B O N G O L I F E


New start
September 28, 2006, 7:49 pm
Filed under: Uncategorized

I will continue blogging at http://fnugg.wordpress.com any time soon!

My pictures are to be found at Flickr.

Thanks for visiting!



The harbour
September 15, 2006, 5:22 pm
Filed under: Adventures, Paper, Recycle

Hot Septemberday, strolling by the harbour.

Beautiful notebooks, recycled and handmade from

five and a half

littlelambblue



Bird in the hand
September 13, 2006, 4:36 pm
Filed under: Crochet, Toys

First softie I ever made – a seagull for mister.

m patrizio´s softies.



Yellow inspiration
September 12, 2006, 7:45 am
Filed under: Colours, Inspiration

Last lonely flower from our Sunday walk.

Thrifted embroidery yarn.

Yellow at New York Fashion Week. 

Peeking at what inspires other people:

“I need inspiration” set by Malisonian.

Inspiration wire by Mav, port2port.



Pattern beauty
September 10, 2006, 3:14 pm
Filed under: Paper, Patterns

Found second hand!

Big pile of patterns from the 60s!

Baby duffel!



White and collective art
September 9, 2006, 12:19 am
Filed under: Art, Knitting

Three tons of white lego has been dumped outside the National Museum in Oslo for everybody to build their own version of the museum! Artist behind “The Collectivity Project” is Olafur Eliasson, who has been working a lot with space and light. I particularly like his “Weather Project” and his “Room for one colour.”

Accidental light art on our bathroom wall:

Another interesting white art project coming up on September 21. is Knit-it, a world-wide knitting-performance by artist Liv Reidun Brakstad. There is an invitation to join!



Beret for Bongo
September 7, 2006, 10:59 pm
Filed under: Knitting

Still raining, so I made him a beret, actually looking more like a rasta cap! He refused to pose, but I got a quite interesting picture of him anyway, although not that descriptive, so here is a detail:



Knitting and rain
September 6, 2006, 6:14 pm
Filed under: Knitting

The rain never seems to stop today, so we stay indoors, working on a warm sweater in icelandic wool for me.

More rain …                                          

… and in the middle of all this grey and wet, we found this!



Secrets and hearts
September 4, 2006, 9:50 pm
Filed under: Text

Today we passed these trees full of names, messages and days to remember …

… imprints of people in love, growing and aging along with the trees, forming a strange text about secrets and hearts.   



Beginning …
September 1, 2006, 9:19 pm
Filed under: Adventures

… with the young man and the sea …

… introducing a blog about living the bongolife.