I have been living in my new house/ home for 14 day’s. I have explored where the nearest grocery store is but that one is expensive! I have also found my route from the nearest bus stop coming from work. It’s a 12 minutes walk (fast walk) and approxy 1.1 km with or against the wind.
On the way from the newest Hospital and bus hub. My neighbourhood.
My view when I wait on the morning bus 😊.
Today, May 30th, I went on an adventure to Sola center not very big but they have many shopping opportunities and gas station!
I couldn’t just stand stil (in the cold wind) and wait 30 minutes on the bus… when I was done. So I started to walk. I think that is the best way to get to know a new place.
Here I was…
…walking ” towards ” my home pasting bus stop after bus stop… I didn’t walk that far though. But I walked almost 1.5 km with a quiet heavy small backpacker on my shoulders. And in the freezing wind I didn’t want to walk to far away and not knowing where the next bus stop was.
I have been collecting coffee bags for the past two years mostly because I wanted to be able to make something new. Upcycling is a huge part of my sewing. I do it because I like to see what is possible to redesign and how I can make something new from an old product. It has started to become part of my thoughts on sustainability. What can I do with the things I live on and use in my everyday life in a sustainable way?
So, during the last day’s of packing (down) my apartment I realised I had too many blankets 🤪 and needed something or somewhere to put them in my new apartment.
I started to sew coffee bags together, and realised how many I needed 🤪 and actually had 😯😅.
Here am I just sewing bags together.
Here is one of the sides becoming the actual size.
During my sewing I realised I needed stability on the four sides 😅😆. I used old cardboard boxes.
Four of five sides on.
Here us it full with blankets and floor pillows 🤩.
I got exactly what I had need of 🤩😍. I just wished I had a semi-sewing machine 🙂🙃. For those of you who don’t know what a semi-sewing machine is, they have a longer sewing arm for bigger projects 😉. And they are for house hold, the next step in sewing machine is the industry type.
I hope I have inspired some of you to do more out the everyday things you have at home and upcycling for our world’s future!
My Birthday and latest my move 🤪. I live in a mess of boxes again 😆😆😆. This time I had to move for many reasons. But the biggest reason is, because I have applied to the University. And if I get in I will be a student for five years and that means I need a lower rent.
So for you of my followers that are Christians, please pray with me that I get in 🙏✝️.
It was also 17th of May this weekend = Norways National Day.
My Birthday was celebrated two day’s ahead with my Norwegian mother. With quality time, food and wine and 🍓.
I have never been able to find a Jeans jacket with long enough sleeves or long enough in the torso lengt in my size 😔😔. So why not sew my own with my style?
That’s what I’ve started on 😊🤩
The sleeves.
How will this work? (I didn’t understand)
Just the details of the zipper.
Here I found out that the left sleeve got too long because the shoulder was to far out.
Here I needed to pick up the top seam on the left shoulder and resew 1,5cm farther in on the shoulder 🤪. But it worked and made wonder!
The only thing left now is the zipper… I need a “jacket zipper” and I want a red one, just because I can.
It has past a year 😭😭😭😭 since I had to put-him-down at the wet 😭. The tears has come a bit here and there for the past year. More ofter after Christmas 24… I don’t know why.
Today the 23rd, on the day, one year ago we went to the wet because his breathing was really bad 😭😭.
So thankful for the time I got with him! He gave me so much love 💙🐈⬛💙
To write about him, and my tears streaming like someone turn on the tap… I miss him 😭😭😭.
But he comes on visit 💙🐈⬛💙💝.
He did love the walk in his leash 🤩.
2019 -2021 💙🐈⬛💙💝
He really loved his walks 😍. But yet the patient towards me when I didn’t have enough energy 💝💝💝.
I got some used shirts from a friend a while ago. And “what to do with them ?” Well yesterday I needed to sew, but empty on ideas…. Pinterest gave me an idea 😊😊.
Inspiration from Pinterest.
My shirt.
The result.
Happy face.
I turned the shirt inside out, shorten the sleeves and added the leftover sleeves to the length to fit me.
I have used the legs from a pair of jeans and added decoration band, zippers and old T-shirts to make it longer. Like it and can just wait until the weather let’s me use it…
When I saw this and read about it – the documentary – I got inspired again! I did something like this few years ago. I uninstall the apps I felt I used to much time on.
I think I will take a break from some of my social media apps from 10th of February to 10th of March 😉. Maybe you say “why not from today? ” well my excuse is I’m home and sick with fever and I want to give head’s up to you and others 😉.
I’m not on Snapchat so often as it is today so I don’t think I need to uninstall that app. I have been less on Facebook the past 4 months. So I think the hardest will be to not be on Instagram! Even if I don’t use the app more than to share what I have done. I nearly never check what friends has posted so I think I am quite good to not use to much time there. This will be interesting!
Messenger will be an issue! I use Messenger a lot 🤪. Well I hope to see where I use my time and if I can get less hours on my smartphone and what I will do instead.
This last weekend was productive 😊😊. I finished the blue cocktail dress
And I got help from a friend to fix the hem on my summer-curtain dress…
And I sew the waist band after more room on the top part so I can breath…
Walking in gale towards the gym.
And I got out to the gym 🤩🤩. Walked for 20min and then on the treadmill for 10min 💪.
Went through 4 machines and then home.
And last week I started on something new – a challenge – to sew a dress from 2 pair of jeans legs (because I cut off the waist part to the orange skirt).
After almost 3 years of involuntary residence, because of injuries, have I today (18th of January 2025) bought a membership at one of the two biggest gym in Norway 😊. So keen to finally start building up my body again 🤩.
I’ll start today 😊. Start light and easy. I know my limitations.
My goal is still, to have enough energy to go to the gym 3 times a week. And now with my job it will fit to manage Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. I am so excited and motivated. I was never at an elite level, but I was involved in athletics as a teenager. So I am used to exercise and love the kick of good energy 😉.
One goal I have is to build up my body so I can go hiking and not get pain in joints. Like I got last summer on this hiking path.
I will be happy as soon as I manage over 60kg again on my knees/ legs. 😊
Last minute skirt which I made in 5 hours 😊😆🤪. I didn’t have a Christmas skirt so at 11pm the 17th of December-24, got I an idea in my head 😆😆. “If I cut a pair of jeans so I can redesign my red wool sweater into a Christmas skirt!” Which I did. I cut the jeans just before I went to bed.
The 18th of December after work I used five hours on sewing the skirt just so I would be able to wear it the 19th at work 😆😆. It got a bit to short to my long legs 😆😆. But I wear it.
The sweater was a bit to see-through so I added thick wowen cotton fabric under.
Just a bit too short to my length 😆
After love used it I made it longer with the neck part of the sweater 😉.
Here is it in full length on little Christmas eve the 23rd 😉. I travelled in it and that was perfect! It hold me warm 😊.
January 2025, more sewing 😊.
While I am finishing the blue cocktail dress which takes a bit longer time than I thought… Have I upcycling another skirt 😉.
In 2012, I bought my sewing machine and started to sew.
This was once a sweater…
In 2012 the sweater became a skirt.
I just cutter off the neck part on the sweater and put elastic band in the waist.
I was never really satisfied with how it sat on me but it was one of my first upcycling- skirts. I have now upcycling it one more time 😊😊.
The inspiration colour to the second upcycling, black and orange.
Since the first upcycled jeans skirt with a sweater or just random fabric, have I wanted a orange skirt. Now I finally have it 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍.
Once I got a pair of jeans send to me from a person I actually never met. I jeans was with 38″ (inches) and didn’t fit the other person. Those jeans has been hanging in my wardrobe for more than a year… So now it’s time to redesign them!
I started with the decorations Friday 17th.
Purple is the contrast colour to Orange.
I tried with other things first, picked it up and now I go for Black in the front.
I’ll continue sewing on my orange skirt this weekend (17th – 19th of January) so I can use it this spring 😊.
This is a glimpse of my 2024. Lot’s I have done and learn. And 2025 will be an other year of learning more new things!
I am looking forward to what the Lord has for me this year! Challenges or not. Continuing get know my newest friends even better, continuing learning more, challenging myself, become a even better teacher for the future, learn to listen more to the Lord, enjoying life more, get out in the nature more, drive more, sew more!
I wish you all a blessed New Year of 2025 🎇❗️.
I started on a dress yesterday the 31st of December and finishing it today 1st of January 😉.
Christmas day, the 25th. This morning started with rain and plus degrees and very slippery walk to the church service 😆😆
1pm, Priest – my brother and a local brass band and a solo violinist.
The Christmas crib in Haltdalen church.
After the service we went over to my sister in law’s mother for some Christmas brunch that lasted to afternoon 😆😆.
When we got home, there where Tusse in the couch 😊 😻.
The house cat, Tusse.
Later on I sat down with the jigsaw. A jigsaw with 2000 pieces. A good challenge! A Christmas tradition I like.
2nd Christmas day, the 26th.
I started where I left the jigsaw the evening before, now having late breakfast and Coffee with the jigsaw while my brother and sister in law went to the gym. A good one and a half hour alone in the house. Only Tusse was at home sleeping somewhere…
The first boarding went well and I arrived in Oslo, Gardermoen 09:30am as planned, December 23rd.
Gardermoen airport [Oslo].
And because I had a transit flight I didn’t need to stress about other things 😊. I was also blessed with the fact that the first flight and the second flight left from the same gate 😊😊.
Værnes airport Trondheim.
Express bus in to Trondheim city and “fatch some food ” at Burger King.
Here could I finally relax and enjoy being in Trondheim (even though I lost more than 12 hours and a night at a hotel).
Trondheim Winter time.
Went for “the walk” to fond the bus stop, I kind of remembered where it was but not totally 😆😆. Walked past a Coffee and Tea shop. Went in and bought two cup’s as a pre Christmas gift to my brother and sister in law.
And offcourse was I early to the bus 🤪 so I had to stand and wait… and when I arrived Trondheim it was 🌡 +2 but when I was waiting on the bus it was already minus degrees 😆 and I didn’t have warm enough shoes 😆😆
Winter wonderland.
I arrived my families place (village) 5:40pm) dark and colder with lot’s of sn❄️w 😍😍😍.
The moment I arrived in the cold part of Norway.
We had some typical Norwegian Christmas food – risengrynsgrøt (white rice porridge) with cinnamon and suger (and if you are Norwegian with butter also)
I haven’t got that far yet,yet I’ve lived in Norway for 17 years.
After the risengrynsgrøt we started to decorate the Christmas tree with ornaments.
That was the plan at least. I got nervous already at 2pm when I heard flights were cancelled at Heathrow, London UK and hoped it wouldn’t be the same here. I arrived to the airport in good time (8pm) and got my bagage checked in and past the safety control without a problem. Walking towards the gate, (8:30pm ish) I overheard other passengers also going to Trondheim, saying ” we have to find an other flight ” and I realised the flight was cancelled.
I went to pick up my suitcase and txted friends. I called one friend because my adhd brain needed to calm down. I realised quickly that it wouldn’t help to go home and try to sleep and call a taxi to be back at the airport around 7am. So I’m still at the airport.
Bought night snacks/ food and a espresso.
[Boring info, I ate and drank my coffee] Because the flight was cancelled by the airline they also got meca new ticket and a new time for departure.
New boarding time is 08:35am the 23rd, towards Oslo [one of few airports I hate]. Hopefully it will go well for my adhd [that’s why I hate big airports]. I am on my way up north, towards my brother and sister in law at #haltdalen south of Trondheim but north of Røros.
Walked to the arriving board to check if my new flight had got there with information. Walked past a good couch where I’m laying right now (23:40/11:40pm) I have set the alarm for “working alarm” at 06:30am and hoping I’ll manage to rest maybe sleep some. But the lights in the ceiling are quite bright… but I am tired!
11:40pm Sola airport, 22nd of December 24.
I woke up 04:30am from passangers walking past where I tried to sleep. Manage to rest 30 min more b4 I really needed the wc. I have maybe ‘slept’ 4 hours at the airport,
…already checked in my suitcase and got my double espresso. 06:30am and soon breakfast….
I’ll boarding in an hour (08:05am).
My pray now is to I stay awake when needed and can relax or eat at Gardermoen/ osl airport and that I don’t get migraine.
Age difference in a relationship, how important is that really? Are “we” to much into that because of the society thinking? Or is it just the “way we grow up thinking “?
How are you thinking? Are you in a relationship where you are younger or older than your partner?
Why am I writing about this? Well I have started to ask myself the question. Am I still single because I thought “I always wanted a younger man in my life” or “have I failed so many times because I only looked for a younger man because I look younger than my actually age?” I know I shouldn’t think like this. I should be able to focus on chemistry and common interests. But I am reacting on my self’s thinking about age.
What “benefits” is it with an older vs younger man in a relationship?
I have forced myself to try to “look” for someone in my own agerange and above when it comes to go on a date – yes there it was… 😆🤪 and I would love to here from you whom follow my blog, how do you think about this “issue I have”?
Can I trust the matching test most dating app’s has (for a reason) or will I continue to be skeptical to them? Do they work? And how much will be right? I have so many questions about this 🙈🙈🙈 . But it is something that occupy my thoughts.
Super tired brain, on Friday 8th of November also second day back at work and still on sickleave but only 50%. Spinning brain and dizzyness is my common feeling when I get tired from all the noises at work [I mean it would be kind of wierd if the kids didn’t make noises, I do work in a school]. But with fatigue symptoms and spinning brain, my brain can’t cope with high noises, which it’s a lot of in this generation of kids. And the only thing that really works as medicin is sewing 🧵😊.
So, after work on Friday the 8th, I got home 1.30 pm and made my coffee and had a need of sewing but didn’t really know what to sew. Two weeks ago I got a huge bag of second hand clothes from a friend, maybe I could upcycling something from that bag? So I looked through and I knew I had hot several pairs of old jeans. Maybe I could upcycle a pair of jeans into a warmer skirt? That became my goal. 😊.
I didn’t know how long – how many hours I needed to sew to get my brain ” back to non spinning situation “. So I just did what I always do when I sew. I make it on the way – how it will look like. My main focus was to use as much wool fabric as possible but I also wanted colours. And if I could, colours closer to the nature.
I was sewing 🧵 for 6,5 hours on Friday 🤩.
Saturday 9th, I started where I left it. Need to unpick a back pocket, because I wanted to used it an other place on the skirt.
Here is the skirt after 7 hours of sewing on Saturday 😉.
Sunday morning the 10th, trying it on, I realised I need more colours in the front. I found some ocra yellow wool fabric 🤩, and I don’t like things symetric as most people 😆😆 so I made it very me 😆😆😊.
I have just been listening to my favourite online Church, Elevation Church, and the title of the service; God can use this too.
Here are some things I got from the preaching;
Creativity is not defined by how many ideas you have, Creativity is defined by how you implement the ideas you have.
As Christians, what distinguishes our Christian faith from those who do not have faith is not necessarily the things that happen to us. it’s not necessarily even the things we hear in Church. It is our ability to take those things that happen to us and do something with them that will be fruitful and productive.
One way to be creative.
The more painful the event is, the greater the opportunity for God to show his creative power. See, God is not creative; he is creator. Creative people can take something and make it into something. God can create something from nothing.
” God can use this too “.
The Creator God lives in you.
God’s creation.
God prefer that you use wisdom as you’re living your life, but if you don’t use wisdom, God is so big and so good and so amazing that when you don’t use wisdom, God will use stupid. (That’s a place to praise him right there.)
Stop and think.
What have God done in your life, from what you think on in a stupid decision?
Use wisdom.
When you don’t use wisdom, God uses stupid. When God use the wrong way.
Act 28:1
“Just because you didn’t choose it, doesn’t mean He won’t use it.”
The creative you are, the more constrictions will try to keep you from creating.
How God can use the situation you are in, into something you don’t see.
God knows how to use you in a certain way. “The snake bites because snakes bite, but God knows how to turn a snake into a sign.” The enemy always bites you, where God has blessed you. But, the biggest breakthrough happens after a bite. When I get bit,it is God working that hand he wants to use. (Act 28).
God likes to use snakes to heal Islands. The God that used Paul’s words also Paul’s wounds. Don’t be so quick to categorize the things in your life. You can never really understand what it is until you see how God sees it. There are some snakes that need to go back in the fire today. There is some beliefs… There is some things you have allowed to latch on to your life, that you just need to let go of in the presence of God.
If you stand there and fight about it, if you stand there and blame about it, if you stand there and hurt about it and hurt about it and hurt about it… Your hands were not made for hurting; they were made for healing.
I have been upcycling a sweater (that had spots that didn’t go away in the laundry). I have used woven wool and decoration. Decorations from jogging shoes and flames from an old cap 😉. Here us the process…
Here I had to figure out how high up the skirt needed to sit.
Needed tools during sewing.
Sewing pockets
Where shall the decorations sit?
Sewing the stitches on the sides.
Decoration band.
Tiny pockets are just on with pins. Trying to figure out where the best place for them are.
It took me approx 4 weeks from start to finish. Now I just have to wait on the Winter temperature 🤪😆🙈.
Re:jesus – The Word [what my church’s plan for two years from last August].
The Word provides nourishment. (Mattew 4:1-4)
The Word shape us. (Luke 6:46-49)
Jesus also pointing on the (Mattew 5:18) [Roman 8:15 – in this verse did today’s preacher, get his motivation and what was the start to find his identity in Jesus]
The Word is Living. (Hebrew ) The word give us everything no matter if we feel anything. The word isn’t dependant on what or how we react or feel. The word isn’t just for me alone.
“Do’s and Don’t’s “
Don’t do to much.
Don’t read just alone. (Very important to share and get word’s from other Christians)
It’s once again a new month! The first winter month. Today (October 2nd) is bright and chill with wind from the east.
07:40 am.
October is here 🤩 my second favourite month. Since last week I have had once again a need to just listen to encouraging and good music to or from work. It comes in waves for me. It feels like it is a bit to much going on around me. So for me ” to find back to myself ” I listen to instrumental heavy metal or worship. They are actually not to far away from each other music vice.
07:45 am waiting on the 2nd bus.
Then, when I get home I listen to audio book in an kind of other theme – cozy crime. Have my coffee and mostly (as you know) sew. Yesterday (Tuesday) was different. I took time to just sit in the couch and updated & deleted things, out here that can not be here.
It will be an other change in here something with more depth of creativity. How it will express itself I can not say. Because this is as new for me as it is for you to follow. ” A new era ”
I went to a workshop with two guest’s from US to IMI Church, yesterday evening (Monday September 30st). About creativityand being a Christian. A really interesting workshop! The Lord confirmed things for me and has started something new inside me.
I am curious on what HE has for me from now on. How to express my creativity. How to do what is me, my designe & calling God has put inside me.
I will do some changes, again. All good!
I just want to be able to write or sew, whatever the Lord put on my heart to do and share. I am curious on my new path in creativity. How the Lord can and will lead me how to use my gift’s.
I have withdrawn few posts as you might see if you following my blog. It’s all in the hands of the Lord ✝️.
It’s Sunday and this weekend is the Open Sky (Åpen Himmel) . My first since I moved back in 2021. The weekend where we have toput Jesus in an other focus.
To get more encourage to search.
Psalm 42 :
Testimony from different people in Church that has been here this weekend;
How can we feel the longing of more of the Lord?
The scary part of not longing is the fact of ” that we rather following the society’s fashion and selfhelp ” and that is the opposite of what the Lord wants for us. The Lord want us to read or listen more to the word. He wants us to search different, to search with a longing for something new.
How can we as a Church stay awake in this time? Live close in prayer!
A picture of when the air around you isn’t good enough: A tent for one or two persons and it’s more than those persons. The air in the tent is too bad! You just want to open the zipper. And when you do,get out of the tent, you can breath the heavenly air.
➡️For me this uncommon service got to me through the theme they had as the decorations, the umbrellas in the ceiling, in combination of to search different and how we can use our creative gifts both for searching and exploring more of the Lord.
What I have in my head now on my way home (in the bus) is how can I be longing for more in my life? How can I whom already struggle to read the bible longing for more? And how can I implement that in my life? This is my questions. What are yours?
How can we improve more of God in our life so that our lifes get an other meaning? How can we improve our already so hectic life, that society forces us to have, and yet feel more from our Lord. This is something I am curious to try to have focus on.
I have started again to workouts at home and adding an app, the same app I had two years ago 😊. My goal is to build up my core muscles and be in a better shape to both have the strength and energy to actually go to a gym and do what I like, get a positive kick off and can afford now and that finally works for my coxxy after 1,5 years after the accident 😊.
I am so thankful that after 1,5 years of resting my coxxy I have got to the point where I can start exercising again. That is happiness for me. 😊
Saturday the 21st became an other really good day both with energy and with the weather. I woke up to a temperature of +13 degrees Celsius just before 9 am with a sun that was on the way up. No alarm clock that wanted my attention either 😊. The radio was sat on 09:15 am 😆, how could I know the night before that I wouldn’t sleep more than just the normal amount 😆 but I did. Six and a half hours that’s me, almost every night except if I am sick.
I had coffee and oats for breakfast, and was wondering while eating if I should rent a car or just check with a friend who lives nearby. I did call her and we helped each other.
Visiting 2ndhand stores to give away things we just needed to give away.
We drove to Sandnes, even though my though was to borrowing a car, so I could buy what I have been needed since I started my work this August. And plants for my terrace and household stuff that just become to much to bring back home alone 🤪😅!
Shopping in Sandnes.
After my efficiency in Sandnes we drove to Våland suburb in Stavanger, to a flea market in Våland school. Where I found and bought 3 paper collectors in wood, 2ndhand, 3 for 15 nok = bargain! And we met up with an other friend we have in common 😊.
I got home around 3 pm and the first thing I did after just putting everything I bought just inside my front door, was to plant the flowers in the empty pots 😊.
I sowed the seeds in july, they started to come up in mid august but still haven’t flowered.
Then I made a good strong cup of coffee 😊 and whileI I was waiting on it to finish I took a ice cold head shower to cool down my head 😊😆. And started to paint the paper collectors while I made dinner and a friend texted me.
Painting in the couch, with dinner in the oven. So I just had to turn on my fan and sit out on my terrace chill down 😆😆😅. Out there I finished painting my bargain ( of the 3 paper collectors ) and because we ha +20 ° Celsius at 7 pm, the paint dried fast 😊 and I could even paint-write the text for each collector.
… and all 3 for my sewingroom…
Some more resting in the couch (dizzyness and a light heatstroke 🤪) watching some telly before I had to go to the grocery store. And when I did, it was suddenlyfoggy!
And it wasn’t better when I walked back home 30 min later 😆😅 but cozy!
I literally didn’t see more than 20 meters ahead of me while walking 😆😅.
I tryed to take a picture of the Moon, a bit hard!It’s the same moon in different places along the way home. Past 10pm.
SILVER; My Birthday boy would have been 10 years today 💙🐈⬛🎉🎉🎉💙. And it’s been 5,5 months since I let him fall asleep and never wake up again 💙💞💔🐈⬛. Always loved. Always with me.
So thankful for the time I got with him 😍💞🐈⬛💙
Today’s pictures.
After work I managed to both do some grocery shopping and sew a bit while I made dinner 😊. Yet my brain is heavy and have a hard time to relax right now 😔.
On top of this I started my day with a doctor appointment 😊 for increased hotflushes and side effects 😔…
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