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Thank you so much for this post! I'm all new to Etsy, and will especially look into the SEO.
Commented Dec 4, 2012 on Selling on Etsy: The Learning Curve at Vintage Rescue Squad
Selling on Etsy: The Learning Curve
The first non-calendar item I ever sold on etsy (Nov 2010). Ugh. Horrible staging. An interesting thread in the etsy forums today got me thinking about the massive learning curve necessary to make the transition to online sales. Many of us that have been doing shows or selling in booths for y...
Oh my, did you have four children in four years?? And I thought mine came close, they're 6,4 and 0. How do you...cope?
Commented Nov 27, 2011 on Thankful at BloggingDangerously
Thankful
I am taking four days off. I will miss you terribly but can seriously use the break. Before I go... I am thankful for: My Husband and My Children My extended family - even though we don't always get along I know they're there My new job - sometimes it takes scaring the hell out of yourself to s...
I great post. I had to laugh of the comment about long, deserted country roads conjure up the dark side of your imagination, I can totally relate to that. A safe neighbourhood also conjure up the dark side of my imagination sometimes (especially when I'm home alone and Polar night sets in). However, let's say - jogging along long, deserted country roads sets of the imagination off pretty quickly.
Commented Aug 18, 2011 on 29 days (a retrospective): 2 at LoveLetterDaily
29 days (a retrospective): 2
Way back in the dead of winter, when we were planning our third summer trip Downeast, we knew from experience that the house would be the thing, almost the only thing. We didn't want to go somewhere only to feel like we had to then go somewhere else; we wanted to stay somewhere that was the de...
Hi! Found you through Flickr, a fellow thrifter - yay! Love the Figgjo mug, those are very popular in Norway too. And the fabric!
Commented Aug 12, 2011 on Thrifty at KissKus
Thrifty
On Tuesday -while the children were staying with their grandparents- I had a little time for myself. How rare and wonderful to be just by myself and not having to care for anyone else! I decided to have a mini roadtrip :) I went to no less than 3 thriftstores!! And I found some treasures. An a...
It's impossible that it can get any better than that. Looks aboslutely fantastic, stunning landscape and atmosphere.
Commented Jul 8, 2011 on Val d'Orcia, Southern Tuscany at FuoriBorgo
Val d'Orcia, Southern Tuscany
Each time we drive through Val d'Orcia, Tom says, "It doesn't get much better than this, does it?" And each time I answer, "No, it doesn't".
Hi, congratulations with expanding!! That is wonderful news. And I thought three is a brood! I'm stopping on this third one, but I guess she'll have to turn up first. Due date 18th of July, but hope it'll happen two weeks later when we have settled in the new house, and my other girls are back in school and kinderkarten. That would be what I ordered, but we'll see..
Good luck, happy to see you back here!
Commented Jun 14, 2011 on expanding at LoveLetterDaily
expanding
It's not really my style to post a sonogram picture, but if it were, this is where it would be. Because come fall, we are going to be adding baby number four to the brood. That last word, brood, is an important one for me. We have always wanted a big family, and while everyone has their own de...
Hi, thank you for visiting me on my blog! I really like yours, so much inspiring design!
Commented May 14, 2011 on studio andaacht : christien starkenburg at madame hervé : behind the curtains
studio andaacht : christien starkenburg
Great collaboration between the designer Christien Starkenburg from Slowwood and the styling profis from Studio Andaacht!! via bloesem
If I could choose I would have not worked for a year, and tried to write a novel!
Commented Apr 6, 2011 on Barbara Sher & a Book Giveaway at Apron Thrift Girl
Barbara Sher & a Book Giveaway
I Could Do Anything by Barbara Sher It's still a relatively strange concept to hold conversations with my children that are on a deeper level than discussing toys, early childhood concepts and diapers. Four years ago I thought only about having more children. That very thought consumed every b...
Wow, that looks so good! Must be so fulfilling to make a dish out of something in the garden. I have plans of becoming a garden goddess myself-Arctic style, as we now have a garden for the first time in our adult life.
Commented Mar 28, 2011 on a harvest of cabbage leaves at FuoriBorgo
a harvest of cabbage leaves
Back in October, I planted cabbages and leeks, my first real attempt at winter gardening (here). Five months later, I harvested a basket full of cabbage leaves, and two tiny leeks - the rest of the leeks had disappeared, I'm not sure when and how, while all the cabbages survived the winter, ...
Happy birthday! I'll join you in six months. Isn't it fabolous that we have a whole year to plan that big four o birthday! We have been under the weather here as well, but it's getting back to normal now. Spring is far away, though.
Commented Mar 15, 2011 on keeping faith at LoveLetterDaily
keeping faith
I've been a little sad about how infrequently I've been here lately. Between the usual demands of our days with two grown-ups and three little ones to keep track of, plus the added pressures of everyone in the house finding themselves repeatedly under the weather these last couple of months, it'...
That looks like a treasorous date. I have some news very soon, and I may have to ask you for some advice a little bit further along...
Commented Jan 12, 2011 on breakfast date with my girl at LoveLetterDaily
breakfast date with my girl
Sitting across from her at breakfast the other morning at a small, warm cafe around the corner from her school, watching how the light caught the contours of her face, in such perfect concentration on the task at hand, I was reminded of several things; how much I love and treasure her dear hea...
Happy New Year! I look forward to follow your life and abouts in 2011. Best wishes
Commented Jan 1, 2011 on a full year at LoveLetterDaily
a full year
Eating more cake is not really on my list of resolutions -- my actual, pen-and-paper list is more about goals, anyway -- but I saw this sign in town the other day and had to take its picture. To me, it is simply a happy reminder to live in the present and to make and experience as much joy as ...
Oh, that looks so nice, and green. Do I spot a Norwegian chocolate bar there, the best Norwegian chocolate bar there is, actually?
Commented Dec 10, 2010 on summer retrograde at Knitting Iris
summer retrograde
Clearly this is out of season but, while laid up with the last vestiges of a 24 hour style flu, I spent a good part of the couch-time going through pictures and came across these. This would have been the sole weekend last summer when we could have gone c...
Oh, I love this post so much! The grandmother looks faboulous - and fun! We don't have the Thanksgiving celebration here, it's all about Christmas. But we have friends who've lived in the States, and report back about this pecan pie goodness. I may have to start this tradition too, especially since having mixed feelings about Christmas (as many with divorced parents, maybe)It looks so great!!
My daughter will be dancing in the Nutcracker this year, I guess I will start weeping when we climb in the car already. And I wonder if her little sister can sit still for the whole show...we'll see.
Commented Dec 2, 2010 on sweet December at LoveLetterDaily
sweet December
It's late and I am tired, but I promised myself I would get in a post today, so I'm determined -- if for no other reason than it's the first day of my favorite month of the year. Welcome, welcome, sweet December! Pulling us back to November for just one moment, however -- since we're still knee ...
Impressive that she came and asked you for an art project! Here it's more "Mum, can you look for my Polly Pocket tiny doll that's hidden somewhere?" But now that we've finally got a huge table in the living room to eat and play, I'll come up with something more than simple drawings maybe...
Commented Nov 23, 2010 on bringing it at LoveLetterDaily
bringing it
We've been gathering supplies for weeks in anticipation of this project, which dovetailed so nicely with our Thanksgiving preparations. It was such a fun, relaxing and creative evening -- mostly for me and Annabelle, who's been asking for weeks, "Please Mama, can we do an art project?" -- and ...
Hi, nice to see you! I got the oppurtunity of visiting Whole Foods that you've been talking about, in Boston. Definately a place to hang out - for a long time! I was there sans children, but how great it would be with a baby sitter there! However, I live in Norway - not great food stores here.
Commented Nov 15, 2010 on in the kitchen at LoveLetterDaily
in the kitchen
I've been here a lot lately, working with what I can only describe as renewed purpose. Feverishly, I daresay. As the temperature cools and the darkness comes earlier and earlier, the pull of my favorite room has become downright insistent. This is where I want to be, surrounded by my loves, my...
Recognize the Marius sweater! It's fantastic, isn't. A true classic. Can't believe you still have mushrooms, long gone here.
Commented Nov 9, 2010 on boughing at Knitting Iris
boughing
gathering grand fir boughs, fresh water snail shells. growing gnome beards. warring with berries & beargrass spears. so many fungi out there, you can barely move without seeing or stepping upon one.
Have a splendid trip, it sounds fun (and hectic) I just spent three intense days with family members down south. It was great and very whirlwindy.
Commented Aug 10, 2010 on look what I made at LoveLetterDaily
look what I made
It had been percolating for weeks. I want to make my own ice cream. But, not owning an ice cream maker, I was stumped. Then, dimly at first and finally quite persistently, I began to remember I'd once seen something on television -- which would mean it was when I had television, which would ha...
I so see what you mean. I live on an island surrounded by sea and mountains, and I don't think I could have it otherwise. Visiting, though!
Commented Aug 4, 2010 on Familiar horizons at FuoriBorgo
Familiar horizons
I took a ride with my dad in the countryside of my childhood: flat plains covered with rice and corn fields bordered by aspens and fruit trees, crisscrossed by straight dirt roads, only a bell tower here and there and the outline of the Alps (on clear days) in the distance to break the flat, ...
Excactly how I think weddings should be, it sounds like it was really special and magic.
Commented Aug 3, 2010 on l & j's wedding at Knitting Iris
l & j's wedding
The site of the ceremony, that notch in the mountain tops, as seen from our place early that morning. About 40-50 of us hiked up there for the noon wedding. View from the top, where the ceremony, and cookie eating, and champagne drinking took place. Then, it wa...
I loved St. Elmos Fire too. And The Breakfast Club. But am a bit afraid the glow has gone if I rewatch them...I rarely get a moment for myself either, but evenings are nice for alone-time. That's one of the reasons the children are in bed by eight sharp (and now we're in the middle of Mad Men season 3 on DVD so lots do do at night!)
The Arctic Botanic Garden is in Tromso, Norway where I live!
Commented Aug 2, 2010 on all by myself at LoveLetterDaily
all by myself
Just me. All day. For the first time in about forever. Hours passed like minutes watching old favorites St. Elmo's Fire and Goodwill Hunting and a new curiosity, The Burning Plain, all instant-watch indulgence on Netflix. I even popped popcorn. With butter. Then I organized our art supplies, ...
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