Thaaat a boy!

Oskar, you're a good boy, catching the mice!!! :) But NO you'll not get it inside the house!!

Camomille is done

Finally I finished the Camomille sjawl and it is now dry too, so that I could photograph it. Now with the true color.

It is now so soft and cozy, after a wash. But it is huge for a scarf/shaw, for a small person like me ;)

But it's shape makes it great to wear... it does not fall of your shoulders.

Well I just managed to shoot this photo, before the rain came in for real :) And then I have to say that I do NOT have that pointy shoulders while stretching out my arms ;) The shawl dried up on my manequin... I should have thought about that!

I can now say for sure, that I really want to knit one more. In a grey or black color... that will be wearable for all of my clothes :)

Camomille is done

The Camomille sjawl is done :) Wohooo victory!! It have been on it's way for a long long time. My knitting mojo have been gone and then suddently it went back to me! And then the edge was teasing me....I never forget to look for corrections again! ;)

The colors on the photos isn't right. It is way more green and not so pale as shown. But after drying, I will shoot some good photos of it.

And I am lucky that I didn't have a single bed, but a 3/4'er... Or there wouldn't be room for a big shawl to dry. I already had to put needles in it, on the side of the bed too. Maybe I should wish for a bigger bed... and a bigger house ;)


Then after finishing Camomille, I went looking for something new to knit. I found out that I had the "Skulderblad" kit in stock. I will never get it knitted, so I am selling it. Let me know if you're interrested :) 
The yarn is green, as on this link! 

Ribe city

I just want to share a few photos, from our visit to Ribe too.  Ribe is a fantastic great city, with pretty small houses, old houses.... looking like a really old city. You almost expect to see horses with wagons, walking through the city.

But because of the art show and a market in the city, it was extra funny to visit. There were piles of straw, old wooden wagons and so on.... And fruits were sold directly from the back of old wooden wagons...how great is that?! :)

The weather was so perfect, as I wrote yesterday. You could just walk around with your summer clothes on, and feeling so very warm. So we chose to sit by the small creek, in the hay, eating an icecream. 

Look, a huge icecream with softice and som sugar sweet stuff I don't know what is called in english. :) SOOO delicious! So after that, and a Chai latte on a local coffee shop, we went to look at the starling magic.

But first, before ice, we went to see the local church, an artshow and a marketplace.

Look what I found on the artshow ;) Isn't that great? That will be some very spoiled birds who will eat from that one!!

The idea is great... I wonder if I should do something similar with my mussel?

The surroundings were awesome. An old monastery was housing the art show, with everything from glass art, to cheramics and felt.

But after all the looking at art, church and drinking latte, we went to see the birds... Fantastic day!! :)

Starling magic

A very sudden idea, and my neighbour and I went to Ribe. A city at the west coast of Denmark. For a long time, we both have thought about going there, to see starling magic. So off we went!

The car was ready and we drove from home.... First we went to Ribe city, to see som art displays. A lot of artists were showing their glass art, cheramic and different kinds of art.

So first a great day in Ribe, with art, church visit, fleamarket, walking in the city and relaxing at the small coffee  shops. And THEN to the coast, to see the birds. We drowe together with all the people who wanted to go there... and GOSH we were about 150 to 200 cars in one row, following each other throug the city!

And all the way along the place, where the birds were supposed to land, there was people standing, watching and waiting. All were we looking for the small batches of starlings coming in from all over... untill they, hopefully would do their magic on the sky.

Really, there was thousands of starlings there. And they arrived in huge flocks.... but the really pretty sights of huge flocks dancing, we wasn't lucky to see...  :( Too bad, as I reeeeally wanted to see it, and to photograph it. 

The weather we couldn't blame... it have been fantastic weather today!! We broke a record today, I just heard in the TV. It is the first time ever, that we have had a summerday with 26 degrees, in October!!

So it really was a great day to visit Ribe and to walk outside. Maybe I should go to the coast again tomorrow, to see if I am lucky to see the magic? I really wanna se those starlings dance!!

But well... if the starlings don't wanna dance, the moon sure would!! Et hang there, looking so nice, together with the most beautiful sundown ever.

And just after sundown, the fog was sneaking in on us...

It looked like gray water... as it lay there, shining... And there's reeeally dark out there, in the middle of nowhere, in the evening... just saying!!! I would not be happy out there, with no car or no light!!

But, none the less it was a great sight to see the sun setting... and some of the starlings dance a bit. Deffinately not the last time, that I will go there.

Our guide, Klaus Melbye, told great stories about the starlings and they way of living. And why they were doing their magic... and so much more. Most deffinately a man I would listen to again :)

Yummy

Yummy, after a loong month without buying anything, like clothes or junk, I was very proud and wanted to spoil myself a bit. So I bought two cans of Chai :)

Wow, that is so nice!! The Orange Tiger Spice Chai, I knew from earlier. But the brown Power Chai, I did not know, so I had to try it. So two cans went home with me, from the teahouse "Thehuset Andersen", yesterday.

Often I have thought about making my own chai. But never really found a great recipe or found a recipe with ingredients I couldn't find :) Maybe because my brain tells me that Tiger Spice Chai, is REAL Chai ;)

Marielundskoven

Today, when I got out of bed, I was so ready for the glass workshop. But the phone rang and they told me that they closed the shop today.... darn !!

Well then I had to use my energy otherwise. So when the fog was hanging heavy and dense, I wondered where to go for a little photoshoot. But I couldn't figure out a great spot. So I ended up on the couch, watching TV ;)

But later on, when the sun was shining bright, I changed my mind.  IF I just went and picked up Nanna after school... I would be very close to the Marilundskoven (a big forest) .... Then we could go for a walk there :) Done deal... and off I went!

It's kind of funny to walk in a new forest. The motives wasn't  that easy to spot.... and since I was walking with Nanna, I didn't spent the same amount of time, just standing there and watching the sourroundings. :)

Especially the pretty mushrooms and leaves :) The forest itself wasn't taht fall'ish yet. But okay, then I just have an excuse to go there again soon!

But also at home, in our own garden, beautiful motives are hiding. At 6 in the morning, I swear, I saw frost on the fences outside... It was white and "meltet" if I places my fingers on it ;)

So later, when I went outside, and the sun was high on the sky... It showed a lot of tiny drops in the little spider webs in the garden....