at home - baby toy: oslo / october 2012

this is supposed to be a crab... i think he looks funny, i still haven't learned the basics of crocheting

the baby gym is much more fun with home made toys

at home - baby toy: oslo / october 2012

i made this for my baby boys high chair.
a friendly face to watch and a healthy vegetable to get to know before he will even taste it.

at home - a shelf: oslo / august 2012

in our new appartment there was an ugly bookshelf kind of like this one.
it was white on one side and metallic on the other.

i decided to cheer it up

and i put it in the nursery room

macramé: oslo / may 2012

i made this macramé flower thingie as a gift for a friend. it is not easy to find yarn which is suitable for macrame anymore. i guess it was more easy in the 60s and 70s when macramé was a bit more popular...

 

at home - a stool: oslo / may 2012

  ok, i'm back after some time off the blog... and i will try to post pictures more regularly again. these months i haven' had a lot of time. i've moved to another apartment and i have given birth to a fantastic little boy. i haven't had much time for any knitting but i've tried to make our new home a nice and cozy place. here is one of the things i made:

a standard ikea Bekväm step stool

which i think looks nicer with some paint and fabric

at home - a pincushion: oslo / february 2012

i made this pincushion for a crafty friends birthday :D

another good idea from the mollie makes magazine

at home - baby boots: oslo / february 2012

these i made for my little baby boy who lives in my belly

kampen: oslo / february 2012

this is made by children from kampen art nursery (kampen kunstbarnehage) and is placed in their garden

i like their dog grafitti too :D

at home - candles batch one: oslo / february 2012

home made by recycling pieces of burnt down candles

these i gave to my mom for mothers day
(which in norway is on the second sunday of february)

green marble candles

well these are a bit boring...

i like pairs that are matching, but not equal

at home: oslo / january 2012

i bought myself an iphone and i wanted just the right cover for it. and you know that is not possible to buy :) so i made this cover based on an idea from the magazine Mollie Makes:

i'm sorry that the colours of the photos are not the same.

at home: oslo / november 2011

i forgot to take photos of all the christmas presents i made...

but here are one of them - my boyfriends new socks:

at home: oslo / november 2011- february 2012

i told you i wasn't an expert on knitting... in november i got this book by arne & carlos on how to make knitted christmas balls (julekuler) knitted in traditional norwegian patterns. and the book said it was quite easy and excellent for beginners, and it seemed like one could knit a ball in just an evening. i thought it might take a little longer for me, but after two weeks i gave up cause i thought it was more important to make christmas gifts instead of this stupid ball. but after a couple of months i took it up again and finished my first ball. so now, in february, i have my first christmas ball ready for next christmas!
here it is:

not exactly a christmas tree...

i'm quite satisfied, and i think i will knit faster as soon as i learn how to knit with two threads at the same time

a toad

i think i like all animals, this nice toad i actually met at a party. he was living in the garden. i didn't kiss him though, 'cause only a frog will turn out to be prince charming, and a toad would make a little less handsome one...

øyenkilen: fredrikstad / july 2011

 i have now figured out a way to put photos from my hard drive onto my blog, and because i haven't posted much lately i want to share with you a lot of photos. i'll start with these. a little project i did for the summer cabin. i crocheted "pillow cases" for the rocks and embroidered the letters afterwards.

my boyfriends great grandad built the cabin many years ago.
his nickname was bamse which means teddybear. and bo means something like a house.
bamsebo is the name of the cabin.

a hedgehog!

look at this cute hedgehog! we met it yesterday in the garden of my mother in law. it has a little house in the shrubbery, and another one under some bricks. i hope it will have a happy life and lots of kids!

orihuela, spain / march 2011

casa de los abuelos

a little surprize for the grandparents

a token of appreciation