A Red Robe

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This is a wool felt robe which I just made today. Not  totally finish yet,  Anette likes it at once and very happy to be taken of photos:)  I wish that we could take more pictures outside. However, it gets dark so earlier and have to take pictures inside. I wished to live a bit more of South, so the girls can have  more chance to use the felt clothing which I love so much.  I am thinking that maybe I will make one of this kind robe for myself:) I know almost all friends are having more fun with face book now. And I will show up more there at face book soon.  

First Snow in Oslo

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Share a little trip of mine to Oslo yesterday. First snow in Oslo. The grass is still bit green. Finally, the kids and the adults can go skiing. Many, many,  Norwegian people have been waiting for the snowing  for so long......

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bought a Norwegian interior and architecture magazine and enjoyed reading it with a cup of coffee latte in my favorite cafe in Oslo. The coffe shop changes the flowers on the table to big red roses to address the Christmas mood. The traditional color of Christmas in Norway is red.  The magazine might be the only good one among all  the Norwegian interior and architecture magazines to my own preference ( Sorry to say this ;p). The online magazine is here.   (Be prepared that there are quite some advertising pages otherwise the other things are good enough for me: I like the photography very much.) The website is here. 

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Finally, I got to visit 3 months Mia, daughter of my girlfriend, in Oslo. I am overwhelmingly happy carrying her in my arms. 整个晚上我都被巨大的幸福感所笼罩着。Had been feeling so high the whole night. I did not know I love baby this much:) 

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Hairband

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The hair band which Anette is wearing is a piece of little work from Lene Nordum as well. She used to have a farm in Sweden, so she likes to work with fur.  I am still waiting for her to write the description of her fur works. Just can not wait to post these set of pictures of funny Anette.  Have a good start of a new week!

Knitting by Lene Nordum

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I grew up in 80's.  It was a nice period of time to me and the world was not as hectic as it is now.  North Europe is a place which can always bring me back to the golden 80's of mine. People are calm and life is simpler.  Women do lots of knitting work.  My mother,  her girlfriends  and our neighbors had been doing  the same thing:  Kitting hat, sweater, trousers, scarf, mittens, and whatever they could think of they can knit for the ones whom they love.

Kitting needs a calm heart and lots of patience. It feels like a meditation to me. I treasure all these hand-knitted works, and emotion which I attached to is beyond description.   All the works in the above pictures are knitted by talented Norwegian craftswoman Lene Nordum. She made also some nice fur crafts work which I will  introduce later. I will post some of her works to my shop. If you need a catalogue of the whole collection of her work, please take contact with us.

"Norwegian Hearts"

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Wooden Pendant

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felt pencil case



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I was overwhelmed seeing how much the Norwegian women love "the heart design"  when I was new to be here in Norway. It is a culture, indeed! Norwegian people actually have warm and loving hearts which are underneath their  "cool" character (I mean,  they might need time to "warm up"  to be friends with you if you compare them with people from South Europe ).  

After 10 years living in Norway, I do feel that I am more Norwegian myself to some extents. I am physically and mentally much stronger than I was (thinking about a typical city woman who had never slept in a tent in the nature before she came to Norway.), as I have been learning so much from the Norwegian women.  Now,  when I see the "Norwegian Hearts" at shops, children's clothing and people's home , I accept it more to my heart. Anja and Anette love "hearts" as well. Oh, yes, they are Norwegian Girls afterall.  (Is this "heart thing" a French one as well? dear Amelie. I know the English use  lots of "hearts" to make things as well.)

For this Christmas, I am planning to introduce some small things which I design and made with a slice of Norwegian Accent. There will be also some little lovely things from two Norwegian craftswomen , whom I will introduce  to you late on together with their works. I do this because I appreciate Norwegian culture and aesthetic more and more. This will be a little " Norwegian Design" introduction project, and it is so nice to have a blog to share with people and friends there.

Christmas Season

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felt pencil case

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Wooden Pendant 

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I am preparing some small things with a slice of  Scandinavian accent for this Christmas season. Will update the items to my online shop soon. 

Tenderness

Clearing up the girls' "old" clothing, packing some them and thinking of giving them to my girlfriend in Beijing. My girlfriend in Beijing just gave birth to a baby girl and she asked for some "old" clothing from Anja and Anette .

This little light yellow dress is Anette's baptizing dress, which she only used one or two times before she grew out of it very quickly. I miss the girls' baby hood. It is good that not all of their babyhood are fading away while they are growing up so fast, I still have this little light yellow dress, for example, hanging there beautifully on the wall . I feel the tenderness in my heart.... It is so nice to be a mother.

Light

2 years blogging.
Big, big progressing and improvement.
A little celebration.
There is the hope and the joy!

Spring Snow in Norway

De første månedene av vårt liv er vi pakket inn i hvitt, dullet med og vugget i søvn i hvitt. Senere får vi høre at Himmelen - som minner oss om vår tidligste barndom - er hvit. Vi blir løftet og båret bort - vi flyter. Det er derfor vi blir fortalt at englene flyr. Den første snøen minner oss om de eneste ganger i vårt liv da vi var uten frykt.

By Thornton Wilder, amerikansk forfatter... Den åttende dag.

Took a walk outside along the snow fields yesterday. I found out that I am getting use to this spring of white snow in North Europe. Feel very, very peaceful. All these pictures are from a norwegian magzine which I love to read. The photographing, editing, and the tone are so attactive to me. http://www.nyttrom.no/.

The day when I am too old to do or to think, I will just sit beside

this window with a book all day long.

Norwegian fjord - remind me some most beatiful days in my life.

The Scandinavian Sky

Autum has arrived.

Finally, I take a babystep from here.

If I am the black line now under the scandinavian sky,

Someday, I will change into the beautiful clound line high up, and fly toward the northen light.