Today is tea Day. Fall has arrived in Oslo and it's getting colder. Lucky I'm prepared as I harvested leaves and some berries to dry and make this years garden-berry tea. I gathered green leaves from blackberry, black currant, red currant, wild strawberries Melissa and added in a few berries too. I let the green leaves air dry on a rack in my kitchen. I dried the berries at 70 degrees Celsius in the oven. When the leaves was dry I crushed them and added the crushed leaves and dry berries to a glass jar with an airtight lid. If you enjoyed this recipe for homemade garden berry tea, maybe you'll like my recipe for peppermint tea from the garden too. You'll find it HERE. ...
Best breakfast – god frokost
🇳🇴Norwegian👇🏻 Are you a morning person? Are you filled with joy and sunshine every morning? Do you like getting out of bed in the morning and get started with a good breakfast, coffe, exercise or whatever morning-people do in the morning.... or are you more like you want to stay in bed as long as possible, putting your clothes on, maybe some coffee and then off to do whatever your day brings? Either how, we all know our bodies need fuel to get started, and even if you jump out of bed and have your breakfast early or you need to take some time before you eat your first meal of the day it's a great idea to eat something healthy, something nourishing that fuel up your body in a good way. Today I want to share this easy made cold porridge ...
Potato&zucchini soup
Today is the first day of this semester of school and "everydays". So, after a wonderful weekend with vintage Volkswagen camping, racing and friends we dived into our Monday with our hearts filled with tons of good summer memories, laughter, hugs and sunshine ... So, for some reason I love the fresh start of new everydays. It gives me the opportunity to create new routines, start fresh and make changes. One of the things I love the most with "everydays" are planning, preparing and making the meals and gather the family for a healthy meal. I love the idea of sitting around the table taking time to eat healthy and share what ever happened in our day. The meal itself doesn't have to be fancy, actually I love simple, easy made, tasty ...
Repurpose & Reuse – making the coolest school bag
So, the other day my daughter Sol (16) came to me with her old school bag and asked me if I could possibly repair and save it. As she have used that bag every single day at school the last three years it's possibly needless to say that bag was totally worn out. I told her I could possibly repair it but it wouldn't last long anyway. I told her she needed a new bag ...but true story, she didn't look happy at all. Now she's away at a last minute vacation just before school starts, and I decided I wanted to surprise her with a new school bag when she gets back home. Proud to say my girls are really into sustainable, earth friendly, reuse, repurpose and all that kind of things .... so making her a school bag out of a re-purposed dungaree ...
Just a card
I have this cupboard in my kitchen.... a cupboard filled with paint, paper, buttons, some fabric, beads, needles and thread, ribbons AND my old scrapbooking stash ... no, even if I don't scrapbook very often I can't seem to make myself move this paper-and-scrapbook stash I loved so much to another location for less used stuff .... and today was one of those days I was happy and inspired when I looked for something else in my cupboard .... and because I just packed up the shawl I created last week it was perfect timing. It was so fun to create this simple, cute card for a girl I love. It's all made of my old scrapbooking stuff ... patterned paper by scenic route, I think (but not sure) the little fairy is by Cosmo cricket, the pink ...
Pink crochet summer shawl
Sponsored by Hobbii Hellooooo my friends! Today I'm so happy and proud to finally be able to share the instructions and chart and pattern for the beautiful, light, warming crochet summer shawl I've been working on the last couple of weeks. You can read more about my process here. This pink summer shawl design is inspired by light Scandinavian summer nights and pink rose petals. The shawl is soft and airy but still warming. I was so very lucky to be sponsored with the beautiful NATURE 100% organic wool yarn in the color dusty pink by Hobbii. And I truly love this yarn! So easy to work with and the quality is the best. Besides I love that the yarn is organic wool made in a sustainable way. The pattern of this shawl is pretty simple ...
Keeping the inspiration while working on larger creative projects.
The last couple of weeks I've been working on a large crochet summer shawl. I've made a previous post on this project too. You'll find it here. Today I'm finishingup the instructions and pattern in Norwegian and English (!!!) and they will be available shortly so stay tuned. When working on larger, more time consuming yarn projects like this one or knitting sweaters or anything like that people often ask me how I find the patience to finish such a time consuming project. And you know what... I have no idea (!). Lol. True story. While working on some big crochet or knitting project I always have thousands of new ideas popping up in my head. New ideas. New inspiration. But what keeps me going, finishing the project is probably the joy, ...
Dried yellow chilli
Good day! While working on some larger projects and preparing a description and pattern for the crochet shawl I've been working on for a while I wanted to share a fun little project with you. I loooove these useful and tasty homegrown, dried yellow chilli peppers. You might already have seen my canned yellow chilli peppers ... you'll find it HERE http://www.gudruns.blog/2018/07/canned-yellow-hot-chilli-peppers-💥/ I also saved some of the chillis from my friends garden to hang dry in my kitchen. I love making my own chilli powder or chilli flakes to use in my cooking. Drying whole chilli peppers are easy peasy. You just pick whole chilli grab a needle and thread and use the needle to "sew" the chilli peppers on to the thread. I ...
- Newer Entries
- 1
- …
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- …
- 12
- Previous Entries
