The nursery

I haven´t been showing much from my house lately and the reason is that we haven´t done much!

It´s not easy to get things done while you are pregnant and especially after the baby is born!

The last thing I did, was the nursery. Even though I am not a color gal, I decided to give my daughter some in her room. And since I am not into too much pink either, I decided to save that for later. I am sure she will have her princess period in a few years, as every other little girl I know :-).

Bought the old, repainted locker not to long ago. A perfect size for her qute little dresses and shoes.

The box on top of the old closet is from the series "Forest Girl" from Silly U, and the  rabbit lamp a gift from my good helper, Marcela.

Image of box found on Silly U.

Nursery photographed by Trine Thorsen

Flower fun!

Last year I did a D.I.Y, tips and tricks on how to get a wonderful summergarden together with my friend and stylist, Krista. One of the ideas was this great flower decoration that can be hung from a tree, a ceiling or wherever you find it suiting. I think the images speaks for itself, so I won´t be doing the step by step in writing :-).

You´ll need:

Flowers (we used carnations)

An old lampshade without the fabric

Needle and thread

Ribbons of colors and choice.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Krista Elvheim

Move out!

When summer is here and the Norwegian days are sunny, and the nights long and bright, I spend as much time as possible out in the open. Furnitures that has its place inside during the dark Norwegian winter months, gets a new place under the trees and in the sun during the summer.
Use your imagnation and creativity, and create and indoor feeling outside. Why not bring a desk and chair and read, write, blog or paint (whatever you prefer!) amongst trees and birds, OR if you live in the city, in the back yard or on the balcony. If you have one that is...

Photography: Trine Thorsen
Model: Frida H.A/ Pholk

Marcela´s house

Yesterday, I went to my great friend, helper, collegue and assistant, Marcela, to shoot her wonderful home for Kamille magazine.

It was a busy day for both of us with styling and photographying in between feeding and changing diapers (I had to bring my daughter...). We were quite happy with the result and so were Kamille.

Marcela is from Argentina, but married a Norwegian and ended up in Norway. She lives in a nice house right outside Oslo, with husband and two, soon to be three kids. When she is not helping me, she is busy blogging on penelopehome. She is also one of the founders of Bla-d, the South American network for interior bloggers. As you can see she has already become "one of us" and adopted the Scandinavian look.

Here´s a sneak preview of what we did, the rest I have to show you when the magazine is out.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Marcela Recondo

Csangolicious!

One of the last jobs I did before I started on my maternity leave, was a shoot for Kamille magazine on creative women. One of the women was director, editor, producer, journalist, writer and food blogger, Monica Csango. On her blog, Csangolicious you will find tons of unpretensious, good food and how to make it. The apple cake that she made when we were there (yes, we get to taste what we shoot), was one of the best I have ever tasted. Super moist and super tasty!

The recipe you can find on Osloby.no where she is also a guest blogger.
Unfortunately her blog is in Norwegian only, but I guess there are a few programs on the internet which can help you translate :-).

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Recipes: Monica Csango/Csangolicious

Flowers in bloom

The apple orchard outside my house is in bloom and it is absolutely breathtaking to look at.  Don´t you agree?

Even my run-down picked fence looks wonderful surrounded by the trees in bloom.

In a few days, the lilacs will be blooming, and the garden will be at its best at the yard sale this weekend. Fingers crossed for sunny weather!

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Yard sale!

On this coming weekend I will be having another yard sale. Still have a bunch of things to get rid of :-).

 If you are in Norway and in the area, I hope you have a chance to stop by, and if you are a collector of Norwegian antiques, I might have something for you...

 

Check it out on Facebook here.

PS! My house is only five minutes by car from beautiful Villa Malla. A great place to eat lunch! 

As we know lunch and shopping goes hand in hand ;-).

Hope to see you there!

 

Image found on Google. Photographer unknown :-(

Be awsome

Kids classics

On Saturday we celebrated our daughter´s given name, Tille, and had a lovely party which included family and friends. On her (or I guess mom´s!) wishlist was a bunch of Scandinavian classics such as:

1. Kay Bojesen´s Monkey. A qute little friend that will be around forever!

www.kaybojesen-denmark.com

2. The Tripp Trapp High Chair, designed in 1972 by Norwegian Designer, Petter Opsvik, now produced by Stokke. A great and practical chair she can have for years.

 www.stokke.com

3. Childrens cutlery Vivianna in stainless steel from Georg Jensen, designed by Vivianna Torunn Bülow-Hübe in 1996.

www.georgjensen.com

All these and a bunch of other great gifts became hers on her lovely day.

What a lucky little girl!

The great Kristen Visdal

You may have seen her house before, but not in a while and not like this. New colors, new combinations and new furnitures. You can see Kirsten Visdal´s "new home" in Elle Decoration´s (the Norwegian one!) June edition which is out now.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Kirsten Visdal/kvistbloggen.blogspot.no

Back again!

 

Ten months has gone by since my last post, and time has sure flown by! I decided to enjoy my time as a new mom, and dedicated all my time that. Unread magazines piled up, no new blogposts were written, only a few new furnitures was made, and hardly anything new was done on the house 

(incredible how much time these little ones take...). Now, my daughter is nine months, and I feel that it is time to do a little bit of "my stuff".  Now it is back to work, reading magazines and searching for new inspiration :-).

Spring is here and a couple of weeks ago I "unpacked" all my gardening gear, pots and outdoor furnitures, and went to the nursery to buy some plants. Here´s the result!

Photography: Trine Thorsen

More from the orchard

Another feature that is out now (also done in the lovely apple orchard), and which made the cover, is a feature with twleve tips and ideas on how you can create a romantic and colorful environment with the optimal summer feeling in your own garden/backyard.

One of them a romantic swing made out of an old bamboo chair found in a local fleamarket.

The recipes and the "how to´s" can be found in this summer issue of BoligPluss which is out in the stores now.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Krista Elvheim

Cool cradle...

I am trying not to buy everything new for the baby, and while searching the net for a bed/crib to renovate,  I found this cool cradle. The cradle from little green factory/Green Lullaby is made out of corrugated cardboard, and is designed to cater for the babies first few months. It is light and easy to assemble/disassemble without any tools, and therefor perfect for travelling. Worried about the safety of it? Don´t worry, it is protected by a unique non-toxic fire retardant and meets the European safety standards!

Definately on my wishlist!

http://www.green-lullaby.com

http://www.littlegreenfactory.no

Flower power!

 

Right outside my house, just divided by an old fence, is a wonderful apple orchard which is perfect for summery photoshoots (and great garden parties). Around this time last year, Tara and I moved some of my livingroom furnitures outside to create a colorful and romantic atmosphere. The topics was flowery, new fabrics and here are some of the pictures. Some of you might have seen it already as it is featured in Elle Decoration, Norway, which is out now. I am really happy how the pictures came out, and I guess Elle Decoration is too since it made the cover :-).

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Tara Ballantyne

Model: Frida H.A/Pholk

Busy bee...

I can´t seem to keep my promises and again there has been an absence when it comes to blogging (SO SORRY!!!).

My head and time has been filled with work, renovating and preparing for the little one that will arrive some time in August. Living in a house from 1920 there´s A LOT to be done... New bedroom, baby´s room, and hopefully a new bathroom later this fall.

Now, only a few weeks away, it is time to slow down and bloggging is a really good help to make me try and do so. Just need to find some interesting topics to blog about ;-).

Have to admit that I am spending a few hours a day searching the net and magazines for inspiration for our new rooms, and I have almost decided on the result. This is how I picture our bedroom will end up looking (a white and grey base), with our own designed bedside tables and closets. Can´t wait!

Image found on vtwonen.nl

Photography: Tjitske van Leeuwen

Styling: Marianne Luning

Me like!

I am one of those who like to stack away things that are ugly, and fire exstinguishers are one of them. In the last place I lived, the previous owner had made a wooden box to keep it in. I was a one happy girl when she let me keep it.The fireman though, wasn´t very happy when he came on his yearly visit to see that I had my safety equipment in place. In case of a fire, the exstinguishers should be handy at all times and seconds can matter when it comes to keeping the fire from spreading.

The Swedish father and son, Göran and Lucas Dahl shared my opinion that exstinguishers are not the prettiest thing there is, and wanted to do something about it. They idea of  making safe and approved exstinguishers in trendy colors and patterns came up, and here is the result. 

Give me a bunch of white ones (a silvergrey can also do!), and I´ll gladly have one on display in every  room of the house!

More colors and patterns on:

http://brandslackaren.se

Last chance!

On this coming April 28th.and 29th., I am doing my last workshop in a year or so. If you have been  thinking about joining my course, this will be the last chance for a while. Having a baby in August, I guess it is going to keep me occupied for a while :-).

Set in wonderful Bikuben, in the small village of Tofte, there will be two days of learning the difference between shutters and f-stops, depth of field, composition, a few lighting techniques and a whole lot more!

Sounds fun? Pls.contact me for more information and prices.

PS! You are able to join only one day, even though I would recommend two.

Image by christopher Paul (Christopher Gulczynski), found on Flickr.

My porch

 

During the spring and summer months, in between renovating the house, photographying, photoshopping and whatnot, I spend as much time as I can on my wonderful porch. There, surrounded by lovely greens and my old nicknack, I am totally at peace. 

After a cold winter, it is now time to get my garden gloves and my things from the loft, and get the porch ready for yet another wonderful season.

Photography: Trine Thorsen

Styling: Christine Hærra

Totally blank!

There hasn´t been many blogposts lately, none in the last month to be correct. My excuse is not the work and going away, but the fact that I have had nothing to write about. Not that there´s not been anything to write about (actually it is the opposite... There are so much to write about!), my brain and my body has just taken some time off, and I have been totally blank.

Hopefully I am back to stay for a while now. I do have a busy spring though, with many big and exciting projects coming up. I am also expecting a baby girl in August, so if I am a little back and forth, pls.bear with me :-). 

Spring is here though, and spring gives me lots of energy. So watch out, I might bombard you with blogposts from now on ;-)

Lovely Laleh!

Beautiful song and musicvideo by Swedish Iranian, Laleh.

Aaaahhh, me like a lot!