Christmas decoration

Haven't found the right place for my Christmas decorations made from camel bones this year.
We only have the little Egyptian angel on our table.



She keeps singing for us so serious and concentrated ........ we can wait with the gold and glitter till we come to Sweden.

Christmas feeling

This afternoon I went to SAWA, The American Women of Amman's Christmas meeting. They had a table full of small cakes and sweets, and I loved it!

The Christmas tree was huge and was twinkling and sparkling with decorations all in gold.

A coir was singing and a group of young students were playing some Christmas carols.

Vendors had tables with all kind of Christmas things, most of them homemade. Isabelle had a table full of Christmas stockings and carpets to have under the tree. All made by herself and very beautiful!

And I think I got a a feeling of Christmas soon coming along.......!

Some days ...

Some days you just haven't time to write, or have something to write ..... Can't say that the last days been uneventful. We have been to one cocktail party, we have had our friends Melissa and Ron here for a quick farewell drink and I have seen lots of things that maybe could have a place in the blog. But where did I have the camera? Back home of course, or I just forgot to use it!
Well, tomorrow night we will have visitors coming from Sweden, and we are really looking forward to it!
I have borrowed a baby bed and some toys from Sheerine who lives upstairs, so I hope Elin will have a good time here. We will try to spoil her!

By the way .... I had chips and nothing else at the wine tasting last week!!! I blame the wine!

A tour to the Eagle Distilleries Co

Today we made an interesting tour to a wine cellar. We were shown how they made the different kinds of wine and at the end we were offered to taste some of them.

The rooms where the wine were produced were very nice decorated.

The ladies glued every little label on every bottle by hand!

This was mine favorite!

Well, we tasted six different wines before twelve o'clock, no food only ships, so now I think I will go and have a nap!

Stones

Tonight I was invited to exhibition down at Wild Jordan, the nice place were we use to go for lunch some times.
The exhibition was necklaces made of stones picked on the ground in a certain area in Jordan. The designer, Brenda, wanted to show people the beautiful nature outside Amman and was struggling for a long time how to do that. Then she found out how to treat the stones and attach them to each other. She started to do all by herself in her flat, but now some young women near Mujib have a workshop where they now are made.
I think they looked very unique and fantastic, made just out of stones and stainless steal.

War

Yes, now the war has started. The war against something that’s bites me during the nights. I hope it is mosquitoes and not fleas!

Jo-Bedu

I finally found the t-shirt shop I have been looking for. Melissa and I bought some Christmas gifts to our families.

" Mansaf is a Jordanian dish originating in Arabia. Today it has been adopted as the national dish of Jordan, made of lamb cooked in a sauce of fermented dried yogurt (jameed) and served with rice.
(From Wikipedia)

I will not tell you which one I bought and which ones I ordered!

Amman Parade

A big parade took place down town two days ago. Not many people had heard of in advance, but we read about it on the net.
Amman is celebrating 100 years as a town and during this years Amman has grown from a couple of thousands to 3 millions inhabitants! There have been settlements here since long before the Romans, but Amman is quite new as a town.
Well, back to the parade. Here comes lots of picks!

Rain

The first rain for the season came some days ago. It rained for fifteen minutes, and it caused as usual chaos. It seems to be no "street drains" (can that be the right word?) and all the water washes away down the the hills.

Unfortunately the rain caused a big amount of trouble and disaster.A father and his two children was killed in Amman when a wall in their house collapsed over them.

Aladdin's cave

Today, when I and some friends were out searching for fabric, this lovely antic shop appeared in front of us.
Yes it was like an Aladdin’s cave. The ceilings were covered with glass mosaic and the walls were covered with glass cupboards and antic rugs.

Treasures from the whole Middle East and some porcelain from Holland!

But I didn't buy anything!

Look what I found!

Yes, look what I found in a book store!

Dear old “Totte”! Just this book was Johan’s favourite over thirty years ago.

And “Alfons Åberg”, also a huge character and Fredrik’s favourite also more than thirty years ago! In Sweden we now have a prime minister who looks exactly like Alfons. Maybe that’s why Fredrik Rinfelt is so popular …..?!

But this is not “our” Pippi, that’s for sure!

Down town make over?

Today I took a taxi down town to see if I could find any nice fabric (a new grandchild will come in December, you know!).

Well, I found myself standing looking at dresses when I noticed that something was going on on both sides of the busy street.

First I just recognised a strange smell, then I sew all the men painting the iron curtains in front of all shops in a rather nice mild turquoise colour.

I think it will look lovely ….when the shops are closed!