This'n that

It has been some busy days last week. All kids have been home from school because of the fall break. I have been working. And my parents came last thursday to spend the week-end with us!
It is allways nice to have visitors, and my children love to have their grandparents to visit. Our son has also been at home. He got his drivers license a few weeks ago, and are now happily driving when he is allowed to and the car is free for him to use! No, he has not got his own car, he has to buy himself a car when he can afford to buy one and pay for the gaz, insurance and all taxes that is required! And that will take some time, I guess! He went back to school yesterday. My parents drove him up to the school, which is a boarding school more than 400 km away from home!
In an earlier post I wrote about my trip with "Hurtigruten". I have a little more to tell. No no, this will not be as long as the other post was! I hope!
Before we left, I thought by my self, on this trip there will not be any shopping, and definately no fabricshopping! Hmhmmm, what is this?????? Ehm, it looks like fabrics, or ......... Yes, it is fabrics, and I found them in a shop in Honningsvåg! I was only looking for embroidery floss, and came out from the shop with the floss, yes, and fabrics! And I have no fabrics at home!!! Haha!
The box you see in the photo is bouhgt in Kirkenes. It is made by russians (I was told) and is made of the bark from birches. Isn't it cute? It thought I should use it for small handsewing projects.
When you are cruising like this, you need something to do. Yes, you can sit and watch (read sleep), like many did! But I need some more, so this is what I was doing while sitting in the lounge looking out at the nature!
I never got bored! My husband went to his classes after an early breakfast. I slept a little longer, had a late breakfast, and then found a chair in the lounge. We met for lunch, he went back to his classes and I went back to the lounge, or we went off the ship to have a walk etc.
It is so funny, when you are working on a quilt in public, different people are stopping by and talk to you. I had two older english ladies who where very interested in my quilt. One of them was embroidering a beautiful tablecloth, and the other one was working with hexagons, english paperpiecing. She told me she got lots of bags with unfinished projects from other old people, wanting her to finish them for them! Clever lady!
A danish lady stopped by, wanted to have a look, and told me she was making quilts, mostly by hand! And she told about a quiltshow held in Aalborg, Denmark this fall, which was great! I was planning to go to that show, but was not able to find time!
And there were another lady from the US, she told that she had been teaching how to make quilted jackets and vests all over Minnesota!
And, I'm not done yet......there was a german man sitting next to me, he was reading and I was sewing. I guess he was in his fifties or sixties. I felt he was looking at me and what I was doing. At the end of the day he finally said, I love your quilt and your embroidery! Wow, I thought, I've never heard that from a man! And then he told me that he loved to do embroidery himself! He was mostly doing cross-stitches, tiny tiny ones! Isn't this fun?As you can see, I was sewing, reading, listening to music, knitting..... I really enjoyed my vacation!
Each day they had a new saying on the informationboard on the ship. Now an then I will share them with you, and you will have one today!

Friends are like stars,

you cannot always see them,

but you know they are there!

Yes, now I'm done!!