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Weather report :: Hovering around freezing. Rain, fog, slippery roads.

Här kommer Pippi Långstrump
tjolahopp, tjolahej, tjolahoppsan sa.
Här kommer Pippi Långstrump,
ja här kommer faktiskt jag.

...see all the projects here.

posted by Theresa | 11:03 pm  | 

Weather report :: Snow this morning (hence the tiddelibom-ing), mostly melted now. Current temp: 44F/6.7C

And whoo hoo! I got my copy of ...

...today! (It's been driving me crazy seeing talk about it (even my stockings on the Today Show!!) and not having my hands on it.)

1) I can't believe my name/picture/stockings are actually in there.
b) Can't post, must read.

posted by Theresa | 3:45 pm  | 

Det snør, det snør (tiddelibom)
det er det det gjør (tiddelibom).

posted by Theresa | 8:02 am  | 

Weather report :: Cold but some sun shone on the house today. Sunset : 4:38 pm (stupid time change grumble)

Latest (slightly impulsively begun) project, more Christmas gifts ::

posted by Theresa | 23:26 pm  | 

Weather report :: Snow flurries yesterday ... mostly in our front yard. Sunset : 5:53 pm

Well, the cute little darning mushroom (stoppesopp) certainly didn't stump you guys!
And Vaire from Estonia wrote in that the other end can be used for mitten fingers. Which I didn't know but am very glad to. :o)

The other thing I got at the fair... after searching and asking and asking and searching... was a nøstepinne...

And here's how to use it!

posted by Theresa | 7:17 pm  | 

Weather report :: No snow yet today. But it was pitch black when I got up to take the kids to school.

I went to an antique fair in Lillestrøm on Saturday and found this little gem...

The lady said it was from around 1900, though I'm not sure I shouldn't have told her to try pulling the other leg.It does look well used,though. I'm not going to say as what, since I want to see who can be the first to tell what it is in the comments... :o)

posted by Theresa | 4:25 pm  | 

Friday Five ... boy, it's been a while since the last time I did this...

Name five things in your refrigerator.
Fresh mozarella cheese (it's pizza night), sliced fenalår (dried salted mutton), grape jelly made by Mom, undeveloped film and Lofoten Tran (cod-liver oil from the north of Norway) bought in a fit of optimism that it wouldn't taste that bad. (It does, it does.)

Name five things in your freezer.
Potato gnocchi (homemade), sunflower seeds, pecans, a loaf of bread and frozen peas.

Name five things under your kitchen sink.
Trash can, spare plastic bags, dishwasher powder, a small broom/dustpan, and glass recycling containers.

Name five things around your computer.
Digital camera, swatch for the next issue of Knitty, a couple of CD's and lots of clutter.

Name five things in your medicine cabinet.
Tea tree oil, vitamin C, Zantac, Paracet (that's the European edition of Tylenol) and a thermometer.

posted by Theresa | 13:14 | 

posted by Theresa | 09:31 | 

Oh, the relief of having monstrously huge plastic supports removed from one's nose... I'm feeling fine and dandy now and have even stopped screaming when people come within 2 feet of my face.

I got very distracted this morning looking at pictures of helleristning ...pre-Viking stone carvings scattered throughout Scandanavia... and found the lady now gracing the top of this page. I haven't found an explanation what the figures in the carvings are doing, but doesn't it look like she might be doing something fiber-ly? Weaving perhaps?

Want to read more about Vikings, runes, Norse symbols? Peek here.

posted by Theresa | 21:22 | 

I just had a realized the ambiguity of the last post. I'm referring to my nose.

posted by Theresa | 10:26 pm | 

My 14 year old stepkid is watching what I consider to be garbage television and there is absolutely nothing I can am willing do about it.
That and it hurts to sneeze. (I had my septum repaired last Tuesday and there are enormous plastic bits up in there... I really ought not talk about it - it's too disgusting.)

posted by Theresa | 10:14 pm | 

...and some pictures from our anniversary trip around Norway.

posted by Theresa | 12:36 pm | 

Frode, by the way, finally got finished. I had the pieces done a few weeks ago, but didn't get around to the final sewing up until Dad's sweater was done.

And here are some close ups from way back when the front was blocking :: The front, a knot, and a side panel.

posted by Theresa | 3:56 pm | 

Ooo, thank you thank you everyone for the compliments and the warm wishes welcoming me back!

Perhaps I'll go through my current projects list:

• Cap from Poetry in Stitches in Rauma baby yarn. Black. Christmas present.
• Striped make-it-up-as-I-go-along sweater (also Christmas present) in purple, blue and green and black.
• 2 things from Knitting Without Tears: a baby sized Tomten jacket no specific baby in mind) which only lacks one arm
• and a charcoal gray seamless hybrid sweater for me in Vestlands garn from Gjestal.
• and this:

  
  except in red red red alpaca yarn (which was my birthday present from me) from Moderne Strikk by Kari Hestnes.

  Plus various other small unfinished things not worth mentioning. ;o)

  posted by Theresa | 4:50 pm | 
  
  

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  Sunday September 28, 2003

  I feel inordinately shy about coming back, but what the hey. I have to share this...

  

  I bought the yarn for (and started) this sweater June 10, 2002. It was to be a Christmas present for my father last Christmas. He got it last week while they were here visiting. This is a picture of him (and my mum) during their visit last week. The sweater is from Maske For Maske by Mette Handberg (I've not seen an English translation) and here is a close up of when it was in progress. I feel like I've given birth and sent the new baby out into the world. ;o)

  posted by Theresa | 9:34 pm | 
  
  

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