Monday the 2nd: pencil drawings, light and shadows and stilleben.
Tuesday the 3rd: charcoal drawing, propotions, face and from a black and white picture.
Wednesday the 4th of March: pastel chalk drawing, landscape.
Thursday the 5th of March: landscape in acrylic. My inspiration comes from #abisko and the famous #lapporten . A picture I grew up with.
Friday the 6th of March: painted the front of my file collector for all my paintings. That I will bring back home in May after the exams.
Part one, bus into the bus and train hub, Sunday 1st of March 09.21.
Part two, waiting for the long distance bus 09.21 – 10.30.
My hope this morning was to stay awake, so I would see this new (for me) ride where I have not taken the bus before.
Part three, bus NW400 the coast bus, 10.46 that will bring me nearby Haugesund.
Ferry from Mortavika to Arsvågen ferry pier.
Switched bus at a normal bus stop on the outside of Haugesund city centre. 🌤 but 🥶wind. Next time I will take the bus into Haugesund centre, even if it cost a bit more.
Part four. 13.15 on bus NW180. This bus trip goes over the mountain, called Haukeliekspressen. The views 😊. I think that being a bus driver along this route not only offers winding and narrows roads and good views, but also full concentration because it goes both up up up and down down down and is also winding.
Thank you Lord for your protection for everyone on the narrow mountain roads!
As I wrote in the start, my hope was to stay awake. I have maybe rest my eyes 30 minutes after 6 pm. I am more hungry than tired. Normally I fall asleep without thinking just not today 😆. I really tried to sleep. I have more pain in my bump after nine hours of travelling and not yet at Notodden 🤪.
Because of the rock landslide this morning at Fjæra 10.40, the bus had to take a two-hour longer detour and therefore are we at least one hour and delay. So instead of arriving 19.44 we are still on the road… I might write more this week at Campus it all depends on how tired I am after all the practical lessons we will do.
Finally few days where I’m free from the studies, work and internship ☺️. And today is the very first full day of Winter Holiday
After all I had planned nothing went like it 😅😅🤪🤪. But now 6pm am I outdoors and enjoying my new view 😍.
The time have come, where I literally have to downsize my life. Give 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 🙈🙈😅.
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).
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!
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?
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!
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.
The second lazer cutting pattern;
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.
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.
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. 🙌🙌🙌.
mia-simone. svenberg 