Happy New Year

I´d like to wish all of my fellow bloggers and everyone else a happy and prospers new year. I´m a busy bee making truffles on to a pink self-made christmas tree (Martha would be proud). I´ll be sure to post pictures of the tree and also of my christmas trip to the Faroe Islands. I´m leave you with images and inspiration for this evening from my/our trusted Martha. See you in 2009 ;o)

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Merry merry christmas

I wish you all a merry christmas and a prosperous new year. I´m on the Faroe Islands having a gay time ;o) //Svanna

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Far out - in the woods

Heart this commercial and the song. It about saving energy and taking care of our earth.

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Blue velvet

I have sewed a new cover for my beloved teak chair, that has followed me the last seven years. For the old cover I used some cheap thin dark blue fabric from Ikea. With the dark chair and a dark sofa the living room looked small and full of furniture. The look of the living rooms in the first number of Rum with purple, blue and lilac suede really inspired me - so thanks to Rum Id.

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...and there was light<7h1>
Vintage christmas lights are just so much charming and prettier than the stuff you can buy today. Found these lights over at Ric Rac and Buttons. They´r unfortunately sold, but there´s a lot of other goodies like these knee hugging elves.

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Free of charge

I love window shopping and it´s so inspirational to do so in December. Picture 1) I´m loving the kitschy honeycomb paper ornaments that are all over this year. Picture 2) A new take on snowflakes. Picture 3) Hot seventies angels?

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My mothers exhibition

My mothers exhibition<<7h1>
My mother is having a exhibition from tomorrow at Áarvegi 14 Tuesday the 14 December at 17.oo o´clock. Hope many people will turn up. She´s been contemplating and finally is realizing her own expo. Way to go!

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Make your wrapping that more special

As expected Etsy is booming with noely things. Here are some favorites. Heart these christmas ornaments by ara133 on Etsy. The stars are sure to make any wrapping paper look like a million. The gift tags are made by Paper Leaf and the cutest wrapping paper with matroska dolls is made by Enna

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Happy Jhill Holiday

Jennifer Hill has made this to die for greeting holiday card. I simply adore her universe of patterns and colors. Do check out her blog!

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Chunky organic chocolate

Irma has the greatest organic chunky chocolate - to eat with bread. The stuff is actually addictive! Irmas graphic identity is simple and gorgeous. They use their fifth element cleverly in all products - like with the chocolate where the Irma girls head is outlined. Very nice!

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Ho ho ho

Kristjan and I spent a couple of hours Saturday searching the perfect christmas tree...but we had no luck, so we´ll try again today. Fingers crossed! Our kitchen is kind a christmasy in that it´s hot red, but I´ve done some decorating anyways.

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Discombobulated [dis⋅com⋅bob⋅u⋅late]

My vocabulary grew with one wonderful english word tonight as I was watching the end of "The weakest link". One of the contestants said she was "discombobulated" to have been voted off. If someone asked me what I thought the word meant, I would probably say a bootie discusprolaps of some sort, and then people would look pretty discombobulated at me!

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And then some!

The last few days have been hectic and some!
1. Thursday seven people in the bureau where I´m interning lost there jobs
2. Friday the bureau where I´m interning had there annual christmas party (not great timing) but I got way waisted and had a blast
3. Sunday Kristjan was hospitalized due to kidney stones
Poor thing...he´s ok now:o) During my visit at the hospital I saw a mini art expiation in the foyer about the illustrator Leonard Weisgard.

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Jørn Utzon in memoriam 1918 – 2008

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