Hi. I'm starting this blog at the suggestion of my friend Anna Mae. I'll be leaving for Norway (the country, not the town in Maine, a common misperception when I tell my neighbors where I'm headed) in a week. I've got an app for my iphone that will let me add pictures and comments as I travel, and since experience has taught me that the pictures I take when I travel are perfectly obvious locations at the time, when I get home it's all a blur, this makes perfect sense to me.
I'm going to Norway because the International Guild of Miniature Artisans has awarded me a Fellow Study Award. I'll be looking at Norwegian doublecloth coverlets, which are quite different from the American ones I know and love and have woven in miniature. I knew literally nothing about these Norwegian coverlets, except that they have them, when I applied for the grant. I have since learned a bit more, they are very different from American doublecloth coverlets in not only pattern, but how they are woven. More on that as this blog progresses.
I am also going to be meeting my dad's maternal family for the first time. My grandmother Martha Lunde came to America at the age of 19, basically as an indentured servant, and worked her way to Wisconsin where she met and married my grandpa, Sever Halversen. He was born here, to Norwegian immigrant parents. I hope also to meet some of that side of the family. I will be hosted by Thommas and Jorunn Bjerge, Thommas is a second cousin. I'm hoping to get the family tree sorted out with Thommas' help.
I will be doing the IGMA show in Teaneck, NJ this coming weekend, which means I'll be gone from Maine, and my work at Mobile Marine Canvas for 4 weeks. We've been crazy busy at the canvas shop since spring, so I'm not ready, really, for the show or the trip, but like always I refuse to let reality get in my way. I'll fly from Newark to Stavanger on Monday, the 26th and return the 17th of October.
You are welcome to join me on this adventure. I didn't put Norway into my blog title, in case I decide to continue this in the future. My daughter Christel had the foresight to check to make sure Bloggi isn't something Ikea sells, and I've run it through my Norwegian translator to make sure it didn't translate into something unfortunate. Neither happened, so I'm going for it.
I even tried searching for other Bloggi blogs, and only so far found http://bloggisobservations.blogspot.com/, which is written in German.
ReplyDeleteAnd you could rely on Google translate to help you get to the gist of it, but then you also end up with phrases like, "At the thought of this car I could get a delivery, I was due to hygienic reasons pretty bad. Now, however, shows that the fear of DHL ever again to get something of a tradition, has proved to be completely unfounded." I think your trademark is safe.
just testing! thommas
ReplyDelete