This is my week so far!

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Time  really goes  fast. In a few days, I am going to spend a three week vacation in the Philippines. And I am really looking forward for it. But before I leave, I invited my mother-in-law to a dinner.  We were only three, me, my youngest daughter and mother-in-law, since my hubby was still ombord. He is coming home the day before I leave to say hello and goodbye to me. So I am both happy and sad.

Anyway, table for three.

I served salad together with...

...lasagne. My daughter's request.

Dinner table

For the dessert we had gele  and I baked Pavlova cake. This is the bunn.

My daughter made toppings of vanilie and whipped cream and decorated with assorted fruits. This cake tastes heaven! Our favorite.

Sign of Easter.  Small tree decorated with colorful feathers

And guess what? This flower lady captured some flowers shots too:) 

Beautiful orchids where I work.

A touch of green.

Well,  Gospel choir came to visit the elderly to entertain them at the activity center where I work. They sang beautifully. So I enjoyed my evening with them.

Before I end this post, I want you to say hello to Sara Giraffe. My project this week.

This picture is from the hobby book 

And this is my  crotheted giraffe

Solbjøg liked it very much. She bought it for her grandson.

I went also to the cinema  with a friend and watched  Anna Karenina. 

So that is for now.

Since I am going on vacation, I don't know if I will find time to blog, but who knows:)

See you Philippines on Saturday!

JOY

Flora and fauna

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Suprise! My fauna are not alive and moving. 

Soon it will be Easter in Norway and they are selling decorated eggs and chickens figures  everywhere. Signs of Easter they say. I can't really see the connection between what Jesus did on the cross of calvary with the chickens. But they say that egg means new life in it when it cracked. Like Jesus is giving new life to those who believe ? 

But anyway, I made my own chickens or they look almost like chicken or duck?

Meet Hønhild.  Høne is Norwegian  word for hen ( mother of the chicks) in English .

And this is Anton, the duck. He got his name from an old lady where I work. By the way, these stuff toys are for sale in the activity center where I work. The profit goes to the elderly.

I found these two in a book. They are actually partners. I crotheted them and  put some hair on their heads like you can see at the above pictures.

And now my flora. Roses are from the flower bouquet I bought last week end. Still blossoming.

I took pictures of these flowers from the shop. Maybe the customers think that I am a crazy woman. I took some shots anyway with my phone while buying other stuffs. 

Thought for the day

Give your future to God and you won't regret the past.

Blog addict!

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Since I began blogging for over a year now, the whole world suddenly laid bare before me. Waiting to be explored. I never thought that there are so much treasures to find.  I became a blog addict. Sounds negative word, but for me it has been positive. Suddenly I have friends all over the world young and young once like me:) But each and everyone has made my life more  meaningful and colorful. I learned a lot and seen a lot through other blogs. And not only that, I developed myself too in many areas of my life.

But, the negative of blogging is it takes much of my time because after work I  use  hours in reading blogsposts, writing my own and editing pictures to publish.  Result:  my stamina went down to almost zero level.

Being fifty, I have to think of my health. So I decided to do something about it. It does not mean that I am going to stop blogging.  But maybe going to use less hours on it because I began going to the gym. Three times a week of training,  Zumba dancing, Pilates and yoga. And I am really enjoying it.

And that is for my body! But wait a minute. How about my spiritual life?

Good to be reminded by God  that as I take care of my physical body, I have to take care of my soul and spirit too.

God is saying that I shall not live by bread alone, meaning just feeding my physical body, but I have to feed  myself with his words. That is the right thing to do. And he said too:

So God is telling me that what good it is for me if I will be popular in blog world and  have a good physical body if I neglect my soul. Those things won't bring me to heaven. His advice:

Yes, I found the secret! To be successful in everything I do whether blogging, handcrafting, photography, training , in my job or in evey area of my life...I should be obedient to the word of God.

That I need God's wisdom to set my priority straight! How about you? Are you a blog addict too?

                                                                            JOY

Sara Zebra and more!

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Hello out there! Meet my new project Sara Zebra.

I found her from my hobby book , but my Sara Zebra is a little bit longer. Don't you think?

This will be the right place for her. 

                               Anyway, my not so colorful sunrises this week!

And sunsets! But  I still love the variation of them.

                                                 Captured flower shots! 

                                        Yellow rose!

Red tulips

Orchids

Blue  one. Found these flowers at my mother-in-laws house.

And lastly, dinner prepared by my youngest daughter for us. Salmon with cream and vegetables. Hmmmn. It was really yummy.

Thought for the day

Where are you heading?

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. 

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

JOY