Brave rocks.

Oh Brave was so good, so good. It was the first Disney ever(as far as I know) that wasn`t a love story and that makes me so so happy. I don`t have anything against love but I am not okay with teaching our kids that if you are alone than you are unhappy and somethings wrong. Love is great but not being in love is pretty damn great to.

I`m crocheting a curtain tie back with these new Tilda yarns I bought yesterday, it`s going to be great, all flowery and beautiful.

Now I need to go lie in the bath with a good book for an hour or so. Oh how I love the little things.

First movie ever.

Today I`m taking my kids to the movies, they`ve never done that and I haven`t in at least ten years. We`re going to buy candy and popcorn and coca cola and have a great time! The movie is Brave and I can`t wait. I remember the first time I was at the movies with my sister and my mum, we saw Aladdin and it was magical.

Did I mention that both the yarn shop and the fabric one is just a few steps from the movie theater... Yes this will be a good day for sure.

Vintage sheets.

Vintage sheets, aren`t they just great. The one in the middle I have in green and pink to, it made my day to find this one to. I don`t know what it is that just makes me love them, there all soft and the colors are faded and they remind me of when I was a child. I just love them. 

Wool, oh wool.

I did some shopping last week and I found some really nice things. I bought some yarn for crocheting, three more Christmas fabrics, some cheep books and best of all, wool thread and fabric. I`ve started working with it and I am in love for sure! It`s so easy and it turns out so great. I`m just trying it out right now so I don`t have anything planed for the flowers I`m making, but they already look great. Maybe I should make a pillow for my mom for Christmas.  

Yllebroderier.

I woke up yesterday and felt that this was the day to start doing wool embroidery. This is a Swedish tradition, it`s probably been done in a lot of countries but I`m looking at the Swedish ones for inspiration. The pictures above is from a Swedish book that I`m planing to get my hands on at the library tomorrow, it looks so great! I have bought some wool fabric and I found just the right wool threads at a thrift shop yesterday so today I`m having a lot of fun!  

Hehe.

Crochet happiness.

 

I`ve bought some new yarn and it makes me so happy. I`m good that way, I can be over the moon about a bit of yarn for a week or so, I like the little things. Anyhow I bought four yarns of Tilda in really great colors and I started making some African flowers and I`m really liking the way they turn out, I haven`t started the borders yet but there already quite beautiful.

I also bought a yarn of gray yarn that sparkles, I didn`t think I would be to fond of it but boy am I! I`ve started making stars for Christmas and they are turning out great.

And the pie dish, well I`m apparently addicted to pie. I just keep making new ones and I haven`t been without pie for at least two weeks. Apple and peach are my favorites. Makes me so happy. I have four peaches in my kitchen just calling out my name as I write this. Lovely.

A nice cup of chailatte.

What have I`ve been up to? Well yesterday I bitched all day long, I guess I was just to tired or something. I hate those days, the only good thing is that I know that the next day is always better. I went sort of crazy over the kids room to and made them carry everything out in the living room, we went through everything and a lot ended up in the trash, so nice. Then we went to IKEA and bought them a desk, a chair and a shelf with lots of plastic crates in it. Their room is nice now and we are all so happy about that.

I`ve cooked lingon jam, so good. I`ve secretly tried out some of the lego I bought my daughter for her birthday, It`s so much fun! I`ve crocheted something for a jar of pens, I`m not sure if I like it yet but the kids do so, it was fun making. And I made tiny little hearts to, they are a lot of fun!

Oh, yes I bought more cottolin to, that`s what I use for my tablet weaving and I love to but more. I buy it at a thrift shop here and the price there is  1/5 of what they cost otherwise so I but them with a clean continence and a smile in my face.

Yes and the two plants are some I grew from sprouts, I love doing that, it`s so cheap! 

My latest quilt, green and brown.

I finally managed to take some pictures of my latest quilt, so here it is. This one is my favorite so far, I love green and brown so this is right up my alley. I often start making complicated patterns for quilts but then I almost always remember that squares are great, they are easy and beautiful.

Job well done.

I had a meeting today with a couple of psychologists and the parents of the boy I`m working with right now. I work at a school as an assistant to children with special needs, this one has autism. I enjoy my work even though I`m under payed, mostly because you don`t need much of an education to get a job like mine. The meeting was a lot of fun though because both psychologists was very impressed with my work and the thought behind it. They said I had to be a natural, and thats part of it, but I also have a bachelor of science with a major in eduation and it just feels darn good when people see that I`m good at what I do.

I`m going to get back to the socks I`m knitting now, it`s getting cold outside.

Lingon.

We went to my moms again this weekend and picked some more berries, this time I went for lingon. I went with my mom to to one of her spots and picked one bucket and then I took my 10year old little sister out and we found a new spot, I spent about two hours picking and ended up with 20 liters berries. I did good. I`m making jam right now with about one liter and the rest is in my freezer. It feels great, I can make jam and bake all through the winter.

My mom was out hunting and they shot a moose just as we came so I took the kids out to the woods to see it, we stayed so they could see how they took of the skin and head. My parents have always hunted and I used to go with them when I was a kid so I`m used to it, my kids looked a bit creped out though, but I think if you eat meat you should be able to see the hole process.

Slow week.

It`s been a slow week, even though I got of work at 14,30 this week I haven't had the energy to much of anything. Well I spent time with the kids, baked a blueberry pie, did a little bit of cross stitch, but nothing big. I guess it`s needed sometimes to just be, I`m just not any good at it, I just feel sort of useless when I`m not making something, like I`m wasting all that time and not leaving any marks at all.

I started a new project today though, I`m making a quilt each for my kids, I plan to give them as Christmas presents. I know they`ll like having a quilt each thats just theirs so it`s a good idea I think. I also get to use some of my more colorful fabrics for this, I have some thats just been hanging out for a bit to long now.

The picture is of some ribbons I`ve made. I have been really in to tablet weaving for about a year now, it`s just so much fun. I sort of lost it this summer though and I don`t feel any urge to start it again, I guess it will come back to med later. For now the quilting will keep me happy.

Oh yes I almost forgot, I went all hero at work today. A couple of kids stepped in to a wasp`s nest and there where wasps everywhere, angry little tings to, the kids were screaming and crying so I had to run down and carry three of them out of there. Two kids got stung, and me to. It was sort of scary to cause I`m used to just waving them of but these wasps were of course angry as all hell so they just kept coming back.

Food.

 

 I`m a big fan of eating. I will eat everything, I can`t think of a single thing I don`t like. But my favorite is eating something nice in front of the television when the kids are asleep. It sounds sort of bad but it`s okay, most of the time the kids get what I`m eating as well, but a bit earlier or the next day. But I love the feeling of being all alone and having something really good to eat. 

December`s just round the corner.

I finally started the Christmas project I`ve been thinking about for a couple of weeks now and it feels great. I`m not at all sure about the red background but I can`t get any other color to work so I think I`ll use red, it will probably look way better when it`s all done. I have big plans for this one so I really hope it turns out as nice as I want it to.

I`ve also started some crochet, also with Christmas in mind. It`s my first ever Christmas hart so even if it`s not perfect I do love it, and best part is it didn`t take long at all to do. The daisy squares I`m pretty much just making without a plan, I figure if I make a lot then when December comes and that wonderful Christmas mood sets in I`ll know what to do with them.