VACATION!!

We finished the main piece of giant book project last Thursday and have been celebrating ever since. The graphic designer, Silje Nes, brought champagne to encourage us to finish, and it was popped at 10.45pm Wednesday 27th of July. Altough, after we got sober again the next day we started finding little mistakes here and there haha 

While I have been absorbed in this project for several months my lovely boyfriend from Katapult Media planned a little roadtrip for us before I finish up the cover for Trøysteboka. A small recap:

Over Hardangervidda we ended up in a ralley called Garbage Run with 260 cars from Holland, good fun and quite a different way to travel in Norway, with people sitting on the roofs of their cars drinking in 80km/h… Hmm.

We went to a birthday party and family gathering in Asker…

Met up with my editor in Oslo and did some more work on Trøysteboka over a milkshake at Ryes


Stayed with painter Grete Berg Stenmark in Sandefjord, whom I met while I lived in Paris. (This is her studio!)


And her garden looks like some fairy tale place in a story book.

She had an art school for kids while we were there, that we also had fun attending

And lots of wine and good company with other artists and musicians that also lived there with us.



Sun and sea in Stavern, I took this picture before this old sailor decided to befriend us


Cute little houses in Mandal..

Pittoresque lace curtains in Flekkefjord..

It was my friend’s birthday so we took this picture and wished her a happy birthday..




I got my wish granted; to read books while relaxing and watching the ocean. (This is in Sola.)


In Bryne we met up with illustrator Miss Talseth that I got to know at Grilldagene in Oslo in March..

And on our way home we found this sign at a gas station that said “ You are astounding” 

At the same gas station in the middle of nowhere we actually met some friends of mine from Bergen, we were so shocked we couldn’t stop laughing. As random as it gets I think, this place was not exactly on the main road.

Then we visited my parents and sister in Os and now we are home. I’m taking one more day off, only baking cupcakes for a friend’s party and attending it in a leopard dress, and then it’s back to work with the cover for Trøysteboka tomorrow.