A little joy

Hi all!
Again it has been some time since I wrote anything here, have been some (sigh) crap day´s again. And some people are really grrrrrrr and don´t think, they are airheads!
I have also got a time for my "sake" in the court, so in the first week of december I will se if I´m entitled to my right´s (my salary)!

But there is also bright spots that lighten´s up the day. Like yesterday my older sister came with a whole basket with yarn, I got both yarn and a basket :-). Found almost at once some yarn that I can use for a birthday present to my niece´s birthday. Later on when I have put out a picture on my wall at FB, I got after some hour or so a question if I wanted some more yarn sent over to me in Sweden! Ooh more yarn happines :-). So in some time more yarn will come to me all the way from USA!
And I have also been to two nice knitting cafe´s this week, that is also some nice hour´s to spend a part of the day.

The basket full off yarn.

Again some nice music to listen to and I got this link from a friend some time ago. Click the picture as usual to listen and see the video.

Enigma "Return to Innocence"

Be yourself, no matter what they say.
~Sting

take care of each other
Mari

Fun + hmmmm

Hi all

Well yesterday (wensday 28 april) it was fun :-). The whole day I was looking forward to the knitting café that should be at the library in town (Nora). So in the afternoon I took my bike and did go in, a bit rain it was but that didn´t matter then. I really wanted to go in :-). There I meet some nice people and a woman that has a yarn shop had taken some yarn with her, but I did not buy anything, weird!!!
And finally I meet again EmmaE and she had her daughter Signe with her. That was really good that she came because I had again got stuck in my "Gail" shawl. But she helped me and I in the end "got" it. So now everything seems to be OK and I´m now on the second repeat :-). Big thanks Emma!

Emmas daughter Signe fixing with the puzzle (allowed to use the picture).

Today on the other hand it´s :-( :-(. The weather is boring, grey and cold. Rain is hanging in the air and the stupid "road machine" has been here and scraped the road, yea we gravel road. That will make it grrrrrrr to bike for a couple of days. And on top of that i´m frezzing exactly as Sunny does, think actually I might do like her snuggle up in the kitchen sofa, have a look at the picture. She is cute isen´t she?by by for now
Mari

Both nice and blahäää

Hi

On wensday this week (21 of april) I took me the time and went in to Örebro and the knitting café at Märtas cafe, the knit café was in co-operation with "Bilda". I felt I needed to get away from all a bit even if it was for just a couple of hours! It was really nice to meet some new knitting friends, they where really friendly and welcome me nicely :-). Most of them was also in the newly formed club Närkes Handaverk. In time I maybe join them and even go on some of their other activities.
Finally I can continue with my shawl "Gail", I got some good help :-) and now I don´t understand what wrong I did before!!! I will defenitely go in again at this knit café it was pleasant and the place in it´s self was really nice and I can recommend all to "go off" there regular coffea streets and go to this place instead. Took a few picture with my new mobile phone, they are not that super good but you can see a bit on what was going on and the cosy café.

Some knitting friends and a small view at the cosy café.


A bit of the table wit a mix of "goodies" :-) and my brown mottled yarn ball.

The rest of week have been up and down as usual! Today it started so nice with sun then it was just blahäää with grey weather and rain/snow/hail, that is not so fun for the soul when it have the "bad" days and missing all the good stuff that has been. I´m quite feed up with the weather right now and need to get away for a bit longer time. Hope that can be soon, really soon!

take care all
Mari

Slippers!

Hi

Just put out the pictures on my slippers that I have recently finished. They was very easy to do! I did though knit "on" the little collar like thing (was not on the pattern). They are very soft an nice to have on. There is some spare yarn left so I can do another pair if I want :-).

Här kommer bilderna på mina slippers som jag precis har gjort klart. De var jätte enkla att göra! Den förändring jag gjorde var att sticka på lite så de fick en "krag" liknande sak på sig. De är jättesköna att ha på sig. Det blev garn över så jag kan göre minst ytterligare ett par om jag vill :-).


P.S has updated my photo album (dogs, people & art, knitted stuff) a bit, just click Maris Gallery to the left.

take care say nice words to each other or do something nice
Mari

Wich one?

Hmm

I want, I want, I want to knit a new shawl!
But wich one? Hard decision isn´t it? :-)
I want to do a Bird´s Eye shawl (have yarn), Gail (aka Nightsongs), Spring Trellis shawl or Haruni kind of have yarn to these also :-).
Pattern is in english except for Bird´s Eye that I have in Swedish. On some of them you shall also crochet a bit, I´m not good at that!

So wich one shall I do, wich one shall I start with?

"Once you make a decision,
the universe conspires to make it happen."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

take care
Mari

Yarn and mittens

Hi all

Well snow has come a lot and more seems to be on the way :-(. Well I kind of had enough of it now, want spring and summer + some warm weather!

Some nice thing though. A day this week a package came with some tea and yarn in it, yea a chocolate cake too :-). It was my package in the "Tea & yarn swap 5" at StickaMera (see link to the left). Many and big thanks to my swap friend Ing-Marie Å from Kåge. I had some thought on what to do with the yarn but now I have decide to do a pair of slippers, that will be cosy indeed. Ooh the tea tasted good to of course, a special mix from Skellefteå.


I have also finished february months mittens Augusta at the "Puls club 2010" at StickaMera to. They was easy to do and fun because they where fast knitted and not to complicated at all. Did not keep them for myself, one of my sisters got them. Hope she will use them!


Hmmm what to knitt now, hmm well is waiting for another yarn "ball" to the darkblue scarf I´m doing, hopefully that will come monday or tuesday. And I have the slippers to do also :-) :-) and some other stuff. I´m not out of knitting work at all :-) :-).

Ooh I have also notified med too StickaMeras "Sockgarnsbyte"(sock yarn swap). That will be exciting to see what will be in that package. I have never knitted a pair of socks before, well if you not count the slippers that I have just startded on :-). And it is always fun to get packages to :-). I have got a "friend" to send to and hopfully I will sort that out this coming week so I can send it to her.


To my friend, you know who you are!
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
~Aesop´s Fables

Also thanks to Camilla for coming with your digital camera so I could fix this pictures.
take care all of you
Mari

Something new

Hi all on the new year!

Not so much has happened since last time! Still the same at the working front. But luckily I have help there. AND i do recommend to be in a Union, you do get help from there.

One new thing is that i have started to knitt again, the "lust" has kind off come back :-), well a bit anyway. So right now i´m on ha scarf in dark blue alpacka yarn, really like to knitt in that yarn, soft and nice. Have also gone in to Pulsclub 2010 at StickaMera (se link to left).

Have also notifyed me to their "Te & yarn" swap, it´s fun and a bit exciting to see what you get in the post :-) :-).


End this time with this quote:
Acts of kindness, even in the simplest ways,
are what make our lives meaningful,
bringing happiness to ourselves and others.
~Dalai Lama

take care all specially your friends.
Mari

Yarn & Chokolate swap

Hello
Well now I finally have scanned the picture (don´t have a digtal camera, not yet at least) that I took on the yarn & chokolate I got from my swap friend Anette B, se link to her site on the left, klick on "Ullin". So here Is a picture on the nice yarn, it´s in my colours also :-)):-)). The chokolate is gone and it was good, good, good.


The swap was through StickaMera, se link to the left.
I don´t know yet what I shall do of the yarn , maybe a top or something that I can use in the summer.

By for this time
Mari