Who are the lucky ones!? / ¿Quiénes son l@s afortunad@s?

I can hardly believe that two weeks have already passed! I must apologize for this long absence. These two weeks have been pretty crazy with lots of things to do, both at work and at home. I tried to reply to most of the comments... I still have a few to reply.  But here I am now to reveal where the presents will be going!

¡Me cuesta creer que ya hayan pasado dos semanas! Pido disculpas por tan largo silencio, aunque he tintentado contestar a todos los comentarios que me han dejar (todavía tengo algunos pendientes). Han sido dos semanas un poco locas, con muchas cosas que hacer tanto en casa como en el trabajo. Pero bueno, ¡ya estoy aquí para revelar dónde se irán los regalos! 

Before announcing anything I wanted to thank everybody for all the messages and good birthday wishes. I must admit that I was REALLY surprised to see how many comments I got! I wasn't expecting such a big response! :)

Antes de anunciar a los ganadores del sorteo quiero agradecer a todos lor los mensajes y buenos deseos cumpleañeros. ¡Me he llevado una muy grata sorpresa al ver cuántas visitas y comentarios he recibido! La verdad es que no esperaba una respuesta tan grande como la que recibí :)

In order to do this I assigned a number to each comment (if someone commented more than once only one of the comments got a number). The total number of comments was 94!!!!. To choose the number I used a Random Number Generator on the iPad.

Para realizar el sorteo, a cada comentario recibido le asigné un número (si alguien comentó más de una vez sólo uno de sus comentarios fue numerado). El número total de comentarios fue ¡¡¡¡94!!!! Para escoger los números ganadores utilicé un Generador de números aleatorio en el iPad.




And the WINNERS are: / Y los GANADORES son:

1st Place / 1er lugar:

Congratulations Heidi! You have become the owner of the shawl!!

¡Felicidades Heidi! ¡Eres la ganadora del chal!

2nd Place / 2do lugar:

Congratulations Inesita/Pilar! You have won a minilopapeysa keyring and 4 skeins of léttlopi. I need you to tell me what are your favorite colors to make the keyring (you have to choose 3 colors) and please go to this website to choose the color for the léttlopi skeins.

¡Felicidades Inesita/Pilar! Te has ganado un llavero minilopapeysa y 4 ovillos de léttlopi. Necesito que me digas cuáles son tus colores favoritos para tejer el llavero (deben ser 3 colores) y por favor visita esta página para escoger los colores de los ovillos de léttlopi.

And now a surprise!

Y ahora, ¡una sorpresa!

Today, right after work I went to visit my favorite wool shop in Iceland, Handprjón.is, both to check some new books they got and to visit my friends Drífa and Helga who work there. The shop is ultra cozy and full of great yarn and books! They also have a corner with a sofa and chairs where we spent most of the afternoon talking and knitting (well, I was actually learning some tips from them to crochet more efficiently... crocheting... that is something I HAVE to talk about in a future soon-to-come new post). 

Hoy, después del trabajo fui a visitar mi tienda de lanas favorita en Islandia, Handprjón.is, para ver unos libros nuevos que trajeron y además para visitar a mis amigas Drífa y Helga que trabajan allí. La tienda es súper acogedora y llena de lanas muy bonitas y libros. Además tienen una rincón muy cómodo con un sillón y sillas, donde pasamos casi toda la tarde conversando y tejiendo (bueno, en realidad las chicas me estuvieron enseñando algunos trucos para hacer ganchillo más eficientemente... esto es algo de lo que DEBO hablar en una entrada muy pronto).

Picture taken from a nice review of the shop here (in icelandic)
Foto sacada de una reseña de la tienda aquí (sólo en islandés)

The thing is that I told Drífa and Helga that I was holding this Birthday Give Away and when I was about to go home (because it was already time for them to close the shop) Drífa gave me a skein of Australian Merino Wool Lace Weight to add as a 3rd prize!! How generous is that!? 

La cosa es que les conté a Drífa y Helga que estaba celebrando el cumpleaños de mi blog dando algunos regalos. Cuando estaba a punto de irme a casa (porque ya estaban por cerrar la tienda) ¡Drífa me dio una madeja de lana merino australiana para tejer chales para agregar como 3er premio! ¡Qué gesto más generoso! ¿No?

So, we have a 3rd winner sponsored by Handprjón.is!

Entonces, tenemos un 3er ganador, auspiciado por Handprjón.is!

Congratulations Montserrat! You won a 1400m skein of lace weight merino!

¡Felicidades Montserrat! ¡Te has ganado una madeja de 1400m de lana merino para tejer chales!

The winners: please send me a  message to my e-mail (rmunozmitev@gmail.com) with your full names and home address so I can send the packages. I will try to send them this week, as soon as I can (considering that Thursday is a holiday... the First Day of Summer according to the Old Norse Calendar and the post office will be closed).

Los ganadores: por favor envíenme un mensaje a mi correo-e (rmunozmitev@gmail.com) con sus nombres completos y direcciones para poder enviar los paquetes. Intentaré enviarlos esta semana, lo más pronto posible (considerando que el día jueves es feriado en Islandia... es el primer día del verano de acuerdo al calendario nórdico antiguo).

CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN TO THE WINNERS AND THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR YOUR VISITS AND AMAZING SUPPORT!!

¡¡FELICIDADES NUEVAMENTE A LOS GANADORES Y GRACIAS A TODOS POR SUS VISITAS E INCREÍBLE APOYO!!

A flower for all of you :)
Una flor para ustedes :)

Driving in Iceland and new keyring

This week I have finally changed my car! I had a little car before, a Citroën C3 which is a really nice car especially because it doesn't spend too much gas but the biggest problem was that it is good only to be used in the city where the roads are paved... and that limited a lot where I could go because here in Iceland there are still A LOT of gravel (or simply stone) roads. The is even a section of the main highway (the one that goes all around the island) that is still unfinished!

This is an example of a gravel road... this one is pretty good though :p

I remember that two summers ago we went to travel to the West Fjords and most of the roads were just TERRIBLE and we were driving a Ford Fiesta... the result was that we managed to break a wheel! Not fun!

The access to many beautiful spots is usually horrible. Like for example:

Látrabjarg

Svörtuloftaviti.

Háifoss.

Öndverðarnes.

Dettifoss (Let's see if you find me in the picture!) 

This is one of my favourite waterfalls in Iceland. I guess that the video says it all.

Somewhere in the West Fjords.

... so after thinking about it for a while... the decision was made and we got a 4x4 jeep! Now it will be so much easier to travel without the fear of breaking the car!

Ok... now all this blah blah is just to show you my new keyring!

I needed a new keyring for the new key of the car. I didn't feel like buying one so I remembered that about two years ago I made on to give as a present to a friend of mine. The result was extremely cute!

2009

So now I made another one but this time for myself:

2011