Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you

Take care Jaana

Crafting II

I have painted my bedroom and are very proud of it. I had mint green wallpapers, not very clean and quite many holes and really many tracks after two litter of kittens. I also had three bookcases in my bedroom and it isn´t so good idea because books collect dust. And it feels much calmer without all the books in the bedroom too.


But those white bookshelves didn´t fit at all in the living room so I painted them english red and I really like them as now.

I also painted my Hall or at least one of the Walls. Fot some reason I don´t remember any more I had painted it orange, maybe just to get some colour. But I don´t have any window in the Hall so it became even more dark. Now it+s much lighter or at least I think so.

Now I have no more walls I want to paint so I have started to paint my pinefurniture. First out was a chest of drawers. Forget to take a before picture but I think you all have seen pinefurniture,

Have some more furniture to paint, will se if I do it before Christmas.

Take care Jaana

Some catfotos

Even it is very mild weather for December it´s cold for the small catpaws and because a mean tomcat both Mizukizu and Gullis are most of the time inside and sleeping. And they are so cute so here comes some catpictures.

take care Jaana

Morning walk

I have been lucky  to have a walking buddy for 12 weeks when his mistress and master was both ill. It was a real pleasure to walk with him no matter how the weather was. No snow yet, the picture was taken last winter.

But now he is walking with  his folks and I have had difficult to kick me out for a walk. Until for few days ago and a glorious weather when I felt a need for a walk.

very low sun, it´s 9 a.m.

the lake isn´t frosen yet

 take care Jaana

Crafting I

I have alway something going on, crocheting, knitting, emboidering or all of them. But I often feel that I`m very slowly crafter and don´t get much done. So I really felt a need to look after what I have done this autumn:
Knitting:

and this is just half of it because it was urgent second time to send them away. All my knitting except one knitted cap for myself has been charity knitting mostly babyclothers.

It gives me a deep satifaktion to knit for charity because I know that in that case some obe really is jusing things I knit and those things not just lie in a box. I crocheted many granny squares for a charity quilt. And because my bedspread really isn´t any more ok so I started to crochet a new one for me, not finished yet but on good way.

 Thats all for today, take good care of you Jaana

Copenhagen

I have been to Copenhagen with my friend Caisa. We had planned to go to Christmas market at Tivoli. We took the speedtrain from Stockholm at 6.21 in the Saturday morning. Oh boy, I`m not a morningperson or more I´ve to difficult to get sleep early in the evenings, often I`m still wake at 11 and 12 o´clock. Luckily Caisa came to my house on Friday evening so we could take the buss to the railwaystation together. It took 5 hours by train and then we were in Denmark.

Some time I real envy those who live in central Europe near to many countries but most of the time I´m glad I live where I live. All in all good spot to live.

Back to our weekens trip:

Because we could get the hotellroom first at 15.00  we left our luggages in a box and to the city we went, we and all the other people but not a single police. There was people every where and all shops was just full of shoppers.

and no we didn´t eat any Burgers in Copenhagen

We did very little shopping but looked at many things. I didn´t find any yarnshop so didn't increase my stock, which is allways a good thing. After 3 hours walking it started to rain so seeked a bakery for hot chololade and Danish. It was delight to sit, but holymoly when we came out the rain was pooring down.

Luckily the Bakery was very near the railwaystation. We picked up our luggage and took a taxi to the hotell. very nice hotell, I wish I had as big bedroom at home.

That's Caisa. We met first time i Beijing 1993 and have done quite many trips in Sweden together. She has shown me many small swedish towns I had never visited alone. I´m glad her husband thinks it´s ok we do our short girl´s trip together.

Unfornatly the weathergoods were not with us, so we could´t go to the Christmas Market at Tivoli we had planned to do. We we did experienced the worst november snowstorm they have had in Denmark in modern time. We were very happy for the dry and warm room at the hotell.

Day after when we took the swedish speedtrain back it went on time, but the most lokaltrain was cancelled or late for hours.

This was first time I was asked for pastport in the train when I came to Sweden and that´s because the situation of floods of refugees. There wasn´t any in the train because you need special tickets for the speedtrains.

take care Jaana

Autumn

Last week was glorious autumn weather, no rain att all and most Days Lovely sunshine so even when nights and mornings was Cold the Days were quite warm. I took up my last carrots.

mornings were cold

but I did (and still do) all morningwalks with Leo, he is a darling boy

leaves are yellow

lakewater is warmer that the air

we walk about 45 minutes every morning by the lake, which is about 5-10 minutes walk from my home. It is Beautiful walk and if I say if I couldn´t hear cars from the motorway all the time it would be perfect, now with the motorway noise it´s only a lovely walk. With raising age I have more and more problem with noise and my need of silence is bigger and bigger.

Take care Jaana