livingroom

I feel it's a long time I shared some pics of my livingroom, but it has been looking the same for many months now... (even the decor has been the same)... until some days ago. I suddently became restless :).

For me there's no cheaper or quicker way to give a room a new and fresh feeling but to move the furniture around a bit...

I love the intimicy of having the two sofas close together without a coffe table.

It works well for our family, but not so much for hosting bible study groups, etc... so I doubt I'll keep it very long.  But with the woodstove just on the other side it's very cozy as long as we lit a fire in the evenings (or all day, when it's really cold). 

This table is rarly used for eating, but very often for homework, playing games, drawing... I like to have an extra table in the livingroom.

The piano wall is still nearly the same.

As I type this I have my girl snuggling up to me, one of the boys is sitting across on the other sofa, reading... and three boys are outside. One just informed me there was a diaper to change...

:)

Still winter or allready spring?

After our weekend in the snow I'm in the process of finding ski shoes for every member of our family. I found      one pair at our local goodwill. And there I saw some old wooden ski...

But I coudn't justfy to spent 100 NOK on something I did not really need. 

So I went home without buying them.

When I told one of my sons about it he informed me that we actually had two pair of old wooden ski on the garage loft. (they belong to my parents-in-law).

So for now it's still a little winter around here.

mountains

Day 1

Day 2

What a fantastic weekend!

quiet on my blog

I know. Life is busy. Life is good and sometimes hard. This blog is just a tiny aspect of my life...

On Friday we had a birthday celebration for our little girl.

Some primulas and using what I had around the house...

Writing the guests names directly on the paper plates...

Adding a bow to the chair of the birthday child....

and reusing the garland I made for babyboys birthday last year, added a little party mood to the dining room.

Later that day we had a family party for both her and boy nr2 who turns eleven in February.

This boy makes me laughing!

weekend

I started to paint our bedroom grey yesterday - love it so far... :)

But today it's Sunday and we had sun...

In the woods we went, meeting up with some other families from church...

My two oldest boys and I followed the trail a little further up and enjoyed the view

(and some mommy-time ;)

Some places the trail was pure ice...

Just enjoying the beauty of God's creation.

farm house table

... and the last of christmas flowers.

(What is it with me that I can't throw away flowers before they really have died? ;)

The farmhouse table is our old IKEA Norden table with some planks on top.

I'm happy how it turned out, but not really sure with the color I used for the legs.

I just painted them once and I need to do one more coat... 

(see the plastic sheet is still under ;)

The color is a light grey, though a little darker than the bench, but the slight pink/purple hue is bothering me.

My inspiration pic was some shades darker... shall I get new paint?

scource

I think I have to. Or will mixing it with some black paint do the trick?

New Year and christmas recap

Happy new year!

The older the children get the more I appreciate holidays and school breaks... so good to have everybody home, even Mr Viking was home every day between christmas and new year!

Add the beloved aunt R to the mix (who spent her christmas break from her bible school year in England here with us) and everybody's happy!

Christmas eve we set up a long table in the kitchen/dining room and enjoyed traditional pinnekjøtt for dinner.

The table cloth wasn't ironed - but cloth napkins give the feeling of some luxary ;).

Mismatched wine glasses, my grandmothers silver cuttlery and my husbands grandmothers china.

Some straps of Hadanger lace and some burlap and a little greenery.

And my husband made the best mashed rutabaga (yellow turnip) I ever tasted!