Two more WISP's

Yesterday I mange to get one more of my WISP's ready. So now Little Sis just have to be hung on the wall. Thanks to May Britt who make me do some of my verry old wisp's. I had to machine quilt or else it have been lying in my closet with the others of my "forgotten"wisp's.
I machine quilted this little tumbling blocs quilt too. And to day I got it all done. Two WISP's in one week. WOW I feel great. Now I think I almost deserve to start on a new item.....To tell the true....I have ordered some new pattern from Bee Sew Whimsal. It is Truly Scrumptious from Chinderberry Stitches.All the pattern are so great. I have started on the first block, but not started to stitch yet. I will show you how it turn out next time...Promise.
To day I have been playing with my sewing machine.....and I made this . In norway we call them "bøssposer"They are to carry around where you are going to sew so you can put all your smal treads and other left over from your project in it. (so now they are not turning into dust-rabbits any more. I hope. )

This mornig I took this photo of Jacob having his breakfast. He love to taste a pice of my bread. He just want the seeds in it. I use sunflower-seed when I make bread and guess who just love it.He does not look to happy to be catch with a full beak. :-)

Untill next time have a great time and some lovely quilting time...

One WISP done

After I have removed all my Christmas decorations,I have found all my snow peopels.The quilt are from a Thimbleberry club some years ago.
I have manage to have one of my WISP's ready. It is the Jacob-quilt.I took it for my first project......And now it is done. Puh- I feel great.
I have been looking true all my old (realy old) wisp's and I found some who didn't need to mutch work. Once I have thought to hand-quilt them. But now I have decided to quilt them on my sewing-machine. I must realize I have not time to hand-quilt everything.This quilt are a verry old one called Little Sis.
And this are a outcome after playing with leftover from a class where we made Thumbling Blocks using the sewing machine.I tryed diffrent block's. I opened the top on some and even made some who you can see through. It was realy fun to make this little quilt, but hard to get quilted.....;-)
At last to day I want to show our house..... we got snow. Lot of snow and more a falling from the sky just now......

Have a great day and take care...

January challenge

May britt has started a January- finish it up-challenge,and I have decide to joy in. Actual I have a lot of WISP's lying around.But I have to start with some, these where the luckey one....
The first are what I got for Christmas from my friend Bjørg. Not a old one, but I love to have made it.
The second one are a little quilt from Art-to-Heart. And it needs to be done fast.
The third one are a little quilt with a stitchery made special for me by Leanne Beasley when she was here in Trysil. It is my parrot Jacob, both on the stitchery and on the photo.
I would love to have the three of these WIPS done by January.May be I even got time to finish a few more..... There are a lot to pick from..... ;-)

I have also add Hannes badage on my sidebar. I realy need to reduce my stash. My number one goal are to make quilts from the fabrics I got and only buy fabrics I REALY needs, untill the annual meeting in NQF. It start on the 4.of April. Then I have to allow meself to by what I want, if I have been clever.
So I have to tell you I have to tighten the control of my buyings.

Untill next time take care and have a look on your stash. :-)

Happy New Year !

Yesterday my husband , Jacob and I went to celebrate New Year's Eve in Oslo with our oldest daughter. It was a lot of fireworks and a lot of noise from all the people out in the streets , but we had a great evening together just having a enjoyabel time.
To day my daughter and I went for a walk by Akers elva. (Akers-river) It was lovely weather, but no snow at all.You can hardly belive this photo are taken in the middle of the biggest town in Norway.I love to walk and look at all the old houses,and to day it was so peaseful and hardly no peoples to see.
It has been a calm christmas this year. I have spend some time alone, after our visitors had left back home and my husband went to work. (I had to work two days myself also.) But when beeing on myself I manage to finish this little stitchery. The Night Before from Cinderberry Stitches.
And this bolck from Angel's sewing basket From Gail Pan Designs. Every thing I manage to finish make me feel great.... ;-)

I almost feel ashamed not to have showed what a lovely gift I got from my SSCS partner Tracey.I'm so pleased with all I got. So thank you Tracy. I send a big hug to you.
And look what I got from my friends for Christmas... Lovely boxes to fill with Quilting objects. ( Buttons, Fabrics,Wips or what ever) I just love and need boxes.
And take a look on these.....a great homemade kit from my friend Bjørg and two lovely pre-printed stitcherys. All of them are something to make fast..... ;-) I have started on the one from Bjørg. I will show you when it is done.
I also got other great quilting items from other friends of mine. I'm a luckey girl I think who have all that great friends. Thank you everybody.(I even got one of May Britt's pin cushions)
At last I want to say : Have a lovely and peacefull 2008 with this angel . We went by it in Oslo to day. I think it was great.

Have a lovely day. Have fun and take care. ;-)

Merry Christmas

Now my house are ready for the ariving of Santa Clause. It are cleaned and decorated as well as I can do it. I made this picture some years ago and I don't ever think I will be doing all this cross-stitch ever again.
Here are some of my realy old Santas (Nisser). The one with the bell are the oldes. My hoseband got it on his first Christmas in 1955.How old the one with the basket and the one with the fiddle are I don't know, but they have been celebrating some Christmas with us.
Our tree are decorated and the gifts are beginning to fill up under it. You can see the gift I got from my Secred Santa partner , not opened yet..... ;-)
The birds outside has got there Christmas fedding, a Christmas sheaf. (jule-nek)
At last Jacob and the old Nisse-couple, Santa and his wife ,want to wish you all A Merry Christmas !
And a big hug to you all from me. Have a great time and enjoy.

LAILA

Almost Christmas

To day are the darkest day of the year. But now it is only going to be lighter untill summer-time ,when the sun shine almost all through the night.I took this photo about nine o'clock this morning. It was 20 degrees below zero. You can see my neighbours are having a fire.
To day I have been cleaning my house and to morow I will be decorating the hole house for Christmas. I use not to do that untill the 23. but this year I'll do it "early" because Nemo ,her boyfriend and her older sister are comming home for Christmas on Sunday,and I want every thing to be ready so we can just relax and enjoy ourselves.

To day I have made the last Christmas present. It is a kitchen-towel for my mother-in-law. She has got one , but whish one more.Now I have only a few more gifts to wrap up. And to morrow I will put all the gifts under the Christmas tree after I have decorate it. The gift I got from my Secred Santa Christmas partner will be laying there too....I'm looking forward to open it. ;-) But before I can do so I have to decorate my house with all my Christmas items. I got a lot of Santas, angels , tablerunners, Norwegian Santas (Nisser) and you name it..... My house are going to shine... After all the cleaning to day it only happen to sparkle a little now and then...

The bird-house out side are full of sunflower-seed and the balls are other birds food. I love to watch the birds comming and going to get food.They are so elegant . My favorite are the Bullfinch, the male are so red and beautifull. It is the Christmas-bird of them all I think.
Jacob are keeping an eye on my cleaning. May-be he are looking after the "dust-rabbits" I have catched a lot of them. Once I was thinking of setting them up for adoption...but I don't belive I'm the only one who has a lot of them...;-) But now they are spending the Christmas gathering in my vacuum-cleaner.

Unill next time take care and remember the child in you . I hope to chare some photos of my house when I have decorated it for Christmas..... ;-)

Christmas traditions

I have been asked about the Christmas traditions in Norway. Donna wondred why we opened our Christmas gifts on the 24. Well, I have asked some peoples and done a lot of thinking my self. And I belive it has to do with the Vikings and the Christnening of Norway. The Vikings had a big celebrating ( blot) on the 24. It was the darkes night of the year and the scaries one. So they gather to celebrate that the darkes time was over and it only was getting lighter.The candel - light was shining all through the night because of ,what they belive, all the dead people who was outside trying to get inside to hurt someone. So when Norway was Christned they allready got a great night to celebright and tok it as Christi birthday.I realy did not realize how mutch of the old traditions we realy have her in Norway. The hollyday peace began at 5 pm when all the church-bell starts to ring all over the country. And in our family we put on our best clothes and sit down to eat dinner at six'o clock.We will eat rib,meat-cakes and sosisses with vegetables and some tradisjonell bread called lefse. (It is made of potatos and flour for the most.) After the dinner all the dishes must be clened and the kitchen steady. As vell as the hole house must be clean and shining. THen we can sit down and open our gift, one by one. and every one have to see what we got. So this can take some time. We use to have coffe and cakes while opening the gifts. It "must" be at least seven different kind of cakes. Some are traditional and some are new one found in magasines or I got the recepi from someone...
I will try to show some of my traditions before Christmas. I have cleaned almost all over my house and baked most of the cakes. No I have to do the last gifts and wrap it in...
Yesterday some quilting girls did another tradition....we went on a trip to Oslo to look at the Christmas decorations and visit some stores. Her are a new tradition for me: A Christmas marked . I'm not use to that in Norway. It was fun to visit but, hard to get the Christmas spirit. Pure daylight and no snow... It was a lot of angels this year. You could see them all over the town. I think they are beautiful.
Here you can see what Oslo looks like....almost spring. No snow and a sunny weather...

Here are the ladies of our big destinations....Katrines Quilte Stue. We spent a great time looking and buying there.
Here you can see my buyings. A pattern from Chinderberry Stitches , a Japanese book and one fabricks. I have a meaning with the fabrics ,the other was somthing "must have" items.
We also went to Panduro. I wanted to buy some felt so I could make slippers from the new Tilda book. I made them to day,and learned that the felt didn't look the same on both sides..... I allways get some surprises in different light Good it is for me self. ;-)
We didn't meet the Nobel peace price winners Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri. But we saw a lot of verry clean cars and this bus. They are in Oslo this weekend to get the price.
As you cuold see there was almost no winter in Oslo, but I can tell you we got it in Trysil. Just now it is 19 degrees below zero. Cold but beautiful day.

Now I have tryed to tell a little about how I celebrate Christmas. I hope you all have a wonderful Advent. Remember to let the child in you have some fun.

Ps. I have got my SSCS present. I got it from Tracey and I have not open it.....;-)