On tuesday, 8th of December, Johnny and I went to a small and intimate concert by Geoff Berner and more.
I meet Johnny after work in Gamla Stan, and we went for something easy to eat. And went looking for the place the concert were supposed to be, The Cove, Stockholm. It was hard to find, but worth it! This was the third time Johnny and I went to a concert with Geoff Berner.

We arrived quite early, the band members of the other band playing, were still practicing a little. But we still sat down and ordered a Kilkenny each. We got to talk to Geoff, which was awesome. He is little guy with a fun appearance.

More people showed eventually up, and we took a seating in a comfy sofa. A while later, The Magnificent Seven started playing. They were great! Playing on accordion, violin, saw, melodica and a cello, and a nice vocal. We chatted a bit with Geoff, he sat next to us during the performance from The Magnificent Seven. The Magnificent Seven will release an album during spring of 2010, and I plan on buying it.

Then it was time. In this tour, Geoff had with him Wayne Adams and Diona Davies. Wayne played the drum and the occasional cymbal. Diona played violin, she was great. And Geoff had of course his accordion. The whole performance was great :)

Geoff Berner is an awesome live performer. He gathers the whole audience and make them sing along and buy him whiskey. For after all, he is the whiskey rabbi. There were many great songs, some sad, some happy and some which made you want to dance like a crazy little monkey.

The concert at The Cove, was the last place to play on the “Drunk and Dancing Europe Tour”. I will look forward to the next time he plays somewhere near me, and I will be sure to be going there!

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Unlike last year, this year I have a lot of time on my hand to make christmas appear to be a childhood dream. This year it is time to make christmas candy, ornaments, cookies/cake, candle and everything else one need for a perfect christmas. And I decided that there is no better way to start a good christmas tradition than by making peanut butter balls.

First I found the ingredients:
50 g butter
250 g peanut butter
500 g confectionary sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Then all you have to do is mix everything, do not, NOT, melt the butter, you are supposed to kneed everything together. Till it looks like the picture below.

Then you have to pinch balls together, just take a bit in your hand and squeeze until it is a firm ball. Like so.

Put your balls to rest in the fridge or freezer until hard. Then carefully insert a toothpick till it is stuck.
Melt a lot of chocolate, probably around 300 g, in a double boiler. Add about 60 g of paraffin wax (the kind you buy at a grocery store, I know it very well exists a lot of places :p). When the chocolate/wax mix is melted, dip the peanut butter balls in the mix, cover entirely.

For a better result, hold one peanut butter ball on a stick in one hand, while dipping with the other to allow the first one to cool, almost, completely. Place on a sheet of baking paper.

Carefully pull the toothpick out after a little while, while everything is a bit soft. Then put store in a cool place in some sort of container. I made some cute paper containers which I will show soon.

Enjoy :]

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I seem to forget that I have a blog. I have some crafty projects that are done, but havent been able to take the pictures just yet, will nag Johnny to do so when he comes home. As for my life, I (and Johnny) have moved to a new apartment just before easter, 2nd of April. When we said yes to it, and got here to view again and got the keys and such, I regretted getting this apartment… It was ugly, cold and needed fixing… On the plus side, the apartment has a wood stove, a storage room in the hallway (behind a little door). And a big basement for storage, it also has a medium sized freezer down there. 

But now… It is cute and cool. We painted almost every surface of the apartment. The first hallway was in this strange wood panel, now white. The second hallway was dark blue, now white after three (!) coats of paint. The living room was a mix of whitish and pastel purple… It is also white :) The kitchen was peachy colored or more like prison color… But that too is white. The bedroom was unpainted, dark wood panel. And after three coats of paint that too is white. I love white walls :) The bathroom is pastel blue and will stay that way, the toilet was white so there was no need for painting in there. Yes, we have a strange toilet, it is just a toilet in there, no sink, no washing whatsoever. 

Also, we have removed three (!) doors in the apartment that just were not necessary. We bought a new fridge (with a small freezer). Got some new lamps and tables. I finally got a tall bar table, in my kitchen :)

The apartments standards has risen quite a lot since Johnny and I moved in here. Unfortunately… We are going to move in the fall. Turns out, where Johnny work, has had some changes, and it is no longer necessary for a registry for domains in Norway any longer (the company is really swedish). But, Johnny got a good job offer in Stockholm, Sweden. He will become a team leader for two teams :)

So, we put a lot of work into an apartment that we will only be staying in for four months :( Oh well, I really look forward moving to Stockholm. I will take a break in my studies, read upon a couple of subjects that I failed. Johnny´s job has offered to help us find an apartment in Stockholm and find a job to me :)

In the previous weekend, my sisters and dog came over for sleepover. It was nice, we made yummy dinners and had a good time. On saturday we went on a small shopping, more like they bought stuff I am quite poor right now. Then my oldest baby sister went on the train back home to her so her boyfriend who had been gone for ten days. My youngest sister Sunniva and I went back to the apartment and got out the dog, Kira, and went for a long walk down to the fjord. Kira took a bath while Sunniva and I had some ice cream :)

After that we went home and painted some. I made a cute, pink, heart painting. It turned out nice :) Sunniva painted some buttons and needle felted a penguin, with some of my help. Later we made dinner with Johnny and watched X-men :) On sunday, Johnny and I went for a walk with Kira while Sunniva showered and when we got back we showered while Sunniva made breakfast for all of us. After that Sunniva and I started making candles. Striped candles. They turned out awesome ! Pictures will come later.

Then my mom came here, and stayed for dinner and took Sunniva and Kira with her home. 

This week has not been that eventful. Except for yesterday, then we had dinner guests. We made indian and it was good.

Today I will try to get more school stuff done…

Tomorrow we leave for Skien/Porsgrunn for Johnny´s baby sisters confirmation (? When you are 14-15 in Norway there is this ritual to show that you are now an “adult”…).

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Since my last blog about something crafty (which was several months ago, it kind of gets on and off this blogging thing) I have made several things. I will post pictures and such soon (or at least eventually). But to mention a few things, two good dresses, a skirt, hand warmers, mittens, laptop case for my boyfriend (with pacman :) and then I have been scrapping. I have really gotten into this scrapping now, what I have made now looks a lot better than previously. I am still new to scrapping, so improvements will always be there.

As for my life, my boyfriend and I are moving soon, do not know where yet, but we have put an ad in the news paper and hoping for reply this weekend. Yesterday we went on something we call “Harry tur” in Norwegian. It is basically a trip to Sweden where we buy cheap beer (although good beer, it is just that beer cost almost half in Sweden than what is costs in Norway), chicken and candy. We had about 11 liters of beer with us home :) (There are restrictions on how much you are allowed to have with you… 5 liters is the limit per person) And we bought one of my favorite chocolatesPolly

But now I am going scrapping :)

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It is a bit strange and lonesome to be here without Johnny. I miss him greatly. I have my own little room here in Kiel, with a small bed and it feels very empty not to have anyone to share this room with. But I will manage. I have been in Kiel since the 5th of January. I really like Johnny, he actually took four days off work just to come and see me last week. We met up in Berlin late late at night on wednesday. Then we stayed there until monday when he had to go back to Trondheim. It was a wonderful weekend, and I really enjoy spending my time with him. We were tourist for a bit, but mostly we were girlfriend and boyfriend. However, the meeting on wednesday was my four worst hours in my entire life I think. I arrived at Haupbahnhof (that is the main train station) in Berlin at 20.29. And he arrived at Funkturm (that is the main bus station) in Berlin at 20.10. Johnny were then supposed to meet me at Haupbahnhof when I arrived… But he did not. And my cell phone stopped having signal/service. And I called him with two other phones, but apparently his cell phone were having the same problems (we do use the same service provider). So there I was at 20.30 at a very big train station, alone, without any means of contacting Johnny… I was so worried and sick and angry for not him being there, and sad for the same reason. I talked to some of the station workers, and they said that going from Funkturm to Haupbahnhof took at least 45 minutes, Having said that I was a bit relieved, because that meant he would be here soon. So I waited and waited, for two hours… I had him called up on the calling three times over all of Haupbahnhof. Then I got the wise idea that I could call our service provider. I also found the number to the guy we were going to rent an apartment from at the same time. I then borrowed a phone from Service Point. By some reason I said I could call the german number first, so I came to the landlord. And Johnny was with him !!! At Funkturm !!! I cried, and yelled a little wondering why the hell he was there and not here. Eventually I got to say that he should come here right away and that I would meet him at track number 15 (because that is where he should end up at if he take the right trains). He said he would get here as soon as possible. I was very relieved and felt a bit more relaxed. I went and bought some chocolate, chips and Apfelschorle (it is apple juice mixed with sparkling water), and then some Cappuccino with chocolate. And sat on track 15 and waited for 50 minutes… No sign of Johnny yet, but I could not leave that place because I did not know when Johnny would be there. I was so worried… And cold (because the tracks are outside after all, with a roof though). But then, at 00.30 he was there. I had waited for four hours, worried sick and all. My first reaction was to hit him in the chest then hug him… We stood hugging for a while, while he excused himself and was sorry. It turned out he had not understood the whole U-bahn vs S.bahn, where you sometimes have to get up and across the street to change between an U-bahn stop to a S-bahn stop. But in the end everything worked out fine. The rest of the week was really nice and I really disliked it when Johnny had to leave me again.

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I like purple, so my felted laptop case is mainly in purple with semi white apples. It is knitted on very big needles… Pictures below :)

It is lined with ordinary cotton fabrick, and a long zipper (no need for fancy zipper with exact measurements, as it was very hard finding a 92 cm long zipper, I bough a meter from a big roll of zipper band). It was a bit hard to sew on the fabrick and the zipper at the top of my case, because the felted bit was very thick there…

But overall I am pretty happy with this one. Of course it look homemade with some mistakes here and there, but it suits my needs and look ok :)

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A while later I got a note in my mail saying there was a package to pick up from this company. Happily I went to the post office and picked it up. This is what I receieved.

So I actually got five tubes of various cheese, a box of cheese and some crispbread or rye crisp.
yay to free stuff, and I love the Kavli company who sent me this :D

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On the 10th of June I actually went home to my parents, I have not been there since in February ( they have visited me though). It was nice, I participated in my baby sisters last day in scouting for the season. I visited my grandmother and finished my felted laptop case. It turned out nicely (by the way, I will post a blog about that thing later). I walked a lot of trips with our family dog, Kira.

I got a job for the summer, I am cleaning the train station and some other offices. I don’t start that job until 14th of July. But seeing as I don’t get scholarship money in either June or July, I needed more work. Which I got from the hospital, as the same job I already got there, but at another place, actually four places.

The last weekend and week, Johnny and I have been taking care of Kira. She is a sweet dog.

Other than that, I don’t think it is much more interesting to say. Or more of, I’m tired of writing :p

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Lovely pictures. When she is all dark she is on.y about a couple of months, the other ones are from now in our apratment.

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