Monday, January 07, 2008

Jamming...

If you visit our house these days, you will hear a lot of jamming....Even if you just pass outside it!!
This Christmas Emil put a guitar on his list of wishes. And lucky he was indeed - his grandparents went to the music store and bought him one. I must not forget the fancy, black bag to carry the guitar in, which they bought him too. (He looked rather tough when he went off to sleep at a friend's with his guitar on his back!!)
All Christmas he played for us - happy songs, quick songs, saaaaaaaaad songs, rock songs, classic songs and pop songs. The fact that he hasn't learned how to play guitar yet, didn't stop him at all....
He also got two EM footballs, but changed one of them into a tuner (I think it is called that). So now he can play IN tune.
He now has a guitar book, a guitar DVD and the will to learn, so I guess it will not take long before he plays real songs.
Anne-Sophie plays the piano and has done so for quite a few years. So when she started playing "Right next to the right one" by Danish Tim Christensen, Emil quickly grabbed his guitar and ran upstairs to her room. "Would you like to jam, Anne-Sophie?" he asked her.
This really made me smile....that boy is always so positive and openminded. I don't think that I know any person as happy as him - he hardly ever is negative nor angry..........
The last thing I need to mention is that Emil agreed for me to write about him and his guitar!!

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Hvor er jeg bare heldig!!! - I'm so lucky!!!

Cozy, originally uploaded by lille-ursus.

A perfect day for being crafty..........and yes, it IS the one and only Cobblestone I am knitting!!!

Have a lovely weekend....

Thursday, January 03, 2008

How do you make a man buy yarn?

For quite a few days, I have been asking Christian when he decides on the yarn for his Cobblestone.....

I'm getting rather restless - I really want to knit it for him.......and it does look like a fun pattern to make. He has been seing a lot of yarn on the internet - sometimes because I "push" him a little or because I accidently find a yarnshop on the computer when he is the same room as me!

Brown or green are the colours he has in mind - but being a hunter and a lover of naturerelated activities, he already has a whole lot of green/grey Fjällräven or Haglöfs clothes (if I may say so!!) Now, it isn't me who is going to decide nor wear it - so hush, hush Ulla!!!

In my search for yarn I found this lovely shop called "Tante Hanne" which I haven't seen before. In her shop she carries all these wonderful yarns, which you can see in the pictures.

In the left hand upper corner it is "Pure Lana", in the right hand upper corner "Navia" and finally it is "Gotlandsk pelsuld" from Filcolana.

Christian (very funny!) suggested a sweater made entirely in wool from Musks from this shop: Arnica.dk It wouldn't become very expencive to knit - only 5040 Danish kroner!!!! But I bet it will be warm then......

Actually he is rather sensible, my dear, sweet husband - he doesn't want to buy the yarn on the internet because he can't feel and see the yarn properly.....I can't blame him for this point of view though!