trondheim
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inspiration: hannah ryggen
Lately I have been thinking a great deal about the Swedish-born Norwegian textile artist Hannah Ryggen. I previously wrote very briefly about Ryggen’s work on this blog when I visited the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum (the Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design) back in 2019, but now seemed like a good time to revisit the work Continue reading
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wandrian & thoughts on walking
I’m picking up where I left off after an unintended pause in my blogging plans. In my last post I promised to share more about the name of the Wandrian cowl, in the first, and then later this week I’ll have some reading recommendations to share related to the theme. Wandrian is an Old English Continue reading
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september
September went by in a flash. It was a busy month of strange highs and lows on a personal level, but I looked for the small moments of beauty and joy where I could find them. On September 1, I had to turn the heaters on, and by this past final weekend of the month, Continue reading
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a new year
Happy new year to you all! It’s been a little while, hasn’t it? It seems I haven’t posted since August, and if I’m honest, 2021 feels like a year that just quietly slipped by. I can hardly believe Christmas and the new year have come and gone again already. Nonetheless, I wanted to pop by Continue reading
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thaw
March and April have definitely brought signs of spring this year. I think this March was milder and less snowier than last year’s, something I’m feeling grateful for. We’re still in that in-between stage, where it sometimes snows, but it’s mild enough now that it never lasts for too long when it does. The daylight Continue reading
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another year, gone
November and December have come and gone, and it’s stayed pretty quiet in this space. There were a few reasons for that – it’s been a very busy time both at work at the university as well as behind the scenes with Paper Tiger, but I’ve also been coping with the worsening condition of a herniated Continue reading
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a few september snaps
I know I’m not the only one wondering where the month has gone. (This year especially, that seems to keep happening.) September has been the wettest month in Trondheim so far – I think it’s rained nearly every day. Just weeks and weeks of rain. Yesterday we finally had a clear day for the first Continue reading
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september
Late summer is giving way to early autumn. You can feel the days growing shorter here in Trondheim, the sun sitting lower in the sky. While I enjoyed the long summer days, the return of night and the stars is welcome. The wildflowers have almost all finished and filled the breezy air with floating seeds. Continue reading
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suddenly, summer
Summer feels like it came out of nowhere this year. After we had several days in May of waking up to fresh snowfalls that would melt away in the afternoon, the weather turned relatively quickly. June has been hot, sunny, and dry. I’ve been swimming in the fjord once or twice a week for the Continue reading
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sewing in april
I mentioned at the beginning of the year that I received a sewing machine for Christmas (after about four years of not having one), and that I was looking forward to getting into sewing again. January and February went right by without a stitch sewn, but by March and April the home isolation period seemed Continue reading
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