Waiting for Santa Claus.....

To day I have been Santas helper.... I have been to the post office with 3 parcel's for some ladies out in the world. The first one is for my SSCS partner in.......... One are for my Holiday Booty Swap partner in..... To tell you a secret... these two parcel's are traveling to the same country across the big ocean... The last parcel are the owner of a great little quilt from the SFRR-2. I hope all the ladies will be pleased. I have also manage to finish this UFO. It is a day in a mans world.... yes the 24. of December. Santas day.Showing how he wake up in the morning, went to town to talk with the children, delivering gifts and at last having a great evening thinking about how great his day has been. (In Norway santa comes on the 24. Luckey us ;-)
It was a great walk to the post office to day, but a short day. At three o'clock the sun went down and it tarted to get dark and a little cold. Now it is 5.7 bellow zero.And all dark...
The last of the Swans has gone away too. I don't blame them, think how cold their feet are , and have to put the head in all that ice wather.... UGH. But they are some of my favorite birds, beside Jacob. He realy are my boy.( when he are in a good mood) ;-)
I have got some great mail the last week.... From Nothern Quilt a Tablerunner, From Christmas Club a pattern made by Hugs'n Kisses and one new great Pincushion made by Melly and Me. I will enjoy to make all this after I'm home from visiting my brother in Nice... I go on sunday... It will be so fun to meet my two nephews again and to do some shopping hopefully in shops decorated for christmas......
I have been doing some housewife work to day, and then I found this old little quilt...I love almost every thing about it..... The stars...the flowers ... the logcabin .....but the fabrics with the bees are one of my greates favorites... and I have spent all of it... That's why I smiled when I found the quilt. I can enjoy it again.

Then I want to wish you all a great weekend I'm off to France.... Luckey me...
I will take lots of photos... promise

See you later....

I have been a lazy blogger lately.... soory, but it feel like the fog has gone on my brain.. For some week this is all I have seen of my part in the world...So as a result I have been messing around in a verry small space....
But now the world have opend, some times at least. And look how great it is with the white snow all over... It is almost so I need to take a walk in the snow...Last week Lapphøna and I went to Trondheim to visit my parents.... And we went from snow and ice to this...
No snow on the ground and what I will call -Fall. We went to spend a day in town and started with Nidaros domen. I have shown photos from it before. ( When Abyquilt where in town) I have to admit I was more clever to talk and catch up news both from Siw at Quiltegården and Christell from Jordbærstedet than to take photos, so I hope they will blog what they told me. Siw has been in Houston.... Luckey girl. And Christell has had a visit from Natalie Bird. Oh I wish I could had meet her...( But luckey for me my mother did) I got her book- From my Heart -with her signature in.
One thing I remember- was to take photos of my mother's dolls. She are a dollmaker, she make the doll from when it is clay and all the way t the doll are all dressed up. She got a lot of great dolls in a glass-cabinet.Here are some of her Norwegian Bunad dolls.All parts of Norway have their own Bunad (National costume)I belive I know these...The black one are from my part of Norway- Trysil, (I konw that LOL) The one with the brown apron I belive are from Røros, the blue one from Trøndelag(Trondheim ? )The boy with red vest are a boy from Trysil.The dark green with appels on the skirt are from Lier.... that is what I belive I know... the others I dont dare to quess about. But they are beautifull.
Here are some more. From diffrent parts of the world... One Indianer girl, one Same girl one beggar ( in my old green shawl made in my old shool days ) and a lot more dolls....
Here are two little girls on the run outside the cabinet.May be they are of to meet the winter...
In Trondheim we were so luckey to be able to meet Sølvi. She came with us to Syskrinet at Heimdal where she lives. I manage to take some photos from the shop. But it seems quite empty,everybody in the store went behind me when I tryed to take a photo..... LOL But it will show some of all the great model's. I think I have to go back when I return.
A lot of things I would love to do here.... Thank you Sølvi for bringing us and the great visit at your home. It was so fun to get to know you a little.... I hope to meet you next time I visit Trondheim.
I manage to take one photo from Nidaros domen. This is the sun shining through the opening in the wall to courtyard.
I have not done mutch stitching lately, but my two small BOM are done...Noah's ark and Sunbonnet Sue.
And I have got me some new thimbles and small items... The thimble with Bybroen and the viking I got in Trondheim. In a stall at the market place close to Olav Trygvason statuen.... If there are someone else who wants one ... The one in the middle I got from my friend Lisbeth , it is from her hollyday stay at Gran Canaria. The one with Elg I got from Vigdis and the last one I got from Reidun, she has been in Tallinn. Thanks to you all dear friends. You are soooo kind to me. Hugs.
Ups... Did you want to see my buings also... Ok I got some great fabrics...Some I got from my mum, some at Jordbærstedet and some at Quiltegården. ( Siw even let me buy some of the fabrics for my Wish quilt. Thank you , Siw) I got a tie looking as a tape measure and a Boobie Button from Hugs'n Kisses at Jordbærstedet...

And pattern.... of course I got me a lot of new Must Do items.... ;-) The book From my heart, with Natalie Birds signatur in andChristmas Angels from the birdhouse.A Norwegian patter called Lille sommerfugl ( little Butterflie) from a lady named Inger... Unknown from me. A pattern from Country Friends called Needels and Pins. A fresh one all the way from Houston made by Pearl Louise Design called Itty Bitty Baa! and at last a German pattern by Ursula Schertz called Weilnachtsfeen -Gardine. I love her pattern and have been collecting Patshwork magazin for a year just to get her stitchery patterns in them. I love her drawings...

Ok I think this will be all for the day... or may be week. I have something calling for my attention.... My SSCS.... A Miniature Swap and A SFRR who need the last to be done on them. They will all be out in the world next week.... and then I will go to visit my Brother and his family in Nice...
Have a great week. Have fun and take care...

Weekend with friends....

When I come home from work on thursday this wonderful surprise was waiting for me.... A parcel from Joy. I was her Stitching Angel, and now she realy was my. A lovely pouch with a B H stitchery on, a tape measure in a little tin and two pattern. One from Hugs'n Kisses and one of here own. ;-) The Ric Rac And Roses bag is a "must do" item. I'm going to Trondheim next weekend and it would have been so fun to have this new bag with me... Thank you Joy! I love your surprise.
This weekend I spend with great friend in a cabin not fare from my home. We did a lot of stitchery all of us, but i forgot to take photos..... I only have have a photo of the one I was working on.I hope to be abel to show you what the other was working on later. I started to make a little wall quilt from Nothern Quilts. Called Augustbroderusk.I manage to do all the applique and to stitch all the sayings. So now I have to stitch all the small details.
Aase had her birthday on 31. so we all tryed to surprise her and bring a cake, and so did she as well. :-) so we realy got a lot of cakes. From the few photos I took inside the cabbin ,it seems the only thing we did was eating.

More food photo, here are we going to eat cheese and biscuits. ;-)
It was a lovely view from the porch. Trysil mountain in sunset. All the ligtning are one of the downhills in the ski area.
One more evening photo...
And one in day time....
I had to test my camera and take a photo looking at the sun. I feel it almost like easter.

We did not only eat.... belive it or not... we went for a walk in the beautifull sunny weather. Here you can see all the lovely team : Lisbeth, Aase, Anne Britt, Jørann, Inger and Sølvi. Thank you all for all the suport, hugs and laugther during this weekend. I realy needed it.

To all you others I have somting to tell.... The reason I have been a lazy blogger and not clever to reply all your comments on my blog lately is because I have to find me somthing else to do. The shop has been sold and there are no need for my co-worker, Irene , and me. I'm so happy to know there will be a quilt shop, but it is hard not to be a part of it. We have been so luckey get to know a lot of great quilting ladies and shop owners all over the world. And now at New Year it is the end of this part of our lifes.... I give the new owner all my best wishes and hope the great surroundings in the store are going to last.
Irene has been in her cabin with May Britt and some other great friends too this weekend. Pop ower and take a look of there great work. ( I hope M B has bloged it)

Big hugs to you all :-)