Last nigth in 2008

To nigth it is the last in 2008, to morrow it will be a lot of fireworks celebrate 2009.Realy a fresh start for me... Wonder what I will do, where will I work.... Will I have manage to finish a lot of my UFO's.....or have I made a lot of new quilts?? I have a lot of new patterns in my sewing-room. Thanks to all my great friends. I got these from Bjørg and May Britt.... Great patterns to start a new year with... I love them ;-) I got the angels tin from May Britt also. It is one of the cutest tin I have seen for a long time....

From Honeysuckle Cottage I got my Christmas present from the Christmas club 2008. A jornal with fabrics cover,buttons that smell lovely and smelts in tealights candle,a scissors fob and at last .. the" firecracker" contains three wooden spools.Thank you all you people at Honeysurckle Cottage I love the gift from you.
The last I want to show another great parcel.... My SSCS gift 2008... I got all this great gifts from Melinda. A box of chocolate, salt- and pepperboxes,a "tote Along" with pattern ( I will make more of this. Realy a great idea),a jornal with a pen in a pocket and a new purse.I had to bring the purse out with me to show it to my friends as soon as I got the opportunity. Thank you Melinda I love it all. ;-) I also wand to give Donna some big hugs for hosting this SSCS and making all us girls all over the world happy. Thank you ;-)
As I showed in the first photo, I got a stitchery pattern from my friend Bjørg( no blogg),last christmas I got this as a kit from her.I manage do finish it this year, so now I'm ready to stitch this years great pattern....
I have been a lazy blogger this Christmas, to excuse me a little I have to say... I got Christmas visitors.... Cyan and her "mother" has been here and my parents are here too. We have realy had some great time. It is Cyan's first Christmas so she has to try every thing. She are a in-door cat,so she has to try and climb the Christmas tree. Sadly it is a fake three,but I belive it gave her some feeling how it is to be in the top of a tree... As you can see we got snow and realy cold weather. - 25 degrees now... Brrr
Cyan also keep an close eye on my mother when we playd Yatzy this evening. None of us dare to cheat.... We found a new way to use some of my buttons, we used them to count all our extra throw of the dice...
At last before I go to my bed, I want to show you some of my angels. I got five new one for christmas( my daugther wonder why I got them... If every body think I was an angel or if they want me to improve myself..... Hm. I wonder my self ;-)....) Any way- thank you Stine, Lisbeth and Inger. I love all the angels and wonder if I need to make room in a cabinet so I can enjoy them all the time...

I want to wish you all in the blog world a Happy New Year. I hope 2009 will be a great year to us all. What it will bring to me I wonder....
Big hugs to you all from me.

Christmas

Just some words in a hurry..... I'm ready for Santa to arrive , my house are not total shiny, but may be a little sparkling... The tree are decorated and all the gifts are under it. ( I don't belive Santa are comming......) My oldest daugther and her cat, Cyan has arrived. And all the other stuff are put in order.... so now it is Christmas ;-)
It has been some beautiful mornings lately, with realy red sky....

I have not been able to do a lot of sewing so far in December, only this little Sunbonnet Sue. I hope I will be able to relax and do some stitchery during the Christmas days...
I got a wonderful mail to day. I won a giveaway at Willowbery Designs some weeks ago, and look what I got... Three great pattern's. two beautifull fabrics and cute buttons.Thank you soo mutch Cheryl. I love it. :-)
I have been decorating my sewingarea for Christmas, So now I hope to get time to do some hand-sewing. I have a lot of UFO's and even mooe on the "want to do"-list.
As i told you last time ,I was going to Oslo and visit Katrines Quiltestue. And there I found more I would love to do...

Among others items I got me some new patterns. A great Christmas pillow from Bareroots,Quilted Quickies pattern of Table Seasonings and Quilted Potpourri by Jere'e McDade...
The Bareroots pillow are in the photo below...
The last thing I want to say befor I try to find my bed( I belive I got "fright for the sheet")It is past midnight for a long time ago.... So now it is CHRISTMAS.... Just have to sleep and enjoy the day...... AND then I'm allowed to open my gifts.... ;-) Yes I'm from Norway and Yes we open our gifts on the 24.....
So enjoy the photos from Katrines new shop- a great place to visit.
And have a wonderful Christmas everybody. See you soon. Hugs.
I

White Christmas

I have got me a awful new friend in my garden. Wonder if he forgot to go away with all the others on Halloween ?? I suddenly notice him on sunday, I feelt like I was beeing watched.... Can you belive that... ;-) It is so fun what trees and snow can look like...

I have to show you my new thimbles... The one with the Mermaid are from København, Danmark. I got it from Jørann a great quilt friend from Elverum. Thanks ;-) The other two are somthing special. They are the only one in the whole world.... My mother has paited them just for me. one with my name and "Forget me not" flowers and the other with Jacob and my blog name on... Isn't they great... Some days ago Lapphøna and I had a cup of coffe and we started to wonder about this.... are there some Christmas-thimbles.... I have not seen any. If there are and someone who read this has some... please show it on your blog and tell us... We are in a kind of Christmas mood....
I have done some bindings lately , and now are one more of my small Christmas quilts done. It is made by Cinderberry Stitches for Christmas club 2008.Isn't it great. I love the little mouses.
Here you can have a look at all the Christmas snow in my garden. We are realy going to have a White Christmas this year... I almost live in a black and white world... I only have a short "in a hurry" blog to day... I'm stressing around as I have been doing a lot this fall, early to morrow I'm of to visit my two daughters in Oslo.Tell you more about the trip later, but I hope to visit Katrines Quiltestue.....
Untill next time Have a wonderful time with all your Christmas preparation... ;-)

Baby it is cold outside....

If you have heard rumours that Santa Claus almost are ready for the big trip..... I can tell.. It is true. I catch him and his wife in the bath tub the other nigth... ;-) It seems they had a great time.
I have got some great mailings yesterday and to day. Yesterday I got mail from Joy, she had seen on my blog that I had this old Debbie Mumm fabrics as one of my favorite.I had only a little piece with one bee on left... So she send me what she got- A fat quarter. So thank you Joy you are so kind to me-now I can just sit tigth and dream of what to make of it... ;-)
To day I got a wonderfull parcel from Wendy... She had made me some great coasters- I also got ......
My Spring Fling Round Robin quilt. I love it ;-) Margaret has been hosting this swap. Thank you Margaret. My quilt are made by 4 great ladys from Canada and Usa. Thanks girls, you have done a great job. The senter are made by Sharon, first border by Margaret,second border by Alicia and Wendy has quiltet it and done the binding. Great job ;-)
To day it is so cold here in Trysil, just now at 9 pm it is 19 degress below zero.I had a cold walk to the post office. I had to mail some Christmas cards..... I would also take some photos to show. There was some ice in the air and the sun was shining.The sun looks almost like nothern lights...
Here are what it looked like out of my bedrom window, both a brigth sun and a rainbow...The "laces " on the top of the photo are snow hanging from the roof....
If you remember Donald Duck with a big fur coat playing with his nephews and a sled.... It is what I will look like walking to the bus to morrow. I dont wear a fur, but I will walk like him in all my clothes..... ;-)
Ps it is - 20 now..... Brrrrr...
Warm hugs to you all....

December in France

This is what December looks like near Nice in France. Snow in the hills but still green. Cold nigths but lovely sunny days. I can't quite tell where the photo are from, but it is close to Nice. And it is what I think France or Cote D'Azur region looks for me. Stone houses on every hill and lots of green bushes.....
But it is also narrow streets.Here are a street in the village where my brother and his family lives.It is named Speracedes.A small village close to Grasse, the well-known perfume town. I have not got myself my own perfume jet, but next time may bee....
Here are one of the reason I'm so luckey to be able to visit France... My nephew Swan. Here looking on his oldest brothers football practice .
And here are the football player, Cyrian. In deep concentration practice as a goalkeeper.He is another reason I love to visit France.
I did not went looking for quilt stores this time..... but I was looking for thimbles...not easy to find untill we tryed acting as a tourist, visiting souvenir shops. And in this little street I got a lot of thimbles.... It is in Antibes. Yes it is where I have been visiting a quilt store last year.
Looking out on the marina in Antibes.I would not say No to have one of these boats....( I could sell it and buy fabrics after a day on the sea. LOL ) The days were warm on the day I leave. About 20 degrees in the sun.... so it was hard to come home ....
....to this. It had came a lot of snow when I was away. About 40 cm.But for me this is Christmas time....
This is how my garden looks like to day... I belive I live in a blue world.On childrens televisjon there are some Blå nisser ( blue elfs) and I belive some of them are here looking after the progress in Christmas preparation. And for me .... I'm a slow worker.... ;-)
Look what I found in France... Hm..The white in front I got from my great friend Kjerstin who has been in Riga. I'm soo luckey to have great friends. Thanks Kjerstin. But all the others I found in the little store in Antibes. There are thimbles from all the places I have been and some more.. But I didn't got one from Grasse... Somthing to look fore next time. :-) I also got me some sweets.Anis sweets... Yummy!!!
I manage to get me some new magasines also.I can't read Frenche, but I'm good in looking on ideas.... I have found some pattern I have to try.. sometimes..I belive. Country Threads and Homespun was waiting on my desk when I came home... Clever mailman... But I hope he brings me some more mail soon.I have some swaps I'm waiting for...

Untill next time ... have a wonderful Advent. Hugs.

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...