..flower crown

Recently I was enjoying the season by making a flower crown for my cousins adorable little daughter. After some dancing, singing and picking some flowers, the fairy princess and I brought it inside and put it in a shallow bowl. 

Moments to treasure ♡

..wedding flower decorations

 I placed two very old cherry trees, decorated with hanging flowers in small glass tubes, 

on both sides of the altar.

A simple DIY - project right there.

We brought the trees indoor for the reception. Great for decorating a large hall.

The bride and the groom were brave enough to plan an outdoor ceremony. In Norway that's not to common because the weather is changing so much, but this time it turned out to be great.

If you haven't seen it, check out part I of this blog post

..life begins in the garden

An old beautiful plank just became our new shelf, old boilers are great for herbs and other plants. I LOVE summertime! With these pictures I'm joining NIB's contest in the last minute. This month challenge is "garden / patio". See more contributions here.

Tomorrow it's all about flowers and weddings!

..something old, something new

Here you see some different uses of pallets. My house is so full of pallets at the moment, and I'm planning on bringing in even more. Anyway, this is our bedroom. Out of these lovely old planks we got a headboard for our bed, a mirror frame and a wall decoration.

Check out this site for more great ideas on combining old and new stuff.

..wall decorations

As you can see from earlier blogpost I'm fond of hanging a lot of different stuff on the wall. Here are some of the wall decorations I've done recently. The purse is a vintage one I just got from my grandma. I absolutely love it!! Btw, the wreath is the dried version of this.

..driftwood sign DIY

Wooden, painted letters and a butterfly made of feathers glued on driftwood. Easy peasy.

Have a great weekend!

 

..Easter

Homemade Easter egg, only got to make two. I should star way earlier next year.. 

Hope you have a wonderful Easter!

..crochet baby blanket

Oh the joy of finishing up an old project!

..baby birthday party

We had a really fun time this weekend when we gathered a lot of babies and their parents for our girls first birthday party. I have been so inspired by many theme parties I have seen online, so I wanted to do to a theme party for my girl as well. The theme was "Bœ bœ lille lam" (a Norwegian song - bah bah, little lamb), since my girl loves sheep and says "bah" a lot!

When the first guest arrived I was really surprised!!.. I totally forgot when I had invited the guest! or.. I thought it was an hour later than when they actually arrived. Yup, that's me. And everyone who know us know that they shouldn't arrive to early when they are gonna visit us - cause we are reaaaaally last minute persons. Anyway, I had to ignore our very messy house, super quickly decorate the cake table and hurry up snapping some photos (while I still was baking and figuring out what my baby should wear..). We were lucky to get a lot of help from our very nice guests.

I designed the printable decorations for the party (hit me an e-mail if you want to reuse it) and made a little gift to all the babies (I'll blog about it later). We also had a photo booth were the babies where posing on a little lamb or a lambskin (depending on their age), or next to the lamb if even the baby was unborn (never to small to join a birthday party!)

I think I'll never get tired of doing this, though it's very time consuming..

If you want to see the 1 year old photo shoot we had with our little girl, then go to my photoblog.

Have a very great day!

..forest princess birthday girl

A year ago today I gave birth to the sweetest little girl. I still think it's so surreal that I'm a mom. Anyway, here is a sneak peak of her room. I been looking forward to decorate my baby's room ever since I was a kid (and my mom refused to paint my room pink.. now I have turned up just like her:)

I wore this crown as a bride, so I love that I can use it again (hanging over her bed). As you see from the title of this post, the keywords for her room is forest princess. Another keyword is sheep! Yup, it's a tough one..

Happy birthday my precious little Nora!

..pinteresting

If you haven't heard of this yet, I'm glad that I can tell you now. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard were you can gather all of the inspiring photos you find online. And you can look at other peoples pinboards to find even more inspiration. But be sure that you link the pictures you find to the right source (if it's possible).

Here you see some of the pictures that I have in one of my pinboards.

Read more about pinterest here. 

1. By Still Pond Photography -  2. Unknown via 100 layer cake  - 3. By Lupen Graine, Honeytree - 4. By Rohit Markande - Collage by My Old Blue Suitcase

 

..goodbye summer - welcome fall

 

 

 

So, we have moved since last time. Now we are borrowing a beautiful house for a few months while the owners, our friends, are out traveling. Here is a tablesetting arranged with treasures I found in the garden.

Have a great season! (whatever season you've got where you're at..)

..my kitchen

 ..aand I'm back after a (not planned) break. I will continue to show some more pictures of our apartmet. Here are some details from our kitchen.

Have a great day!

..please have a seat

 In Northern California there lives a creative lady that I call my American mom. Her name is Shelly Shively. She loves taking old furnitures and give them a new life. Pure eye-candy! 

You can contact her at michelle.shively@att.net if you are interested in buying.

..I like this trend

At least in Norway the use of dymo labels is very popular at the moment. My dymo machine comes really handy for the organizing mood I'm in these days..

..nursing time

The first thing I bought preparing for the baby's arrival was this chair from IKEA. (I don't think it comes in the same color anymore). It's so nice to have a comfy place to breastfeed my baby! My husband treats that chair as my holy cow.. knowing that I spend hours and hours in that chair, helping me not to develop back pain. 

My generous mom used the linnen fabric "Aina" from IKEA to sew me a nursing pillow. I have used that fabric for making other things as well - love when things are matching:)

..a party for two

You don't have to throw a big party to spend some extra time on table decoration. Today my table is decorated with;

- Homemade napkins and napkin holder
- A homemade tea light holder
- Homemade scones
- A large tea cup for serving the soup
- Bottles with lemon and water decorated with leaf from my balcony plant
- My neckleace decorating the flower vase

Have a wonderful weekend!

PS! For more table decorations check out this site (Norwegian interior blog)