New glass

GOSH I have missed the glass workshop... after a way too long summer holliday we're open again. :) And with new colors of glass on the shelves I am very happy. I got permission to choose some of the colors myself yay! Among the new colors, there was this beautiful green one.... I will show the figures after they are done, so that you really can see the bright green color.

The frog have a small crown on his head... maybe a prince is hiding inside, if you kiss it?

The longer time I spend at the glass workshop, the more I really wish for my own oven!! If only it wasn't that big and that expensive to both buy and use!! But well dreams is good to have, right? :)

In the oven are also two "Sismofytter" as you probably have seen before in here. But I did save some for myself... so this time I will have these two :)

Other than glass, I have made absolutely nothing at all.... But a little is okay too, right?

Trailer hitch ball covers

Today I made one more cover :) This time shaped as a baby penguin. This is really testing my crocheting skills... Today I finally figured out how to make a flat cirkle and a bowl shaped cirkle :)

Today have been such a lazy day. And very needed for both Nanna and I. Nanna have had a very buzy schedule lately, with school, work and a social life. And I have been very much active... and been up very very early! For a year, I have been able to sleep late every day, if needed... and now I am up to ensure that Nanna is up and ready for school... just untill she is back in routine. So the alarm clock is starting it's very annoying noise at SIX in the morning... it's still NIGHT!!! ;)

Maybe it's my new daily life that makes my body ache so much. My hands and feet are acting like crazy... keeping me up at night. So crocheting a hitch ball cozy takes me forever.

But none the less, today have been very cozy. Bon Iver on the stereo, while Nanna was writing an essay about him and his new album. The rain that poured down, sending out cozy noises and a fresh smell of grass ... In my cup a nice cup of tea and in my hands a new crocheting project. I really can't wish for a better relaxing sunday :) 

Kapoow

Well now I catched a single lightning after all :) After picking up Nanna at her job, it started to rain with lots of thunder again.... so quickly home and out in the garden with camera and tripod.

But as I only have quite a small angle to see the sky... It wasn't that easy to catch a lightning :) But I got just ONE single one. Maybe I am lucky again later... seems like a new weather system is aproaching :) Not so violent as the last one though!

Thunder

A moment ago, a thunderstorm went over our heads here in my village. But is it really me who remember something wrong? I seem to remember, that back when I was a small child, thunderstorms were more violent and full of huge lightnings.... And I seem to remember that they storms went on for a longer time, each time.

I love to photograph lightning, but actually I am pretty afraid of thunder. My heart goes bom bom like crazy and I yell OHH and ARGH! But still... I stand there with my camera ready.

Where we lived before, we had a store behind our garden, with some kind of a portio along the house, with a roof over it... So I could photograph without getting wet. And back there I were lucky to catch the above photo and a few more.


But today I wasn't that lucky... the thunderstorm were brief and with only a few lightnings... then it is hard to be lucky!


IS it really me who remembers wrong? Was there more severe thunderstorms back then? Well I can see we get's way more rain now... but lightnings.... I don't think we see that many anymore?


And every time we're having a thunderstorm, after Nanna returned from Oklahoma she just says: "Pfff that? That is nothing mom.... I really miss a true Oklahoma thunderstorm!"  I am super currious to see for myself, what it is that she saw over there :)(must be something like this that she saw:

Easy to spot

A few days ago, I spotted some great trailer hitch ball covers, while visiting Miss AD.... I was sold and wanted to make my own :) But after trying her pattern a few times, I had nooo idea on how to implement a tail. So I had to start over, my own way!

So finally I started improvising. That is something I'm not that good at... I prefer a pattern to work from in crochet. BUT I won the task and now I have created my own fish. I have improvised a lot... maybe I have used som stitches that doesn't even exist, but it works ;)

So now I can easily spot my car at a parking lot. When sharing car with my parents, I were looking for a pinguin on their car... so now I have my own. Now we'll see for how long it can be left alone on my car....

It looks kind of funny ;) But I have ideas for several... like a pengin, an emo kid, a hello kitty, a rabbit, a tree with a snail on it and so on..... They are so easy to customize!! :)

The owl is now done

Today the last feather is done :) In the beginning it felt like forever, to the end of this project... but suddenly I was painting the last feather. Buuut it took me almost all day :)

So right now, the owl is watching us from the couch. The cat doesn't really care... either he sleeps or is begging about getting outside.

So now I am wondering about what frame to use. Black, silver og some bright colered frame... So many possibilities :)

I think it will end up with a black frame.....

Owl, still in progress

Owl in progress

Wow I have been painting today :) Lines, colors... more lines and a lot more colors... ! And I am now a little better in not trying to match the colors all the time, as in the beginning :)

But without a doubt, it's a much bigger project, that I thought in the first place. It does take loads of time! Because in between the painting, we have the more boring household doings. But also because of my aching hands... They really hurst these days and won't cooperate very well. And that does not mix well with this kind of project.

But it get's more and more done... and that's the main case. And in the meantime I really relax by just painting and painting, while my thought wanders.

When Nanna went home today and spotted the owl, she asked: " Hey mom, that's kind of like a coloring book, how funny. Won't you make me one too?" So I just had to find an extra canvas and draw another owl, for her to paint. And Nanna was way faster than me, so her owl is already done :)

Nannas owl

This is how her owl ended up. Done and ready to hang on the wall :) And she says she's not creative at all?! I dissagree!!!

Because all the patterns in the feathers she have made by herself. I just painted an owl with blank feathers .. and with a pencil only. So she have lined it with black ink and colored it for herself.

My owl, I think will be hanging between the bright green lamps :) I need colors on my walls.... or just something on my walls. There's almost nothing on them right now...

Possible spot for the finished owl, later on.

BTW I am sorry for the quality of the photos in this post... Honest... I was too lazy to grab the camera. So you'll have to look at a few mobile shots today :)