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I made my first onigiri yesterday, filled with smoked salmon, gari and leek, very tasty! And today I made sushi for lunch. Just the healthy food I need before the Swedish xmas food I´m eating tonight (ris á la malta - rice pudding mixed with whipped cream and orange pieces - yummy!).

If you ever see me talk about my babies, this is what I´m talking about:



This is Lipton, he´s the oldest, eleven years old, and he´s part Norwegian forestcat (Norsk skogskatt).



Titus is the newest addition to the family, he´s three, and has been with me for a year, I got him when I lost my other cat, Tiger.

Who would ever get children, when you could have these?

...and it is good!

If you need a project for xmas (or anytime) try Cut Out + Keep. The first one on the list (Absinthe Lolly Pops) really caught my attention!

I Googlismed me, do you too!

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malin is a senior in industrial education; elisabeth malin is a junior in elementary education; josh malin graduated in 2000 with a chemical engineering
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malin is an administrator in the office of the provost and vice president for academic affairs at the state university of new york at binghamton
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I keep painting my kitchen, it´s turning out great, so bright, so pretty. Since I don´t have room to paint all cabinet doors at once, it takes forever (2-3 weeks for all, I hope to finish by Christmas - I´d really like a white Christmas, even if it´s only in my kitchen), and I don´t get the full effect, that I would if I changed them all at once, but I´m still happy.

I just sent for "Ernstologi", the book I wrote about a few days ago. Weee!

I think I´m going to Stockholm for a fast one after work today, to look for Cram Cream, and buy some kitchen towels with pretty pastries for my new, white kitchen. Maybe even stumble over the last Christmas presents.

Did I get disappointed yesterday, or what? When I opened the Corpse Bride DVD, it was empty! So now I have to return it and get another copy, and I really wanted to see it NOW. Crap.

Now I´ve got an Flickr-account, too. There´s not much there yet, but I did put all of my swap pics there, feel free to take a look! Eventually there will be Cram Cream pics, too, and when I get a camera (whenever that is...) there will be a bunch of pics.

I´ve been working on a gift for someone (can´t tell, if she reads this...), I knew she had to have it, the minute I saw it. It´s small, and it´s felt, and that´s as much as I will say about it.

I sent Catherine in California a part of her swap package a couple of days ago, too. It had to wait for the holiday season. Sent Kwoozy her package also, and yesterday, when I made dinner, I found that I forgot to put something in her package. Fortunately, letters will find their way too...

and they turned out great! Scroll down for swap pics, and raggy flower is seen here.

I got two wonderful packages this weekend, from Tania in Portugal and from Pei In Australia (now in Singapore), I will tell you all about it later.

I got the books I were waiting for too, and remember what I said, that vintage and accessories never could be wrong? Well, I was wrong, the book was not at all what I expected, and I´ll be returning it. I got the S´n´B 2007 Calendar too, and I must admit that I was afraid that my socks wouldn´t be good enough to publish. Now that I saw what they published this year, my worries are all gone - my socks are definately good enough, and a lot better than some of the patterns in the calendar.

In my package from Momo in Japan, I got Hello Kitty rice spoons, wrapped in a Japanese newspaper. This weekend I used the paper to cover a glass bowl (decoupage), and it turned out really nice. I did a candle holder covered in a Marimekko paper napkin, and together with two more it will become either a birthday- or a christmas present. Decoupage is so much fun, there´s so much you can do with it. For example, making cards for a swap...

No time for blogging or anything fun today - got a school assignment  I´ve got to finish.
UPDATE: Ok, now `m done. I procrastinated for a couple of months, then I crammed the work in availeble time slots, that is om my lunch break, after I were done blogging. All I´ve got to do now, is write a paper this weekend, and this part of the course is done. Only 3/4 left...

Will post swap pics later today.

Hope for my books to arrive, the snow yesterday delayed the package. Hope a package from Tania waits when I get home - it sounds very promising!

They want to buy some felt pastries at work! Perfect for the kids to play with, since they don´t break easily, and don´t hurt when thrown into someone´s head...

I´ve got me some treats at the post today, both books and a package from Jenn in Japan. Yay! Feels like a ray of sunshine in a cold, snowy day. Yes, we´ve got snow, just a little, but it´s the first snow this year. I love first snow, I love snow until New Year´s, then I want spring. Unfortunately, spring doesn´t happen until March or April, so there´s a bit of suffering going on for a few months.

I sent for a new CD, just in time for December and Christmas, I love Chris Isaak, so when I found a Christmas-CD with him, I went for it. I hope it´s as lovely as he usually is.

Brrr, it´s cold today!

Work smells lovely today - I think there´s cinnamon buns on the way! If you want it to smell wonderful at your house too - make today a baking day!

Swedish Cinnamon Rolls from Janice 

100 g (6 2/3 Tbsp - 15 g = 1 Tbsp) margarine
2 c milk
2 cakes fresh yeast
1/2 tsp. salt
2/3 c. sugar
2 tsp. ground cardamom
5 1/4 c. (13 deciliters) bread flour
1 egg for brushing on top of rolls

Filling:
5 Tbsp margarine melted
1/4 c. sugar
3/4 Tbsp cinnamon

Melt margarine; add milk and heat to body temp. Break up yeast cakes in large mixing bowl and pour enough to melt yeast and blend evenly. Blend rest of liquid. Add salt, sugar and cardamom.

Gradually add flour (about 1/2 - 1c. at a time ) setting aside approx. 1/2 c. Work dough (around and back and forth, front and back) until it release from the sides of the bowl (with a whisk or wooden spoon). Sprinkle with small amount of flour, cover and let rise 30-40 min. Using rest of flour, kneed dough until rollable. Divide into 4 parts. Using rolling pin, roll each fourth into rectangles, about 10-12 inches. Brush with filling mixture. Cut into 10 strips, 3/4 inch. Roll each strip into a bun and set on a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper (4x5 to a sheet). Cover and let rise 20 minutes. Brush tops with beaten egg. Sprinkle with pearl sugar (Janice has friends bring her from Sweden). Bake about 5-7 minutes at 475° until tops are golden brown. Makes 40 rolls. 

Agreed to work late tonight (as late as it gets when working with kids - about 6PM), and I already regret it. I can´t believe how tired I am, and have been for the last week. And it´s only noon, I´ve only been at work fpr 1½ hours... Can´t wait to get home!

I´m hoping for nice surprises in the mail, package from Jenn in Japan is on it´s way, and so are books from Bokus, this years S´n´B calendar and a book on vintage accessories. I love vintage and I love accessories, how can this go wrong?

It´s time to get Pei´s package together (the third!). I´ve got some ideas, and I hope she does too. Myself, I´m getting presents from her trip to Singapore, and kawaii from Singapore is great, I know from experience.

It´s actually only two months til Xmas, can you believe it? Better get working on those gifts...

and it begins today. It´s period time, and I´m having PMT. Bad. I wish I could get moody and irritable and cranky, but noooo, all I get is hungry and have cravings, and there´s no way to feel fulfilled, no matter how much I eat, or what. So I had to buy a big bag of sweets (yes, chocolate too), and I tell myself that I won´t finish it all in one go, but seriously: who am I kidding? Can´t wait for this week to be over! Can´t wait for menopause! It shouldn´t be more than twenty years now...

After doing my hair myself this morning, I must conclude - it´s too frumpy. 2" may save it, but that takes a few months. Talking about bad hair months...

My bday-books from YesAsia is on their way, they should arrive in the beginning of next week. Yay! I especially look forward to the bag-book, I need some new ideas, and that one is filled to the brim with good ideas and great bags. How I love bags!

I´m working a couple of hours today, that´s perfect. One should only have to work two hours every day, and still get payed a lot. Does anyone know where I can find such a job?

My jacket is getting baggier - that means I´m getting smaller! YAY! And I don´t feel I have to sacrifice anything either, cutting out flour/bread took away most of my cravings, even my PMT-cravings, how great is that?! And I still eat my chocolate, only it´s the dark kind, I had dessert yesterday, at my friends bdayparty, and I´m getting smaller! How perfect is that?

I need to buy shoes! I don´t have any shoes (except for two pairs of sneakers on the verge of melt down) that I can actually walk in, and there are no black shoes. I need shoes!

I try to remember the words of Dr Phil: Just because you feel fat, you don´t have to look it. I´m on my period, I feel fat and bloated (and hungry), and it feels like three weeks of eating exellent made me gain weight. Which it shouldn´t. I look forward to this time next week, when the reds are long gone.

Long gone are my family too. I´ll miss my youngest sisters, hopefully they´ll move closer sometimes. The good thing with sisters that much younger, is that we didn´t fight much growing up, so we never had to work through that later, when we became older.

I look forward to Bazar on TV tonight. I saw the rerun of last program last night, and I liked it. Very me. And if you wonder what "me" is, it´s cheap solutions, thrift finds, mixing styles and time periods and making it very personal. When I´m all done at home (whenever thet is) there will be elements of the 50s, 60s and
70s, some kitsch, some north african/east indian, some black/white combinations and some self made ideas/solutions. I´m partly there, but there´s a lot missing to. It´s an ever growing process.

As my previous post said, I got Japanese craft books today. Yay!

I found a great link at Hanna´s, you MUST go check out Twinkie´s Fridge!

I´ve sewn a bag and purse for Tania, but were having doubts about both. Today I made another purse, and feel very good about that decision. Now I have to decide if the bag needs to be remade too.

My apartment looks so fab, that I can barely move in it, afraid to get it dirty again, and I almost vacuumes my cats´ behinds after they´ve been to the litter box, so they won´t spread cat litter all over the floors. Lovely!

I´m hoping my finances is untangeling, hopefully in time to pay my rent and bills. I would very much like to have a roof over my head, and some money to swap for. By the way, Alvina got her package, and says she liked it. Goody!

I want a dog! The family dog (a collie girl named Frida) was so happy to see me yesterday, even though the cats may be happy too, they never show it like that: licking, tail-wagging, barking... You feel like the most special person in the world. Although it feels really special when the cats both comes to bed with me, too. I could not bare not sleeping with my cats, and if anyone ever asked me to choose between them or that person, the choice is easy.

Could this morning possibly begin any worse? First I found a tick chewing on me, then I finds out I might have diabetes (or at least my blood sugar levels are too high), and then the conservative parties won the election yesterday, which I think is the worst possible scenario. At least for people with low incomes, sick people, children, elderly, animals and environment, which is a lot of people not benefitting from the change of ruling party. To top it off, the only mail I got today was bills, I think I deserved a package to cheer me up, but no...

Good thing: My parents, sister(s) and dog are coming this Thursday, and it´s been a while.

Another good thing: A new interior decorating program, Bazar, starts today, and it sounds like I will like it. Fingers crossed!

Great thing: Books from YesAsia is on their way, they should arrive in the beginning of next week. Yay!