raspberry heaven

look - we found raspberry heaven - in an old, abandoned garden they were growing - big as strawberries!

the garden

I used to grow peas and cucumbers on the windowsill in my tiny city apartments. The plants got long and pale with small leaves and deformed fruits from lack of space, light and nutrition. I promised myself that one day, somehow, I will find a real garden to care for. Here it is;

The fruit trees in our garden are probably almost 100 years old. The most beautiful one is a big cherry tree, blooming spectacularly in spring. Now, the cherries are ripening, but the birds eat them all. We also have red and black currants, apple trees, blueberries, raspberries and stikkelsbær.

My first project in this garden was a small vegetable bed. I promised myself to keep it simple this year as the two minis need most of our time. But - we have lots of coriander, parsley, dill, lettuce, carrots, peas, radishes and calendula that managed to help themselves quite good with just a minimum of care.

there are lots of strange flowers, and big old trees to love forever.

the house

The house we renovate is a white wooden house built in the early twenties. The roof is made of beautiful chiffer tiles. It has a sunporch and many windows so the light floats beautifully through the rooms.When the sun sets we have a fantastic light show on our livingroom walls. We call it our private cinema.

We were looking for a place where we could realize some of our plans and projects; an organic garden, an atelier for S, a room for me to write in, a big kitchen for our veggie experiments, and a factory for smallscale production of something good. We wanted to be able to build up a sound studio, an organic bakery and plant a walnut tree if we felt like it. We wanted to have the open sea within reach. Last winter we found our house. It had everything of the above, or at least a potential of getting there.

So what we have is a frame at least. We have lots of space and charm both inside and outside, and we can hear the sea roaming in the background. It is a start. There are no straight lines, the paint is falling off everywhere, we do not yet have a kitchen or a real bathroom. Yet we love our house. It has a special mood. The first time I was here, I found ladybugs on the window sill. It felt like ours from the first time we saw it.

painting, sewing

I have 12 windows to paint. Poor flies get stuck in the paint all the time.




I started making summer clothes for Leo. I tried to do a photoshoot with the model himself wearing the new outfits, but I guess that is not the way two-year-olds work. This shirt is for summerparties and is made out of my grandfathers old shirt. I love recycling textile!

blue

Top: Painting windows - the blue tape is so beautiful with the light coming through. I don't want to take it away ...

Bottom: Leo's hands - turning into spiders all the time these days ...

summer production

We are having beautiful and busy days around here; cherry trees in spectacular bloom, planting, painting, making summeroutfits. Hope to have things to show you next week. Happy weekend!

Top: summer wardrobe in the making
Bottom: peanuts in he making

first leaves

As I took a walk in the garden last night, I realized that the first leaves of the year had popped out already. Such magic every time!