Fall is here and I'm wearing woolen sweaters and woolen socks to keep warm. To be honest I looooove hand knit woolen socks. Nothing works better to keep the feet warm. The last week I've been knitting some woolen socks. First a couple of pairs for my guy and me to bring to the vintage camping this weekend - and then while we were there I started to make another pair for a friend. She told me her grandma used to knit socks for her, but now her grandma is too old to knit. So I decided to make her a pair. Making hand knit woolen socks is pretty simple and fast ... of course you can make really fancy, beautiful socks too but these everyday socks are so useful. Many people hesitate to knit socks because they worry about how to make the ...
Luxurious magnesium salve for dry and cracked hands and feet
🇳🇴👇🏻 Today I’m sharing a luxurious homemade magnesium skin salve. Many of us struggle with dry crackrd skin, and This salve is so rich and oily - perfect for dry hands and feet at night. It also contains magnesium. More than 80% of us may have a magnesium deficiency, but most of us don’t know we’re deficient. That’s because the symptoms of magnesium deficiency are common symptoms of many other conditions as well- feeling tired and run down, not sleeping well, getting headaches, digestive issues, and feeling stressed and anxious are just a few of the symptoms of magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is an essential mineral to make the body work properly. Many aspects of our modern life can lower our magnesium levels: • too much ...
The best handknit dish cloth
Hi my friends. 🇳🇴Scroll down for Norwegian👇🏻 I've been out of town this weekend and as I love to have something to knit even when I'm on the go I decided I wanted to bring three skein of cotton yarn and 4 mm needles to knit fast and easy dish clothes. Good thing about the hand knit dish clothes is that it brings a little luxurious feel to the kitchen and at the same time these clothes are fun to make, they work perfectly and they look good. You'll find the pattern in English and Norwegian right here👇🏻 Handmade dish cloth.50 grams Cotton yarn (Ann&Clara 100% cotton 8/8) Gauge: 20st stockinette st on needles 3,5-4mm = 10 centimetres Cast on 46 stitches on needle 3,5 or 4 mm Row 1: slip first stitch on row from left to right ...
Naturlig lindring av migrene og hodepine
Jeg har skrevet om hodepine, migrene og eteriske oljer på bloggen flere ganger. Det er et tema jeg vet mange er intressert i og mange leter etter lindring av hodepine på naturlig måte. Jeg har selv vært mye plaget med hodepine. Det er dessverre arvet fra min mor som også har vært plaget med hodepine. Vi vet altså hva vondt i hodet er. Både migrene og spenningshodepine. Heldigvis har vi vært mindre og mindre plaget etter at vi innarbeidet eteriske oljer og en mer naturlig, giftfri livsstil i hverdagen. Men noen ganger slår hodepinen til og da er det fint å ha naturlig lindring. Det finnes konvensjonell medisin, migrenemedisin og smertestillende som til tider virker. Disse medisinene har også bivirkninger. Derfor har jeg vært opptatt av å ...
Garden berry tea
Today is tea Day. Fall has arrived in Oslo and it's getting colder. Lucky I'm prepared as I harvested leaves and some berries to dry and make this years garden-berry tea. I gathered green leaves from blackberry, black currant, red currant, wild strawberries Melissa and added in a few berries too. I let the green leaves air dry on a rack in my kitchen. I dried the berries at 70 degrees Celsius in the oven. When the leaves was dry I crushed them and added the crushed leaves and dry berries to a glass jar with an airtight lid. If you enjoyed this recipe for homemade garden berry tea, maybe you'll like my recipe for peppermint tea from the garden too. You'll find it HERE. ...
Repurpose & Reuse – making the coolest school bag
So, the other day my daughter Sol (16) came to me with her old school bag and asked me if I could possibly repair and save it. As she have used that bag every single day at school the last three years it's possibly needless to say that bag was totally worn out. I told her I could possibly repair it but it wouldn't last long anyway. I told her she needed a new bag ...but true story, she didn't look happy at all. Now she's away at a last minute vacation just before school starts, and I decided I wanted to surprise her with a new school bag when she gets back home. Proud to say my girls are really into sustainable, earth friendly, reuse, repurpose and all that kind of things .... so making her a school bag out of a re-purposed dungaree ...
Just a card
I have this cupboard in my kitchen.... a cupboard filled with paint, paper, buttons, some fabric, beads, needles and thread, ribbons AND my old scrapbooking stash ... no, even if I don't scrapbook very often I can't seem to make myself move this paper-and-scrapbook stash I loved so much to another location for less used stuff .... and today was one of those days I was happy and inspired when I looked for something else in my cupboard .... and because I just packed up the shawl I created last week it was perfect timing. It was so fun to create this simple, cute card for a girl I love. It's all made of my old scrapbooking stuff ... patterned paper by scenic route, I think (but not sure) the little fairy is by Cosmo cricket, the pink ...
Pink crochet summer shawl
Sponsored by Hobbii Hellooooo my friends! Today I'm so happy and proud to finally be able to share the instructions and chart and pattern for the beautiful, light, warming crochet summer shawl I've been working on the last couple of weeks. You can read more about my process here. This pink summer shawl design is inspired by light Scandinavian summer nights and pink rose petals. The shawl is soft and airy but still warming. I was so very lucky to be sponsored with the beautiful NATURE 100% organic wool yarn in the color dusty pink by Hobbii. And I truly love this yarn! So easy to work with and the quality is the best. Besides I love that the yarn is organic wool made in a sustainable way. The pattern of this shawl is pretty simple ...
