Possibilities

I’ve had kind of a creative draught lately but for the last couple of days the urge to create something has started to build up again….. Suddenly my head is full of ideas swirling around like in a gigantic spin dryer and I feel like I’m going to explode…..A nice feeling in one way but also a bit stressing because so many possibilities and so little time…Where shall I start?

I want to knit some graffiti to put on a lamp post outside my dead boring neighbor’. I first thought about knitting a “hand gesture” but decided to go with “live, love and laugh” instead. It having a more “love thy neighbor” touch…..

I want to make something out of my old stamp collection that I found on the attic the other day…..

….and my old Disney collecting cards found at the same place




…..and I have so many ideas about what I want to wet felt that my head is starting to feel all woolly….



So enough writing, better get started . Just need an ice cream break first.....



See ya soon
Jeanette

Hazardous

In Sweden we have a saying ” sådan ägare, sådan hund” which would translate into ”like owner, like dog” when we make fun of the fact that there is an resemblance between the owner and his dog. This morning when I drove to work I started to think the same way about cars but when it came not to their owners but to their registration plates. Eh come again? Well, in Sweden the plates consists of three random letters followed by three numbers and occasionally these letters form a word. Like this morning when a fast and brightly orange sports car overtook a dark brown and more heavy set one…..and the orange had BEE and the brown one OTT…..and I thought a bee overtaking an otter …..and then I was hooked. Couldn’t stop looking at all my fellow commuters registration plates, did it fit with the impression I got of the car?

Warning, warning, warning!
This is when we get to the hazardous part! Doing this is not only addictive but also extremely dangerous making you into an accident waiting to happen and might get you into a situation where you are looking much closer at the plate than you ever wanted …..which is right before you drive into it….

I really must stop looking…..

Oh look that plate has PMS …..and that one is a….

Oh bother!

Have a nice day!

Jeanette

Drift wood

I like going to the beach and search for drift wood. It’s something very soothing and calming about taking a stroll preferably on an empty beach feeling the sand between your toes and the happiness when you find something truly beautiful. Feeling the smooth surface of the drift wood under your fingers and wonder where it originally came from.

As of late I have been having problems finding any, drift wood that is not beaches. Today when surfing around internet I got the answer to why. Someone have been nicking the wood before me and in France of all places. I found the site Bleu Nature , a french company making lovely furniture and other items from drift wood.

Evidently they start every season by going out on the beaches of Normandy collecting all the drift wood they can find and then back to the work shop where the design takes place. No wonder I can’t find any wood over here anymore…. LOL. Lets hope the winds blow in my direction this autumn eh?

Take care
Jeanette

In loving memory

My sweet, cuddly, funny and loyal companion for nine years died last friday probably due to have eaten rat posion. I meant to write a much longer post, a post worthy a true friend but the letters are getting blurred and the key board wet after just a few sentences.

Funny how such a small animal can fill such a big place in your heart!

I miss him so much!

Jeanette

Patience anybody ?

I am not a patient person. Passion yes but patience no. Better fast, finished and sometimes wrong than slow, almost never finished but always get it right. Need I say that my husband is the opposite? Well now my total lack of patience is showing it`s ugly face and I walk around feeling annoyed and irritated all the time. It might be due to the three weeks of vacation that I have already had and the two weeks yet to come. How so you might wonder. Oh I have had a marvelous vacation so far it`s not that it`s just that I`ve had all the time in the world wandering around the country house seeing all unfinished projects, gritting my teeth and knowing that they won’t be done this summer either. You know little things like isolation on the second floor so that we actually can stay here during winter and won’t have to spend a fortune on central heating. Oh yes why not some central heating while we are at it and a bathroom that doesn´t look like a hole in the wall. No luxury mind you but something else than concrete floor would be nice and maybe some tiles and a basin…. Speaking of the second floor , it would be very nice if the daughters rooms were started on up there since sleeping four persons in the same bedroom doesn`t do much for the matrimonial bliss. But then the isolation must be done first and….. well, it`s catch 22 folks. Or like one of them little games you had when you were a kid, a square with the numbers 1-15 on it all in the wrong order and you had to move them around to get them in the right order again. Or that multicolored cube thing, Uck! I never were any good at those games either…..didn`t have the what’s you call it, ah yes PATIENCE that’s the word I was looking for.

I read an article the other day about a woman that had a gigantic garden and a very nice one at that. The interviewer asked her how she managed to tend to the garden all on her own not getting stressed by the enormity of the task. She said that she did one little project at the time and focused just on that and when it was finished she took time to enjoy the fact that she had done it instead of thinking about all the things that was still left to do. It sounded dead easy. Like something even I could manage.So from tomorrow on I will try to do just that…....


......but tonight I still want my garden to look like this

Yeah I know it`s hard to compete with Gertrud Jekyll .... but I am sure she had lot`s of patience.....and a few gardeners.

My house like it came out of this.....

and me feeling ( and looking) like this......

But tomorrow thats when I start laughing at clouds.....

Take care
Jeanette

Lat N 55 grader 42' 24' Long E 14 grader 05' 15'

Sea eagle by Mattias Klum

As you all know I am a great fan of photography and I try to visit as many exhibitions as I can. Today my husband asked me if I wanted to go and see some of the fabulous photos of Mattias Klum Now would I ? You bet ya! Not only would I be able to see the work of the Swedish photographer who has made the cover of National Geographic 8 times (so far...) but also have an outing on my own with my husband. Little did I know that I also was to see the most amazing of buildings….

The exhibition was held at the brewery at the Södra Björstorps manor and I had never heard about it before although I visit that part of Skåne very often and its not that far at all from my country house.

Oh you want to tag along do you? Well, hop in! Fasten seat belts and woohoo here we go!

We drove to just outside Brösarp, took a right turn to Södra Björstorp, went through the woods and then down this beautiful alley...

.....and suddenly I saw it through the trees…..a yellow gemstone of a house….octagonal …..

It was a strange feeling to so unexpectedly see this amazing house rise from the woods. It was love at first sight and I couldn’t get out of the car fast enough to inspect it. You see at first I thought my eyes where deceiving me and that I would find it not octagonal at all when walking around it. But to my joy it was! You can see much better from the air photo from the manors website.

The exhibition was held not in the manor house it self alas as I would have liked to get a peak inside….but in the old brewery. The brewery was beautiful too though and it was a perfect setting for the photos.

Now this is what I would like my old barn to look like...in ten years time or so....

You wish!

Stepping inside we met the very nice owner who told us a bit more about the history of the house. She was very kind and a joy to talk to not like some galley owners I have met over the years. You know the type where it is more important that you are "someone" in the art world than the fact that you are acually interested in the pieces shown. Oh well, enough about that. We learnt that the house is one of its kind in Sweden and built 1775 but the manor go back to ancient times and some of the wood work in the cellars where from 1300. The house is actually sixteen-sided on the outside and octagonal on the inside. Now that must be quite a challenge for interior decorating don’t you think!

The owner

Did I forget to mention the photos? Going on and on about the house am I ? Sorry about that, got a bit carried away I guess! Well the photos where simply wonderful and very inspirational for me! He is such a talented photographer and some of the photos was pure poetry! You can see more of them here. So if you happen to be in the neighborhood you absolutely must pay the house and the exhibition a visit. You won’t regret it! The exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday until the 30 of august. The opening hours is 11-17. My self I hope to go back really soon bringing a friend from Stockholm.

How to find it?

GPS coordinates:
Lat N 55 grader 42' 24'
Long E 14 grader 05' 15'
or visit the website: http://www.sodrabjorstorp.se/ for more information.


Hope you all have a really nice week end!

Take care
Jeanette

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