Hi ❣ It’s so nice to see you,- like always 😊 I hope all is fine with you 🧡
Yesterday I actually used the bus for the first time I have been living in Spain 😅🚃. Imagine that 😊. But I haven’t had any use to take the bus before yesterday,- and it all went very well 😅. And the bus trip went to La Cala in Mijas. The train doesn’t go to La Cala, but the bus does 🚃.
I was in La Cala, Mijas and delivered a basket with some painted glassbottles for sale in cafe Case Barella in La Cala 🎨.
The basket with painted glassbottles for sales you can find in Casa Barella in La Cala/ Mijas 😊
I have no idea how this sale will goes,- maybe very well and I can fill up the basket with new painted glassbottles in a couple of weeks? Or maybe it will be just standing there and nothing happens at all. I’m actually not sure at all,- but of course I hope and cross my fingers it will be some sale, hopefully a empty basket more then one time 🤞. But at the moment I haven’t to many expectations for to much sale. And at the same time as I feel I’m a bit “nervous” too, without manage to explain why or for what I have this, a kind of nervous feeling in my stomach,- it’s there and I have no idea why 🤔. Because I don’t need to be worried or nervous for this basket with painted glassbottles for sale,- it is what it is,- nothing more and nothing less. But maybe feels a bit like this because it’s actually the first time I have my painted glassbottles “out there” for a real sale like “all and everyone” can buy if they want?
This glassbottles are not with lights inside,- but it’s possible to buy solar lights to the bottles if the buyer are interested.
The solar light to the glassbottle 🌞💡
I’m going to use more and more solar lights in my painted bottles,- but first I need to be finish with all the string lights for the bottles with batteries. It’s a bit better for the environment to use solar lights, and it’s also easier for and to use. In general you don’t need to change batteries, just use the sun and light, and “woops” there’s lights inside the glassbottle for a while 💡.
But one step at the time,- I have a lots of cork string lights for glassbottles with batteries,- so I’m using that until it’s empty for that in my tiny little “storage” ( a a drawer). But I have also slowly started to fill up an other drawer with solar lights 🌞.
And I think maybe tomorrow I’m ready to show you the different other painted orders I have been working on? 😊🎨. But before I can do that, I need to show them to my costumers 😊.
So yes,- I’m getting there,- getting finish with some painted products, and ready for some new 😊.
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Me from the bus trip to La Cala yesterday 😊
Yesterday I did deliver a basket with painted glassbottles for sale to CAFE CASA BARELLA in La Cala/ Mijas 🎨😊. I’m not sure how this sale will be or go,- but hopefully the basket will be empty so I can fill it up again with some more painted glassbottles 🤞😊.
Hi ❣ It’s so nice to see you,- like always 😊 I hope all is fine with you 🧡
Some weeks ago, closely a mont ago, to more correctly, I got some painting orders. Five glassbottles and six canvas 🎨. A creative challenge I have and still do enjoy to work with,- but of course and unfortunately, it takes a bit longer time to paint and finish a order like this when I’m painting in between my ordinary job 😊. And inbetween the painting I have also felt on this performance anxiety. What if my customer don’t like the finish product? 😳
I do like the results more and more, and better and better as closer I’m getting to the end of this painting project. But that doesn’t mean my customer will like it.
When I’m finish with both the canvas as well as the glassbottles I’m going to show you the results,- but my customer will get a tiny little peek first of all 😊. And I’m going to be finish during this week- something I’m actually looking forward too 😊.
If the painting was my ordinary job I haven’t use so much time on a order like this as I have used now. And it’s also this sudden summer heat that “showed up” makes the oilpanting dry a bit slower, and then it’s a bit difficult to finish with not dry painting 🌞. But I did find a tiny solution on that one,- fan 🌬. So during the last days the painting has been easier to do, because the painting is “working” a bit better and smoother together with me, and dry a bit faste when I’m using the fan 😊🎨.
I need to admit that I’m dreaming of, and have some small wishes and thoughts that my mainly and ordinary job actually could be to just paint 🎨. I’m trying to find some solutions to maybe manage that, this dream and wish can be and will be true, but it’s not easy 😊. And one thing I know,- even I really enjoy painting I also like to have food on the table 🍲🥤, And to be an artist it’s not necessarily the same as to get in enough money for covering the daily and monthly expenses. And one thing I’m sure of,- I’m not going down that road again where I’m struggling my ass off to be able to cover and pay for the different expenses 💰.
During this last weeks I have also prepared a basket with different painted glassbottles that will be for sale in Case Barella/ La Cala/ Mijas 🎨🧺. I’m going to deliver the basket with the painted glassbottles tomorrow,- and need to admit I’m a bit excited about that, and how the salsa will go 😊.
So that’s what I have been doing the last days and week,- my ordinary job and finish some different of painted glassbottles and some canvas as well 🎨😊.
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Some of the products from the order I’m working on now at days,- not quite finish,- but very soon 😊
I have been working a bit with some painted orders during the last days and week,- and soon “I getting there”- getting finished oilpainted products I can deliver to some customers 😊. But the heat slowed the painting process a bit down, until I found a fan 🌬😊. And the “windy air” dry the painting a bit faster then the sun 🌬🌞.
Hi❣ It’s so nice to see you,- like always 😊 I hope all is fine with you 🧡
At my 30 years birthday a good friend of my bought me a ladder to me as my birthday present 🏗. I remember is so well, and I was so happy and grateful for the ladder too 😊.
Sounds maybe a bit strange to be a woman in age 30 and be happy for a ladder to a birthday present,- but I’m actually a bit handy woman, so with a ladder I was able to do more different things in and outside the home on my own at our Prairie 😊.
I couldn’t take the ladder with me to Spain, so I gave it to an other friend of my that needed a ladder.
But now I have bought myself a new ladder. I need a ladder, and I don’t have any neighbours here in the area I can borrow a ladder from either.
Me with my new ladder 😊🏗 a ladder I need and know I’m going to use a bit “here and there” too 😊
I needed a ladder because the the awning that I can pull over the roof terrace has been destroyed by the wind this winter. When it blows here on the sunny coast, it blows at full strength as well 🌬🌪. The wind even moves on the summer furniture if they are not placed safely for the wind. There is a lot of sun on the roof terrace during the summer, and I need a new roof over the terrace so that it is possible to enjoy the summer time up there. If not it’s actually not possible to use the terrace, it will be to warm and very uncomfortable 🌡🔥.
Here you can see the roof terrace before I’m starting to fix me a bamboo roof 🌴😊
So I bought me a ladder and I bought a bamboo root to put over the terrace too 🌴. I need to admit it was a bit of a job, and it took a bit of time a well. And I’m actually a bit worried for hights too, so I did have some struggling with the high, special when I was close to the the railing and looked down into my backyard cafe. Phu,- I was a bit worried to fall over the railing and down, and be destroyed, even maybe die 😳. But it all went very well.
I’m actually a bit proud over my job,- it became so nice and cozy,- and it’s comfortable to “hide” a bit from the sun under the bamboo roof. And,- yes,- I did it all on my own. No help at all from anyone.
Look how cozy and nice it became 😊. A tiny video too from my terrace and the job I did 😊
I have also put up lights in the roof, but not quite the lighting I wanted 😅. I wanted white lights, but it was just possible the get lights with colours 😅. But okay,- it’s better then nothing, and it gives the terrace a cozy evening atmosphere anyway.
Look at this,- not to bad? 😊
I’m just a bit worried about one tiny thing,- and that’s the wind 🌬🌪. Will my bamboo roof manage to stay? Or will it blow away with the Autumn and winter wind, I know will come? Cross fingers that it all will stay there “on the roof” for a long, long time 🤞🙏.
I’m looking forward to spend both sunny summerdays as well as soft summer evenings both alone and together with family and friends up here on the roof 🥰. Barbecue, just be in the sun, drink a glass of cold and tasty white wine, have some nice conversations, read a good book, listen to music, just enjoy the the view to the beach and so on. Just spend a lots of great quality time during the summertime, days and evenings 🌞🌛.
So yes,- I am a bit proud over my roof terrace job,- all done by myself and without any kind of help 😊.
I wish you a great day or evening wherever in the world you are 🧡. Thank you so much for using your time and dropping by my blog today 🧡
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Hopefully I will spend some great time together with both family and friends during the summertime here,- both during the days as well as the evenings 🥰
Believe it or not,- but I’m actually a tiny bit of a handy woman,- and manage to fix a bit here and there on my own 😊. And now I have bought me a ladder because I needed to fix something, get something ready for long and warm sunny summerdays as well as soft and sweet summer evenings 🌞🌛. And proud? Yes,- of course I’m 😁. You will find out why in my post 😋😁.
Hi ❣ It’s so nice to see you,- like always 😊 I hope all is fine with you 🧡
This week was the Norwegian Constitution day 🇧🇻, and I used this day as a day off from “all and everything” for a tiny little while 😊. I could have celebrate together with some friends in Benalmadena as well as some friends in Fuengirola, but I did choose to just rest this day, in the sun,- and it was not to bad at all 🥰.
I’m still a bit low on energy, but slowly the energy is coming back now,- and that’s feels so great 🥰.
Marius, my oldest did work, Ruben did celebrate in Norway together with his friends, and Mathilde did her work together with a tiny celebration in Bali 🇧🇻. It’s make me happy to see my kids still do a bit of some of our traditions and Norwegian celebrations 🥰.
In a way I have “lost” many of this kind of Norwegian and family traditional and cultures celebrations during the last years. Some of the “losing” actually started before I moved to Spain. They started when I was in the relationship that wasn’t to healthy for my mind and soul up there in Norway. And, unfortunately, I haven’t managed to keep up with to many of my Norwegian traditions and the traditions I did grow up with after I/ we moved to Spain. I have tried, but slowly it’s a bit like the time, the daily life in a “new” country and the life on it’s own has in its own way slightly “erased” my/ our traditions.
I feel a bit “naken” , or more correctly, I feel my life is a bit “naken” without the traditions and cultures celebrations I did grew up with. At the same time I’m in a place in my life now where I need to find a kind of new rhythm when it comes to the traditions and cultures celebrations I had in Norway, because I’m not in Norway anymore.
I’m was perfectly fine in the sun during the Norwegian Constitution day this week 🌞. But of course I also did gave this traditions and cultures celebrations a thought and two. Am I without any specific traditions and cultures celebrations now? 🤔
If I have been in Norway I had maybe celebrate the Norwegian Constitution day,- I think, but I’m not sure- because who to celebrate the day together with in Norway? Everyone have their own to celebrate together with,- family and friends, and of course Ruben was and also had been together with his friends this day,- natural enough 💙.
And that’s also an other reason why our traditions and culture celebration are the way they are at the moment,- because we all four ( me and my three lovely children) are in different places in our life at the moment,- and also have been during the lasts years. We are trying to find our way in each of our lives, while walking a little next to each other as well ❤💙💙❤.
At the same time as we actually have created and made a kind of celebration during the Christmas- time as well as the Norwegian Constitution day, and my children’s birthdays too, and some few others traditions from our Norwegian culture. Not in the same way as we did when we did live in Norway,- but a kind of celebration in our own tiny, but nice and cozy way 🥰.
My birthday is many years since I did celebrate,- the exception was this year 🥰. Ruben did visit me/ us here in Spain the week I had birthday,- and we did celebrate my birthday together with just be together, order food delivered to the door ( a luxury on it’s own for me 😊) and we did watch a good movie together,- a cozy and in it’s own way,- perfect birthday, with the most amazing birthday present ever,- a surprise visit from Ruben 🎁❤.
In one way I do miss to celebrate our culture traditions the way we did in Norway when we did live in Norway. I miss family birthday parties, and other family “events”,- at the same time as I’m actually not sure I do “fit” in “there” anymore.
Some weeks ago two teenagers in Norway that I’m an aunt too, celebrated their baptism. I need to admit I did send them a lots of good thoughts for their day. And I also wondered how it had been to be there together with them, celebrate together with them and the family. At the same time as I think I don’t fit in “there” anymore. I have been away from “it all” a long time. I think I have felt very uncomfortable to be there, to be honest. They live their lives, I live my. And I feel different from them, a bit like an “outsider”.
At the same time as I do miss the different “old family culture traditions and celebrations” I don’t miss it, because we are not in Norway anymore,- and we need to try to find our own way to celebrate at the same time as we keep some of our “old” celebrations and create our new traditions and celebration “touched” with our culture in a new area in our life. Like make and create something that suits us as the family we are now, with something old and new traditions together in a way that’s best for us 😊.
I know my children have the tradition they did grew up with in their heart, mind and soul, and I have them too. Something Im very grateful for ❤ . They are just “resting” a bit, this traditions and cultures celebrations, and I think,- slowly when all four of us have found more our new places in our life we will get our new traditions and celebration together with some of the old one 🥰. I’m not worried about that,- this is a part of the life,- the different changes in life 🧡. But of course I at the same time will say I do miss now and then what was,- long time ago up there in Norway 🤗. What I’m incredibly grateful for that I and we have a lots of amazing memories together from different cultures and traditions celebrations in Norway 🥰. And good memories are gold worthy,- and really something to build something new on when the time is there 😊🤗. I have probably not missed the culture and traditions celebrations from Norway if they wasn’t some fantastic memories 🧡.
I like culture and traditions celebrations,- if not I have probably not miss them or given them to many thoughts. It’s like I also like the regular routines in the daily life 😊.
So no,- I’m not without traditions and cultures celebrations,- they are still there inside me, just “resting” a bit,- and slowly I’m, together with my children, are going to create our culture and traditions celebrations up again, build from something old and something new 🥰.
I wish you a great day or evening wherever in the world you are 🧡 Thank you so much for using your time and dropping by my blog today 🧡
See you soon 😊.
Me ,- the photo is taken on the Norwegian Constitution day this week,- after a lovely rest in the sun. And I’m without any kind of makeup,- it’s in its own way represented like I sometimes feel my life is a bit “naked” without traditions and cultures celebrations.
I’m not without traditions and cultures celebrations even it feels like that sometimes 🇧🇻. They are there inside me, in my heart, mind and soul, they are just “resting” a bit until we find our own and new way to celebrate the different traditions and cultures event with something new together with something old 😊.
Hi ❣ It’s so nice to see you,- like always 😊 I hope all is fine with you 🧡
In February my sweety pie of a daughter was on holiday in Norway. She visited friends and family before her travel went to Bali 🏖. But before Bali she had a ” longer stop” in my home again for some more weeks 😊.
Unfortunately, or maybe I should write, typical 😅? But Mathilde manage to forget her wallet in Norway. And in there was her cash, her Spanish bank card, her train ticket and her Norwegian bank card as well 😳. So she did travel from Norway to Spain without any kind of money, but luckily for her she managed to let me know 🙏. Thank you so much for internet and mobile and different social media channels we can chat on 🙏.
My plan was actually not to pick her up at the airport, because the train goes directly from the airport to our home, but without any kind of money, what else could I do ? 🧡 And parents do a lots for their children,- I know because I do as much as I’m available to do for mine three sweethearts 💙💙❤. As I for example did for my daughter today as well 😊. And my parents also did for me,- I know they did a lot for me ❤.
Her best friend in Norway did send the wallet to her in the mail addressed to Spain….and it was sent in the middle of February. And Mathilde did wait and wait and wait for her wallet to come in the mail to her here in Spain. And it did…..for just a couple of days ago 😅. And just in case it was sent to a post office in the centre of Malaga, around a 30 minutes train trip from our home, and a tiny walk for 15- 20 minutes from the train station too (and of course 15- 20 minutes back to the train station as well) 🚂. But before I went to the post office I needed to go the her work office in Malaga and pick up this “pick up note” to get out the wallet from the post office. And then back to her work office and deliver the wallet there 👛. Because one of her colleagues is going to Bali in June and visit the office “down there”,- and then he also can bring the wallet back to Mathilde 👛.
So it has been a bit running from one place to another place and back again today 😅. And when I had the chance I also brought with me some summer dresses he can take with him to Bali and Mathilde……it’s the summer dresses that doesn’t fit me anymore 😳👗.
But this tiny little wallet I did buy in the store for 3 euro to Mathilde in January this year, has now cost a bit more to both get it “down” to Spain as well as out of the post office 😅. Okay,- one of the card in the wallet is also an ID card to Mathilde, so that one I can understand it’s of a bit value for Mathilde,- but the two other ones are already replaced with new ones 😊. And the cash,- well she can’t use euro in Bali anyway. But obviously this wallet, this tiny little “piece” have a bit more “value” then 3 euro for Mathilde. Maybe because she got it from me?🥰 ( …at least I can believe so 😅). So of course I did what I could for her today so her wallet will be back in her hands around closely 5 months after she “lost” it 🧡.
Look at this tiny little wallet- that was forgotten in Norway and then went on a 3- 4 months travel to Spain before it hopefully will be in Mathilde’s hands again in the middle of June ,- but then in Bali 🙏🤞
But like I mention, this tiny little wallet did I pay 3 euro for, but to get it “back” in the correct hands again has been a bit bigger cost and challenge, to be honest😳.
Mathilde’s friend in Norway payd 50 euro for the post sending, something we of course transferred back to her account. And then I needed to pay 35 euro to get the wallet out from the post office today 😳. I knew it was around 35 euro cash in the wallet, but that did help me very much 😅. Because I needed to pay them before I could get the wallet. And just in case the post office only accepted cash, no card, so I needed to find a ATM and then go back again to the post office and try again.
I had also my passport, my NIE, a copy of Mathilde’s passport and NIE, and just in case her birth certificate too 🙏. The post office was most interested in my passport and her’s birth certificate. The rest they didn’t use one second on 😅. Mathilde had also written an email to the post office,- a kind of confirmation that I was going to pick it up this mail for her. That one was not necessary, they have probably not read it yet either,- but okay,- its better to be safe than sorry 😊.
So like I told Mathilde today,- it has been a bit of work and costs to manage to get “back” her tiny little wallet, and it’s still not in her hand. Cross fingers for that her colleague remember to bring it with him to Bali in June now🤞. Then, when, or maybe if it comes to Mathilde in June, this tiny little wallet has been on one of a trip as well as “the value” is a bit higher then 3 euro now,- it has cost a bit more then that, so Mathilde should get it back 😊🧡. And hopefully she doesn’t loose or forget to much, like wallets or mobiles, in the future. Hopefully a lesson and two has been learned? 🤞🙏
And yes,- of course I did this for her today,- I’m still not sure why this wallet have the kind of value it has for her,- I didn’t ask,- but I think one of the reasons is her ID, even she already have one kind of ID, and then I also can create my self my own imagenation that’s it’s because she got it from me 🥰😅. But as a mammi, and daddy and parents, we do a lots of small and big things, and sometimes very much for very little for our children ❤.
I wish you a great day or evening wherever in the world you are 🧡 Thank you so much for using your time and dropping by my blog today 🧡
See you soon 😊
Look how tiny this wallet is,- is closely at the same size as my hand 😅.
As parents we do a lots of different kinds of things for our children 🧡. And sometimes we do very much for very little,- like I did “run” around in Malaga after a tiny little wallet that has use 3-4 months from Norway to Spain,- so my sweety pie of a daughter hopefully can get it back in her hand in June,- but then in Bali 😅🤞.
JustLailaS.❤ 