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

new lay-outs...finally!!

...I am so inspired lately, I want to scrapbook more than ever, and still, not so long before that, I felt stuck, and didn't know how I would approach my lay-outs in-the-making, since I felt I was doing the same over and over. white cardstock. 6x12. some paint. some fun stuff. one photo. done.
I felt I really had to try to widen my horizon again, and be fresh and new to scrapbooking. so, I went through my stuff, and realised I didn't have to limit myself so much, it's ok to use the old tags I thought was boring before, it's ok not to journal all the time, it's ok to do 12x12 again. so I am. I'm exploring new stuff. I'm even tearing the edges of my lay-out, and using looooots of thickers ha ha I've been saying for months that I want to draw the titles myself, and I do, but sometimes it's ok not to do it... when I look at some of the lay-outs, it feels funny, since they're a little different from the rest of my work. I hope they still have the tove-twist to them...



here's sassafras, some tickets, beads, lace, and a metal sticker that doesn't show at all, dang, and really: I used a flower!!

no kidding, I used a flower again! I'm challenging myself to use them, I mean, I did buy them, ages ago! (here I added some tulle!) paper is american crafts, tag is bam pop, rest is a little bit of this and that. the photo is a self portrait, I tried to look real glam lol

my lovely little bunny**** had to split two 8's to make the s, I was out of them! love this Love Elsie cardstock, the frame is hambly, and the brad is mm. (look bendichte, I distressed the edges rofl:D)

this paper is to die for, it's hambly, along with the rub on. flower is american craft, other papers are sassafras and scenic route. I tried to make it simple, yet cool, the photo is of my boyfriend, climbing a tree in Ukraine, last summer. hard to spot, but he's up there*

Hambly background, thickers, and a rose from an old embroidery pattern. I love vintage stuff, and I love taking these kind of photos. the little deer is from a package of biscuits! (we used to get them when we were kids!)

today, I've been scrapbooking even a little more, I've been outside all day with my friends, relaxing in my garden, I'm so happy to have a garden that I can't explain it. and it's sunny there all day around, until late evening!

I've been wearing my cowboy hat and walked around bare footed. now my stocmach is really full, and my head is tired. my boyfriend has fallen asleep beside me, he's so so so sweet and beautiful!!

will share photos from the garden-day soon!

I'm totally happy now, hope you are too! (and I really appreciate to hear what you think of the lay-outs....now that I'm exploring a little...)

xoxo see you soon!

just a short one...

this is the cover of my mini-album for scrapbookexpress grand prix final. I was fourth, and is very happy with that, just getting through to the final was like a victory to me:)
I'm scrapbooking like crazy these days, and really want to share, but haven't uploaded any photos yet! will do soon, I promise***
what are you up to, what is your passion now?? see you soon xoxo

look here!

I'm published!! I love magazines, but I feel most of them are very traditional, and features very similar lay-outs, without much personality. that goes especially for the american ones, but
entre artistes magazine is different and really cool. it's in french, and though I don't read french, I've started subscribing, since I really need to lay down on the sofa, looking at something that inspires me, not just browsing in front of the lap-top. as I said...I luuuurve magazines!
in the latest issue, is my lay-out, it was made for a challenge, "rainbow"

I made the background paper myself, with paint, and added different stuff....the sticker is from a cassette, and the alphas is american crafts.

I'm actually scrapbooking right now, just took a short break to blog a little! have a great evening, and weekend**

favourite books from my childhood*

total random order...men nå må jeg nok fortsette på norsk, det er nemlig det eneste som duger

Jan og Julia; de var i bursdag, fikk et dyr, begynte i barnehagen, gikk seg bort, ble syke...fargene og tegningene var sukkertøy for unge Tove. tysk barnelitteratur er undervurdert!!

Bella og Gustav; husker noen at hun prøvde å betale bussbilletten med sin nylig felte melketann?

pingvinen Pondus, med sitt røde skjerf: det fantes flere bøker, men dette var min favoritt! ballonger, rødbrus og pølsebod! i senere tid har jeg fått påpekt at pingvinen på bildene nok er utstoppet! for et tilbakeslag for en sart sjel, det falt meg aldri inn når jeg var liten at Pondus var noe annet enn levende!

Serafin: dette var den eneste boka som fantes på venteværelset hos skoletannlegen. (og ikke noe annet heller fantes der!) tegningene er HELT FANTASTISKE!!

Aurora: jeg fikk alle bøkene i serien om Aurora til jul og bursdag i tur og orden. Blir aldri lei av dem, heller ikke av Guro, det en egen hygge og en egen måte å legge fram problemstillinger på. Leser dem fremdeles med jevne mellomrom.

Dette er den vakreste eventyrboka som finnes. Jeg gråter fremdeles når jeg leser om gamle skjeve Tinka Stropp, som aldri har hatt en frier i sitt liv, og epletreet til den minste prinsessen. Elsa Beskow er en av mine favorittillustratører gjennom alle tider, ingen tegner kål og blåbærprinser som henne!

En av mange bøker fra Travelby. Mikkel Fiks - du kolliderer, vi reparerer! og Mikkel Fiks forteller deg også at du skal være glad du har en støvsuger som bare støvsuger taket, det er det ikke mange som har. Mikkel Fiks har også vært her hele dagen, og funnet stadig nye lekkasjer!

-Jeg kommer tilbake i morgen, sier han:D

Nå har jeg allerede skrevet om den vakreste eventyrboka som finnes, men dette er også den vakreste eventyrboka som finnes. Det går ikke an å velge. Og jeg gråter enda mer når jeg leser om Knut som ikke kan gå mer, som bare ligger i sengen sin, men som hver kveld blir hentet av herr Liljekvast og reiser til Skumringslandet, der ingenting er i veien med benet hans. Eller Petter og Petra, som er så små at de får plass i lomma, som går på skøyter i Tøyenhagen, og ikke dukker opp igjen på skolen etter ferien. Eller Allerkjæreste søster, Ylva-Li.

Barbapapa er kulest, det er ingen som helst tvil om saken!! Barbaene bor i runde hus og gror grønnsaker, mens de fix-mix-barbatrix forvandler seg til alt som måtte være nødvendig. likevel er de relativt forvirrede, det er vel egentlig bare Barbamama som har kontroll på ting. En gang jobbet de i en mølle....det gikk ikke så bra!

Ruffen; sjøormen som ikke kunne svømme, men som fikk hjelp av sin gode venn, blekkspruten 1030, 25. (det er hans for- og ettertall!) og ikke glem gamle bestemor, som er så gammel at hun sier sjøslange i stedenfor sjøorm!

jeg kommer tilbake med ungdomsbøkene sånn etterhvert...nå tenker jeg bare på alle de andre bøkene som også kunne vært med her....;)

watch, there's a ToveTyll challenge at Scrappehuset!

the sweet girls at scrappehuset asked me to be their ALT OM-girl this month! (alt om- that's everything about...) there's a great article about freestyle there, and some really cool lay-outs! I also made a challenge, where you can win my papers, so go for it! (it's only in Norwegian though, sorry!)

I've had a really crazy weekend, will post more later, I'm just a bit tired now, puh...my place is a mess, and I'm starving now.... see you soon xoxo

short little post

I'm still behind on posting my lay-outs, here's one from our crop. it's about swedish cinema Draken (the dragon), who is now closed. the sign, the green dragon, is famous all over Sweden, and is still glowing... I handcut the title from woodgrain foil and drew a tree on the orange paint. the dragon card is bought on Etsy.

today, I had a photoshoot with my friend, I have to make a mini album for the final in the grand prix contest, the photos were really cool and beautiful, I can't share most of them yet, as I want them to be secret for the competition, but you can see one to the left here. I do love my garden, it's great for photographing!!

we might be going out on the cottage tomorrow...but not sure, will know tonight...

have a great evening, hope you have strawberries, like I do** xoxo

wild one*

I really made this drawing a while ago, but I don't think I posted it until now...

just short post now, I will update my etsy, and start another painting, I have some ideas I need to put to life...

have a great day**

flea market love**

look what I found! I went flea market shopping saturday (and sunday lol), and I caught lovely things to keep for myself, and some stuff that is up in my vintage dep at etsy soon. (i.e. the rollerskates, they don't fit my big feet, but I had to get them, still...)


lovely vintage photo albums, look at the gorgeous structure on the cover! I'll start printing square photos, to fit them in the sleeves lol

these 80ies glasses were just too cool to be left behind!

...and the shoes...have you seen such beautiful shoes...they will also be up in my etsy.

some new scarfs! I really had a great weekend, our crop and barbecue yesterday was awsome, I didn't get to scrapbook that much really, but we had a swell time, and made some exciting plans lol

how was your weekend?

xoxo

sun & thunder all at once!!

crazy weather today, changing all the time!! at my boyfriends place, electricity just dissapeared the other day, it appeared to be a broken cable, and it might take two weeks until it's fixed, they have to dig, and well, things don't happen fast:p anyway, now we have a temporary cable laying through his house, and out the back door, crawling over the lawn, and dissapearing into his mothers house...so...we cannot close the back door, and it's sooooo cold!! I'm glad I'm back home now!
***rain or not, here's some of the things I've been making lately, the fruits etc are felt brouches, will be up in my etsy soon. I also have new lay-outs:


this one is about me being in love with the 80ies, my decade. I used lots of bam pop paper and clips from magazines, film strips, and the sticker from an old cassette. (I drew the new cassette around it...) the photo is of my favourite pez-figures**

here's an old car I passed, walking to the bus the other day... I used scenic route and october afternoon papers, a band aid, some christmas mushrooms and pink thickers. I really wish I drove an old car....now, I don't drive at all!

last lay-out, photos from ukraine, a blue apple from my papers, and some love elsie clouds. I love the photos, so I didn't want to over-work them! rub on birds are jenni bowlin, chipboard mushroom are sassafras.

I also have some new drawings, this on is called corncarrot. I thought of digitally colouring the background, but my computer keeps dying when I try to innstall the new illustrator...my friend says it's a hard disk problem, and nothing to do...maybe I need a whole new computer???

then last, let's twist again with turkey mama lol do you think she knows how to dance???

xox see you soon!!

my sunscreen came out today!!

what a lovely morning, me and my boyfriend sat on my front stair, he playing guitar, me making fruit brouches (is that the spelling???) for my etsy. photo tomorrow, as they're not completely finished. I'll also be selling my stuff at the market at BLÅ, Oslo, on Sunday 24th of may. come come, it'll be fun!!


it was really hot in the sun, later I made a strawberry smoothie, and it was just so lovely** it seems there's hope for good weather on sunday, we're having a crop at my boyfriends place. ain't he the sweetest, he welcomes me and all my friends to come scrapbooking! he thinks it's fun, he's not scrapbooking, but he makes ATC's if I tell him to:):)
our crop is also a welcome party for our sweet friend Hanne, who's moving to Oslo!! I'm so happy you will live closer to us, we'll have so much fun!! we'll have a barbecue, and lots of cookies, and relax in the garden when we're not scrapbooking... I pray for sunny weather!!

I also have two new paintings, I'm into a naiv style with subtile messages ha ha they prints will be up in my etsy soon, I'm not selling the originals just yet.

last, but not least, my banana lay-out! I'm so in love with it, it was for the 7th and last challenge at the grand prix. "make a monochrome lay-out!" thanks again everybody who voted for me, this lay-out got me to the final, top 8 went through, and I'm so happy. originally there were 60 participants, so I was jumping up and down yesterday. description is in my gallery at scrapbook express:)

lovely spring to you all, hugs Tove xoxo

I'm so in love with my sweet boyfriend*

so, I made a drawing of us! I feel so inspired now, I have so much to share, but I can't put it all in one post lol, so I promise to blog a lot this week! I've been drawing...a turkey, some houses, I've been painting; cactuses and a banana....I've been scrapbooking...more bananas, an old car, 80ies fun...and some secret I can't share yet...
and I've been photographing, here's some photos from last weekends market days at grünerløkka:

this lovely shop sells vintage childrens clothing, Zecra, who runs the shop is supersweet, and, I mean, she sells all the dresses and cool t-shirts I want to wear. (I'm sadly to big ho ho)

her link is www.skrulla.no I'm sure all you people with children will rock the world after shopping here!

sooooo beautiful!! such a tiny place, so filled with candy inspiration!!

this is fretex, markveien, very cool store, I just want to move in right away. rest of the photos are from the street market, vintage fun and clothes.

will be back soon, with more fun**

spring comes with new ideas

først skal jeg skrive litt på norsk!

det er vår, og jeg har lyst til å scrappe, og det er det tydeligvis mange andre som også har, for jeg får stadig spørsmål om ikke jeg skal holde kurs... Det er klart jeg vil, problemet er jo bare at jeg mangler store lokaler etter at Papertrends ble lagt ned.

dermed blir det i mai og juni "mini"-kurs hjemme hos meg!
(innholdet i kurset er ikke mini, men det er ikke plass til så mange mennesker bare.)

Budsjett-freestyle med ToveTyll*

Vi lager tre LO'er i 6x12 format, i frisk freestyle, men med morsomme og annerledes materialer enn de vi kanskje pleier å scrappe med. Mange av disse skattene har dere kanskje allerede liggende hjemme, uten å vite om det? Det blir sugerør, spillkort og coctailpinner, i tillegg lærer jeg bort forskjellige malings- og pynteteknikker, som gir scrappesidene en ekstra funky vri.

pris: 350kr, dette inkluderer et fargerikt glad-kit, med alt du trenger av scrappemateriell+frukt, snacks og forfriskninger:)

ta med saks, lim, og fargeblyanter/penner hvis du har.
det er valgfritt hvor mange bilder du trenger, men ikke større enn 10x15 cm. På en av LO'ene passer det best med svart/hvitt.

Datoer for kurs er: onsdag 20/5, onsdag 27/5, onsdag 3/6, mandag 8/6 kl.18.00
Sted: Grorudveien 115 Oslo

Det er plass til 5stk på hvert av dem, så førstemann til mølla. send meg en mail på kastanjepiken@hotmail.com for påmelding:)

Håper å se mange glade scrappere!!:)


I appologize to all my english-speaking readers, this was about some classes I'm teaching in Norway, so you missed nothing:):)

here's some lay-outs from our crop:


I love them both, the first one is made with hambly, a feather and my own tag yahoo! bambi is from an old deck of cards! I really love taking photos of my shoes, the next one is also my shoes, with lovely paper from october afternoon! I also used thickers and cassette rub-on from american crafts.
converse is the-best-shoes, I love them, I can never get enough!! these pair has ladybugs on them!



this last lay-out is from the grand prix comp, challenge was: use (at least) 1 stamp, 2 ribbons, 3 pics, 4 papers, 5 words, 6 brads ha ha ha ha, I finally managed:p

I wanted this lay-out to be a little different, I wanted it to have lot of quiet space, but still be terribly interesting lol

journaling says, I love only you*

I've had a great day today, went downtown, on Grünerløkka there was market days, will show photos later, and I met so many sweet people, and was very inspired! will share, I promise.

now it's raining a little bit, but that's ok, sweet summer rain. will work on a new painting and a new font, will maybe bleach my hair and dye it pink...and will make pizza, before I'm off to see my boyfriend! yesterday, we had a great day with one of our best friends, his wife and son was away, so it was only the three of us, eating ice cream, strawberries, cookies, chocolate...and having a barbecue in the hot sun wow wow it was so lovely!! I wish you all will have the greatest weekend as well!!**

new paintings*

just a little art fun on a thursday morning**

today it's sunny, it's warm and me and my boyfriend just had lovely breakfast, with cheese and basil! have a great day everybody!

xoxo

a winner** and nice weekend-stuff:)

My lovely boyfriend drew the winner of my giveaway, Hana Jane Mickley, congrats!! Send me your adress at kastanjepiken@hotmail.com, and you'll get my papers in the mail!!

thank you thank you thank you all so much, for your sweet comments and feedback, I appreciate it SO MUCH!! I am so grateful and humble that I can be an inspiration for other scrapbookers, and share the joy I get from colours and funky lay-outs. if I can make people break out of their boundries and scrapbook like they never have before, than i'm on cloud 9!!
when I teach classes, I use to say that the best thing about scrapbooking freestyle, is that nothing can go wrong. any mistake is always possible to cover up!
I think that's the best adivice I can give; let loose and don't think to much, just go for it!!

I can't wait to see what you can make of my papers, next month, there will be a challenge with them in my 124dynamite blog, with great prizes, so stay tuned lol




this weekend I've been flea market shopping, I luuuuuurve it so badly, found lots of fun stuff, Nancy Drew retro game WHOA, and also a pink panther shirt I forgot to photograph!


...and this beach ..uhm...mattrass... (is that what it's called????) just begged me to take it with me, when I put it on my bicycle carrier, you could clearly see it had found home**
(will photograph that too!!)

some more sweet weekend stuff... my apple dress!

sweet gift wrapping paper!!


inspired by siljevanilje's eyeshadows...some flock from doodlebug*

poor balloons....they have seen better days!

foccacia dough! yummi!!

it's my papers♥ ...and a giveaway!!

it's my dream come true!! I know it sounds a little silly, like a glamorous movie, but it really is so... I have my own paper line! it's called "spring will come" and contains six designs in a4 size (29,5x21 cm, or 11,5 x 8,2 inches). one of the sheets are tags, borders and fun stuff to cut out.
I've been working on this for such a long time, and it feels so good to be able to bring colours and fun to the scrapbooking world. I think my favourites are maybe the apples...
I'm not working for any company, It's solely my own little ToveTyll buisness!
If you want to buy my papers, send me an e-mail at: kastanjepiken@hotmail.com
Price is 8 kr / $1.30 pr.sheet. (sorry, I wrote £ earlier, that was not correct!)
(they will be up in my etsy soon, but not tonight, I'm exhausted from our crop lol.)
my place is now a mess of scrapbooking supplies in bags and baskets, but thank you, thank you, thank you to everybody for nice words and support on my paper launch at our crop, you are the best**

I also have a giveaway, with my papers of course! write a comment to this post about what you think of my papers? do you like them? what do you like the most? since it's my first papers, I'm excited to hear everything!
I will draw a winner sunday 26th of april, who gets a full paper line in the mail!

xoxoxox to all of you!!