The materials.
The shape of the old one.
Iron on seam tape on the raincoat fabric.
Rain cover to my 2 backpacker.
Tag: Fun
“Why not just move the shelf?”
Then I thought “why not move the shelf” from the livingroom (where it anyway just was filled up with things) to the sewing room where I can use it for a purpose of sewing stuff?!? So I did! 😍
My sewing ✂️📍room is taking the form and with the colours I want. It is still some storage I need and shelfs on the wall or floor-storage. I need to buy colour 🟠🧊🖌🎨 and it all will take time – becauce it needs to feel right. And I am not in stress, and I don’t like to rush and I’m not rich. And this is my project right now & to make sure I have fun while doing it.
[The best time for me to write in this blog is whole I am listening to a preaching from Elevaton Church online.]
This room will have a wibe of orange & turquoise 🤩 the colours that have become two motiovation colours for me to be even more Creative.
23rd of December-22.
Words from the Lord.
Be creative and enjoy the time! Do things you get energy from! Don’t let other people stop you.
Trondheim, Wedding and Vaccation 2022.
What a crazy trip 🤪🤪 13 hours all together! Yes I will tell you everything about it.
I went out of my door at 12.30pm June 29th to catch the local bus to catch the shuffle bus. Realizing the 🌡 is +26° ☀️☀️ and nearly no wind = 🥵🥵🥵🥵 for me. Got the first heatstroke waiting on the shuffle bus 🥵🤪🤢🤯.
…eventually got to the airport 13.30pm ish. Needed water, suger and than past the security control. No issues there.
The first tunnel out to the airplane was so so hot 🥵🥵 second heatstroke, not as big, hit me. (I wish I had a diagnose so people could understand me better). I sat with the AC on the whole way to Gardemoen to cool down once again.
Arrived /landed to Gardemoen 17.20/ 17.30pm, tryed to find my gate. Needed to cool down again, my head was boiling 🥵🥵🥵 from the heatstroke. I walkeded back and forth pasting gates and restaurants, tired, hungry and dizzy. Just wanted to eat, but nothing I liked… Ended up at a kiosk with a mix of a sandwich and a pizza. Warmed up as a pizza. After the pizza-sandwich I went to nearest wc to cool down my boiling head. Maybe 10 minutes later a good strong double espresso/americano. 😊
And the waiting at Gardemoen was planned to 3,5 hours which was long enough for me in this heat. But my flight got delayed with even 55min more 🤪🤪🤪
The Lord gave me patience to not freakout.
At Støren train station m6 newest mother in law came and saved me 🤩🤩 from this super long day 🤪🤪. 00.10am. We drove to my sister in law’s house and arrived 01.22am (the 30st)
(I really nead a driving license!!)
Me and my sister in law were up to 03am 🤪🤪 talking. I found the bed, slept good and woke up the nxt day ready for helping out with the decoration for the Wedding party the 1st of July. The weather was much better for me this Friday (June 30th) 🌡⛅☁️🌧 +20°C .
The last hour before we actually could go home, I stumbled, landed on my right sad knee, which got even more sad 😖🤪, swollen and sore.
Saturday 1st of July = Wedding day and party in Trøndelag, Haltdalen Church and Wedding party at Nordpå fjellhotel.
Sunday 2nd of July, delayed 50th party for my brother (who got married yesterday), for his exame (I think to become a preast) and my sister in law’s 35th birthday, with friends and family.
The evening was less stressful, less people and more enjoyable for me. I could pack, relax infront of the “telly” , I sat out in the garden for an hour cause it was to warm indoors for me 😆😆.
Monday July 4th. Traveling day.. woke up 07.30am. Got my coffee. Got ready to catch the bus towards Trondheim, which before I left home had planned to walk “all day” but becauce of the stumble on Friday wasn’t an option.
0900 am on the bus to Trondheim. 11.10 am in Trondheim, but I got off the bus to early 🤪🤪😆😆. On the other hand I got to walk in an aera I never seen before and I walked over a bridge, past the famous #Nidarosdomen , got into the city and found my way to Espressohouse. Bought me brunch and sat down for an hour 😊😊
Walked around with my suitcase and tryed hard to not walk so fast cause of my knee…
Approxy 2.40pm I found the bus stop for the shuffle bus, waited for a bus to arrive to be sure. Why, well it was some bus stops that were closed for the Summer… but I couldn’t sit there and wait, no benches 😔. Went to the nearest food store to buy some candy & gum.Walked in the shadow, didn’t want an other heatstroke, found a park. Sat down for approxy 45min in the shadow 😊😊, 🌡☀️+26°C that day… 🥵🥵🥵.
Went back to the shuffle bus stop. Waiting on the bus.. got to the airport (4.45?pm) 😊😊 dizzy, need of suger, ate some & drank some water, switched cloths b4 the security control. Depature time 19.50 pm
Gardemoen 20:40pm
From Gardemoen it was planned to departure 21.15 pm but no it got delayed there too 🤪🤪 the good thing for me was, it wasn’t as hot at the airport as on Thursday.
We were finally in the air 22.48pm. Now was just the question if I would reach the very last night shuffle bus back into Stavanger city for me to catch my last bus out to my suburb?!? We did arrive 23.50pm and you all know arriving doesn’t mean out of the airplane. Luckly I only had a cabin suitcase. I forced myself out of the airplane to be able to catch the last shuffle bus. 0.13 am I steped onboard 😊 HaPPy. Asked the driver what time we would be at the bushub, and he said 0.50 am. I asked friends who I knew could be awake, to pray that I would be able to catch my bus. I did. I locked up my housedoor at 01.20am exhausted in both body & brain.
The Lord was with my all the way. No doub! Eveey time I started to freak out He showed his love & peace. I made it becauce of Him.
…a week later, is more yellow than any other colours. I sat in my couch at home for a week becauce the leg was so sore…
35th Birthday again 😉
Pictures from my Birthday the 3rd and the continuing celebrating the 4th of May, waiting on and being with friends.
😍
Baking the cake the 2nd of May to my collegues.
Picking wood anemone with some students on my Day to the Basar we had at the School.
On my way back home, I past those beautiful “new born buds”.
A Birthday gift, gift card, cinema ticket 😍
4th of May.
In Oslo, the National Theatret place, eating a ice cream waiting on my friends.
…the National Theatret place…
At my friends place.
Birthday dinner.
Gift and ☕ and 🎂.
Happy Birthday to me 🎉🎈🎉
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg.
Colorexperimenting without chemicals at home.
How often do you think “can I color at home without chemicals?” Like old day’s. Or how do I do it?
I’ve been on Google searching for this. I found out that one way to figure it out is to actually try by your self. Just remember to ad 1 spoon of salt when you boil it! I boiled each color for minimum 20 minutes.
I wanted to find out if I could coloring at home without chemicals mostly because I know the chemicals isn’t good for me, the fabric or the environment.
I chosed to try red onion
I can’t say it colored much but it was white before.
Saffron ..
Green tea…
Curry …
Coffee-beans and filter coffee ..
Remember to ad 1 spoon of salt when you wash it afterwards and together with similar colors in the machine.
Have fun!
/Mia-Simone.Svenberg
New apartment – New projects.
New apartment – New projects.
Since I moved in in my new apartment have I collected the kind of furniture’s I want to use, re-paint and just fix. I have decided to keep my interior in four colors. Brown, Purple, Turquoise and Black mostly because I have white walls and want to have warm colors.
So when I moved in I placed an old couch which is brown in the living-room-corner I made, and started to paint my dining-table chairs… I wanted a contrast to the white table and the white walls. I tried on one chair and liked it, so now I on the finish-line of purple chairs.
From my old apartment I had three pallet’s outside which I now using as a couch-table and they are also painted purple to match the chairs. One of the pallet was black last year (outside) the second pallet I had pinned a red plastic carpet, for protection of the rain, this I ripped off.
Both pallets are now purple, the next step is to buy roller wheels to get up the table a bit, and to vacuum the easier underneath. And I have turquoise cushions, a good harmony.
Next step in this projects is to sew cushion covers in turquoise, black and purple so everything is matching. It’s okay for me to have various shades of a color. Get some green plants and paint the picture-frames I have. This project will not end today or next week, no this is something that will take some time as for most people, when you get settle in take some time. I guess I’ll might change some of the lights just so it fits the rest.
I saw a TV program few days ago where the interior guy said, a good thing to remember when you want to decorate your home is «1 form and different colors or 1 color and different forms» of the objects that will help the eye to see the total as one thing. And he is right. It is harder to see what is in the room when it to many colors and forms of the objects, you kind of get dizzy in your head, but if you get in to a room with matching forms or colors your head see «one thing» and your brain tells you «I like this» or «it’s harmony». It is so many homes where when you step inside just want to step out again as soon as possible just because of it is no sync.
Details….
One area at the time. Living-room and dining area now, hobby-room and bed area later. I guess it’s who I am…I like to fix and get it comfort and in one style to love it more and it is probably also because this is in my interest color and interior, furniture and make it «cozy at home» and a welcoming feeling for others.
So I’ll try to coop with this idea. But my home will have «bohemian style».
/Mia-Simone
Dreams – goals – visions – good night-dreams…
The word “dreams” means different things for each of us. For you it can be a goal to do something, a daydream, vision or a good night-dream. It says that “to dream” is good for the brain and if you are a creative person you mostly dream more.
I dream a lot during the night. Mostly its unrealistic. Doesn’t make sense. But I still do it. I guess my brain has a lot to work with maybe because I am quite creative and have lots of ideas rolling around.
Some of my dreams are true. Like the one I had in the winter off 2005. I was living in Småland on the east coast south of Stockholm, Sweden. There and then it was just one of this unrealistic dreams. I dreamed I was sitting in a garden, didn’t know where I were. It was at the terrasse on the backside of a white stone house. And it was lots of fruit trees there and cozy. I was living there. And to dream this, when it was winter where I were and that I got all the details was in my head “one of those weird dreams”.
Two and a half years later or more was I sitting in that garden. I was living there, as in the dream. Weird! One of the days in May I think it was. I went out on the terrasse and got this “weird feeling” of “I have been here before”. It was there and then I realized this was the dream I had in Småland in 2005.
Most of my dreams are unrealistic but I remember they all when I wake up, and with every little detail, conversation, colors, area, how things are build or the team. I could write it all down but I have never done it because I remember it. Its like my brain has its own life..and just need to work all the creative ideas through hard. Every little idea becomes so big during the night.
But I also have dreams about what I wanna do later in life. I dream about to be able to buy a small house in the forest of Värmland, Västergötland or Halland, in Sweden. To have my own place where I can escape or just go and be alone, to create, to get inspiration and to invite friends for holidays. Or the dream of an old farm-Barn which I would like to change into a workshop for my business. I’m not a big “day dreamer” in the sense of what we as kids most did.
And I have dreams that has become goals in life. Like the thing to get a job and be able to travel more. To see the world.
As most of the friends I have, they like to travel. I want that too! I have started to dream of places I didn’t think about ten fifteen years ago that I wanna see, like New York, Chicago, Boston, San Fransisco, Seattle, Canada and Alaska. Maybe parts of Asia like Thailand or the Philippines – countries that in my head are “to hot” for me just because I don’t really like to much sun. But who says I have to go there when its the warmest period for the season? When I actually can travel when it fits me.
I wanna start travel now before its to late in life. I want to travel for the wish my mom had all my life and she in the end never did because of other things in her life stopped her. I want to see and explore Europe instead of my mom. My mom said many times “When I retired I’m gonna see Europe”. One of her biggest wishes where to see Praha and Berlin. She never got to see those places because of my dad got more then one stroke and she needed to be home with him.
I wanna do this for her and I will keep dreaming of new places.
/Mia-Simone
Re-Sewing. Learning too sew in clothes & tighten. Fun. Good Results.
Long time since I wrote here.. But let me tell you what I have done the last month. I had those two skirts, I got them as kind of a gift few years back, they never fitted me, and I did not know how to do anything because of no knowledge about or in this area.. But I thought, if I rip up the seem, see how its done I guess I can do it. So that’s what I’ve done and I’ve been learning so many things on my own way / journey. 🙂 Those pictures is what I managed to do. The black is re-sewed and the red is needled up.
This skirt on the left side did I last year as soon as I could sew after my knee operation,
this year have I fixed what I didn’t like with my friend Janome. 🙂
I got a question from my dad if I could sew a skirt to my mama. In that phone call I said, no I can’t. So one of the reasons I’ll try everything in clothes right now is to be able to sew i skirt to mam. I am going to visit them this summer and I am thinking I should do it there. Take some extra day off just to be with mama and help her to find what’s fits her. In the mean time I just have to learn More. 🙂
Here is one of many “Zip Project” this is one of my favorite sweater. So if you have a sweater you like who doesn’t have a Zip, I can help you. 😉 Get a Cooler Sweater !Or if you have pants that you wanna do something else off let me know I we find out what will be best.
On the pic under, you found my pants that, was even from the beginning, short legs on, on me who are 6″ish. I thought I had given them away but found them in the storage and now I’ve got nice summer shorts to my sandals.
Last year was the year and the start with my own sewing machine. A lot to learn. But eager as I am I through my self on it. I have explored a lot of things I didn’t had a clue of and I still learning many things on my machine. Its like life learning just began. Interesting and a lot of Fun most the time !! I could give you more pics, but I’ll save some of them to the next blog post. As I said before, I am still a beginner in this. And write the best blog will probably never be me. I just wanna shear want I am learning and tell you that if you can’t sew and need some help I would love to help you !!
Thanks for any replay or questions .
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