Machine.

Settling, nesting and the ungetable get.

A week ago Jonas and I went to see a house we thought we could buy... just for the fun of it.  We were actually not looking for a new place (oh well, one of my hobbies is looking at real state, so, I am always looking but just for fun and maybe a bit of day dreaming).  Anyways, it is a terrible time to invest, we are perfectly happy for now in our place and we still don't know exactly where we'll be in a couple of years. 

Anyways, the house.  I fell in love with it.  We saw the potential. We made a bid!  They rejected it. 

That is just making me itch for it even more than before!  I am now seriously obsessing about this place that we didn't get.  Hence, the comeback to this blog.

I have been decorating the space in my head like a crazy person! 

I am itchy by nature.  I "itch" all the time.  I love good shapes, noble materials, never aging styles, timeless objects. 

Oh well, all of this just to say I found my dreamchairs! On Finn.no for a reasonable price.  House or not, these are available! "MY" Børge Mogensen dining chairs! I have been searching for them for years!  Never thinking I could ever afford them.  But turns out I found them today!  I am just waiting to hear from the owner if they are still available.  We'll see. 

 

Update:  We got them!

I know, I know...

I keep initiating a come back and then, puff! I dissapear again.  But time is precious when you have a little one.  The problem is, that I have an overload of cool stuff and things I want to share and talk about that is going to make my head explode.  My other blog is all about Olivia and being a mom, and I need a break from that once in a while.  I do have other interests.  I used to be very interested in cooking, and tasting, and design, music, art, traveling, oh well, everything else!  So, I will try to come here and show something new every so ofter if only to keep my sanity.  I need a playground and a brainstorming space, and this is it, so, I will really try to stay connected this time.

Oh, and Happy Late Thanksgiving to all of you that celebrate it! Good luck on Black Friday! (to all the others that "celebrate" it as well).

I think I'm slowly back...

I know from now on life will be hectic as it is, but, I still need to keep my creative eye open, right?

The baby isn't here yet, she'll come any minute now so I need to spend my hours doing something.

Spring is slowly arriving to Bergen.  We've had some sunny days and some rainy days with snow in between, so the weather is a little esquizofrenic but you can see the blossoms everywhere you go, the temperature is a bit higher and yesterday, Jonas and I had our first ice cream in the sun. 

I found these beautiful plant dyed silk scarfs on Etsy today.  Aren't they just beautiful?  They come from a shop called Zeldez Plant Wear, they use organic plant dyes that they make themselves. Perfect for spring.  I love silk scarfs, but they keep disappearing on me!  So, I am in search for a new one... these are a bit outside my budget, but they are perfect and exactly what I have in mind!

Oh, and by the way, I have a new blog.  It is more for baby stuff and mother talk.  A bit of design, a bit of a weekly update on how things are going and a bit of DIY things that have kept me busy these last months.  So feel free to check it out and leave comments, or share it with your friends that you think might like it.  It's called: Becoming one of those... precisely because I said I would not blog about baby stuff (that is why I have been so absent from this blog) and I would try to stay focused on my thing.  But that obviously didn't happen, and I am more into the mother thing than ever, so I needed to have an outlet somewhere... but not here.

Dani.

A Note

Hello, hello!  My life has officially become busy, hectic, crazy, and any other word that can describe "no time available" so, for the time being, I won't be coming very often, only when I see that I can.  Don't worry, I will (soon enough) become a mommy and probably follow the mommy trend of blogging... But for now, I need to take a break and focus on school and school and school.

I will announce on Facebook any new posts.

For now, have a nice autumn and big hugs to everyone!

Dinner for one (hehe)

Early today I roasted an eggplant and a red pepper in the over for a while (wrap in tinfoil, with salt, pepper and olive oil, bake 180ºC for a couple of hours).  When they were ready, I smashed them together a little bit and they were perfect with some pita, then, I added a capresse salad.... need I say more?  Fresh, tasty, light and delicious!

Something to look at.

I am absolutely no fan of propaganda.  I hate, HATE, to get emails (and especially the pictures attached to them) telling me how cruel they are in Norway by killing the whales or the seals, for example.  I eat meat and enjoy it!  I travel by airplane (which other way is there for me to see my family then? Boat?!?), my point is, I don't like these types of manipulative messages.  I am aware that we need to be responsible with the environment and take care of it the best way we can, I try my best to recycle as much as I can, to unplug electrical objects that are not in use, I don't own a car, I walk, take the bus or use my bike instead, etc.  I try to be conscious of what we eat at home and where it comes from.  I am aware!  But from time to time, I find something that is eye-catching and interesting.  Such is the case of Neozoon, a collective of female street artists that recycle fur coats and transform them into these urban interventions.  There is some controversy around it.  Is it or is it not an effective way of recycling?  Is installation art such as this making a valid point?  Or is it yet another way of exploiting the animals?  Could the fur be used in a better way?  I leave you up with the question.