Per Perkins Perhe: Ethnic Ethos

Can I just start off by saying I love this all-AmericaA picture. Yep, that's Eva at MORP last weekend with her friend Josh.

This is our St. Patrick's day eating our corned beef and cabbage, Rueben style.

so yummy with air fries.

There it is open faced.

It was a fun surprise for Papa.

It took more than two hours to make this pair of Seitan loaves with 'corning spices', but it's enough for several meals, so win-win.

Here's our green table setting, with the leprechaun I made years ago.

I thought I'd share Riah, from our Primary class that day. Her mom is an amazing seamstress.

On Tuesday we changed to royal costuming to attend the Ruth Theater to see Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, which is based on the French version.

Then it was off to work on Wednesday, where I did a booth inventory of sales, and ended up changing out the booth that brought in the least money. I'm surprised I didn't get pictures!

After work that night we grabbed the lasagna I had made, and the salad and garlic bread Dad made and headed out to Nadine's for another Hallmark movie night. Someday I'll remember to get a picture of us there. This was another fun story of love in an imaginary European tiny country, styled after Luxemburg.

Meanwhile on the other side of the planet, Peter and Kathy were visiting the kids in India and seeing all the wonderful sights there. Loved this one of Peter, Spencer and Cambell traveling through a city, old style.

It was back to work on Thursday for me, but super fun when Shirley came in with her sister. She is just back from traveling in Egypt.

On Friday I managed, with Dad's help, to put up the Scotsmen in antique frames in carriage house. I found a book a year ago with huge prints of paintings of Scotsmen in their clan tartans. These four big ones went over the windows here. I'm loving this homage to my 25% Scottishness.

While these three smaller frames make a grouping by the antique green door.

Beneath the painting Grandpa Milt did hangs another large one in a frame I found on our trip back from Julie's house.

And while stemming on all things Scottish this week, I managed to listen to 3 completer Hamish McBeth books, which are a guilty pleasure of mine.

Now it's back to focus on true American fun as Reagan managed to pass ranks in her gymnastics tumbling class. Go to Becca's page to see the post I stole these photos from, it includes a video of her demonstrating her skills.

There was a celebratory meal involved. Reagan has been tumbling for years and loves it.

And since I have been feeling my inner Norwegian, I thought I'd share this picture I saw online this week, no wonder I love mountains, with my 49% Scandinavianness.

It was also fun to see Ashley sharing pictures of people we love, like herself.

Zach

Kim

Andy and friend.

And Ian

And here is my Norwegian project. I've gathered dozens of pictures of antique painted Scandinavian trunks and even ordered some stencils.

I looked on Family Search to find out just when Grandma Edvarda took her sea trip from Norway to the USA, via Liverpool, England. Because I plan to paint the small wood trunk that I found at Julie's house to make a faux heirloom. Can you see the ship left Liverpool in April of 1904?

This is the ship's manifest, but I can't make out which is her name, it was just in her 'memories' section on her page on Family Search.

The green trunk was raw wood when I got it from Julie's. It will be painted to look antiquish, and have her name and her travel date.

I used the stencils I ordered to do these two trunks; not just sure how crafty vs antique Julie's trunk will turn out. I plan to fill it with my few family heirlooms from the Larsen side of the family.

While I was involved in all that craftiness, Dad was finishing up his homage to Finland.

Bathrobe hooks

towel bar

Plastering

More plaster

and stripping the plaster off the stone wall between the door to the closet (Formerly to a staircase) and a former window. Not sure what I'm going to do to decorate the window area ....