Welcome to Gudrun's ! This is the place for sunshine and positivity. The world of all homemade, creativity, good food and natural lifestyle in a simple and laidback way. Please feel like home and soak in the inspiration and ideas and recipes shared. Hope This will bring a sunbeam into your day and inspire you to make something too. Most content are in English and Norwegian. ENJOY!

Embrace spring with essential oils 💚 vår med eteriske oljer

🇬🇧🇳🇴At last, spring is right around the corner. Many people feel an immediate improvement in their mood and overall well-being when sunny, mild spring weather comes around. 🇳🇴Endelig er våren her. Mange føler seg lettere og gladere til sinns og nyter lysere, varmere dager. 🇬🇧If you’re ready to embrace this beautiful time of year, there are plenty of essential oils that can help in a wonderful natural way. Between fighting allergy symptoms, getting that spring cleaning out of the way and enjoying the floral aromas that permeate the air as the flowers bloom, there are many ways to use aromatherapy to help you make the most of spring - so I've planned a mini series of blog posts the next two weeks on how to embrace spring with essential ...

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Energising essential oils 🌱 mer energi med eteriske oljer

7 Essential Oils for Energy 🇬🇧🇳🇴happy day. Hope Your Day is good. Today i want to share a few essential oils wich have been important to me to make my life easier. did you know smells and scents make a great inpact on how our brain reacts? It's true. It takes about 20 seconds from you recognise a smell until it reaches your brain and starts communicating to your body and brain. Thats pretty intresting. It's no secret I've been struggling with super low energy levels and heavy fatigue ever since my cancer treatment. For a long time, and it still does some times, this made me really sad and depressed. I'm a highly energetic person and not being able to do anything without being totally exhausted or being tied to the couch for days and weeks ...

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Healthy, good Homemade Sour dough bread 💚 sundt og godt hjembakt surdeigsbrød

🇬🇧Happy weekend! 🇳🇴God helg. Norsk tekst👇🏻scroll ned 🇬🇧Today I want to share one of my favourite activities in the kitchen; baking bread; homemade, tasty Norwegian brown sourdough bread. ❤️ Home baked bread is super tasty, leaves the kitchen and the entire house smells really cosy and "homey". Besides, sour dough bread is good for your gut and is super healthy. Making home baked bread is easy and cheap even if you use different kinds of seeds and all kinds of flour you can still bake a lot of bread for the cost of one good store bought commercial made bread. I've been writing about sour dough on the blog earlier too - but in Norwegian only. So this time I'll write my recipe in English and Norwegian 😊😊 What is sour dough ...

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Knit Easter chicken 💛 strikka påskehøne&hane

🇬🇧&🇳🇴All set for Easter 💛🧡 . We had so much fun making these Easter hens yesterday while teaching our young friend how to knit. It turned out this free Easter hen pattern by #sandnesgarn was a perfect first knitting project. Here is link to the pattern in norwegian https://sandnesgarn.global.ssl.fastly.net/media/files/6571/901kits-07_p_skehaner.pdf - it's possibly available in English as well. https://www.sandnes-garn.com/ Klar for påske. 💛🧡 Vi hadde det så gøy med å lage disse strikka påskehønene (og hane) igår på vår lille "strikkeklubb". Jeg hadde lovt å lære en ung venn å strikke og det viste seg at strikkeklubben og strikkeprosjektet ble då populært at ungdommene i heimen også ble med - så det blir mange fine pådkehøner. ...

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Knit Minty green baby jacket 💚 strikk søt grønn babyjakke

Søt grønn Babyjakke Knitted minty baby jacket.After a tremendous response and so much love for this baby dungarees I wanted to give some love back to all of you by sharing pattern for this super cute baby jacket in English and Norwegian. Hope you like it. Knitted minty baby jacket.Design Gudrun Loennecken 100 grams Baby merino by Linde garn (house Of yarn) color 608 light green, alternative Sandnes tynn merino or baby wool 27 st = 10 cm 50grams = 150 meters Needle 3 mm Gauge: 27st stockinette stitch on a 3mm needle = 10 cm •You’ll need 3 small buttons This jacket is worked sideways from right sleeve, all across, finishing on the left sleeve and then stitched together along the body sides and under sleeves. Size: one size only. Fits ...

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Diy healing balm for glowing skin

Happy Friday! Today I'm off to the mountains for a skiing weekend with wonderful friends. Probably last skiing this winter as we all hope for a little more spring in the air now. Nevertheless I'm looking forward to some winter skiing fun and great outdoor activities with friends. If you are familiar with winter, skiing, specifically downhill skiing and dry indoor winter air you probably know this can be really tough on your skin - so today's post is all about a wonderful homemade skin salve. This salve can be used as a salve but also as skin wash. Sounds strange? Washing your skin with a salve?!? To be honest it's actually one of the best ways to wash your face both gentle and nourishing to the skin. I love this recipe and am so happy ...

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Homemade veggie soup for free (almost) 💚 nesten gratis grønnsakssuppe

🇳🇴God kveld mine venner 🇬🇧Good evening my friends. Today i want to share a recipe for a super simple, almost free veggie soup. This is perfect for cleaning out scraps and bits and pieces and leftover vegetables from your fridge , saving unnecessary food waste. 😊 I often save the broccoli- or cauliflower-stalks, too soft tomatoes, pre cooked veggies from the dinner the previous day, a carrot that has been a bit soft, leftover squash, pumpkin, potatoes celery or whatever vegetables sits in my fridge. The soup is all vegan and you can spice it up exactly the way you prefer and like it. I've used a pre made korma paste and a spoonful of green Thai curry to spice up my soup but you do whatever you like. I have made some indian poppadom flat ...

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Fineste ammeinnlegg til nybakt mamma

Ammeinnlegg virker kanskje som en litt merkelig og kanskje tilogmed litt invaderende barselsgave til en nybakt mamma. Men tro meg, det ligger mye kjærlighet og omtanke i å ville ta vare på den nybakte mammaen og hjelpe så hun kanskje slipper unna såre bryster og brystbetennelse. De ammeinnleggene jeg deler oppskrift på her er ikke min oppfinnelse. De er lovprist av både fødeavdelinger og jordmødre i mange tiår. Oppskriften finnes i mange varianter, men denne er utrolig enkel, og selv om du nesten aldri har strikket før vil du greie å strikke disse ammeinnleggene. De jeg har strikket her er strikket i alpakka silke på pinne 2,5. Jeg har valgt denne blandingen fordi silke har naturlig helende effekt på såre brystvorter. Alpakka er mykt ...

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