SPRING CLEANING

It is spring in the air and I have been cleaning house all morning. Husband is working outside, cleaning the pool and make the pots ready for spring flowers. I had a little break for coffee and knitting

On my needles now is a sweater for myself for next winter. Very easy project with thick wool yarn on big needles.
 Hope that this winter is over now, we even had snowflakes in the air on Wednesday.

The birdhouse is still vacant

The pool looks nice in the sun

Here is the bluebonnets coming

This is my little store  "Hanne's butikk" the things you see here are all for sale in my store, hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by and thank you very much for all the nice comments, I realy appreciate it!

Have a wonderful spring week!

BEAUTIFUL QUILT

I just have to show you this beautiful quilt that came here last week. Again it is my friend back home who has made this one, isn't it just georgeous? I will bring it over to my "quiltinglady" to be machine quilted.  The quilt is a Paula's design. When I first came to Houston we were in the same quilt group, I have several of her designs to show you later. Now Paula has her own quilt company, "Bonnie Blue Quilts".

With some help from Anne-Grethe,  I am now experimenting with my photos. Also the same lady had done some baking on her blog, and I got inspired. She lives far up north in Norway and she is planning a trip here to Houston for the quiltfestival this fall.

A nice week end is over, and I have relaxed with alot of good magazines, just for me

The red table cloth is done and I am very pleased with it, it looks great with red and white dishes

Have a wonderful week, stay warm!

SUNSHINE

This week is nearly over and I have been planning to blog since Sunday..... Every day has started with something unexpected, but hopefully everything is back on track now.

The sun is back and on Sunday we went for a long walk around a lake. It is a so called "man made" lake, I remember when it was nothing here, but fields and wild rabbits, now it is a new neighborhood.

I finished my bag, but I am not happy with the fabrics and some new ones are already out, maybe I will like them better, if you like it, let me know...

The long socks are still on hold, and here is a little  little sweater I knitted this week. The yarn is  100% "Baby Llama", very soft and nice

I need a new tablecloth to match the red and white dishes and these fabrics will become a new one, maybe this week end.

Homebaked bread made this week. Have a nice Friday!

COLORS.....

It is still cold and grey here and we needed some colors. It is not a good time to visit Houston. Maybe it will be snowing tonight..

A good way to add colors in the day is to dye  some yarn, and the little ones have fun with running and crawling after me when I am lining the yarn up between two chairs, one in the kitchen and one in the dining room.
We had a little glimpse of the sun while the yarn hang out to dry.

Then the fun starts to rewind all the yarn....

The three skeins look very nice in the end

Our little princess has been sick, we are glad she is feeling better now. Here she is this morning in a knitted dress that her big sister had when she was 1 year. I found it in the attic when we were home last summer, but unfortunately it has some wholes in it. I don't have the pattern because I don't think it was me that knitted it. I hope to get hold of the pattern to make a new one, it is such a pretty dress.

On our table we have a beautiful runner, made by a dear friend of us. It is a "Bareroots" design, and I have a few of their designs

look at the tiny appliqued leaves

Another friend has given me one stocking each Christmas, also from a  "Bareroots" pattern

I have made the bag, sewing machine cover and the bag, I love their designs.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Have a nice Valentine week end and stay warm!

A COLD WEEK END

This week end has been cold and grey, a good stay at home week end. 

I fixed the bag, as a few readers guessed, it was the handles that was sewn on wrong.

Now I think it looks great, you can see more pictures in my little shop

A new bag is started, this time one for myself. It was very difficult to choose fabrics. I decided on these Japanese fabrics that I bought back home in December.

More letters are made, now also in white, but that is hard to tell from this picture. Nice ribbons for a babygift, more in my store

In the mail this week, I got these catalogs from "Sandnes Garn". The ones for children has a lot of pretty things, specially for little girls.

But on my needles I have the worst, booring project ever, the long socks, I just have to continue them.... let's see if I can go another week without starting a new project..

Have a creative week and stay warm!

A creative day

I am lucky to start my day with these two happy faces, they love water!

This morning was perfect for dying some yarn, look at these wonderful colors

outside to dry

My newest thing is to decorate letters, I use silver spray paint. They are nice for decorations on the shelf or the wall, I have alot of different ribbons, pink and blue ones for the babies room...

I managed to finish this bag before the end of my Monday, when I finally sat down to watch my favorite tv show and got my knitting out, I looked at the bag and realized that I have done a big mistake, can you see what it is?

Well, tomorrow is another day.... have a good one...

More from our travel

Dubai is under constant construction and alot of the buildings are amazing, this is the building across from the Burj Khalifa (the worlds tallest building)

This is the bridge crossing the man made lade below the Burj

Have you ever been to Las Vegas and been impressed by the dancing fountains in front of the Bellagio hotel? Here at the lake below the Burj they have dancing fountains show every evening, and it is eight times better than the LA one... The Burj is on the left.

Here you can see cars that you never have seen before

A new airport where are we flying next?

Oman here we come. The harbor in Muscat

In front of the Palace of the Sultan

Exhausted little girl...

We visited the souk and looked at Omani silver

A typical old Omani house

It has taken many days to get over the jet lag, it is 10 hrs time difference! 17 hrs non stop flight back to Houston with two little ones...... well, it is not fun....

Today I took my hexagons out and enjoyed the sun, I have also spray painted.....