Still here

Hi everyone,

Happy New Year!
We are well into the new year so better wish you a good one before this year passes as well.

The months has passed since my last article, I am back at work after the holiday in Norway, still biking in the weekends but have also started on a goldsmith evening course. You can see my first project, a silver ring, in the right corner of this page.
It is very interesting and something I always wanted to do and learn. We have now been through both annealing and soldering and my oh my there are a lot of files and sandpapers out there.

If you want to follow me on facebook, please check in on "Torhilds Rollings Beads" where I am writing about new jewellery projects.

We are in the middle of summer here in New Zealand, weather is good and it is lovely with the long days (even though most of them are spent in the office). Anyway, weekends are good. Life is good.

Found my wings

Summer greetings

The title could be a little bit confusing as we have winter in Auckland now.
However, we are very lucky to be in Norway right now and have already been here for almost 5 weeks.
What a holiday! The weather has been incredible most days and we have enjoyed life to the full.
We have also been in both Gotheburg and Oslo to meet good, old friends.
Next on the menu (so to speak) is the Shellfish Festival in Mandal.

Happy summer!

Some pictures from this year's incredible summer attached below.

Gothenburg

Skjernøya, Mandal - heaven on earth

Sjøbu (fishing equipment storage), Skjernøya

View from restaurant by Akershus Fortress, Oslo

"Rogna" - Art in Mandal

BBQ at Birkeland

We had visitors from New Zealand

Photos from bike trip on Waikato River Trail

Hi all,

Photos from Waikato Rail Trail in January. We love it!

Surprise!

The interest for biking has been in my NZ family for a good while and since I quite like to bike myself, my husband and I started looking for a new bike for me. We have been testing mountain bikes, shock absorbers, seats, sizes of this and that and tyres 26 or 29??? It is good fun but hard to pick the right one.

The other day when I came back home from work to an empty house (husband was out biking...surprise...surprise) and saw all the arrows glued to the floor, I knew he was up to something.
He is very good with the surprises and you do not have a clue before it hits you. So here it is. My new bike. I love it.

One arrow pointing toward the stairs to the garage

Hmmmm....here we go.....

Skull earrings

Any skull lovers out there? I got these skull beads months and months ago when we were on a trip to Coromandel. I thought it was about time to do something about it. Skulls are in here now so why not have some fun with it?

 

 

Inhale....exhale....

I have not been good at getting out of the office on time lately. Always staying a bit extra to do something I just have to do and then some more....you probably know how it is...
On Saturday I went with a friend to Takapuna Beach. We sat down, had an ice cream and just enjoyed the lovely scenery. Could not be any better than this, could it?

Memories from San Francisco

It's been two months! Holy Moly...where did the time go?
Well, since last time I wrote on this blog, there has mainly been work, work and more work as I have moved to another department and have been in training and working late hours the last couple of months.
However, there have been some fun as well....

On Friday the 13th!!! (September) I went to San Francisco to watch the last races of the America's Cup. The trip has been planned for a year and I was really looking forward to it. As some of you know, my darling hubby is working forOracle Team USA and have done so for a few years so to go and watch the races was a BIG thing for us.

When I left NZ our team was losing big time. Emirates Team NZ had one more race to win and they would have won the Auld Mug (see bottom picture) to take back to NZ. So you can imagine living in NZ and supporting an American Team can be quite a difficult thing to do when you are working among hard core Team Emirates NZ supporters....