What will 2014 bring...

Happy New Year 20014!  I wonder what 2014 will bring me?  And what can I give 2014?  I'm turning 55 this year.  It's five years since my brother and my son and I spent three wonderful and unforgettable weeks in USA and drove through 15 of The United States!  Wow, where did thoose 5 years go?

My mother Grethe and my son, Jan-Nichlas on my birthday in 2009.  It's taken in our driveway to Evja, our place in Nordre Osen.

My brother and his new Muurikka.  A pan for making great food outside.  It's June 2010, it's Evja and it's some of the best part in Norway, of course!

We usually stay the week-ends during the summer at Evja.  It's relaxing, it's freedom, it's family, it's genealogy, it's beeing ourself.  This is The River Nordre Osa 2011 - she is just passing by, and our marshy bay.

Summer of 2012 - it just rained - it was just rain - and lots of rain - no SUN at all - but Norway was verrry green.  I didn't use my porch a lot during that summer.

Last June, 2013 I finally visited - Domkirkeruinene - you can read more about them here!  And it was summer and sun!  It was great.

But before this new year stats, I have to throw out Chrismas of 2013.  I bought myself a new tree last year - a treetree - it's designed in Denmark.  This tree is smashing!.  It's me!  Enjoy your day...

A new Day...start with breakfast

I am not that keen on breakfast - not during the workingdays.  Mostly I make myself a smoothie with different berries, cinnamon and vater, and a scoop with protein powder. 

But during the week-ends I like to lay the table with nice china, flowers and a tablecloth.  And some good food and company!

Today I am going to put some of the Christmas stuff down to the basement...it is over...this time.  Enjoy your day...I know I will...:)

A new Year...A new Beginning...A new Title...

...I do not know yet.  I just know that scrapping takes less hours of my spending time. 
Genealogy and family...are demanding more hours that I can provide...so I will take the Scrap out of my blog title and put in the Health?

 

 

I bought this book some times ago...I think I will start using it...not to the extreme...but my way. 

 

Yesterday I had the last familydinner, "this Christmas"  Swedish Christmas ham served with green vegatables, flatbread from Røros and caramelpudding made by the book.  Delicious...

 

 

Have a great Thursday...it is breakfasttime for Nichlasen...enjoy your life...!

 

1. January 2013

Happy New Year to you all!  This year will be a good one, I think.  We - the women - in Norway have a 100 years celebration to attend to.  A 100 year with universal suffrage!  Congratulation to all of us!  Freedom in our own way.
The people in Nordre Osen has always been strong and selfdeterminated.  Long before 1777 - they had an idea that they too should have a church.  They didn't get any help, well nearly any help from The Norwegian Church.  But they did what they had to do - like us, the girls - they build a church - a red church.  And in 1777 the peolpe in Nordre Osen could use their own Church. 

 

Nichlas did decorate our Christmas Tree this year - he likes doing that.  I bought him this one some years ago...

 

 

And of course I have some nisser - here are two...I don't think they are married...)

 

 

 

Have a Splendid and Happy New Year - make yourself some goals, I've made mine...and enjoy...:)

Christmas Day 2012

A Very Merry Christmas to you all!  We spent Christmas Eve togheter with my mother and my brother.  Ribbe, pølse og surkål! Roasted spareribs!!, sausages and sour cabbage...all Norwegian style.

We have plenty enough of snow...the blue sun has vanished and it's dark outside.  The fire place is warm...the mittens are on...yes it's Christmas and winter in Norway.

 

...even my diningroom is getting there...

 

 

Have fun and do not forget to enjoy...!

3. December

It's Monday today - and my Pusur / Garfield says; I hate Mondays. 
First, it was freezing cold outside - about minus 3 / three Farenheit - then my beautiful Golf had a flat battery - I knew that - but I hoped it would last a little tiny bit longer.  Late for work but the serviceman fixed my car - he almost washed it, too!

 

At work I had to skip an impotrant meeting - buying a brand new battery instead.  So now my old Golf is kind of very new one - like this one!  ...in my dreams...my sweet dreams...

 

After dinner and ready to read newspapers - I always read todays newspaper on my PC - but not today - it was down - like my cars flat battery.  Even Garfield do not know all the words I located in my vocabulary!  But you all now I have the worlds best son - and he fixed my PC even thoug he's at Hadeland.  He is the best!

 

 

This Santa is climbing on my roof - hoping to reach the chimney within Christmas - I hope he does because I really want a Beetle - a red Beetle!  Enjoy...





 

1. December

This will be my Advent Calendar - I'm hoping to write every day until Christmas Eve!  Taking pictures too.
Today I have to do! my wall of IKEA cupboards.  Making myself a place for all my stuff - collected over fifty years. 

 

I hope Nichlas and I can have Christmas dinner here...we'll see!  Last week-end Nichlas and I went to Hadeland Glassverk to get the Christmas feeling.  And we did!  It's a great place for the whole Family.  And I love thees small "nissene"

 

 

Later today I'm going to Actic...getting fit for Christmas and 2013.

 

Have a wonderful 1. Day in Advent...enjoy...!







New Years Eve 2010

A New Years Eve letter to my family and friends.  I did not have time or the effort to make a Christmas letter this year.  I hope...next year. 
Nichlas and I lost CindyC - our Border Collie - in November 2008 - and we wondered if we ever should have a new dog - Nichlas beeing in Oslo for the next few years and me working in Elverum - well we got this little Swedish Lapdog in January.

His name is Varg - Wolf in english - he is quite a strongminded, barking and loving dog from Sabmebæna.  It is like beeing a mother again - with all that comes along.  He is a nice little fellow.

During the last decade I have done some genealogy.  It is the most creative hobby I have next to scrapbooking.  I just love sitting with my computer - searching for long gone relatives - and finding them - it makes life wonderful.  My father gave me two pictures of Botolf Martinsen Langerud - my grandmothers oldest brother.  I have tried everywhere searching for Botolf - not finding him at all.  I turnes out that he had changed his name to Barney Rudd - that I found on Ancestry.com  Some of The Story about Botolf and Marie and Steinhild I got from Margit Nysetvold Bakke at DIS-Norge Slektsforum Thank you so very much, Margit.  They are all long gone - but Steinhild Camilla had a daughter who lives in Alberta, Canada - lucky me!  This was last March and April.

In May month - well everybody who has been in Norway - or lives here - knows that it is pretty cold here during wintertime - that is why we do things like this...

...with all this

 

Now - in Desember - it's good to have chopped wood on the fireplace.  It is around minus 15 Farenheit and warmer during the Norwegian wintertime - brrr....

We did some Evja summertime - my mothers place in Osdalen.  Nordre Osen in Østerdalen - the place God left but did not forget - we just love Evja.  This picture is my brother making dinner outside - we usually do...

Then September and October came with sun and harvesting - this is our neighbours farm...

...and then suddenly it was Desember.  This year - 2010 - did run very fast - to fast - and I have not done what I thought I should have done!  But I did this one

So Merry, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you!  And do not forget to enjoy life!

A Snowy Sunday

It's snowing today - the world are just white in hundred of shades!! 
Some years ago I got a text in my e-mailbox - I read it and saved it.  It came from this site - MADD Drunk Driving.  So with MADD's "permision" - here's the text.

I went to a party, And rememered what you said

You told me not to drink, Mum, So I had a sprite instead.

I felt proud of myself, The way you said I would,

That I didn't drink and drive, Though some friends said I should.

I made a healthy choice, And your advice to me was right,

The party finally ended, And the kids drove out of sight.

I got into my car, Sure to get home in one piece,

I never knew what was coming, Mum, Something I expected least.

Now I'm lying on the pavement, And I hear the policeman say,

The kid that caused this wreck was drunk, Mum, his voice seems far away.

My own blood's all around me, As I try hard not to cry.

I can hear the paramedic say, This girl is going to die.

I'm sure the guy had no idea, While he was flying high,

Because he chose to drink and drive, Now I would have to die.

So why do people do it, Mum, Knowing that it ruins lives?

And now the pain is cutting me, Like a hundred stabbing knives.

Someone should have taught him, That it's wrong to drink and drive.

Maybe if his parents had, I'd still be alive.

My breath is getting shorter, Mum I'm getting really scared.

These are my final moments, And I'm so unprepared.

I wish that you could hold me Mum, As I lie here and die.

I wish that I could say, 'I love you, Mum!' So I love you and good-bye.

MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) IS HOPING TO GET 5,000 SIGNATURES ON THIS

Have a safe and drunk driving free Christmas everyone...and do not forget to enjoy life!

My ScrapMediaGenealogyMusic Studio

This story started during the last Christmas my father lived - in 2004.  I had teared down a wall between my livingroom and a bedroom - and I told my father that this room of mine should be ready next Christmas!  He knew me - and said - no way! 
Today - five years later it's pretty okay - so welcome to my green studio!  Here I listen to music and sometimes watch television - I have my computer that's on most of the day and the night - I do my genealogy here - and my scrapping! 
It's my room - it's my studio - and you are welcome to the grand tour!

Here I keep my genealogy book - my dictionaries and encyclopedias - my Norweigian history books and my churchbooks.  It's knowledge in thoose shelves - all I have to do, is to use it!

My latest layout...

I do have some love for blue glass - and my curtains are not finished - but one day...

Here I keep all my collected stuff about ny grandparents - and I keep everything I get..

The small boxes are for postcards - stamps - napkinds and fabrics - all for my scrapping!

You see the teared book - when my border Cindy was little - she eat most the back of the Åsnes Bygdebook - it's a memory...

Oh yes - I do clean up after my scrapping - isn't that one cute?

All the boxes are from IKEA - I just love IKEA!  Don't you?

I.m an old lady and when your getting older you need moore light - so this is hanging over my working space - it's IKEA...

Here are my latest layouts - they hang in a wire together with some zinkbuckets.

...this layout from O'Hare Air Port is not finished - I'm going to put some text on it - later...

Those roses did I get on my fifthiest birthday from my colleagues at my work -

I dried them - the roses!

This is the only corner in my studio...

It's IKEA - with some old typesetter's cases and some new boxes with ornates plates from Tim Holtz

Here's my Gazelle - here's my old vinyl LP's - and my bind it all...

I'm using old china and ceramics to put stuff in - thoose blue cups did I get from my aunt Randi - who lives in Kristiansand - a nice place in Norway to visit...during summertime...

Here's more from Tim Holtz - an old rack for gloves - and yes I do collect colotful roosters...here's one I bought in Spain - it's a Tiffany lamp...

And my very old casettes...

...they are still working here in my very own and very old B&O...

Here's my workingplace...

...two Expedit shelves from IKEA bound together with two desk topps and I did put some wheels under so I can move the desk..

...here I put all my rolled! papers...the oak shelves did I buy at Clas Olsson...

Thats my PC!  And The Christmas Gift from my mom - a Canon scanner 8800 F - it's a dream...The blue vase is an empty thermos bottle - without the bottle!  I'm going to put some paint brushes into it...

...and here's my Canon printer - it's another dream...

...collected flowers - coffeebeans - ribbons - old treadspools... in some old and some new glass jars...

...colorful...

 

...all my letters are in thoose boxes...

...thoose white and silver jars are the best - I can "crash" them in any way I want to - and I just love doing that in my scrapping - the little jar with the ladylikestuff I got from my mom...thank you...

...red is festivas..

...the brown form is for making cakes - I have my dabbers in it!...

...the oilpaint from my dad - I did put it in a roostercup..

...the small boxes are marked with clips from Making Memories - they don't make them any longer - and a selfmade papertag that says whats in the box...

...pink flowers and a pink little Bambi - bought at Scrappegodis...

...at the topp shelf I have my big ink pads and my big trimmer from Fiskars...

...on this shelf I have what I use daily - the small paper trimmer - and my craft mat - and my score-pal...I just need a course to learn how to use it!...

...if you wander about my stuff - be free to ask...

Thank you for taking your time - visiting my studio!  Enjoy...