Regnfull mandag

Nå må jeg innrømme at jeg begynner å bli en smule lei av regn og mørke. Lengter etter sommer, sol og varme. Til jul fikk jeg denne fine boka av en venninne:

Den er full av nydelige bilder fra ulike eksotiske reisemål rundt om i verden. En perfekt bok å drømme seg bort i nå. Her er noen fristende bilder fra Aitutaki, Cook Islands:

Lørdag setter vi oss på flyet og reiser en uke til Gran Canaria. Ikke fullt så eksotisk som Aitutaki, men det skal bli deilig med litt sommer likevel. Jeg traska rundt i byen i dag, på jakt etter solparasoll til vogna til Odin, samt shorts og solbriller til nevnte viking. Og fant alt! Så nå nærmer vi oss klare.

Søndag

I dag har jeg hatt en skikkelig god og lat søndag. Tomas og Odin stod opp kl. 07.00, men lot meg sove til kl. 09.00! Deilig! Og vi har bare kosa oss inne i dag, sett litt på "Six feet under", som vi tok opp på fredag, spist pizza til lunch og bakt Chocolat Chip Cookies.


Før skjønte jeg ikke hvordan noen kunne spise kakedeig, men så lagde jeg disse kjeksene. Måtte jo smake litt på deigen, siden det liksom hører med til sjokolade-kjeks. Himmel! Deigen er jo minst like god som de ferdige kjeksene. Tilsammen ble det 50 passe store kjeks, men på bildet her er det nok litt færre, ja.....


Tomas sitter og ser på fotball-kamp på tv, samtidig som han syr lommene på buksa si'.


Han får alltid hull i høyre lomme, noe jeg syntes var så rart. "Tror du det kan være fordi jeg har tapetkniven i lomma? Noen ganger glemmer jeg å ta inn kniven helt, skjønner du." Dah!! Kanskje det er derfor, du. Ha-ha!

Jeg har heklet et par Mary Jane tøfler i helgen. Dette er virkelig meg i et nøtteskall. Det var veldig mange som heklet disse tøflene på Hobbyboden for et års tid siden. Jeg fikk oppskriften da, men printet den ikke ut før i fjor høst, og begynte ikke å hekle før i går. Det går ikke så veldig kjapt med meg. Bruker litt tid på å finne ut av ting, jeg.


Til slutt i dag har jeg lyst til å vise dere en av mine fineste eiendeler. Denne alven fikk jeg av Tomas til bursdagen min i fjor, og jeg synes den er så utrolig fin.


Diktet i holderen er et lite utdrag fra Voluspå:

Sol, søster til måne

sørfra grep

med høyre hånd

om himmelrand

...

Ny lue

Jeg heklet ferdig lua mi' i går. Jeg ble ganske fornøyd. Jeg ser alltid litt rar ut med lue, men er redd jeg ikke kan laste lua for det. Her er ihvertfall bilde av meg, med lua på hodet...

Sett bakfra ser lua sånn ut....

Den er satt sammen av syv, heklede sekskanter og var veldig enkel og morsom å lage. Mønsteret fant jeg på Woolly Wormhead. Der finner du også en strikket versjon av denne luen, sammen med andre kule og morsomme luer.

Resten av kvelden har jeg tenkt å bare kose meg, litt foran pc'n og litt foran tv'n. Odin har lagt seg, og sovnet nesten med en gang. Tomas står på kjøkkenet og lager mat til meg. Tortilla-lefser med kylling og salat. Nam-nam...

Tomas er alltid så flink til å gjøre maten fristende, sånn som dere kan se her:

Jepp! Det er deilig å være meg i kveld!

Post til meg!

Jeg har fått post i dag! Jeg fikk denne spennende konvolutten fra Gaylynne i California, USA.

Det er pakke nr.2 i "Free-sample-swap" som jeg er med på. Inni konvolutten lå denne fine pakken:

Det er så hyggelig med pent innpakkede gaver. Reglene for denne swapen var å sende 5 gratis-prøver, men sjekk alt Gaylynne har sendt meg:

Det er tilsammen 10 prøver på forskjellige kremer og annen hudpleie. Kjempegøy!!!!

Jeg gir opp!

Jepp! Det gjør jeg. Ikke noe mer blogging på engelsk på meg. Det tar jo en eeeevighet å skrive hvert eneste innlegg, og ikke blir engelsken bra heller. Og jeg føler det er så mye jeg ikke får sagt, og det jeg får sagt, sier jeg ikke på min egen måte. Derfor blogger jeg på norsk heretter! Nemlig! Men det var morsomt å prøve.

I dag var vi på Ullevål og fikk endelig svar på prøvene Odin tok i begynnelsen av desember. Alt ser bra ut, og han trenger ingen inngrep eller operasjoner. De må bare sjekke nyrebekkene med jevne mellomrom. Så neste sjekk blir om ca. tre månder. De var veldig positive da prøvene ble tatt, men det var deilig å få det bekreftet i dag.

Make-alongs

I've joined two new "make-alongs". The first is "Et år i Farger", "A year with Colours", at Hobbyboden . Every month the coordinator, Silja, choose some colours that will be the theme for that month. Then it's up to each participant how she chooses to let the colours influens her crafting. It's even ok to drop out a month or two, if you don't feel like using the colour of the month. The colours of January is White, Gray and Black. I think I have some ideas for the colour white..... This is just so much fun!

The second make-along is "Tema", "Themes". It's started by Sylvez, and every week will have a new theme. Next week will be the first, and the theme is Stripes. I've called this a make-along in lack of a better word, but you really don't have to make anything. It's all up to you how you use the theme of the week.

I have'nt done much crafting over Christmas, exept for this octopus I made for Odin:

The pattern is from Garnstudio. They have lots of cool, free patterns.

Now I've started making a hat for myself. I just love the colours...

Happy New Year

The first day of 2007! My hopes are that 2007 will be as great as 2006! So many great things happend last year, the best of course being the birth of my son, Odin. And speaking of Odin; He slept all throug the night, last night. He usually wakes up and needs some food, once or twice during the night. So I hope this will be the start of a new time, with loads of sleep for all of us.

We spent new-years-eve at home, eating tapas and realaxing. We sure needed the time to realax after a whole week of doing nothing else. Ha Ha! Well, the holidays is over tomorrow, and then it's back to normal. But here's a picture of our new-years-meal:


I never got around to showing you my "Christmas-home", like I planed to do. And to day I'm going to take down all the christmas-decorations. I love putting it all out before Christmas, but come 1. of January, I'm all done with Christmas. But this tray of candles and ornaments has been one of my favorite decorations this year:

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.

Ullevål Hospital

We have spent the day at Ullevål Hospital, and our little viking-prince was so brave. He just cried once, when we had to hold him down for the x-rays. All the nurses and doctors comented on how brave he was! And we were just SO proud! Now we have to wait a couple of weeks or so for the results. But the doctors were very optimistic, and it looks like he won't need surgery.

I have finished the two gnomes for my cousins. Now I just need to finish one more, and that one is for myself. After that, I think I'm done making gnomes. It was soooo boring finishing the last two, so no more gnomes!

Yesterday I got this lovely hanger in the mail. It was sent by TinTin. I sent her some yarn in return. This is a great way of "buying" new craft-supplies, without spending a lot of money. I'm looking forward to using the hanger, but it won't be before after christmas, I think.

Hurry! Hurry!

I haven't been able to update my blog again. My son, Odin, was sick the whole last week, so I didn't have time to do much blogging or crafting. But he got some penecillin, and is much better now. On thursday we're going to Ullevål hospital for a check up. Hopefully they won't find anything wrong.

My goal for christmas was to be finished with all my christmas-gifts by 1. Desember. (Exept the gifts for Tomas and Odin) The Idea is that this way, I can spend the whole Desember making cristmas-decorations, cakes and other christmas-stuff for myself. It would be nice to have a calm, nice Desember, without all the stress. But Desember 1. is just a few days away, so I better hurry. I have a few gifts I need to buy, and some gifts I need to finish making.

I need to finish these three Gnomes. Two are gifts for my cousins, one I'm planing to keep myself.

I also have to finish another "Santa-couple in love". They are a gift for my aunt.

This is a slipper I'm making for a friend.

I'm also planing on sewing some wine-bags to give away with wine-bottles. It makes the gift a bit more personal. Only problem is, I haven't even started on these yet. I don't think I will be able to finish everything by friday 1. Desember, but by the end of the coming weekend, I hope everything is done.

Well I better get started.....

Sunday

I love sundays! It's the day of the week when we try to do as little as possible. This sunday is fathersday in Norway, so I made waffles for brekfast. It's Tomas favourite, so I thoght it would be a great start at his first fathersday. Later we will have homemade hamburgers for dinner, and brownies for dessert. Jummy!

To day is also the day of the football cup finale. Unfortunatly my team; Lillestrøm, didn't make it this year. But next year.... Look out everyone!
Well, today Sandefjord is playing Fredrikstad. A friend of mine is Fredrikstad supporter, so I'll chear for them today.

I can hear a little, cranky boy waking up now, so I better log of.

Hello again

I haven't updated my blog for a while. My sister has been visiting from Canada, so I just haven't had the time to log on. I don't see my sister wery often, so when she's here, we try and spend as much time together as we can. Now she's back in Toronto, so I'll try and update my blog more often.

I still haven't started on my bag for the "Veskealong" (Handbag-along), but I have decided I want to make a felted bag. I'm looking forward to start, now that I have decided how I want to make it.