A julenisse (Christmas Nisse) is a mythological creature from Nordic folklore but today it is typically associated with Christmas season.
Heritage Inspiration – Bunad Peg Dolls
Over the past Few years I have been slowly expanding my range of Norwegian inspired creations, sharing my love of my heritage through what I design, make and bake. I affectional referred to it as “a little taste of Norway” for some time before I actually started using it as part of how I grouped the things I designed and made which had a Norwegian connection.
Ive always been proud of my heritage and interested in learning more about where my family comes from but also keeping the connection alive for my own children and hopefully generations to come. My Norwegian family roots are on my mothers side and her family original come from Brønnøysund in the artic circle in the north of Norway (home of the famous Torghatten mountain which has a huge hole going right through it). But now my family is clustered around Solo near Stavanger on the west coast and the capital Oslo.
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Time to Experiment
Time seems to be all we have at the moment, yet the days are long and when you have little ones minds to entertain, constantly trying to come up with new interesting things can be challenging. Why not try some of these tried and tested easy projects using house hold items that we’ve enjoyed doing and thought you might too!
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Flowery Crafts
Pressed Flower Wings
Spring has sprung and its so nice to see flashes of colour back in the garden. The days are warmer and were all spending more time in the garden. Homeschooling is challenging most days but crafts and activities always seem to help with the teaching and learning. Whilst searching for crafts to do with my daughter around the theme of ‘spring’ I found lots of wonderful projects using pressed flowers and thought these would be great to do to help learn more about spring. So we thought we’d share some tried and tested projects.
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Baking SOS
With lock down remaining in place it seems we’ve got a little more time to try out things we wouldn’t normally do and baking seems to be a popular one especially if you have children (read my baking with children blog post). Ive been baking since I was little, i have no formal baking experience, I learnt the basics from my mum and dad and by trying things out. I believe anyone can bake, you just need a bit of confidence to get started.
Yes theres an element of having some basic baking knowledge and a good recipe, but ive tried lots of recipes over the years and you’ll just find ones which work for you and you’ll bake them again and again. But honestly baking cakes maybe considered an art, but actually baking cakes is a science and they come with a handy ‘recipe’ to make them work. It’s true that the science of cake baking can be tricky to master, theres pitfalls that can happen from deflated or shrinking cakes, cakes that are too dry, too wet, or too crumbly, but often they do have an explanation, and more often than not, an easy solution. Many common cake baking issues can be resolved by learning some key basic baking techniques, before you even get to the fun part of decorating!
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Don’t go Loo-py
So as the UK and we’ll most of the world goes into shut down, we all getting used to a very different way of life. I never thought I’d ever see something like this in my life time but for now this is how it is and I’m determined to try see the positives, I get to spend more time with my daughter who has just started school so I’ve missed those extra days spent crafting together, I’ve had massive mum guilt having recently gone back to work about the lack of time I feel I have with my one year old son too and I get to see my husband more too, so any extra time is a bonus.
I am lucky to be with my family to have each other. but lets face it this is a routine that although with its good point come equally hard parts and i know that after just two short weeks isolated at home im starting to feel I’m going a little loopy! juggling life, home schooling and coping with the house looking like we’ve been burgled is challenging but I’ve found that ‘craft time’ has become a great way for me and my children to take some time out, let our imaginations take over and for those few hours forget the worries of the day and just enjoy getting crafty together.
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Creating a Rainbow Party
So when you leave party planning to the last minute and your children have high hopes simplicity is always key, we hadn’t planned on doing a 5th birthday party but after the success of last years mermicorn party even I was a little sad not to have an excuse to plan another one! So jointly we caved and decided that our girls could have another joint party, with our girls only being three weeks apart on their birthdays its was easy meeting in the middle on dates, but what about a theme?
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