Family dinner /Familiemiddag

(Egg and ham pie)

The importance of dining together

As a family

At the dinner table, not in front of the TV

Is often sereously underestimated I feel.

Time to talk about our day, share ups and downs, SEE oneanother.

I love this about dinnertime...

At our big kitchen table.

Middag samlet rundt middagsbordet, ikke foran tv'en. Sitte sammen som familie og dele dagen med hverandre, se hverandre. Så viktig og fint det er, og ofte ganske undervurdert. 

Miniature Christmas food

Mini Christmas preparations 2019

1:6 th scale Polymer clay

Frosted Christmas fruit cake

Pam xxx

Autumn - Høst

SEPTEMBER

From 28 C to 5 C in a week!

Autumn has arrived!

A cold mist creeps  up out from the lake below.

Candles are lit

The wood burner

Full of warming flames.

Evening tea.

Peace.

My favourite season!

Pam xxx

FAITH

Walking beneath the clouds

We can only see the grey

feel the rain.

But 

God sees so much more

Have 

Faith

there is light

Even if we can't see it

Pam xxx

Charity shops and Celiac disease

RED - Danger! Crumbs with Gluten alert!

It is a long time since I knitted heaps of cotton dishcloths for the kitchen

- Old news -

But what does one do when 2/6 of us have Celiac disease?

Make RED cotton dishcloths for the other 4/6 of us of course!

Problem solved!

Colour codes for the kitchen.

A colour for each area.

So...

Where does the charity shop come into this?

The yarn - bowl thingy.

Charityshop find.

Always wanted one of those.

Thank you Salvation Army.

Chuffed 😊.

Pam xxx

Slowly handmade

This litle project took me a year! 

Wonder how many times I stabbed my finger with the needle...?

I love a splash of colour, 

And texture

And handmade

Stuff

And a mini - Candy collection 

Just to make it extra nice

And those polkadots...

- Love -

Them!

Love my little old sideboard too...

But that's a whole different story 😊

Blessings

Pam xxx

Slow Crafting

SLOW CRAFTING

English-paper-piecing

Standing in a craft shop last week, I gazed around the shelves and realized how many cuick-fix craft projects that have become availiable over the past decades. New ideas, new products, quickly slapped together, here today, gone tomorrow. Food for thought.

(Fabric washed and ready for ironing, destined for English paper pieceing quilt-project.) 

(Cutting templates for EPP out of old cardboard. Slow work.)

Reading online, I discovered that there actually is something called "Slow Crafting". I love the expression. It speaks to me of quality, love, time spent in thoughtful meditation, uniqueness...the list goes on. Something made today, and still here tomorrow. 

(Last snowfall of the season)

There is a lot of talk about -slow- these days. Slow eating, slow travelling, slow living...slow crafting.

It's not about lazyness, but about using our time in the best possible way and really being present in what we do and where we are.

I'm off to cut some more templates for my VERY slow English-paper-pieced quilt-project. It's going to take years, but,hey, what's the hurry?!

Pam xxx

Making dollhouse furniture/ hjemmelagde dukkehusmøbler

 Designing and making

 A lounge in a vintage Lundby dollhouse

We have cut out the Tv

I find I have more time

For hobbies and reading.

A lot of time wasted in front of that Tv over the years. Don't miss it. 

Vi har kuttet ut Tv kanalene. Så mye mer tid vi fikk. Lydbok og hobbypussel på kvelden. Savner ikke Tv. Fred i stua. Helt reklamefrie kvelder. Hater Tv - reklamene 😛! 

Pam xx

Restoring/renovating old Lundby dollhouses /restaurering og renovering av gamle Lundby dukkehus

 A broken white 1950's fireplace has new life

 Bedroom with bathtub on the balcony

 My dream kitchen, in 1:18

The music room

Furniture: Lundby Brasilia

My hobby ❤

Pam x

Just popping in to wish you a blessed Christmas.

Remember the reason for the season:

JESUS CHRIST

God's wonderful gift to each and every one of us 💟

Goodbye for now - Farvel for nå

A gift fo my daughter, a knitted Marius Jersey.

Bursdagsgave til min datter, en Mariusgenser.

Some of the "nisser" I knitted for friends and family before Christmas. Made nice presents.

Julegaver jeg laget til venner og familie ifjor. 

Strikka tova nisser.

Det blir en lang bloggepause på meg, kanskje jeg kommer tilbake, det får tiden vise. Takk for alle gode ord her inne hos meg. Jeg kommer til å følge litt med på blogger selv om jeg ikke blogger selv.

Goodbye for now. Thank you for all kind comments over the years. I am taking a long break. I may return, I am not sure. I will however be popping in to visit your blogs from time to time.

Blessings, Pam xx

Lundby Stokholm re-do / oppussing

Maylinn and Patrick have been busy.

Their new home is quickly taking form.

Note the qute detail on this house:

A little pool hidden in a drawer beneath the house.

Oppussingen av Lundby Stokholm 2010 er i full gang. Det lille svømmebassenget under huset, i en egen skuff, er en herlig detalj.

Just love love love their PINK fridge!

Emagine having that in RL😊

Dette må vel være verdens kuleste kjøleskap?!

Lounge/kitchen area,

the torn green wallpaper has been replaced by

A faux brick wall (craft paper).

Kjøkken/stue området,

bakveggen er erstattet med mursteinstapet (hobbypapir til kortlaging)

A closer look at the pool.

Bathroom for two.

Bad til to.

Bathroom detail.

En liten pokal til blomsterpotte og bittesmå skjell.

Bathroom detail.

The bedroom has now lost its awful spotty wallpaper...juck.

The text means: The one I love.

Patrick and Maylinn lay chatting and dreaming of their future together. young and just starting out.

Ny look på soverommet.

Framtidsdrømmer. Patrick og Maylinn prater og legger planer for framtiden sammen.

Love the plastic doors to draw down over each room. when down they look like fancy glass windows.

Hvert rom har et plastvindu til å dra ned. Likner funkisvinduer i glass synes nå jeg 😊.

Pam xxxx

Årets ord: TILLIT / A word for 2017: TRUST

The word God gave me for 2017 is

 TRUST

Last years word was believe, and as nothing has happened yet concerning certain matters, I am growing impatient and troubled. The word "trust" is an answer to prayer. God is saying: Trust Me! ❤

Årets ord er 

TILLIT

Det er endel ting i livet jeg bekymrer meg kraftig omkring. Alt synes å stå stille eller til og med bli værre. Jeg blir redd og rastløs. Gud har stadig minnet meg om årets ord siste ukene. Han ber meg ha TILLIT til Ham. Være stille og vente, stå med ham og ha tillit til Ham ❤.

My daughter at University will be 21 this Winter. My present is a knitted Marius wool Jersey. She is very pleased about it 😊.

Datteren min fyller 21 i vinter og en hjemmestrikket Marius genser i originalfarger står på ønskelista.

Oh yes, and another dollhouse has moved in! A present from my sweet husband.

A Lundby Stokholm from 2010 I believe. 

It is such a cute house. Underneath, in a drawer beneath the house, is a little deck an swimming pool! A little tear in the lounge wallpaper, otherwise in perfect condition.

Min snille mann vet at jeg elsker dukkehus, for et par dager siden kom han derfor hjem med dette til meg. Siden det ikke er vintage, klør det i design-fingrene etter å hacke det og gjøre det til et ordentlig hjem.

The young couple Maylinn and Patrick have bought it. Buildt in 2010, it is still new, but, they still need to make it their own don't they.

- What shall we do about the wall paper Maylinn?? 

Patrick wonders...

But Maylinn is far too busy admiring the sea view to hear him.

Maylinn is a nurse and Patrick a dentist, married in August 2016, this is the first house of their very own. 

more later.....

Maylinn og Patrick har kjøpt sitt første hus sammen. - Hva skal vi gjøre med tapeten??

Spør Patrick...

Men Maylinn hører ham ikke, hun er altfor opptatt av å beundre havutsikten...

Pam xxxx

Christmas - Jul

To all

A very blessed Christmas.

Happy Birthday Jesus

The reason for the season ❤

Pam xxxx

Lundby dollhouse

A new - vintage bathroom for the Stockhom mansion. Love all small details (some added by me). 

See the little razor plugged in ?

Et nytt - vintage bad til Dallas huset.

Så gøy med alle små detaljer. 

Ser dere barbermaskinen som står til lading 😊!

By night. 

The electrical system in the old house still works!

Lys på badet i vintermørket.

Ble så glad da det viste seg at alt det elektriske virket i vintage huset.

A full-stocked kitchen.

Fulle skap på kjøkkenet.

Diningroom chairs and cupboard in place.

Spisestuestoler og skjenk med finservise

Og et lite barskap øverst.

More kitchen.

Kjøkkendetaljer.

I found my vintage fireplace

and some other furniture and details.

Time for tea and swiss roll?

Jeg fant den gamle peisen og endel andre ting til stuen.

Tid til kaffe og rullekake?

Fanny celebrated her birthday.

Wonder whst Geir bought her?

Fanny feiret bursdag, lurer på hva som er i pakken?

Lundby house by night.

Når natten faller på.

Lundby Aquarium

Pam xxxx

(P.s. apparently there are cookies (alas not the edible kind) on these blogs now, and I have to tell you about it. 

Det står når jeg publiserer et innlegg at jeg må opplyse om at det brukes cookies/informasjonskapsler på disse bloggene nå).

Dollhouse for a boy - Dukkehus til en gutt

When a boy overtakes a dollhouse, 

a handful of Trashpack figures, a flock of

animals and a British pilot

move in 😊!

Here they all are, having a film and 

Pizza evening

Når en gutt overtar et dukkehus

flytter det inn:

En håndfull Trashpack, en haug med dyr...

Og en Britisk pilot!

Her feirer gjengen med film- og 

pizzakveld 😊

Nytt gulv måtte legges i stuen nede,

det ble biljard-tema.

A new floor was laid in the ground 

floor lounge. Pool theme.

And oh good grief...

"I can't have a pink bathroom mummy!"

"Et rosa bad kan jeg ikke ha mamma!"

So we gave the room a new look.

Vi gav rommet en ny look.

Pam 😊 xxxx