Scandinavian Living

Yesterday I promised you more photos from Scandinavian Living magazine. I've uploaded some photos on Flickr, and they are all in this set. Enjoy!

magazine inspiration

Earlier in September mav of port2port showed us inspiring books and magazines from her coffee table. I love the idea, and I want to do the same. I have heaps of great books and magazines just waiting to be shown of to more people.

I'll start with a magazine I have shown on Flickr before - Scandinavian Living. It's really beautiful, and I wish it was still out. The front page photo is my favorite. I wish I could have a big print of it on my wall. When Sølve gets home from France with our digital camera, I'll take some more photos of the magazine.

rainy sunday

The dinner party on Friday was a success, and meeting up with a group of girls last night was a blast. Today it's Sunday and time to relax. It's real autumn weather outside, with wind and rain hammering on the windows. I want to light the fireplace, but I don't want to go outside in this weather to get the firewood... Sølve is i Cannes, France with his job, so I have to do it myself. Big challenge today ;-)

Since I'm home alone, I'm making something Sølve isn't a big fan of; rice pudding. Yum! More photos here.

Hope you have a good Sunday.

festivity and balloons

I'm in a festive mood today. We are having a dinner party tonight.

My day started at about 8 am with the apartment being filled with the lovely smell of rosemary, garlic and mustard. Sølve was preparing two legs of lam for the dinner tonight. Yesterday he prepared the base for the fish soup that we are having as a starter. It will be so perfect with the Alsace he bought. After a slow breakfast and some tidying and cleaning, I made chocolate mousse for dessert. Recipe here. It's going to be a great start of the weekend :-)

Autumn is lam season, which reminds me of this that I found over at simply photo earlier today. Seasonal eating is a good thing.


Today's Friday Flickr Favorites are all about festivity - I love balloons!

party time - untitled - 4th Birthday - goodnight - cheo's party - trapped - balloon - the wedding party - balloons - party trace

sex and the city

Yes, I'm one of those girls who love Sex and the City. I can't wait for the movie! According to dagbladet.no filming started yesterday. Yay! Now excuse me while I get myself a cosmopolitan...

lovely Croatia

Just a quick note to tell you I (finally) uploaded the last photo from my 10 days holiday in Croatia. If you are curious to see them all, take a look at the Croatia 2007 set. All the photos are there, in chronological order and with describing tags. I'm an organized girl I tell you! Hope I didn't bore you too much with my holiday (snap)shots. Now my mind and photography is set on different things.

The photo above is from our favorite restaurant in Milna on the island of Hvar. While I type this, I'm enjoying a delicious red wine from the same island - Zlatan Plavac - and listening to the fire burning in the fireplace. Autumn is definitely here.

Stardust

Have you read the fairytale novel Stardust by Neil Gaiman? Sølve made me read it, and I'm very glad he did. It's such a beautiful story. I just found out - when watching tv while flickring and editing photos - that a movie of Stardust is out (opening in Norway on September 21). It came out earlier this year. Has anyone seen it? I'm curious if it is as enjoyable as the book.

Wikipedia says that some of the filming was done on Isle of Skye in Scotland. I was there in June :-)

Scandinavian Surface

Some of you might remember Scandinavian Surface from when I posted this on Flickr a while ago. Since then a lot has happened for the talented design group. The four designers in Scandinavian Surface will be present at 100%design in London September 20-23. If you happen to be at the event (lucky you!), say hei to them at stand K4. There you can take a closer look at the new collection of pillows (top photo) and ProPiece (bottom photo). Take a look at more great stuff on their new website. Btw, the beautiful chairs in the bottom photo is from fjordfiesta.

I'm back!

Hei guys! I'm back from my Norway travels, and I've had a fantastic week. I was in Oslo for a couple of days, then I travelled with Hurtigruten from Tromsø to Trondheim, and the weekend was spent at the island of Fogn in Ryfylke with my friends. Now there is lots of catching up to do - on Flickr, in blogland and work wise. You know the drill.

The photo above is from Saturday, when I picked blackberries at Fogn. Bliss!

a week of exploring Norway

Hei! Hope you had a lovely weekend. I sure did. It involved great food and wines, a long walk in the rain, a little bit of redecorating, and a brand new laptop. Now I have just finished packing my backpack, cause I'm off for the whole week to see some wonderful parts of my country. I'll be back with lots of photos.

hoss intropia

While working on an article last night, I came across the Spanish brand hoss intropia. You simply have to browse through the photos on the website. I love them all!

feet week

I'm joining Shash's feet week. I have a whole set of feet shots on Flickr, so this will be fun. Today's photo was taken a little while ago, when it was still warm enough to wear no socks.

American Retro + sun

Today I found out that the lovely French brand American Retro is being sold at Vrimmel in Bergen. Hurra. Take a look at the brand's website, it's updated with the autumn/winter collection. I like it a lot.

It's sunny in Bergen today. Beautiful.

food + magazines

A new Norwegian food magazine hit the newsstands today: Smart Mat. I flipped trough it and it looks promising. Nice articles and photos. What I didn't like, and especially not for the first issue of a new magazine, is the price - 79 kroner, which is about $14/£7/€10...

Harald tipped me about GOOD magazine. I'm curious about it, so I'm going to check out the website when I have finished all my upcoming deadlines. Do you know this magazine?

The photo above was taken a while ago. It's king oyster mushrooms from Den blinde ku (the blind cow). Here is a similar photo.

travel stories

I'm not going to write much here today, since I did a fair bit of writing yesterday. And today I've done some writing here and here - travel stories from our third day in Croatia. We were 10 days in Croatia and I just finished sorting through the photos from day 3. Needless to say, there are more Croatia photos to come.

Because of the photo I have posted above, today's Friday Flickr Favorites are all about roses. I think the photo was taken at the flower marked in Hong Kong, I found the print among some old photos when I was home in Sandnes a couple of weeks ago.
Rose - Roses - roses - fallen - Happy Valentine's Day

I'm Astrid

Arch tagged me a while ago, so now it's time for me to give you 8 facts/habits about myself.

1. I've been a girl scout for many years and I used to be a very outdoorsy girl (now I'm just normal outdoorsy). In high school my friends and I had a tradition to sleep under the stars once a month. We always did it during weekdays, so we came straight from the woods, the mountains, the beach - or where ever - to school. In my class I was know to been the girl with moss in her hair...

2. After high school I planned to join the army (befalsskolen). I'm happy I didn't.

3. I'm tall. 181 cm.

4. I'm not very daring when it comes to my hair. I have never done anything else than cut it. No highlights, no colors, no nothing.

5. I'm organized and tidy (but cleaning bores me). For example: All my photos on Flickr are neatly organized in sets, and my Croatia photos are chronologically organized in the Croatia 2007 set.

6. When I travel I always pack in a backpack, not a suitcase.

7. I have a tiny scar on my right foot from from a ski pole. I walked barefoot through a river during winter (the river had to be crossed and I didn't want to get my boots wet), when I started to slide on the ice on the bottom of the river, I used the ski poles to keep steady. My feet were super cold so I didn't feel a thing.

8. I'm getting married next year.

Bonus info: I love olive trees, but I don't like olives. I'm sure the taste will grown on me with time. That's what I'm so happy about in the photo above. The trees, not the taste. We were driving a scooter around the island of Vis in Croatia, and I just had to have a photo of all the olive trees. Btw, I didn't drive, Sølve did. Must have been a funny sight with both of us on a tiny scooter. Also, I wonder if anyone can look great wearing a helmet...

One last thing today. A Flickr favorite: 8/20/05. Lena Corwin's wedding photos really inspire me.

Time to go back to my writing.

favorite spot

I'm a very big fan of this photo.

The photo above is my current favorite spot in my home. The orange sofa by the window. This is were I keep my huge stack of unread magazines. You can see some of them in the window sill, and some under the table. Hopefully I'll have time to snuggle up here soon, with magazines, a blanket and some nice wine. Red wine, because autumn is soon here.

my shoes are green

Todays Flickr favorite is a photo I absolutelly love: B'day girl

Remember I told you yesterday I wished I had my gloves? Today I wore them, and I'm glad I did. Tomorrow I might have to wear a hat.

busy days

Hei friends, how are you?

I'm just stopping by to tell you I have some very busy (yet fun) work days at the moment, which leave me with very little time for Flickr and blogging. I haven't forgotten my Friday Flickr Favorites. Since my time is limited I will post one Flickr favorite each day this week. Just to give you a tiny piece of daily inspiration.

lost in translation #01

Today I bought strawberries to cheer me up while working. Yum!

Btw, autumn is getting close here in Bergen. When I rode my bike to work this morning, my fingers got cold and I wished I had my gloves. Now when I was out getting a coffee (at 7:30 pm I'm still at the office), my nose got really cold. At least the sun is shining. For now.

how about galoshes?

I'm a big fan of practical yet stylish stuff. So how about galoshes?

Swims are practical, stylish and Norwegian. On the website you can read the story behind the product, and also see more elegant photos and design. There's even a shop. It's a pity swims are only made for men.