Easter 2011

Hello - it's Spring and Easter here in Norway - lucky us!  All the snow has vanished and the lawns are getting greener - happy me!
I'm in a lazy mood - doing nothing - just having vacation.

Theese two birds!  I made them for my parents Easter Holliday in 1987 - they where fun to make - I wish I had some spirit to make some birds! today!

...and of course it should be 1987...

Happy Easter - enjoy...

An Ordinary Saturday

It's only thirteen days untill April comes along and this is how it looks like at Stangelandet right now!  Four Farenheit - a super blue sky - and ten centimeters with new! snow!  The sun is shining and it's.....noway - it's not Spring.....yet!

Have a wonderful Saturday - and do not forget to enjoy...!

A Sunday in February

Hello - when did January end - and when did February come?  Time runs too fast, nowadays! 
I'm not in the mood for scrapping or card making or any handcrafts - and thats annoying me!
Well I have been doing some genealogy - we got this Folketelling 1910 / National Census 1910 last month.  So I have been checking all my ancestors born in January towards this census...fun!  Try it!

This is my Great Grandmother Amalie Pauluda Andreasdaughter Torp Holter.  Born 1. January 1866 at Lista in Vest-Agder.  She married Johan Andreassen Holter in well I don't know - but before 1893.  They settled in at Elverum and got eight children.  Amalie Pauluda died 12. January 1955 - she is burried at Elverum Churchyard.

Siri Halvorsdaughter Skjærbekken Ulvevadet is my Great Great Great Grandmother.  She married Martinus Olsen Ulvevadet in 1836 and settled in at Ulvevadet Farm in Osdalen, Norde Osen.  They had five children - two who died very young.  The three ones that grew up where Oline Dorthea Martinusdaughter Ulvevadet Valen - moved to Madagaskar with her husbond Arne Farteinson Valen, Lene Martinusdaughter Ulvevadet Dahl married Per Person Løssetosdalen Dahl and mowed to USA, Ingeborg Martinusdaughter Ulvevadet married Nils Persson from Sweden and they settled in at Ulvevadet in Nordre Osen.  So Siri and Martinus had three beautiful girls in three corners of the world.  Siri died 4. December 1895 by pneumonia - she is burried at Nordre Osen Old Churchyard.

This is a beautiful picture of my oldest cousin - Ole Andreas born in 1952.  He is a farmer and he loves sport.  Last week he made Femundløpet - a "dogsledgerace" - Congratulations!!

It was like this when I started this Sunday!  Grrr...

Have a wonderful February - and do not forget to enjoy life!

The First Monday in January 2011

Hello - just a little note to say it's not so cold in Norway any longer - in fact it's only pluss! 12 Farenheit!  This ia a picture from Sætre - a place in Elverum County - Sætre has a fantastic view.   

The black bird is a huge crow!  Happy New year to you all and don't forget to enjoy life...it's great!

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!

A Saturday in December

Hello to all of you!  My Matchboxcalender won!  Scrappekammeret had a challenge about Advent - and I competed with a lots of excellent scrappers and cardmakers!  Thank you so very much!

This is a picture of Santa's legs - he's trying to enter my house...

Have a wonderful Saturday - and do not forget to enjoy life...



The Second Sunday in Advent 2010

Hello - thank you so very much for all the nice comments on my Matchbox Calendar.  Finally I got hold of some coffe beans for The Advent Candleabra!  Is that the right word?  My Dictionary is very old.

Have a beautiful Advent - and do not forget to enjoy life...



The First Sunday in Advent 2010

Hello everybody- have a wonderful Advent - I have a feeling I'll have one - even though I'm still in winter lair!  But I've been scrapping!  I just love papercraft - scrapping and cardmaking and creative matchboxscrapping.  The first time a saw this Matchboxcalender by Tracie Hudson I just knew I had to make one - one day or two!

I've used paper from 3ndypapir - fantastic Norwegian paper.  Flowers from the drawer - metallcharmes from Unik Hobby - The Scrap Store in Hamar City!

I've painted the insidewalls! of all the 24 matchbox with white Pebeo High Viscosity Studioacryl - paper from Papirdesign on the matchboxfloor!

Hitch Fasteners from Tim Holtz - and I'm still using Archival Ink - color Sepia

Diamond Glaze from Judi Kins has been with me the whole project!

The walls are made in Bazzil - just Bazzil!  And the rubonswords are from Cosmo Cricket

Snowflakes from Spellbinders - white snowpaint from Adirondack Rangers.  I've made snowflakes in shrink plastic - enjoyable - try it!

Stamp from Kort og Godt - love their stamps!

All my flowers are beige or white - theese I've colored with Tattered Angels  Glimmer Mist Tattered Leather

The Cinnamon did I buy in Moscow, Idaho, USA last summer!

I've used Diamond Glaze on the God Jul / Marry Christmas!

Thank you for dropping by - have a wonderful Advent - and do not forget to enjoy...