My oven is busted, but still making gingerbrad cookies and desserts.

Necessity is the mother of invention, they say.

In norwegian the saying goes "Nød lærer naken å spinne" meaning that need/distress theaches naked lady to spin.

Well my oven just broke down and I had made some gingerbread dough, what to do, what to do.

A little while ago I made a traditional coockie useing a krumkake iron, 

(read about krumkake HERE for explaination)

I thoght, why not give the old iron a try.

Milkpaint, safepaint and the bedroom in the attic

When I bought this place, the rooms in the attic had a yellowish tint and when I painted the floors light grey I they really thought they looked yellow.

I decided to ty out a new whitewash, that just came out on the market here in Norway.

Milkpaint and Safepaint, the difference is that Milkpaint needs an extra bonding agent when you mix it, when you are going to paint already painted surfaces. 

How to make windows for gingerbread houses and other gingerbread projects

My oven is busted and while I contemplate what kind of oven I am going to get, I have come to the conclusion that I will not be making any houses this year.
Even though I won't be making any, I tought I'll show you how to make hard candy windows.

Friday cocktail, A Remy Martin Side car

The girls were bold, liberated and had short cut hair.
 They painted their lips with raspberry red lipstick and pouted their mouths.
They wore scandalously short dresses adorned with feathers and pearls.
This is the image I have of the Flapper girls in the 1920's.

Be my love- Aya Romano

copied from Youtube

Wood storage

Cosy advent lights in antisipation of Christmas, last sunday we lit the second candle counting down towards  the festive hollidays.

It is perched on top of on Expedit shelves I bought from IKEA.

Winter has finally arrived and it is getting colder and ligting the fireplace gives a warm and cosy feeling.

I got some fire wood and did not have a nice way to store it, so I just sett it on top of some brown packaging paper.