Neon coloured drawstring bags

The weather today wasn't much of an outdoor activity kind of weather. It wasn't really bad, but it wasn't very warm or sunny either, so we decided to spend the day indoors. So, the girls have been playing with my sewing machine. They have been making themselves a drawstring bag each.

They've done everything themselves... choosing the (bright coloured) fabric, kutting it, pinning it together and sewing it all up. OK, so I helped a bit with getting the right pieces lying the right way in the right place when making the opening for the string...

They were both very pleased with their new, neon colured drawstring bags.

A girl and her bike

I don't have any cards to show you. My father in law has been visiting the last few days, and before that I spent most of my time outside in the nice, sunny weather. So I haven't spent much (any) time in my craftroom lately....

But look who's cycling without stabilizers.... this is her third attempt on her first day...

Winter holidays and a card

Just a quick note today as I'm busy baking. We're having a wee party for Susie this afternoon... it's her 3rd birthdayparty since her birthday a week ago...

Since my last post, the girls and I have spent a few days in Kristiansand with my parents. It was good to see them again. Susie got her ears pierced while we were away... she was so tough, no crying or anything.... Isn't that pretty??

 Maja wanted a second piercing in one of her ears too.... cute...

Here's a quick card I made last week. Just for fun... Image by Mo Manning, coloured in with Promarkers. It's a christening card... It's always nice to have some cards lying about just in case...

Thanks for looking. Hope you all have a very nice week end.... I'm sure there is plenty of cake for this afternoon... so just pop by if you want some.... lol....

What a star...

I would like to start by saying a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my little sunbeam SUSIE who is 5 years old today! Wooohooo!

I had to make a card for a birthday party on really short notice, and this is what I came up with:

I had coloured the image a while ago, but hadn't gotten around to using it. So the card was quite quick to put together. I think maybe I should start having ready coloured images lying around for times when I have to throw a card together really quick....

I'm entering this card into these challenge:
Flutter By Wednesday #190 - Anything with wings.
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Anything goes.
Divas by design - challenge 22 - Wings and things.

Ice skating

Yesterday was such a nice day, a bit on the cold side, but the sun was shining and there were no wind. So we couldn't waste it being inside all day. I decided to take the girls ice skating. There is fantastic ice at Maja's school.

When we arrived, Susie could hardly move forwards on her own, so I had to push or drag her around the ice. But after watching Maja for about 20 minutes, she suddenly just figured out how to do i herself.... Thought I would show you a little video... this was taken about 25 minutes after arriving at the ice....

So much fun!

Our summer holiday!

Summer is almost over, and I guess there will be a bit more time for blogging in the months to come...

For our holiday this year, we borrowed my parent's camper van and drove through a few countries in Europe, seven to be exact (not counting Norway). We started off taking the ferry from Norway to Denmark. While there, we visited Legoland and this was the only day thorugh our three week long holiday we had rain...!! Then we drove through Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium to get to Maubeuge in France, where we visited some friends we hadn't seen in 12 years. After staying with them for a lovely weekend, we drove back to Belgium and then through Luxembourg to get to our dear friend, Edith, in Switzerland. We stayed with her for almost a week before we decided to start making our way home again.

We spent some time in the Rhine Valley (Germany) and also a couple of days in Denmark before taking the ferry back to Norway, where we visited my parents and met up with friends and family before we had to leave the camper van with my parents and take our "normal" car home.

That was the short version... hehe... don't want to bore you with all the small details... but instead I'll show some photos to tell you what we did...:

The girls would take every opportunity to have a bath in the hot, hot weather....
and we would take every opportunity to drink some good wine. The wine in the photo is a bottle we found in Edith's basement. I think it had been there for some time... the wine is even older than me (unfortunately it wasn't good anymore.... what a shame to waste such fine wine....)

we saw some farm animals/birds....

...and some wild animals/birds (stork)

We took a lovely boat trip on the river Rhein...

... where we saw some fantastic castles. There were sooo many of them!

We ate delicious food...

.... used tons of sun screen lotion

... did a bit of sight seeing

Not all the camp sites were crowded....

We even had time to sit down with a coffee and a good book...

and, of course, some more swimming!

What a great holiday!!!

Happy birthday, Susie!

Three years ago I had a baby girl at 22:23....I can't believe she is 3 already! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUSIE!

What a wonderful day!

Yesterday was Norway's national day. It's a "big" day here and everyone is out celebrating. People get dressed in their national costumes and there are parades, bands playing, fun and games all day long. I just wanted to share some photos from our lovely day...

Here we have my youngest,Susie, in her little costume, ready to go and watch her big sister in the parade.
And here is Maja, ready to walk in the parade with her class mates. I was quite amazed that so many children had national costumes. I had kind of forgotten, since it's almost 10 years since I last celebrated 17th may in Norway. The last 3 years were spent in Edinburgh on this day. At least there is a parade and some sort of celebration there... when we lived in Inverness there were nothing....

And this is the ONE picture taken of me yesterday.... I guess I'm always the one holding the camera...

And what a novelty... hubby had time to join us for the parade before he had to dash off to work...

Ice cream is compulsary on 17th May...

...and so are hot dogs, fizzy drinks and more ice cream... and fun and games like sack race, walking on stilts, throwing balls at tin cans etc etc...

After driving hubby to work, the girls and I went for a BBQ at a friends house. We had a good day... the girls really enjoyed themselves and so did I.

Winter holiday

Last week was winter holiday at Maja's school, so the girls and I spent the whole week at my parents house. The girls really enjoyed spending time with mormor and morfar (granny and granddad)... especially when mormor would read to them.

And I had plenty of time to finish my knitting....

New slippers for Susie...

Same slippers as Daddy's, just another colour.

They were a bit too slippery on the wooden floors though... so they weren't used that much... I'm now making another pair... for Maja, this time. These slippers were really easy and so much fun to knit that I might even have to make a pair for myself as soon as Maja's slippers are done...

Susie had her 2nd birthday while we were away on holiday. My mum made her a cake and I made the chocolate decorations... teamwork is always good...

I'm wondering where the time went though... How did this little poppet...

...become this little girl in just two years? (Susie insists that she is three though... and a baby...)

A new family member!

We've got a new family member... He is small, green and very cute and his name is Judas... He used to be my brother's budgie, but my brother is travelling a lot with his work, so he couldn't keep Judas anymore and asked us if we wanted to give him a new home. I don't know if there is a reason behind the name, but... I don't think it's a Judas... rather a Judith... (I'm quite sure, actually)

Anyway... the girls are sooooo excited. They're fighting, well almost fighting, over who is going to let him/her sit on their shoulder or head...

Susie was quite determinded from the first time we took him out of his cage, that he should not sit on her hand but on her head...

Maja just wants to hold him all the time. She doesn't care where he sits, as long as it's on her...

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In lack of a telly, Susie makes herself comfy in front of Judas'/Judith's cage looking at him for ages... she even brought her snack....

Pink drawsting

I thought Susie ought to get something as well since Maja just "ordered" a bag from me. Sus loves to put things in little bags and carry them around, and she always pinches Maja's wee bags. So I used some more of my flea market fabric and made her a pink drawstring bag.

It wasn't easy to take a pic of the new owner... she's always sooo busy...

...So I caught her while she was stuffing her toys in her new bag.

Ok, so she finally tired of running and stuffing and stood still long enough for me to get (a good) one.

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