I was doing so well doing my weekly update about my creative work. And then schools summer-break happened. We left as soon as the school was out here in Germany to Sweden and stayed there all six weeks of vacation. We had a great vacation. Both warm sunny summer days spent on the beach but also cooler and cloudy summer days spent in the forrest. We managed to spend good time with family and friends. Travelled down south and also had time just chilling home at Lundsätter our country house.
Apart from swimming and fixing around the house I did manage some creative project so - I will catch up on that over the next posts and then hopefully be back on track doing my weekly update.
During week 24 I have been working on preparing thank you gifts for kids teachers and friends. I like to give something symbolic which also can be useful. This year I decided to buy water bottles for the teachers and to make them personalized writing their name and some flowers on them. I bought plain smaller bottles at IKEA. With my Cricut i designed and cut it out of permanent vinyl. With adding vinyl on the bottles, they can only be hand-washed otherwise the vinyl will come off. After five years in Germany I have gotten so use to saying Frau Janssen rather then using her first name. So I decided that I will use the last name because that is the only name the kids use. Funny how you get use to something that I from the beginning thought was so stupid and old fashion. When I was playing around with my Cricut I also figured out how to transfer my wine ladies into svg file which is needed so the machine can cut out my illustrations. I did a test with iron on transfer vinyl. I made the
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