Downtown Seattle

Hey - this is The Space Needle - a high tower - with a restaurant on the top - downtown in Seattle. We just passed it on the street - and I am glad we did - I am not found at all - in high heights!


This is a newer building - cute?? We did not enter this one either!

They do sell wood too - downtown Seattle - during summertime!

Thanks to The Timmons - who made our stay superb!! This is my son and my brother on the front porch - greeting the American Flag.

We are having a wonderful trip - seeing so much - beeing friends and just cruising around in over! Ford Flex! Thanks for visiting my blog! Take care and stay friends!

Moscow, Idaho

Okay - this is Berthe and Karinus Bues headstone - I have been translating the chapter about Karinusbua from Osen Bygdebook into english - and here - here they are - Berthe and Karinus!


This is the headstone for Lene Martinusdaughter - my Great Great Grandmothers sister. She and her family immigrated to The United States in 1883. Lene is mother to Dorthea Dahl - a famous writer.

I just had too! The huge red trailer with the good cold drinks - love it!

This is East Washington State - farmers land - cows - winestocks and even more cows! A lot!

Have fun - read blogs and enjoy life - we are! Thank you for visiting my blog!

Moscow, Idaho

This is The Interstate 90 in Montana - it's green hills and big ranches with cows all over.
From Butte in Montana we drove west to Idaho State.

Here we are entering The State of Idaho, driving in the Rocky Mountains - I did! It was like a screwdriver! Fun!

This is where we entered Moscow - the first stop on our trip that "means" something to me - Lene my Great Great Grandmothers sister lived here with her family. And tomorrow I will go to The Cemetery to look for their gravestones - looking foreward to do that!!

Thank you for stopping at my blog - and enjoy life - it is out there - somewere! Take care!

4th of July

4th of July is great and big! All the Parades and all the firetrucks and flags and people everywhere! My brother found this little storage for his tools - it is tooooo big to take home - sorry!

We drove trough Yellowstone - and this was the weather! All white! And only 37 Farenheit!

This little bird is the American Eagle, The Bold one! Yellowstone was terrific - the Old Faithful - the vulcanos - the bisons - everything - it was great!

Have a nice evening - we are going to Folsom tomorrow - to meet my cousins!

Enjoy life and stay happy - and thanks for visiting my blog!

Buffalo Bill Historical Center

Happy 3th of July! We spent some of the day in Cody - in Buffalo Bill Historical Center. We have to come back - we need another two days! It was a place for The Wild West - for everybody. Here is the charming Mister Cody "Buffalo Bill" himself! This you have to see!

After spending five hours at The Center we drove trough Yellowstone National Park and made the night in Idaho Falls in Idaho.

This one - I found at The Buffalo Bill Center - something for all the small things we use in scrapping........

Have a nice day - thank you for visiting my blog! And enjoy life!

Little Big Horn and Cody

It was grey weather and kind of cold outside on Thursday - anyway we got to see Little Big Horn and I learned a little bit of old history.

We are having a great time - crusing around in our rental, The Ford Flex! It is a wonderful car to drive. My brother and I drive one day each. Nichlasen - he is just here - he is in the backseats - reading books!

The hotels are good - right now it is Holiday Inn we are staying at. Huuuge beds!

In this rondell! - there are quotes written on the walls - from all the big Indian wariors. I will show some of them another time.

Tomorrow is The 4th of July - and then there are parades and rodeos in the streets - and people are having a blast.

This is just a huge american truck with his horsesleeper and wagon - all in one! Huge - terrible huge!

Thank you for visiting my blog - I realy enjoy that - have a nice week-end and stay tuned!

Deadwood and Devils Tower

Deadwood - the place that should not be. It's an old town build in bricks - it was burning down - and then they decided to build it up again in bricks! Read the story - the first picture are the "new" no 10 - where Billy Wild Hickoks chair are - the chair he sat in when he was shot!

This is one of buildings were the girls worked! Look! they are in the windows!

And then - Dewils Tower! We took the trail - it was absolutly stunning to see the mountain.

Have a nice day - keep smiling - and thanks again for visiting my blog!

Mount Rushmore, Custer State Park and1880 Train

Here they are - the four Presidents! Mount Rushmore was a huge place - not in space but in surroundings.
Sculptures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln represent the first 150 years of the history of the United States.
Do you see the little men on top of Jefferson? They are setting the fireworks for fourth of July!


After Mount Rushmore we drove thru Custer State Park - more or less a green park with Ponderosa pines and green medows - it's all green and fresh.
We met theese two bisons just a mile inside the park. Close your windovs and stay calm!
I liked the park - it was absolutly beautiful!

We drove to Hill City - a cute little city in the Black Hills. Here we went along - as others tourists and took The 1880 train - DO IT!

Thank you for visiting my blog - it's less scrapping and more vacation this time of year!

Cabelas and The Badlands

Rapid City in South Dakota - we just stayed the night in this "honkytonk" motel and wandred off to the ultimate store for nonscrappers!


This is Cabelas! This is The Store - and yes it was! Department for everything - if you like the hiking and biking and fishing and shooting stuff! It even had a department for women! I realy liked it - and I did spend some dollars

This is The Badlands - acres of acres with vulcano rock - it was amazing!

And this is The Grasslands - gras and gras as long you can see!

We are driving further west! We are still friends and we are having a great time! Thank you for visiting my blog - and our journey!

Rapid City, South Dakota

America so far is huge, it's green and it's flat. And we just luv it! Her skulle du ha vøri, Andreas!

We drove from Ottestad at 0500 am - to Gardermoen - then Stockholm - and then finally Chicago, Illinois. We flew Airbus - and it took nearly ten hours from Sweden to Illinois. We picked up this car - a Ford! - and drove to Rochester in Minnesota and went to bed at 0400 am - Saturday!

Sunday hot and warm and sunny! From Rochester in Minnesota to Rapid City in South Dakota. Shopped at Wal-Mart and then hit the Interstate 90. Just a minor stop at 1880 town.

This is Interstate 90 - westbound - to Rapid City in South Dakota.

Have a wonderful summertime - thank you for visiting my blog!

A SUNDAY IN JUNE

Today has been sunny, and quite warm - finally the summer is here!
We have booked hotel - in Rochester Minnesota - it's about 500 kilometer or 311 miles from O`hare International Airport in Illinois. We're only staying there for a night - our first main stop are Rapid City in South Dakota.

This is my Grand Aunt Esther - she was a younger sister to my Grandfather. I've used a lot of flowers, laces and bling! The paper are from K&Company.
I just love their collection!

Have a warm and enjoyable week - and Thank you for visiting my blog!

AN ORDINARY TUESDAY IN JUNE

Last week-end I was, together with 50 other scrappers, at Mjøstreff 2009 - a splendid crop! Thank you Berit, Anne-Lise and Moia! Let's do it again - I enjoyed every minute - you are the best!!!

This layout I made at a kindergartencrop in Oslo - the very best - thank you Stine and Tove!

Boltiten is a bird - they told us - and we had to make a layout with boltiten! This is mine interpretation - me at Kirkenær - age two and a half years old.

Have a wonderful week - mine is busy! Talk more later - enjoy and thank you for visiting my blog!

FIFTY............FINALLY!!

Last Sunday I turned FIFTY! It is not depressing at all - actually it's a relief. Now I can consentrate on beeing in my fifties - not trying to avoid them. I did celebrate my birthday at Evja - my mothers country house. Here she is togheter with her grandson - my son - in the driveway wishing everybody welcome!

This bouquet I got from my co-workers and my boss - togheter with a beautiful shawl and some wonderful blue jewelry - Thank you so much - I just love it!

It was very cold and it was rain in the air - that's why we had a party tent - where is the summer - it's June!?! It was barbecue - bløtkake / layercake and pea soup on the menu. And lots of wool plaids - it was cold!

And the view - the marshy bay- this time from my brothers cabin - enjoy!

Today it's only 18 days untill our trip starts - the trip to The United States. We're driving straight to Central City in Colorado after Carson City in Nevada.

Sorry Utah - see you later - I have an appointment in Gilpin County. Her name is Lina - she is my Great Grandmothers - Emilie Dorthea Dorthinusdaughters - half sister.

And then it's over - just driving through Nebraska - Iowa and Illinois.
We have already started to plan our next trip to the promised land - driving from New York to the states in the south - like North Carolina and Tennessee................................

Thank you so much for visiting my blog - and enjoy life!

CONFIRMATION CARDS

I have made two Confirmation card this May. This card I gave to our neighbours girl.
It is "kind of" vintage - with craft cardboard and my sepia ink!
The picture is designed by Gudrun Loennecken for Minnehjørnet - lovely pages with fantastic "old" pictures.

The notes are from my piano note book - dreadful Strauss Waltzes! - I do not have a piano so I soaked them in coffeee - iiik - and they ends on my cards and scrapbook layouts!

Prima flowers and bling from, well I do not remember - tulle and pearls from my sewingdesk! Yes, I do have one!

Stamps from Scrapmagasinet and Stempelglede! I love their stamps - even they are so different.

Have a nice day and thank you for visiting my blog!

AN ORDINARY FRIDAY IN MAY

Times just flies away - like an 747 airplane high in the blue sky! Last Sunday were May the 17. here in Norway - the most Norwegian day, ever! Everybody are wearing Bunad / national costume - waiving with the Norwegian flag and having good times.
My mother - my brother and I spent the week-end at my mothers cabin - Evja! It was strange - the first time with out Cindy - she just loved that place!
Anyway, here's some pictures from the National Day in Nordre Osen.


We do have the most loving woodpecker - here's some of his works! The bird are made by a "famous" blacksmith, I do not remember his name - sorry!

Here's the flag - the Norwegian Flag in our driveway. See the pine roots and the sand - that's how it's at Nordre Osen. Lots of pines and lots of sand - and the sunniest sun ever!

This is the river Osa - and the marshy bay - we saw some Canada goose and some grey! dukcs - on Osa. They do come back every year - from where? - I don't know!

This field is my nearest neighbour. It's right before it sprouts green! The farmer has a huge tractor and GPS!! - whatever - and makes the field look like this!

Have a nice day - and feel free to leave a comment or two - enjoy!