Category: 2026

Downsizing my life…

The time have come, where I literally have to downsize my life. Giv away or sell things, furnitures I have inherited or made myself. It’s sad.  But I have to move. I have to move in to a temporary guestroom of a friend. A tiny guestroom! I have been giving away so much fabric to two friends whom both of them work in schools. Which makes it easier. But I still have to much 🙈🙈😅.

Here I’m sorting out my hobby stuff. From 2,5 boxes to 1 box.

The sorting out started in December-25 and continuing until I have moved.  I have giving away several furnitures to a 2ndhand store, just like I did when I did 20 years ago. The hard part is to sell furniture I have made myself. But I need to. 😥. 

This time I will get rid of my bed 😊. Which has been following me for 13 years and got worse each time I have moved 😅😅. So it’s time.  The reason for this downsizing is because I am a student and where ever I can rent from July or August will be smaller.  My wish is to be able to rent a tiny apartment around 25 – 30 sqm (European measurement).

Moving away from this view 😔.

I have had many good months here, but it got to expensive 😥 which is the biggest reason to why I have to move 😥. I had hoped I would have had more work hours which I haven’t. I really like this suburb. Maybe I can move back when I have graduated or maybe God have other plans then.  I am thankful for those months I have been living here!  A new journey are ahead of me and I am trusting the Lord.

The downsizing has got into the 3rd round 😅😅. Where I have to ask myself ” Do I really need to keep this? ” I have to think next place I live will be between 8 sqm and 25 sqm (European measurement). And that is small when I have been living in apartments around 50 sqm for the past five years! 

Everything that isn’t necessary to keep, I give away. Even things that have the colour that makes me happy.

Lord what do you want me to share this year? What is your focus Lord?

Going through my blog and see I have most likes where my faith is in focus. Not so many likes on my creativity. Makes me think. I will ask the Lord, what do you want me to share this year? And maybe it will be a change in here or not.

I will continue to walk against the society on what is “in”, in the meaning of blogging in most social media thinking blogging is out. This blog is not my choice but what the Lord has put on my heart.

What or where shall my focus be Lord, in life or what shall Ishare here?

New week at Campus Notodden, new course  – fun course!

We started our new spring semester the 5th (of January). A new course (7,5 university points) in graphic letterpress (Google translation) which means that we learn about linoleum and the process to make a pattern, lazer cutting with a inkscape program – really funny to work in!

Linoleum cutting
Linoleum print.
Drawing  – for linoleum.
Linoleum cutting.

Lazer cutting in pdf has been fun, interesting learning and a new area for me to get to know as a becoming art and (craft) design teacher!

Here are my lazer cutting patterns. The first try, which I liked, but it’s a bit hard to see the mushroom roots 😕 in the lower part  = the soil.

Testing on different types of paper and how the colour worked.

The second lazer cutting pattern;

Here on the second pattern the roots are more visible 😊. And works with many different colours.

The whole process of learning this is so we as becoming teachers can use this in teaching.  I thought that mushroom is something I can bring into art and design through other subjects too. And it is so many way’s to learn about mushroom for whatever age group I teach.

Didn’t have time to try the negative pattern before we were done for the day on Friday.
Negative pattern, linoleum.
A test of mushroom like forest. 2 colours.

From Monday morning until Friday including the travelling home. We got more and more snow 🌨🌨🌨, here’s a mix of the snowy view this week.

Early Monday morning, 04.55 ish, switching bus in the middle of nowhere.
Campus Notodden 07.25am.
Tuesday 4.30 pm ish.
View from Høgås Notodden.
Wednesday.
Thursday around 6pm.
Friday 16th,walking down to campus. 8 am
Bus to Kongsberg. 4 pm.
Yay I will travel by train home
The picture say’s it all. Could been worse.
Ice on the pond next to the bus and train hub, wet streets and snow free grass like it’s spring… 😥 10 pm ish.
From Winter wonderland to wet streets and grass and Spring feeling 😆😆. The life when you traveling from one side of the country to the other side 😅😅.

God works in His own ways!

I have shared a bit about my job struggling and how I had to get frustrated to see that I can’t do it my way. Only trust Him.

And today, the day when my plans were to send out open applications towards schools, I got a 50% job offer 🤩🤩🤩✝️🙏✝️ that will fit my studies 🤩🤩🤩🤩. A job in after school activity (afternoon job) until this summer. Just what I have asked from the Lord.

*Update 7th of January, towards the job offer the 2nd of January. I have signed a contract with an other employer,  a school instead of sfo, where I have got the perfect situation combined with my studies and internship 🤩*

Now, is the question… how will I celebrate? I can’t stop smiling. I’m happy. Feeling blessed! Thankful to the Lord and how he work out the way for me!

Just need to add a small thing about the job offer I got today, 2nd of January. That this is a job position I was denied just before Christmas. And now it’s gonna be mine just because God can open closed doors. 🙌🙌🙌.