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April 2, 2012#

Week in instagrams #6

Time for another Week in Instagrams post! I seem to have lost a bit of my blogging oomph over the last few weeks, so I am trying to at least keep a quality-over-quantity look at things. But hey, bright side: Easter is coming up and I am sure there will be plenty of opportunities to take pretty, blog-worthy photos during the mini-holidays, right?

1. A bunny costume in a costume shop near where I live. She reminded me of Lola from Jersey Shore (shut up, guilty pleasure).

2. The only way to eat raspberries – Amelie style.

3. Tea with ginger in it. I should show you my tea-cupboard one day, I’m like a hoarder when it comes to tea. I keep trying new flavors and I hardly ever finish a box. (Can’t have every tea?)

4 + 5. I traveled to Voss with a group of colleagues on Friday for a weekend of skiing and “team-building” – I have to put that in quotation marks because it is such a corny expression, but really, we had so much fun!

6. … Although, I never really went skiing. I tried – a colleague lent me slalom skis and I made it some whole 30 meters down a kiddie-sized slope before I admitted defeat and went back to the cabin for candy and quality time with my Kindle. The first rule of the mountains: know when it is time to go home.

7. An impressive pair of pitchers.

8. Hangover food on Sunday from the local eco-bakery. What can I say, I’m classy like that.

9. Snow. Are you kidding me?! I must have jinxed it with my “signs of spring” post.

March 27, 2012#

First signs of spring

The Boyfriend was out of town this weekend so I had to keep myself entertained. After a prosecco-fueled girl’s night and a Saturday where I was fed pizza by good friends, I decided to go for a Sunday walk alone up in the hills above Bergen. I was listening to music on the way up, but quickly decided that the sound of the birds chirping was a much better match for the sunshine and steadily thawing scenery. Intellectually you know that there’s spring after winter, but it still manages to catch me a little bit off guard – at a certain point during winter you kind of forget that there’s such a thing as sunglasses and short sleeves and tights not made of wool, but then all of a sudden it is there and it is the greatest thing ever. Maybe its the tree-hugging hippie in me, who knows. Either way, I hope you enjoy my photos :)

March 23, 2012#

Friday link love

Good morning everyone! Seeing as I haven’t taken a single photo this week I am replacing “week in instagrams” with some warm fuzzy link love. These are posts that I have discovered throughout the week that I thought you might enjoy. Spring has finally arrived in Bergen so I have a feeling there will be a whole lot more photos taken from now on, but for now, kick back and relax with a cup of tea and some fabulous blog posts :)

How to do a manicure: Maria wrote a wonderful blog post about how she makes sure her nails look picture perfect. It is very educational, and a wonderful read!

How to do your eyebrows: If you think eyebrow-grooming seems like a difficult task then this post is for you.

Have you seen Garance Doré’s super-adorable videos from the fashion weeks, Pardon My French? Watch them on her YouTube channel, I loved every single one of them.

How to make a DIY hair necklace – this looks so easy!

A Girl, A Style has blogged about her favorite things to do in Paris: Part 1 and Part 2. It makes me want to go back so badly!

If you can read Norwegian then I thoroughly recommend Hjartesmil’s guide to Oslo. I haven’t been to all the places she lists, but I can definitely vouch for the once I have visited.

Look at this ridiculous shoe. Just look at it. I mean – COME ON!

Nubby recommends It’s Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want to Be by Paul Arden. I am definitely going to buy it for my Kindle!

Miss Sophie has hair woes, and I can relate.

 

I hope you found my links entertaining – have a wonderful weekend!

March 21, 2012#

Hair brained

I try to remind myself that the dyeing, upkeep and inevitable stripping process for when I want to remove the color again would cost about the same put together as a small holiday.  But hey, a girl can dream, right?

March 18, 2012#

Polyvore Sunday

Monday armour
Because sometimes you need a bit of armor, if only just of the visual kind. I am having the loveliest Sunday – tea, books, magazines, a walk in the sunshine, and a handful of newfound people to follow on Pinterest. I could look at beautiful images all day. Also, the boyfriend is in the process of making us both pancakes. Pancakes! We eat ours with bacon, sugar and blueberry jam. If there are any left when we’re done, I am so running out to get chocolate sauce and ice cream so that the leftovers can be magically transformed into dessert. They really are the ultimate food, aren’t they? Breakfast, lunch, dinner AND dessert. The Swiss army knife of edibles.


Speaking of black clothes, I have been totally in lust with this dress this week. So completely wrong for spring, but look at how drapey and flowy and cape-like it is. I am almost considering messing up my saving regime for this month get get it, but only almost. I think I need to think it over just a little bit more. Part of me is afraid that it is a bit too edgy for my closet, while the other part tells me to just go on and buy this bundle of potato sack-like, swooshy fuckery. Cotton jersey dress by Complex Geometries.

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