catherines confessions

You may remember how green the elderberries [sv. = fläder, lat. Sambucus nigra ] were in September. Most berries look like beads and pearls, so I am looking for sources of inspiration for jewellery here. S ee the change in colour? It's November now and the berries themselves are a very dark, blackish, blueish purple . The birds eat the berries or they fall off, so the reddish stems are more visiable. Is it possible to do something with these colours or am I being too literal? Well, we'll see a little later what I do with this! Anna

This is what the elderberries looked like in August. I will try to take a picture of what they look like now in November. I went out and bought a new computer this morning, since both of the computers that I had been using to blog, have not been behaving well. And, as if they were naughty children, my little lap-top was kind enough to get me online again this afternoon, as if it were ashamed and seemed to understand that it could be replaced! I left Erik at school and Elisabet at day-care and took the stroller and a few suitcase straps and walked to the computer-store and then wheeled home this huge brown box strapped to the little stroller. I haven't unpacked it yet. I will need some time to put it all together. I thought that I would get this posted first, while my lap-top is still co-operating. 'Friday's quiet time' is the title of this mini-post. Be careful what you wish for; it may come true. The children went off to the farm with their father at around six p.m. An...