fredag 28. desember 2007
The Dentist..
torsdag 27. desember 2007
Still at home with a cold...
tirsdag 25. desember 2007
Home with a cold...
Sitting at my parent's house with a bad cold, sneezing and coughing could definetly be worse since I now can watch The Muppet Show on their new satelite dish TV. The Animal is my favorite Muppet! Since this is a total Couch Potato Day I'm going on to watch Monsters Inc later on. Ah!
The Christmas Tree
It's strange isn't it that this was only 80 years ago? 80 years isn't that long...
søndag 23. desember 2007
Christmas Preparations
to file one of my parent's dogs as "Home Decor" but since I don't have a "Dog Decor" category I will. Both dogs have now been brushed and equipeed with red bows, all ready for Christmas. It's hard to get a dog to sit still long enough for a flash-free photo, so I'll just call it art.
Later today we'll cut down a Christmas Tree and this evening we'll decorate it.
lørdag 22. desember 2007
White Christmas
Skiing with the parents
fredag 21. desember 2007
Rock Legend Roky Erickson
Roky Erickson visited Oslo again Thursday December 20th. No wonder, considering the reception he got at the Øya Festival this summer. It was my first Roky experience and I had to see him again when I heard Rockefeller had him booked now. I wasn't disappointed. He did 3 extras and the crowd still cried for more! You could see he was very touched and happy by the audience's cheers. He seems almost shy. The backing band looked like they were having the time of their life. I fantasized they've been locked up as studio musicians their whole careers, and now they're finally on the stage! Rock Stars at last! And they did rock, especially the guitarist, both him and the bass player wearing suits. The drummer looked like a computer geek. And it was perfect! If you ever get the chance to go see him, take it!
tirsdag 18. desember 2007
Bouldering
Housewife Fiasco!
søndag 16. desember 2007
Spirit of Christmas
fredag 14. desember 2007
Stress
Winter is definetly here!
This evening it was cold outside! Winter is finally here for real. I'm not a very big fan of autumn so winter's arrival is great news. Now we can ski, hopefully make snow angels soon and go out and have fun in the cold!
onsdag 12. desember 2007
Another Party Look
Christmas Decorations
tirsdag 11. desember 2007
mandag 10. desember 2007
Amy Winehouse?
søndag 9. desember 2007
The season's first day of skiing!
lørdag 8. desember 2007
Climbing and a Steak
fredag 7. desember 2007
Sex And The City
torsdag 6. desember 2007
Southern Comfort or New Year's Eve?
onsdag 5. desember 2007
Glamour!
It's about time we have some glamour again! After spending the night at the Motörhead concert I feel the urge for somthing stylish. It was a lot of fun but now the pendulum needs to swing in the other direction.
The composition of this photograph is sharp and the mixture of femininity and masculinity is striking. Very fashionable these days too, with the men's suit and the Mary Janes. Having my own plane would also be nice...
Motörhead
Rock and Roll!
tirsdag 4. desember 2007
Seriousness
Christmas Present
Climbing and Bouldering
mandag 3. desember 2007
Shakespeare
søndag 2. desember 2007
Kopps
Rull film!
The First Sunday In Advent
Lazy days like today you woudn't normally have if it wasn't late autumn. Curling up in the sofa with tea, Fazer Mint (a favorite of both Prince Charming's and mine) and Trivial Pursuit without feeling the least unproductive since it's grey and wet outside is special to me. Today I'm leading so I might get revenge for the last time we played TP when Prince Charming beat me. We'll see!
lørdag 1. desember 2007
Winter Rain
I bought the green woolen boots yesterday. They're very warm! I don't think they're going to do very well in the rain though so I'll have to wait wearing them. Not very practical, you're thinking? Well, they ARE very warm. Hopefully perfect for snow and real winter.
fredag 30. november 2007
Pizza Margherita
This is what you need:
1 ready made pizza base with no topping. There are both fresh dough and ready baked bases in many shops.
1/2 jar of tomato purè or ready made pizza sauce
1 mozzarella cheese
fresh basil - dried basil or oregano will also do the trick
sea salt and freshly ground pepper
Bake according to the instructions on the base.
The most important thing for me is the chili olive oil you dribble over when it's done. This oil lifts a simple Margherita to unexpected heights.
The first time I had it was when I visited Milan with my Mum. We visited this little pizzeria just next to our hotel. The line went out of the restaurant and into the street! It looked hopeless but it didn't take long before we were inside, seated. Very effective, I have to say. The place was packed with normal Italian families, the tables were respatex and the chairs of the kind I had in school. The only ornaments on the wall were posters advertising beer. At this stage our curiosity of the place had us and we had to see what would happen.
A very stressed out waiter shouted something to us in Italian from the neighbouring table but quickly gathered from our blank stares that we were tourists. He then asked us in friendly yet bad English whether we wanted "Big" or "Small". Our blank stares continued followed by a somewhat confused shrug by me. The waiter with the heavy accent now tried a different angle. "One or two?" We quickly ordered "two", hoping that he was talking of pizza slices. The other thing the waiter wanted to know was if we'd like beer or Coke. And that was it. He disappeared and we sat there feeling a little lost in the Italian crowd digging into their pizzas. We however gathered our courage and started looking curiously around us. There was obviously only one type of pizza on the menu, and that was Margherita. The slices were huge and the crust was thick.
After only a few minutes our waiter returned with our drinks and a couple of minutes later he entered the room with four or five plates of pizza on each arm. Very effective! The pizza was baked on coals in a stone oven by the entrance, with an army of cooks making up the perfect assembly line for the largest pizzas I've ever seen. The coals made the base perfect. It was so tasty in itself that it being 5 cm high didn't matter. It was the perfect blend of lucious with a crust. By far the best pizza we've ever had.
As soon as we had finished our meal we we're politely given the bill and told to pay at the cashier by the entrance. This is the trick for getting a move on the line wich was still spilling out of the restaurant and into the street.
The next nigt we ended up in the same place after having talked of the special restaurant and the marvelous pizza the whole day. The staff recognised us immediately, telling us that his brother in law was working at our hotel. This time we ordered our two slices with confidence. What we hadn't noticed much the night before was the steel bowl being passed between the tables. It was full of olive oil with pieces of chili floating around. Neither of us dared risk ruining the great pizza so we passed it on. This didn't go unnoticed by the waiter. He came over with the bowl, spooned up olive oil and dribbled it on one of my slices with a smile, saying in thick accent "Try? Yes? Very good!" I did try and I have never regretted it. Chili olive oil on italian pizza is still a must!
Go a head and try it! If you can't get a hold of it, here are two ways of making it yourself.
torsdag 29. november 2007
New shoes part 2
New Shoes?
The party season is coming up and I've started looking for new shoes. Classic, black ones are going to do the trick, I think. That way they're just as wearable next year or for other occasions. These are by B&Co at Skoringen.
I'm going to wear a LBD (little black dress) I've already got, i think. I'm also really looking for a second hand purse - maybe a clutch. Any good ideas for where I should go look?
onsdag 28. november 2007
Climbing at the gym
The photo is by the way from the National Geographic Vintage Photos Photo Gallery. This is the description of it:
Trivial Pursuit Night
mandag 26. november 2007
Christmas Party Collage
søndag 25. november 2007
Dream Dress of the Day
lørdag 24. november 2007
It snows, it snows!
tirsdag 20. november 2007
Warm sweater for going abroad
søndag 18. november 2007
Handmade Earrings
lørdag 17. november 2007
French Breakfast
I celebrated my 10 000nd day last week. It was a coincidence I even thought of it. We had a really nice dinner with some good friends and it was a lot of fun. Thank you, all of you!
I bought this at the Birkelunden market last sunday. It was exactly what I was looking for although it was a bit more than I planned to spend. It's very practical. Now it's full of beanies , scarves, gloves and mitts.
fredag 16. november 2007
Nina Simone
"I put a spell on you"
Nina sings the Screamin' Jay Hawkins hit, her way, in London, 1968.
New spinning shoes
http://www.topfoto.co.uk/