Magda is having another give-away and naturally I'm going to enter it. She truly makes the loveliest miniatures and one day I hope to get my hands on some of her jewellery. Entering her give-away should be a good start.
So go on, have a go yourself. All you have to do is go to http://magda-art.blogspot.com/ and read the conditions of the give-away. And may the luckiest person win (i.e me - hopefully!)
Sophus our dear family cat was put to sleep on Monday the 7th of June. He was 15 years old and was unfortunately very ill. Luckily he's had a long and good life.
He will be missed <3
I've been a little late with updating the blog, I'm sorry! I promised to come back and tell you about my 30th birthday weekend, but I got caught up - as usual. If you expected me to be back so soon to post, you really should know me better than that by now ;)
I'll let you guess what this is. To me, it's the beginning of an exciting adventure.
I'll return with a blog about my awesome 30th Birthday weekend tomorrow.
...would probably be a pretty suitable thing to write right now. Once again I've had so much to do that I've totally forgotten about my poor blog. I'll try to see if we can catch up:
Work? Baaah, let's not go there.
Upcoming birthday? Will be celebrated in Århus with family and friends. I'm not letting it pass by in total silence even though that was my initial idea, but we're not making a huge deal of it either. My birthday is on Friday, but we're having people over at my parents' house on Saturday to celebrate. I'm really thankful to my parents for doing this for me.
Wedding? Invitations are almost done, but not printed and sent yet. On Friday, while we're in Århus, my mother is taking me out to pick fabrics for my wedding dress. I'm really, really looking forward to that. We have the pattern and the general idea of the dress ready, but then there are lots of things to take into consideration: lace? Beading? Length? Will be fun looking around different fabric stores and getting ideas. Hopefully I'll get exactly the kind of dress I want.
Summer holidays? We're heading to Århus for a week in July for holidays with my family. Kat is coming home from Wales, but Al won't be coming this time. He doesn't have enough holiday to come over this summer. I think J and me will head over to Wrexham in late July for a week or so. Apparently EasyJet has opened a route from Copenhagen to Manchester, which is much cheaper than SAS, so we're going to check that out this year.
Crafts? It's been veeeeery quiet in that area lately. I just haven't had the time and being crafty demands time and ideas. I haven't really had much of either, so for the time being it's on a hold. Last time I sat down by the sewing machine things didn't go my way and I had a bit of a hysterical break down, to be honest. Haven't sewn anything since, so it might be a good idea to sit down and give it a go again soon.
And with that I think we're up to speed.
Today we did some serious cleaning in the flat. First of all I got rid of all the clothes that were piling up in my closet unused. It's never easy getting rid of clothes, shoes and other accesories, but it's just one of those things that needs to be done. We then went on to cleaning the flat, which at the moment is sparkling and fresh smelling. I'm going to enjoy that for the rest of my Sunday. I have tomorrow and Tuesday off, so I'll be relaxing and who knows, I might just pop by with yet another blog...
After brunch we went to a couple of flea markets in Ekeby. It's always fun to go and have a look and see if you can find a real bargain. I found a couple of things for the house. I'm in love with both the serving platter and the little vase. And naturally I can't say "no thanks" to a crochet hook.
The rest of the day is going to be all about lazing about and doing as little as possible. I'm going to bake us a pizza a little later and then I think we'll watch some TV. Lazy Sunday, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Next week is going to be one of those weeks, where I hope I'll be able to remember my own name by the time we get to Friday. Monday to Thursday I have 4 meetings and 17 parent-teacher conferences. The conferences are 20 minutes each and the meetings are everything from 30 minutes to two hours. On top of that, I also have my normal teaching schedule. So it's going to be busy, busy, busy. Luckily this past week hasn't been so busy, so hopefully I've saved up some energy for the long days. I usually get to work around 7.30am and my days will probably end around 7pm-8pm. So I bet I'll be pretty tired and not up to much apart from work. This is the typical scenario in Spring where we start getting ready for the next school year that starts in August. But things are a little different this year though, which was what I was on about in one of my previous blogs.
This week we also settled another thing that's been hanging over our heads: the catering for our wedding. I know we still have LOTS of time before the wedding, but it's still nice to have "the big things" sorted out in time. Our wedding is going to be very small, but since a big part of our guests are from Denmark and need to be accomodated there's one more thing to take into account. When you're trying to make ends meet with a very tight budget, it's awesome to have people who help out. My in-laws pulled a favour and helped us get a really nice deal on catering, so we're getting things the way we want them. A lot of things about the wedding have fallen into place and generally we've succeeded in getting it the way we want. I get butterflies everytime I think about October 21st and how lovely it's going to be. A friend of my family recently commented on my Facebook status that it would be nice if we could invite more guests and I guess in a way it would be, but I think people understand that we can't. I bet lots of people who were planning their wedding had the "Oh, I hope they won't be upset if we don't invite them"-moment and trust me, we've had many, many of those moments. I've felt guilty for having to select guests, but that's just the way it has to be when we're on the kind of budget we are. And besides our dream wedding is small, simple and private. So a long guest list was never even in the cards for us.
On another note I also have another party coming up. A 30th Birthday party. Guest of honour? Yours truly. Can you believe I'm turning 30 next month? I can't. I appriciate people saying that it isn't so bad and that 40 feels much worse, but I'm just going to say, once and for all: to me it feels absolutely horrible. My sweet mother is hosting a Birthday party for me though, which serves as a bit of a band-aid on the wound. Looking forward to celebrating with good friends and family.
I've rambled tonight, and those who are still with me deserve a medal. Thanks for reading - may you be blessed with sunshine.
The last couple of days have been VERY lazy. Basically we've somehow flipped the day around, so we're awake at night and asleep during the day. Not all of the day naturally, but at least until noon.
Yesterday we dragged ourselves out for a walk though and it was quite lovely. A little cold still, but you can definitely feel the air warming up. We went to Råådalen, because J was all set to go find a couple of geocaches. We only found one, but I think he was okay with that. I brought my camera and snapped some pics. Had hoped that Spring would be more visible in nature, but it's still pretty brown, grey and not so green. Hopefully it'll pick up over the next couple of weeks so we can go out on more geocaching/photo-walks.
Tomorrow P is arriving! Can't wait to go pick her up in Helsingør. It'll be lovely to spend time with my favourite Banana. So far there aren't many plans. We'll make it up as we go. The only thing I have planned is that we'll watch New Moon together. It's been hidden by J somewhere in the flat, so I can't get my hands on it until P arrives. Looking forward to a lovely mini-break with my dear friend.
So far today I've only done one thing: sorted out my taxes. Since I live in Sweden, but work in Denmark my taxes are a little different. I had to check some numbers today and fill out an online form and the result was wonderful! I have a tax refund in store, which'll be paid out in April. It's going straight towards our October wedding, so will have to ask my banker to put it away for safe keeping. Otherwise I'll be found on a shopping spree by mid-April. Not good - not good at all.
So ... what do I do with the rest of this day? I'll tidy a bit, clean a bit, empty the fridge so it's ready for new groceries when P arrives and tonight it's Grey's Anatomy on Kanal 5. I bet I'll find a way to enjoy myself.
I leave you with the man, Barney Stinson:
For some reason, which I can't seem to figure out, J has planted a picture of his evil eye on my desk. I'm guessing he has a masterplan. Stay tuned for the exciting follow-up, right here on my blog.
Last night I decided to read through my blog. I started blogging back in November 2006 and have undeniably gone from a pretty decent blogger to a very lousy one. I used to write lots of stuff - even when there weren't things to blog about. Maybe I could learn something from myself. Maybe there doesn't really have to be some fantastic event to capture in words. I used to blog about anything and everything that sprung to mind and by golly I'm going to try and take it up again.
I think the thing that surprised me the most was how creative I used to be in my blogs. Writing is such a healthy way of dealing with worries, sorrows and frustration, but also a wonderful way to celebrate the good and fun times. I used to write to get things out of my head - not necessarily for anyone else to read. I still need to get things off my chest, so why not do it here?
Finally I have some time off from work. It's much needed to be honest. Lately I've been feeling stressed and today I even had to stay home because I just wasn't feeling well. I'm pretty sure the Easter break will fix things though.
One thing I've been looking forward to is having time to crochet. I spent some time today crocheting a little Easter chick, which is decorating our witch hazel in the livingroom. I'll be making more Easter ornaments over the next week.
On Thursday P is arriving. Am so looking forward to having her here. We're going to have lots of fun as we always do.
Last week we visited my mum for her Birthday. It was one of those quick visits again, which I appriciate, but I wish I could stay longer with them than just for a weekend. Of course short visits are better than no visits, but I don't feel like I get to have enough time with them. And I would have loved to have had more time in Århus, so I could go see Marianne as well. Haven't seen her for ages and miss having time with her. I'll have to make sure to go over for a longer period in the summer.
While we were in Århus my mum and I also figured out the whole wedding dress issue. I've been looking at a few dresses online, but nothing's really struck me as the right dress for me. My mum had an awesome idea and we decided that we're going to make it ourselves! She had the perfect pattern lying around, which can be altered in any way I'd like, so when we go over in May for my 30th (!) Birthday, we're going to go out and look at fabrics and see what we can find. I also decided that I'm going to get married in the same shoes as my mum got married in. It's a shame I didn't take a picture of them - they're so cool! Things are beginning to fall into place, but I'm not too stressed about it anyways. We've rented the house for the party, we need to figure out the catering, send out invites, help people find accommodation and get all the paperwork filled out and sent in, but there's still lots of time. No need to stress about that.
Looking forward to a nice stress-free week at home and in good company. Who knows, I might even get to post a blog every now and then!
Magda has posted a Spring Give-away. Go check it out! She makes beautiful stuff and I'd definitely love to sport some of her gorgeous polymer clay goodies.
