chipped nail polish and miso soup

autumn

2009-10-14T09:33:00.000-07:00

I'm desperately trying to figure out how they make the apple tea over at Noah's - I'm spending way too much time and money over there just for this liquid goddess.

And I've finally succumbed to loving autumn again. When it first comes, I always find it too cold, wet and windy, at times downright depressing. But after a while, when the colors switch from green to yellow and red, and I find my old, (semi) waterproof and warm clothes, I learn to love it again. I rediscover cocoa and tea, Joni Mitchell, Nick Cave and Melissa Horn; Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut and George Orwell. I've rediscovered our natural history museum, who has great coffee and currently the most awesome insect-exhibit going on. I'm such a nerd.
I've redisovered notebooks and lists, and I'm constantly writing and re-writing my backpacking packing list, my christmas wishing list and christmas shopping list.
Love, love, love, love autumn.

jeremy scott

2009-10-10T07:18:00.000-07:00

This is why I love fashion. You can do fucked up, silly things and it's just ... cool, you know.
This collection is my Halloween inspiration this year.

Frikkin' awesome. Haha.
Source.

shiny

2009-09-26T05:44:00.000-07:00

My new, sparkly (!) red nail polish makes me happy.

shed a little light

2009-09-22T04:08:00.000-07:00

I'm too lost for words to say anything about the Tori Amos concert right now (oh my god I love her I love her I love her), but you should check out her support artist, Foy Vance.
I think it's the first time I've fallen in love with the support artist/band at a concert.

candyland

2009-09-20T08:43:00.000-07:00

"I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruitdrops -- red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me."
Simone de Beauvoir

Yes, I'm extremely excited abouth the next Neverland.

Tomorrow I'm going to see Tori Amos live at Sentrum Scene, oh my god, oh my god. I've seen her two times before, but it's probably four years since last time. She's amazing on stage, she's glowing, she's beautiful and hot and sad and happy and just, oh my god.
Thank you for the ticket, Alek! <3

gnarl

2009-09-19T15:16:00.000-07:00

HOW is it, that some people just manage to pull everything off?
How their layered necklaces are always hanging beautifully, like on Miss Sea Of Shoes over here? How their shirts are always smoothly tucked into their pants/skirts? How their tight, long tops are always hanging perfectly over their jeans?

Cause it's never like that with me. My necklaces are always tangled, hanging in this sort of lumpy mess between my boobs. The buttons of my jeans always create some sort of lump under my top. My shirts always form a sort of muffin top-looking bulk just over the skirt line. Fuck it. From now on I'm only wearing dresses.

neverland

2009-09-19T07:24:00.000-07:00

October 3rd can't come soon enough. It's the 5th NEVERLAND event, and the first one I've had the chance to attend. Candy vs Hyperstate, omg. I'm going dressed as candy, of course. You should come!

Bought one of Fam Irvoll's awesome cake hats (like the ones in the picture^) the other day, and I have a pretty cool idea for the rest of my costume too. Can't wait to show you when it's done!

♥

hehe

2009-09-19T04:30:00.000-07:00

jello shot lunch box

2009-09-16T16:10:00.000-07:00

Frikkin' awesome.

right now I want...

2009-09-15T08:20:00.000-07:00

...this shirt...

...my own bench...

...a see-through trench...

...blue hair and super powers...

...and this jacket.

armando santos

2009-09-11T08:57:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I catwalked for Armando Santos at Galleri:Format, and it was so much fun! His demin collection (based on recycled denim) is on exhibit there until October 4th, you should take a look if you're in the Oslo-area, it's very cool.

Tonje Schmidt did out make up, Maria from Adam&Eva did our hair. Here I am backstage after the show, in a dress they very nearly had to pry out of my hands, I wanted to keep it so badly!
;D

nostalgia

2009-09-06T17:45:00.000-07:00

When I was a kid, my father, my sister and I made this Christmas calendar.
We cut potatoes in half, and carved faces onto them; nose, mouth, eyes. Then we painted them. We made four, one for each Advent Sunday.

Dad had prepared a miniature house, made out of small pebbles, complete with a front door, two windows and a chimney. He had glued it onto a white wooden board, so it looked like a small house in the snow. We laid the four potato-people in front of the house, and covered them with the rest of the pebbles, thus making four lumps - four graves. And each Advent Sunday we opened one grave to see how much the potato-person had deformed. They dried out, and shrunk, and turned hilariously disgusting, more and more disgusting for each week, and I loved that calendar.

Once, when leaving the kinder garden on a Friday, I'd turned to my kinder garden teacher and proudly said: "we're going to open another grave on Sunday, miss!", leaving my father and the teacher in a rather awkward silence as I bolted for the door.

Pia has made me all a-flutter about Christmas already, and I've thrown myself into planning calendars, presents, wrapping and decoration, even though it's 108 days away. I can't wait!

early autumn blues

2009-09-05T08:18:00.000-07:00

(a softer world)

I've made myself a castle of pillows and books and magazines in my bed, and I sit there, eating fruit and listening pretty much non-stop to Dance With Me. Sometimes I crawl out, sometimes I meet people, but it's all I want to do, really. Sit there in my castle, read, eat and listen to Dance With Me.

love

2009-09-04T06:52:00.000-07:00

(John Green - Looking For Alaska)

do you want to...

2009-08-30T16:08:00.001-07:00

... go camping with me?

bye-bye-bye

2009-08-25T15:14:00.000-07:00

Helle is moving to London tomorrow morning, which SUCKS.

We wrote her a crappy farewell-song and I gave her a really tacky touristy ash tray, with the Norwegian flag and a viking ship on it.
Helle: You must use it. I expect to see it on your night stand/porch/veranda when I come to visit/inspect. Just sayin'.
And honey, you'll meet a lot of cool people, a lot of hunky emo poodles, and generally have an awesome time. But we were her first, you're ours and we expect you back here with us soon; drinking our beer, chugging our coffee and sleeping in our beds. Where you belong.
I'll even buy you a 4 dl measuring cup for your noodles (gigglesnort).

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'll miss you. We'll miss you. Like crazy.

hey, little sister

2009-08-23T09:02:00.000-07:00

Today my little sister went away for college. We (mum, dad, me and her boyfriend) drove her and her stuff to the school, where we met her roommate for the first time. I hoped she would be some annoying girl with a terrible, loud laugh, so my sister would call me often, whining and sharing fun stories, but she seemed nice. Damn.

Then there was a lunch, an introduction seminar and CAKE, and then we left. My sister cried a little when we left (I'd like to think it was because of me, but it might have been about her boyfriend), which my dad answered by singing a loud chorus of "finally rid of her".

Point is. I'LL MISS HER. :(

hello sailor

2009-08-22T15:32:00.001-07:00

I want these stockings and that hair piece so badly it nearly aches. Oh, please, oh, please!
Fam Irvoll is amazing.

2009-08-22T10:47:00.000-07:00

Well, hello, my new obsession;

Grey nail polish. Love.
Yesterday I went to a combined housewarming and going away party, and it was awesome. A sweet combination of rum, tequila and beer made me very happy-drunk and I ended up dancing a lot, laughing a lot, and appearantly, talking Swedish for two hours straight. Charming.

The election is just three weeks away, and I've been lousy at catching up on my politics lately, so now I've buried my desk with news papers, fliers and a wee bit propaganda. Although, the more I read, the less confident I get about which party to vote for. I'll probably end up voting tactical (AP to keep FRP out), but they're not environment-friendly enough.
Maybe I should just watch an episode or four of Coupling in stead, and pick the party with the prettiest logo.

capa

2009-08-18T15:33:00.001-07:00

Pictures from Jeux d'enfants ("love me if you dare"), one of my favorite movies; with some of the quirkiest, loveliest quotes and one of the most beautiful actresses I know, Marion Cotillard.

Today, we went to IKEA and bought ice cream and screws and bolts. It was nice.
And while randomly browsing the shops in Markveien on my way home, I found an awesome, carousel-shaped cookie jar. It reminded me of the movie and made me smile, so I had to get it. It will hold my secret candy stash.

S.O.S.

2009-08-08T06:37:00.001-07:00

WHY ARE THERE ONLY UGLY HIKING/BACKPACKING SHOES OUT THERE?

I WILL NOT SURRENDER!

Help me, internets!

where did all the bicycles go?

2009-08-04T02:58:00.001-07:00

2009-08-04T01:57:00.001-07:00

Spotify has censored the word head in Lily Allen -Not Fair.
Okay.

Sacsayhuamán, Peru

2009-08-03T14:16:00.000-07:00

Things I want to see - Part 1

Sacsayhuamán consists of three enormous Inca stone walls near Cusco (declared the historical capital of Peru), and I've been fascinated by them since I was little. The stones are enormous, and there's still sort of a mystery how they managed to construct them. They're so precise, most places you can't even fit a piece of paper between the rocks.

Wicked picture.

travel fever

2009-08-01T18:49:00.000-07:00

It's four o'clock in the morning, but I can't sleep. I've got travel fever!

I'm rapidly becoming obsessed with vagabond blogs, packing lists, travel tips and forums - my head is so full of plans and ideas and dreams that I just can't go to bed just yet.
And seriously - I don't leave until, like, March or April. I WANT TO GO TOMORROW. Preferably yesterday.

Sigh.

I googled fashionable+backpacking and actually got a lot of hits. Most of the tips were common sense, like:

* Don't wear white - duh.
* No jeans. I know they're your favorites, but they're heavy and take ages to dry. Learn to love pants and tights.
* Avoid fabrics that smell easily, doesn't breathe, are heavy, need ironing or shows stains easily.

And a few were on how you should adapt to the local clothing norms in conservative areas, wear a fake gold wedding band on occasion to keep off the most annoying locals - and "try not to look too much like a tourist - even though most locals can spot it immediately anyways".

The best advice I came across was to make sure I could mix and match all my clothing items, by making sure they can be worn together and sticking to a color scheme. And only bring basic clothes, and let a few cool accessories make the outfit.

Other than that the general advice was that it's impossible to look fashionable while backpacking - settle for not looking like a toilet. I'm down with that.

AND GUESS WHAT!
I'm going to bring less than 10 kilos, for two-three months of traveling.
Everyone I've told have laughed their asses off.
BUT I'LL MAKE IT!
Bastards.

serious question

2009-07-31T11:53:00.000-07:00

Where the fuck can I find a how-to-guide about looking fashionable while backpacking?!

most beautiful woman in the world

2009-07-30T05:08:00.000-07:00

Natalie Portman by Annie Leibovitz

oh oh oh

2009-07-18T03:31:00.000-07:00

Just had a lovely proteinrich breakfast in the form of BUGS IN MY CEREAL. Loads of them, didn't notice until I'd eaten half the bowl already. That's nice. Just lovely.

känn ingen sorg för mig göteborg

2009-07-16T15:33:00.000-07:00

It was my birthday this Tuesday, and I spent it in Sweden - eating cake, going fishing and just relaxing. It was nice leaving town for a few days.
And I spent a whole day in Liseberg, an amusement park in Gothenburgh! It was amazing! I've always been terrified of those huge-ass rides (even fainted during one a few years back - they had to shut it down and get me out before it could continue), but I took 'em anyways and I'm actually a wee bit proud. Even though I closed my eyes a lot.

So even though my parents FORGOT my birthday (they had completely lost track time while on holiday and were so ashamed when I called them, haha) and I didn't caught any fish, I had the most wonderful time. And when I came home to Oslo again, my sister welcomed me with cake and presents!

Thank you. ♥>

oh, there goes gravity

2009-07-12T12:51:00.000-07:00

A lot has changed these last few months.
Some were good, some were bad. I'm constantly pending between a nervous breakdown and jumping around in naive summer joy.
I might leave town for a few days, I need to get away.

I want to travel. I want to go to India, Marocco, Japan, Moscow!
I'm going to work my ass off, save some dough, and just go.

some of

2009-06-09T03:56:00.000-07:00

Some of my favourite links.

Texts from last night

Overheard in New York / The Ofiice

Days with my father

Postsecret

Colour me Katie

1001 rules for my unborn son

2009-06-08T06:33:00.000-07:00

Why, why, whyyy has my work blocked facebook on da computeer? :(
I've done all my copying, editing, stamping and made enough coffee to feed an army for a month or (maybe) Helle for a week. Bored out of my mind.

+

The pics are up on Manillusion now.
Combination of cool and awkward to see myself on and in, like, stuff.

Oh, and I'm currently listening to Dancing With Myself by Nouvelle Vague pretty much non stop.

2009-06-07T05:47:00.001-07:00

Yum.

2009-06-05T10:44:00.000-07:00

I've learned something important tonight.

A. Never ever -ever- buy a frilly skirt in a fabric that wrinkles easily, ironing all the layers is pure HELL.

B. Don't buy expensive stockings. They will tear. I promise.

C. No, you will not miraculously be able to walk in the 11 cm high heels your sister forgot at your place. You just won't. (PS: wear them anyways!)

2009-06-04T21:25:00.001-07:00

I've spent the night watching youtube videos about the solar system and eating lemon with basil and rosemary.
I'm currently in love with black holes, omg omg. If I wasn't so crap at it, I'd change my major to physics immediately.

Whatever. I still think my personal drama is pretty huge and important.
*gigglesnort*

2009-06-03T05:29:00.000-07:00

This summer is going to be amazing.
When I'm not working, I'm lounging in the park or visiting friends. I'm hardly ever home; if so, just to change clothes, eat and occasionally sleep. Loving it.

And oh, I'm in this edition of Anno (this picture), which is kinda cool!

I also took some pictures for Manillusion a few days back, wearing an amazing parade uniform, modeled after a 1940's version. I love it, I want it, I need it! Behind the scenes;

Me, Mari and Vera (my gorgeous little sister)

Mari and I. She bought the uniform she's wearing, I'm dead jealous!

2009-05-25T05:41:00.000-07:00

(214): Sex on bubble wrap = best decision ever.

SOMEBODY GET ME SOME BUBBLE WRAP ASAP.

white trash beautiful --- trailer park queen

2009-05-24T16:54:00.000-07:00

You should all listen to Everlast.

"I'm coming home to you, girl."

this is why I love youtube

2009-05-18T05:40:00.000-07:00

zzz

2009-05-14T16:51:00.000-07:00

My sleeping rythm is completely fucked up. I have to get up at half five and all I want to do is browse the web for pretty pictures and cool videos. DAMNIT.
I've started a strict no.msn-or-facebook-after-02-rule, but so far it's not helping. Tips?

...anyone?

2009-05-13T15:38:00.000-07:00

HELLO LOVER!

2009-05-10T19:37:00.000-07:00

Helle sent me a picture the other day. Of me, from when I was like, 16. And I realised - my hair has been almost exactly the same since! For serious!

Spontanious (most likely disasterous) self-haircut in five, four, three...

I'm getting huge, blonde curles.

2009-05-10T03:56:00.000-07:00

Hung out with Lars and Helle the other day. We watched "The Big Lebowski" by the Coen-brothers, which was awesome. Ended up taking a few random, no make-up pictures in his back yard.

Photographer: Lars Venner

2009-05-08T03:39:00.000-07:00

do eet yasself

2009-05-06T08:52:00.000-07:00

(lookbook (methinks))

(?)

(niotillfem)

(flickr)

2009-05-02T14:38:00.000-07:00

Sid (Mike Bailey) from Skins singing Cat Steven's Wild World

This song makes my heart skip a beat.
If you haven't watched Skins yet, check it out asap!

skinny love

2009-05-02T12:59:00.000-07:00

adorable shoes

2009-04-27T15:10:00.001-07:00

I need new shoes!
Pronto!
I'm down to nineteen pairs after my last closet shuffle.

hot ice

2009-04-27T03:50:00.000-07:00

I had this CD when I was younger, "radio hits" something something, and I listened to it constantly. And when I read Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets for the very first time, I had it on repeat. A few years back I lost the CD. But occasionally I hear one of the songs on the radio or in a store and it feels like, I don't know, hot ice run through me. Lars recently sent me one of the songs and like whoa, when I listen to it I remember the feelings I had when I read about the voice Harry heard in the walls, when Ginny was taken, when he fought the basilisk and it's just aaaaah! Nostalgia.

Do you have any songs like that? That just takes you back?

obama

2009-04-21T01:52:00.001-07:00

HEY LOOK LOOK PACMAN!
Obaaaama!
Hot stuff.

wow I love your shirt

2009-04-19T16:29:00.000-07:00

Pretty, non?
(lookbook)

hello beautiful

2009-04-18T15:52:00.001-07:00

(lookbook)

2009-04-16T06:55:00.000-07:00

Kamilla and I are planning a DIY-day on april third-ish. You should come!

I'm going to bring shorts, t-shirts, studs, chains and scissors! Normally when I try to make something cool, it ends up looking like the work of a six-year-old, but this time (as I always say..) it's going to be different!

SO, because I might never find myself a sparkling man, I'm going to (try to) make myself some sparkly legs! Park & Cube did excellent work copying Doo.Rii a/w 09', and was kind enough to make a tutorial for us. Sparkly, sparkly, sparkly!

(Doo.Rii a/w 09)

(Park & Cube - tutorial)

I'm also inspired by Alexander Wang's studded bag and anything with chains.

(tfs)

exxxtreme (everything)

2009-04-15T07:55:00.000-07:00

I love the bottom one; "hang out with Steve", and "learn to speak European". Haha!

Tonight I'm going to make my own list. Suggestions?

(via fecklesss)

2009-04-14T06:23:00.000-07:00

I'm going to London in just over a week!
It's my second time visiting the UK this year, I went to see my boyfriend in Bournemouth in February. It's something about England that feels like home.

I'm dead broke, so shopping's off (boo!). But his birthday is coming up, so I'll try to find a little something over there. Like these, from Urban Outfitters.

I'll just end up stealing both of them from him, though...

favourite people part 1

2009-04-13T15:56:00.001-07:00

Atkinson and Cleese

I love you, I love you,
I love you

2009-04-08T17:21:00.000-07:00

I'm not really a janitor. I'm a rock star.

2009-04-07T13:08:00.001-07:00

This is how I picture my future.

(here)

2009-04-07T08:45:00.000-07:00

I'd give my right arm to have freckles. Any day.

2009-04-06T14:06:00.000-07:00

I'm always drooling over Kate Moss for Topshop on the web, but the few times I've gotten the chance to try it on it's more yawn. This one, however, is just BOUND to be awesome.
Check out the rest here.

one of my favourite shots

2009-04-05T09:17:00.000-07:00

It's just so cute.
Photographer Gemma Booth for 125magazine, #10.

2009-04-02T14:49:00.001-07:00

The washing machine sounds like an airplane, banging and groaning so loud it carries all the way up from the cellar to the kitchen. I'm up baking, couldn't sleep. Now the whole house smells of foccaccia.

2009-04-01T11:01:00.000-07:00

I've started to randomly sew words and poems onto my old clothes - inspired by this picture.

2009-04-01T10:41:00.000-07:00

Oh! If I ever get children, I hope they're going to look as cranky, sleepy and cute as these ones do. Photographed by Tracy Raver.

2009-03-30T16:32:00.001-07:00

New DIY-project! Picture of Hanneli from Jak&Jil.

black snake moan

2009-03-30T14:36:00.001-07:00

Even before I finished watching Black Snake Moan, it had somehow snuck it's way into my list of favourite movies. Never seen a movie before, that's made me (sort of) wish I was a white trash fucked up girl from Tennessee, but this one did. Christina Ricci, Samuel L. Jackson, blues, trash, love, beauty.

Trailer:

2009-03-29T09:12:00.000-07:00

Wearing your shirt or cardigan on backwards. It's either going to look really awesome or completely retarded.

inspiration

2009-03-29T07:41:00.000-07:00

takes one to know one

2009-03-28T10:05:00.001-07:00

I was reading this article in Aftenposten, about biological warefare and gene technology. As the biology geek that I am, I was completely devouring it.

They wrote about how terrorist might start using viruses as weapons, and with the article followed a list of dangerous viruses, epedemics, and the number deaths they have caused. Awful, right?
So, I was reading about Cholera, the Plague, Butulism etcetera, when I suddenly came across the Spanish Influenza. Cue burst of giggles.

O_o

Cause, you know, like, Edward Cullen nearly died from the Spanish Influenza, and that's when Carlisle turned him into a vampire, and, uh, stuff happened, and, you know, Edward Cullen.

This is getting ridiculous.

I love this picture

2009-03-28T09:57:00.000-07:00

cheer up, love

2009-03-26T11:24:00.000-07:00

2009-03-24T16:28:00.000-07:00

new york, i love you, but you're bringing me down

2009-03-24T14:16:00.000-07:00

I want to leave for New York. Right now.

In this rock space ship.

2009-03-21T08:35:00.000-07:00

Oh my god! It's sixteen degrees and sun outside, and the ice cream truck was just here! I bought a box of some weird-looking colorful sorbet-on-a-stick-thingy. It tasted funny, but whatever.

Spring, damnit!

2009-03-20T16:04:00.000-07:00

I desperately need a dress with this afro pattern. Sweet!

2009-03-20T15:50:00.000-07:00

I miss you!

2009-03-16T12:59:00.000-07:00

This is the coolest bench ever.

Image it a little darker, slightly worn, with flowers growing around the "roots" or up the "branches". Gorgeous!

By Pablo Reinoso.

2009-03-09T14:18:00.000-07:00

Stella McCartney

I love the underwear as outerwear-thing that's going on.

Chlöe

Karla's Closet

2009-02-27T04:12:00.000-08:00

God, I love fringes!

2009-02-23T12:57:00.001-08:00

Dear God,

Please give me the courage and edge to cut my hair like this:

or this:

Cheers, mate!

2009-02-20T14:05:00.000-08:00

Norway again.

Sans money, sun, boyfriend.
Gained some clothes, a few books and the flu.

So, all I was going to do today was to stay in bed, feeling sorry for myself and read Fear and loathing in Las Vegas. But now it's nearly one in the morning, and I've done neither. I've wasted an entire day doing absolutely nothing.

I am the WORLD CHAMPION of being useless!

2009-02-18T14:33:00.000-08:00

I'm completely useless when I'm sick.

It's probably just a rough cold or the flu, but in my head it's cancer, aids, bird flu and a.l.s. all at once. I'm going to die!
My head is made of cotton, and my nose is made of goo.

And - and I've got a twelve hour journey to look forward to. Bus, kill an hour, new bus, kill four hours, plane, then car.

I need tea.

2009-02-16T11:06:00.000-08:00

Buy one get one free at Borders...

...
I'll see you in a week.

2009-02-15T15:21:00.000-08:00

things that makes me smile today

the miso soup at waggemamas
the apple tea at noah's ark
chipped nail polish
yellow blouses and dresses

with all your miso soup

2009-02-15T14:43:00.001-08:00

It's so weird, how visiting him in Bournemouth sort of feels like coming home.
I don't know if it's because I'm with him again, after weeks apart, or because of the atmosphere down here.
Bournemouth has this sort of safe feeling to it, with all it's small houses, pretty roofs and quirky shops. "Cheers, Love; here's your change, Love".

Maybe I'll just ... stay.

2009-02-15T13:43:00.000-08:00

Today everything is wonderful!