I got inspired from work where the pulpils in 7th grade going to start a upcycling project this week (week 5 of 2024). My udea started three weeks ago and I have used as much time as I have been able to use. Evenings and weekends, when I have been well, sewing together pa5ches to bigger patches. I have got so far now, that I can finally start to cut the pattern 😍🧵✂️.
Here is the pictures from the start;
January 10th.
January 11th.
January 12th.
January 14th & 16th.
January 29th.
Getting closer. January 29th.
Easter24
During this Easter I managed to get sewing machine oil on the just finish pants 🤪 …
…so than it was to pick up the area of the pants.
My type of Art
I have now been able to use them at work (finally) this last week. And they are my very much favourite pants! The benefits of sewing my own wardrobe is to sew clothes that fits me. With leg length of 91cm (35,82 inch) I struggle to find pants that are long enough and nit to lose in my waist.
It started good, okay temperature at 7 o’clock am with 🌡+14°C (don’t know Fahrenheit). Woke up 06.10am and had just enough time to to morning things and head out to work 07.30am 😊😊. With my Birthday cake in my hands.
Though caring it I had it in a bag to protect it from mostly sunlight.
Even if the temperature was the best for me I had a good birthday! 🌥⛅️☀️ and the highest temperature so far! +23°C
Family members who called 😍. Approxy 75 greetings on social media.
A bit lonely… but okay.
The day after started with a cancellation of an appointment. So than I had to come up with something I wanted to do as something funand exploring, an adventure! Now when the temperature actually fit me 😆😊 with only +18°C .
So I walked down hill to one of the nearest busstop, a 15 min walk if you walk fast, I used my time and walked a bit slower than normal 😊😆.
On this map the path that takes 16 min.
Catch one bus to the train center area. Bought something to eat on the way, because I know myself I can’t get hungry (than my eating disorder kicks in), Catch the second bus and walked approxy 12 min to my adventure – a garden centre.
Made a bargain 😍😍 10 pot’s for 200nok 😍😍, the smallest cost 40nok before half price and the bigger cost 80nok before. I also bought 2 Spanish Gerbia.
Spanish Gerbia and pot’s.
That I’ve just planted (when I got home an hour ago) .
Happy with my adventure, pot’s and flower’s. Now it starts to look like the wish I had in my head for my terrace, when I moved here in October 23. 😍
2023 wasn’t a good year of driving after my fall backwards at work in January 😐😒. I tryed to drive but had a lot of pain sitting for more then one hour. And then I was on sickleave in May. Moved in October… Been working or been sick this fall. But I am planing to finish everything with this driving license in 2024. I have a goal 😉 and I am motivated!
February2024. I had my first private driving the 3rd of February, first in10months! It went okay. I know what I need to practice on. I need to get a better flow while I’m driving. I need to feel comfy in and before a roundabout! As bigger the roundabout is as more freaking out I get. This hasn’t been an issue before… which I dislike a lot now!
April-24. I contacted my old and first driving school here in Stavanger and asked them about the last mandatory level and when it was possible to start that? Took a driving lesson April 22nd, it went well.
Meantime my plan is to drive as much as possible private until the practical driving test. The 4th and last mandatory level getting closer 🤩.
I have been blessed with tax money to complete the 🚘driver’s license 😊😊 and because of that I will start on the last mandatory level in May 10th 🤞😊.
Sixweeks has past since I let Silver-boy fall asleep and never wake up again here on earth. And it is a bit hard to understand it has past 6 weeks! Yet that’s the facts. I am thankful for work and that I have got more hours as a substitute teacher. And actually got the responsibility for more classes in Art&craft, planning and contact with the teachers for those classes and the fact I’ve been throwing in to the goal and grade targets and criteria for the three grades. Somethings I love more and more.
It’s interesting how the Lord has guided me into this subject and this school! I’ve been working in the school for 6 years now and it isn’t until this year I have understand what the Lord have been trying to tell me🤣🤣. Yet I am thankful for most of my experience to know where or where not I want to work or with what!
Drawing class outdoors, Friday 12th.
Teaching the 5th graders to make an apron. Planing, writing and drawing a pedagogic pattern for them to understand.
Those last two days (April 13th) have I also been able to sew 😊 first time since the 25th of March without backpain. And that is happiness.
Here is the results of 2 pair of jogging pants became 1 pair. I’ve used the backside of both pair.
I continue to take one Day at the time, I still talking to Silver like he was here, but not as often now as in the start, which I think is a good process. Because of more work hours I am glad Silver is in heaven and that the Lord watching over him when I am at work and that I don’t do have a bad conscience if Silver was home alone (as I have written about before). I am thankful for life and what the Lord has in plan for me and my future!
Out of focus picture of nature.
This is also a blessing in the way that it is just about me and that Silver-boy is in heaven. If Silver-boy had been here and sick on treatment I wouldn’t been able to both finish the driving license and pay for Silver’s treatment. I see more and more positive things being single without a pet. It might sound harsh but for me ut is a blessing.
In memory of Silver, the cat that learned tricks 💙, this picture is from 2019-21.
💙🐈💙 One of my first driving when I past the practical driving test will be “with Silver’s cat-cage” on the car and just drive somewhere because I promised him that 😊💙🐈💙.
Those last weeks has also learn me how the silence is good to communicate with the Lord. To think out loud. To reflect on all good things that has happened in life with Silver and how I managed to live without a pet before I got Silver. Where and when and how I have enjoyed my life with and without Silver. And this helps me to grab around the facts of how I want to live forward 😊.
The first day I felt propper happiness again was April 4th working withthe7th graders doing really good work (12 day’s without Silver). I can’t say I have smiled every day after the 4th but I have felt more and more positive thoughts and being creative at work or at home helps a lot and is one kind of happiness for me.
I have since I layed down Silver, been sewing so much more 😍😍. The latest was the wool coat – separat post. But it didn’t last long 😆😆 yesterday – April 30st – I started on yet a new dress.
I am sure I have ADHD. I have always had an issue to be still, had a hard time to concentrate and stayed focus from age 7 ‐ when I started school. I started to climb on high things in an age of 3,5 years, like loos book shelfs, house roof, the tallest tree etc.
School wasn’t hard itself but to sit still 40-60 minutes. OMG that was hard. To run around or bicycling that was both fun and good for me!
Why am I writing about this now? Well reasonly I have realised how often I start on something at home and than start on a second or third or fourth thing all in an hour or two 🤪. I have always known I had it. Never been examed by a doctor and actually got the diagnosis. But I also learned to live with it.
An other thing is how good structure and good routines work for me at work. Or how I can relate to a pulpils with the same type of hyperactive brain and never being in the moment and recieve a message. Because you stop to listen because you already have to much things you are thinking of 🤪.
To be creative helps me to focus it helps my brain to relax and not be super hyper. I would say that the way I use “my medication” helps my brain to stay focus when I need it. It helps me to concentrate and relax. I found my method to cope with ADHD when I was around 17 years old. So now approxy 30 years later I still use the same method. I do get a bit tired on myself especially if I am Hungary then I can start doing to many things 🤪🤪 because I need food…
I have had some challenges this week (April 19th) as a substitute teacher in art&craft! With pulpils who isn’t motivated to learn new things or repeat something they’ve learned two years ago… So for my brain that’s challenging! How do I get them motivated when my brain needs to be creative to learn?
The last two weeks have I had one main sewing project. The wool coat. Upcycling and redesigning it to become more me and my style. I am not done yet but here are the process.
The wool coat. Picking up all seams on the pillow case. Trying out how it will look. Needling up the fabric. Sewed this part.Sequins… sewed it on my sewing machine and broke 3 sewing needle’s 😆😆😆Hand stitching the inside of the collar. Picking up the seam on the coat arm, a bit to short for me.Hand stitching it during 2 hours April 27th. Finished the hand stitching on the arm length.
Today’s task will be;
To sew this so approxy 1cm is visible for the eye and the rest covered when it’s not in use.
This last picture is the back side of the wool coat.
I hope I will be able to hand stitch the left arm length part today (April 28th). I haven’t decided if I am going for plain black or plain purple fabric from the pillow case yet.
I will hand stitch the loose decorations on the sholder. Here are what I did before I went to sleep yesterday (April 27th) ;
One with fabric and the other plain black Or should I have sequins on the other?
I was thinking to do something on those two too… but I think it’s to much work.
April 20th. April 21st.April 22nd.April 24th.April 27th.
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April 28th. The tree straight ahead just sprang out during this night! The one to the right yesterday. It’s getting more and more green leaves outside my window 😊
Maximum bad luck today (Saturday April 20th) when I was finally going to ride the electric scooter today at about 11:40. Didn’t get further than just before the bridge ‘Strømsbrua’ 🤪🤣.
My own fault. I was looking to the left, and there was the post. Bang, straight into the post. A lady stopped her car when she saw me sitting on the ground. Came over to check on me. She called 113 (911) and both she and I talked to medical people. I got a cut on my temple and it’s bleeding. Hit some other places too. Got a migraine from the bang/crash. Had medicine taken. At the emergency room now.
Life has started to become less painful and I have started some new routines that helps the rest of the day to go easier 😊💕. I still say “good night” in the evenings and “I’m awake” in the mornings to Silver-boy 💕 and I think I will do that for some time.
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But I have started to smile again and feel so grateful and thankful for those 8 years I got with him 💕. So many good and fun memories with him. 😊.
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As time flies I am lucky to be able to work as a teacher in art&craft because of sickleave in in those classes. And I am working 100% at least this week (8th to 12th of April). I am responsible for the planing of the classes and motivation in the classroom. I also have the theoretical classes in art&craft too in 5th grade. And here I learn a lot myself 😊.
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I now know this is my future. I finally know “what I will be when I grow up”. The apple 🍏 doesn’t fall far from the tree 🌳, 😆😆. What does that mean for you, well my mother was a teacher for 40 years! I will never be able to be a teacher for that long! But the fact that I finally have figured out what I want to do, means that I will walk in my mothers footsteps of becoming a teacher. Something I have denied for many years 😆😆.
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I have started to smile again and life is getting easier each day 💕.
Easter -24, re-planting seeds.I got a surprise outside my door, this Easter egg with candy 🍬.
I pulled myself together and forced myself to have enough energy to re-plant my seeds today even if my sad back really didn’t want it. I managed to split all my growen seeds into 20 smaller pot’s 🤩
I’ll grow them indoors until the weather here are more stable with warmer weather. I don’t have a clue if it will be in April, May or June.
I also had my first cup of coffee out on my terrace yesterday (March 30th) even if it wasn’t sun where I sat it was☀️ sunshine 😊 and (!) 🌡+11 °C 😊 some wind but hey it’s always wind here 😆😆.
My self drawing pattern trying to figure out how big/small baby size 62 are🤪
Same pattern on an other fabric.
The arm part, tiny!
I have tryed to find the right size of how big /tiny the pattern of size 62 would look like to on a baby dress. Interesting, frustration, annoying and fun all in the same time 🤪.
I have done things like I normally did before this season and before I lost Silver. Even talked to Silver every day like I did when he was alive and it helps to get through the day’s. I have, I think, kind of find new routines. It’s kind of hard to know because it will not be the same after the Easter break. But hopefully it will help me to the next break – holiday season.
After the Easter break I am back to work and then I have to figure out what I’ll do after work that will be new routines. Maybe I’ll sew more now when I don’t need to be social with my cat… Maybe the day’s will look like they did with Silver.
Whatever happens I am thankful for the love from the Lord and friends.
I am hoping I’ll have more energy to do things that gives me positive energy like exercise, walks, Church things or sewing or meet new people. Mostly I won’t feel guilty for not being home with Silver and that makes me glad becauseIhavehad a lot of vad guiltforhim being home alone 😔.
I know I will be able to travel again later when my financial will be better without feeling guilty.
I just came home after a good talk with the Lord nearby the seaside three minutes walk down hill from where I live. A talk about everything that has happened. About how thankful I am for life. About my future. How greatful I am for being a child of God. How the Lord cares for me and how He helps me to find new paths and routines!
About my lost of my cat, how much I miss my cat boy yet can see that I needed him in this 8 year period of life. Silver’s way to show that he care for me during this time 💙🐈💙. How the Lord has helped me through other tough periods and not left me to myself ✝️
This talk made me realise how much I need to push myself to walk down to the water and take the opportunity to talk to the Lord. Because I know it helps my brain. ✝️❤️
Windy sea side, standing and talking loud with the Lord, 9pm, March 29th.
Quite windy but oh so lovely!
To clear my brain and breath the sea air! Love it and I needed it.
Quite windy evening. But SO lovely!
Before the talk, I’d just been to Church on a Good Friday service something I really needed. Both to be reminded of what the Easter is all about but also the worship.
From one of the songs during the service. No Love is Higher. No Love is Wider. No Love is Deeper. No Love is Truer.
They showed parts from the movie (that has become my “Easter movie”) and between the movie parts of how Jesu died on the cross they had songs related to the movie.
An other song. "The path you went, the cross you bare and the path you got..."
The story about the crusified in the movie and how the worship connected to the song “Crucified, laid behind the stone, you lived to die…”. Just to sing those words and God gave me even more peace inside me ❤️✝️. I really needed this service.
I went, even if I this morning woke up with a locked back and had to roll out of bed. Even if I have spent all the day in my couch. I went to Church. Because I wanted it so much.
I have not been to Church for a very long time. Something I miss a lot! So to actually go, with back pain, was so good and so needed! And I will force myself to do it more and to the 11 o’clock service even if I have back pain. Because if I could do it tonight I can do it other times!
I don’t feel happy or sad. I feel wistful like someone has cut something off. I feel empty. But I am grateful for the 8 years I got with Silver and all the good memories. It helps to talk to him as if he hears me ❤️.
I am thankful the Lord is with me in this situation, I wouldn’t be able to go through this alone! ✝️
It’s now all about to make new routines and find out how my life without Silver will look like… but I am not alone on this path 🙂✝️💞
I am grateful for the peace I have in me. I have hope for the future to become better ❤️. I just need time and look on what kind of priorities I am going to make.
Reposting some pictures from the years I got with Silver 💙🐈💙. See you in heaven my boy 💙🐈💙
Which in the start of Easter isn’t the easiest but I will try my best. It is the small things I miss the most with Silver. The small-talk, like giving him raw meat (in tiny pieces) when I cook and that he was always home.
He is in Cat-heaven 💙 now. And I have peace with that.
For me it’s more the fact “okay I am not just single I am alone again”... I have friends but they don’t live “next door” I need my licence and a car to be able to be more flexible to meet them. I might need to find new friends again…
I know it is a lot of benefits in my “new” life in what I can do, plan and try. Yet the life with license will be even more flexible and I am not there yet… but 🤞 not to far away 🤞.
I did plant some flower seeds today 😊
and helped an “old” plant with new pot and new soil.
I hope I will be able to use my terrasse this summer 🤞🤞🤞 with the door open.
I will catch up with a friend tomorrow (March 25th) I haven’t seen since last summer… busy time for both of us because we both work in a school. And I will pick up a package of new shoes 😍😍 after. I will try to catch up with my own sewing 🤪
After some days with breathing difficulties and periodes off and on did I call the wet today. Got an appointment 12:30pm. I was lucky to have a friend who could drive us. Silver was good in the car, talked a bit mostly in the tunnels – logical – he never liked tunnels. But he didn’t have a problem to be in a car as long as I was next to him in his cage. 💙🐈💙.
Got to the wet. 12:38. Checked his breathing. The wet saw the same as I’ve seen, how hard it was for him to get enough air into his lungs. It was hard to wait and see what it could be… Took a X-ray around 1:30 pm.
This was the result…
When I saw the X-ray it wasn’t hard for me to make a decision for his future. I did not want him to suffer more. I hold him in my arms after the first shot, – regrets I wasn’t with him right after the X-ray to calm him down – but just the fact I could hold him and calm him down, feel his breathing calm down when he was with me helped both me and him 💙🐈💙. I told him to sleep, that I was there with him, that I loved him so much, that we had good years. That I will miss him, continue talk to him for a long time. I said good night and that he could sleep now, that he will get to a better place without pain 💙🐈💙. I hold him for about ten minutes. Kissed him and showed him my love. A good memory I have in my mind now.
2016 – 2019, Oslo, Silver-boy.
What have happened and when is hard to say. But he is now in Cat-heaven with other cats he grew up with 💙🐈💙.
He came to me in April 2016 one and a half years old. He become my boy and has been like a child. He learned skills, learned to walk in leash 4 years old, he always waited on me after my workhours at the door or lately in the window where he could see me coming home 💙🐈💙. I have so many good memories with him 💙💙💙 therefore will it be so empty without him 💙💙💙.
Here is some pictures of my boy Silver.
March 15th 2024January 20242024 February February 20242022 Stavanger 2022 Ganddal b4 the move to Stavanger. Healthy boy in 2022.Adventure 2022With fever July22April 2022,patience to befriend a new cat. Summer 2021 Winter 2022Winter2021?September 2022 just moved.Hundvåg 2021Høvik Summer 2021 He loved those mat’s Or to sleep in my jacket in this chair 💙🐈💙.
He didn’t like when I went out to work, to the grocery store or just without him. He wanted me home or go for a walk. He was strong until this last month… how it happened will never be answered and that’s okay because he is in a much better place now.
Silver had so much patience with me ❤️and cared for me💙 in his way, showed his love to me by laying next to me in the couch or on the top of the couch 💙🐈💙. I love him and miss him so much…
2016 Oslo. Hundvåg 2021-222019-21, Høvik.2017, Oslo. 17th of May & playing with the flag.Loved dairy products. Waiting on the bed for me to come home. Helping me with sewing. Loved his walks with adventure. Oslo 2016 -2019. 2019-2021, Høvik. My favourite picture with him.His paw-prints 💙.
I’ve shown you pieces of what I have done on & with this shirt. Here comes it all.
The start, made the sleeves longer and wanted to add other cotton fabric in the between where the needles are on the put.
After some changes to make it look propper I had to find fabric that would work together not just with the cotton but both way’s. And here I’ve used the buttom part of a exercise top which the fabric is elastic and the bottom part is an old summer top with polyester fabric.
I needled it up with the inside out to make sure the folds on the cotton fabric turned out right. I haven’t used a pattern, just how I thought it would be easiest to do it.
Then I turned it inside in and the right side out. Took up all the needles one by one to get the fabric on the right side. The tricky part was fir sure the folds!
Sew the bottom piece on first and then the middle part.
Sorry for the background.
The very last part to do and sew is to make a band in the same fabric as the shirt and try to match the stripes 🤪 on the band with the shirt part. See next picture.
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.
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 boringgrey 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 😉
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…
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.
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.
November 2021, I started with the theory part of the driving license. Studdy roles and law’s for how to drive, trafic signs and what to not do as a driver. A bit more motivated this time and doing it all in Norway (never again in Sweden!). I was studdy for four months before I booked a date for the Theory test which you have to past before you can book a date for the driving test, but you also have to past 4 different levels of driving before you can book the driving test – insane if you ask me!!
I have until now (2022) taken, according to myself, to many driving lessons… Slowly I am getting closer, step by step to actually take the driving license.. But I have also past the 3 first levels I have to past so I am happy for that!!
*In Norway you need to past a the theory exam and the driving school has manny moments that are mandatory to take and past before you can do the license test. It’s expencive and much more complicated than manny other countries.
I’ve been taking driving lessons since February 22, a gap of 3 weeks in July becauce of the Summer holiday here. Had one driving lesson in the end of July. Non in August becauce I were working long day’s. September22 came and I found a new driving school closer to home. And a co-worker told me that *passing the theory exam in Norway means that you have 3 years(!) untìl the time runs out to clear the driving test. That helps a lot for me, not that my goal got further away. It just helps becauce I can’t stress or be pushed (stress symptoms brain) and becauce of my work scheduel.
October cameand I finally had my first private peactical run with one of my work leaders. But I did the compulsory first aid course and passed 🤩🤩. November23rd had I the mandatory dark driving and past. 🤩🤩.
December 6th, I had my first normal driving lesson with the new driving teacher to check my status of “how far have I got and how much do I have left?” The nxt mandatory part is the legendary slippery course including theory of how we drive on slippery roads and winter roads. I past that too 😅.
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.
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!
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.
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”.
In 2009, living in Norway and earning good money, I wanted to “pick up” my driving school project. So I contacted a driving school in Sweden near by the border, Karlstad so it wouldn’t be so expensive to get there and back.
It started good and I learned fast. Had to take some extra driving lessons in the city area cause I hated to driving in a city and had not so much experience of it. I had been driving with my mother for years and new most of those roads back and forwards ^^haha^^. But driving in a city center with my mother wasn’t fun so I didn’t choose that if I could.
So in 2009, I just had to do it. But with a good driving teacher I fixed it. 🙂 I got so far in the whole “project” that I was signed up to do the written test – the Theory test – but then suddenly the Tax authorities of Sweden said “NO you can’t, because you haven’t lived in Sweden for the past 6 months”.This was wierd for me, cause I knew other people had done the same thing and were aloud to do everything. I was frustrated. So everything I had done felt like I just throwen everything out in the thin air. I was upset, frustrated and sad. I was so close to finish what I started ten years back. Bureaucracy.
So I said “Fine. I put this on the shelf to the Lord and He will show me when it time.”
In 2019 – ten years later – my father told me he had been digging in this issue and told me the Tax Authorities had been wrong oversteped their own rules. Can you understand how much more frustrated I felt then???? At this point I just didn’t want to do a thing more about this license. This has become one of the reasons towards Sweden why I really don’t want to be a citisens of Sweden anymore I am sick of all the lies they tell people.
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!
mia-simone. svenberg 