Springtime and easter. Yeah,-feeling alive :-)

Hi everybody! I am so happy nowadays because the snow is melting pretty fast and I can look foreward to green grass and flowers and the smell of earth. Mmm :-) But right now it is easter holiday in Norway (and a lot of other places as well) so I want to share some history with you. This year is kind of special since Anders, my oldest son, is in Nashville as exhange student with Per and Zandra, and Eirik my youngest son is 14 and does not think it is funny to go skiing etc. Therefore I will show some old easter pics. This one is from the easter 2003, taken at the top of Blefjell. Anders, Bjørn and I had a beautiful ski-trip.

Ha-ha, and this is the same year of Eirik and Tor Håkon, who are trying to dry their wet socks over the barbeque. Maybe they tried to eat them as well with ketchup and mustard ;-) Yammi, yammi..

This beautiful picture is from 2004, when we were in Voss and had a wonderful ski-trip at Rong and could see down at the Hardangerfjord. I really love this one <3

Here we are visiting uncle Halvor in Sømådalen, which is stated middle/east in Norway near the famous lake Femunden and not very far from Sweden. From 2005

Here is Anders and Bjørn at Blefjell by the fire, barbequing sausages. We also have marsmallows to barbeque.

And what is this?? Yes, this is some of my frog-collection. You now may think I am a bit crazy, and yes I am! I have a hang up to frogs in all kind of varieties, but prefer to have them "dead" at least inside the house...

More from the same table, but just a small part of my total collection. I guess I have abt. 40-50 different kind of frogs in a lot of materials. Maybe I show you some more of it later....

easter ornaments made by the kids a looong time ago.

...and here are some nice ones made of ceramics, also made by the kids :-)

These woolen chickens, I have made some years ago, except from the one in the middle, which is bought

And finally som sign of life from my garden. These are growing at the south side of the house... .....together with these qute blue ones.... ...along this flowerbed (?) is that the right word for it?

While at the north side of our house the snow will stay for at least 3-4 weeks I think.

HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYONE ! ;-)

Hilde

A delayed weekend-resume...from familyparty

Hello everybody!

This is my second try to write this blog, so I hope for success now! ;-)

Last weekend we were in Sylling to celebrate my niece`s 17`th birthday. Her name is Camilla, and she is also the "mother" to Cindy, the very qute Cocker spaniel you have seen on this blog before.

Camilla is quite busy with school, but her favorite hobbie is to practice with Cindy, and hope to take her to exhibition one day. She is also a very loving and caring young lady, and has always been like that, so I really care for her and whish her all the best.

About Cindy, the 4 legged "niece", is also a bit naughty sometimes and loves to eat glowes, socks, panties, but most of the time she is a very cozy, loving little dog, like here with me. :-)

We all had a very nice evening, with very tasty food, dessert, snacks ++, and in fact it was also the first time that we ate on their new beautiful kitchen. My brother and sister in law, Heidi and Roald, have moved a lot of times the last years, but now I hope it is the last time for them..

Here they are in the new kitchen.

Roald is my husbands brother and they are a quite small family but we try to meet as often we can, and are always having a good time together.

Last sunday was very warm and beautiful so we spent a lot of time outside on the terrase, and the "kids" and Cindy were having a lot of fun sledging down the long field, beside their house.

Here is Eirik, our son, who does not like to be taken pictures from...

The "old" ones where chilling in the sun after having the snow outside of the balcony.

But at home in Kongsberg we still have a lot of snow, so it will take a long time before we can sit at our terrace. Maybe in easter-holiday if we can clear away the snow.

Pulsewarmers and sewmeeting!!

Hei og hopp!

Her kommer en nesten ren kreativ blogg!! ;-)

Ca. hver 3. uke har jeg sy/strikkemøte med 3 venninder, men i vinter har det sklidd litt ut, av en eller annen grunn. Kanskje fordi en av oss er i New York årets 4 første mnd..men synes ikke vi skal skylde på henne. Hun strikker ihvertfall masse i NY i en strikkebutikk med strikke-kafe og strikke-kafe på universitetet hun går på mm.

Men idag klarte vi å ha årets første sy/strikkemøte og da ble Anett ferdig med prosjektet hun har holdt på med i nesten 2 år! ;-) HURRA- Det ble et kjempefint teppe. Så all ære til henne for det! Anett with her knitted rug, finished after 2 years work :-) Very nice!!

Kirsten på symøte via skype, fra New York! Verden er liten du!

And we also had Kirsten with us from NY on skype! Here she is..so the world isn`t big with todays tools :-)

Lisbet strikker votter, som hun tover. Deilige og varme. :-)

The third of us is Lisbet and here she is knitting some huge mittens, that she shrinks before use. They are very warm. And it is possible to order it from her.

Og så er det meg, men det var ingen som tok bilde av meg når jeg strikket, men jeg har tatt bilde av det jeg strikket på, en Tunika, som jeg har holdt på med siden i høst. Synes den bør bli ferdig snart nå da! ;-) Men det er heller ikke så mye igjen, bare litt på bakstykket og forstykke. Endelig resultat vil også bli vist, men her er det midlertidige.

This is what Im knitting on right now. When it is finished it will be a tunika (is that a proper american word??)

og så har jeg strikket pulsvarmere som nettopp er ferdige. De er strikket i to typer garn, et med perler i seg på hver 4. cm. ca og et alpakkagarn. Strikket to rader av hver, 2 vrid rett, 2 vrang og så forskjøv jeg det en maske etterhvert, så det så nesten ut som en flette. Ble fornøyd med de ;-)

And here are the pulse-warmers, made for a friend of mine ;-)

And at last I want to show you my new shoes that I bought today. They are really cool, I think..

vel det er alt for idag! Now it is sleeping time

Klem and hug

Hilde ;-)

My temporary baby :-)

Hi everybody.

This week I am the hostmother for a little baby on 4 legs ;-) And that is Cindy, my "niece" who belongs to my husbands brother, Roald, and his family, Heidi and Camilla. It is sooo cosy to have a dog in the house. She is really sweet and gives a lot of hugs and kisses.

Another pluss is all the exercise I get when I take her out for a walk. Even though I have to get up a bit earlier in the morning it doesn`t matter because she gives so much love <3

So thank God Im not allergic to animals,-Im really happy for that. ;-)

For a long time I wanted to have a dog in the family, but in fact it takes really much time, so I prefer to borrow a dog at this time in my life. Maybe when I get older and not are so busy, I can get a dog of my own...

Love to you all from Hilde and Cindy. Voff, voff :-)

Vinter, kulde og noe kreativt

Jeg beklager at jeg ikke er så veldig aktiv altså, men vinterbildene er relativt nye, men det er ikke det kreative...noen har til og med sett det før, men det får ikke hjelpe ;-) Først kommer et par kort jeg har laget. På det første er det vannoppløselig stoff-teknikk/applikasjon jeg har brukt.

Bildet over er baksiden av første kort.

Neste kort er kun applikasjon. Konfirmasjonskort. Sorry,-klarte ikke å få rotert det...

Vinterbilder fra Notodden, og noen pratfulle trær i ca. 20 kuldegrader. (These treas are from Notodden, taken in -20 deg. Celsius)

This is taken a bit earlier the same day

Dette er fra Langhus, Ski

Og den blå timen sett fra stuevinduet.

( The "blue hour" )

Huset vårt ikledd masse snøøø, på et og rundt det

Og en fin himmel....

Snowing i Norway, and something creative

Hi there! l thought it was abt. time to show something l have made, since the name of this blog is Hildes creative corner! So this is my "newest" product, a pair of pot-holders for my brother, who has got a new kitchen. These kind of handicrafts are among my favourites, because it goes so fast to make a pair, and everybody needs it. Another time l will show you more of this production. But the last couple of days it has been snowing a lot in Norway, so l have been out a lot to shuffle the snow away, because Bjørn, my husband, is in California..(he says he is working, but l think he just chillin in the sun, and take a bath in the pool ..;-) ) Spending so much time outside is a good thing in more ways. 1: l get fresh air. 2. l get exercize from taking all that heavy snow away. and 3. l see a lot of beautiful motives that l can take a picture from, and show it to you. So this is the sunset on tuesday outside our house. Beautiful, isn`t it?

And here you can see how much snow that we got the last 4 days. Now infact it is getting warmer, so the snow has started to melt..:-( Then it will be a lot of ice on the roads soon, and that is not good. The picture under is from our terrasse.

and from the frontside

and just a big pinetree with a lot of snow on it

and the Old bridge in Kongsberg

Hope it wan`t snow so much more while Bjørn is gone, and right now it doesnt seems like it will eighter...

Have a nice day!

Hilde