Blog friendship

There I was reading Eleanor’s blog in Australia always being intrigued and fascinated by her posts but also by the comments made by Anna from Helylle. So I started reading her blog too and one day she posted a picture of a place I knew well and I realized that she must live in my hometown. So I asked her….and to my surprise she lived just a block away from me on the other side of the park! Oh I know it’s a small world I just never imagined that it was that small.

Now we meet regularly for a bit of creativity and lots of laughs. Like tonight! I had planed to do some wet felting but it was so warm we had to sit outside on the porch so I had a go at one of my two ongoing knitting projects instead and we actually managed to get some knitting done in between laughs…..She is even more funny, witty and wise in IRL…can you imagine that ! Strange isn’t it that I should find a new friend by way of Australia!

Productive eh?

Tonight Anna borrowed me a book with lots of creative knitting

Hurrah, the long autumn evenings soon to come are saved

Thanks for a great evening Anna!

Take care

Jeanette

Back in business

Wooohoo I am back, thanks to my husband who not only fixed my computer but also managed to save all my photos and documents in the process! Is he the shit or what? So will I start doing back ups ? Yep! Regularly? Nope, knowing me the answer is probably not. Unfortunately I am not a back up kind of gal although my husband ( on the second day of computer fixing) mumbled something through clenched teeth about this being the first and last time he ever would help me out did I NOT start making back ups. So I better start making them I suppose. Not that much work really just very boring…..but on the other hand I had enough of excitement when I though all my pics where gone….

So what have I been doing this computer free couple of weeks? Well I have been at the country house walking by the sea taking pictures, started on two knitting’s, made some new granny squares’ and visited a few jumble sales. I also spent a lot of time lying in the hammock reading…. Doesn’t sound too bad eh? I also took up my recycled art again and made three brooches out of a tin can, some comic magazines, pearls and wire. I am a great fan of Modesty Blaise as you might see….

Tomorrow my dear blogfriend Anna from Helylle is coming over for a creative evening and then I think I just might do a bit of wet felting. Haven’t done much felting since the exhibition but found this lovely felted vessel when I was surfing around and I got very inspired. Hopefully mine will look something like Zeds. Do visit her blog too!

Oh and I ate crayfish. Yes I know you are not supposed to eat them until august (accompanied with aquavit and obscure songs….) but I was craving….. and it almost doesn’t count since I did without the aquavit…. and just the one song...

Take care
Jeanette

Arrrrgggghhhhh

As you all can see this is not me.....but it very well could be.

My computer have been behaving oddly this last couple of weeks but I have tried to ignore it hoping it would all go away by it self. It SO not have !!!! Last night it started sending this odd messages like

Not enough space

Runtime failiure XWZ bla, bla, bla 675 XXX

CC ++ bla, bla, bla

SHUT ME OFF FOR GODS SAKE

No it didn`t say that but it was hinted IN VERY BIG LETTERS ! And then it just gave up !
Had I done any recent back up ? Nope!
Have I probably lost all my pics with the new camera and all my work related documents? Yep!
Am I angry with myself and devastated? You bet ya!

So folks this looks like it`s going to be not only a vacation soon to come but a blog vacation at that. I will read and comment on your blogs from my daughters computer but my posts will be few or without photos until Mr Gadget hopefully has cured mine!

Hope you have great days in the sun!

Take care

Jeanette

Lazy Days

The wind in the grass, the hawk in the sky, butterflies on flowers and my daughter riding through the fields …..aaah this weekend was a great reminder of lazy days soon to come. Only 2 weeks of hard work left and then its 5 weeks of doing absolutely nothing. Or at least that’s what I am going for this summer. Could be that I will visit the occasional jumble sale, paint the odd wall or two at the country house, do a little wet felting and some concrete work and some weeding and….. Oh lets face it, I am not a doing nothing kind of gal….so most likely I will be doing something…..but it will be something of my own choosing that I really, really want to do!

Take care

Jeanette

J+P = sant

Today is a special day.
It’s not only Midsummer’s Eve when all us pagans up north dance around a midsummer pole and use the fact that this is the years longest day as an excuse for drinking enormous amounts of aquavit and sing obscure songs….oh no it’s a much more important day than that. 30 years ago, on this very day my husband and I had our very first date!

30 years later he is still my
Love
Comfort
Laughter
Lust
Bob the builder
Cheering section
Happiness
Father of my children
Joy
Lover
Safety
Husband
&
Life companion

Dearest Hubby
I love you very much!

Jeanette

BFF:s

I past the TV room the other day when my daughters sat watching a TV show and judging by the OMG, OMG,OMG in high pitched girly voices that was coming from the screen I had it written of as just another stupefying American soap. On my third trip past the TV room I just had to see what crap they where watching…..

It was called my new BFF and staring Paris Hilton and it left me depressed and sad! It showed a dozen or so young American girls competing to become Paris Hiltons new best friend. It made me think of school days and the invisible or bullied kids that where always left out and how some of them did almost anything to be included. How they could be made to do all kind of stupid or humiliating things and in the end they where still left out and how that could have them marked for life.

When I mentioned this to Emma, my youngest she just shrugged her shoulders and wisely said that it’s the little brother syndrome. You know when the older brother has you go fetch the ball a hundred times saying “go get the ball and you can play with us”. Being a kid sister I suppose she knows a bit about that…. Anyway, Paris Hilton takes this to a whole other level and it made me very sad but also very grateful for the friends I have.

This past month when life has been tough on me my friends have all been there for me sharing laughter and tears telling me that everything will be all right. Or just hugging me but saying nothing knowing that a hug was just what I needed.

Thinking about this suddenly had me humming….. Carole King right?

When you’re down and troubled

And you need a helping hand

And nothing, nothing is going right.

Close your eyes and think of me

And soon I will be there

To brighten up even your darkest nights.

You just call out my name,

And you know wherever I am

Ill come running

To see you again.

Winter, spring, summer, or fall,

All you have to do is call

And Ill be there, yes I’ll be there

Cause you’ve got a friend.


Oh how true!

Thank you all my dear friends. Life would be nothing without you!

Take care

Jeanette

Exquisite flowers….and anxiety

Been of the radar for a while, sorry about that. I haven’t been feeling well and I am just so fed up about doctors ignoring it….not listening…..and just prescribing this and that without really examining you……and then your five minutes are up and you are out of the door none the wiser. I absolutely hate not knowing! I can take almost anything just as long as I know what I am dealing with. I have an appointment with a specialist in two weeks time so hopefully that is going to give me some answers….but two weeks feels like a long wait…. And my anxiety grows….

Nature makes me happy though. Must show you one of my columbines (Aquilegia) that the deer’s didn’t get to. Thank god for small mercies!

Take care
Jeanette