a little more of christmas...

all the birdies in my christmas tree! every year there is more birdies, they are all so pretty!

and some more mood trigging photos from my little place. the crib is from my childhood, real plastic kitch and cool. I'm not relegious, but the childhood crib brings good memories, especially the palm trees. mushrooms are never wrong either!

tomorrow I promise a really long post, with lay-outs from the past year, inspiring photos and 2010 plans, the first one is a give-away, that will happen one of the first days of the new year, so stay tuned!
see you all tomorrow**

don't you just love fat, little birdies?

I want pink hair so much!!

I really, really want my pink hair back, especially with the snow that is white and fluffy, and with my wintercoat that is white and fluffy, with a big, cosy hood! but...I was experimenting with coloured my hair earlier this fall, now it's some sort of boring redish, and the hairdresser I spoke too, said that it will be so difficult to lighten hair that is already dyed red...it's the most difficult colour. so, if I'm to be blonde (and pink) again, it's a long process, unless I want all my hair to fall off....!!

I'm so tired of the red colour, I dislike it a lot, and I can't be blonde. that should teach me not to follow some crazy idea inside my head lol

I'm now curing my hair like crazy to prepare it for slowly going blonde, will speak to the hairdresser I normally use to hear what she says....

in the meantime...I might seriously buy a pink wig!!?? what do you think? my dull, red colour is depressing me so much....

(I will never never dye my hair red again, never!!! promise!)

(for sources; click on the photos)

what a lovely christmas present*

My mother-in-law gave me this vintage german childrens book for christmas, I can't think of a better gift, I was so happy, she really knows what I like, sigh** the illustrations are so beautiful, and the colours so sweet. I don't know the exact year it's from, it doesn't say, but it looks like 50ies something.
I speak only a little german, but my boyfriend is almost fluent, and so he translated everything for me. The little bears are going to the Bear school every day, learing more and more, about how to make bear sounds, about bees and honey, and about all the birds and animals in the forest.

I'm really into childrens books these days, they are so inspiring, especially the ones from my childhood, with really bright, clear colours. what's your favourite book from your childhood?

sorting everything out before christmas

I hope you all had a terrific christmas eve, mine continued to be lovely, and yesterday we just stayed inside and watched movies and ate candy. it was totally relaxing, and felt so so good. both yesterday and today it's been snowing like crazy, when I tried walking past our front gate today, the snow was up to my thighs ha ha it's fun really!!
before christmas I cleaned my place up and organized my work space. I put up new shelfs and had a great time making small, inspiring installations. here are photos, enjoy:):)

as I said....it's so much snow! so much snow!!! and my windows are the prettiest ever!

Sweet christmas everybody*

I wish I had been better inspiration this fall, I have not been around as much as I wanted to, but I hope I can make up for it with my candy christmas tree.
this is actually the first year ever I feel like I have something like christmas traditions. like last year, I put up my white tree dec 23rd, while I decorate my window pane, clean the house, and finish the presents for my boyfriend. And like last year, my sweet sweet bunny is visiting me for christmas. he's running around my legs and eating paper bags. off course, the most exciting place is under the sofa, where I can't control what he's doing lol

I always used to feel lost at christmas. I have a sweet and loving family, but things have always been a bit chaotic, and nothing was settled, like a wished for. I wanted my mum to be in control, I wanted a warm christmas house, with the smell of baking and christmas cookies, and I wanted to be relaxed and feel comfortable. I never did. I lived different places after I moved away from home, but it never felt like I wanted to. this is the nicest home I've ever had.

I am so happy here, I have light and atmosphere, and I can make my own traditions.

I used to cry every december, because I didn't want christmas to come, I didn't want to envy everybody else what I will never have. Now I'm so relaxed and happy. I just had dinner, and soon I will eat so much caramel pudding that I'll die.

It's snowing here, it's been snowing all night, it's so white and beautiful, and later tonight, I will meet my boyfriend, we'll have a walk in the snow, and then go to his family, and have the best cosy, christmas evening ever.

I hope you are all very happy! I decorated my tree with pink ornaments and little birdies. Totoro is smiling in the top. Yesterday I made new stockings for me, my boyfriend and little bunny. and today I had a small photo session with my black and white little friend.

I wish you all the best christmas, I will put on my pink tights and keep smiling, because this time of year is so pretty***

a color bomb to start the weekend!

really, this is the most amazing embossing powder ever!! and I'm not even embossing... guess this is the time to start! these are like candy, they seem so frizzy, I can just keep them and look at them, I don't even have to use them to be happy!

I hope you are happy to, I've handed in an exam today, and is dying my hair brown. will enjoy the weekend immensly!!

really, this is where time stood still!

I'm back from a crazy week, we were at scrapbooking fair with Scrappegodis this weekend, it's been so much fun, and a great experience, but today I've been totally off, so tired (but happy!) and I've been doing absolutely nothing useful, except from sleeping, reading comics, eating caramel pudding, drinking chocolate milk, and dying my hair red.
on a day like this, of course we need some 70ies input. (I'm of course still in total 70ies mood!)
this is my dentist's waiting room, it's so cosy, gotta love it!! especially the big bird, he's my friend! love the brown colours, the mirror and the fab lamps, I mean, it's fun going to the dentist, how weird is that lol

sweet october

I actually love fall very much, every year I'm surprised by it (because I heart summet so much, and it's so short here up north), but I do, it's cold and crispy clear, and full of colours!
I wish this photo was mine, but it's not, I just stole it off google, I wanted to show a mushroom so badly...

how are you all? I had the best time ever in Berlin, I will share photos, Berlin is the perfect 70ies/80ies retros city, they have an old photo booth, orange subway stations and lovely ddr-shops, with tons of crazy cool vintage stuff!
I'm planning to photo Oslos retro places as well, I know Oslo to it's inner chambers, it's my city and I love it, but lots of cool stuff is gone, it's hard to find the genuine cool places, like in Berlin. will share!
I'm also doing 70ies drawings....hope I can get these projects finished as I plan, not just dreaming about them.

I was also at the dentist last week, and he has the coolest 70ies waiting room, so that's something ha ha, love it, I'm so glad not all people are crazy about renovating, keep the old, it's the best! (and my teeth are perfect yahoo!! lol)

I have even scrapbooked, Berlin-photos of course, will share when I'm not on my boyfriends computer!

See you soon, have a great great monday!
xoxo Tove*

I really really like this book!

the illustrations are fabulous, with so many pretty, funny details!! Moki is travelling around the world, meeting new friends everything, and there's even stickers coming with the book!!

have you seen anything sweet today?

home, sweet home

some photos from my soon-to-be organized little place, I'm still working on getting rid of
too much things I don't use, and clothes I don't like at the moment, but tomorrow my friend will help me drive them over to my mothers basements. alla har en vän med bil, synger Håkan Hellström, og godt er det! (Håkan Hellström sings: everybody has a friend who's got a car, and thank heavens for that!)

I'm also planning to get shelfs for the shoes, so they don't have to lay in a pile like now...my leather boots I bought on a flea market last week for 10nkr!! (that's about $1,5) very happy with them! I have jumbo feet, so I'm over the roof to find a pair of second hands shoes that actually fits lol

tonight I'm making a salad with chicken, cheese and tomatoes for the boyfriend date, we're setting up our tent in the garden, to say goodbye to summer. it will be a good tent-night!

tomorrow: a book I really really like*

knitting candy*

I started knitting last december, when I bought a lovely, pink book in Stockholm, teaching me the basics with fun recepies. then, in NY this summer, I found even more fun books, with even more crazy fruits and animals, and that was even more educational to my knitting skills. (when I had learned all of the terminology in swedish, then I had to re-learn it in english lol)

the books can be found here and here!

my tomato is not completely done yet, but the cat is! when I found the bright, pink yarn, I just had to get it! now I'm almost done with a funny, stripey guy with two blue heads, one small and one large. he's all done knitting, I just have to sew and stuff.


today is sunday, my upload to the new week, and I promise you something inspirational every day in the week to come, until saturday, when lovely boyfriend and I are leaving for Berlin***
we need a holiday together now, as we didn't get to travel during summer! I can't wait, I just KNOW Berlin is my kind of city!! have fun today,I'm going to hockey practice later!


xoxo see you soon!

tomorrow: home sweet home*

I've been scrapbooking*

is anyone still reading my blog? I do hope so, I have a feeling I will be a better blogger for some time now. it seems like my life has settled after the crazy august-opening store things... oh dear....I'm watching football as I'm blogging, and my team scored....FREDRIKSTAD***** don't give it away now, it's only six minutes left.... (sorry about that lol they need all the points they can get, they are soooo close to relegation!) my hands hurt from clapping so hard! (oh, and forgot to tell I'm all alone jumping and screaming on the sofa!)

anyway, I just wanted to say that I seem to have found some kind of rythm, that I am organized and even returning my library books in time! I'm cleaning and organizing my place, will share some photos soon!
here's my scrapbooking, I see now that the photos are terrible, I took them at the store, it seems like the lightning is better at home! will bring lay-outs home, and photo again!


this photo is from grünerløkka, what a lovely mailbox isn't it?? I lurrve the monsters from sassafras, had to use them!

and I'm also crazy about dots, I made three lay-outs recently, all with dots, the other two are white ha ha these photos are from new york, and I wish you could see how bright yellow and cool this paper is!

and more sassafras, I colourd some of the paper myself, it's really all b/w. sorry again for the hopeless quality of the photos, will do better!!

soon my lovely boyfriend will be home from work, we're making pizza tonight, I bought fresh mozzarella, garlic, and lots of other tasty stuff!

if you're still here, let me know, I promise to be back soon!!

wish you a gorgeous weekend** hug**

oh dear, it's been like more than a month...

and I didn't blog! now I'm hopefully back... everything has been crazy the past month, working with the scrapbooking store, it's been so much fun, and I haven't been able to share anything, since it was a secret....I haven't been able to scrapbook, and I haven't been able have real summer, but, summer's been so crap anyway, so it didn't matter. I love our store, I love working there, I just wish there was more hours to do all the fun stuff I want to....the days passes so quickly...

I'll share you some of my summer loves, now it's fall rain, but I like it, I still have my polkadot wellies and apple umbrella, I've given up on summer anyway... my sweaters are out of the closet, and I'm wearing my small skirts with tights under them, and woolen socks. yum*

here's my faves for now, even from the pink strawberry treat and beyond...


1.New York city that was so much fun, it's already two months ago. I loved the atmosphere and friendly people, but I do have to admit I love the european way, the grey suburbs and simple, 50-architecture....I'm going to Berlin in October with my boyfrien, I have to admit I suspect I'm gonna love Berlin even more, I've already found 30-ies cinemas to drawl over, one of them even has an old b/w photo booth inside. take me there now, sigh*

2. Japanese candy!! oh my, I love it for my scrapbooking!! you can get it from our store, it's to die for, too pretty, there are little fawns, waffles, strawberries, hello kitty..... thank you Yuriko, for providing us with such great goods!!!

3. our scrapbooking store!! I'm a manager now, I run a store, but thankfully not alone, we are two who's in it together lol Scrappegodis (Scrapcandy) is just as much candy as I would like, and more is to come, there's so much goodies in the mail, some is arriving next week already!!

this is Trevor, the flamingo. he lives in our store too*

I luuuuuurve the pink wall, I want to die for it!!

4. collecting card with old cars! found them at my dad's this summer. wow, I'm in love again!!

5. these girl's style!!

Kate Perry! and Fam Irvoll's clothes, I wish I had money to buy them!!

6. one of the few creative things I've been able to do lately... my first kit for Scrappegodis. will post pics of the tags that comes with it later. there are cut outs, journaling cards and an alpha, if you want one, send me an e-mail:)

7. knitting. I can do it!! I've knitted a tomato, a carrot, a sea star with twelve arms, an earth worm, and now I'm doing a stripey, pink cat with loooooooooooong tail. will try flamingo later. this photo is from my first project, the tomato. I did knit this winter, I did some smaller projects from a swedish book, but now I've had to learn to knit again, in english lol I bought two books in Boston that are too funny, will try the flamingo later:)

8. this little monster I made for my friends birthday! he says hi to you all!

it's still early, I will hit the shower, and then have breakfast with my boyfriend:):):):) we have lots of homemade pizza left from yesterday, and I'll make strawberry smoothie.

then, I'm off to work... life is strange, so much has happened this summer....I'm getting closer to one of my good friends, one of my best friends split with her boyfriend through 10 years.... I'm with my love, we're having more fun than ever, I'm a business woman, I go to work everyday....this fall, I will finish my education, I will have a master degree from the university...but then what? I still only want to work in the store....

will blog more soon, will share some projects. have the best day, all of you!!xoxo

a little home update...

today I've had a totally nice home day, my boyfriend is at work, and the last weeks, I've been working so much with everything in our shop, so now, it was really so good to clean up my place, get organized, catch up on my e-mails (ok, and some store e-mails lol) and cutting my hair. the ends were too dry and with no life, they had to go. did it myself, it's fun.
all my hair clips, bands and fun also got a new home, in this lovely bowl.


my yarn and needles are now also organized, they've moved into this elephant bag....

and I've ironed my newly cleaned dresses and made the closet look really nice.

and this morning, we realised poor Domo had a rough start to the day" my picture of the lovely alps had fallen on his head, look how he's screaming! thankfully, monkey is really comforting!

yes, I had a relaxing cleaning up day, the only thing that is not under control....is my scrapbooking desk lol it's been struck by some unknown lightning....now I will store-blog, our goods are starting to arrive, and I'm making lots of fun stuff to be sold only at Scrappegodis!

how is your summer? are you having fun? there's rainy here, but we have strawberries and raspeberries in the garden, and my tomatoes are growing every day.

hopefully see you soon, wish I could share my scrapbooking, but it's all for our store, you will see it by august 15th!!

xoxo Tove*

I'm soooo busy..:):)

and it's great fun, but time is flying, and I realised I didn't blog for a looooong time already! I can't promise better times, but maybe, I'm really occupied with our store, I'm searching special items for us to sell, scrapbooking examples with our products, and I'm designing kits and tags for the opening. I can't share anything yet, but I will try to show you fun stuff whenever I find them! here's a garden gnome that suddenly moved into my garden, my landlords brought him home, and he made me really happy. now they've gone on holiday, and I assume he's left inside the house, since I can't see him...
I wish for my own gnome, today is my birthday, so I told my friends...I want a garden gnome! we'll see, I'm not having a big party today (you know, I already had one, a week ago, great garden picnic). my boyfriend is at work now, but when he's home, his mom is making a little celebration for me, she's so sweet, and even later, we'll have a little party, just the two of us, with lots of strawberries and a very late night!!

I hope you all are very happy, talk to you soon!! xoxo

ok, it's not a secret anymore....it's not, it's not, it is......

OUR SCRAPBOOKING STORE!!!!
really, yes, it's for real, it's our dream come true!!! SCRAPPEGODIS (that's scrapcandy) opens august 15th. You can read all about it in our blog** (we, that's me and my friend Hanne!)
we're located at Sandaker in Oslo, we'll hold crops and teach classes and be a really funky and colourful store, but of course, any costumer with any style will find their favourites, at least that's what we're aiming at!
I'm so sorry I've been a terrible blogger, and haven't been able to comment on any blogs either, or be active in forums or anything, but we're crazy busy right now, and we will be for some time forward lol

hope to see you all for grand opening in august, but of course, I'll come back with info all the time, and keep checking the Scrappegodis blog as well!!


and now, to something completely different: jeg må skrive det på norsk også nemlig, VI ÅPNER SCRAPPEBUTIKK!!
På Sandaker i Oslo åpner Scrappegodis 15.august!! All info dere trenger ligger i bloggen vår, som selvsagt er på norsk, og vi ønsker alle supervelkommen! det blir en fargerik og glad butikk, med varer for enhver smak, enten det er freestyle eller vintage. Det blir selvsagt både kurs og treff og masse moro, klikk deg videre og les:):)

Nå er det alt sent på natt og jeg skal kanskje snart sove...men først....tusen takk til alle kuleste scrappejentene jeg har møtt på min vei hit til å starte egen butikk, digger dere alle sammen, jeg blir glad bare jeg tenker på alle morsomme treff jeg har vært på.

Ha en super natt og morgendag, I'll be back!!

I'm back lol*

just to say that I'm in a hurry, cause my boyfriend is soon back from work, and we're having a barbecue with his sister! so so sorry I can't share funnier stuff than a nighttime photo of NYC, it was all a blast, and I bought the-really-prettiest-dress-ever, but it was also sooooo good to be home again, I belong on the countryside, I never want to live in a big city. I heart the grass, trees and flowers, and the fresh air! and my little tiny house! and the tomato plants, and the strawberries that are now in bloom!!

anyway, another reason I'm insanly busy is....oh dear, I can't share yet, in a few days, I promise, I want to tell everybody so so so much, it's really a big thing coming up!! (no, I'm not getting married and I'm not preggie lol) but it's something really really cool happening in scrapbooking!! stay tuned, I hope you will be as excited as I am!!

love you all, have a great evening***

(and btw I got tons of new scrapbooking goodies, can't wait to get started!!)

I'm off tomorrow!!

I'm sorry I didn't blog for so long, I've been really busy planning my trip, making fun stuff for my boyfriend, and so and so and so... here's a lay-out I made last week, I lurve the pink**

I hope to be back from NY with lots of fun stuff to share, my cowboy-kit is ready, but I won't be putting it up for sale until I'm back.
I'll be reading mail, maybe blog a little while I'm gone, but not with photos I think.

take care, see you soon*****

more lay-outs!

I actually used my sewing maching, this has never happened before, and I did make the cactuses myself! ( I have a cowboy-kit coming up, stay tuned!)** (...and I did again use flowers lol...)

pink post

it's been such lovely summer here this weekend! today, the wind is back, and it's not that hot anymore, but still sunny and inspiring:) thought I'd share my favourite smoothie recipe for this gorgeous time of the year! (and I swear, it makes you wanna scrapbook!)



2 handfuls of frozen strawberries
enough rasperry drinking yoghurt to make the strawberries blend
one banana
the juice from one orange

put it in your blender in this order, and you will be so happy**




here's some japanese candy I bought, I was walking peacefully in tiny Oslo, when I suddenly spotted a japanese store!! (at Majorstua, can you believe it!) these Pocky were delicous (I need to check my spelling...) and in my fortune cookie, it said I was ready for a big travel ha ha and I am, going to New York in ten days!
still, I'm the crazy scrapbooking lady, will share more lay-outs tomorrow, now I have a painting to do, and then I'm off to visit a friend, we have very cool, secret plans**

see you xoxo