I am slowly recovering from my wisdom tooth extraction and infection. Yesterday I managed to make a skirt, which ought to be a sign that I am on my way to full recovery. But it is going slowly and I still ned a tramadol to be able to sleep, which makes me drowsy durign the day. The infection in the mouth also triggered my joints, so I have more pain there than for a while.

This is Rickard's work weekend ( he works every otehr weekend) so Maja and I spend most of the time alone. Or, normally we do. Yesterday was her eight birthday, so after Rickard was home from work (he "only" works 8 1/2 hours on Saturdays) we had the neighbours over and Vendela and Valeria brought their little half sister on their father's side and we all had ice-cream cake. My mum and her boyfriend and my sister and her family were here on Friday.

Today Maja and I are going to take the bus to Toys'r'us and spend some of her birthday money. If I'm lucky she will let me take the bus to a fabric store called "Stoff & Stil" also, though it is a bit tricky to get there by bus.


On wednesday we're going to the biggest SCA event in Sweden, maybe even in Drachenwald: Double Wars, which is a nine day camping event. It has been around for 25 years, but for some reason I have never attended. it's me, Valeria and Maja and we're going down by train. Then on Friday afternoon Rickard will drive down  after he's stopped working and we'll have the weekend together there. I know that it will be fun, but right now I'm mostly stressed about it.

Om Monday I extracted a wisdom tooth from the lower yaw. It was lying down instead of the normal standing up so quite a lot of bone had to be taken away and it had to be broken into pieces before they could pick them out. I also managed to get an infection so I'm quite miserable. I got anitbiotics on Wednesday afternoonn so I hope that it will get better soon-ish.

Today I will be working my ass of  and then I'll go to a course on being a parent (or other close relation) to a person with Asperger's. If I'm lucky I will be home a whole our before we have to go to bed.

I took some photos to give to the woman who made the hat today.



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I liked how the red dress turned out som much that I decided to make a yellow version. The colour was chosen beacuse I now have three pairs of yellow summer shoes that don't seem to go with anything I have. The fact that I had a white ribbon with yellow flowers of the Asteraceae genus helped too. Then I got plastic buttons that looks like chrysantemums and the cheerfulness was completed.



I'm not totally happy with the photo, but its's okay. It looks like a housedress and that's what I mainly plan to use it as.

All I had decided before I went to see Ida and order the hat was that it should be grey and that it should have  feather going in arc over the head. And here it is: a 1940s hat with a very silly feather.




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I'm going to go and pick up my new hat that I ordered from Tegelsten Clothes a few weeks ago. It's a 1940s style pillbox hat and it will be awesome!

The trip to Kiel was first and foremost very nice: The company, that is: my friend Caroline and her parents, was excellent and so was the food and drink. The boat leaves Gothenburg at seven p.m and we were booked for dinner at half past six so we were busy eating a rather expensive and very good meal when we left the quay. Then we went to what used to be the duty-free shop when we were not members of the EU. It isn't anymore of course but it still has good prices on perfume, make-up and alcohol. We tried on perfumes, which was funny, since I never use perfume and neither does Caroline. We did find perfumes that were very good on us though: "Hypnotic Poison" for Caroline and "Poison" and "Obsession" for me - and the classic "Chanel No 5". "Hypnotic Poison" was okay for me too, but it was perfect on Caroline. of course the most expensive ones were the best ;) 
Since we don't use perfume we didn't buy any, just a lipstick and some red wine. We do use that.
The rest of the night was spent in our cabin drinking quite a lot of red wine and talking, before we all went to bed around three.

At a quarter past seven we were woken by a cheerful voice announcing in three languages that breakfast would be served from half past and that we would reach Kiel at nine. All of us were a littel worse for wear, but not too bad and a breakfast buffet which contains bacon is good for you those days.

Teh rest of the day was spent shopping - walking up and down the main shopping street - eating and drinking. I can't say that I have seen anything of Kiel. This is so different from how I would spend a holiday trip, but it was interesting to experience other people's lives and we had fun. The company was excellent and I only had one beer, which was good for me. I do enjoy shopping too, so I'm not complaining; it's just different.
I bought a collection of german movie hits from the 1920s to 1940s and book supporters, which we really need, in a remainder shop. I also got 7 pairs of tights in my size, which isn't that easy to find always, at C&A and Karstadt, which is a german chain of department stores. And these cute shoes at half price at Deichmann:


They're real leather and were 20 euros. We have Deichmann here in Gothenburg too, but they're out in the suburbs and anyway, since these were on sale and the last pair I grabbed them when I could.

The boat left again at seven pm and just like on Friday we had dinner while leaving. And went to the shop, this time to buy alcohol to bring home. I usually don't have much alcohol at home, I buy it when I need it, but since I got my grandmother's liquour cabinet I've tried to get something besides home made elderberry port to put in there. So now there is also Martini Rosso and Bianco and Bailey's in it.

A good thing with the trip was that all the travelling is done in the evenigns and nights, so you arrive back in Gotheburg at nine on Sunday morning and thus still have time to socialize with the family, sew and tidy up some.

Today I am going with my friend Caroline and her parents on a mini cruise to Kiel in Germany. I am sure that I need the time off from all the problems with the kids and I think it will be fun. However, I will miss being home with the family and my sewing machine. Especially since Maja, Valeria and I were away last weekend for an SCA event. I need my stay at home time a lot.

But I'm not going to think about that, instead I'm going to think about what clothes to pack. The suit is coming along and my red wrap dress, but I need an extra skirt and top if I get clumsy and spill on me, as I often do.

I have never been to Kiel, but I've heard that it's very pretty and since Caroline plus parents go once every year they know their way around the place. I foresee some eating, some shopping and lots of drinking. I will try to get som photos taken too and show them here later.

Happiness can be finding out that you can get out a princess line dress (like the red one I just made) from the piece of fabric you thought was too small after all. Especially if it's some of the fabric I got from my dad, because sewing from that makes me think of him.