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Happy new year

Happy new year!

The past year has been eventful to say the least..

Graduated from the Commercial college of Iceland

graduation trip to Costa del Sol

Made probably the best decision of my life and moved to Colorado for 4 months. Made friends for life from all over the world

Went to NYC

Turned 20 finally

Went to Liverpool to meet up with some of my friends from last summer

And so many other wonderful things.

Thank you for a great year. Now I'm just excited for all the adventures we will embark on this year..

A few photos from last night:

On the agenda for 2012:

drawing classes
backpack through Europe
move to Denmark
live
love
laugh


xx

Butterflies and hurricanes

I was feeling creative..

I decided to put 3 photos up on my bedroom wall..

first one is off a leaved tree,

second is off a tornado,

and the third one is off a leave less tree

Sort of like a story. 

The main idea is: disasters or events may change you but they won't brake you down.

After that I cut out a few butterflies. This part did take a wile. 

And now I've put it all together and I think it looks good.

Butterflies and hurricanes by Muse

Happy holidays everyone

Birthday bash

Last night I celebrated my 20th birthday with a few of my closest friends.

For dinner I made garlic parmesan chicken, a melon salad and sweet potato chips. Turned out really good.

The table

Girly cocktail for a girly night

Thanks  for a fantastic night!

Winter Wonderland

It's been snowing a lot the past week. I love it and it sure makes my job more fun. Getting paid for playing with snow sleds and for building snow forts.. let's just say I really don't mind that at all.

Today me and my family have been moving horses. The weather was cold and truly magnificent. Took some photos;

Tonight I'm staying in watching La vita é bella..

Nothing else on the agenda. It's too cold to go out and about, at least for my liking.

Hope you all have a nice weekend.

Happy Friday

Dylan, Frida and glitter

Tonight I’ve been feeling a little bit drowsy. After a long day at work and an acupuncture session all I wanted to do was lie down.

And you know what? That was precisely what I did.

I curled up in my bed with a lovely book..

Frida by Bárbara Mujica

Frida Kahlo and her lover Diego Rivera

Munched on some almond chocolate chip cookies that I made yesterday..

And listened to Bob Dylan..

And now I feel more relaxed than I have for quite some time. 

The Icelandic Santa clauses

I realized something today.

I will be absolutely intolerable until Christmas.

I get more and more excited with every day that passes. I’ve even started baking, making cards and spend my days in work doodling Santa clauses and reindeer's.

Can you keep a secret?

I’ve even started listening to Christmas music.

This is of course a terrible thing. And it will only get worse I’m afraid. Especially because now my job description includes being in charge of all art work at my department in the kindergarten. This December I will be covered in glitter glue with filt angles on my mind. And the absolutely worst part is. I think it’s fantastic!

Beware, a Christmas manic is officially on the loose

The domestic housewife

Hey there,


It's been rainy and gloomy here for the past week. On days like that I have a bad habit of lying down on the couch as soon as I get home from work. I've been reading more than I've been writing lately. This is what my nightstand looks like right now..

Last weekend I participated in a program called Christmas in a shoebox. You fill a shoebox with some necessities along with some fun stuff. Wrap the box in festive christmas paper (optional but fun). The boxes are then sent to children in need somewhere in the world. This year it's Ukraine.
Like the past few years I made two boxes;

one for a boy..

and one for a girl.. 

I added some more stuff after I took the pictures f.ex. a teddy bear and a hat.

Then I wrote a card in both Russian and Ukraine (please google translate don't fail me now!)


I've been pretty busy today. We're having a secret Santa game at work next week and i've been working on the presents today. Like always I tend to go a little bit overboard with stuff like that.

Day 1

Day 2

Full of home baked chocolate chip cookies

Day 3 

Day 4

and 

Day 5

And than I have yet to find a big present for friday night when we all go out to dinner together.


I've also been working on a little project.
Took some pictures of my younger brother today.

I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with them. This is what I have for now.

Today I started knitting as well, if you know me well you're probably a bit surprised right now. I know for a fact that my elementary sewing teacher would have a heart attack if she would hear about this. The last thing I remember knitting was when I was 11 years old and decided to turn my "scarf" into a wool corcelet, super sexy I know!


I've just never had the patience to knit. But today I decided to give it a shot and after almost strangling myself with the string a few times and with help from my great friend google I managed to get going. And despite a few holes and the fact that knitting recipes look more like mathematic formulas to me it looks pretty good.

That's it for now, take care!