. That they should learn languages and need to SOCIALIZE, SOCIALIZE, SOCIALIZE. 

And it get's me very stressed. I don't believe in all these things. 

Take your child to the park, instead of using your damn iphone and it will socialize. Take your child to some swimming lesson or singing group and they will have so much stimulation that it's enough. 

All this press on the children, already from before they are out.

I always need to stand strong and defend my idea that day care and preschools are nothing my child will be in. I don't beleive in it. 

If it's so important to socialize in a organized day care group, well then our foundation of this world is really weak as none of our parent did go to one. How did they turned out? Rather OK? 

And all the people before that, didn't the manage?

Or have humanity been lost in translation, until the day, day care was invented? 

The "skirt"

Front and back

Is not really a skirt, it's a kilt! It's a kilt for a little new born, therefore the solution of the bag. It's not supposed to be tied like that, but it has to be easy to take on of a small child. 

It was really fun to do! I hope that the little kid will be happy, or at least his parents :)

Jacket- check

Jacket-check

"Skirt"-Check

Sweater-Check

Dress-Check

Was a productive day as I finished these things. The "skirt" will be shown tomorrow. Really really proud over just this thing!

Tomorrow is a day that will be spent in redesigning website and blog. Finally it will be some changes. As I said before, never really clicked with this name. 

WOW

How stupid I can be sometimes. 

Today I been doing nothing. We went to the market and got out veggies and fruits for the week. After that it haven't happen anything. I been lying in the sofa, doing what? 

watching Grand design, nothing else, reading some blogs. Fine to start with,  but after some time big bored and started to feel bit stressed. 

Why on earth am I lying here, just doing nothing. Wasting time, when I could clean, sew, run or do anything. 

My husband playing and hanging out with the Little girl, making me not need to think about her either. 

Gosh  I was stressed and starting to get bored and turning almost angry, as we where just in the house doing NOTHING. 

Interrupting my husband, nagging that we should do something, anything that we just can't be inside. Yes it's dark but we can't stop live. 

And I don't know, in a split of a second I heard myself, and stopped and thought. Thought about all the times when I thought about just lying in the sofa for the day, watching movies and doing nothing else. What I have been tired of all the cleaning and sewing and fixing, wishing the husband to take the girl out so I can just be here, watching movies. 

Why what the hell am I complaining for_?!?!?

Yes that hit me, what am I complaining for, I can actually do this I wanted for AGES. 

So I decided to be fine with it, went back in the sofa, got more comfy and will continue see GRAND DESIGN. 

I' ve got "dille" on pillows

Dille is a Swedish word, don't really know how to translate it. It's something similar to crazy about, but not really. 

And I've got it. This morning I finished 2 more pillows to our bed. >All of them are as well in this romantic flowery fabric. 

I don't really recognize myself! :D

I also made a matching curtain for the room. 

Petite!

And if anyone are in need of some pillows, well then I can make them for you!

The mother issue

One thing you shouldn't, couldn't and mustn't is talking about another persons child. If you do so, that mother will most probably so offended, angry and sad that you forever will be crossed from the friend list. 

"How dare she talk about me and how I raise my children, she/he doesn't even have some"

The saying that " a mother always know the best", which I think if interesting. Why just the mother, why not the father? 

And why should I know the best? Because I squeezed her out? Just because of that I don't know all about child developing, and stuff. 

I did use to think so as well, as I had the feeling that I "should" feel so.

But I can't, I want people to tell me if they think I can do something better. 

I don't believe that we all know what's best, in that case it wouldn't be so many children eating MacDonlads, drinking Coca Cola and watching movies, as I don't think that that could be any way good. And so many are doing it. 

So we don't know, and I think it silly of people to think that they are all knowing people. Parents. 

Help me! I love when people give me hints and ideas, I take that I think it the best of them.  

And the parent out there, don't take it as criticism see it as a help on the way.  

My ADD

Price list:

Hemming trousers 150

Hemming skirt 150

Change size of dress/skirt/blouse etc 200

Sew in buttons 100

Fixing holes in trousers 100-150

Then there is much more that can be done, but this is just a general price list, it´s the most common request that I do. 

We have a responsibility!

I have been thinking of this so much. We are standing in front of a environmental disaster and this makes a difference, and also we need to start think of other people in the world. People are suffering and I do believe that it can turn really bad, not just for them but for all of us. 

And I felt so glad when I read this, that we are people that are thinking, and please let us be more!
Hannasvirrvarr


Shopping on the cheap chains. We actually have a responsibility and it does matter if we support or do not support them. When a garment does not cost more than a lunch, it's quite certain that all the people in the chain didn't receive fair compensation. That is just the truth. We can close our eyes, go with the flow, think that we ourselves can not affect the great injustice system, but the truth is that it actually does matter whether we buy or not. We choose our self. There are many options.

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New skirts

This I have two of, one with lining and one without. 

The back

The front

They are in size 38/40 and are all for sale. 

Maria-Madgalena

Roasted chicken

I like chicken, but not all of them. I like nice chicken, chicken that taste something. All chickens don't do that. 

Never buy a chicken in a supermarket. Or at least not in the supermarkets here in Czech Republic. It doesn't taste anything. 

Go and buy it in bio store, they are more expensive but they taste better. 

Or you can go to prazka trznice, to hala 22 to the woman that sells chicken. They taste really really good. 

As well more pricy but they are SO good. 

Even better is if you separate the skin from the chicken breast, stuff in half oranges and some bacon.

In side the chicken you stuff rest of the orange, bacon, half a onion, and one carrot. Smear the top of the breast with butter and salt and pepper it. 

IN the oven, on medium high temperature 

LOVELY

The oranges and bacon in the breast makes it juicy and it cooks slower, as the breast can be bit tricky to keep juicy. But this really makes it perfect. 

Try it, me and my little kiddo just eat like crazy. 

   

But I really believe that it's best with a chicken that is just not factory farmed!

Referral bonus

So, I'm giving you this opportunity to get some clothes fixed, with out cost for you! A great way to get new customers are via referrals, and so on. So I will give you a great reason to refer me. 

For each person you send to me, you get a free garment fixed, with out cost. 

What you say? Just to start telling people about me!

Showroom

I've got one. Showroom. 

Rather small, bit chaotic but there is still a showroom. 

All I need now is really nice hangers as well. Organize it nice and pretty. 

Fabric are behind, piled up, for easy viewing for customers to come and look what I have. For your new skirt or so :)

I have second hand clothes there as well, slowly it will just be my stuff. 

I have at least 3 skirts :)

Have three more, will get some pic of them and then hang them as well. 

Just come by for a viewing what I have, or what I can do for you. 

Thoughts

Today I was supposed to go and clean in a flat, but I feel run over by a train. 

So had to cancel, will try Thursday instead. 

I will sit and sew today then, :)

I just bought a lot of supplies to the machine, to make it bit easier and faster to sew. 

And some books, for inspiration, and I think that one can never be fully thought in sewing, or any profession, and always need to read and learn new things. 

Also thinking of starting up a "real" company, anyone that know about it, trying to find information but I don't really know czech language, so can't really find ant good info. 

Also thinking that I will change my name. I think that I have used this name for a while, but still don't feel for it. I think that it'a a sign that it might be a good idea, to find the name that will be MINE. 

My add 2

My add that my lovely husband has done for me. 

Just need to go and hand them out. 

Price list:

Hemming trousers 150

Hemming skirt 150

Change size of dress/skirt/blouse etc 200

Sew in buttons 100

Fixing holes in trousers 100-150

Then there is much more that can be done, but this is just a general price list, it´s the most common request that I do. 

Skirts again!

I know it's autumn, but I still think that you can use a nice looking skirt. 

So I made some, here comes the three first 

First one:

Second one:

Third one:

I don't really know why the zipper look so crooked. As it isn't. 

I just need to get my self a camera, and go a short photo course, as I really really suckely suck in taking pictures. 

The two first skirts also have a inner skirt. The third one is just one layer skirt. 

For sizes and prices, check in my web site:

Maria-Madgalena

Or if you like the style of skirt and want one, but not the fabric, contact me on maria@maria-madgalena.com and we can arrange something. 

eating animals

Is a book I read, just resent. I started last year, but I couldn't really finish. Was to much going on with baby, job, etc etc. 

So I read it now and It's really good. 

I was vegetarian for many many years, until I stopped as I had the biggest cravings for meat. When "turned" meat eater again I almost stopped eating vegetables, it was all meat meat meat. 

Until some years ago, when I thought that eating all that meat can't be to good for me, or for you. 

Today we eat mainly vegetables, actually. I like to have some meat once in a while, and my husband is from Bolivia, so only eat vegetables is almost impossible :)

In the word vegetables, I do include peas, lentils, beans and so on. 

I think this book is a very good thing to read. To be honest, today I have no moral thing, against eating animals, it's manly in environmental thing that I want to skip it. 

I think that if they are treated "good", I've got nothing against it. It's the "factory farming" I really dislike, the use of antibiotics, not when the animals are sick but just because I am against. 

That the animals can't live "normally" and that the waist that comes from these "farms" are toxic and there are not to big regulations on what to do with it. and the AMOUNT. 

One sentence from this book have really stayed in my mind, and I think we should all think about it:

"When we eat factory-farm meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own"    

Reuse what we have

I got people wonder if I am poor, or not poor but don't have enough money to buy things. 

That we don't get enough for me to go and get myself some new clothes and stuff. 

That question or assumption makes me so annoyed. That it would only be because of lack of money that one would think about the consumption. 

I believe that we are facing a economical and environmental disaster very soon. 

I think that both has started to show it self. 

I also believe that we can lower the damages, of the chaos that will be. 

I do believe that if we reuse our things more, redo, color, fix and amend things that are broken, worn out etc etc, we can save on the energy and resources that we have. 

If we cook more food, if we eat food that are produced locally, biological etc, we can put ease on the already tight thread we walking on. 

I do if for this, I go second hand shopping, or sew my own things, I make my own musli, bread, pasta etc just for this reason. 

We all say that "yes we have to start think about the future of the planet. but can we do. Nothing" 

I don't believe that we can't do anything. I think that we can do a lot. Please people, lets start reuse just a bit at least :)

This cardigan was pinkish and black, which wasn't really my style. I colored it black, and now it's good!

This was a sweater, with turtle neck. I cut the neck out, and lowered it. I cut of the cuffs, that was in the same color as the zipper, and sewed on new black once. 

I put in a zipper and decorated the neck lining with black fabric. I have a new cardigan now. 

Ans here as well, I just colored two dresses that I had, they where is white and it's not a good color for me. I made them black, and now I can use them. 

You can also do skirts from trousers, and skirts from dresses, tops out of dresses and skirts. 

Let your imagination free and reuse!

PT, Baby gym and fixing clothes

I wrote about me wanting a PT, some time ago, as I don't really know how to work out, and how much, and when etc etc. 

And now I got one! I am very VERY excited to have this girl. 

I have made so much progress since I started to work out regularly. Now it will be even better, and more visible changes.  

Today we went to a "baby gym", my girl and I. Terrible, TERRIBLE, she was not in the mood. She was terrified, screamed, cried, kicked, jumped away.
I was furiously angry when we left, upset that she had misbehaved so much. Had bad lunch and was angry and upset, until I came home, had a coffee and sat by the sewing machine. 

Then I relaxed and could see it from her point of view. 

First time, new things, new people, close to nap time and lunch time. 

So not so strange. The instructor gave us a new trial time, which was so lovely to do. So thursday we'll try again. 

And while she was sleeping, and I sewing I redid a sweater, ugly old sweater that I never used. Now it's nice, and funky and much more cool. 

Will show tomorrow, when light is better and I can take a picture. 

What have you done today?

Give me skirts, skirts, skirts againg,

I know it's autumn, but I still think that you can use a nice looking skirt. 

So I made some, here comes the three first 

First one:

Second one:

Third one:

I don't really know why the zipper look so crooked. As it isn't. 

I just need to get my self a camera, and go a short photo course, as I really really suckely suck in taking pictures. 

The two first skirts also have a inner skirt. The third one is just one layer skirt. 

For sizes and prices, check in my web site:

Maria-Madgalena

Or if you like the style of skirt and want one, but not the fabric, contact me on maria@maria-madgalena.com and we can arrange something. 

load of works

I've had a lot of work, and been rather quiet. 

Been sewing a lot. 

But please if anyone needs anything, don't be shy. 

Just come and get it fixed at my place!

Tought times are upon me #2

I've a friend in Sweden, she told me a story once. It was about when she was a small child, and about her mother. 

This friend was a very easy child, like an angel until one day. Her mother thought that she was possessed by a devil, as she turned from an angel, to a devil. 

I always thought that was a weird story. How in the hell could she believe that, possessed by a devil. 

But I understand. Today I understand. Today I've cried almost like a small child. As I don't know what to do, or how to do anything. 

Bigger doubt about myself in the role as a mother, I've never had. Maybe I'm not that good mother that I try to be. 

Maybe I don't give her as much as she needs, as everything I do just  turn wrong. 

And somewhere I hear the voice of people saying that it's just a phase, if I keep being strong it will just pass and she will be good. 

But how easy is it to be strong and keep it up, when there aren't anyone to turn to. no one to ask for help and some hours or a day of relief, to get energy and power to keep doing the nice things, and keep the calm voice when being with her. 

Today I've been hit, pinched, kicked, screamed at, thrown things on. ( Have a big bump on my fore head.)

Wish list.

I really want all of these things.

Not exactly these specific brands. But these things, I am in need of them. 

Barley have a phone today.

My computer has a ridiculous small hard drive. 40 GB, can't store anything.  

Well I have no camera. Need one. Also I would like a photo course. But need the camera first. 

Have a rug, and for that rug I need this thing. It's the best, a rug sweeper. 

An overlock sewing machine. cool

Adjustable mannequin. Also Cool.  

Will try to get the camera and mannequin first.

No I'm of to the swimming pool!

Musli

I didn't use to like it, as the bags I bought with musli, was always so so. 

Almost only oat, no berries or seed. And very expensive. 

So I started to do my own one so I can decide was to have inside it. 

 Roasting some oat cereals with honey. Makes it a bit crispy and tiny bit of sweetness. 

Chopped some nuts, and dries fruits. Added seeds as well. 

Some cornflakes, and raisins. And:

Voila!

I just love it.  

Aprons!

I love them, but no one seems to use them. 

I don't know why, as it keeps the clothes in better condition. 

In stead of clothes with oil stains, I have clean clothes. 

So I made some, anyway. Even if people seems to have stopped to use them. Start again!

You can find more, and also the info how to buy them on my website:

Maria-Madgalena

Biking

We went biking, my little girl and me. Or I biked, and she sat in  her seat, talking, singing and shouting to other people. It was so much fun! Went out a goof three hours. 

When I came back to the rental, the guy was surprised I was already back. They rent out their bikes for the whole day. I said I couldn't really bike more, my girl needed food. 

"But you can come in the afternoon and use it again if you want. You did pay for full day."

"Sorry I can't I don't have the time"

"Well then I will just save the seat on the bike, and you come tomorrow for 2, 3 hours again. Included in the price"

So fantastic service! 

Skala Sport

Trousers. Wihow!

I got them on today!

A pair of jeans, that I've used but hasn't really fitted. 

Today I got them on, as they should be like!

I'm Happy!

Just keep doing my work!

A stone in your hand

When I was in high school and had the physical training, we sometimes had to go out and run. 

I hated it, as I wasn't even slightly fit. 

The hockey guys in my class, was always very happy about it, so they could show of how good they where. 

Each time we had to go run, they picked up a stone in each hand, squeezed it and started running. It was apparently supposed to help you run. I never understood it. 

Today I picked up a stone and put it in my hand, when I went running. 

I'm home from the running, and I still don't get why they did it. 

My add

My add that my lovely husband has done for me. 

If anyone needs things to me amended or sewed up. Just contact me. 

Price list:

Hemming trousers 150

Hemming skirt 150

Change size of dress/skirt/blouse etc 200

Sew in buttons 100

Fixing holes in trousers 100-150

Then there is much more that can be done, but this is just a general price list, it´s the most common request that I do. 

House Decorations

These two, I made over a year ago. But can't find it here. So I think that I haven't post it. 

I had two painting that wasn't very nice. 

So took, some fabric that I liked and attached the fabric in the frame instead. 

Smaller one, with different fabric. 

Here they are together in the living room.