A Blissful Day

So after a few very hectic days, with milking, stable work, late late nights and very early mornings... it was more than just a little blissful to sleep in today. I didn't rise before it was well past midday, and I stayed in bed, in my peaceful teal bedroom just enjoying the moment... After a while though I had to get out of bed, becuase there was lots to do! I had to clean house, becuase my lovely friend Mille was comming over to stay. Hurray!!! I rarely get to see her because of distance, and well... I had been waiting for this day. So I cleaned and vacuumed and even managed to throw in a shower before she arrived (I still smelled like cow!!!)....We cooked a lovely dinner. I love cooking, and finally I had someone to cook for. So the menu was pork entrecte, filled with cream cheese and herbs, wrapped in bacon. fresh mushrooms and homecooked, creamy mashed potatoes... Yum!!! It was seriously wonderful!

Afterwards, we just vegged out on the sofa... just being... thats the brilliant thing about Mille... she doesnt expect you to entertain... and she just loves being around you... and its the same with me... You simply feel relaxed around her! I was a bit maniac when she first arrived, but Mille poured wine and ordered me to calm down! Ha ha... so of course I did!!! Then she went on a photosafari in my house... which brought all images in today's entry!

the top of my antique stove
my silver tray with the mercury glass candleholders, and alot of antique keys... each one with a story behind it actually. The copper leaf is a gift from my sister, she found it in an french fleamarket. The two smaller candleholders were a gift from Ole...

I finally hung my bird's nest wall sconce. It's in my diningroom... and I love it to bits!!!! The colour here is so off... the wall looks pink, but really is a pale pale green... How that happend I dont know...more images from my diningroom... my birdcage finally in the house! I love it's rusted patina.

yesterday me and Ole were at the mall just peeking into some shops. And this little frog prince called out to me... I love frogs in statues/pictures ect ect... but I hate them in real life... they're actually a fobia of mine... ask anyone! The 2nd picture is of my coffeetable in the livingroom...
Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Love & blessed be
-Tee

1st round of Interior Giftswap!

Oh I am so excited... the first theme for this year is "kitchen". Well I allready posted a long post about my new kitchen... see kitchen post so I decided to post a kitchen questionare in stead....

What colour does your kitchen have? It is a pale green. Spring green I call it. A very old colour, and not very much used. The cabinets and fixings are white, with brushed or polished steel knobs and pulls. There are also some red and teal accents in between.

Describe your kitchen: I would say my kitchen is fairly vintage. It has that good old feel to it, allthough the cabinets and such are all brand new from Ikea... Everything else I have picked up from fleamarkets or at my granny's house. I love everything enamled and old and GREEN so it's filled with treasures from the past. There is an very old cooking stove there, it's usable, but I only have it there for decor. It brings the old days to life in my kitchen. My glasscabinets are filled with old pressed glass, greengate (becuase it looks so wonderfully fresh and vintage at the same time) and figgjo pitchers. There's oak surfaces, and "oak" flooring that brings a warmth to the room. I have a very small kitchen table with two large, pale teal chairs. Which are fleamarket finds. It's a small kitchen, cozy, and works well for me. There is quite alot of floor space concidering it's size. Cabinets are hung in a typical L-shape, and I have a separate area for coffee making, with an old spice drawer shelf for loose tea!

Describe your dream kitchen: Honestly, I think I have my dream kitchen. It could of course have been alittle bigger... but all in all I am super super happy with it. It is just renovated, and I got exactly the style I was aiming for!

What are your favorite activities in the kitchen: baking! I love to bake!!! Mostly cakes and cupcakes.... I also enjoy cooking for friends and family... I'm not too keen on the day to day cooking... but festive cooking is great fun! I love to entertain!!! (Which is why I cant wait for my diningroom to be finnished!)

Name something you miss and want in your kitchen: a hanging rack over my old cooker. There used to be a very ugly white one there. My dad has promised me a new shiny one. And I cant wait to hang all my kitchen tools. I also wish I had a winerack buildt in, but couldnt fit one. And I need more bake-wear (but I am so picky and want everything vintage ha ha) and more enamled stuff. And a cookbook stand, for when I am baking.... I guess I also wouldnt have minded some open shelves... I think they are so incredibly country cottage like... But there wasnt any room, and I do have two very active cats that loooove to climb... so things are safer behind closed doors. Oh and I would have absolutely loooved an old frenvh vintage faucet.

What is your favorite kitchen "stuff": Jugs and pitchers from figgjo (other makers as,or anything enamled! My favorite might just be the green vintage scale I got from granny. I basically love anything vintage, esp green figgjo. And I love little vintage plates. I never keep sandwitch meats in their packets, but rather put them on decoratve plates and wrap them up... it's so much nice to take out... even if it's just you...
Do you bake or cook alot? oh yes... I love both... allthough as I mentioned before, baking is closer to my heart! I'm a bit of a sweet tooth I'm afraid...

What do you hate about your kitchen: uhm... not that much... it's so new to me, I think I'm still just awed and in love with it...What do you love about your kitchen: oh so much easier to answer. I love my massive oak surfaces, my glass cabinets, my old cooker, my coffee area, my chairs! And I love that the floor has a trapdoor in the floor leading down to the basement. And I love the colours I chose! I wanted it to feel like forever spring, and I think I pulled that off beautifully!

Worst kitchen chore? Doing the dishes!!! I dont have a dishwasher, decided against it. Something I might regret in time, but at the moment I am trying to look at the bright side and think of it as living "like granny"... yeh...
Are you a kitchen-fanatic that never gets enough kitchen details and stuff? Oh yes... I love kitchen accents, dingys and vintage stuff... I always search for kitchen treasures at fleamarkets ect ect...

Do you have anything in your kitchen that's not of any use, but are just SO pretty? not that much actually... I like things that are pretty AND usable.. but I am sure I have something...

Coffee or Tea? coffee mainly, esp hazelnut roasted coffee... YUM... but I do like tea as well... I have loads of different teas...

Chocolate or Vanilla? Choclate... I love my chocolate... with nuts... I love everything nutty...

Cooking or dining? Both... ha ha... but I do love to cook for others!

Dining Room or Kitchen Table? Well my dining room is brilliant, it's painted in a very very light green shade, with pale teals for the kicthen chairs (which are all different) and white furnishings... it's got two glass cabinets for displaying all my figgjo, and a bird theme.... There's a teal chandelier, and plate shelf with more figgjo... So I must say I love my diningroom and will use it as much as possible once it's decorated and finnished!!! Besides my kitchentable barely fits two... so yeh... I will be using my diningtable...

I dont have a camera at the moment, so these pictures are all from the internet... To show what I like... see my kitchen post for pictures of my actual kitchen :)

Ta taaa... I cant wait to go out and shop for a gift!!!

A Witch's Kitchen

A new day arrives, and there is not a sound outside my window... mysteriously mutet the house seems... so I walk over to the bedroom window, comfortably wrapped in my oversized robe... and what meets my eye out there in the world? Snow... and too much of it... It has basically snowed non stop for a week now... enough is enough allready... But I do have to admit, it is magically beautiful... Breathtakingly so...

So after I thank fate for the blessing of a overbuildt porch with lots of firewood (becuase who wants to tread snow first thing in the morning to get firewood?) I walk downstairs, put on a cup of coffee, light the fire and feed Hexa. Who is meowing at the top of her lungs, hungry and longing for a warm lap... It is sure nice to be inside on a day like this... and I clean the kitchen, do the dishes and listen to some favorite music... Life is good....

So let me show you the kitchen, I have showed work in progress before, but this is it nearly done. Curtains aren't up, but thats about it... plus a few minor details to come!

Remember this?! (shudders!!!)
And the fantastic old cooker... but look at that horrific colour, and the floor!!! Sigh.... And so, with alot of determination, and alot of patience and muscleforce from my dad... we went to work at my dream kitchen. The colour choice a big discussion theme in my family, thank goodness I knew what I was doing when I didnt buckle... Becuase mostly everyone that thought the colour was horrid, now seems to think it's the prettiest thing in the world... Well, I knew it would be... The green compliments the "old" look that I wanted... and looks perfect next to my favorite cabinets, fresh from Ikea... who would have thought cheap could be a favorite... h aha

well as you can see alot has changed... curtains missing still... comming soon... The countertop is solid oak, a gift from my parents. Cut and polished by my lovely dad. Glass cabinets is something I always wanted. However I did loose alot of stoarge space... But I wanted somewhere to show off my beautiful things... And it houses my amazing wineglasses too...
The kitchen table is very old, from my grandmother, and from her father's farm. So that is very dear to me. I kept some of the paint on the top, as I love anything that's distressed... The little stool was rescued from certain death at my old job... the only good thing that came from that job.. ha ha... The big comfy cahirs were fleamarket finds, that I painted in a very old colour called "lavender"... which is nothing like purple at all... hmmm... The cooker is a present from my granny. It was nearly new when I got it, but years of neglect and weather damage made it look horrible. However my mom, the cleaning magician, took care of that. And now it looks like it's right out of the shop!
Hexa sure enjoys the view... from my old table...
This wonderful old scale was rescued from my uncle's garage... where it was used to weigh all sorts of things!!! poor thing... so I cleaned it up and took it home with me... the little candle holder is actually a sugar bowl, from my grandmother's home. It was first given to my mother, and then she gave it to me. I love it so much...
This is my caferie! Ha ha... yes I have one of those super tiny fridges... another thing I knew I always wanted. My grandmother has one just like it, and if she could manage on that, so can I. It can only house essentials... and I have to be rather crafty whenever I shop, to make everything fit... I might cave in and buy a bigger fridge to put in the basement with my freezer... to store leftovers, and larger foods... The floor, which used to be orange cork, is now lineolium oak. It's so soft to walk on, and feels so real to the touch... I'm pretty pleased... so easy to wash as well :) And it gives the rooom a warm glow...
You might regognize the little drawers, they too were rescued from my uncle's garage. I cleaned it, painted it white and dad fittet a oak shelf from leftover countertop. He also had to cut off one big drawer to make it fit, which ment he had to seperate the row of smaller ones, to re adjust it to center... my dad the magician! The coffee grinder is from my great aunt Anne. A crazy crazy lady... She was the twin sister of my great grandmother, raised alone by their mother who took over the farm from her parents. Refusing to let anyone know who the father of her girls were, she did it all on her own. While my great grandmother married and took care of the family farm, had loads of children, including my fantastic grandmother, Anne took off to the big city. She lived in Oslo as a sewerdress to Queen Maud. She lived in a tiny apartment with something between 15 and 30 pedigree cats. In the end all the other neigbours had enough, so they told her she either had to get rid of teh cats, or move. Auntie Anne took all her cats and left. She arrived on a train back to the farm, cats in all sorts of boxes, suitcases and whatnot. She sure was the talk of the town... Moved back with her sister and family, where she lived untill she died. Never married... I get told I resemble her alot... ha ha... And the scary thing is I can totally see that... a pig headed artist, travled from her small town home to see the world, only to return to the countryside becuase of her love for the cats.... yeah my grand auntie Anne was something else...

As for the alminium coffee pot, it's from my grandmother... it's so cool, it has a glass top, and a filter inside, when the water boils, it's brought up into the filter and soak the coffee, which then goes back into the pot... clever clever! And it works for tea as well :)

My greengate cups are hanging from the drawers, which contains tea, I always knew I wanted them on display... too pretty to be left inside a dark cabinet. Besides, it's easy to grab a cup when the urge for coffee attacks you! The teal lidded box is also a treasure from my Uncle's garage. Something from my granny's past... and the coffee tin is from the Antique shoppe in Aamot.
And the old cooking stove back in place. With a new concrete wall behind it, painted white instead of gray. I keep my cauldron on top (no witche's kitchen without a cauldron after all), as well as my black morter, a gift from my sister... Look how much prettier it is now, than what it was. Dad also rearranged the pipe, so that it's not too close to the wooden panels, and is actually usable now... I shall have to try it one day. All the old trays ect ect are still intact... Cookies in an old stove... hmmm... must be tried! Dad will also make me a new hanging device, like in the before photo... so that is one detail missing....
Well that's it for today :) I shall return with more photos soon :)
Have a great weekend!

Juleforbredelser!

Desember er her, og jeg kan love dere det er travelt allerede! Både hjemme og på jobb... Bøker er heldigvis fremdeles en gave folk elsker å kjøpe, og gi... og dagene på Norli fyker unna i en forrykende hast!!! Jeg elsker jobben min, men er fryktelig sliten når jeg parkerer bilen på kvelden... Og huset i Sigdal får lide under det, dessverre... Håpet var jo å være inne i oktober... så i november... og nå håper jeg å kunne pynte juletreet i mitt nye hus... Men jeg må innrømme at det håpet blir svakere for hver dag som går... Fremdeles er det en del maling å gjøre, spesielt av møblemang... Jeg mangler 3 stoler til spisestua mi... må finne noen fine ett sted, og da må jo de males... også er det senga da.. og ett nattbord... og klesskap!

Gangen er grusom og mørk fremdeles, men malingen har jeg og det blir tatt til våren... Biblioteket mitt skal begynne å få gjennomgå etter jul :) Mens jeg bor der!

Hittil har jeg iallfall overraskende nok vært utrolig fornøyd med fargevalgene mine!!! De er nok litt spesielle, og ikke alle liker dem så godt som meg. Men drømmen min har blitt satt ut i live!!!

Så i det siste har jeg handlet julekuler og julepynt til den store gullmedaljen... treet mitt blir visst i hvitt, rødt og sølv... Var egentlig meningen å ha gull, men fant fort ut at mot mine kalde friske farger, og all fattigmannsølvet jeg har,, så blir sølv penest :) Drømmen er ett stort juletre, som bare er mitt!!!

sukk... Bilder av huset kommer...det kommer... men det er jo ikke noe gøy å ta bilder av bare rot heller :p

og i postkassen her om dagen lå det PAKKE!!! Hurra!!!! Så koselig!!! Og den var kjempefin! Bare se på bildene!
Oppi pakkene var det så mye fint!!! Og godt!!! Jeg tror jeg fikk ca.5 mandler, da pappa stjal resten!!! Fy skamme seg!!! Men, han er jo snill og gjør ALT i huset mitt for ingenting da... så jeg kunne jo ikke være så altfor sur.... Håndkleet falt så i smak, koselig og rødt!!! Og det hvite hjertet med God Jul var HELT perfekt min smak, det samme var sølvhjertet! Jeg er så takknemlig!!! Virkelig flotte gaver!!! Håper bare min hemlige venn blir halvparten så fornøyd som jeg ble!!!


Dette er tatt på kjøkkenet mitt... ved komfyren :) det superkoselige hjertet skal nok ikke henge der, for da blir det fort stygt av ovnen, men det var den eneste ryddige kroken i huset! Ha ha.... Men ett sted på kjøkkenet skal det få henge ja!!!


det var det jeg hadde for denne gang!!! Håper å kunne oppdatere med litt bilder snart... snart er soverommet mitt ferdig, og da blir det bilder derfra! Er så fornøyd med tapet/farge på veggene... selv om jeg i en liten periode lurte på om det ble bra!!! Men jeg stolte på første instinktet, og det ble flott!!!!

Ha en riktig god første desember uke!

kjøkken! - Kitchen!

Okei, endelig noen bilder fra meg...

Sånn her så kjøkkenet ut da jeg overtok huset :) Gult er kult dere!!! Og lekre mørke fronter mot hvitt... jajamensann!!! Legg merke til det pene oransje gulvet også da!

Finally some pictures from me. This is the kitchen before, the way it was when I took over. Yellow is aparenly the thing! With lovely dark fake wooden fronts... o.O And note the orange floor!



Mange artige farger dukket opp da jeg rev ned skapene... gult, lys blått, beige, brunt og rødt! Nydelig!

Lots of fun colours showed up when I tore down the old cabinets. yellow, light blue, beige, brown and red! Lovely!


Også ble det til slutt sånn her... hvit, landlig kjøkkeninnredning... opp til taket... og pastell grønt på veggene. Mange rare reaksjoner på den fargen. Fra de som hele tiden likte fargen og syns den var kul (sånn som meg!), til de som rynket på nesa av malingen i spannet, men syns den ble fantastisk på veggen (mamma!)... også er det de som kommer inn på kjøkkenet for første gang og hviiiner av fryd fordi det ser helt fantastisk ut...til de som lurer på når jeg skal male over den grusomme fargen der (ole!!)

And this is how it ended up in the end. White, country style cabinets, celeing hight, pistacchio green walls. Lost of funny reactions to that colour. From those that always fancied the colour (me!), 'til they that wrinkled their nose at the colour in liquid form, but loved it on the walls (mom). And then there are those that enter the room for the first time and squeel with delight, to those that ask me when I am painting over that hidious colour (ole!)

Som du ser er det jo fremdeles en jobb å gjøre med kjøkkenet. Det skal legges list over innredningen, mot taket... brannmuren i kroken må pusses på nytt, pluss en del bits and pieces! Kjøkkenstolene og kjøkkenbordet mitt må males osv... Gulvet er blitt mye bedre også... "eik" dvs belegg, men syns faktisk det er kjempefint... og veldig behagelig å gå på....

As you can see there is still alot of work left. Bits and pieces to get done. My kitchen furniture needs to be painted, the firewall needs to be done something to. The flooring has improved as well, even if it doesnts how in these photos. I used fake wooden floors... cheap, but nice, and lovely to walk on.

Her er kaffi kokeriet mitt... under der kommer kjøleskapet (ja jeg har, og vil ha, sånt lite søtt kjøleskap!)... kommer noen hyller opp også... :)

Here is my coffee making spot. Underneath is where my wee fridge will be (yes I do have one of those tiny ones!!!) and a few shelves will come upp here as well!! :)


Mer bilder kommer etterhvert som ting blir mer ferdig!!! Bare rot for tiden :s

More pictures will come when things are more done :)

Æsj og æsj...

Skikkelig ekkel dag i dag.. Det er full storm ut, det regner og blåser nesten taket av oss... Regnet kaster seg mot rutene og det eneste man har lyst til å gjøre er å sitte under pleddet, med kaffi og god bok... Og på toppen kom mensenkrampene krypende etter frokost noe som resulterte i at jeg nå ligger i senga og bare ynker meg... sukk... Og så ringte Norli og fortalte at det fremdeles ikke hadde bestemt seg for om hvem de skulle ansette, da det var blitt utsatt til 14april, og ikke 1.mars... SØREN!!! Jeg er fremdeles med i kampen om jobben, og sånn.... men dvs at huset vi kikket på er ute av dansen... Og jeg som likte det så godt!!! Prøver å se positivt på det... Når ting er som de er akkurat nå (er langtidssykemeldt, og egentlig ikke helt i stand til å påta meg en ny jobb akkurat *nå*, før ting bedrer seg, men jeg var jo villig til å gi alt, alikevel.), så er det kanskje like greit at det tar litt lengre tid... Men æsj så kjedelig! Jeg hadde jo innredet hele huset alt....

Ja ja så lå jeg her med kaffi'n min og surfet da... Og kikket på KitchenAid maskiner, mamma har til dels "hintet" om at jeg får en slik i innflyttningsgave, iallfall en god slump av den. Uansett er det egentlig mer enn jeg noen gang har tørt å håpe på, men har alltid ville ha en slik. Og de har den tilogmed i to fantastiske gønn farger!!! ÅH!!! Men HVEM... Det kommer litt ann på hvor intens den mørke er... og de bildene jeg finner er liksom litt motstridene... Hva syns dere?`

Og her er den i pistasj grønn....
Hærlig at de kom i en farge jeg likte!!! Ellers hadde jeg nok gått for kremhvit... men mye finere med grønt... Er helt grønn jeg... Og nå MÅ jeg gjøre litt husarbeid, siden ibuxen endelig har kicket inn... JEg får nemlig besøk av en av mine beste venninner fra Glasgow imorgen. Hun skal være her i helga, og det blir sikkert kjempetopp... Trenger noen til å sette ett smil på meg nå...

Ha en fin, og tørr, dag....