Fonts galore

Once again I have been playing around with the design of this blog. This time I added a signature file to every blog post. Played around with a few fonts and colors and wound up with this signature…Like it?

While playing around, I came over a new site for free fonts, a nice collection of some cool free fonts. Have added more than a handful of new fonts to my already bountiful  collection. Can’t hurt to have too many fonts?

http://www.fontspace.com/

Doesn’t hurt that Windows 7 makes it so easy to install new fonts either. Just open a .ttf and there’s a Install-button on the top left side of the window. Can’t complain about that. How many fonts will you install???

Snowflakes keep falling on my head

Today I woke up to snow!

Though the temperature is not cold enough for the snow to stick…The first snow has arrived!

I hope you are prepared…have you change to winter tires on your car(s)?

A little dress for a little girl

I finally finished my first knitted garment…a little dress for BabyS.

I fell totally in love with these two little dresses by Pickles

Dress 1	Dress 2
Pictures borrowed from the Pickles website
Link to pattern: http://www.pickles.no/en-liten-finkjole/	Link to pattern: http://www.pickles.no/enkel-tunika/

Well looking at the knitting patterns I realized that “dress 1” was too difficult for this inexperienced knitter. Well “dress 2” is knitted with a more coarse yarn than I wanted to knit with. In conclusion, I wanted to knit a dress that had elements from both. With both patterns at hand I started…hoping for the best.

While I was knitting the dress I got even more inspired when I came across this blog post. Why not add something extra?? Adding “a little heart” can’t be that difficult…

 
a few s for inspiration

And here’s the result!

 

not too bad for my first attempt at a garment if I do say so myself…

A few things I learned during this project:
- Always jot down how far you’ve come – you never know when BabyS suddenly will require all your attention
- Don’t knit in poor lighting – chances of knitting something wrong is way bigger
- If in doubt about a knitting technique, check out these videos

Natures fall color palette

It’s official, fall is here.

This week I was out strolling with BabyS and she was totally mesmerized by all the beautiful colors that surrounded us. I recommend taking a stroll in the Norwegian woods these days. It really is beautiful…

some of the color palette on my stroll…

Well the summer is over for sure. These days there is more wind and rain than there are sunny days. Though the temperature has still not dropped below 10°C. So these days I’m trying to cram in as many strolls with BabyS as the weather allows.

All I can say, get on some warm clothes and go out and enjoy Norway!

Buzz, buzz, buzz

Being a Buzzador means I frequently get the option of participating in different “marketing campaigns “. This means I get free stuff I can share with friends and family, what’s better than that?

Today I picked up my latest package from Buzzador…3 kilos of chewing gum!! Personally I don’t chew much gum, but DaddyO does… So he gets a box to bring to work. This way he can share with his colleagues too. Well off to plan some more sharing (or buzzing as we Buzzadors call it)

that’s a lot of gum

Contact me if you canna know more about being a Buzzador – the concept is too much to describe in a blog post. Wanna become a Buzzador? Sign up on there web site here