Solveig has been busy! She’s home for the semester from Meredith college, here’s a few pictures from her sculpture class. First is a reading cat, carved out of soapstone Next is a self portrait bust made out of clay, the assignment was to not do a typical face and add something different to the emotion, …
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Solveig and I went to a cookie decorating event and Sonja made me Candy cane earrings. Dan is really enjoying his record player with the amps and speakers he built a while ago. His office is still in our dining room, but it works and we never …
It’s December! We’ve started Advent Calendars, which I do for the kids every year! When all 4 of them lived at home I bought a somewhat big LEGO set then sat down and split it up into 24×4 steps following the manual so that each day they’d build a little each and it would be …
Happy thanksgiving weekend- black friday-almost December! Last weekend our town had a Christmas tree lighting event with Santa! we went just at the right time to see Santa come out on the balcony and spread magic to light the tree. I never raised my kids to believe in Santa but I’ll tell you a funny …
Tuesday was hubby’s birthday, but the kids had surprised him Saturday with a present, a record player and Solveig had bought a record for him. It’s funny how records are coming back in style. I guess it’s partly because you then OWN the music, though we have TONS of CDs but never listen to them …
Anja’s birthday was yesterday and we went to a build a bear store and she found a Pikachu!! (She’s REALLY into Pokemon now, she collects the cards but doesn’t have a set, she just likes the cute cards, then Bjorn got her a starter set and he got one too so they can play together) …
Last Saturday I did a craft show, I haven’t done one in years, it was OK but not great, but my friend was next to me and her kids and mine hung out together, so we weren’t bored 🙂 I’ve tried to “tame” our pumpkin patch, that’s not producing pumpkins nor watermelon, but instead our …
We had a fun Halloween Those of you who know me, know that I don’t really like Halloween, but last year and this year I allowed them to go trick or treating but we only did our neighborhood, which ended up taking 2.5hrs and they got GOOD candy! ha ha Sonja crocheted a hat for …
We ended up having a birthday WEEKEND for Solveig! Of course we made Danish Layer Cake and we actually made another one because her sculpture teacher at Meredith has the same birthday, so Solveig wanted to bring her a cake too and share with the class, then she also brought a quilt for her and …
Last weekend we went to the beach for a few days to get some vitamin SEA and some nice rest and relaxation! The weather was nice, in the afternoon we were actually able to go into the water, we didn’t expect that in October and hadn’t packed swimsuits, but Dan, Bjorn and I went in …