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Vacation in progress,

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limited access.

But if I have the chance I'll keep you updated with the Spain project.

New Konrad

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Do you know that Konrad café has changed their interior?

Well, I went there today for a snack with my super nice girlfriend (yes, she always gives me positive energy this girl).

Love the vintage furniture and the cool Tolix chairs, and when the staff is smily and handsome it couldn't be better..........

You'll find Konrad at 7 rue de Nord, Luxembourg.

Happy Valentine

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Sending a warm thought to all my beloved ones

and all others I know around the world.

♥

Moving south

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Late Saturday evening a moving truck came from Norway via Luxembourg heading south to Spain. We managed to fill it up with golf bags, coffee machine, TV, a table, paintings, lamps plus hundreds of other small items.

Hopefully our holiday house will be ready to move into in a couple of weeks.

I am so excited.

(the moving company seemed to be a bit more professional than the one on the picture, though :-))

Perfect lunch place

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Daughter, husband and I went to the beautiful town of Trier yesterday, despite the super cold weather. We aimed for the cosy Coffee Fellows for bagels and coffee, I really recommend this cafe in the historical building from 1230.

..... delicious.....

Mint & vintage

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Finally! Finally I found some courage and guts to take the step. After thinking of this for almost a year I asked a shop in town if they would like to sell the cakestands that I make out of old vintage porcelain. And guess what! They were thrilled and delighted over my products.

So now my "alice in wonderlandish" cakestands are for sale in the absolutely fabulous shop called Ben&Pepper.

So take your citytrip to 21, Avenue de la Liberté, tomorrow if you have the chance.

THANK YOU

New found

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Bought this old wine ballon at the troc the other day, believe me, it was almost for free. With cherry blossom branches it gives me a hint of spring.

Early evening

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Wish you a nice evening with this picture I took yesterday.

-12 C, pinkblue sky, early rising moon behind curtains of birch and sunset.

Winter is not to bad after all.

Before & after

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Would like to show you how the old "pouf", that I bought at the troc just before Christmas, looks like for the moment. I am pleased about the result and think it looks far better now than before.

Don't you think?

Aujourd'hui

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I almost lost faith that king winter should show up in Luxembourg this year.

Well, the winter is here and we are preparing for a very cold weekend.

Colours.....

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.... on a house in Luxembourg.

Sweet

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Had a relaxing weekend with friends and family. After a visit to MNHA, which by the way have an expo called "beneath our feet" (archaeology in Lux), we ended up at the Chocolate company by the Dukes Palace.

What a nice Sunday happening.....

Nice view from my place by the table......

Why?

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My childhood friend past away earlier this week, leaving her husband and two children (age 4 and 1) behind. It feels so unreal and so unfair.

My deepest thoughts goes to her nearest family.

Read more about breast cancer or make a donation here

Update "la casa"

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Hi, just to give you an impression what has been done in our Spanish house.

In the staircase we had a big colossus that we called "the chimney". We have (or the builders) removed that and now we will have much more open staircase and more light and air. The bathrooms are now getting tiled, the biggest job here was to replace the pipes and the electricity. We will replace the bathtub with a big shower and place to a washing machine.

looking forward to see the final result......

New hobby....

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Never to old to learn something new. Are you agree?

Well, I started a Photoshop course a week ago, and I am hooked.

Now I can make pictures like this. Will I use my skills in the future?

Don't know, but fun is it any way.......

....back to my homework......

Working girl

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Some evidence that I really did some work on my 1 and half day in Spain....

Challenge: global chic

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My first challenge at NIB (Norwegian interiorblogs) and I came high on the score! Not in the final but among the top 20, which I am very satisfied with.

Gives me motivation to continue what a like, interior and photography!

You can see more here.

Nice weekend to you all

Limónes

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Hola!

I am back in Lux after 2 (or 1,5) days in Spain. Did some work on the house and had meetings with the constructors. Every thing looks nice and going according to our plans. Will give you an update soon.

It was not a big surprise that our lemon tree was full of fruit, so I just had to pick some and bring with me home. Smells and taste so lovely.......

much better than the ones in the super market :-)

Expectations

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Soon on my way to check out the refurbishment of casa espana.

Hopefully this is not how our dining area looks like at this moment.

Well, have to wait and see.

Keep you updated when I am back from sunny Spain.

Adios!!

A kick in the morning

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Daughter got interested in the old juice machine and blew some dust of it the other day. Every morning she serves a shot with vitamins. Green apples and a whole lot of ginger...... super healthy and super good!

You know what they say : "an apple a day keeps the doctor away"

Ready for some action

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Bags are packed and the gear is tested.

Tomorrow off they go..... oh you lucky boy.

Spring in the air.....

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Sunday evening, and I am hoping this weekend would never end....

Green

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From my garden today..... makes me wanna start the outdoor season.

Wish you all a nice weekend.

Longing?

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Good morning lovely ones.

There is nothing outside that reminds me about the month January. The garden is getting greener and even the bulbs are shooting green. The little snow we had was around Christmas when we were in Norway, it lasted for about 24h. I can't say that I am longing for snow, but yesterday I had a meeting at school regarding son's trip next week. They are going to France for a whole week with focus on skiing. It sounds so fun and I really hope they will have a lot of snow. To tell you the truth we have never been on a real ski trip, so this is a perfect opportunity for my youngest to learn how to ski.

And for those who wonder, it is just a myth that

Norwegians are born with skis on their feet :-)

Just relaxing....

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..... after a relatively hectic day, and before starting on the dinner.

With my new jumbo teacup, witch is from lovely Indiska.....

Tulips and weekend

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Friday again and I have no plans for the weekend,

that feels fantastic!

Lovely to have the tulips back in my house, and with some sunshine outside it could be spring, but its not. Waiting for some snowfall and heavy wind, but who cares......

Tonight I will make homemade pizza and have a glass of red,

and then....... just relax.

Nice weekend to you all

(and of course we'll send some thoughts to Ryan in Canada while we're eating the pizza :-))

New year - new inspiration

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Hi everyone!

I don't know what happened, but 2012 gave me new inspiration!

I have redecorated the living room, refreshing the bedroom, planning healthy meals, and started my work out! And today I had breakfast with a "newcomer" and introduced her Luxembourg!

ahhhh, sometimes things are just fab .....

(and if you want a sneak peek in my house you can click here.....)

Churros

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What is better after skating than some newly made churros and vin chaud.....

Family on ice

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Lucky us found an ice rink in France, can't remember last

time all 4 of us had fun on the ice.

Happy 2012

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We are back after a very nice weekend in France.

Hope you all had a wonderful celebration and wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

And here we go again

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For the first time in our history we are going to celebrate New Years Eve alone, just the 4 of us. So we decided to go to France for the weekend, to a place we have been many times before. A place where mom and dad can sit in front of the fireplace and read a good book and sip a glass of nice Alsace wine, a place where the children can take a swim, play pool or just relax in the lounge area with the hostesses dog. A place where they serve excellent food and where we find a cosy atmosphere. And if we do not want to stay in the hotel anymore we visit the little villages or try the skates in the ice rink.

Unfortunately no snow in the slopes, so no skiing this time.

Wish you all a nice weekend and a wonderful celebration!

ON Y VA.....

Good bye Norway (for now)

2011-12-29T09:48:00.000+01:00

We are well back in Lux after a nice holiday in Norway.

Highlights were family dinners, christmas food, meeting friends, conversations under 4 eyes and a few hours with snowy and white landscape. Unfortunately the storm "Dagmar" came and made the last few days wet and windy.

That's the unpredictable Norway.

Christmas days....

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in Norway are getting towards an end.

Happy days with family, old traditions and a peaceful celebration.

Merry Xmas

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Wish friends and family a peaceful Christmas

Snow roses

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Granny's old

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We have one advantage arriving early this year.

We enjoy the good, old traditions we used to have before we moved to Lux.

Like the baking and now the decoration of the tree.

It brought back good memories when I found the vintage decorations from my grandmother. I appreciate genuine, old things and prefer that instead of cheap, mass produced plastic decorations.

Just like in the good old days!

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For the first time in years, me, mom and the children baked Christmas cookies.

Gave us good memories,

and they tasted really good as well.

Butter for Norway!

2011-12-16T19:14:00.000+01:00

For all you non Norwegians out there that thinks that Norway is not hit by the butter crises, you are wrong! Lack of butter is indeed serious, and yes! I have my luggage full when I am heading north!

take a look at Colbert Report here

Holiday!!!

2011-12-16T17:32:00.001+01:00

Finally it's here, Christmas holiday!

We are packing our bags and are off tomorrow morning.

Really looking forward to a couple of weeks in "the north" and to be with family and friends again. Since we are away most of December this year we didn't bother buying a big tree as previous years, so we picked our own little tree in the forest (with roots so we can plant it again). Just to have a bit of the good feeling the days before we leave. Anyway, a wish for a white Christmas we have, but the forecast says rain and high temp, so we cross fingers.

Au revoir for now, I'll blog from Norway next time.

Mistletoe

2011-12-15T16:03:00.002+01:00

Mistletoe is not a tradition in our family. But since we are surrounded by huge trees full of this plant I got my son to climb up in one of them the other day and pick me some.

I like the shape and form of the leaves and the white little berries, and I think it fits well in my silver vase.

2nd update....

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It is getting busy! Right now I need to concentrate a bit on our Spain project, and leave Christmas preparations for a second.

Both of the bathrooms are now stripped, as you can see on the right side. Left you can see how they used to look like (necessary to make an upgrade as you see). Now the work with rebuilding will start, and I really hope we have the right man on the task and that he understand my ideas.

I guess we have to wait a couple of months to see the final results, but you can take a look at some of my ideas here

An update...

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Can you see the difference?

A short time ago husband went to Spain and to check out the progress at our holiday home. And YES!, the tree is gone!

That will give more light to the groundfloor bedroom, and as a bonus it will give us a better see view from the balcony.

St. Lucia

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13th of December, St. Lucia day!

A day that is well celebrated in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

In lack of any new Lucia photos of my lovely ones, I post this old picture of my daughter when she was a Lucia in kindergarden.

Unfortunately the Lucia traditions are fading in the family as the children are getting older, but I will bake the famous, swedish buns called "lussekatter"

(and most likely play some christmas music)

3 new favorites

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Do you recognize the items I bought at

the brocante on Friday?

On top you see the 8 pieces tea-set in silver.

It will not serve as a tea-set any more, but as a "gløgg" set.

The 4 pieces-plate was not at my "treasure"-picture, but was also bought on Friday. After Christmas it will join me to Spain and I will use it for tapas.

And at the last photo you see the big, brown bowl used (for now) as a candle holder.

Love to search for pretty, old things, do you?

Treasures?

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Hi!

Want to show you some of the things that I found at the brocante

in Belgium on Friday.

More will come....

♥

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Love that my children never stop playing

even though they are teenagers.

Winterwonderland?

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Not very much says winter, December or Christmas where I live these days.

Sunshine, bird song and mild temperatures met us on our stroll in the forest today. But we ended up finding something that will be decorated for Christmas, and I will show it to you later.....

Kids vs. adults

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Early up this cold but sunny morning to watch the kids school team play against the adults team. Fun to see how serious the teachers/parents take these kind of matches. And sadly they won.......

Better luck next time kids!

My new favorite shop?

2011-12-09T16:54:00.001+01:00

Hi again.

I just want to share this with you. On my way to Ikea earlier today I found out that I should take a look at the brocante that I sometimes visit.

(I found some treasures that I will show you later :-))

On my way back to Lux I saw a new shop that I haven't seen before, placed almost in a round about. I stepped on the breaks, parked and went in. And I am glad I did, what a wonderful shop!

It is called Liégeois and has this kind of belge/dutch style that I just adore.

I think I will become a regular costumer....

Nice weekend

TGIF

2011-12-09T09:33:00.001+01:00

It is Friday again!!!

And I am preparing a very nice weekend for us, this is actually our last weekend in Luxembourg this year. Yes, next week the kids and I are going to Norway. That's why I haven't decorated the house for Christmas as I usually do. But the hyacinth is a must, because they smell so wonderful and they reminds me of the Swedish Christmas. Which leads me to the thought that I need to get a Swedish Christmas ham, so Ikea here I come.......

Girls with the cameras

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Here is my photo class (a group of lovely girls, right?) at Place d'Armes.

We took "repotage" photos when they built up the christmas market.

Hopefully I will take a trip to town this weekend and check it out.

(should have done it long time ago, but unfortunately

the days haven't enough hours)

Cosy...

2011-12-07T13:20:00.001+01:00

Today is a day where I prefer to drink tea, lightning up a dozen of candles and listen to the rain and wind outside.

It is also about time to start thinking of christmas gifts and make my list.

I already now know that the list will not be any shorter than last year though.

Ok, get to work.......

Celebrating light

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The two Norwegian boys living in Lux who will have their confirmation in the Norwegian Church next summer.

It was a quite and peaceful service with candle lights and christmas hymns.

Waterloo

2011-12-05T14:57:00.001+01:00

My big plan to have a nice, christmassy day in Brussels yesterday went down the drain. The awful rainy weather did not fit in, but since we needed to go to Brussels for our son's confirmation education, we stopped by the impressive Butte du Lion at the battlefield of Waterloo.

On a sunny day I would like to climb up the stairs, but yesterday it was OK to just sit in the car :-)

Champagne brunch

2011-12-04T21:38:00.001+01:00

Lucky me got an invitation to a friend's annual champagne/christmas brunch on Saturday. Delicious food, lots of bubbles and a beautiful decorated table set the standard for an amazing day with the girls. Just what I needed after a rather depressing period.

THANK YOU

♥

Dear all....

2011-12-02T22:21:00.001+01:00

... I am back!!!

After a couple of weeks with a lot of work, parties to organize and a bit of a hard time (this is a bit personal though) I have my head over the water again.

But I can tell that we had to say good bye to a very good guy today, my daughters best friend and boyfriend for 2 and a half years. He is moving back to Canada after 3 years in Lux. And tomorrow I will say good bye to a beautiful Norwegian girl, she is going back to Norway.

This is the hard life being an expat, people come and leave, but hopefully friends will stay in touch!

Even though I've had a bit of a hard time, I also had

some golden moments,

like girls lunch at Sensi,

dinner at Ikki and Cercle Munster,

husband removing his "movember mustache" (hihi)

and

our son's 14th birthday

(and my mothers 60th anniversary)

and the INTERNATIONAL BAZAR

as the high lights

See you soon

Have a nice weekend

Pause

2011-11-30T09:16:00.001+01:00

Dear lovely ones.

I'll take a break,
hopefully it will not be long till I am back .

Moss & roses

2011-11-24T09:37:00.001+01:00

Sorry for lack of blogposts lately, wonder if I can blame it on a busy week?

Forgot that I took photos of this beautiful flower arrangement from Eden that our good friends gave us on Saturday evening.

Like the contrasts of the sweet pink flowers and the rough twigs and moss.

Now, I have to work on my table setting for tomorrow, 80 persons for a christmas dinner party, still haven't decided how to manage this.....

Sunday pictures

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Hope you had a nice Sunday too!

Christmas card

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Hi everyone!

I almost forgot something. A few weeks ago I sent in picture to a photo competition. The Norwegian interior chain Kremmerhuset would like us to send in a picture they could use as christmas card an to sell them in their shops.

I didn't hear anything from them and I forgot about the whole thing.

So one evening I went in to their blog and there was my picture!

Ok, I didn't won, but I was mentioned!

Take a look here if you want to see more.

NICE WEEKEND TO YOU ALL

Reindeer ♥

2011-11-14T15:37:00.001+01:00

I ended of course up with spending a lot of money at the Christmas fair yesterday. One of the things I bought was this naive and simple reindeer.

Cute or not, I like it!

(forgive me for starting the christmas decorations a bit to early this year. I know I said that I never start before 1st of December.

This year is an exception:-))

Norwegian Christmas Bazar

2011-11-12T13:38:00.001+01:00

Hello friends in Luxembourg!

Tomorrow is the annual Norwegian Christmas Bazar!

I'll be there selling Norwegian waffles and gløgg.

Will I see you?

When and where, click here

Golden

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Have a nice weekend!

Luxembourg 11.11.11 at 11.11

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Brrrrrr....

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Had a lovely breakfast in town yesterday with a dear friend and her adorable little 6 months old son. After leaving the café we went for a stroll in the streets, and that was a cold experience! Low temperatures and fog is not what I prefer.

So I went home and replaced my summer coats with winter coats, and emptied the basket for summer pillows and filled it with all my warming scarfs.

So now I am a bit more prepared for winter (but just a bit...)

Sneak Peek

2011-11-09T13:34:00.000+01:00

I have started to plan how our Spanish holiday home should look like.

Hopefully it will be a fun process without many (bad) surprises.

One thing is for sure, the big cypress in front of our daughters bedroom will be gone before next year, the lemon tree on the right side can stay.

Curious on more?

take a look here

Christmas already?

2011-11-09T11:22:00.000+01:00

I never start decorating for Christmas before 1st of December, simply because we have some birthdays in the family in the end of November and I like to keep November as an autumn month.

But the other day I saw on the Norwegian morning show that our famous florist blomsterFinn decorated with amaryllis, which is for me a typical christmas flower. I thought: if he can, I can. So when I found these at the shop yesterday I couldn't resist, so they went home with me :-)

Have a nice day

Back in Lux!

2011-11-07T11:58:00.000+01:00

Unfortunately our week in Spain did not end up under this palm.

BUT, lucky us received the key for our new holiday home!!!

This week we've been working hard with removing built in wardrobes, shelves and other things that doesn't say 2011. Meeting with different entrepreneurs, making new floor plans in the bathrooms etc made us busy the whole week.

Guess I will keep my fingers busy in the near future.....

Mi casa?

2011-10-31T10:30:00.004+01:00

Hello, I am off to Spain again!

Hopefully we will get the keys to our new house tomorrow!

Honestly, it has been taking a while from the day we decided to buy it until today.

The Spanish buying process is not the same as in Norway, thats for sure.

Anyway, looking forward to a nice week in Spain and to start planning the interior work and to make this house OURS!

Bye for now....

Happy Halloween

2011-10-29T12:34:00.002+02:00

♡ Wish you all a nice halloween weekend ♡

Still just 30 something....

2011-10-27T11:07:00.001+02:00

Had an absolutely fantastic day yesterday!!

One thing is all the presents I've got but the most touching was my daughters cupcake-surprise. Up before 6 and baked so I could have coffee and cupcakes in my bed in the early morning hours. Touching was also all the nice e-mails, calls and SMS from people all over.

SO THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING ME A WONDERFUL DAY!

♥♥♥

Tea time

2011-10-25T14:05:00.001+02:00

The last days have included a lot of atshooo and tea.

After waiting at a freezing cold Gare de l'Est in Paris for more than 3 hours because of an accident on the railway, I ended up with a cold.

But lucky me, I've got these adorable packages with tea from LADUREE from a very good friend, so that helped me coming through the days.

Autumn in Paris

2011-10-20T15:09:00.000+02:00

Paris is fantastic all year around. Had an absolutely fab day yesterday in this wonderful city. The sun was shining the most of the day and the little shower that came just gave us an opportunity to sit down with a glass of wine :-)

Thank you Unni for a wonderful day

morning in place de vosges

afternoon in jardin de luxembourg

Getting ready for this!

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Leaving very early tomorrow, I am so excited!!!

HaPP

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Had a tasteful lunch today with my dear friend at a new place in town called HaPP. The interior, food and the Icelandic girls behind it were all beautiful (BTW, happ means luck in Icelandic)

Sunday pictures....

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love the fall when it's like this!

Autumn at the table

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Wish you a nice and sunny weekend, and hope you will enjoy it wether you have a dinner party to go to or taking a walk in the forest.

I used the forest and the season's colour as

inspiration when I had

a girls dinner the other night....

♥ Starbucks

2011-10-12T11:57:00.000+02:00

My first meeting with Starbucks was 20 years ago in Seattle (right place or what)!

One of the positive things about using Malaga Airport is that there are no less than 2 Starbucks to serve you, so of course I had to buy some donuts and buns to take with me home the other day. Big joy for also my children who also are "addicted" to ☆bucks (strange?)

First enjoy my coffee and then off to work...

Happy people...

2011-10-11T18:00:00.000+02:00

Not often I post picture of people like this, but when I saw this photo of my parents I just felt for doing that.

I see how happy and content they are and how they love spending time in their new environment.

♥♥♥

Buenos días

2011-10-11T13:41:00.005+02:00

I am back in Lux after some wonderful days in my favourite country Spain. For once I traveled alone which felt a bit strange since I always have my children with me when I'm traveling. I decided to surprise my father with a visit since he had his birthday last weekend. And ,yes, he was surprised and, yes, we had some splendid days just me, my dad and my mom.

....let the picture tell the rest......

Pick your own apples!

2011-10-05T11:44:00.001+02:00

Should have posted this earlier but it is still not to late!

The last two weekends I've been at the applefarm in Steinsel, Luxembourg, to pick my own apples and pears, plus of course buying their deli apple juice.

If you have no plans for the upcoming weekend you should go, otherwise you must wait to next year's autumn :-)

I, BTW, have other plans for the weekend.......

Autumn

2011-10-03T17:17:00.000+02:00

Suddenly it says October is here and the nature is playing

with it's most wonderful colours.

Enjoy the week

Ben & Pepper

2011-09-30T12:14:00.001+02:00

I am finally back after many days with internet trouble. Strange how addicted you become to read news or surf the net!

Anyway, I had a nice visit to a new shop downtown Luxembourg this week. A fantastic shop called Ben & Pepper where you can find odd, one-of-a-kind pieces, products from artists in Lux and other countries and fabrics from Tricia Guild among others.

Here you have a sneak peek of my new fav shop in Lux.....

Vitarium/Luxlait

2011-09-26T11:17:00.000+02:00

Monday again! Can't believe how time is flying.

Nice to start the week with this sunny weather. Can not complain of the weekend weather either. Feels like the summer has turned back:-)

We took the trip to Bissen and the Vitarium yesterday. Never been there before, but knew that there is more to discover than just how they produce milk and other dairy products. They have this exposition hall where you find 45 interactive stations, and believe me, there are things for any age! Just look at the pictures, guess we adults had just as great time as the children!

A bit of orange....

2011-09-23T17:07:00.000+02:00

.....I can live with.....

When I passed by the "Boutique du Monde" in Luxembourg on Wednesday, I could not go out from the shop without these nice goblets from Oxfam. They only had 2 left, but I promised I'll come back later to get some more (even if I have huge "spaceproblems" in my cupboards and a husband shaking his head).

But I need to support the work of finding a lasting solution to poverty and justice, right???

Côté Saveurs

2011-09-22T09:12:00.002+02:00

Good morning!!!!!!

Had a superduper meal with my superduper girlfriends yesterday evening.

(have I ever told how lucky I am to have such sweet and beautiful friends?)

We started up the autum season at mr Boulanger and his kitchen in Bridel, Côté Saveurs.

This is something I have really missed, since I guess it is at least 4 months since last time we cooked together. Already looking forward to next time:-)

The menu was quite easy and quick to make:

mille feuilles de tuiles aux cernuaux de niox, carpaccio de foie gras

lotte au tandoori, risotto au lait de coco et citronnelle

tarte aux myrtilles et figues, glace aux épices

accompanied with the perfect wine we had a bless

Memories in sand

2011-09-20T11:57:00.001+02:00

I am a collector. I collect more or less everything and have problems throwing or get rid of things. And one thing I have collected during past years is sand! Sand from different beaches I've been to have ended up in small plastic bags and in my luggage. I "refound" this sand when we cleaned up our house in Norway this summer, and I brought it to Luxembourg.

So on Saturday this weekend i found this photo frame at an interiorshop and thought this could be perfect for my little project.

And, voila, here is the result....

I just glued the sand to the backside of the frame,

then printed out from a Dymo the different places we found the sand.

Up in the left corner I have a picture of me and the children on a beach at Fuerteventura. I printed it B/W but think I should make it in SEPIA instead...

Could this fit in in a summerhouse in Spain?

Adventure!

2011-09-19T13:12:00.000+02:00

"Dizzy" is the feeling I had on Sunday afternoon!

Had a fantastic day in the tree crowns in Steinfort. It was an organized family day with a bunch of other families and friends in the new adventure parc in Steinfort.

Did not take the easiest route (children's decision) so it was challenging and scary at some points. I was glad when I was done, but the children continued till the next challenged......

Apples

2011-09-16T13:42:00.000+02:00

My neighbour knocked on my door yesterday. She was complaining. She had to many apples in her garden. If I could come and pick some? Sure!

Nice with neighbours like that.

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Juuhuuuu.....

2011-09-13T13:52:00.001+02:00

....I did it. I made my first collage.

Easy, perhaps you think. But people who know me knows that I'm not very technical of me nor very interested in computers etc.

But after trying out photoshop and picasa this result came out.

Rather proud actually (sorry for the Norwegian text, suppose to use this in a Norwegian context) so now I am excited to start PS course this autumn.

More to come (I hope)....

Apple drink

2011-09-12T14:49:00.001+02:00

Earlier this summer we had a weekend in Hardanger, Norway, an area famous for their applefarms. Brought back only 1! bottle of this delicious apple drink and have been saving it until this weekend. Perfect drink when celsius is just below 30, and served in olla's (grandmother of my husband) old crystal glass it brought back good memories.

20c - 13c - 27c

2011-09-11T22:07:00.000+02:00

I guess there are many ways that can represent the

changing weather here in Luxembourg.

For me, this picture says it all.....

Or in another way:

Salad and rosé wine one day, beef stew and red wine the other!

Well, hope you all had a nice weekend and remember to be prepared for any kind of weather.

(Hmmmmm, already miss Spain)

Dramaqueen....

2011-09-09T17:21:00.000+02:00

When I found these gorgeous and a bit dramatic flowers

today at the shop, I just had to buy them!

Pretty or what?

New but old

2011-09-09T11:02:00.000+02:00

Good morning and sorry for the "blogdry".

Had to show you what I found at the attic in our house in Norway.

As you probably know we sold the house this summer and had a relatively big job by emptying it after the sale.

After throwing away I guess 85% of it we ended up with rest in the car that my husband drove back to Lux.

Among the things that I could say good bye to was this adorable lamp.

It has never been used (I think) and it has been at the attic for at least 10 years! Its a shame.....

But now I changed it out with the cheap IKEA lamp (that had started to melt because of a candle I had placed under it), and I guess it can hang here and shine and show its glory till the day that I can afford a real Verner Panton lamp.......

have a nice weekend

Garum

2011-09-05T20:17:00.000+02:00

Garum became my fav place for eating and drinking.

Perfect placed at the passeo maritimo in Marbella it hardly could not better and the food is great too.

And for drink?

I choose both red and blue.....

Find more info here

Stormy weather

2011-09-05T20:06:00.000+02:00

Not only sunshine in southern Spain.....

Sierra Blanca

2011-09-05T20:03:00.001+02:00

Hi, we are well back home but I couldn't leave Spain yet.

On a rather cloudy day we took the family (my mother included) and went away from the busy coastline and headed up in the mountains behind Marbella.

Our hike went through the pine forest and olive groves and ended up by "the goat" where you have a magnificent view over the coast and Marbella (at sunny days you see Gibraltar and the coast of Marocco).

Had it not be for my friend and her daughter who showed us this place 9 years ago I don't think we would find this hidden, little gem....

Hasta luego

2011-09-04T09:13:00.000+02:00

Packing and cleaning up the flat and heading soon home to Luxembourg.

Sure I'll miss the sun and sea but should be great to come home to our own house after 6 weeks in the north and the south.

I am sure it wont be long till I am back in Andalucia.

See you!!

Old town of Marbella

2011-09-01T09:35:00.000+02:00

For the second time this week we spent a day in Marbella's old quarter.

This charming place is worth a visit with its narrow streets and white houses, and is a strong contrast to the nearby tourist urbanisations.

beachbabe & surferboy

2011-09-01T09:24:00.000+02:00