The birds went flying..

With the birds out flying - Tailfeathers the quilt, that is - there was suddenly an open area above our couch.. It's a bit too early, I think, to hang my Winter Wonderland up on the wall - it's still just September, so I dug out another one, a little more fall'ish quilt. 

Meet Annie' Calendar Quilt. 

I made this a few years ago, as a BOM, together with my mom and a few others. Finding it again really reminds me of how fun it was to make, and I'm really pleased with the way it turned out. 

It reminds me of another BOM'ish project I have in my drawers.. Unfinished, but with a plan.. Hmmm...

My special tin

This tin, or box, once contained chocolate.. Very yummy chocolate.. 

Now it contains one of my secret projects.. And no, you can't see.. not yet, anyway.. Patience.. ;)

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Do you keep any of your projects in special tins or boxes? Do any of them have special histories?

When the child sleeps..

The mother blogs, surfs the web and enjoys a glass of ice cold white wine (Riesling).. (Hubby, on the other hand, is busy working in his little office-corner of the living room..)

So, I promised in my last post that I had some news to share? Yes, well, while we were travelling (in southern France.. I'm starting to miss it already..) I got the news that I'd won a give-away! Would you believe it? In all my years of blogging, I think I've won one previous give-away.. so this was definitely a new experience for me.. What I won? Oh, you want to know that too? Hehe.. OK then.. The lovely Nancy posted about a pattern called U-Turn, which she was pattern-testing for the designer, Kristy. And in return, she was given a pdf copy of the pattern to give away. Which is what I was so lucky to win! :D I suggested that the pattern would be perfect to use all those mismatching, but oh so fun Halloween fabrics - and now I can't wait to start making my own U-Turn.. I just have to finish some secret stuff first..

Secrets, you say? Yes, secrets.. You see.. I'm joining again. You know.. the yearly fun elf'd by the lovely Chookyblue..? Co-elfed by the equally glorious Googy Girl? Of course.. it's the one happening of the year I cannot - will not - miss..

YAAAAAAAY!!! :D:D:D

I've received the details of my recipient, and have started the traditional sneaking and planning - and I just can't wait (!!!) for December!

So. I'm off to do some serious sneaking.. and enjoying my glass of wine.. and watching Halv 8 hos mig (the swedish version of Come Dine With Me, which is what Hubby concluded with being the only reason why we have the swedish TV channel 4 available.. I think I have a secret crush on the commentator.. he's simply too fun not to listen to...).

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What ever you may craft, I hope you enjoy it.

New post on it's way..

I've got some news to share, and even a give-away I was lucky to win - but right now my laptop is a little busy.. Mini wanted to watch Little Charley Bear, so here we are.. He doesn't mind watching him with English audio. 

The past week..

The past week has truly flown by. Filled with new things, new experiences, and loss of other things. I had my last day at the "old" office on the 23rd, said goodbye to many, many brilliant and friendly people (well, actually, I said until next time, seeing as I don't like to say goodbye). 

Flowers..

 My old boss and colleagues gave me gorgeous pink and green roses, but I ended up giving them away on the way home. We were leaving for a six day trip two days later, and I figured the flowers deserved to go to someone who could enjoy them more than I could the two days I would've gotten to keep them. I hope they brought you some smiles, Vigdis. ;)

We had decided to take a weeks vacation in the end of August, and seeing as I left my old job, it seemed like a good idea to have a week of relaxing between ending the old job and starting the new.

Last weeks views..

So, where did we spent this past week? Well, on Sunday we travelled down to Nice, France, to a tiny and perfect little one-room apartment (condo?) right smack in the middle of central Nice (it was less than 10 minutes walk to the old town, and not much further to the Promenade des Anglais (the English Promenade). We arrived quite late (for traveling with a three year old) so Sunday was just spent flying down and finding our hotel.

Monday we spent getting to know the area around the hotel. We took the tiny tourist train around the old town and up to the top of a small hill (where there are ruins of an old castle and a cathedral). 

Tuesday we took the bus up to a small village in the mountains called Saint Paul de Vence. While we were walking around, we felt a few, small drops of rain fall, so we decided to find a place to eat. Lucky for us, we got seated at a restaurant with some kind of blinds over our heads, because about ten minutes later the sky opened up and the rain hit heavy on the poor tourists not yet under cover. We got to experience heavy rain, lightning and thunder - I think lightning struck not far from the village on at least one occasion. After a while, our "blinds" couldn't handle any more rain, and the nice people in the restaurant helped to find a table inside for us. We stayed there, enjoying a nice, late lunch, desserts and coffee while the elements finished raging outside. 

Wednesday we spent finishing off looking in the old parts of town, getting some shopping done - and eating a nice dinner out. (Since we were traveling with Mini, there wasn't much romancing and wining & dining at night, seeing as he's usually off to bed around 7PM - but we had breakfast, lunch and dinner out every day.)

Thursday we had a lazy morning before a late breakfast/early lunch on our way to the train station. We took the train from Nice to a place called Biot (Gare Biot was the name of the train station we stopped at). About 200 meters from Gare Biot is a place called Marineland! We had agreed to meet my uncle and two cousins there, and ended up walking through a glass tunnel through a huge aquarium full of sharks and fish twice (!), saw parts of a sea lion show (but Mini got tired of watching them), saw the killer whale show (I love that show - I remember seeing it the last time I was there, which was like, maybe, 15-16 years ago), and eating a lot of ice cream, before saying goodbye to the guys and taking the train back to Nice.

Friday we flew back home to Oslo - and that's a whole long story, but I'm glad I'm not flying Norwegian Airlines anytime soon.. Anyway, it's nice to be home - and tomorrow our extra vacation is over. Mini will go back to kindergarden, and I will start my new job. (Well, more or less same job, but new company..)

Yesterday and today we've spent most of the time relaxing and getting things done - like tidying up in Mini's toys and books, going to the hairdressers, doing some much needed shopping for pants, and having an impulsive playdate with Systeryster and Niece. 

A picture of mommy, made by Mini.

Mini's gotten really good at drawing headswithlegs (hodefotinger) lately, and it's fun to have your portrait presented by him. 

Mini and I, after visiting the hairdressers yesterday.

I've gotten some sewing done lately, and started some projects, but, I'm sorry they're kinda secret - at least for a while longer.. There are two competitions next spring which I'd like to enter, but I can't show you what I'm working on. You'll just have to trust me when I'm saying that I'm actually trying something I've never done before in both of these! (Yea, I'm surprised too..)

Oh, I've also decided to participate on a course too - in knitting! I know how to knit, but this is a new (for me..) stitch and technique, and I figured that for once, I'd like to take a course, and maybe I'll meet some new people too. It's not until the middle of October, but I'm really looking forward to it. It's run by Pickles - maybe I'll meet you there?

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It's getting fall-ish outside, and I feel the urge to knit.. What are you working on these days? Are you sewing or knitting, or do you prefer to craft in another way?

Ever had that feeling..

Like someone's watching you..?

I had that feeling today.. in the bathroom, of all places. So I looked around (expecting to find a spider.. as usual)..

And found..

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Well, hello there, Rex..

Feels like the first day of school..

Early this summer I did something that I might've thought about before, but didn't quite plan to do for another year or two.. I resigned from my job. I quit. I sent in my notice - and for the past three months I've, well, I guess I've kind of been living (working..) in denial, not quite daring to think or believe what I have done.

But the truth is that after almost seven years I'm feeling like testing new grass might just be a good thing. Seven years.. well, almost seven. I started as a hired-in consultant back in 2006, November 6th, to be precise. And signed the contract for permanent employment on July 1st 2007. I still think of November 2006 as the time I started working in this company, so I'm sticking to that date (I actually wrote stitched there.. would you believe it?). 

Anyway, this is my last week in this company. Four more mornings. Four more buses to catch at 06:24 (or earlier) in the morning. Four more afternoons stressing to get back before the kindergarden closes (or before Mini's the last kid left.. I hate it when that happens..). 

Next week we're off for a little retreat. A little time together, the three of us. But I'll tell you more about that later.

Retro apples? I'm sold!

September 2nd is my first day in the new job. A consultant, again, but with waaaay shorter travel (I think I can walk to the new office in about half the time it takes to take the bus to the current one). It'll be good, I think. I hope. I know a couple of girls there, former co-workers of mine, and we'll all do good.

The first day of school-feeling continues to build. Just look at the new lunch box (green apple), fruit box (red apple) and kitchen accessories (potholders and towel) I found in a shop downtown a couple of weeks ago. I couldn't resist if I tried (not that I tried that hard, haha..).

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Here's to four more days with some of the most wonderful engineers (and friends) in the world!

A storm was coming..

Well, if you asked someone from the west coast of Norway, they'd probably say that it was just a little rain coming, but for someone grown up on the east side of Norway, yesterday really was a storm.

We were out walking - hubby, Mini and I - going downtown to check for a few items in some shops (edited to change "storms" to "shops", who goes downtown to check out items in a storm anyway..), and we'd been waiting for the morning's thunder and rain to pass before going outside. Well, lets just sat that as we went further on our way, the clouds came rolling in and the light (more or less, I know, sounding dramatically, but that's the way it was.. really..) disappeared into a dusky darkness, making all the traffic lights and lit up signs to glow (it was as if it was early afternoon in November, not late morning August).

We stopped just before the fairytale bridge (Eventyrbrua) so that I could take some pictures.

The Crack in the Sky? (Doctor Who?)

Loopy picture, but same "crack".

Fascinating layers of clouds.

More layers. See the tiny traces of blue sky?

Rolling in.. 

Continuing to roll in..

Absolutely fascinating.. 

I think we spent about 15mins watching the clouds roll in..

Light fading.. 

Darkness coming.. 

Aaaand then came the rain. 

I do mean RAIN!

Jeeze.. 

We spent about 15-20 minutes on the steps/stairs of a pub in Markveien (who'd put too much light and crap up under their screen to wheel it in). You can see the people on the other side of the street, huddling together in a drive-in. At least we kept ourselves reasonably dry - umbrellas have no function in this kind of rain - and after about 15-20 minutes the rain was down to a drizzle, and we could continue our walk.

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Mother Nature.. gotta love her. :)

Enjoying the sun.

Last weekend came and went with more of the glorious heat and sunshine so far dominating the Norwegian summer. (Although, there were some rain on both Saturday and Sunday afternoon, but I shouldn't complain about that, not with all the sun we've had lately.)

Saturday evening - after Mini'd gone to bed and fallen asleep, mind you - I spent on our balcony with a funny podcast on my ear, a glass of chilled white wine and a crochet project made of leftover cotton yarn. I think I sat there for about two hours, just enjoying some time for myself. (The podcast I was listening to, was Stickpodden, by the way, a swedish podcast about knitting (very funny, and quite interesting). 

Wine, podcasts and sunshine.

 
You can see my reflection in the screen of the laptop (my wonderful, little Mac..). I actually managed to run out of leftover cotton yarn after those two hours, so now I'll have to make something using cotton yarn, so that I'll create some more leftovers (there's a rule, you see, I'm only allowed to use leftover yarn, so starting on a new skein isn't allowed).

Yarn for autuum.

I went to one of the local yarn shops on Saturday (Pickles)and bought some yarn which will be used for new autuum/winter clothes for Mini. I'm thinking a new hat, cowl/neck warmer and mittens, in lovely shades of lime green and turqouise blue. They'll brighten up and stand out a bit, but that's just fine. (Easier to find his things in kindergarden.)

In work..

This is how far along I managed to come on his hat as per last night. I've started the decrease, and hope to have enough of the lime green from that first skein to finish it (so that the cowl/neck warmer can have the turqouise blue as the main color) but we'll see.. I bought more than one skein of each color, so there shouldn't be any problem.

Banana?

One of Mini's favorite movies these days is Despicable Me (we've seen the sequel in the movies) and the little minions that work with Gru (the main character). Well, look who I found stuck to my banana the other day. Quite adorable, don't you think?

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It's finally (?) raining properly here now. A little bit sad and grey, but after all this sunshine and heat, it'll do good for the plants and grass. They're quite yellow and dry at the moment (there's even been a forest fire warning going around lately).

Oops..?!?

I was working on a new post, but for some reason, Blogger decided that looking was allowed - but not editing.. Might just be the office computer - will try again later (or from home).. 

Any one else experiencing problems with Blogger these days?

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Hoot-hoot! From Sir Hoots-A-Lot. 

Tasted something new today..

When I went to the store yesterday, I stumbled across something (for me, anyway) new on the shelf for tea/coffee. Lipton Ice Tea, small tubes of powdered tastiness. 

Yumyumyum!

It's really easy to mix. Just take a bottle with 500ml (cold) water (5dl or half a liter), open the pack and empty it's contents into the bottle. Put the cork back on (firmly.. unless you'd want to clean up the mess..) and shake the bottle until the powder is dissolved in the water. Keep the bottle in the fridge (or do as I did, drink the whole bottle as soon as possible, due to yummy tastiness and thirst). 

I've tried both flavors - the pack in the picture contains the lemon flavored one, and the other one is with peach and apricot. 

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Do you have to try new products when they come in store?

Summer's coming to an end..

Well, the summer vacation, anyway. This week saw me back in the office, while hubby and Mini had the week off. Considering the heated temperatures outside, being in the air conditioned office wasn't too bad - just a bit boring (with all the engineers and people off on vacation, the amount of tasks and work to be done is slightly less normal, and with three of us trying to share the workload - or lack of such - the days ended up being slow and long). 

But! Today's Friday! :D

On Wednesday, hubby and Mini came and picked me up from work, and we drove out to Bygdøy and one of the beaches there, called Huk. It's not a very big beach, but it's got sand and areas where it's nice to sit and bbq, enjoy the sun and the view, and both big and small can enjoy the sea. There were quite a few people there, many with children - and many went for a dip in the water. I don't swim, but waded a bit with Mini, while we were looking for shells.

One of the beach areas on Bygdøy, called Huk.

 I had to laugh a few times while we were there.. a young couple were there as well, and had brought along their tiny dog (about the size of a ball of yarn or something) and this dog was very protective of the beach and the surrounding area. So, every time another dog came walking by with it's owners, this little half-pint of a dog jumps up and starts barking and looking very "this is my beach, you better go now - I'm very dangerous". Or, at least I think that might've been what it thought. Anyway, the funny thing was that suddenly, the other dog wasn't another bag-dog (suitable size to be carried around in a bag.. or pocket..) but a rather big dog (one of them was a half-old retriever puppy) and these larger dogs just stared at the noisy little ball of fur, wondering "what the..?". The look on the big dog's face was just priceless.

Mini loooooves (cold..) hotdogs, and
enjoyed himself on the beach.

 Hubby brought along a small bbq (just a disposable one) and we ate hotdogs and pieces of melon and soaked up some sun and vitamins for a few hours - until we were all tired and warm, and sticky.. Mini didn't want to go home, but fell asleep in the car almost before we could get out of the parking lot, so we took a little tour of the area and stopped by a small shop selling flowers and fruit. They had good prices on strawberries (these are just so ridiculously expensive in Norway (at least the norwegian ones) and I think these were the best, yummiest and mouthwateringly good strawberries I've had in years!

These were perhaps the tastiest strawberries I've had in..
I don't even know how long..

 It's not that often you find good strawberries, deep red in the color, firm and not squishy in the meat, and with a sweetness that lingers on your tongue for (seemingly) hours after you finished eating them.. Strawberries like that don't need anything on them - we ate them bare, no cream or sugar or milk.

Yesterday morning (and afternoon) the heat was disrupted slightly by a shower of rain. I didn't see the rain in the afternoon, I was in the gym and only noticed coming out of the gym that everything was wet - but yesterday morning a rainbow appeared over some buildings on my way to the office.

Can you see the rainbow?

I like rainbows. Not because I believe in the old tale of the pot of gold being hidden where the rainbow ends, but more because rainbows somehow gives a feeling of hope. Sunrises too.. Strange, isn't it, how some things can mean something like that without really having a meaning?

Craftwise, things are going slow.. it's just too hot to do anything. So my knitting's resting, my stitching's resting, and my sewing machine is still not unpacked. I've heard that it might be rainy all next week, so perhaps that'll help?

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Enjoy the day, wherever you may be. :)

Vacation days.

Mini and I took the bus to Trysil a few days ago, and hubby, sister and niece followed a couple of days later. We've had some busy days (painting windowsills and the playhouse) but today's been more of a lazy morning (although Mini woke up bright and early, as usual).

The living room is full of signs that there are two kids here - lots and lots of (vintage..) LEGO and Playmobile toys and new and old cars (I think the oldest toy car I found the other day was marked 1972).

Vintage LEGO.

 It's fun to be able to take out old toys from when my sister and I were young, and let Peder and Emma play with them now.

Vintage Playmobile.

 I remember when I first got that little playhouse from Playmobile. Not quite sure how old I was, but I remember when I had the full set of a hospital wing from Playmobile - down to cups and plates and bandages for the little people.

A mix of old and new toys.

The police car was bought during a trip to Trondheim when I was young. We used to spend some time every summer in Trondheim, visiting grandma and grandpa. I still miss the summers in Trondheim.

There's been some, but only a little, crafting achieved by me these days. Mostly because painting kills my arms and back (I'm definitly not used to hanging on top of a ladder painting) - but also because when the evening comes, I've not quite felt like crafting much. But I have been crocheting a little, and made some stitchings on a stitchery. (And realized that my mom and I have very similar taste in craft books - seeing as I've just ordered - and got - two of the same books she's bought..)

Speaking of craft books.. I've got more than a shelf full of them - some I look to for inspiration, some I've used quite a bit over the years, and some I've bought, looked at, and then placed on the shelf.. So I was thinking the other day, that maybe I should look through them again, with new eyes, and see if there are projects there that I really want to make - and if I can't find any, perhaps I should take the book off the shelf and see if someone else might be interested in it.

I really need to sew more - using Aurora (my sewing machine) but seeing as she's been packed away for most of the last month (redecorating the kitchen..) I've mostly been knitting, crocheting and stitching. Perhaps I can unpack her again later this week (when we return from Trysil) and have some quality time with her again.

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What are you up to this summer? Any big crafting plans or just playful small projects? :)

Quite handy / On the road again..

*humming*

Plutt and I are taking the bus to see my mom for a few days - and while he's taking a nap, I'm enjoying the fact that they've got wifi on the bus. Quite practical, don't you think? 

:)

Weekending

Last weekend I took a stroll downtown with Spotify  as my company (I like walking - and I like walking while listening to nice music).

It was quite grey outside, but warm, and though rain eventually started to pour down, I managed to walk for quite a while before it started.


Fountain - finally with water.

In one of the parks we usually walk through on our regular route downtown the water had finally been turned on. (It's been dry and used as a playpin for children for most of the time so far this summer.)


Candleholders - bobbins and string..

 My mom had seen these candleholders made of bobbins some time ago, and I managed to find the store which sold them. (Good for her, they were on sale!) I love this store - they mainly sell candleholders and candles (in all shapes, sizes and colours), and I'm completely unable to resist picking up just a few items there every time I drop by. (Yeayeayea, I know that candleholder isn't the correct word, but my mind just went all blank and foggy.. so.. candleholder it is.)


My Starbucks coffe!
I love it when people have a sense of humor.. ^.^

 Starbucks opened up their first shop here in Oslo about a month ago. I've been there a couple of times now - ridiculously expensive coffee, but it's quite nice. And I love their lemon cupcakes with poppy seeds..

My first Starbucks coffe (a double latte with vanilla syrup) was so hot (and I mean HOTHOTHOTouchHOT) I bought it downtown, took the subway back home, went to the store and bought supplies for dinner and walked halfway home before it was cool enough to drink (without burning my tongue off). I was luckier the other times, and could enjoy my coffee without waiting too long. (Thinking back makes me smile.. I must've looked quite strange, walking around the store with a basket for my groceries, my bag, and a cup of coffe bought three subway stops away..)

You better start early..

If you want to be creative with fabric. Just look at Mini, who discovered a pile of fabric in his grandmother's suitcase this morning.

I'm making beds for all of you. 

 The sun was shining bright, making it a little difficult to take good pictures, but I think you can see how he's arranging all the fabric into beds, with blankets on top.

This is grandma's bed. 

On Friday I had the urge to finish something that's in my pile of "construction work". (Maybe it was the fact that the whole apartment's looked like a construction site for most of these past two weeks.. but I really had to finish something.) In the pile I found this jacket I'd knitted for Mini a couple of years ago. A thread break had caused a hole, and it had spent most of the last 18 months just waiting to be repaired. Looking at it, I thought it was quite roomy for being a jacket knitted in size 12-18 months, so on Saturday I asked Mini if he wanted to try it on. 

Roomy - and short-sleeved.

Well, there's nothing to say about the width of the jacket. Could've used another inch on the length, maybe, but it's not that bad either. The sleeves? Oh, another two or three inches, and he could still use this today. I think it's funny.. I thought it was a little big when I knitted it - but seeing this, I must've been waaaaaay off when it comes to tension. Though, I do love the colour - gorgeous gray - and the buttons are so cheery and bright. :) I'd knit it again, that's for sure! (The pattern is called "Little Ivanhoe", designed by a norwegian lady, and is available through Ravelry.

So, with hubby in Boston (on some kind of design conference) and the kitchen /apartment a mess, what have I been doing in the evenings after Mini's off to bed?

Candles, white wine and Criminal Minds..

Well.. knitting - a little - stitching, some appliqué, finishing some projects, planning new ones, dreaming, watching season 1 and 2 of Criminal Minds, and enjoying a glass of ice cold white wine. The bottle in the picture came home with me after a 23 hour cruise to Denmark with some colleagues a couple of weeks ago. Just the right size for me - I think it's about 2 glasses - and the flavor was nice and mild.

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Right now I'm listening to two carpenters working on our kitchen. They come in every now and then to ask about something (and I'm hoping that the long list hubby left me with is covered during today's session..). I don't like to "play boss" when it comes to these things.. I like to have a plan at the start, and see that it's all done when it's finished. They know (or should know..) what they're supposed to do, so I shouldn't have to babysit their every move, should I?

Outside the sky is nearly cloudless.. it's almost 22 degrees celsius in the shade - and I'm stuck inside.. At least it seems like they're working fast. They've been at it for about an hour now, and the cupboards are more or less up on the wall. (No, I'm not checking up on them, I'm trying to stay out of the way as much as possible - but when they ask me to check things, I come.)

Just a little bit more patience.. (I hope..)

MIA - or, How to Test Ones Patience



Image from the internet.

 I've been a bit MIA (missing in action) lately, mainly because of our apartment looking like a construction site (well, perhaps not that bad, but..). The old kitchen's been torn out and we've had carpenters, plumbers (and next week an electrician's coming) and stuff going all over the place (the fridge is in our bedroom, stove in the living room, and the freezer box is currently in Mini's room).

Yesterday the last missing pieces were supposed to be delivered (the remainig cupboards and stuff) - yes, you read correct, supposed to.. but, when hubby phoned IKEA, wondering why they hadn't called to set a time for the delivery truck to come, they suddenly informed him that the delivery had been moved three days - so they weren't coming yesterday, but rather on Monday! (Apparently, there's alot of deliveries to be made these days.. well, that sucks, because we'd made our order almost a month ago, and had carpenters that were to come in today (Friday) to get everything done..)

I find it very strange that they didn't even bother to call or email to inform about the change in schedule.. I mean, we'd made plans with everybody (carpenters, electricians, etc) and there was quite a fuzz to have to reschedule those guys too. (Not to mentioned the fact that we've now been without a proper kitchen for more than two weeks.. and I'm getting pretty sick of it all..)

So, should I dare to hope that things will (..finally..) be finished and back in order Tuesday night? Or is that keeping my hopes waaaaay to high?

Blooming.

Due to the late spring in Norway this year, it's taken some time for the grass to turn green and the flowers to bloom. 

I thought I should show you some pictures taken these past few weeks, showing some of the blooming going on.

First off is a bouquet of flowers which arrived on our door a few days ago. Long story short, but I've decided to change jobs, and my new employers sent me this bouquet of bright yellow, happy flowers, welcoming me onboard.  

Flowers from my new employers.

We've been spending some extra time on our walks back from kindergarden, because Plutt wants to pick flowers. He's obsessed with picking dandelions! So when he was busy picking dandelions, I found  some rainwater trapped in these leaves.

Raintrappers?

So for the past week or so there's been a glass of water and dandelions on our living room table. So very charming, Plutt's first flowers.

Dandelions were never more beautiful.

And these guys are finally blooming too! In Norwegian we call them syrin, but I think they're called lilacs in English. On my way to the bus I pass at least two different kinds - light purple and dark purple. I like the smell of the dark purple ones, the lighter ones smell a bit stronger in a way.

Lilacs / syrin.

Plutt and I met this guy on our way back from kindergarden one afternoon. Not quite sure what kind of bird it was, but it looked like it didn't mind us passing by quite close to it.

A bird with a view.

And finally, our pink tree (don't ask me what kind it is.. I have no idea..) bloomed suddenly when the heat came - and just as sudden, it was over and all the pretty pink flowers were gone..

Backyard beauty.

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Well, this is all for now. I've got some projects that I'm working on, but seeing as I have a couple of days planned to be packed with sewing activities - the summer meeting at the quilting guild, amongst others - I ought to have something to show in a little while. 

Until the, take care!