Recent Posts Tagged With 'life outside knitting'

• Senior citizens, äldre folk, seniori-ikäiset

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 15:08 in life outside knitting

  What has the world come to? Last week I went to the post office. When leaving it, I opened the door to an elderly lady who formed a square angle over her rollator. I repeated the operation at the second door, and she burst out into praise, calling me...

• New roommates

  Posted on Monday June 15th, 2009 at 07:17 in life outside knitting

  The commune downstairs was split up, as the two men moved away. The third adult with her baby wanted to sign a contract for the downstairs apartment, but the landlord let it out from June 1st, plus the two garages that the former inhabitants had rent...

• You gotta look at this!

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 14:12 in life outside knitting

  Thanks to my knitting friend, Rica, for this link! This shows you should never judge a book by its covers! 13 Million views in 5 days. A star is born. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY...

• Spring, vår, kevät

  Posted on Wednesday March 18th, 2009 at 08:30 in life outside knitting

  This is what I found in mid-January: Detta hittade jag i mitten av januari: Löysin tämän tammikuun keskivaiheilla: In February, I found this in my freezer: I februari hittade jag denna i min frysbox: Helmikuussa tämä löytyi pakastimestani: I w...

• Oh baby, baby

  Posted on Friday November 14th, 2008 at 09:20 in life outside knitting

• Baby boy, pojkbaby, poikavauva

  Posted on Monday November 10th, 2008 at 03:49 in life outside knitting

  On Saturday morning, I took my new downstairs neighbor to the hospital for childbirth. In the evening a boy was born. I’ll probably get more details after they’ve come home. Congratulations to the new mother! Yesterday was Father’s ...

• Congratulations, grattis, onnea!

  Posted on Friday October 10th, 2008 at 08:00 in life outside knitting

  Martti Ahtisaari has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2008. Congratulations! You’ve made us Finns so proud! We did of course know about your efforts for peace earlier, but this kind of recognition makes us all so happy for you. Många gratula...

• Kauhajoki

  Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 06:51 in life outside knitting

  A new school shooting in Finland. The country where no one would believe such events would ever take place, a year ago. The government is having a press conference in 10 minutes. 9 - 10 dead so far. http://society.oshana.org/another-school-shooting-k...

• Mushrooms, svamp, sieniä

  Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 05:53 in knitting, life outside knitting

  There’s been less knitting and more mushroom picking, cooking and salting lately. My DD #3 had her birthday and got a pair of black beaded wristlets (sorry, no photo because of the rush) with gold colored glass beads. She loved them! I’ve...

• Visitors, besökare, kävijöitä

  Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 04:01 in life outside knitting

  This says it all, doesn’t it? The blog geo stat says something else: Detta säger allt, eller hur? Bloggens geografiska statistik säger något helt annat: Tämä kertoo kaiken, vai mitä? Blogini maantieteellinen tilasto kertoo aivan muuta: ...

• Beach lot for sale, strandtomt till salu, rantatontti myytävänä

  Posted on Sunday July 6th, 2008 at 08:01 in life outside knitting

  http://ekebodesign.eu/english/beach_lot.html http://ekebodesign.eu/svenska/tomten.html http://ekebodesign.eu/suomi/tontti.html SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Beach lot for sale, strandtomt till salu, rantatontti myytävänä", url: "http://ekebodesign....

• Summertime, sommartid, kesäaikaa

  Posted on Monday June 30th, 2008 at 14:12 in knitting, life outside knitting, tech stuff

  This summer hasn’t been what summers used to be. I imagined I would have time to card my Finnwool, dye fiber and spend some time gardening. None of those have come true. Denna sommar har inte varit som somrar brukar. Jag trodde att jag skulle h...

• Pekka Halonen

  Posted on Saturday May 17th, 2008 at 06:02 in life outside knitting

  Yay!!! I finally got it! The book I’ve been translating all winter! The Swedish version is translated by me! Tjolahopp!! Äntligen fick jag den! Boken jag översatt hela vintern! Den svenska versionen är min översättning! Hiphei!!! Vihdoink...

• Pixmania again

  Posted on Tuesday April 22nd, 2008 at 14:32 in life outside knitting

  Today I got two emails saying they are refunding me 1. the return postage 2. the power unit price and the refunding service surcharge This will take some days, because the refund is apparently being paid in France. Let’s hope there will be no b...

• Good grief, or security issues

  Posted on Thursday April 17th, 2008 at 08:09 in life outside knitting

  I just got a confirmation email from Pixmania. I called them, because they gave a phone number as an alternative to sending the bank account information by email. I regard sending sensitive information by email very dangerous. Oh well, they sent that...

• More Pixmania

  Posted on Thursday April 17th, 2008 at 05:48 in life outside knitting

  I just called them and gave them my bank details. This is what I experienced: 1. An English answering machine (illegal for Finnish customers) telling to dial # 1 or # 2 2. A Finnish ad telling how they’ve been in the photo business for 30 years...

• Pixmania update

  Posted on Wednesday April 16th, 2008 at 15:05 in life outside knitting

  Today, after 19 days of waiting after sending the product back, they notified me that they’ve received the packet and found the returned product to be in the state “new”.They would handle the issue later. Tonight I got a second emai...

• Buyer beware - IT

  Posted on Sunday April 13th, 2008 at 10:37 in life outside knitting, tech stuff

  (only in English, endast på engelska, vain englanniksi) These are a few of my recent experiences with suppliers of IT services and equipment: Telia-Sonera When I started my business, I had a landline telephone only, and therefore a telephone modem f...

• Country life, lantliv, maalaiselämää

  Posted on Friday April 11th, 2008 at 14:50 in life outside knitting

  I moved into a beautiful neighborhood more than seven years ago. Now it looks like this, when you look out the kitchen window after wakeup: Jag flyttade in i en vacker miljö för mer än sju år sedan. Nu ser här ut såhär, då man tittar ut genom...

• Baaaa baaaaa

  Posted on Friday March 28th, 2008 at 03:53 in life outside knitting

  Last night we had a nice double surprise, pics below. One lamb was very much bigger than the other. I går kväll fick vi en trevlig dubbelöverraskning, bilder nedan. Det ena lammet var mycket större än det andra. Eilen illalla saimme tuplaylläty...

• Såja! No niin!

  Posted on Tuesday January 29th, 2008 at 11:59 in life outside knitting

  Dagens Nyheter om finlandssvenska. Dagens Nyheter suomenruotsista. This posting deals about my language, Swedish in Finland, and how it’s popular now in Sweden. Share This...

• Snow! Snö! Lunta!

  Posted on Monday January 21st, 2008 at 15:32 in life outside knitting

  This photo was taken at 10 am. The snow melted, of course, but we’re getting more, and the temperature’s dropping!!! Jag tog bilden i morse kring tio. Snön smalt förstås, men nu får vi mer, och det blir kallare!!! Otin kuvan aamukymme...

• Global warming? Global uppvärmning? Globaali lämpeneminen?

  Posted on Saturday January 19th, 2008 at 15:56 in life outside knitting

  Sorry, I haven’t written for a while. I haven’t been able to knit for two and a half weeks now, and I’ve been saving my hands for my work. Yes, I’ve had my hands full of work since the beginning of November. The offensive, hur...

• 30 000

  Posted on Tuesday January 8th, 2008 at 13:16 in knitting, life outside knitting

  Taina is the lucky one who got a downloadable pattern from my shop. Congratulations! Taina är lyckans osten som fick ett nedladdningsmönster från min butik. Grattis! Taina on se onnekas, joka sai ladattavan  neuleohjeen nettikaupastani. Onneksi o...

• December, joulukuu

  Posted on Friday December 28th, 2007 at 14:36 in knitting, soapmaking, life outside knitting

  Where should I begin? Var ska jag börja? Mistä alkaisin? I got a very good feedback on these: they’re perfect! I made them for DD#3 for Xmas. Opal yarn on 2.5 mm dpn’s. I made myself a similar pair after sending away all the presents f...

• Merry Xmas from Finland!

  Posted on Saturday December 22nd, 2007 at 11:10 in life outside knitting

  Hyvää Joulua - God Jul! Denna post endast på engelska. Tämä postaus vain englanniksi. I would like to wish all my readers a very relaxing holiday time, with lots of good will and knitting, spinning or whatever hobby you love. I’d also lik...

• Buy handmade!

  Posted on Wednesday December 19th, 2007 at 04:15 in life outside knitting

  Please go to the New York Times site to read this article: Handmade 2.0 Share This...

• Spam

  Posted on Thursday December 13th, 2007 at 07:46 in life outside knitting

  Oh no, my spam filter says I’ve deleted 40,095 spam comments since May this year. I’ve spent my day removing spam emails from the mail server, more than 10,000 of them were there, in three accounts. It looks as if I’ve received 1,00...

• My last visitors, mina senaste besökare, viimeisimmät kävijät

  Posted on Thursday November 29th, 2007 at 03:31 in knitting, life outside knitting

  In addition to these, one from Japan, Korea, Colombia and Alaska. Utanför bilderna, en besökare var från Japan , Korea, Colombia och Alaska. Näiden lisäksi yksi kävijä per maa/osavaltio: Japani, Korea, Kolombia ja Alaska. Share This ...

• Blog anniversary

  Posted on Monday November 26th, 2007 at 14:02 in knitting, life outside knitting

  This post is only in English. My blog turned one year yesterday. I didn’t post anything, because I felt old and grumpy due to severe sleep deprivation. I managed to get some sleep last night, after moving onto the living room sofa for the first...