Category: 2024

From frustration to an adventure walk in my suburb Storhaug and the next suburb Lervig.

Yesterday (March 9th) started with a little overslept because my Silver-boy woke me up 07 o’clock why I don’t know and I had put my alarm on 08.30 am. The reason was I had an appointment 10am to do some private practice driving. So when I did woke up almost 09am I was really late 😔😔.

Texted the person I had the appointment with asking if we could start 10.15am instead. I was also hoping this person would come to me which apparently was wrong.

I ate my breakfast and had my coffee and did the rest. Texted when I left home and wrote “I can’t walk to him cause I don’t have your address” which I didn’t have.

I walked to my workplace because I knew that was close to him. Was there at 10.30 am.

Waited until 10.50 am after I had texted him where I waited. When I didn’t hear from him at all and it was quite chill wind and only 🌡+3°C even if it was sunny, I walked.  Couldn’t sit there longer!

I was so frustrated on what happened. I really tryed to do it right.  You might think “why didn’t I call him?” Well my excuse is it was to cold and I don’t like to talk in the phone.

Anyway I didn’t want the rest of the day to be ruined so I went on my own adventure in my suburb Storhaug and down to suburb Lervig.

Walked streets I haven’t walked before to update my own GPS in my brain.

I walked past some street art I haven’t seen.

I went shopping some coffee one place and discovered a path I knew about but never walked before. In this block of  apartments it’s also one grocery store, Coop Extra (the 1’st) a farmacy, a café, and hobby store.

This is suburb Lervig, close to the sea side on the North side of Stavanger.

Went to an other grocery store, to actually buy grocery. It’s three grocery store’s in this suburb and all in a distance of 5 min to each other. And what I discovered was It’s almost the same distance from me to all three 🤩.

Rema1000 Grocery store (the 2nd) behind and belove the bushes, down hill from where I stand and took this picture.

From where I stand, to my left 5 min walk is the third grocery store, Kiwi (as in the fruit). And from here I went back home. 

Almost home and 2 hours later and over 6000 steps I had a GOOD WALK 😊.

The whole adventure walk was over two hours later 😊. I got lot’s of fresh air, saw a lot I haven’t been able to discover until now because of my sad back.

Got home rested my sore back and had some coffee 🤩 and …

Through out some carbon boxes, went into my storage and got the pots. Managed to bring not lift one of two 50 liter bags of soil inside 🤩🤩 so I could plant my newest addition of 🌱🪴 plant’s I bought two weeks ago.

6 new plants before new soil and bigger pots.
This is my experiment of a nectarine.
The Summer Season pots has seads that need to stay inside until they are around 5cm tall.

I also gave some of my old green plants new soil so they will grow better 😉. In total a very good day 🤩 even if it didn’t start so good 😊😊.

Thank you Lord for your help to change my mind find a new focus.

Kitchen project and I need your help!

The latest creative idea & painting is this furniture…

From boring grey to Red with black details.

…that I call secretary but I not sure what you call it.  Anyway I got it for free from my last Land Lady. It’s been boring grey until now. I have just started to paint it lovely red with black details, not with the right type of paint but I just couldn’t have it grey anymore…

And White inside so I’ll see what I have there 😉.

Now is the question, what colours should I paint the door I’ll use as the top and it all will eventually become my Kitchen Island / table (fit to my height)? Should I paint it red & black or white & red?

As you know I love colors and need colours in my life. And I love when I have something that not everyone has. But please let me know what you think 😉

March 2nd 24 a good mix of needling fabric, walking to & back from the grocery store and gardening 💪💪.

This once was a shirt now I hope this will work.

First step.
Tryed to sew ‘edges’.

I will have a small break, need to go (as in walk) to the grocery store before I can start to sew. I hope it works as I wish 🤞🤞🤞.

✔️ my back did good on my walk home with a heavy backpack (approxy 8-10kilogram)

and some extra energy in my body I did some gardening

Before.
After the exercise to rake all those leaves 🍂🍁 out of this space in this garden.  I used one hour! 💪💪🥵🥵
2 off those was filled and lot’s more needs to being taken care of but not today.

Was out for 1 hour and 20 minutes 💪💪💪🥵😊.  In the couch, where I’m now resting mostly the back, so ready for a shower and dinner. But dinner has to wait because I need to make it before I eat it…

Winter break-24 – extra work and resting was the plan, part 1.

Monday 26th. It started good, after two weeks of back issues. It beame a beautiful day after the Sun came and the SFO-kids ripped of there winter jackets because of there play in the sunshine. We had BBQ after that I manage to make a BBQ fire and the kids was super hungry. They didn’t have time to wait for the real good part of the BBQ-fire ^^haha^^ I did though. I had one good hamburger and one less good ^^haha^^. But what I did, that I shouldn’t have done was sitting watching the fire, breath-in the smoke or even sit where I sat… I haven’t had such much issues breathing in a long time, but after 3 hours by the fire… omg, never again!

But the sadest, is my back! I had pain when I got home yesterday – that isn’t the surprise. No the surprise is that I had to roll out of bed this morning. The back had “locked itself”. I am as stiff as you can get I think 😦 . Had to call in sick 😦 . And here I am in my couch typing and trying t drink coffee…. and waiting on my wheat-pillow to get as cold as possible in the freezer to cool down my back. I hope my back gets as good as possible for some sewing. Because I started on a new project later yesterday evening.

A light blue stipe shirt that I bought on a 2ndhand store in mid February. Quite long on me but not long enough for what I want to use it for. Offcourse it’s not long enough, it’s a normal size for a man with shorter arms then me… But thanks to the second shirt I bought and sut off the arms on I can redesign the shirt with stripes :-).

I haven’t got much further on my *Summer dress yet, because I need to adjust it and make sure the pattern fits me and my body. And with this back that isn’t an opption right now. It just have to wait a bit.

This is my sketch and measurements.
The Yellow dress, is the one I’ll try to make.
This is the fabric, an old curtain 😊

So in the meantime I’ll do things I know I can. Yet this is my Daily life – to try to figure things out while they are resting from I am actually working with the projects with my hands I am working with them in my mind. Yet this is what I like with all my projects.

I needed a new wheat pillow, so I found this screen print I did back in 2005. Cut it as a big roseship.  First I popped up the red fabric. Then I ironed it, then sewed on the rosehip and then I sewed the three layers together. At the end I filled it with wheat.

PS. You know all the things you see when you’re home and not so much after a long day at work… but when you’re home ‘sick’ from work you cant do them anyway…. that’s my home right now. It just has to wait. But thanks to the Lord, I can let it go and focus on being well again. DS.

Parallel sewing projects, is the way my brain works best.

Therefore have I started two new projects so my brain has something to work with while I am trying to finish the jogging pants, when my back isn’t to painful.

This picture is upside-down on purpose. It’s a pattern of a Summer dress from the 1970’s.
This is a shirt from a 2ndhand store, I want to make into a tunic.

I have also been creative with metal thread 😉 the past few evenings because of pain in my back 😒.

Earings: ✂️.
Just testing.
Earings.
G-clef and notes made by metallic thread.

While I have taking a small break from the jogging pants.

I have to figure some parts out to finish the pants and until I got that I do other things 😉. I am the kind of person that can’t watch telly without things in my hands.

Job offer on 30% or not?

I have received a job offer on 30% on a High-school to be a teacher in art and craft  for the rest of this school year, which is approxy 4 month.  But it also means I have to work where I am working right now… Am I willing to work 2,5 day’s at each school?  I really don’t know.

The pro list isn’t longer then the con list in this situation. The pro list to stay where I am is longer in my head. I would maybe earn more as a teacher but I don’t know that yet. If that’s truth I guess I should considder the offer. But 30% isn’t much!

And I think that things I am doing on my spare time would be sat a side which I really can’t. I need to finish what I started, can’t wait longer, because I don’t have much more time.

So, I guess I have the answer.

I have peace for the school I am at, even if many of my friends thinks that working as a substitute teacher isn’t so stable. Well the Lord challenged me this last fall and I will trust him that he has a plan for why I am where I am.

Which means I should/ will turn down the offer. But I am going to pray over it and talk to the Lord about it this weekend.

The book in my house Church – To All Time.

What’s on my mind? Well I just got home from my house church group ten minutes ago (Wednesday)  where we talked about the theme “Honestly & talk truth” from a book we read.

How honest shall we be with friends and family? Well it depends on the situation. Do we need to learn this as we grow (from beinga child to becomeanadult) ? Yes we do! We need to learn when and what and how we say things. How honest are you to your nearest?  This was questions we talked about. And in my house church we are five women with all different home situations, some have teenagers at home, someone are the only parent, I don’t have kids or a hubby. Yet we were thinking a lot a like.  Maybe because we have lived and learn life.

I always look forward those meetings with my house church, right now in life, maybe a bit extra cause I have been able to go to any service so far in 2024 because of back issues. But the house church has always been more important for me since I recieved Jesus into my life as an adult. 

And I like the challenge that I need to read a new chapter for each time we gathering, which mostly is every second week except this time . But it’s not just to read it’s the fact I need to think about what I read and how will it fit into my life? Or my faith. And what can I bring with me where I work?  How honest can I be at work? How do I talk to my colleagues  and how do I adjust my truth? This is life!

New plastic boxes – better system in my sewingroom.

Today I went out and bought 7 new plastic boxes for my sewingroom, to get a better system for all my fabric 😍😍. Love it!

As soon as I get my salary (12th every month)  will I order shelfs!  But this, just the boxes, helps so much. I know I need few more to be where I want it. One step at the time = patience.

Talk about climate changes!

We have had 2 weeks with gale wind off an on but this week we suddenly got winter again 🤪🤪. Not common!

Talk about climate changes!

And today we had just a grey weather until approxy 11am, then it has been snowing non stop… picture below.

February 10th.

When will the Spring come?

3rd upcycling skirt finished.

Her will I give you some pictures from parts of the process of my 3rd #jeansskirt I’ve done.

Be creative.
Coffee is needed.
Bust for making clothes.
Inspiration
B4 the changes.
The results.

This Jeans skirt took much longer time to sew then most other cloths I’ve done. Mainly because of my injuries in my coxxy last January. When it’s painful to sit for longer periods it’s hard to finish a project. But thanks to my seat-pillow (my xmas gift to myself) I have been able to sew so much more lately 😍😍. So now it’s the next project. Jogging pants made by sweaters “hoodies”.

Snow, more snow and even more snow 😍😍❄️❄️

We got some snow last weekend which I didn’t think would stay.

It didn’t stop snowing!

Me heading out without any voice to the farmacy and grocery store, 15th.

It has been snowing each day since January 13th. The night between 18th and 19th we got approxy 15cm

Today 19th, on my way to the doctor appointment.

And since I walked to work this morning and until I got home we had got even more 😍😍.

I love snow.

I think we, now, have approxy 30cm. That’s a lot to be here! Last time this area had this much snow was the Winter of 2012. That’s how rare it is.

I enjoy every day with this lovely white powder!!

It will rain away in a soon future and the Spring will start…but until then ❄️😍❄️

More sensetive to temperature during perimenopause.

I have since I got into the perimenopause become even more sensitive to temperature. It’s not just Spring and Summer anymore oh no! It’s all around the year!

If I have a room temperature under +20°C indoors I can catch a cold 🤬🤬but if it’s over +22°C indoors I melt away 🥵.

Last November (2022) I catch a cold because it was below +19°C indoors where I was living and the land lady didn’t tell me it could be so freezing cold indoors during the winter months. Here is the issue that it’s hard to get a eaven temperature in the whole apartment… I have just figured out that, if I have around +21°C in the hallway /corridor it get a bit “warmer” in my sewing room (2nd bedroom) 😊 which is good cause I have chosen to not have any heat on there or in my bedroom (master bedroom). But if I want some heat on in my bathroom I can’t have much on in the hallway…

Earlier this week it felt like walking into a wall of heat when I got home after work. So I tryed to put the heat down, then I catch a cold… it’s excectly a month ago I had a cold 🤬🤬.

I don’t like to complain but this is nuts! And I think it’s the perimenopause. We – wonan – all have different symptoms in this period. And it’s a myth that you can’t hit perimenopause before 45 y.o.! You can! I did and my doctors agree with me.

Here I am, with a cold but mostly fever 1,5° above my normal body temperature, which is the same as 39° C / 102,2° F, if you have 37° C as your normal body temperature.

(The average body temperature is between 36,8 – 37,2°Celsius / 98,6 °F.)

If you as me have lower body temperature then most average people, it’s both easier to catch a cold and feeling you boiling, have hot flashes, night sweats and foggy brain 🥵🥵 when it’s all around the year.

Annoying to have fever again just because of the temperature indoors is hard find a balace on!

2024 has started.

Here in Norway the schools starts on the 2nd or 3rd of January. No long Holiday here. I was asked on the 2nd, on text, if I could work those three day’s this week. Which means I have had a good start and fun cauce I have had art & craft with 5th and 7th graders, two full day’s and three different classes each day. Today, Friday, I were with one 5th graders class in theoretic art & craft in the classroom, one English lesson and ended the day with art & craft with a class in 6th grade. It couldn’t have started with more fun! The best part is I will not just *continue to be the teacher in 7th grade, no it is that I will be the teacher that start the re-design project with those pulpils 🤩🤩. *Until the originale teacher gets more information about her situation of where to work will be sattled I will also know which grade I will work with.

While I am the temporary teacher in art & craft I will this Spring apply to a one year studdy in art and craft at the uni (university) here in Stavanger 😊 that starts this coming fall.

Here is some pics from this first week at work 😉.

The pulpils has to learn to sew on the new sewing machines at school. Here is the task to sew straight stitch and zigzag, follow the line on the figure and get approved.

It has been so cold those three day’s 🥶🥶, today we had -11°C. It might not be so cold for some of you, but if you have south east wind from morning to morning with everything from 8m/s to 19m/s with windcast up to 20m/s then it is cold! If we only had 15cm of snow the cold wouldn’t feel so cold. Maybe you understan maybe not. It has been cold and fresh walking in this wind! And I love Winter, weather and wind so I don’t complain but the pulpils aren’t used to it so they complained.. they are not used to wear wool. Maybe they are better at wearing wool next week🤞🤞🤞 as the cold will continue. (In the area around Kristiansand – the train connetion from Oslo to Stavanger – have had around 100-200cm of snow! Not normal so far south! And the same wind as we, so there (and Kristiansand is approxy 4 hours drive south from Stavanger) have the Schools been closed due this two or three day’s. So this first week of January has had some challenges all over Norway. I heard on the radio that Karasjok have had between -35°C and -40°C, that’s like Sibir ir Alaska! 🥶🥶.

I went for a 30min walk this evening 😊, not much wind yet -10°C and here are some pictures from my walk.

Evening by the sea side.
Exploring my neighbourhood and walking path.
Frozen water, frozen grass, frozen nature.