TRICK OR TREAT! Halloween idag. Håper det kommer en del unger på døra.
Fikk kjøpt gresskar for 50 kroner stk på Coop på mandag. Her står de i gangen og venter på å få ansikter.


Her er de etter at jeg og jentene skar ut ett hver. Skal sette et på balkongen oppe i andre etasje, en på trappa og en ute ved garasjen.
Planen min var å henge opp laken "spøkelser og diverse annen pynt, men i år er vi i en litt spesiell situasjon. Jeg har ikke helt overskudd, naturlig nok.
Men se hvordan det så ut da vi våknet i dag! Ikke min ide for en flott siste-oktober-dag, men hva kan vel jeg gjøre med det? NADA-NOTHING-NJET-ITTNO'


Den yngste skal på et Halloween party og den eldste klarer ikke å tenke lenger enn at det er altfor mye lekser, selv på en dag som denne! Så jeg blir vel løpende til og fra nynorsk arbeidsuke-rapport og knask-eller-knep'ere på døra.
Tok bilde a gresskarene igår og tok kameraet med opp til Bill som ligger på sykehuset og begynner å bli temmelig lei av å ligge i en seng for det meste.

Strikket ferdig veska til eldstejenta mens jeg satt på Ullevål.I min noe forvirrede tilstand så jeg ikke at jeg plasserte henkene feil i forhold til en avlang bunn, så jeg måtte strekke, hale og dra etter tovein for å få det sånn noenlunde. Var jo forseint å rekke opp. Et evig minne om stress- situasjons-strikking....





Disse sokkene strikket jeg til Bill for en stund siden. De ble helt paerfekte i passformen for hans fot. (HVISKE: men jeg ror jeg vaska de i litt for varmt vann så nå spørs det hvem som kan ha de på føttene.. Men pytt- man har da et garnlager!!!!!!!)


Jeg var sykemeldt forrige uke mens vi var hos Bill på Ullevål mandag og tirsdag- og resten av uka hjemme. Jeg syntes ikke det var mye hjelp for meg selv for maken til løping med ærend og telefonering er det lenge siden jeg har gjort... Bare forsikring er jo noe som krever sin mann! også jeg som blir matt av papirarbeid og telefonering uansett- nÅ er det som om jeg må dra meg etter håret for å få gjort alt...
Fikk denne og neste uke fri også men synes jeg blir dratt i armer og bein og haugen med ting jeg må gjøre blir liksom ikke mindre.
Bestemte meg i går kveld for å ha en rolig morgen med julepresang håndarbeid i dag og prøve å komme meg på strikke kafeen i kveld..

Knitting is a good thing when you are sitting by a hospital bed

We are now back in town after the second trip to Oslo, spent last Saturday - Tuesday there. Now they have moved my husband to our local hospital and we are all happy about that. He gets to sit up a little every day but still he cannot put his feet on the floor. The "good" foot still has staples in the transplanted skin, but soon they will remove it I'm sure. Everything is going according to plan...
We got flowers from neighbours:Thank you so much.





I finished a few things:


This shawl is sent off to my step daughter for her birthday, made a headband to go with it.
I had some left over yarn so I made another headband and this scarf.








This pumpkin is supposed to be felted. I found the pattern in knitty's fall issue










..And this is how it ended up. I have felted it a bit too hard but it is stell sweet. My daughter wants to go trick-or-treat with it.

Back at home

Got back today after spending Tuesday and Wednesday in Oslo last week, then a trip home Thursday and Friday, then back to Ullevål in Oslo Saturday morning. The plan was to stay for the weekend, but my husband had this reaction to everything that had happened (they had told him it always comes after a while if you are a trauma patient) and also responded badly to the drugs so I have been there until today- Tuesday.
He had his surgery on Friday, it took most of the day since he also had to have some skin removed from his thigh and transplanted unto his foot of the "good" leg because of a burn he got being stuck in that car.
Sunday night they gave him a room to himself and I slept there too. That sort of got us over the hump, both of us. He got to go home to the local hospital today, which is a relief. He has to stay in bed for another week due to the transplant that has to be elevated at all times. We were also informed that he has to put no more that 10 kg on his operated leg for three months from surgery date. That is a long recovery...past Christmas actually.
But we have to take a day at a time.
Thanks to everyone who has expressed their sympathy these past few days, also you bloggers with your comments!
I had some hours by the bedside where I knitted and I will show results later this week...

a reminder of how precious life is.

It's early morning and I'm at my sister's house. Got up at five after lying in bed, awake, for an hour... We are at her house because my husband was in a bad car accident yesterday morning. He is okay, after all, but I'm shaken up, that's probably why i woke up so early..
He came head to head with another car in a bad curve not far from where I work- he was on his way to the airport to go to China on a business trip. The people in the car who was behind him called the ambulance and then he called me himself while he was stuck in the car..
I usually have my phone in the staff room, but this time I had brought my jacket into the classroom because I had thought it was my yard duty during recess(which it wasn't - and I never mistake Tuesdays yard duties...) That is the only reason I was able to receive his phone call. I find it hard to call that a coincident.
I got to the place of the accident right after the ambulance, police and fire truck had arrived. He was conscious the whole time and made sense when he talked, so tht made me keep my cool. They had to cut the car into pieces in order to get him out.
He was flown to Oslo with the ambulance helicopter and the girls and I drove in a couple of hours later.
It's a miracle he is alive, and what more is: he has "only" broken his hip (scheduled for surgery today) and a number of smaller bones in his upper body, like ribs, collar bone etc.
On my way in to Oslo, my sister met me in Asker and drove us in to the hospital from ther since I didn't really know how to get there. THANK YOU, SIS!!
After visiting Bill and reassuring ourselves that he was-after all- fine, we went back to her house and I got tea, a glass of red wine later , and good , soothing conversation.
THANK YOU BOTH OF YOU!

Autumn colours

Beautiful colours outside my one living room window









Waiting for Halloween. We moved this year and are on the main street as opposed to before when we were outside of town. Since we got used to Halloween living in Canada for 8 years we are eagerly awaiting this one, expecting a lot more kids coming to our door!
The coffee table has already been clad in autumn colours and the halloween quilt my sister gave us for Christmas last year deserve to be up all of October Month!













I made this shawl (Christmas present..) Yarn: Nook and a bronze thread (might be able to see it by clicking on the close-up..)I knit most of it sitting on the bus from Oslo a couple of weekends ago. There are little wooden beads on the fringes. Will make a headband to go with it but need to get more yarn first and they don't have it in this little town.

more from this week's craftiness

This is a bag for my oldest daughter. Yarn: Fritid and a thin strand of silver (not visible on the picture..). The chunky parts are Canto..
Am waiting for my sister to bring me more silver before I continue...


Sitting pad. After knitting six - and very boring knitting it is!!!- and giving them away- was so jealous I have to knit some for our own butts!


I worked on this a little bit- haven't touched it for months. But my hand is hurting more when I crochet than when I knit so I only did a few rows..

We stayed up at the cottage until Thursday late afternoon. Had one glorious day of sunshine. That day we went for a alk, bringing hot chocolate and sandwiches. I think the dog was beside herself with joy!


After the walk we sat outside the cottage until six in the afternoon. The bonfire was lovely and we fried bacon, hot dogs and marshmallows on our widdled sticks. What a great day for us all!




My knitting basket at the cottage contains the usual hand-me-down crap acrylic yarn that I'm making patches out of and I will eventually put them together into a blanket of some sort. At least they provide me with the comfort of never running out of knitting and the colours are earth tones..I have almost 30 patches now. (the thing is I always bring knitting from home..)






My daughter gets into crafts sometimes when we are at the cottage and now she took over my jewellry making ..


underneath these lines I tried posting a picture of my new sitting pad and the bag I'm working on but Blogger will not cooperate for more photoes, so I'll try again later tonight....

Fall vacation.

The whole family are ready to take the week off and go up to the cottage for as long as we care to stay! I can't wait! The hubby got the week off too. He often has days left to take time off, but sometimes he has to make so many business trips in fall/early winter that we end up having fall vacation without him. I hope we'll get some nice, sunny days. The dog loves it when we are all outside during the day. If the weather is crummy none of us wants to get dressed until noon, we keep the fire going in the open fireplace and just sit(=i.e. those of us who knit/crochet/do needlepoint)/lay around...
Last weekend I was in Oslo Friday night and at my sister's on Saturday. Just her and I in the house.. What did the two of us do during the day??? VISIT KNITTING STORES!This one..It's a marvellous hobby store, their website is still under construction, but I bet it will be great once it's done.. It's in Røyken, not too far from Asker.
I bought some NUUK yarn and made a shawl I'll give away for Christmas (photo later, I'm out of batteries on my camera
I knit a pair of dark blue socks for the hubby.I finsihed my alpaca hat to go with my wrist warmers- and I look like an egg in it!!! (won't promise a photo of me IN the hat, but I will take a picture of the hat..)
AND MY RIGHT ARM AND HAND HURTS A LITTLE.
I have also bought yarn for a booga bag for my oldest daughter who had visited her cousin and seen the bag I made for her last christmas... For that project I bought off white Fritids- yarn (not the best to felt but they don't have Cortina in town..) and I have some thin metal thread to knit in- as ordered!
A reminder: You do read the net magazine KNITTY I hope?! If not: start right now!


Right now I have my purple shawl on the needles- and that's all the knitting that is in the making- so I better start some more projects. it's not like me to have just one on the go....!
The hubby is bringing his computer and phone card up t the cottage so I can visit some blogs if I want to. It probably means he cannot leave work entirely, but there are some benefits in it for me... knitting blogs!