Inside my mind!

Today is one of those rainy days again in Bergen, I was waiting for the warm weather to stabilize to be able to replant my indoors vegetable "jungle" outside, but mother nature doesn't seem to help... oh well! I woke up on another "calm" morning, to the sound of a lawnmower, a traktor and of course our lovely neighbor upstairs vacuum cleaning for half an hour in one corner, right above my bedroom! Just Lovely! In order to shake it off, I called a good friend of mine, Jorunn, she's the sweetest person I know in Norway... she was happy to talk... and we ended up talking for over an hour... which more than brought a wide smile to my face! (Thank you for that Jorunn). My husband decided to go on a walk... up on mount Fløyen... he asked me to come along... but of course, with my Achiles tendonitis, I had to take a raincheck on that one too... So he went alone... and a short while after that it started raining again... but he's used to it! So here I am, ...

This summer, I will be participating in Viking markets around Norway, so I had to prepare many items, as authentic as possible, to be able to display and sell them at the markets. I started making leather crafts without having any prior experience in leather work, I just gave it a try a few years ago, and it worked! Now, I just learn as I go, and I believe I am doing quite well, and people who see and buy my work keep telling me so... which is the encouragement I need to keep improving and doing new things, expanding my horizons, in a way. A while ago, I started making viking belt bags again. I had already made a few... but working alone, when you think you have done so much... you look at the number of hours used, and then you take a look at the number of items produced... and you see that it's never enough! Each pouch can take from 3 to 18 hours of work, depending on the size, the dying technique, treating/softening the leather, the engraving and the sewing. It all s...