Lunch at "Bugges eft".

The wether has been realy grey with loads of rain today, so we decided to have lunch at one of our favorit cafés. Days like this are perfekt for snuggling up in one of the cosy sofas at "Bugges eft". The obvious choise would have been to order hot chocolat, but we both had a craving for milkshakes. I ordered strawberry-milkshake and Tomas ordered cherry-milkshake. Mmmmm....

If you ever find yourself at Grünerløkka in Oslo, "Bugges eft" is absolutely worth a wisit.

Here's Tomas after a good sandwitch and cherry-milkshake. I'm in totaly shock, that he allowed me to put his picture on my blog.

Lazy days

Yesterday we had a visit from my sister in law, so we treated ourselfs to a wisit so Pascal. They have the best cakes in the world. Just take a look at this picture:

Yummi, right? They are just so incredibly tasty, and everyone should have a chance to taste one of these at least once in theyre liftime. To day this is whats left:

But it looks so lonely, so I better eat this one too......

Before Christmas I found these small christmas-cones

I realy wanted to buy them, but they were a bit to expensive. So when I found them on sale yesterday, I was so happy! I've bougth four of them, two red and two black ones.

Other than that, we spends the days relaxing, watching DVDs and reading. I've even started croheting an octopus for Odin. It's nice to make something that's not related to Christmas again.

I've got mail

We have had a great day! We had lunch on "Fridays", returned some christmas-gifts and just enjoyed the day together. I just love lazy days like this. And when we came home, an envelope was waiting for me in my mailbox. It's from Kathy in Australia, who sent me some free samples for the "Free sample-swap" I've joined. It's fun to try some new products, that I can't get here in Norway. Kathy even sent me some extra samples! Thank you, Kathy!

Merry Christmas

Phu! The last few days have been busy, so I haven't had much time to update my blog. To day I wanted to do some changes in my blog, and ended up deleting all my links to my favorite blogs. Grrrr.... So I'll have to start all over again. At least I've found an easier way to make a link-list this time. But it will probably take me some time to find all the links again.

I got this great gift from GH in the "Secret friend-swap".

The yarn is alpaca-wool, my favorite! I haven't decided what I'll make of it yet, but I'm sure I'll find some use for it. Thank you, GH!

Cosmetic-bags

I got so inspiered by the wonderfull cosmetic-bags Nena made, so I just had to make some myself. They are really easy and fun to make, and looks so cool. I made three of them today, while Odin was sleeping.

The bags even have "secret pockets" in the front and back.

I've joined another swap again, and will include a cosmetic-bag in the gift to each of my three swap-partners. So the bags will be sent off to England, USA and Australia.

I've also knitted these angels.

A good night sleep....

About a year ago, I started reading about feng shui. At first I was very skeptical, but now I'm totaly in to it. It's amasing how our environmet have an effect on every aspects of our lives. I have been sleeping very badly the last couple of weeks, and I'm always soooo tired when I wake up in the morning. To day I took a good look at our bedroom, and it's no wonder I can't sleep properly. It was a complete mess, with piles of clothes, magasines, toys and etc. So I started cleaning, changed the bed (I always sleep better after I have changed the bed), and left the window open for a couple of houres. Now the energy feels so much better in there. Hopefully I will sleep better to night. I probably will, because I'm so tired from all the cleaning. But I don't care why it workes, as long as it works.....

I have a smal collection of mementos on my nightstand, that are realy important to me. Some of my chrystals, some religious symbols and other things that I appriciate.

The faery is a gift from Tomas, and the smal Ganesh-figure is a gift from a friend that now have moved to Jerusalem. If I'm feeling down, I like to cary the Ganesh-figure with me in one of my pockets.

This tiny icon is a gift from another friend. I always thinks of her when I look at it.

The Tor-figure is also a gift from Tomas. I think it's realy cool, and as I'm realy in to the old norse Gods, this is perhaps my absolute favorit amongst my religious things.

The angel, made by Gisela Graham, my mother bought for me last year, when I told her I was pregnant. She wanted it to look after me and the baby.

And finaly; this is what I'm reading these days......

.... "Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix" for the second time, and "Voluspå", a collection of some of the old, norse poems called "Edda". I love the "Edda-poems", and reads them over and over.

Gift from a secret friend

I got a christmas-gift in the mail yesterday. I just want to open it rigth away, but have to wait to christmas-eve. (In Norway the tradition is to open the gifts on christmas-eve, not christmas-morning.) I don't know who sent it yet, because it's a secret friend swap, that I have joined. This is so fun!

I did a real bargain at my lokal goodwill store yesterday. I bougth this great Santa.

And a whole box of old christmas-decorations.

My favorits among the things in the box are these angels.....

.... and these smal books with christmas-carols. They are for hanging on the christmas-tree, and I've never seen decorations like this before.

Giftbag

To day I finally finished the last home-made christmas-gift. It's a giftbag for my friend. On the bag I have written words like; Joy, Happines and Resting, only in norwegian. Hopefully she will like both the bag and the things in it.





And... Our little viking-prince got his first tooth yesterday. He "borrowed" his Grandmothers cellphone, and left a tiny toothmark in it. Grandma was, of course, beyond herself with pride. She has been walking around all day, showing it to everybody.

We're going to the Canary Islands!

Well, not just yet, but soon. We're going to Arguineguin in mid January. We have never been there before, so we're a bit exited. And a bit nervous.... I'm a little afraid it will be boring, since non of us are the type that like laying at the beach all day long. Usually we like to travel to a city, like London, Pragh or Paris, and spend the time at museums, sightseing, theater and shopping. But with a seven months old baby, that's out of the question. But a week of relaxation, good food and a bit of sun do not sound awfull, so I'll probably survive. And it's kind of nice to have something nice to look foreward to after christmas too. Usually January feels so looooong.

Here's a picture of the hotel we're staying at, Hotel Arguineguin

And here's a picture of the pool

Almost finished with the gifts

I didn't finish all gifts in time for 1. Desember as I had planed, but now I'm nearly done.

This is the santa-couple I've made for my aunt.

Here are all six winebags. I made them very simple, but I think they turned out ok anyway.

A pair of slippers for a friend.

I'm planing to make a stringbag, and fill it with these slippers, a book about Rome, chocolat and a sented candle. Hopefully my friend will like the gift.

I bougth some cristmas-cookies today, so now I'll enjoy the cookies and watch some tv for the rest of the evening. Later "Grays anatomy" is on, one of my favorites.