Time flies and I haven’t really been able to get anything written down on here for a while. If you have been wondering why no new designs or posts have been popping up, I’ve been neck deep in paperwork. We’re been busy planning, packing and organizing… Since we’ll be moving to New Zealand in less than two weeks! This has been in the planning for a while, but now things got real so fast! Although it still feels incredibly unreal….
You probably have been wondering where I vanished to, I haven’t been hiding under a rock, but rather been bogged down by work and also needed a break from online life. Travel Turtle an I have made an escape to beautiful Portugal to recharge our batteries after this endless winter and have come back fresh and full of new ideas and resolves, also due to the fact that every paradise also has a snake. In this case the snake came…
After a few days of holidays in the deep south (read Netherlands and Belgium), where the only thing I knitted was a single pair of socks (and I didn’t even finish that until I got back home) it’s now time to dig deep into my stash and knit bigger. Travel Turtle and I had a great time visiting spring down south first in the tulip country of the Netherlands where we unabashedly played tourist and enjoyed some amazing weather, flowers,…
It’s a known fact (at least to Germans) that North and South don’t quite love each other (but in a fun way). So to the Bavarians the Northerners are the humourless *Saupreiß* that don’t talk to anyone but themselves and eat rolled up sour pickled Herring all day (brrr) and in turn the northern *fish heads* (Fischkopp) believe that life below the Weißwurst-equator consists of German stereotypes (read: Beer, Lederhosen, Dirndl, Weißwurst and Brezn). Well. There might be some truth…
Finally the bags were packed and the holidays could begin. Leaving the never ending Swedish winter and grey weather behind for a few weeks was much needed. Travel Turtle was ready to see some new places and.. …go yarn shopping!! Oh yes. After more than 16 months of yarn diet (read blog post here) it was about time to go and catch some new fibres for the stash. What better way to do so in combination with a holiday in the…
Just back from three weeks of ‘holidays’ in Germany and summer is over here in Sweden. Yay. Since it’s bucketing down today and the little one is sleeping, I finally have some time to write again. So I’ll grab the opportunity and show you some pictures of a three-week wedding marathon and the few days of calm in between 🙂 We started the trip down from Stockholm with two little ones and a rental car that hated us to Sauerland…
Do you still write postcards? The snail mail ones? I still love sending them and I am always crazy happy when I receive one from my friends. Now in the age of the Internet those little gems have almost been forgotten, but there are some things that are just as nice as a postcard: It’s when I receive a picture of my beloved Travel Turtle friends from around the world! As it is the traveling season for most now, I…
These last few days have been a blur. Besides a few trips to the beautiful open air museum Skansen here in Stockholm (I’ll show you the place in a moment) there is nothing exciting happening except being pregnant and waiting. Waiting. And knitting, mostly. And finally things are getting a bit of colour around here, too. It’s so refreshing to see all those trees and flowers back at work for a change after the long winter months. It really feels…
I might have said this before, but commuting sucks. Well. Depending on how often you have to change trains/buses/flights. The only thing keeping me sane (well – kind of) is going into productivity mode as soon as I find a seat. Then the world vanishes and makes space for the unavoidable knitting frenzy that bubbles within me every day. Every morning starts more or less the same: Try to find alarm clock. Throw alarm clock against wall. Try to find…
Summer is traveling season, and so Travel-Turtle and I took a week off and explored Sweden’s biggest island – Gotland. Situated just about 3 hours and a bit by boat from Stockholm in the middle of the Baltic sea it once was a hanseatic trade center with the superb and most stunning city of Visby as its capital. The mighty and incredibly beautiful city wall to fend off pirates and – most importantly – the Danes, is still intact and…