Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

To paint your house yellow

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No, this is not my house.
I passed it while walking downtown this morning.

 

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Mini mittens, knitted, painted, filmed

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Snails are not the only thing I knit these days, quite a few mini mittens also find their way from my needles and out into the world. Small skeins of left over yarn, colour inspiration from the garden, 2-3 hours of knitting and there another mitten is finished.

My plan is to make a girland for the greenhouse.
So far I have six mittens, so still a way to go.

Knitting these tiny mittens, on needles 2mm, is a challenge for my stiff fingers.
So from time to time I do some thing else.
Like painting.

 

You can see more in today's episode:

 

 

 

The kind of snails I love

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Snails in the garden, we do not like them much, do we?
I am lucky, I do not have too many not those terrorist snails which eat everything, still, there are more than enough to get rid of, and during the summer months I fight the battle the best I can.

Luckily not all snails are demons, some are cute as buttons and made to be loved to the moon and beyond. 

You see, I have a growing family of knitted snails in my garden. small skeins of left over yarn, a pair of needles, 13ish stitches and a few hours, and a new snail is born. So far this snail family has three members, but it is growing fast.

 

I talk about the snails and also describe in detail how I make them in the most previous episode of Britt Arnhild´s World:

 

 

 

With colours from Venice

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A new knitted top for the summer. In the colours of the Venetian lagoon.

I ordered Terje to come out in the greenhouse with me yesterday. To take photos and also some footage to use in my video. He is easy to ask, I am a bit more difficult to satisfy, but after a few tries we were where I wanted us to be :-)

The new episode is out today:

 

 

Snail´s pace

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Some days I love to live in a snails pace. Slowly, with nothing special on my agenda.

I have an idea for a fun knitting project. To knit colourful snails with yarn from my left over stash.

I knit slowly.
At a snails pace.

How good it is to be in no hurry.

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I will talk m ore about this project in my next video.
Meanwhile you can enjoy an old video, from May last year:

 

 

 

When it feels like summer

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Winter was long this year, spring was short.
Well, technically speaking we still have spring, but for days and days now we have had sun and mild temperatures. The garden is sprouting, and I am busy from early morning till late night. Busy in a very good way. Out in the garden for hours and hours.

Our garden is a place for beauty, but just as much a rustic place, for grandchildren to play in. If they break a flower stem or ten, what does it matter? If the weeds grow faster than my fingers can fight them, what does it matter?

I plant, I water, I weed.......from time to time.
But most of all I enjoy every minute of my days.

It is still spring, and it feels like summer.
The Nordic summer with daylight almost around the clock, chilly mornings, days warm enough for the children to shower under the water hose, long, bright afternoons and nights taken from my dreams.

 

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We have had a garden filled with children and grandchildren all day today.
When they left it was time for me to water the garden. I love watering. Time to reflect, time to go back and enjoy moments from the day, time for prayers. Time for growth, for me and for the many plants.

 

 

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Have you not seen this weeks episode in Britt Arnhild´s World yet?
Here it is:

 

 

Britt Arnhild´s World

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After many years of blogging, ever since January 2005, it was a natural development for me to start YouTubeing.......many years later.  My very first video on YouTube was posted in January 2018, and since then I have made more than 300 videos. I started in English, then after some months I continued in in Norwegian, and since January 2019 I make twin episodes, one in Norwegian, one in English.

For me, doing videos, developing my YouTube-skills, have been a way to move forward. I don't want to say goodbye to my first love, blogging, along the way, but naturally (?) making videos has taken more and more of my blogging time.

My goal is to be able to do both, to be active here on Britt Arnhild´s House in the Woods and also make weekly videos in two languages in Britt Arnhilds verden (Britt Arnhild´s World) on YouTube.

 

I would love to hear from you what you prefer.
Blog posts
YouTube-episodes?
Both?

 

Here is the video from this week:

The willow flute

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Do you know hoe to make a willow flute?
Terje does and every spring he makes me one.

In today's episode of Britt Arnhilds verden/world on YouTube, I have included a film of him making me one.
Enjoy :-)

By the way, this flute is not made of willow, but of rowan.