Friday is my day: Marie fly fly

Take your winter jacket because today we will jump up to Norway and meet Marie from marieflyfly.etsy.com
She makes so pretty jewelleries and I love how she photographs them! So yummy! Have a good Friday and visit the shop :)

akvarell silver, ebony and lucite necklace

by: marieflyfly

My day

 

This is the view from my bedroom window this morning in March. 

My town, Stavanger, is on the West coast of Norway, 

and we don’t normally get much snow here, 

but this year we’ve had snow since Christmas.  

All the houses on our street look the same. 

We built the foundation walls ourselves, 

in teams with our neighbours a few years ago. 

It’s my most cherished handmade project ever!



I live here with Sjur, and our daughter Nene, aged 6 

We got up at 6.30 this morning. 

I’m not a morning person, 

so my only tasks in the morning are coffee drinking 

and getting myself ready for work. 

Sjur makes the coffee, breakfast for everyone, 

gets Nene ready for school 

and walks her and her little friends to their school, 

2 kilometers away, while I have my coffee. 

I eat my bowl of oatmeal and spend a half hour on the computer 

checking my etsy shop, stats, answer convos, renew a couple of items, 

check out the treasuries and all that 

At 7.45 I'm ready to leave for work

and I bring  with me some etsy orders to drop off 

at the post office on my way to work

My day job is at the tax office near the town center 

I'm a lawyer, and my work is in the field of international tax law  

I've been doing this for 10 years, 

and I can't imagine doing anything else. 

I can't access etsy from work (too many firewalls), 

but etsy is nevertheless all around me. 

My office is decorated with art bought on etsy 

-prints from madelaine.etsy.com -and on the other wall 

prints from a calendar by labokoff.etsy.com 

and a print from Badbird.etsy.com.  

That bird print was the first thing 

I bought on etsy when I joined!

 

My first task this morning is to welcome 

a new employee. 

I was made a manager a few weeks ago, 

and this new employee is the first person I have interviewed 

and hired myself, so it's a special day for me. 

I did bring my camera to work today, 

for this blog post, 

but decide to leave it in my bag after all. 

I'm pretty sure the new girl would think I was  mad 

if I pulled out  my camera at lunch and photographed my soup. 

The rest of the day is spent in meetings, 

but I get a few minutes to sit down with a cup of tea 

in the afternoon 

I leave work at 4, which is a bit early, 

but I want to squeeze in a bit of exercise before I go home. 

I go to a nearby lake, and try to run around it. 

The conditions are less than ideal with all the snow, 

but it's a glorious sunny day and I feel full of energy when I'm finished.  

As I get in the car to go home I get an sms from Sjur which reads

“your kid is cranky”. 

I get home around five and we have dinner  

and Nene is indeed cranky and I hear myself mutter something stupid 

about jello for dessert for people who aren't cranky. 

At this point the doorbell rings, 

and her little friends come to visit ,and all is well and she forgets 

everything about dessert and I get a hug 

At 7.30 when she has finished her supper and brushed her teeth 

and is ready for bed, she suddenly remembers the dessert she didn't get. 

The fridge is empty, but a promise is a promise, 

so I get to go dessert shopping  She's in bed at 8 and we read and sing for an half hour 

Sjur goes to the fitness center, and I spend an hour doing housework. 

I try to do a little bit every day. 

At 9.30 I sit down with my knitting and a cup of tea 

I need this quiet time in the evening,  all by myself. 

I keep knitting and relaxing for a couple of hours, 

and go a bit to and from the computer to check etsy 

and twitter and all the blogs I follow, 

before I go to bed around midnight.