Exmoor, Devon

We headed down to Devon at the weekend and stayed at Julia and Anthonys lovely house. Again we got lucky with beautiful weather and travelled all around Exmoor and the Somerset coast and I introduced my Norwegian to the very British "Ploughmans lunch"!

Thirty six

Today I am 36. I don't feel 36, I don't act 36, but here I am....... 36!!!

A Camp

We saw the wonderful A Camp last night. They were great.

I love Nina Persson and she had a stage presence that I really

never expected. Amazing.

My new hobby

After buying one of these cute little plants in a tea cup and saucer last week for my friend Elise (hello, love!) I knew I needed one for myself but there was no way I was driving back to Kent to buy one so instead I made a few myself! On a whim we drove up to Liverpool on Saturday afternoon to see my mum and on Sunday I hunted around Bygone Times for tea cups and saucers ( I found MANY as you will see in the picture above!) and then off to the garden centre for succulents,soil and little pebbles and I spent the rest of the day making and giving them to my mum and lovely step-sister Jenny. Very satisfying!

Happy weekend

The weekend is finally here and after spending the last 5 weekends driving
all over England, Sweden and Norway Im ready for a non driving weekend in
London. The sun is out, the sky is blue (for now, it could change any minute,
this is England after all) and Im enjoying breakfast in the garden whilst Henrik
is asleep in bed.

Things I bought in kent

So many lovely things at the antique fair but I managed to stop and limit myself to just a few Scandinavian bits and pieces. The little teacup with the succulent in was a present for my friend Elise for her birthday (it was difficult to give away because I really wanted it myself!) The other teacup and saucer (by Vicky Hageman) was a present from Henrik bought from Frank in Whitstable. I love it.

Kent

We took a little road trip all over Kent this weekend, we spent time

in lovely Whitstable, walked the White Cliffs of Dover,bought goodies at
an antique fair, wandered around Dover Castle and stayed in a lovely little hotel.
The weather was beautiful and everything was just perfect.

I loved this

I read this little book during a sunny afternoon in the garden last week
and I'd really recommend it, Lucy Knisley writes of her 5 week holiday in Paris
with her mum and its really lovely.

Up North

Went up to Liverpool to see my mum this weekend.
Spent lots of time shopping at fleamarkets and walking on the beach.
My mum has a lovely new house so spent lots of time helping her sort
it out,whilst Henrik got stressed watching his team Man Utd lose to Everton.
I put flowers on my Nans grave and introduced her to my lovely husband.

My name is Lisa and I'm a shopaholic

I cant help myself when it come to Scandinavian design (of course Henrik is my

favourite Scandinavian design really)

As I mentioned earlier I found my heaven in the Iittala outlet shop in 

Strømstad. Here is what I bought (as requested by the lovely Katrine)

I have had my eye on that jug in Skandium for months but got it half price 

In Sweden! woo hoo

Cute Norwegian houses

I love all the colourful wooden houses in Norway.
The bigger yellow house is Lars and Unni's (henriks folks) place
and the little yellow cottage is ours.The other houses I just saw whilst
wandering around, they remind me of the houses at the beginning of the
film, "The Witches", then again I actually think that was filmed in Norway...