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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
DIY Kaffe peeling
🇬🇧English👇🏻 Hei og god mandag! Idag tenkte jeg å dele oppskrift på en finfin hjemmelagd peeling-krem lagd av sheasmør, kokkosolje, eteriske oljer og kaffe. Hvordan er det med sommer-huden din? Er den klar for høstlige dager eller er den litt tørr og bitt av sol og bading og sommervarme? Det er aldri feil å skrubbe av litt døde hudceller for å gi huden fin glød og mulighet for dannelse av nye, friske hudceller. Denne hjemmelagde skrubben er både skånsom, effektiv og gir god næring til huden. Visste du at kaffebønner inneholder mye fett som er kjempebra for tørr hud. I denne peelingkremen er det også frankincense eterisk olje som beskytter cellene og er veldig bra for huden, hjelper mot arr og elding av huden og copaiba som forsterker ...
Eco friendly palm leaf plates
God 1. August! Happy August 1st. I love the month of August. It's both summer and early fall. August always comes with blank, fresh pages to fill in and feels like a fresh start. I'm having a few days off - like really off. Just recharging, breathing fresh air, enjoying the view, crocheting, planning for new projects, new recipes and new ideas for the blog. But somehow during my day off I did some shopping that made me kinda excited. I usually don't write "shopping related " articles here on my blog, and this post is not an advertisement (!) I just write about the stuff I found because it made me happy and excited. If you click on the pictures and buy the products listed below I'll get a small affiliate percentage. (Affiliate ...
Canned Yellow hot chilli peppers 💥
🇳🇴👇🏻 Chilli peppers are some amazing and stunning "fruits" and plants. They come in sooo many different types and shapes and colors ... I'm always stunned when I realise there are even more chillies out there I even didn't know existed. Now, I have this wonderful friend and neighbor - and almost every summer I get the pleasure and honour of looking after her garden and greenhouse when she's off for vacation. Her greenhouse is filled with tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, peppers and chilli of all kinds. Needless to say I looove soaking in all this borrowed goodness. And even better; she is the kindest and most generous person I know .... so she tells me I need pick veggies and herbs and flowers and chilli 🌶 while "babysitting " the ...
Kirsebærsaft 🍒 cherry “lemonade” syrup
English👇🏻 God mandag!! Jeg håper du har hatt en riktig god helg. Jeg har kost meg med aktiviteter som gjør meg glad og gir energi. Jeg har vært sammen med familien, venner og de jeg er glad i, og jeg har høstet og syltet og saftet og tatt vare på gaver fra naturen og hagen. Det gjør meg alltid utrolig glad når jeg ser at frukt og bær og grønnsaker modnes og vi kan bruke det til å lage ting som vi kan glede oss over på kjøkkenet. Idag har jeg lyst til å dele min oppskrift på kirsebærsaft. Jeg har et lite tre med sure kirsebær i hagen og i år ga det lille treet så mye bær at det ble 5 flasker saft. Hurra! Kirsebær er veldig takknemlige bær å lage saft av. Saften blir god, vakker farge og den holder seg godt. Selv bruker jeg en ...
Happy Feet with essential oils
Helloooo! How are you summertime people doing? Enjoying your lazy days off? Are you walking the streets of foreign cities or exploring new places? Or are you working your feet off at the outdoor restaurant or any other place ? Either way, I thought it was just the right time for sharing some happy news for your summer feet. 😊 I have some pretty awesome diy recipes for warm, dry, tired summer feet I want to share with you. Maybe you already know I looooove my essential oils and use them every single day in multiple ways. My essential oils really changed my life in so many ways. They are all natural, organic and 100%toxic free. If you like to know more about the oils you'll find a whole lot in the category ETERISKE OLJER or in ESSENTIAL ...
