Biscornu frebies

You biscornu lovers, you just have to see this one:
http://kissycross.twoday.net/20070712/

Isn'it is just amazingly beautiful? I have yet to make a biscornu myself and I only own one (thank you Mylene!!) ... they sort of intimidate me. I know, I should try my hands on one. However, inspiration is lacking for the moment. But if I ever try to make biscornus, I will surely remember this one. Oh you know, you see a cross-stitched piece and you just know you have to... :) I am just stunned by the beauty of this one!


There's a simple blue one here too and lots more:
http://misst.canalblog.com/

Norwegian hytter

"Norwegians love to escape to their holiday homes and cabins known as hytter. Not to be confused with "huts," the holiday getaways have grown increasingly comfortable and spacious over the years"...

Read more and see pictures here for an insight on Norway:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/bildeserier/article1884655.ece?start=1

Also, Norway's westernmost 'hytte':
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/bildeserier/article1884520.ece

We've spent holidays at a large number of hytter over the years and most were very memorable days. We so enjoy being in the nature.

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(edited with note to myself: shouldn't blog when having a "down" moment!)

Hi everyone,

Thank you so very much for your words of support here and in private. They mean so much to me!
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The magnetic resonance check is scheduled for next Wedneday in 3 days and then I should see the doctor on the same day or the next. [deleted] That's when I'll know how long a regular white cast is needed, if I have to return to Poland to have the hand operated etc.
In that context stitching is something I miss a lot BUT... so many more serious things are more important currently.
I'm already planning which projects I will reward myself with once I CAN stitch! though! LOL I swear I'm going to be good to myself!!

On another note, it hasn't stopped raining day and night since 5 weeks, can you believe? I follow the Norwegian style of life and don't care :) I'm having (almost) daily long walks with Happy. Nature is all around here, just a 5 mn walk to the nearest small lake, forests etc. I just love it here.
On my daily walk:



H. is almost finished with the new sitting place outside. The wooden terrace is ready since a month or so but he's doing works around it and I've been planting flowers (via his hands) :)

Hand in cast!

(you will excuse the uglybackground, it's a room we haven't renovated yet and the house belonged, well, to a lovely but older person, H's mother)

Just a quick hello to explain my disappearance. I made a bad fall 8 days ago in the garden and well, I finally made xrays today at the emergency in Oslo. The xray didn't show any fracture but the doctor suspects that the scaphoid bone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphoid) might be broken, in which case I will have a cast for 8 (EIGHT) weeks. I have to undergo a magnetic resonance check this week, it can only be seen there. Otherwise the hand is just twisted. Anyway, for the first time in my life, I have something put in a cast, from the fingers up to the elbow, and it's the right hand. Not, not, not funny! They decided to immobilize it while I do the MR, maximum 2 weeks. That's be two LONG weeks, if you ask me. I can't even lace my shoes so H. does it for me in the morning before leaving for work - just so I can walk the dog etc. It's too cold for open shoes.
So, silence from me it will be till I can type faster and better. I am able to type very slowly but it is SLOW with the left hand and some fingers on the right hand, painful (strains the right hand that has to carry the cast) and NOT funny because my work involves typing all day etc.
Plus I have to cover all costs myself but that's a whole different story.

So I just have to say sorry! to anyone I should have written to. I'll be back when things are better.
Oh what a bad summer.

Need I say more? No stitching for me till who knows when. Bleeeeeh.