tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27422539969903289122012-02-12T14:44:19.305+01:00Välkommen. Welcome. Willkommen. Karibu.Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10486819737097404997noreply@blogger.comBlogger3671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2742253996990328912.post-10778888214158661632010-08-04T13:26:00.003+02:002010-08-04T13:41:30.285+02:00

I'm moving on. From August 2010 you'll find my blog at http://aliasannajm.wordpress.com.As you can see, I've decided to go with a new name. I'm moving on from Anna's Corner of the World. I needed something new and Alias AnnaJM is a fresh start.I hope to see you there!

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My boyfriend and I have worked hard during our summer vacation. We have transformed our kitchen!BeforeWhat it used to look like from the dining area (we had started investigations to figure out how the load-bearing wall was constructed and that's why the wall over the door looks like it does)NowWhat it looked like from the dining area earlier today - notice how the linen closet isn't there

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Well, since I wrote here last I've slept and walked on this:The Great Wall between Jinshanling and Samataiand we're right now in the middle of this:This is called a kitchen renovation...

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The yoke of my Cottage Garden SweaterPattern: Cottage Garden from Twist Collective (Autumn 2009)Yarn: SoftWoolSilk from Gepard Garn, colours 469 and 81Needles: 3,75mm/US5Project time: February 18th - May 10th, 2010This is what it looks when wornPattern modifications: I didn't really change anything. Because of my body shape I had to start out with an XL for my hips and then decrease down to a

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I'm going to China in a couple of weeks. I'll start out vacationing in Beijing for a couple of days and then I'll be working in Shanghai for just over a week. I have very mixed feelings about this trip but they are mostly good. I'm positive I'll be experience something extraordinary. A country I've never been to, customs I've never experienced first hand before and challenges I'm meeting for the

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With spring working its way to stay, I thought I'd show you some pictures from January 29th this year. Our garden was completely covered in snow for the longest time this winter... For being in the south of Sweden at least... :)Snowy orpinsGlistening snow covering our lawnOur grill had been out since last summer JumJum observing the snowSkorpan playing with some snow

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So, I've been abscent from this blog of mine. Ever since the start of this year, I've felt unmotivated to make updates. Spending the time forming words, unloading pictures from the camera and get them here in posts and everything else that comes with blogging, just didn't feel inspiring anymore.Add to that, a long winter that wasn't good for pictures, a sore body (from two falls when biking), a

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It's March. Time for spring?This winter has been long. As I've mentioned before, we've had an unusual amount of snow for being in the south of Sweden. Late last week, the temperatures rose above zero and they've stayed that way over the weekend. At least during the days. A lot of the snow has melted and we can now see the ground in about half of our back yard.We can see green leaves and yellow

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Something has been knit. And something has been blocked.Close up from blocking

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1. I'm alive.2. Work kind of slowed down for a week or two and then picked up again. I don't think I've ever earned my salary as much as I have these last couple of months. And I deserve a raise! I've lost count of how many evenings I come home, eat something and then crash. Sometimes physically. Sometimes mentally. Often both.3. I'm dead tired today. I promised to come and get my boyfriend and a

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So, I decided to force myself out of the non-creative state I was in. In the last week I have:- finished all the sewing on my first Roman shade (=hissgardin in Swedish) for the living room/dining area. Our living room/dining area gets ridiculously warm in the summer and last spring I started an attempt at making Roman shades for our big windows. I stumbled on the first one when I realized I had

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My boyfriend and I celebrate 5 years together in March.Yesterday I called a spa and made reservations for a night. We're going to spend a ridiculous amount of money for 24 hours in heaven. Or at least on the west coast of Sweden.We're booked in their spa suite which means that we'll have a comfy bed in a room with a view over the sea. We'll have a luxurious bath tub for two. We'll be greeted with

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Time flies. And I feel frustrated with how little time and energy I have for making something creative. Work has been busy since coming back from my vacation. I thought things would calm down over Christmas, but I was wrong. One of my big projects is in an important phase and it makes my phone ring a lot and my email count to rise. And most people contacting me are upset. Or sad. Or angry. Or

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Taking a walk around Blogland during the shift from 2009 to 2010 leaves me reading numerous posts on Holiday celebration recaps, different kinds of summaries of 2009 and ambitiously formed resolutions and goals for 2010.If I were to write about my Holiday celebrations I'd mention the fancy iron I got from my parents and how it makes ironing shirts almost - note the almost - a pure pleasure. I'd

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I'm officially on vacation now! I have 12 days without going to work ahead of me. I won't return to my office until January 4th, 2010!!!I soooo deserve time off!

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Remember me talking about applying to writing classes at the University? Well, anyways, I applied to three completely different classes as I couldn't make my mind up about which one I really wanted to take part in.I got accepted to all three.And now I've had to think it all trough to decide which one to actually attend. As always, when making big decisions, I started to make lists of pros and

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Highlights from this past weekend (December 11th - December 13th, 2009)* The feeling of satisfaction as I got coming out of the grocery store (with everything I needed!) at 8.20am on Saturday.* The blue sky and bright day we had as we biked into town.* Hearing my sister's choir sing some Christmas songs.* Having a friend/colleague and her daughter over for dinner on Saturday night. I made

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I haven't knit a stitch in 10 days. I've looked at the two projects I'm supposed to be working on, but that's it. No knitting.I have a deadline for my sister's Anemoi Mittens and it's only 14 days away. There's no way I'll be able to finish the pair up by then. If I get the first mitten done I'll be super proud of myself. I've knit about 10 rows passed the thumb gusset, but there's still at least

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I went grocery shopping earlier today. Boyfriend and I had decided to make potato gratin with some meat to it. I wrote my shopping list and took the car to the grocery store.Half an hour later I was home again. Proud of myself for making it so quickly. And then boyfriend asked for the potatoes...I'd gone to the store to get things for a potato gratin. And forgot the potatoes.And... The thing is

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1. My hectic weeks at work are sort of over. I say "sort of" as I have a lot of catching up to do with everything I couldn't handle during these last three weeks. The email count in my inbox is ridiculous. I try to make sure it's empty when I leave for the day but right now I have 239 emails to take care of...The pile in which I keep notes for myself until I sit down and organize everything is

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Five mornings out of seven, I have JumJum with me in the bathroom when it's time for me to brush my teeth. This morning I was all on my own in the bathroom. When I was ready to leave for work I found out why.Skorpan and JumJum watching the action outside the window together.They were all cosied up in the "basket" on their scratching pole. It's a perfect size for JumJum and it's his favourite

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Christmas is approaching. Last year I made gifts for most of my family; my mother received a Laminaria, my sister got a sewn Birdie Sling, my niece got a baby cardigan, and my father received a Cobblestone Sweater (apparently not blogged...).I had asked my brother and his girlfriend what they would like me to make for them. I sent an email with a couple of suggestions and attached links and

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I told you I had a couple of busy weeks ahead of me, didn't I? Well, not surprisingly, I'm sitting here on Sunday night with the sniffles. For three days now, I've woken up in the mornings with a throat that's a bit sore and a nose that's a bit stuffed. Today I've sneezed a couple of times. And I've had to blow my nose.I'm not surprised. I know my body by now.Tomorrow I have a workday that

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Yesterday was eventful. At least for our cats.In the morning I found Skorpan, as usual in the mornings, sitting on the window-sill in our home office. He was all worked up. His ears were moving frantically from side to side, as was his tail. Most mornings, he'll turn his head to look at me when I come in to say goodbye to him before I leave for work. Yesterday? Not a chance.He was watching a

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So I wrote and posted every day for a month. And then I became all quiet for a week. I honestly didn't mean to.Work is kicking my butt. I'm tired when I come home in the evenings. And my mind is either wandering or asleep. We're at a mile stone in one of the big projects I'm managing. For the last two years, we've been aiming to get to where we are now. It's exciting! But also nerve-wrecking. I'm

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I thought I'd introduce a new kind of post in my blog. This one is not only inspired by, but straight up copied, from one of the blogs I follow; Zandria's blog. I found Zandria when I was looking for inspiration for my 101-things-in-1001-days-list back in January and February of 2008.From now on you'll be able to find Random Friday posts in this blog. The posts will be published on Fridays and

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Have you noticed how chatty I've been lately? Well, coming home from my vacation in Tuscany, Italy, I decided to give my 101st challenge in my 101-things-in-1001-days-project a go; Post in my "proper" blog every day for a month. And now I've done it! I've posted once every day for 31 days in a row...I didn't exactly start out with a plan on what to fill the posts with, but I came up with some

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The two knitting projects I've been working on this last week (my first Anemoi Mitten for my sister and my second German Stocking for myself) both require me to be very focused and follow charts. Sometimes I just want to work on something that doesn't make me think too much. I've tried to come up with something for myself but today my boyfriend asked me if I could knit him some fingerless mittens

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I met my mother yesterday for a fika before my knitting group met up. She told me about seeing one of her friends/former colleagues, who were diagnosed with chronic cancer a couple of years ago. (To my understanding it means that her cancer is always present, but that it sometimes goes from taking a nap to being wide awake.) She's in treatment at the moment as her cancer decided to move into her

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When biking home from my knit group's gathering tonight I got an awesome idea for a blog post. If I may say it myself... I worked on it the whole way home. Transforming some loose thoughts into something logical; with a start, a middle and an end. A conclusion. All in good language. But then as I got closer to home, I also got more and more insecure.Was it clear enough? Was it interesting enough?

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I'm one of those who needs a lot of sleep. To function properly I should get at least 7-8 hours. During the work week, I go to bed at around 22/10pm and get up at 6am. On weekends I often sleep in 'til 9 or 9.30 even if I go to bed before midnight... If I get less than 6 hours of good sleep two nights in a row I become a wreck; I get physically sick.(Me needing all that sleep is one (of many)

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With the time change a week ago (yes, Europe changed a week ahead of North America) the mornings are really dark around here. This morning I found it particularly dark when eating my breakfast and it took me some time to realize that our lamps on the bookshelves weren't lit even though the timer was set for them to be on...I was late coming home from work today and opening the front door I, again

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Today's Highlights (November 2nd, 2009)* One of the phone calls I made at work today. I was a bit nervous making the call but ended up feeling good about the conversation. Instead of a lot of why?s, I got a thank you.* The left over pasta I had for lunch. We made it yesterday when my cousin with family came over for lunch. The sauce was creamy and filled with small pieces of asparagus, onions,

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My first crocheted shawl gets an edgeI've tried a lot of different edges on my crocheted shawl. I think I settled on the 8th I tried... Not being experienced in crochet made for some interesting attempts. :) I quite like this look though and have been working on the edge today while watching LA Ink. I've done half so far and will probably get the rest done before going to bed tonight.

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My work consists of spending a lot of time in front of the computer. Or sit in on different meetings. (This week I did, however, leave the office to go "sightseeing" with one of my colleagues. We took a car and drove for twenty minutes to check out a library and take pictures of trees in a forrest. A most exciting afternoon for me...)I do spend time on the computer in the evenings and on weekends

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Our new laptop!!!This is my first blog post from our new computer! We bought a MacBook Pro a couple of hours ago... So far we've ohhhhed and ahhhhed, and we've sighed a bit... Apparently our router doesn't support Mac.And the set up is different from what our PC-minds are used to. I wonder how long it'll take us to get used to this thing?!

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The sky in southern Sweden at 7.00/7am in late October

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There are songs out there that make me smile. Some make me laugh. Others simply make me feel good.Sandstorm by Darude - I love the beat of this song. Love it! I find it impossible to stand or sit still while listening to it. The song came out in 1999 and I listened to it a lot. Darude is from Finland and this song became very popular in Scandinavia. I was happy to hear it on dance floors in

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I've said it before; I cry easily. I also get goosebumps quite easily.Here are a couple of songs that make me tear up. At least most of the time. If there aren't tears, I at least get goosebumps.Gabriellas sång performed by Helen Sjöholm - This song is from a Swedish movie called Såsom i himmelen/As It Is in Heaven. I loooove how vulnerable Helen sounds and how clear her voice is. (I think you

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Leaves in the light of a flashIt was dark and rainy when I biked to work today at 7am. The air was damp and soggy. The sky was overcast.And it was dark and rainy when I biked home from work today at 4.45pm. The air was damp and soggy. The sky was overcast.I hadn't seen the blue sky all day.Looking out my office window I saw a grey sky. Rain. Bright yellow leaves. And some red ones. A couple of

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I started this mitten last night:Start of an Anemoi MittenThe plan is to make these for my sister for Christmas. It's my first serious attempt at stranded knitting with two colours. I'm planning on holding one colour in each hand, but I can't master purl stitches when knitting English, so I'm dropping and picking up while working the ribbing...The yarn is Sierra Andina from Italian Adriafil. It's

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The first one is done! I did the last knitting while on vacation in Tuscany, Italy, but didn't have a needle with me to graft the toe. The grafting happened at home last week.My first German Stocking in fullWhat I see when I look downI have done the ribbing, the first stockinette section and 16 rows of the chart on the second one. Cables designs are fun to knit!

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As I've mentioned before, I like to write. I like to form sentences. To find a rythm in words. I often read my words out loud to make sure there's a certain flow to it all.I write emails. Letters. Reports. Blog posts. Lists. Various notes.Diaries? No. At least not in the form of writing short reports on how my day has been in a pretty notebook with a lock on it. I did for a while when I was ten

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Today's Highlights (October 22nd, 2009)* The meeting we had in my office building about different routines and tasks that need to be done. (I can't put the outcome from the meeting on the list here but the fact that we had a meeting where everyone attended definitely belongs here!)* The WOWs I've gotten today from a colleague who saw my Sylvi for the first time (I feel like a parrot here!)* The

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There's this house I pass a couple of times every week. It's yellow with a black roof and white details. I think a family of four lives in it. The kids I've seen in the garden haven't started school yet.There's something special about the house. Do you see it? Can you feel it?I just want to go and knock on the door and ask if I can take a look around. I want to find out how the floors are

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I know this meme hasn't really been in motion for a long time, but as I never got around to share 7 weird facts about me and my life when it was popular, I'm doing it now.I'm addicted to using Q-tips/cotton swabs in my ears. Cleaning my ears with a Q-tip is among the five first things I do every morning (waking up, getting out of bed, peeing and brushing my hair are the other four) and I do

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Today's Highlights (October 19th, 2009)* Reading your very generous comments on my Sylvi. Thank you!!!* The WOWs I got from people at work who saw my Sylvi for real* Being able to go through my emails at work and process five old ones that have been left unanswered for too long (and therefore have left me with a bad coinscience)* My lunch today (fried fish with mashed potatoes)* The look of the

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Back of my SylviPattern: This is Sylvi by Mari MuinonenYarn: Atlantic by Canadian Briggs & Little. The colour is called Sheeps Grey.Needles: 6,5mm/US10.5Project time: Last days of December, 2008 - October 18th, 2009Pattern modifications: Well... I didn't change much. I added a flower design to the right front piece. I started out trying to make up my own pattern, but after a couple of attempts I

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A progress picture. The paws are JumJum's.This is what my crocheted shawl looks like at the moment. The pattern comes from Drops.Recognize the yarn? Well, it was supposed to be a striped cardigan that I designed myself... I didn't love the cardigan style and also found the yarn to be a bit too scratchy for a cardigan. So, I decided to turn it into a shawl instead.A colleague of mine suggested

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I had my hair cut yesterday and my hair dresser decided to play around with my hair to style it glamorously after she heard that I was going straight from my appointment with her to pick up my sister for a restaurant visit.I got this:This is what part of my glamorous Hollywood hair looked like yesterday at 22.30/10.30pm when photographed by me while I'm bending forward... Now, mind you, I don't

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Flowers I got on our anniversary earlier this weekThere are many positive words I can use to describe my boyfriend. I won't embarrass him by showing you the list... He is, however, not the most spontaneous boyfriend on the planet when it comes to buying gifts and he doesn't really care about "special dates" in the calender.He's been good at remembering our yearly anniversary as a couple (but he

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While I was a student at the university, I was a member of an online community in which I had a diary open for the other members to read. The diary was used for all sorts of writing; reports on what I did, felt or saw.During my student years, I spent my summers between semesters working outdoors. I loved my summer job and kept returning to it year after year. Nevertheless, some days were boring.

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I'm interrupting posts about my vacation in Tuscany, Italy, for an announcement.Yesterday I sent in my application to three different part-time writing classes at the university. One is half-time, online and in English. One is quater-time, online and in Swedish. One is quater-time, with actual evening lectures and seminars and in Swedish.If I get accepted to them all, I'll chose one of them.

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A thirsty pigeon used the fountain in Piazza Del Campo in Siena.Houses in Siena.This is from one of the trees outside our house. I took this picture on the most windy day and I was proud of getting it as focused as it is...This picture was taken a day when boyfriend I took the car for a ride to get some ice cream...This is from within the Santuary of La Verna. The paintings show how the legend

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We lived among olive trees for a week when we rented a house outside San Giustino Valdarno.On our way to Siena for a day we stopped to admire the landscape.These pigeons are hanging out watching tourists in the famous square Piazza Del Campo in Siena.One day we drove to the sanctuary of La Verna and enjoyed the sights. The sanctuary itself was amazing and so were the surroundings.A picture taken

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I took this picture on our first morning in San Giustino Valdarno. This is just behind the house we lived in for the week.We had chestnut trees growing close by our house outside San Giustino Valdarno.This is Italy, isn't it? (Picture from Siena)A picture taken from the window in our bathroom.Zig zag sky over Florence.These grapes grew next to our porch. Tasted really nice!

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...is usually followed by "the mouse will play" (or the Swedish version translated into English: "the rats dance on the table")...Well, the mice around me didn't really play or dance while I was away. Three of them got sick or hurt themselves. One mouse was hospitalized for two nights after an ambulance ride to the hospital. One mouse jumped real high and hurt itself and will most likely not be

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Back in the office. With heavy eyelids. And with fall winds and rain outside the windows.Piles of unfinished business on my desk. Voice messages I haven't yet listened to. And emails I haven't yet read.A calender I've only just peeked in. To see how many days there are 'til Christmas.It's cruel having to go back to work after a taste of what life can be like on a Tuscan hill among olive trees.

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Not far away now!A taxi picks us up at home early, early, early on Saturday morning. It'll take us to the train station so we can get to Copenhagen Airport. The plan is to eat breakfast together at the airport before boarding and taking off. At around 10pm we'll be on the ground again. In Pisa. In Italy.We're renting cars for the week and we hope to be able to go see the leaning tower in Pisa

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I felt proud of myself yesterday.And now I don't know if I should've.I got 10 new colleagues this summer as management decided to move one group from this building and replace it with another. The short version of how it's been since they moved in: frustrating.And last week, on Thursday to be exact, I was in one of the other rooms on this floor, talking to the two women occupying it. We had the

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I'm home alone. Boyfriend is out of town overnight. And I've been looking forward to tonight for some days now. The plan was to tidy up a smidge and then spend the rest of the evening working on a wristlet for my sister while listening to Pet Shop Boys. Loudly. 'Cause PSB is a must when I'm home alone and nobody can tease me or sigh repeatedly while shaking nodody's head...But here I am, lying on

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Yesterday I placed an order online for four books. On writing.One is about a hundred ways to improve your writing, one is about actually sitting down to write 50,000 words in a month and two are about writing from experience.I've always loved to write. (Maybe that comes with loving books?) I had a journal/diary when I was ten. I had tons of penpals when growing up. I started my own crime novel

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*drumroll please*ekittie!She had a hard time deciding on what she would chose if she won, but in the end she seemed to settle on the gift card in an Etsy-shop... (She did, however, give me the sweetest compliment on my taste in fabric and considered choosing fabric as her prize even though she doesn't sew!)Sorry I couldn't make you all winners... Better luck next time? 'Casue there will be a next

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A chaotic mess when making semifreddosWe're invited to an Italian dinner tonight. It's time to make more plans for our vacation to Tuscany in two weeks time. My boyfriend volunteered for us to bring dessert, thinking I'd appreciate making it. He was right!Today I've made semifreddos with sugar cooked rhubarbs and caramelized almonds. And I made a mess in the kitchen while doing them. :)You're not

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Remember this?Well, that doesn't exist anymore. I frogged it the other day.I had a look in mind of a cardigan with horizontal stripes on the yoke and over the bust and then vertical stripes on the "skirt" part beneath the bust. I imagined it to be flowy and A-line.After several attempts I gave up. I had finished the skirt part without too much hassle, but making the yoke just turned out to be too

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Yesterday a group of us met up for a yarn swap. We each brought at least three "yarn packages" that we wanted to part with and we all came home with at least three new "yarn packages". I think we were all happy with the swap!I brought 4 "yarn packages"; 2 hanks of Malabrigo Lace, 2 hanks of Manos del Uruguay wool, and 2 packages of 4 skeins of Knit Pick's Wool of the Andes. A "package" is defined

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Last week I posted my 300th post and celebrated my 2nd blog anniversary here on Anna's Corner of the World.I decided to make that a reason for a give away.Thinking about what I wanted to offer as a prize, I tried to find something that would suit most of my readers. I know some of you are crafters and some aren't. Some are Swedish but most of you aren't. I decided to give you a choice...First

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Steep hill down to the waterDramatic skyWet stonesLaundry in the windYellow flower and a flyClose up of a fernRock on a hill among the treesArt on the beach

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This could've been my give away post as I had my 2nd blog anniversary yesterday. But it isn't. I haven't been able to set things up the way I had planned and need a couple of more days.Hang in there. :)~~~~~I think I can see the light at the end of the overworked-at-work-tunnel. I'll get on a train in a couple of hours to go out of town. I'm going to attend a seminar tomorrow and in order for me

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JumJum taking a nap in the quilt I won a couple of weeks ago. He sure looks comfortable, doesn't he?

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Friday. I so need this Friday and weekend.This week has been rough. I seem to go from one frustration to the next. My boss came back Monday from his 4-week-vacation and I was disappointed as to how he acted in this new working situation of ours. I snapped at him and asked him to leave my room as I wasn't capable of playing along...Wednesday I had a meeting with "the big bosses" about this big

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At Knit Night last week, Trasselsudd asked me - very apologetically - how Sylvi was doing... She didn't want to nag. But she was curious.Remember Sylvi? I started working on her just before New Year's. The first pictures you saw were on January 5th. On January 19th, I showed you some blocking pictures. A week later, on January 26th, I told you about how she made me cry. I decided to not give up

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I'm getting closer to 300 posts in this blog. And I'm nearing my 2nd blog anniversary as well.Those are things to celebrate, aren't they?I'm making plans for a give away. This time around, I won't be making something myself. I don't have the energy to make the time for it... But I hope to be able to arrange a fun give away anyways, with prizes that appeal to both knitters and non-knitters, to

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A glimpse at my new cardigan project.

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- "Tell me again why I'm doing this?"- "It's raining outside. And it's dark. If I didn't know better, I'd think it was November. It makes me grumpy."- "It's so bright and sunny outside. Perfect summer weather. And I'm indoors. It makes me grumpy."- "Should I make up my own pattern for the cardigan I want to knit? Or should I make it simple and use something that already exists? But then again,

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Saturday was an EFIT-day (Ett Foto I Timmen/A Photo Every Hour) and I participated as part of a challenge in my 101in1001-project. The idea of EFIT is to take a picture an hour as sort of a diary.9.00/9am - A tiny cricket on our dining table10.00/10am - Me knitting out in our garden11.00/11am - The blue sky with an airplane cloud12.00/noon - Watering plants in our garden13.00/1pm - Fixing a

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Skorpan looking miserable with his coneMonday I told you about Skorpan having problems with his tail. I thought it was sprained or twisted. However, Monday night he could move his tail around almost like normal and I examined him again (with the help of boyfriend who held Skorpan locked in his arms) and found a wound scab at the base of his tail. Skorpan hissed like crazy when I touched it and

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I seem to be on a roll when it comes to winning things online.End of June, I won spinning fiber in Claudia's MS Fund Raiser. I donated money to the MS Fund and my name was drawn as one of the winners.A couple of weeks ago I was told by Cari over at Dispatches from Utopia that I was one of the winners in her raffle among donators to the Afghan Women's Writing Project. I won the handmade quilt

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Skorpan in the "radiator bed" resting after a night at the vet's clinic last summerSkorpan is the cat that gives me worry. Remember this and this from June last year? And this from August?Now it's time again. I have an appointment for Thursday with an orthopedist at the vet's clinic. Skorpan has injured his tail... He's eating and drinking as normal and he doesn't have a fever, so the vet

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I started my 101in1001-project in February last year. I have now passed more than halfway when it comes to time. 533 days are behind me and 468 ahead.In the passed 533 days, I have finished 51 tasks and have 14 in progress. I've failed 4 of my attempts to finish a task and have had or will have to give these tasks another shot.The tasks I'm most proud of having finished so far are:001. Take care

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After a bit more than 3 hours of hard (and - believe it or not - boring) work, my Shipwreck is bound off!!!Bind off edge

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...when the office network has been down all day and I haven't been able to be as productive as I wanted, and needed, to be and......when our IT-department tells us they have no idea when the network will be up and running again as they still haven't been able to identify where things go wrong and......when a colleague I really need answers from is on vacation for another three weeks and......

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Remember my posts last year about Getting Things Done? (You find the two more elaborate ones here and here.)I actually did have a pretty good system working there for a couple of months. I was up to date on how my projects were going, I was prepared for meetings, I was more efficient during my days managing to do more tasks, I had an empty inbox (both the physical and the email one) every day

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I'm feeling holistic.My work situation has changed. I'm in the same building doing the same tasks but I have new colleagues around me. And with new colleagues come new routines. And differences.I'm not overly happy about this and I'm overwhelmed and a bit surprised at how much energy this change has stolen from me. In an attempt to get a grip on exactly what it is I'm reacting to, I started a

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I would like to:get back to writing on a regular basissew myself a dresssign up for a race and start joggingbake bread every weekenddesign my own shawl patternlearn how to take great shots with my boyfriend's cameraget my Swahili books out from the shelf and get back into studying on a regular basiswork through 4 old tasks and projects at work that weigh on my consciencebe better at keeping in

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Thought I'd show you pictures of the two knitting projects I'm currently working on the most.Shipwreck by Bethany Kok:A Shipwreck Shawl in progress and all bundles upThe beaded fishnet section of ShipwreckGerman Stocking by Cookie A.:The leg of my firstGerman Stocking knit with yarn I've dyed myselfClose up of the upper section of the cable patternClose up of the upper part of the middle cable

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My boyfriend and I have literally been melting away the last two weeks. The summer hit us with high temperatures and we suddenly remembered why we last summer started talking about getting blinds for the living room and dining area....We have big windows facing southwest.And we can't really get a draft going through the living room as the windows are all on the same side. The sunny one.We've had

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I just found out that I am one of the winners in Claudia's MS fund raiser. I've never won anything in an online raffle before...Intrepid Fiber Wizard is going to send me this spinning fiber: Picture stolen/borrowed from one of Claudia's posts with fund raiser prizesI don't spin. Yet. :)

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My latest love when it comes to knit wearPattern: Donyale socks by Black Dog KnitsYarn: Casbah sock yarn from Handmaiden (/Fleece Artist). 81% Merino, 9% Cashmere, 10% Nylon makes for the softest and shiniest sock yarn I've seen and used!Needles: 2,5mm/US1.5Project time: May - June, 2009My view of the socks when looking downPattern modification: I knit these toe up. Made the heel flap as the part

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I don't handle changes very well. Especially changes that are out of my control. Changes I just have to accept and make do with.My work situation is going through a major change at the moment. And I don't like it. Not a bit.My head is filled with why's and what if's. I'm trying to shut it off, but my worrying seems to get worse. I've been taught tools to use to handle my worrying, but I can't

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I'm still around even though I've been quiet lately. Our Internet access at home is messing with us and I've been way too busy at work to steal blogging time...I have a pair of finished socks to show you. And I can show you what part of a knee sock looks like. And I can tell you about my back. And I can tell you about weird dreams I've had the last couple of weeks.But I'll have to do that another

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I had a good day yesterday! Despite a busy day at work. What is it with people overloading you with tasks right before they leave for vacations?Anyways, I had a good day. My body wasn't achy!!! Sure, I was still limited in my movements a bit, but I could get my clothes on and off without having to lie or sit down. I could even adjust my socks while standing up! I could get in and out of chairs

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I'm on a rotating schedule at work. Well, sort of.My alarm on the cell phone goes off every half hour to remind me to change my work set up. I alternate 30 minutes of sitting in my ordinary office chair with 30 minutes of standing up at my desk with 30 minutes of sitting in the BackApp (that is now mine!). I do this all through the hours I'm in my office. If I spend much time sitting down in

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Just as last year, my boyfriend and I spent Sweden's National Day (June 6th) in Copenhagen, Denmark, with some of our friends. Last year there were five of us going. This year 11... Wonder how many we'll be next year.We had a great day even though the weather was very unpredictable. We visited a market/fair/whatever focused on the home environment. There are many plants for sale and a ton of

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A Sunday some weekends ago, I attended a workshop in dyeing yarn. This was my second attendance, and one of the news was the ability to dye sock yarn!I really want a pair of kneesocks and I thought it'd be a fun thing to make them out of a yarn I had dyed myself. I aimed for beige, natural, lightly brown or something to that category. I ended up with a soggy and washed out pink... Don't ask me

Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10486819737097404997noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2742253996990328912.post-17972656800922406672009-05-29T10:32:00.004+02:002009-05-29T10:57:58.488+02:00

Picture of a BackApp from http://www.backapp.euOur distributor of office furniture is letting me try out one of these BackApp-chairs for a couple of days. It's supposed to train your back while you sit as you have to constantly keep your balance in it.I've been using it for two days now and I can certainly feel my back having to work. And my stomach. And my hips. Precisely the parts of my body I

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The front of my needle case for KP Options/KnitProPattern: My own!Fabric: Don't ask. I don't know. But I love them all. (Pikku-Kettu told me that it's Woodland Bloom by Lila Tueller. Thanks!)Project time: April to end of May, 2009Made for: Myself and my KP Options setThe back of the needle case with the attached elastic strap that closes the case with a snap buttonThoughts: When I bought my KP

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Something strange happens to me when I spend the night at home on my own.I've never been afraid of the dark and I know there's no reason to be afraid of the dark in itself. The dark can't hurt you. Things/People in the dark might, but not the darkness itself...I'm not overly worried about madmen, rapists or other wrong-doers. In my everyday life I try to be cautious and not do too crazy things to

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I started a pair of Spread Spectrum Socks (from Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarns by Carol Sulcoski) the other week. I had some Lorna's Laces I wanted to use. Knowing the two hanks I had came from two different dyelots and noticing quite a difference in them colourwise, I thought Spread Spectrum Socks would be a forgiving pattern to use...I was wrong... A Spread

Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10486819737097404997noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2742253996990328912.post-9855552248318001302009-05-12T08:17:00.003+02:002009-05-12T08:28:07.253+02:00

What can I say?You are the best. Thank you so much for the response to my post on how I sometimes feel different and out of place.I've smiled. I've become all teary. I've laughed. I've been touched. I've felt lucky. I've been moved.Thanks for caring. And for sharing. In comments and emails. I appreciate it. Very much.Tack!And thanks for asking about my back and wishing for me to feel better. I do

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