On a rainy day..

...I wish I was here

From last years trip to Greece

B day

age 2

Today is my birthday. I'm 32. We celebrated last saturday, and i can't even show you any pictures, they were all shot whit my new Diana mini, and the roll of film i loaded it with seems to go on forever, but i guess that's the point of the mini format. The weather was great, and we had a very small garden party, with just my parents, my sister + her family, and my mother-in-law. We made the best pizza on the grill and i made a great bithday cake. Hope to have pictures soon.

age32

bad blogger, i know...

It is not that nothing is going on in my life, for some reason im' just not blogging about it, I'll try to make amends.

• My pretty niece got confirmed (is it really called that in english?). She was really beautifull and didn't look like a little bride, like some of the girls tend to do. 

Vi gave her this Margurit (daisy) necklace by George Jensen, and she loved it.

• We began to get our house ready for sale, even put up this wallpaper on one of the walls in our livingroom.

This is not our livingroom, though. The weather is so bad, that it is really to dark to take picures in right now. But the wallpaper looks great in our house too. I just love ferm livings products.

But in the process of makeing it all look pretty, we decide (again) not to sell and went back to the plan of making our house bigger and renovating it...

• Together with a friend, i bought an I-top-tool, it is fun to use, and truely does make pretty little brads. But the video is just hilarious

• Took a suprice mothers-day portrait of that same friends daughters

• This is what i got for my mothers-day present (or at least it should arive in the mail on friday...can't wait). Isn't it cute?

• And last but not least we are making a dream come true for our son on saturday, by finally taking him to LEGO-land. He letteraly stod on his head in the sofa when we told him. 

This photo is four years old - Lego has always been a favorite. (please don't notice the messy bed in the background).

That is it for now  - plan to enjoy a long weekend.

What have I been up to?

On the 20th Nick and Maria got married - and I shot their wedding photos. You can't tell by looking at the picture but she is 8 months pregnant.

The 21st was Benjamins last day at gymnastics - and all the parents was invited to come and watch all the different teams. Before we went, Benjamin asked me in relief, if doing this final show meant that he never had to go back...two days later he told us that when he grows up he wants to live in a cabin in the woods..all alone. I wish i knew how to get him to be more social...

On the 23rd this little girl turned 14 (picture is from 2004)

She is my god daughter  - and is all ready turning into a little woman.

We painted eggs a couple of days ago. I ended up sitting on the kitchen flor alone, since Benjamins interest quickly went away. The funny looking poodle is actually a lamb. (if you were wondering about the clothes he is wearing, which he has obviously out grown - it is just for painting in!)

...Benjamin rather wanted to play in his room, which his father and I had spent several hours tidying.

Seven years ago we spent about a year doing this

And know we are actually dreaming about buying this house, which means doing it again in two and a half the amount of space

Today Benjamin got his Easter egg, the chocolate hare is from his grandmother.

Last but not least - take a look at this great giveaway over at sunshine and carousels

Hope you have a happy Easter

I finished this yesterday

I'm not sure i liked the ending (who wants the hero to die?) - but i liked the fact that that it ended in a way which means that there (hopefully) will not be a season 5. I loved the show, and who wouldn't love looking at this guy for several houers straight....

...right? But I alsow like it when a show ends in proper way, instead of going on (and on and on) forever and then the producers kills all the characters in panic...

Almost a year ago

...I was getting ready for my exam, doing these paintings, a paraphrase of Jim Housers work (and was looking a little goofy doing it, or maybe just tired).

(pictures are not edited, as you can see, sorry)

From the exam

...and this was growing in our garden

...and he didn't need four layers of clothes to go outside to play... just two

...but this year (almost) everything is still covered in snow.

Really funny song

Since i can't seem to figure out how to post a video here, I'll just leave you with at link, go watch it.

Shallow Day -TWILIGHT (what have you done to my wife?)

...no the picture has nothing to do with the video!

New additions to my forrest family

Yesterday I went to a fleemarket with my mother and found a lot of sweet little animals, afterwards I made a cake called hindbærsnitte, for the first time, I baked them a little too long but the tasted ok anyway.

My favorite

This one I think I'll spraypaint, don't know what color

another favorite

there is a little gold left on this one

I'm trying to ignore the fact that this is actually an ashtray 

and finally a group photo

My first hindbærsnitte

In the evening I had the biggest fight with my sister ever, over a really, really stupid thing. She started it offcourse, and I still don't think that I'm to blame in any way. We were all invited to eat at my mothers, and my sister made it clear that her and her family (her youngest daughter anyway, because I think her husband really didn't care) wanted to watch a bingoshow on tv (and play along), my boyfriend and I made a little fun about it a couple of times, and suddenly she just blew up, and yelled at us about it, even my mother said some stupid things, about how we (my boyfriend and I) always have the tv on at home, I was surprised angry and yelled back at my sister, but she just kept on going. As allways my father did not say one word. We stayed for an hour more, and after i got home i realized that the saddest thing is that i actually don't care, I'm not angry, I'm not sad, I just couldn't care less about her right now...