Try it...

Instead of doing what I'm supposed to; doing a bit of translation for my husband, I found this interesting "game", which I just have to try. I found it here. Actually it took too much time, I have to complete it later on. To be quite honest I didn't quite understand the process, but I fancied the idea and the outcome. Have to be more patient an other time.

Pictures!

Today the weather was perfect according to my plans; cold and cloudy. I was going to upload all my pictures and blog. But you know what? The cable which I needed was missing, the one I need to connect my camera to the pc. Just my luck! And where had it gone do you think? Probably with my husband to work J

I'll just add a picture from the web, but that is cheating!!

Knitting, no!

It seems to be no time to knitting and blogging. The weather in Seattle is excellent, I use my borrowed bike every day. I've nearly been all over the place ;), I've taken a lot of pics as well, but I don't want to spend too much time inside, so I'll load the photos later.

I have visited three local yarn shops already, and I have taken their picture. Our visit to Ballard was mainly to visit The Nordic Heritage Museum, and there I bought a beautiful book about Latvian mittens, but I didn't realise until later that I could have found another LYS over there; The Full Circle.

Vacation has started

Arrived in Seattle yesterday afternoon, after 9 hours on board a plane, one hour sleep and trying to forget that it was turning into night, Norwegian time. We had dinner at five in the morning (Norwegian time), did some shopping and went to bed. I woke up at 3.20 (Am. time) and believed it was morning, stayed in bed until 6.30, went back to sleep again, managed to get some more sleep and was awake at a 7.45. This is not the usual me!!!!

We stay in the University District, at Chambered Nautilus. We love it here. I will post pics later. Through Ravelry I've found some yarn shops in my neighbourhood and I've already visited Acorn Street Shop. I bought some Noro yarn, bamboo needles and a magazine, Noro Joy.

The pictures in this entry were taken 5 years ago, when the camera was new, and we weren't familiar with the use of it!

Paris once again

I'm trying to add a picture. Something very Paris, e.g. Print Temps, you can't actually see the building, it's a painted wall, but the hats are real enough J

Eksperiment

Må prøve ut dette også! Ser at andre kan skifte fonter, bruke overstryking etc, men hvordan det blir, skjønner jeg ikke, - og hvordan blir det med innsetting av bilder?

This is quite an experiment, trying to use this feature in Microsoft word 2007. I'll just figure out how this works.

Bilder fra turen med kanalbåt. Vi passerte de vanlige turistmålene.

Tourist trip on the channel, visiting all the main tourist attractions. we enjoyed the trip and the sunset.

Paris Sights

Paris

Damene på tur! Paris passa oss utmerka. Vi hadde nydelig storbyvær, - mellom 22 og 28 grader, mest overskya. Vi gikk og gikk, så og så med mange hvitvin og rosevinspauser. Vi bodde sentarlt, midt i et yrende Latinerkvartal. Adressen til utleier finner du her.

Visiting Paris in late June with lady friends, we did a lot of walking, wine drinking and exploring. The weather was pleasant for northern tourists.

We stayed in the middle of the Latin quarter, a perfect location. Link to the flat is here.

Baby surprise jacket

BSJ-2
Originally uploaded by young_lioness

perhaps a new project, I'll just find a baby first :)

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Mandela tribute concert

I dag i isekaldt vær va det en fantastisk konsert på torget i Tromsø; Forsvarets musikk-korps og Tromsø symfoniorkester pluss kor beståanes av Mime og eleva fra Kongsbakken. Det varma i den iskalde nordatrekken.

Read more about the concert in our local paper, click the headline and watch more photos here. The African tunes warmed our hearts and so did Mandela's speeches, recited by actors from HT.

Paradoxical Mittens once again

Nearly finished, securing ends of yarn remains doing, - boring! I bought the pattern on-line on this address.

Knitting, finally!

Some spare time for my knitting as well, but mostly the weekend was spent on gardening and maintenance.

My first attempt on a top down raglan construction and I like it a lot. The pattern is for free and you can find it here.

I use some old linen/cotton yarn from my stash, but I'm sure it'll turn out even better in alpaca.

Folkestad

Unnselig og liten, men nydelig, bildet er feil vei, men det spiller ingen rolle. Vi var ute og jobba i hagen hele helga. Lørdag hadde vi 23 grader, skuldran blei veldige røde :)


Løytnants-
hjerter eller bevende hjerter, både blomsten og navnene er ukjent fra min nord-norske flora, men så har æ aldri vært nån ekspert, heller da!

Flowers from our garden. It's a beautiful place. The weather was lovely and we managed to do nearly everything as planned, but a weekend is a bit short.

Going to Folkestad

Lately there hasn't been any knitting or blogging. We have been busy helping my eldest son and fiancee to get their kitchen painted etc. I have finished some more dishcloths and the second Paradoxical mitten. I will post it later. But Thursday we will go to Folkestad to visit my in-laws and I hope I will be able to do some knitting and new projects.

The weather today is terrible and I really hope for better weather in "Vestlandet".

Det har vært travelt i det siste, lite strikking og blogging, men har strikka ferdig flere kopptue og den andre votten i PM. No drar vi til Folkestad, til gården mannen min har overtatt, men det viktigste er besøket hos svigerforeldrene mine. Da burde det bli tid til strikking; har så lyst på nokka nytt!!

Snowing

From the parade yesterday, look at the snowflakes, making the pic blurry!

Bildet er et utsnitt av et større, derfor dårlig kvalitet, inntrykk av snøværet er likevel tydelig, hopefully :)

Middag og kaker/Dinner and cakes

Kvæfjordkake, også kalt "verden beste" og deilig ostekake!

We had my two sons with partners for dinner. Delicious food and greate cakes which my daughter -in-law to-be had made. The food was untraditional for us, we usually have salmon or trout, but to make everyone happy, we made lime chicken with a hot salsa salad and fried rice with spices. They are not very happy about having their photos taken and put in my blog so here are the cakes and a detail from the decoration.

17.mai HURRA!

Today is our constitutional day, it's freesing cold, and we had snow during the parade. We (those who are that lucky) are carrying our National Costumes and waving the flag while we sing and shout "hurra". It's a lovely day.
The National costumes in the picture are from this region, they are called "nordlandsbunad" and they come in blue and green.

More pictures from the day are found in our local newspaper. Click here.
Frys-i-hjel-dagen 2008, ullkledd fra innerst til ytterst! Men vi sto han av. Marsjering, kafebesøk med obligatorisk kaffe og kake, i år ispedd et internasjonalt innslag; empanada fra en bod i stedet for pølse med brød,- jammi :)

Moebius

I found a very interesting link, if you are interested in Moebiuses that is. You can read and learn, but not copy or print, it's the book by Cat Bordhi. Click here to have a go :)