things I like today

- a spontaneous haircut (same old) whilst waiting for a couple of films to be developed
- lots and lots of glorious sun all week long
- spring greens and flowers everywhere (the spring set on my Flickr is open)
- a new extra long summer goose feather duvet
- new spring shirts and blouses from H&M
- Lorena's photos from Ireland
- Xavier and Jolayne's Norway photos
- finishing two good books during Easter (Torgrim Eggen "Gjeld" and Peter Robinson "In a Dry Season")
- freshly baked banana muffins with raspberry jam
- Matilde's 52 jams project
- tend
- a weekend at home ahead + plans of gardening
- this photo by Mathias, this by Brian and this by Hanne
- a new to me lovely cookbook Eat Fresh - Cooking through the Seasons by Annabel Langbein

What do you like today?

things I like today

Kodak Portra 400nc, Minolta SRT 101

- working at home after a few very busy weeks
- getting loads of laundry done
- raspberry jam
- crocus and daffodils in our garden
- wearing trench coat instead of winter coat, and converse instead of boots
- a new to me beautiful photo blog: Dear Leila
- this photo by Charlotte and this by Tim
- food by Jen
- an interesting read
- Marit Larsen's version of Vår beste dag
- Fine Little Day tape
- Close Up And Private (via Brian)
- the Easter holiday is fast approaching and I'm really looking forward to spending some quality time at the mountain cabin
- Life Is Carbon is alive again
- a home filled with fresh flowers - roses, ranunculus and hydrangea - after the launch of Artist Diner
- rediscovering a favorite store in Bergen whilst sightseeing with our guests from Paris

things I like today

All the fresh snow from yesterday was washed away by rain during the night. The streets are once again bare. This Friday is grey, wet and windy. I need some fresh flowers to brighten my day.

- this (via Hanne)
- A very Bergen birthday
- back to the future photo project (via A Cup of Jo)
- There's No Place Like Here: Hindsvik short film
- tiny.k (via Door Sixteen)
- the house (via tiny.k) - Kat Heyes writes this blog, she has been feature in my why do you shoot film? series a year ago | I love her Happy Campers book
- Lorena's latest photobook
- this and this photo by my friend Trine, with whom I'm doing this so far secret project mentioned earlier (the vernissage and official launch has been moved from April 1st till April 2nd)

By the way, I don't know if you know this, but I'm a very organized girl. All the photos in my Flickr photostream is organized in sets and all my blog posts have labels - you can see them all in the sidebar. For example if you are curious about all the posts I have done on my home, click the label "my home". All the posts from the mountain cabin are labeled "the mountain cabin", my musings about the weather and life are labeled "life" and all the posts that are like this one, with lots of links, are labeled "things I like today". Feel free to explore the Hei Astrid archives :-)

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Edited to add another thing I like today
- Wrist Worms galore

a new project

This photo is part of a new film project I've been working on since late December. It will be announced soon.

Here are some other things I like lately:

- Jen's new project, The Makers
- this post and photos by Wanja
- Backyard Bill
- the dinner tips you are sharing on The Dinner Project book giveaway
- the first episodes of Modern Family are funny and promising
- Flickr (food) favorites: this, this, this, this and this
- this commercial (via my funny eye)
- this song and video

things I like today

the view from our livingroom window | Minolta SRT 101, Kodak Portra 400nc

- remembering those beautiful, cold days of November (now the snow is gone and it's raining)
- becoming an aunt again some time in June next year
- being a proud big sister because Mari finished her master thesis in landscape architecure
- ambient ball fairy lights (via Avdelingen)
- Exactitudes + article (in Norwegian) in D2
- Covet Garden (via Jeana Sohn)
- Kimm's photos (via Jeg er Jonathan)
- Mad Men Yourself
- Nytt Rom-e-2
- this photo by Hannah and this by Tara
- Cristian Ordóñez, Lina Scheynius and Sarita Lolita's Flickr photostreams
- the new NOMA book from Phaidon with photos by Ditte Isager (I have borrowed a copy of this book and it's truly amazing!)
- the ever inspiring habit blog
- this post by Matilde
- my cooking diary (via Brian, via youngna)
- Kendi Everyday style blog, especially her 30 for 30 project
- the book A Table in the Tarn, describing Le Manoir de Raynaudes
- updating my you like set on Flickr (it's a random mix of my photos that are "favorited" by other Flickr peeps)
- Wasa havre with avocado and herb salt

things I like today

Kodak Portra 160vc, Olympus mju, October 2010

- Nikole's wonderful style and home + Nikole and her father's Herriot Grace products
- Rue magazine (via From Me To You - a new to me blog that I also like a lot)
- Anna Emilia's work
- this photo by Jördis
- Hanne's newborn son
- Yoplait vanilla blackberry yoghurt
- great light at home this morning
- frosty grass in our garden
- shooting with my dad's old Minolta again
- birch trees
- feeling inspired to work on The Dinner Project book
- Jeana Sohn's closet visits
- Karen's (Natascha McElhone) style in Californication
- kitten!
- the Norwegian food blog Kjøkkentjeneste
- talking to my bestis in Oslo on the phone and hearing her little son in the background
- the photo art we bought in New York has arrived

everyday life after NY

August/September sunset seen from our kitchen window

We slept 13 hours last night, trying to sleep off the jet lag after our return from New York Monday morning. It felt so good to sleep in a more or less silent room again; one of the few things I didn't like about NY was all the noise from the air condition, traffic etc. I came to the office late today. To be honest, I don't think I will get much done today, work wise. My head is still on vacation, in the great great city of New York.

Here are some other things on my mind/that I like today:

- this wonderful award from Karianne aka Mammadamen (I will respond to the award soon)
- looking forward to picking up two New York films from the lab on my way home from the office
- the second Seed lamp has arrived
- a colleague brought homemade carrot cake for lunch
- my new comfortable wine red corduroy Uniqlo pants bought in NYC
- reading this after posting this on Flickr (this one is funny too)
- Sølve ordered this soup again for dinner tonight - we both loved it!
- the snow is gone and I don't mind the pouring rain
- Christine's words on photo posting
- J. Crew images on Bonnie's blog - we don't have J. Crew in Norway and I just found out I love it
- Susannah's detox idea
- this photo by Nick and this by my friend Anja, who recently picked up her analog camera again
- thinking about the art we bought in New York
- looking forward to the Halloween themed double 30th birthday party this upcoming weekend; we already have our costumes planned


March/April sunset seen from our kitchen window

Film: Agfa Precisa 100

autumn joys

- admiring nature's changing color palette
- Sweet Paul Magazine Fall 2010 issue
- City:Country an exploration in transition by Jen and Shari
- watching movies; I loved The Men Who Stare at Goats and I'm looking forward to seeing A Single Man and Julia & Julia

Film: Kodak Portra 160vc

pink roses and other things I like

The pink roses in our garden bloom in July. It's so pretty! I wish it lasted so much longer.

Here are some things I like lately
- looking forward to getting my copies of Brooklyn Diary and Sundays Are For Lovers
- Margaret Howell
- Spotify + discovering/rediscovering artists like Feist, Cat Power, Ben Harper, Broken Bells and Susanne Sundfør
- this post by The Wednesday Chef
- productive ideas of how to make the dinner project book
- inventing my own salmon dish (Sølve invents excellent dishes all the time, I rarely do) that I will call baked salmon with pesto and parsley cream
- eating lots of nectarines, especially in salads and smoothies
- a new to me beautiful blog: Folkloric
- this photo by Hanne, this by Alison and this by Monique
- Brämhults raspberry juice
- pink toe nails
- a new cotton button down shirt
- organizing my blog roll in categories
- switching from Internet Explorer to Google Chrome
- Pinterest

I don't like
- the lovely sun from last week is gone
- rain all week...

Film: Fuji pro 160S

elfin sprout

This photo is an interior alibi for my NIB (Norwegian interior design blogs) membership. It shows how I use my Wik & Walsøe vase (a wedding gift); I keep it on the kitchen bench for kitchen utensils - but only wood utensils because they are much more pretty than the cheap IKEA plastic ones.

There has not been so much interior design related posts here lately. My apologies! I have a bit of a backlog of photos (especially film photos) from the summer that I want to show you. I hope you don't mind. In the mean time you can have a look at these interior design related links:

- Charlotte's beautiful home and her old home
- my sister's architecture and interior set
- my home seen through other people's lenses
- Otto's brilliant wallpapers
- famapa's inspiring home
- Abigail & Ryan's lovely homeware collection
- inspiring homes over at Freunde von Freunden
- happy, colorful Blafre
- Silje Chantel's elegant home
- inspirational spaces - indeed!
- Nytt Rom blog

Film: Fuji Velvia 100F (photo taken in April, hence the cold early spring light)

EDIT: Abigail turns 27 today and is having an annual birthday sale in her jewellery shop + the Abigail & Ryan shop. Check her blog for details.

at the office

I came back to the office after the summer vacation on Monday this week. It still feels like summer here; there are not so many people around as there normally is, and my head is not yet really into proper work mode. On the other hand it kind of feels like autumn is very, very slowly coming - in a good way. I'm filled with anticipation for what the next months will bring.

Things I like today
- Matilde's blog and photos (she's the one who got my chair)
- launch of the IKEA 2011 catalogue on Tuesday next week at Linda of Norsk Stil's place
- Brian's Paris photos
- t.h.murphy's Flickr photostream
- Danish photographer Ditte Isager's blog (via Emmas designblogg) (A while back Jen of Simply Photo did an interview with Ditte, read it here.)
- photographer Bonnie Tsang's blog
- this photo by Lucie
- this post by Famapa
- Charlotte's ever inspiring Flickr photostream
- Aromatic Thai Chicken and Lemongrass Soup for lunch in the sun down at the dock with a couple of the artists + a surprise drink of apple juice with fresh ginger
- photographer Mikkel Vang's portfolio, especially his work for Donna Hay and Gourmet (RIP) magazines
- crisp bread with tzatziki cream cheese and thin slices of pink lady apple for afternoon snack
- my new to me fancy office desk that can move up and down

These two shots were taken in my colleague's office and by my desk in early June. Film: Fuji Pro 160S