Flea market

The flea market season has started! This Sunday Silas and I went to a big flea market together with some friends. The whole street was filled and totally crowded, with lots of different stands and people. I bought some dresses for myself, which were all to small! I also bought some bags, and some nice and cheap toys for Silas. (Which he is still too small to play with, but its nice to have) 

 

 

 

Happy new year 2071

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lists

I love making lists! Not practical to do lists, but nice, cosy lists about wishes, dreams and activities.

One of the first lists I remember making, was when I was about 11 years old. The list was called: “Things I have to remember when I become a mother” It was from an 11 year olds perspective, so it would be really interesting to find this list now, but unfortunately I don’t know where it is. (But I do remember storing it in a box for the future, so it must be somewhere!) I do remember some of the points on the list though, and I remember the main points to be something related to seeing the child for who it is and respecting its view, and things like this. (It’s actually a Danish term from my education, which I don’t know how to translate into English)  

When I was around 17 me and some friends made a list called “Organic community in the south of England” I don’t really know why it was going to be in the south of England, as I have never been there, haha. But I remember we had seen some nice photos from there, which kind of caught our imagination. I remember that some of the ingredients of this list (and of this community) was that we were going to open a private kindergarten there, and do this for a living. And all the main activities in the kindergarten (and community/house) was going to be creative activities, like painting and modelling. We were also going to grow our own vegetables and be as self-sufficient as possible, and we were going to have a lot of pets too.

I think I was the only person who was serious about the reality- potential of this list, and who still think it is a quite nice idea…



(This photo is from another kind of ecovillage I once lived in. I went to this place every morning to get tomatoes and herbs for the food I was going to make. I really liked the mornings there. )

When I had problems with my appendix for a long time during my early twenties, without any diagnose, I was making a list pointing out things I wanted to do if I got well and the pain disappeared. Luckily it did, and the fun thing is that I found the list several years later, and noticed I had fulfilled all the things on the list. I don’t remember all of it now, but one of the things was that I wanted to go to some small place by the coast in Ireland, to learn the Irish language (Gaelic)



(This is where I went. Really nice place. I was there three times.)

          

At the moment I am making lists with ideas for Silas name celebration. Thats fun too. :-) More to come about this later.

More about crochet

Silas is now big enough to wear some of the clothes I have made! It is fun to see it on him, and it inspires me to make more. When I get some more time (or make some new priorities) I will try to follow a recipe again. Would really like to learn it.

The yarn I used for making this jacket was bought in Kathmandu. I bought one kilo of wool in different colours, and then me and the one kilo of wool were packed on the back of a motorbike and drove through this street. I was feeling like a local in that moment.

 

 

 

The yarn was really cheap, but it was also of a quite bad quality, I found out later. And it was originally from New Zealand, by the way. I think I will have to bring another local “guide” for this next time..

Nimai

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Crochet scarfs

Last year I joined a crochet class. I knew how to crochet before I attended the class, but not so much more than the basics, and I didn’t know how to follow a recipe. It is possible to do quite a lot without those skills though, and only with some basics. So I made a lot of small vests and jackets.
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I did miss the possibility of being sure that the proportions were ok though, which often ended up with being a surprise along the way. I also missed the possibility of variations in stitches (I am not sure whether this is the correct English word) and patterns. 

 

So, I joined a course. Here is the first thing I tried to make by following a recipe. A scarf. I liked the pattern, and it was easy when I had learned the basics about it. The scarf is a little bit heavy, and too stiff to have around the neck. But really cosy, warm and nice to wear over the shoulders on a cold winter evening.

I don’t remember now where I found the recipe,. It was from one of the many library books I was borrowing at that time.

 

When I had finished the scarf I wanted to make something more ,using the same stiches, just to be sure I would not forget them. I decided to knit another scarf, but just plain and not in any specific shape, just to maintain the new skill.

 This scarf is still in progress, as my son was born right in the middle of it..

 

New life, new blog

The first coffee in the morning. Wool. The smell of a wood stove. Yarn. Cows. The west coast of Ireland. Friends and family. Nepal. Travelling. Dreaming. Handwritten letters. Photos. Cats. Vegetarian cooking and baking. Books. Organic products. Art. Crochet. Blogs. The smell of wool. My cute baby. These are some of my favourite things.

I am a Norwegian living in Denmark, and the mother of an amazing little person who is half Nepalese.

I like both the city and the countryside, but not so much the thing in between. Right now I am living in the middle of the city, while dreaming of cows, the ocean and ecovillages. I live here with my son (Silas Nimai), and sometimes with my husband too.

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My blog is about my daily life, my travels (especially to Nepal and Ireland), my hobbies, activities and interests. I am documenting the small things I do and think, to store it as a diary, and to keep in touch with friends and family far away.