Baard Breivik exhibit in Bergen
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Baard Breivik exhibit in Bergen

Our own artist, Baard Breivik, is exhibiting his latest sculpture in Bergen just now. It is in fact 4 reliefs put together as a cube, 7x7x7 meter. Based on mathematical formulas, made in polished steel. And the result is so cool!. I took some photographs on saturday, it was raining, but that only increased the colours of spring.
The grey building rising behind the sculpture is our city hall, and behind the trees to the left, our new court-building is rising.
And a close-up:
Congratulation Norway, congratulation Bergen
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Congratulation Norway, congratulation Bergen

17. May, Norway’s national day. In 1814, our constitution was signed, and today this is mostly the childrens day. Our parades is with and for the civilians, no military parades.In Bergen where I live, they sometimes tends towards carnival. We have 3 municipal parades, the first at 0700 in the morning, mostly with our russ (highschool graduates), then two at midday, one mainly with children, the other with our Universities and organisations. And in the afternoon, there are lokal parades at the different schools. Salute are fired at 0700 and 1100, and then fireworks at 2300.Here are some pictures from todays celebration. First two pictures of our lokal buekorps, Laksevaag bueskyttere, on their way to the centre of the city:
Buekorps is an old tradition in Bergen, more than 150 years old, and started as a copy of the grown ups as they drilled for war. Today they are organisations with and run by children, doing drumming, marching and sports. The different buekorps compete against each others, and entertain the city on several occations.

And here are Laksevåg Bueskyttere in the parade:

And here are some of the children, many in national costumes:
Spring is here!
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Spring is here!

Spring is here, the sun is warming, the flowers are about to come – life is wonderful. I just wished I had more time. I’m in the middle of reorganising my house, making new work stations for my art. I also try to get rid of all that stuff we have collected in the 26 years we have lived in the house. Much of which I don’t know why? Now, as my daughters have left home, I realize I have a need for more order to be able to create. And I spend too much valuable time looking for things I know I have but can’t find. I guess I’m not the only one.
Looking through my photos from my ROD-journal, I found two more photos I want to share with you. The first is from the end of winter when we all were fed up with snow, and I’ve put in some clips from our local newspaper:

The second is about trying to bring spring and colours in the house:

Yesterday I tried to take a photo of my last quilt, based on pictures I took of Jøtulvann in Iceland. I only had my cell-phone so it is far from perfect, no colour correction yet.

and a little close up:

The correct colour is something in between, but closer to the green one.

Happy Easter
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Happy Easter

I just managed to finish decorating my Easter-eggs before the holliday started. So now I have 5 days to do just what I want. No job and no obligations. Well, I’m painting the walls of my staircase, which is quite a job. Not the painting but the rest of the job with masking-tape etc. I also had to take down the railing, and did the priming today. This is a job I’ve been thinking about and delaying for about two years, and at last I’m doing it.

I also started to do some gardening today, but heavy rain stopped that. The garden really need a makeover after the winter with all it’s snow. Instead I finished my last quilt based on the lake of Jøtulvann in Iceland. The lake is full of small ice-bergs floating around.

This photo is from a trip I did to Iceland in 2004. My daughter and her husband both had a year at the University of Iceland, and I spent 14 days with them enjoying the wonderful great nature of this fascinating island.
Have a nice holliday!

Home again!
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Home again!

Well I’m home after a trip to Trondheim to visit my eldest daughter and her family. I just have to be updated on my little 2 years old grandson Morten. He is so lovely and with such a great heart.
And when I came home, almost all of the snow was gone! It is just wonderful to go in the garden and see life comming back. Now I have to clear away the dirt of winter that pops up after 101 days with snow.
Before I went, I dyed some fabric and embrodeery-thread:

This is one of the pieces of fabric. And here is a closer picture of the threads:
I also got a piece red and blue which I plan to use to make a little quilt with embrodery in the red and blue thread.
I also want to share some more pages from my ROD-journal:
                                     
                                     
New ROD-pages
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New ROD-pages

My ROD journal is being filled up, mostly with pictures of the snow we’ve got this winter. It has been an extraordinary winter for us here in Bergen. Usually we have some snow a week or two, the rest of the winter is dark, grey and WET. But this year the snow came at December 19. and it is still here!. At the most we had 63 cm snow on flatland (officially), in my garden it was more than 75 cm. We have not had this much snow since 1917 and 1918! But now it looks like the spring is comming, we haven’t had frost for several days, and the snow is melting every day. So there is still hope. Here are some of the pages in my ROD journal:

Wet crows don’t cry
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Wet crows don’t cry

My head has been filled with a llittle too much lately, and I’m trying to finish some of my projects so I can concentrate on new ideas. «Wet crows don’t cry» is the title on an altered book I’m working with. The title is from a tv-program I had the audio-design on some years ago. And after working with this program, I really started looking at the crows in a different way. Here are two pictures from the book:

My new sketchbook
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My new sketchbook

I’ve been making myself a new Sketchbook, filling it with many kinds of paper. My youngest daughter fell in love with it imediately and ordered one for herself.

On the covers, I’ve used Silk paper I made some weeks ago. On the front, I’ve laminated in a leaf from a plant from my garden,
and on the back, I’ve tried to use some golden flakes:

I’m really satisfied with the result, and it was fun making it too.

Journal pages and a new ribbon
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Journal pages and a new ribbon

I’m doing my best filling my «Remains of the day»-journal. And at last I managed to get some pictures. I try to fill it with my ordinary day, and it has made me pick up booklets as I go, take care of ticets etc. And put them in my journal. Here are two of my pages:
This week I also threaded my tablets and started a new ribbon, with a pattern of hearts in pink and green. It is fascinating to see how the threads forms the pattern as I turn the tablets. I use 20 tablets in this ribbon:  
   
and here is a closer view:
«Christmas is over» and journal is finished!
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«Christmas is over» and journal is finished!

My «Remains of the day»-journal is finished. Well it has been for some time, but I have a picture first now. On the front I’v used some fabric marked with Markal Paintstiks, the flower is a fabric from the 60’s appliqued on, and the ribbon also is something I’ve just put aside sometime… I’ve quilted it very simple, in fact I prefer things being simple. Otherwise it just get too messy for me…
On wednesday I also at last managed to take down the Christmas decoration from my balcony. It had been covered with snow and ice until we at last got som mild weather with rain. Well for one day, until it started snowing again. And with more frost. This winter has been quite extraordinary, usually we have a week with snow at the most, this year we’ve had it since December 19th. Here you can see it in a pile on the floor drying up from the rain we had.