New home

My friends are moving, and I wish I could give them these gifts for their new home. Found via Fly!
Wacky paper maché figures from Mumbreeze.
Pillow from Olive.
Painting by Betsy Walton.

I wish you all the best! Takk for nå, og på gjensyn!

Reminds me of home

This home reminds me of home. Not any home in particular. Just what my own home might look like... My favorites are the kitchen shelves and the tall ceiling in the airy dining room.
You can enjoy more of it at Desire to Inspire.

Simple and true

Elephants are lovely creatures. They have a special charm about them. Here they are in a quite simplified version made by
Umbrella Prints. Sweet Elephant!

Colors and Carriage

I love the colors of this baby carriage from Maxi Cosi. It is last years edition, and I am planning to buy one today. Maybe I shoud get one of these nice diaper bags from oioi to go with it?

Penguins and babies

This penguin wallpaper made me smile. You can find it at Isak. Seems to be the only wallpaper there, but I hope they will make more!!

Listening to jazz

Formigrafisk is a colorful glimpse of the daily life of a Norwegian graphic designer. The travel box for watercolor, she made from an old cigar case. I especially like that she blogs about the music she's listening to. Good, quality Norwegian jazz. You can find both Sidsel Endresen and Nils Petter Molvær on Spotify.

I Do?

Are you looking for good ideas for your wedding? Or even for some freebies, such as clipart, fonts and lovely, printable lables? I would take a look at this blog: iDiY.
I love the design of the invites. I just had to download the gorgeous font Carpenter. You can do it too – at Fonts101!
And I like this Free Doily Clipart, and I would also like to try the idea about customizing my own soap. Happy!

Vintage Resource

I am just having too much fun playing with the images posted at The Vintage Moth. A blog where you can find old images, and go creatively nuts making art for you home, or perhaps a beautiful card for someone you love.
I would like my collage transferred to a china mug or a vase.

Babies & pattern

Found some nice baby clothes at Huset. This is Phister & Philina, a colorful and fun brand with beautiful colors and patterns. The animals are cute, and I love the fuzzy coat.

PS

Just a few picks from Ikea's PS collection at the end of the day.

Colorful fabrics

Today I have found inspiration in the blog called Makiato. There's just something about those bright colors and naïve patterns of the seventies. It makes me so happy, and I feel more drawn to it than ever before. Perhaps the pregnancy is making me nostalgic about my child hood, even though I spent most of it in the 80'ies...
Here's a few of my favorites!

Changing table

Heres what I dream my changing table will look like. Changing table, rug and mobile from Ikea. Wallpapers from Tapetcafé.

Wallpapers

If I should buy an old house, I would decorate with lots of wallpaper from Tapettitalo. It has such a broad specter of styles. Anything from William Morris to the seventies. It's amazing!

Elephants

Elephants are on my mind these days, so I had to do a drawing. I used a picture of some colored masking tape as my palette. The text reads: Three elephants came marching ... along the spiders fine web. From a childrens song.

Be Yourself

I was inspired by this quote on Spagats blog, and I did my own interpretation of it in Photoshop.

– Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
Oscar wilde

Fine Artist - Miss Joey Holder

Watch this video interview from YouTube. And see her portfolio at Absolute Arts.

Wonderful, wonderful!

I love this dining room, with its table, chairs and chandelier. And that gorgeous painting! And the bedroom – such wonderful colors and details!! design*sponge

Little Friend

Something amazing is happening inside me! This is a photo of my little friend at week 10 of the pregnancy. The baby is 8 weeks old here. It is only 34 mm (1,3") long, and he or she was already moving!
Life is such a beautiful miracle! Tomorrow I will be 16 weeks pregnant.

Happy Birthday!

So many members of my family have their birthday this month. So I am celebrating with a birthdaycard. I wanted to do something with the classic light bulb. They are saying it is going to be banned here in Norway, as of next year. And I think it is a shame. Just because it is so beautiful... So I played around with a photo from StockXchange, and tried to make something sparkling from an otherwise gray and dull picture.
So happy birthday to everyone born in march!

The three holy kings

Sweden-based illustrator Ingela P. Arrhenius loves the design of the 50ies/60ies. And I am so inspired by her work.
Here's a lovely idea for adding that Christmas feeling to your home in an untraditional way! She bought the lamps at Ikea and painted them as the holy kings, who followed the star to the manger where christ was born! It's SO cool.
– Why didn't I think of that!?