Rickard's birthday

Today it's Rickard's birthday so now I can finally talk openly about the London trip that I gave him/us as a birthday present. He was surprised, but not overly excited. Not that he's the easily excited type. But I'm so much in love with him.
We need to:
Decide which museums and other places we are going to visit (I'm much for just walking around in different parts of town, seeing places you've only read about.)
Get a passport for Maja
Find one of the collapsable sulkys (no idea what it's called in english) that we bought for Vendela and Valeria so that we can bring it with us.
But we are going!!!
Thanks to guyelfkin who let's us stay with him and to my father and Björn who gave me money for birthday and christmas presents.

I'm very tired today. Maja didn't fall asleep until midnight and then we felt the need to be a little social ;) Then we got up at 6.30. But I'm happy and that's all that counts. The sun is shining too.

sewing and knitting

I have decided that I shouldn't have more than three projects, including my knitting, but excluding the pavillion roof, going at the same time. I didn't start the victorian blouse until I had finished the green bliaut and I won't start the pink linen chainse for the bliaut until I have finished the 16th century corset. The corset should be finished some time next week. I have now sewn all the 40 boning channels on the front piece and boned it. I have also cut out the pieces for the back and will start by doing an overcast stitch around the pieces, to stop the silk from unraveling, tomorrow. If I get bored with the corset I might start on a pair of victorian drawers this weekend, but I will probably work on the corset and knit instead (which reminds me that I have to go to the hardware store to get some metal rings for the eyelets tomorrow. What I really want to do is start on my victorian corset, but since that will take some thinking and possibly a visit to a copy shop to size up the pattern pieces, it'll have to wait. I have a lot of thinking to do at work, since I think I need to redo parts of the chapter, so I think I will avoid heavy thinking at home :).
I have now used up one ball of yarn for my knitting and since it should take c. 4 balls that means I have done a quarter of it, though it doesn't look so.

At work I'm walking around in my victorian blouse and a wide green wool skirt that reaches to the lower calf, with a belt at the waist to keep the skirt there, and my cashmere shawl draped over my shoulders. I feel very pretty and victorian.

oops! Forgot...

I also got the fabric for my first victorian dress (the observant reader will notice the word "first" in the sentence, as in "I will make more than one"...) today. It is a thin white cotton with a pattern of bouquets in lavender. Very pretty. I'm gravitating more and more towards ca 1860 instead of 1850, but there were plenty of flounced skirts then too.
The thing is, it will definitely be a summer dress and we plan to hold the event in october maybe, so that everybody will have time to make their costumes. But maybe some of us will be finished fast and can have a picnic in a park, maybe the botanical garden.