peeks from the Equestrian hallway :)

My good friend Mille from "Monique" came over today, along with her two wonderful boys and her equally wonderful mother. Mille loves my cottage. And she is always racing around the house spotting picture-perfect settings :) Which I dont mind. Dont mind it at all actually! She is a fantastic photographer, with the coolest camera ever! Love her! So all the photos today are trough her lens...

My dad and I (read mostly dad....) painted the floors and stairs today. So I am currently camped at my parents house while it dries. Tomorrow will be the 2nd layer and then I have one more layer on the railing to do, as well as the doors. I am so excited!

And I am so incredibly happy with the pictures on the wall. All the details will eventually be shown, but I just dont want to spoil the big finallè ;)
The framed postcards are antique postcards from early to mid 1900's. The larger pictures seen over are prints from said postcards (same artist). The framing are super cheap (but ended up super expensive due to the sheer number I needed)

Anyhow.. I am so happy and excited and full of energy. I loved hanging hooks and pictures and lanterns with Mille today! I great sunday!

She took some other awesome pics from the cottage, I will show you those some other time!
Have a good easterweek!

a taste....Hallway update!

Here is a small taste of the hallway... which is not far from being done now :) I've hung a few pictures, and I really like the dark wood next to the subtle gray shade on the walls :) Hurray!I hope you all have a great weekend!

I won I won I won!

I won the giveaway at "Myrullpiken". They had three gifts and I won the best one (in my eyes anyway) A stunningly cute apron from Greengate!!! Oh lucky lucky me!!!
Thank you SO much :)

*does the happy dance*

tomorrow I will be painting, yepp I am still working on the hallway... it's taken longer than I had hoped.. I'm just so impatient... sigh! I want to start doing the FUN stuff... hang pictures, decorate... you know the deal... lol Well maybe maybe it'll be finnished this weekend eh? Maybe?

New-ish layout & spring baulbs

It's raining outside... and it's rather chilly. I stayed in bed for ages... listening to the tapp tapp of the spring drizzle, the sound of the birds, my cat purring and soft piano music on the radio. It was bliss. Because of the cold and wet though, I havent painted much today. Just the window. I'll do the doors next weekend :)


I am now off to pick up my sister at the trainstation. She's home for easter :) It'll be great! Thank goodness it's only another month or so untill she's home for good! I miss her terribly when she's away.I hope you enjoyed my pictures from the cottage today. I am in love with spring baulbs. I buy way too many :) But they are just so decorative. And you can "re-use" them outside. Just pop them out when they've died. And next spring, you'll have spring baulbs in the garden! :)

Hopefully new pics of the hallway will come soon. There is still that floor to do... sigh... can't say I'm looking forward to that!!!

First Flea of the year

Well the first flea market of the year has come and gone. I travelled home with a few treasures. Some I will keep, and some I won't :) The hallway is also getting along very nicely and hopefully will be done before easter. Gosh I really do hope so!


Easter has is sneaking up on us, and there are more and more easter-ish feelings in my cottage these days. Small easter eggs tucked away here and there.

Also one of the treasures that came home with me saturday was this lovely vintage cockerel! He now stands proudly on my kitchen shelf!
I've also decided to start writing my blog in english once again. After I joined HGTV's "rate my room" (link on the top of page) I have gathered more and more american followers, so I figured it would only be fair to keep my blog international.
If you have not been on "rate my room" yet, I strongly suggest you do. It's a great source for inspiration. Loads of lovely people with very sound advice and a great place overall. My rooms received so many positive comments and also flew up high on the all time high :) Which I must say baffled and warmed my heart!

I will keep you all updated on the hallway soon! And I have two majour cottage-show offs comming up soon as well :) Hard to keep a secret when I am this excited though :)

Have a great spring still... talk soon!

Storblogging - Stue

Stua mi er definitivt den værste å ta bilder av. Fordi rommet er knøtt lite, og det er derfor vanskelig å få oversiktsbilder... og den inneholder tv'en!!!! Men jeg har iallfall prøvd... give me credit for det :p

Sofaen er kjøpt gjennom finn.no og er fra 70-tallet tror jeg. Den begynner å bli sliten, og kattene mine har *ikke* hjulpet for å si det sånn. Men jeg liker den godt alikevel. Den skal trekkes om, en dag når jeg finner penger under senga!
Bildene over sofaen er fra kunsteneren Tony DiTerlizzi, som illustrerte barnebøkene "Spiderwick". En av mine favoritter. Disse er tatt ut av boken derfra. De går i sarte farger som grønt, brunt og aqua. Kanskje min aller hærligste favoritt i stua! :) Bestemor kaller dette for familiebildene... hi hi... lurer på hvem som er trollet?!
Den store skinnstolen med puff er også funnet på finn.no :) Den skulle egentlig stå på biblioteket, men så passet den så altfor godt inn i stua :)

Tv skapet er reddet fra mine foreldre, jeg har blogget om det før. Den var en gang mørkebrun og fæl. Nå er den lys aqua og fin!
En liten detalj sånn til slutt... detaljer fra stua ser dere ofte her på bloggen, så jeg lar det være med denne akkurat nå!
I dag øse pøser det ned der ute... jeg skulle liksom male en vegg eller to i gangen, men det er kaldt! og ekkelt... spørs om det ikke får vente til helgen istedet... bedre tid da :)

In progress!

Slik var gangen avbildet i prospektet. Hærlig bondeblå, mørk og dyster. Med grått, grusomt nedslitt "teppe" av filt i trappene *grøss* Og slik har jeg hatt det (minus norske bonde antikker på veggene) siden jeg flyttet inn.
I går fikk jeg og Ida vasket ned vegger og grunnet den fæle blå fargen. Allerede ble det mye bedre, og lysere! Jippi!


Og i dag har første støk blitt tatt, både oppe og nede, samt taket nede! En helt sinnsyk forrandring. Fargen kommer ikke godt frem på bildet, men det er lys lys, varm grå. Lister og trappegelender blir i en litt mørkere tone, mens gulvet blir mørkere det også. Dørene får en sart turkisgrønn farge :) (selvsagt!)Jeg er bare hoppende fornøyd! Og håper inderlig at hele gangen er ferdig neste helg. Iallfall veggene og taket! Om gulvet må vente bittelitt lenger så overlever jeg det! :)