31.3.08

Hello! Remember me; Olga? Please don´t feel you have to read all this. It is too much to read. It is just a warm-up for me to pick up the blogging again, OK?

sick
I didn´t think Noak would become sick very much when he started kindrgarden - he has been with lots of children before. And also I didn´t expect him to since his group just consists of four little boys. I was wrong. He is being sick for the third time since March 3rd. My man has been very busy in the same time rehearsing lots of new music. So I have NOT been blogging. I have not been painting...

sewing

I finished a little name-sign for Noak to have above his clothes at kindergarden. It is a task that all parents get during the children-adjuting-to-kindergarden-time. I sat there at Solgläntan working on this in another room, so I easily could come if Noak REALLY needed me. It was so quiet and peaseful sitting there with a needle in my hand...



from my Mother

The finishing I did at home. I brought out the sewing-case my mother had as a little girl wich she added a little paint to and wrote "Olga är en vacker flicka, men hon vill ej sy och sticka, men idag du fyller år, därför här ett skrin du får." ("Olga is a beautiful girl, but she doesn´t needle or crochet, but today is your birthday, therefor here´s a case for you")

Mother gave it to me twentyone years ago when I turned twentyone.


now I know!

So... I am fourtytwo. You know what? I think I´ve finally figured out whats my style
when it comes to houses and interiordesign(!) Once again I looked though my Marie Claire Maison magasines that I used to subscribe to. This time I asked myself as I was waching;
wich of these pictures looks like (it could be) my home? Before I had thought so much was nice. It still is. But that wasn´t the question this time. This time I only looked for - what does REALLY feel like my home here? It was an interresting experience!


cutting up a book

I steped in to the thriftshop in our subwurb the other day. I wanted to get a lovely dish I had seen some days ago - perfect as a gift together with some fresh buns. It was gone. Instead I steped out with a book for 1Skr with wich I had an amusing evening cutting little things out of.



tax-buisness...

I have already managed my tax-declaration for the passed year. I have had a friend helping me with this for the passed two years. Usually this is a drag. A little of a nightmare. But not since Ingrid has been helping me. She loves numbers and is really good with explaining everything to me that I need to know. I have never done as well financially in my life as this passed year. Wich meant I had to pay a huge amount of extra tax. But thats allright. I was prepared. For everything I sell I should count on keeping 40% of it, no more.

also:
I have been very thrilled and happy lately, dreaming and planning...

14 comments:

Il Viaggio said...

Mycket har hänt i ert liv på så kort tid! Jag beklagar sorgen. Hoppas Noak blir snart frisk igen. Jag har en väninna som arbetade på Solgläntan för några år sedan och jag besökte henne där. Det är en mycket fin barnstuga, mest minns jag tornet som de höll på att bygga och inreda då. Det är en fin plats för en liten pojke. Roberta

Alix said...

My goodness, your life has been so very full. Of joys and sorrows and in-betweens.
The peg name for Noak is so beautiful. Is that a Steiner/montessori school? Or do just normal state schools assume that all parents will take the time to sew a little piece? Not here they dont. Hopefully him being ill will make him a stronger boy :-)
Your book creations a wonderful. So delicate and happy. I hope you are enjoying being 42, and welcome back. I was missing you*

mansuetude said...

you Have BEEN BUSY! i love your cut outs and that little tiny blue book. Peace to you and your family.

Susan Tuttle said...

Your poor little son - I don't think it is a bad thing to build up the immune system, but it is so hard when they keep getting sick so many times in a row. My son had a very bad case of the flu this year and was sick for a whole week and a half. My hands are so raw from all the hand-washing we do around here.

I love your sewing and paper creations - especially the crown.

What a beautiful photo of you and Ernst - I love how you describe how he left his body.

Susan
xo

saloia said...

oh i loved this post so much :)
so happy to see you are full of life...

and the sewing box **

...Noak is just going through a phase with the immune system. :)

you are wonderful :)

mary

Ursula Achten said...

finally I managed to reed your post fully concentrated.
Olga...it is like a dance.
I love the way you focus on things and express a vivid calmness and awareness.
Like Mary said: you're wonderful!

Catalina said...

agree with Uschi! lovely way to say things happening§

and your pictures are always beautiful! specially the one with your father in law.

Hope Noak is doing better!

A hug

Olga said...

Roberta, när jag var inne i Solgläntans torn i dag tänkte jag på dig.

Alix, it is a Waldorf school (Rudolf Steiner) And Linda his teacher is sitting there with her four little boys sewing a doll for Noak. Is Ruben in any school? I am so glad you´ve been missing me ;)*

Mansuetude; yes, wasn´t the little book cute? I thought it would sute our box-house we did. But Noak detroyed it. Seemed to be on purpose for no particular reason. Is that a two/half-year-old-thing to do so?

Hello Susan, and your poor hands! Noak is doing better. Hans and he visited a doctor. He got some tiny little white sugartasting balls to take three of in the morning and in
the night. And was recomended to stay home all week.
Hans brother took that picture as we were waching a photo of Ernsts grandfather between two horses. I tried to make him tell me his grandfathers name. (He had been very impotant to Ernst in his childhood.) But he couldnt talk that day... or ever after.

Olga said...

Mary, you´re right it is an immune system thing. I hope he will be stronger after this. GLAD you like this post - and me!

Uschi, I have CHANGED!
Until resently, if someone would have said souch kind things to me, I would respond by reeling off a bunch of not so good things about myself - I guess to ballance the image of me ...or something.
But I got consious about this and realized that when saying a bunch of bad things about myself that is just a way to make those things become even STRONGER and more rooted in my character...

Caty, TUS fotos siempre son muy lindas también. Muchas gracias para escribirme, Caty, aúnque yo soy muy mala en responsar en tu blog.
Un ambrazo fuerte a tí!!

Alix said...

It's true. This post was like a dance of life. The first time I tried to read it, I realised it needed more concentration that I was ready with. So I came back late. And i've come back again.
The photo of you and Ernst is magical.
*

Alix said...

Oh and yes Ruben goes to nursery, but it is my local school. I would love him to go to Steiner and am investigating possibilities...

Olga said...

Hi Alix! I hope we could have that tea-time-talk some morning that you missed some months ago...

Anonymous said...

Oh, I'm sorry to hear about your father in law's passing. That is quite a beautiful photograph of you and him together. It has the faded, dreamy quality of a memory.

I hope your son gets better soon. Well, I suppose he is building up his immune system with these colds. Uh...right?

And your project for Noak looks sooo cute! I like how playful the lettering is on the felt. Good work!

Olga said...

Thanks Susanna*