A great day!

This day has been just great! First we woke up to beautifull sunshine, and that's always a good start for me. I kind of like rain too, but there is something about sunshine in the morning, that makes me spesially happy.

When we were on our daily stroll, I decided to visit one of my favourite stores, "Junibakken". I ended up treating myself with these candellight-holders.

And this very cute hanger:

At my local Fretex (a good-will store) I found this rainhat, cold sydvest in norwegian. I have wanted one of these for a long time, but haven't been able to find one I like. So when I saw this bright red one, I just had to buy it.

I also found this old cookbooks, and a coffeepot, at an other secondhand store.

The coffeepot has the same pattern as some plates I alredy have. No one of us drink coffee, but I think it will work fine with hot chocholat too.

But the best buy of the day was a 32 pice dinnerware. I bougt a really nice plate at a fleemarket a while ago, but haven't been able to find more of them. But to day I found the whole set at once. I bought it of course, but it was to big and heavy to carry home, so I will have to pick it up tomorrow.

After this fun day of shopping, the best part was waiting for me in my mailbox. I recived my swap-gift in the "Santas Hat Swap"! It was sent by Jenni in Denver, USA. And WOW! The santas hat was really full of wraped little gifts. I just love it! I got so many nice things. Thank you, Jenni. This was so wonderfull!

Weekend at Norefjell

We spent the weekend at Norefjell. It was raining all the time, but we snuggled up inside with hot chocholat, boardgames, crosswordpussels and lots of magasines. It's so nice to have the time to do nothing sometimes. I brought the camera with me, but had forgotten to charge the battery, so no pictures from Norefjell.

I have joined a "Santas Hat Swap". The idea is to fill a santas hat with little gifts and send it to some one you don't know. It's fun to plan and make the gifts, and I hope the reciver will be happy with it. It's my first international swap, so I'm really exited.

I'm struggeling with the Handbag-along. I haven't been able to come up with a good idea for a bag yet. The only thing I have decided is that I want it to be a shoulder-bag. But other than that, I have no idea what I want to make. I have started knitting a new gnome insted. This will be gnome number six. I still like to knit the gnomes; It's fun and easy.

Crafting and shopping

I started making these santas last year, but didn't finish them in time for christmas, so they ended up in my UFO-basket. This weekend I finally came around to finish them.

I've also made pair of clogs. I made them for myself, but they are to wide for me, so Tomas ended up with them insted. After making these, I have decided that I don't like the colour orange. I wasn't sure about the colour when I started knitting the clogs, but wanted to use some leftover yarn. Well, now I know; I don't like it. Luckily Tomas like the colour, and the clogs fits him perfectly, so it wasn't a waste of time anyway.

The nights are getting longer and longer, and the temperature is dropping every day. It's not just all bad. This means time for candlelights, and I bought a new candlelight-holder yesterday.

It's decorated with a picture by Alphonse Mucha, one of my favorit painters. Check out this page; http://www.muchafoundation.org/mucha/page.php?page=front , for more about Mucha and his beautifull pictures.

Handbags

I've joined a handbag along at http://forum.hobbyboden.com/ . We're making handbags, but are free to decide what technics we want to use; knitting, crocheting, sewing or someting completely different. I haven't decided on technics yet, but I'm really looking foreward to start. I just love handbags. I never get enough of them.

Pillow

I love things that's both practical and decorative at the same time. I made this pillow from different leftover fabrics, and I think it turned out real nice.

The picture is ironed on a pink cotton fabric. I wish I had placed the picture more in the middle of the pillow. You can't really see the picture now. Well, well.... Maybe I'll make one more pillow like this, and place a picture more in the middle then.

Mmmm Brownies

I made brownies today. I love chocholat, and this sticky cake is just incredible tasty. Mmmm!

The recepie is from my favorite cookbook, "Far heter Daddy". I've had the book for about six months, but the pages are alredy staind and folded several places.

To night I'll watch "House" on tv, and enjoy the Brownies.

Gnomes

I joined a knit along at http://forum.hobbyboden.com/ in the beginning of september. We have been knitting Gnomes. Today is the date for show and tell, and here are my gnomes. I made four of them. The white and gray on the left, is knitted in PT2 on 8mm needles and then felted. The red one is also knitted in PT2, but I used 3mm needles on this one. It's also felted, but not so heavy, because I used smaler needles. The two gray gnomes to the left is knitted in Falk. For the beard I used Beo.

I'm really pleased with them, and I think many of my friends and family will get gnomes for christmas this year.

I've started on a new one. I'm knitting with PT2, because I like the felted ones best.