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In my most previous episode in Britt Arnhild´s World I talk about egg traditions, and I show you all the different wrist warmers, seven pairs in all, I made using Lent, inspired my unknown watercolours by the Austrian painter and designer Josef Frank.
Welcome over.
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Saturday night.
The night before Easter Day.
The night before victory and new beginnings.
Tonight is the darkest night of all.
In a few hours we can again celebrate.......
.......that He has Risen.
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A long winter is coming to an end.......almost. Well, yes, I know we can have snow yet for at least one month, probably more, but trying to forget that, I am enjoying the more the lovely mild days we are experiencing for the moment.
With our own garden still at least party covered in snow, I decided to go for a walk in the botanical gardens today,
my main goal looking for spring colours.
Here, there and everywhere, I found spots of colours. Some yellow eranthis here,
some purple crocuses there.......all while the thrushes were singing their heart out.
I took some footage for my next episode on YouTube, and after my walk I drove up to my parents, to have lunch with them, and to tape some more of mum´s piano music, for the YouTube-videos of course :-)
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Over the last weeks, or months actually, Tuesdays have become my podcast days. Every week one episode in Norwegian, one in English. It is of course more challenging to make the English one, and last week I did not make it. But this week I am back again.
I am filming from our dining room table, and here you can see what it looks like on Tuesdays :-)
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Here is the new video:
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Four years ago, on this day, I posted a knitted pattern in my knitting blog. The knitting blog was in English then, and I wrote the pattern in English, well, read: I tried to write the pattern in English, lol.
Today, four years later, I finally sat down for a few hours to write and post the same pattern in Norwegian.
Quite a lot has happened since then. My knitting blog is in Norwegian now. I have knitted a dozen or two Easter egg bags since four years ago. I am a much more confident knitter and pattern writer.......
The Easter egg bag pattern is based on a couple of egg bags I bought at Turvey Abbey many years ago.
The blog post I write four years ago is here.
The post I wrote today is here.
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A cabin near the coast, and we can (well almost) choose which season we want to celebrate. Yesterday, as I told you, we drove up in the hills, up in the snow. Today our car took us out to where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Trondheim Fjord. It took us to spring.
And, pure delight, I found the very first spring flower.
No, it is not dandelion. We call it hestehov, which is translated into coltsfoot, in my dialect we say leirfivel, leir means clay, fivel some kind of old name of a flower, the leirfivel grows in clay ground, that's why it has got its name.
Now I wonder what tomorrow will bring.
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Another video to share with you:
(we are almost up todate now, by the way, do you enjoy my videos? They are a kind of extension of this blog you know :-))
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You can easily find my other active blogs through my new webpage, brittarnhild.no
The other blogs, which focus on different themes, are all in Norwegian, but the images are all our shared language, and you can always easily use google translate :-)
I have a list of different instagram accounts:
@brittarnhild
@akeleiehagen (the blue garden)
@brittarnhildsstrikkedagbok (knitting)
@brittarnhilds_naturdagbok (nature notes)
@brittarnhildsbokhylle (my bookshelf)
@brittarnhildsflora (wild flowers, active during the summer months)
@brittarnhildsmatseddel (menue)
@dagenslillegrønne (green living)
On Facebook I hava a page connected to this blog, which I call, obviously
Britt Arnhild´s House in the Woods. Feel free to subscribe to it. I am also considering making a group connected to this page, where we all can post, chat, have discussions, sharing and so on. Would that be of interest for you? Well, let's see where this path leads us, shall we?
I do have an account on snapchat as well, mostly for family and a few close friends. Let me know if you are interested in getting the stories I share there, and we might connect :-)
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We cam out to the cabin this weekend in search of spring. Back home it is still winter, cold and snow, here, near the coast, spring is already into the process of colouring the world in her lovely spring colours.
And what did we do? First thing after breakfast today we took the car and drove up to the snow....... Terje for cross country skiing, I for hiking.
Well, the day and the snow was so beautiful, we could not resist :-)
A couple of hours later we were back in spring,
enjoying flowers and birds and sun and view and.......life :-)
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I am a little behind with sharing my videos, but here is the one for orange week:
You can easily find my other active blogs through my new webpage, brittarnhild.no
The other blogs, which focus on different themes, are all in Norwegian, but the images are all our shared language, and you can always easily use google translate :-)
I have a list of different instagram accounts:
@brittarnhild
@akeleiehagen (the blue garden)
@brittarnhildsstrikkedagbok (knitting)
@brittarnhilds_naturdagbok (nature notes)
@brittarnhildsbokhylle (my bookshelf)
@brittarnhildsflora (wild flowers, active during the summer months)
@brittarnhildsmatseddel (menue)
@dagenslillegrønne (green living)
On Facebook I hava a page connected to this blog, which I call, obviously
Britt Arnhild´s House in the Woods. Feel free to subscribe to it. I am also considering making a group connected to this page, where we all can post, chat, have discussions, sharing and so on. Would that be of interest for you? Well, let's see where this path leads us, shall we?
I do have an account on snapchat as well, mostly for family and a few close friends. Let me know if you are interested in getting the stories I share there, and we might connect :-)
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If you have been following Britt Arnhilds House in the Woods for some time, you will know that Lent is a lot about colours for me. Seven weeks of lent, seven colours in the rainbow, and so I have given each week is own colour, starting with red. Two years ago I expanded this rainbow calendar to also include knitting. I have talked a lot about this in my YouTube videos the last few years.
With Lent starting on Ash Wednesday, and each week starting on Sundays, we are already into the third week of Lent, which according to the rainbow calendar is yellow. I will come to that, but since I haven't been here for some time, I want to start with the beginning, with red.
This year I want to knit wrist warmers in the different colours of the rainbow. Using my own designs, kind of, I find inspiration in a wonderful book I have with watercolours by the Austrian Swedish painter and designer Josef Frank. In the images in this post you see both the painting which is inspiring me, and also the finished wrist warmers.
What a balm for there soul in is to sit here in my studio, looking at colours, making drawings, knitting.
If you want to see and hear more of my rainbow calendar, you are welcome over to this video, which I posted during red week.
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You can easily find my other active blogs through my new webpage, brittarnhild.no
The other blogs, which focus on different themes, are all in Norwegian, but the images are all our shared language, and you can always easily use google translate :-)
I have a list of different instagram accounts:
@brittarnhild
@akeleiehagen (the blue garden)
@brittarnhildsstrikkedagbok (knitting)
@brittarnhilds_naturdagbok (nature notes)
@brittarnhildsbokhylle (my bookshelf)
@brittarnhildsflora (wild flowers, active during the summer months)
@brittarnhildsmatseddel (menue)
@dagenslillegrønne (green living)
On Facebook I hava a page connected to this blog, which I call, obviously
Britt Arnhild´s House in the Woods. Feel free to subscribe to it. I am also considering making a group connected to this page, where we all can post, chat, have discussions, sharing and so on. Would that be of interest for you? Well, let's see where this path leads us, shall we?
I do have an account on snapchat as well, mostly for family and a few close friends. Let me know if you are interested in getting the stories I share there, and we might connect :-)
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