Oh Snap!

Ok, I don't know what is wrong with us.... But two years down the road of married life and we both forget out anniversary... Is that wrong? Are we the most unromantic couple you have ever heard of? What is more scary is that it was my mother that reminded me of our anniversary. I realize we are not big on the Hallmark days, but that our routine is so mundane that we forget stuff like the day we got married???!!!! Oh, what are we going to do with us? With out knowing it we did go out for Chinese, does that count? Happy Belated Anniversary lover boy! Lets hope to get it strait next year!

DAGBLADET

OK! So I made it in the paper! Well, my cow made it in the paper! I am trilled! I am not so thrilled that the reporter gave the wrong Etsy address and price. There is no possible way for the average surfer to find my shop with the info they wrote about my delft cow. Goes to show, you can't always have cake and eat it too... I am still really flatterd though, wouldn't it be funnie if half of Norway is trying to figure out how to get ahold of my stuff! So, if any of you people out there see anyone wondering around looking for a delft cow, point them in my direction: donkeypony.etsy.com

Happy Birthday!

I want to give a big shout out to my boyfriend! He is the very best guy in the world and I love him to pieces! So glad he got to come home early today so we could eat spicy Indian food! There is another birthday boy on the farm too, Henry is one today! Cockadoodle doo!

My Hero!

Lilly and I went to Stavanger Monday to get our pictures taken! Our fantastically talented friend Kenneth Bjerga took these absolutely beautiful pictures! And, it was SO much fun! Please check out his work, he is AMAZING!

JUL pig

OK, so my camera is SOOO bad and I have been blogging about it forever, but I still have the need to post some jule time happenings here on the farm. My version of the marzipan pig is now available in my Etsy store, made from retro norsk Christmas tree skirts. I'm making them as fast as I can... Any photo buffs out there want to suggest a new camera for me to put on my Christmas wish list? I want a good one!

Here are some other additions to the store:

New Hens

I just had to post my two new hens that are so faithfully laying eggs. We only have about 6 hours of daylight now, not prime laying conditions, but still going strong!

And of course, Donkey in all her winter fluff!

Thanksgiving

If there is one day I love it is Thanksgiving! I love the time of year, the food, the friends, but best of all it is almost like Christmas, but without the gifts. Seems like you get to invest more time in the friends and food part ;) This year we held two thanksgiving dinners, cus all of our friends couldn't make it at once. Yesterday was SO much fun! Barbara came up from Stavanger Friday night, and we started getting some food ready, then Saturday Barb, Lilly and I went to a craft fair at the local school. We had fun eating cake and people watching. We even sold a few animals! Andreas and his brother were home when we go home, and he had the house all clean! We started making food and setting the table. It was fantastic! Sweet potato's (made with the farms 1st egg), stewed apples, stuffing, turkey, mashed potato's, pumpkin pie and of course grandmas homemade noodles. The food was divine and the friendship was better, I can hardly wait until next year! Lucky for us we get to eat leftovers now for two weeks!!!!!

Etsy :: Treasury West List

Etsy :: Treasury West List

I MADE THE FRONT PAGE!!!!!!!!! JIPPI!!!!!

Oh Deer!

We woke up to a fantastic winter wonderland outside today! It is so beautiful and Lilly is just thrilled to the bone! She can't stop running over to the window and says "se" "se" ! The horses were feeling frisky in the snow too. Donkey loves to eat it! The chickens are not so thrilled, they are hanging out in the barn while Henry has been sitting on my front step all morning. It is Kitty's first snow and she has been doing really good outside. Bingo on the other hand enjoys the snow from the inside out. Oh, and the deer!

OUCH!

I have been sewing all evening trying to get my stock restocked for this weekends craft fair... I think the sewing gods are against me today as my sewing machine was the first to give me trouble... SO, I moved downstairs to my stuff and sew station... Now 6 critters later my poor index finger is quite sore, and I am too stubborn to get a thimble... It was made better though as there was a fantastic article on Etsy about Scandinavian artists ;)
And sorry, camera still dead. No pics of newly created critters...

EGG!

TODAY WAS THE DAY! I went out to the barn to feed the horses this morning and there it was!!!! An EGG! Just nestled in the hay bail. So pretty and white. I am so proud! I had to take drastic measures as my chicks where growing up to be just pretty and not pretty useful. My neighbour kindly gave me two champion egg layers Wednesday. I was not expecting them to get excited about there new crib for awhile and had no idea they would start so soon. So, we are in business, now I just have to get cracking and make some egg treats for my neighbours who kindly listen to my rooster quartet every morning! YEA! EGGS!

Cinder girl

The funniest story played out at the farm today! Lilly was sweeping the floors with her new found favorite toy; the dust pan and I had to take her pic cus it was just too cute seeing her try to maneuver the long broom around. So off she was "cleaning" the house. Later we took a walk with the pony and Lilly was in the backpack. We trained the the pony and started to walk home when I realized that Lilly's golden shoe was laying in the middle of the road... I stuffed the shoe in my pocket and we started home again. On the way home I started thinking about my little cinder girl missing her shoe, and we (the pony, Lilly and I) had to hurry home to make dinner for the man of the house... Do you think Cinderella made tikka masala for dinner? So cool to live out your fairytail!

Farm

I really do love these pics!

Sheep

Lilly and I just got back from our first craft fair. I was asked last minute by a neighbour (she was selling her sheepskins) as she thought the craft fair needed some "fresh new stuff". Norwegian craft fairs consist of knitting, knitting, knitting, some wood work, some more knitting and possibly some ceramic creations that I think always seem very depressing, oh, and paintings that are mostly browns, black, and ocher colors smeared around with a pallet knife.

I jumped at the opportunity! We arrived late, but had a super cute stand with cows, bunnies, cats, dogs, pigs, horses and my new elephants. I did a five min. survey of the clientele and realized that my stuff was going to be a hard sale. Recycled stuffed animals is not really what my village is ready for... It was lots of fun though and I met a super girl that was selling cards that she illustrated. I'm kinda glad I didn't have any sales as I got to spend the whole day drinking coffee, eating wonderful Norwegian cake and chatting up my new found friend!

Oh, and the classic comment "I'd buy one if you had a sheep!" I guaranty you had a had sheep then they would want a camel...

When we got home our friends had sent us some fantastic pictures of the farm from thier last visit. Thought I would post as our camera is crap... Enjoy!

Thankful

It's been a while since my last post and I have lots of excuses, my best one so far is that I have been thinking allot, so much in fact that I forget half of my thoughts before I can think them all the way through let alone have the time to write them down.

Turning 30 was a biggie. I can't remember a birthday having such an impact. I'm not a kid anymore, I'm a (as my mom so nicely put it) wife, mother, artist, farm owning teacher. Yea! That's kinda freaky! It has taken me a while to digest.

So, while I was out with my pony this morning "teaching" her to pull a cart I realized that I was not teaching her. She is teaching me. I am learning about myself. I am more of an adult as I ever was, and yet I feel more like a kid then I ever did. It doesn't make any sense.

Boyfriend's grandmother turned 80 two days after me. At her party I ask her if she remembered her 30th. She said "Oh yes, and I let it pass in silence". I wanted to let thirty pass in silence, but in my world thirty is not silent.

WoW

I had no idea how much I depended on the Internet until I didn't have it! Our Internet has been down for the past week and my whole life has been turned up side down! My morning ritual was drastically altered, and Skype was long gone... I suddenly realized how far out in the country I really am! It was a nice wake up call, I do spend WAY too much time on the laptop. I'm glad that I had that experience, I learned allot, that's why I have been online all day today!

So, because I don't have any pictures of what I accomplished around the farm while the net was down I'm gonna share my Lilly Belle thrifting, she found some glasses!

TEA PARTY

This year most of my homeboys are turning the big 30! This weekend was my bestest Barbara's turn. She had a fantastically cozy tea party with her closest friends. I had a great time, and it brought back so many good memories. Here are some of the moments... Unfortunately my camera was on its last leg so the pics are quite horrible. Thanks for a great party Barb, can't wait for 30 more!

Fall collectioN

Here are my new pups, I'm gonna make lots more, but these are just a sneek peak! Enjoy!

First BLOG!

Wow, I did it... I'm blogging! I have put it off because of my spelling and fear of people getting fed up with that, but I'm hoping that blogging will make me better and not worse. So here it goes...

Since we are on the subject of firsts I wanted to share Lillys 1st pair of shoes! She loves them and is so cute walking around in them and... they are GOLD!