The Big Move

After a very hectic and - sometimes - stressful few months (hence the lack of blogging...) the big move has finally happened. We have moved back to Denmark and even though it has to be said that it wasn't at all easy to say goodbye to all our wonderful friends back in England, I can safely say that we have had a good start.
 
We have now been here a few weeks, and have moved into a house that we have taken over from an elderly lady who have lived here for nearly 50 years - need I say more. It needs updating, decorating and - in a few cases - moving around, and I am really looking forward to sharing all changes we make and experiences we get along the way with all of you. Any feedback, comments and ideas you would like to share are very welcome so please feel free to leave them.
 
But to start where we started when we arrived just three weeks ago, I think it would only be appropriate to share the very first photos of the house before the Norgaard Family took over.
 
Some might say that the style is so retro that it is in again...
 

The front of our new Home

 



 The Living room

 

 The Dining room - note the hatch to the kitchen!

 

 The very small kitchen - note hatch again...

 

 One of the girls bedroom (the other one is so small we couldn't get a decent picture...)

 

                                 The Bathroom...                               - and the toilet

 



The Master Bedroom

 

 And finally the biggest room in the basement - "soon" to be my craft room

(currently full to the brim of unpacked boxes...)

 

- so until next time...

 

Gitte x



 

Back Again...

- and how I have missed being here, but sometimes life just throws things at you that has to be dealt with and without boring you with the details, thankfully life has returned to it's busy but normal self.

I haven't done any scrapbooking, cardmaking or sewing and we still live in the UK, nothing has changed there yet, so all the home furnishings I was going to make are still in my head (allthough I did manage to buy an overlocker a couple of weeks ago which I can't wait to use...)

All I have managed to do is to re-knit my husbands scarf from last christmas (disastrous design choice made it roll, so the poor man was wearing a knitted sausage round his neck), a similar scarf for Matilde as she now refused let go of daddy's new scarf and a knitted trapper hat (the one with the fur flap on the front) to match - for Matilde, not my husband...

The result is that now I have a list as long as an arm and a leg of things I want to do for Christmas and beyond and I can't wait to get stuck in - as well as all the lovely catching up I have to do on all of your blogs - a lot of happy days to come.

Until next time (not so long from now).

Gitte x

Mission accomplished

I don't know if you remember the card I made for my lovely sister who has moved into a new house - and more so the missing present I was going to get.

That mission is now accomplished! And with the help from my to fantastic girl, I didn't have to send it to her without a personal touch. They both desided to make some hama-bead-creations for their favourite aunti and here are the results.

 

I have to say that they went to great lengths in their attempts not to smile

- but luckily it didn't work.

 

 

Gitte xxx





Orienteering

After my last post, Louise asked me if we didn't take any pictures - and for once my dear husband actually brought his beloved camera.

It started of a bit foggy but by the end of the 5k the sun came out and it turned out to be a lovely Octobers day.

Here are a couple of shots from the day!

 

The big girls running off lots and lots of energy pretending to be witches

 

Freya spotting the next post and therefore the one who gets to stamp the card

 

 

So this was the last event of the season, but the first time Freya, who is three, walked all 5k by without her pushchair - WELL DONE!!!

 

Gitte xxx



Dinner with friends

A few weeks ago we was invited to the Christening of our lovely nephew Jonannes. I was a lovely day with family and VERY nice food.

I have to admit I have never been a fan of the thought of bulgur wheat and spelt salad but that day I saw the light. We had the most fantastic various salads with spelt, fennel, sun dried tomatoes and green beans (not all in the same bowl of course).

Today, after 5 k of orienteering, we had some very good friends over for lunch and after hunting high and low for some spelt grain with no luck, I decided to try a green bean salad my good friend Anette told me about.

It is very delicious and so easy to make too - here are the ingredients if you want to try:

Fresh green beans - blanched
Feta cheese
Red onion
Almond flakes

Dressing:
2 parts olive oil
1 part balsamic vinegar
1 part acacia honey

Bon appetit!

Gitte xxx

Cards, Cards, Cards...

- or should I just say one card, because that is all it is.

Whilst I am still thinking long and hard about my Christmas Cards (think it involves something with 6x6 kraft paper cards, hessian (or do you call it burlap here, still confused and don't even know if there is a difference), some stars and perhaps a sneeky stamp), I thought I would share a card I made for my sister who has just moved.

It has to be said that after the summer I have really struggled with getting my scrapbook pages going again - many anight have I unpacked everything only to put it away after 2 hours of paper shifting :-)

So at the last class at Louise's I thought I'd cut my loses and make a couple of moving-house-cards instead. I did get a lot of slack for not having finished the first one after an hour - lol - but then I was on a roll and made the next one i about ten minutes and regain the respect :-)

And here it is - still on my desk as I still haven't bought the kitchen scales I want to sent with it. I guess I must make that my next project...

Gitte xxx

Saturday family time

I am so lucky that both my girls take after me in the crafty department - put some hama-beads, paper and glue or just coloring pens in front of them and they are off. It's fab to see them develop their own styles - yet very hard NOT to guide them too much and make them do things my way :-)

Sometimes - not very often - but sometimes I manage to be a little bit organised - and normally when we are going to all the birthday partys the girls are invited to we more or less go and buy the present  on the way there... BUT NOT THIS TIME.

So with the presents already bought I thought it would be nice for the girls to make their own gift wrap, and with my newly invested small ink pads and my stamps I they made the most gorgeous wrapping paper.

I am so ready to give the wrapping paper for Christmas a go.

My husband was watching from the kitchen - he volunteered do the dishes all by himself not to get involved in the potential mess :-)

Until next time...

Gitte xxx