More about the gallery and the show HERE.
March 15, 2011
A SAD FLOWER
As we were finishing dinner the other day I noticed a sad face that was looking at me through the door. The sad face belonged to one of our BUHU paintings by LARS MONRAD VAAGE. I was thinking that it looked sad because it felt left out because it wanted to hang out with all the pretty flowers in the dining room. I can't blame the BUHU because the other flowers were in the BUHU's colors ...so it probably related to them. Sad because it did or did not get to hang out with the other flowers.. it's sad face and pink color together with the flowers and the vase and the colored top of the CHIANTI bottle sure made a nice picture.
A SUNDAY FOOD PROJECT: HOMEMADE PASTA WITH RABBIT RAGU
E is a big fan of italian style SUNDAY RAGU ..and this weekend we went all out and made HOMEMADE pasta with RABBIT RAGU. The rabbit had been soaked in red WINE for 24 hours and was then cooked for 2 hours with some wine, tomato, vegetable and herbs. I of course ..as always.. have to admit that I was not actively taking part in the pasta making, I was cheering and photographing, but from watching it seemed not very difficult ..and it was super good. Pictures of the result coming up..
WEEKEND FOOD SHOPPING
RABBIT, RED SNAPPER, FENNEL, CHERVIL, MARMALADE, SALAMI, SPARKLING WINE and CHIANTI.
March 14, 2011
CHANGING THINGS UP
After a WINTER with a lot of time spent indoors I the other day came to the CONCLUSION that I was SHITTY BORED with our apartment. My solution was to REDECORATE. I have always been a big fan of redecorating (as a CHILD I was also a big fan of cleaning and organizing.. to the degree that I sometimes insisted on organizing my FRIENDS' rooms if I felt their mess was preventing their rooms to live up to their POTENTIAL... This need is not as strong today as it used to be ..but I still really like to clean when I think about the result, I like the result, I think this might also be the reason why I was able to work as a MAID in a HOTEL for three summers without boring the living crap out of myself) Anyway, I still often feel this NEED to redecorate, I might have gotten this need from my mother who once told me that my father used to say that he never knew how the house would LOOK like when he returned home after a couple of weeks of offshore working. So yes, this weekend E and I decided that we had to change things up APARTMENT wise, as we were having a really hard time motivating ourselves to make the apartment look nice and tidy. We didn't just move around the furniture we also made the SITTING ROOM into the DINING ROOM and the other way around. I can really recommend this STRATEGY if you are tired of your apartment, have more than just every day problems motivating yourself to CLEAN and you can't afford a cleaning lady or to just buy new stuff. It put me at least TWO STEPS UP on the mood ladder.
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March 2, 2011
FLANNEL, WOOL AND CASHMERE
This last week has been beautiful and SUNNY, but it's still COLD.. and I have had a really bad COLD so I have stayed in and enjoyed most of the sun from my bedroom. The room gets really warm from the sun so sometime it feel just like SUMMER in there. Can't wait for SPRING, but until then I'm settling for pretending and the stunning LIGHT.
March 1, 2011
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Yesterday ERLEND's PARENTS sent us some pictures from their GARDEN.. or more precisely, some pictures of the CREATURES that these days seems to be happily LIVING in their garden, an ELK MOM and her CHILD. E's parents live in VÅLER in NORWAY, and as you can see there is still a lot of SNOW there.. so maybe this little family got tired of looking for food and found some nice treats under the trees in their garden. I think E's parents normally put out food in the trees for little BIRDS ..so I guess maybe they found their food.. If it's the case it would not be the first time an ANIMAL FAMILY made a this kind of discovery in the HAMMER family's backyard. When we visited them last autumn, a BADGER family was paying the garden a visit for a late EVENING SNACK. I had never seen a badger before so I thought it was really cool, exciting having a COUNTRY boy as boyfriend;) ..Even though it seems like you don't have to live on the countryside anymore to see big animals in your yard. My MOM discovered a huge DEER in our front yard some weeks ago when she was getting the morning PAPER. Of course BØNES is not located in the city center, but a DEER in your yard is still not something you would normally expect.. (I thought the fur around the elk's ears was so nice that I cropped one of the pictures, hope thats ok Lars Otto)
February 28, 2011
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