{"id":57,"date":"2007-09-28T14:45:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2007-09-28T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:23:08","slug":"more-hours-in-the-day-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maya-b.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"More hours in the day, please?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not much of a blogger these days. If only someone could grant me my wish to expand the day and make room for more hours. My professional life is quite intense and the house renovation seems to grow as a project as we finish each part. Running between work, family and my house, the one activity that is given the least amount of time is my knitting.<\/p>\n

As every reader of this blog should know, I love gifts. I\u2019ve been the happy participant of many gift swapping rings and now for the first time I\u2019m also the host for Secret Friend at the Norwegian Hobbyforum<\/a>. I\u2019ve just finished organizing the first of four rounds, and with 55 participants it took some time to manage it all. But look at the wonderful gift I received from my Secret Friend! Lovely yarn, stitch markers and tea, who could ask for more than this? I know I also promised to show you some new pictures from my house. These pictures are taken after we finished putting up the walls, painting them, and framing the windows, the next step will be to sand and paint the floor. As you can see we are slowly getting there and if we are lucky we will have a new living room before Christmas. We are really happy with the results, but I promise you that if we had known how huge this project would end up being, we would never have started it in the first place. As I mentioned, there\u2019s not much time for knitting these days, which actually makes me quite grumpy. Another thing that made me grumpy was that I ran out of yarn for the Gentleman Socks. I partly anticipated this to happen so I bought some bright blue yarn to finish with. It looks like it will work out fine, even though the blue isn\u2019t quite the right tone to match the original yarn. Hopefully, I will finish the socks long before the house.<\/p>\n

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Jeg er ikke mye til blogger for tiden. Hvis bare noen kunne ha innvilget \u00f8nsket mitt om flere timer i d\u00f8gnet. Jobbmessig har jeg det temmelig intenst og huset ser ut til \u00e5 vokse som prosjekt for hver oppgave vi greier \u00e5 fullf\u00f8re. Det jeg ender opp med \u00e5 f\u00e5 minst tid til er \u00e5 strikke.<\/p>\n

Som enhver leser av denne bloggen vet s\u00e5 er jeg utrolig glad i gaver (og hvem er ikke det?). Jeg har v\u00e6rt deltager i mange gavebytteringer, og n\u00e5 er jeg ogs\u00e5 vertinne for f\u00f8rste gang p\u00e5 Secret Friend inne p\u00e5 Hobbyforum<\/a>. Jeg er akkurat ferdig med \u00e5 organisere 55 p\u00e5meldte og deres gaver og det tok jammen litt tid \u00e5 f\u00e5 orden p\u00e5 det hele. Men se p\u00e5 den fantastiske gaven jeg mottok! Deilig garn, maskemark\u00f8rer og te, hvem kan vel \u00f8nske seg mer enn det? Jeg har ogs\u00e5 lovet \u00e5 vise fram bilder av de nye veggen p\u00e5 stua. Disse bildene er tatt etter at vi har f\u00e5tt opp gipsplatene, sparklet sprekkene og malt veggene. Vi har ogs\u00e5 foret ut vinduene og malt listene der. Neste skritt blir \u00e5 pusse og male gulvet. Vi er veldig forn\u00f8yd med resultatet, og selv om prosjektet har vokst og vokst til n\u00e5, s\u00e5 begynner vi \u00e5 se enden p\u00e5 det hele. Det som blir gitt minst tid for \u00f8yeblikket er strikkinga. Noe som gj\u00f8r meg litt grinete siden jeg er vant til \u00e5 ha disse \u201dmeg stundene\u201d med strikket\u00f8yet jevnlig. Noe annet som gjorde meg litt grinete var at jeg gikk tom for garnet til gentleman sokken. Det var delvis forventet s\u00e5 jeg hadde kj\u00f8pt noe neonbl\u00e5tt garn til t\u00e5a p\u00e5 sokkene. N\u00e5r jeg n\u00e5 har begynt \u00e5 strikke med dette garnet s\u00e5 ser jeg at det ikke har helt den rette bl\u00e5tonen til \u00e5 matche det orginale garnet, men jeg synes allikevel at resultatet ikke blir s\u00e5 verst. Forh\u00e5pentligvis blir jeg ferdig med sokkene f\u00f8r stua.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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