Shepard Fairey posters generously donated!

One of our very good friends, Rasmus, is a big Shepard Fairey-fan.

The only thing I knew of Mr. Fairey was his cool election posters for Barrack Obama - there were a few different ones.

Rasmus wanted to sell some of his posters, and found that he has duplicates. So he offered them to us for free. He had his other posters valued by an auctioneer house in Denmark and the estimated value was about £150 per poster. And now we have two!

I absolutely love this! I don't really know what else to say about it. The look on her face is so sad, but strong somehow. She is ready to fight for her Black Hills. Put this in a black frame with a passe-partout, and it will be perfect! It is going to provide just the right colour splash on our white walls in our new flat.

I am not quite sure yet how I feel about this one. The first thing I see - obviously - is the machine gun and it makes me think of Russia. Why that is I can't tell you. But the poster has a perfect message. It is so provocative to me, but it is so true. I am glad, though, that I don't get many Americans in my home so they'll challenge me as to why I need to promote this message. I don't know why it gets me, but it just does. Wow, I am really good at analyzing pictures, their meaning and message. My Danish teacher would be so proud of me :)! Also, the poster has classic Fairey symbols as the "obey" text and the white dove - with a target for the machine gun to hit. Go America!

I'll hang the two posters in our new flat once we've moved and I'll see if the machine gun grows on me. The Black Hills I will love to bits, no doubt. And you do need a pair, don't you!

Decorating a new place - the real reason for moving!

We are moving. Up until now we have lived in my aunt's house while she has been working in Norway as a nurse. Now she has announced her "home-coming" and we have to find a new place to stay.

Luckily, we found a lovely little flat not far from both of our parents and some of our friends. The only reason I say "luckily" is because we have sold our car (!). If we live close to either of our parents we have easy access to a car whenever we feel too bound down and bored of things within "walking distance". Of course, it is not the only reason!! It also means that my mum won't have to walk that far to come and do the cleaning and general house keeping while we are out driving in her car... haha, I only write this because I know my mum isn't reading this :) :)

One of the absolute pleasures of moving into a new place is the chance to decorate completely empty rooms! Over the past few months we have changed our interior decorating style. We have always had second-hand furniture, mix-matched tree sorts, all kinds of colours and it has all been a bit messy and old-fashioned. Now we are streamlining the style to being more of the same basic colours which I can then spruce up by adding cool, homemade pillows or hanging colourful posters in my black frames.

I can't wait to get a more classic look in my home. Lots of white furniture, preferably old, quirky drawers or cabinets with cool designer items on top with magnificent colours. This also means that I get to go antiquing so I can look for a new cabinet for my dinnerware and Royal Copenhagen collection. Yes!

One of my ideas is also to get some vintage looking art on the walls. I found these free printables via howaboutorange.blogspot.com - originally from designeditor.typepad.com, and I just love them!

Cool, vintage cameras put in a classic, black frame. It doesn't get much better than that! All you have to do is download the files, take them to your local copy-store and they can make it any size you want. I still need to get my copies printed, but it will be done! I'll be sure to post pictures of the finished results in the new flat.


I have also been on the look-out for pillows, so I have an actual excuse/reason to make new pillows cases. I have so much cool fabric tucked away in my craft boxes and it need to be used! Well, I might forget about the fabric I already have and then pay fabricrehab.co.uk another visit to order some of their cool, vintage fabrics. There are some of the retro fabrics they stock that I find it hard to live without - especially the Geekly Chic line. They got me hooked and I am a true fabric addict. Oh my goodness, I am getting extra excited about the prospect of all this work!

It is going to be so great to live a place, where we are not living there on borrowed time. Don't get me wrong, it has been absolutely lovely living in my aunt's house, but there has always been a deadline over our heads. It will be great to not have that. Even if Lady Luck blesses us with a child at some point we can still stay in the flat if we need to. It is big enough for that. So we are set for the next couple of years!

I'll post pictures of the sewing projects I will embark on when we move. And most likely, I'll also post updates on the interior decoration, because I am getting oddly excited by that prospect right now. Maybe because we have been living in someone else's furniture for a 1½, and it is going to be so great to see our own stuff again outside of a storage box!

July 1st, please come now!

You can do it! Believe in yourself! Action is the key to success!

I am a sucker for motivational posters, photos and snapshots. Not just motivational posters like "Action is the foundation of all success", but photos with all kinds of quotes like "Music is a safe kind of high".

The first thing I did when I changed phones from my iPhone to my current Samsung Galaxy SIII was to find a new android app, where you can download these kinds of backgrounds, screen savers and photos. I have so many that I don't know what to do with them.

Do I take the time to think about how this very clever quote applies to me and my life? Sure! Do I forget about it 10 seconds after I downloaded it? Maaaybeeee... Do I live my life as I am advised by these photos? Definitely not!

So why do they catch my attention like they do? There is just something about the wording of most of the photos that appeal to me. "Oh, I should have said that to my sorry excuse for a "best girl friend" when she told me to fuck off because I was going through a depression". "Oh, this is so cute, it reminds me of me and my dad when I was a child". "Oh, this is for my best friends in the world".

What the freak?! Why not just think of these things for myself, remember it and live by it?
I try! I have set the "Action is the foundation of all success" as my screen saver on my computer because I use that to write applications and find jobs I need to apply for. I use that specific background to remind that I need to do something - anything - before I can even think about being successful. If I sit around all day I'll never get a job, and this particular background actually helps and motivates me a wee bit more.
And I always manage to find loads of pictures that seem to describe a completely random situation just perfect.

So I guess I'll keep hording random pictures, posters, photos, images and whatnot :)

The Hunger Games-hunger

So, I finally finished the third volume of the Hunger Games series.

At first I was not convinced that it was any good. I couldn't be bothered with yet another series swallowing my life whole and not letting me get on with anything else before I have completed the entire series. This is what happened with Harry Potter, the Thursday Next series, Twilight. I get so caught up and I stay up all night just pushing through. On top of that I am a really slow reader, so it takes me forever sometimes to get anywhere with a book. Even so, it is the worst when you have to wait for the next book in a series to be published. J.K. Rowling sure took her time finishing off the whole Potter-deal. Luckily, when I succumbed to the Twilight Saga all the books had been released and I bought the box-set. Good thing, too, because I finished all four books in 4 days.

Anyway, I started the Hunger Games, not knowing what to expect. But I was hooked! It was so exciting and riveting, compelling and un-put-downable. I love the complex character of Katniss Everdeen. She is a very different antagonist who has more bad and undesirable attributes than good ones, which is really refreshing. There is such a feeling of girl-power that I can't help getting carried away. (I was a teenager of the late 90's - girl-power is real to me ;)).

It's been ages since I started reading the first. I think I didn't start until the movie was announced. Usually I prefer to read the book upon which a given movie is based. It gives a much more detailed understanding of the plot and the characters. So many things are cut out from the story when it is remade for the screen. I know they have to, and some things must be altered to be more camera-friendly, but often it compromises the story. Anyway, it was a great book! The movie was alright, but nowhere near as good at the book. So I was kind of disappointed about the movie. They could have done more..

Then I had to read the second one, of course. I hadn't bought the 2nd and 3rd book, because I was sure I would hate the first. So off to the store, and get on with it! The second book was brilliant. Even better than the first. You get to know the characters even better, the story gets much more complicated. the plot thickens.. However, there were so many new, weird names to keep track of. Never mind, though!
Right now I am so excited about the 2nd book - my favorite of the series! And! It is a real plus that it premieres on my birthday :) :) The first teaser trailer is out, and I am so excited about it. Have you seen it?

I just finished reading the third book. It was so dull to begin with. I put it away for months - I could not be bothered with it! Then I forced myself to finish it, so I could put it away. It didn't take me 10 pages to get fully consumed by the turn of events and I had to spend all night last night finishing it. It was actually a great book. I am one of those people who can cry over books. So naturally, with all the deaths and heartbreak I was bawling my eyes out.I love being to engrossed in a story that even written words can affect you so much you tear up. That also meant I could not put the book down or even think about going to sleep.

Now I have finished the trilogy. Just have to wait for the movies - which will be ages before they are done.. I will have to re-read the Catching Fire before I see the movie, just so the story is fresh in my memory.

Do you have a hunger for the Hunger Games?

First piece of clothing: Done!

I have done it! I have actually made myself a piece of clothing. I am so proud!

The maxi dress trend tends to come back every summer, and I have always wanted to be able to wear one. Being a plus-plus size girl, it can be very difficult finding something - anything, really - that doesn't make you look like a whale caught in a circus tent.

So I thought... Hey, I've got loads of fabric and I know how to work that sewing machine. I'll just make one!   Just as I had the thought it occurred to me that my imagination is making me promises my sewing skills can't keep. But what the freak, I'll give it a go!

All I had to do was to copy the "pattern" of one of my favorite tank tops - of course factoring in seam allowance and various body parts that bulk out a bit -  and then decide how wide the dress should be at the bottom. I love swirly dresses, so of course I wanted to be as wide as the fabric I had would allow. It didn't turn out quite as swirly as the little girl version of me wanted, but it turned out just perfect for the adult version. Who needs to twirl and swirl anyway... Who am I kidding - I'll add extra fabric later to make it more swirly!!

This being my first piece of clothing and all, I am very happy with it! Sure, there are little errors and things I want to change, but no one notices those things except me. So why bother, right?!

What do you think??

I can wear it with or without the belt. With the belt makes it a bit more dressy. Having no belt makes it much more comfortable, for one, but also makes it more casual-slip-on-wear-to-the-beach-ish.

Hopefully I will get loads of opportunities to wear this dress over the summer. Until now the weather has been lovely, so here's to hoping it will continue.

Do you want to make one too?? I can give you a few tips :)

Thanks! Have a great sunday evening :)