Advent time

1.

Ho Ho Ho, it's Christmas time. 

I have an advent calendar for the first time in many years. 

This is the Amazing Inkvent calendar , with 25 bottles of ink. 

As it is the 3.Decmber already, I have so far opened three doors, as it should be. 

The name of the inks are:

 Baltic Breeze, a blue shimmery ink, 

Wilted Rose, brownish red ink

Noble fir, a very glimmery or glittery green ink. 

I am unfortunately not someone that swatches inks, but I may put them all in my Bullet journal when Advent is over and all the inks are sitting on top of my bureau.

I'll do a swatch page, and show you all. 

I know, loads of people swatch these, and you can just google it. But it wont be my swatch.

So, December...

Do you all have any plans for the three next weeks? 

I will be working, and then I have one week of annual leave coming up (phew). I feel that I really need it. 

It's the same every time Annual Leave comes round. 

A week of nothingness, just trying to catch up with housework, letters, reading and just "stuff"around the house. 

This time, I think I want to head to Glasgow for a change of scenery. We all need a change of scenery every so often, if just for a day. 

Have a nice first week of December everyone. 

Linn 

 

New Dreams

Good evening, or morning Perhaps even afternoon?  

Hello again friends. 

One month to Christmas!  

Where does the time go?

So much has been going on these last few years, I feel like I have lost myself.

How does one go around trying to find oneself? Does anyone have any good ideas on how to not forget yourself in all the stress of trying to keep up with work, children and just existing in this world? 

This is in addition to the changing of several other things in my life. 

I feel stressed today, worried. 

I haven't been writing much in this blog, and I certainly have no practise in writing well. 

All I can do I try to keep this blog alive by writing more often, and then perhaps I will end up being a better writer. 

I can only try, 

Tomorrow is another day, it's a day of work and probably more stress. But I will do my best to survive another day at work. 

If you are inclined to pray, I will ask if you pray for me that the work situation will get sorted, and for my husbands health and my daughters studies and mental health. 

We need the extra help these days. 

Thanks for reading, friends. Come back to visit me soon. 

Love, Linn

April dreams

 We are in the middle of April, a while back we went to visit Doune Castle, it was great fun to go inside and see all the rooms. We had not yet seen any of the famous Outlander tv show, but some of it was filmed at Doune Castle. Monty Python's Holy Grail was also filmed here. 

 

 We also decided to finally get rid of our garden hut, it was old, and the ceiling had caved in. It took my daughter and I less then two hours to demolish it. It felt fantastic to finally get rid of it. For me, it feels so great to do phyical work, it truly refreshes me somehow. 

This was the result.

After several trips to the local reycling centre, most of the wood is gone. There's still a bit to clean up, but I am waiting for a warmer dry day before I get on with that. It has been pretty wet and miserable around here the last few weeks, that is for sure.

It is raining today as well, and there are things on my mind, things that needs fixing. It is not easy. 

If anyone finds themselves inclined to prayer, please pray that everything will be fine. 

There are three major issues, and the Lord knows what they are. 

I have watched a couple of you tube videos this morning, just trying to keep calm. They did inspire me to do some decluttering in the house (again). 

I haven't really started yet, but I think I may be able to tidy up a little today. Maybe i should share my storage room with you all, the plan is that it will be my workroom ,where I can sit and do my sewing and cutting and planning. 

Thank you for your prayers ladies and gentlemen. 

much love, Linn xx

Refocus

Hello everyone, 

A very good morning to you all.

The sun is shining, and it's the start of a new week. It is also the first Monday of March.

I thought today was as good a day as any to update the blog and refocus on important things in my life. 

Going forward, I will talk about many different things from health and food, to gardening, travel, books and ideas in general. 

A little bit later I will introduce myself a little again, and tell you all a about myself and my plans going forward. 

Thank you for visiting, and Bless you all . 

2023 recap

Hello again, 

It has been a very long time since I have been here, on my blog. 

2023 is over, and I am very glas that is is. 

It was not a good year for me, or my family. 

1. Husband has a new job.

2. Our dog God bless her soul; she got sick, and we said goodbye in June.

So sweet little Misomis our only pet, a hamster who will soon be two years old, and I ecpect he will also soon no longer be with us (hamsters generally don't live much more than 2 years.)

3. Just before Christmas every warning light possible on the car lit up. 

Now we are at the start of 2024, and I'm praying that this next year will be better.

Actually, I haven't prayed about that, but it is a very good idea. 

This morning I saw a fox in our back garden, which was alot on fun, They seem to like our back garden, probably because it's such a mess.

I am planning some major work out there in the spring. Watch this space.

Here is a picture I took a few months ago, when it was autumn, and the car was still happy. 

This is a view of Loch Lomond.

Happy new year everyone!