Lucky me! Soap in the mail.....

Last week I was lucky as I pressed the "like" button of the Facebook page "Grønn såpe" and won a piece of home made soap.
Grønn såpe on Facebook
Today it was waiting for me at home as I arrived from a weekend at my parents.

Look at the nice package! It smelled wonderful... I tried it at once. It left a nice, clean feeling without too much scent or no residue. A very good soap! I will get more for sure....

Get your own here: Grønn såpe på Epla (Norwegian customers)

My choice was the soap named "Ruby" because it had cherry blossom fragrance.... (yes, you figure why!)

- Clean Linuz

A new toy....

Today, I was so lucky, lucky, lucky...... because my new kitchen machine arrived.

Yes, my dear dad got me a Kitchen Aid! I can´t wait to put it to use... today I just cleaned it and looked at it. :)

My first test will be to make matcha ice cream I think, so stay tuned!

I went for a black one to match the coffee machine!

I also got some lovely flowers from Mr. Linuz: Isn´t he the best?

Yes, it was my birthday - I don´t get these things every day....

Creative weekend

This weekend I went to a market in Oslo to sell my kumihimo jewelry. I always bring the mobidai to show people that I´m actually doing this by hand - and this is a big surprise to them.
Anyway, it was a nice day and I sold a few bracelets, talked to a lot of nice people and braided some cords. I´m working on some bracelets for legs, that´s always popular in the summertime + I made some earrings.

Here´s some new stuff:
http://epla.no/handlaget/produkter/225930/

And this is the market I went to:
http://www.sondagsmarkedet.blogspot.com/

Sadly, being away doesn´t help my garden.... and it´s been raining quite a lot the last week. I hope for some sunny days this coming week, in that way I can make up for lost progress and get my garden in shape. At least the tomato plants are still alive, with some flowers!

Earrings in the window (on chopsticks - they´re so versatile!)...

Planting and braiding!

Besides my everyday duties; work, husband, child, home, I find time for my two favorite things to do these days. Sunday we went to the local garden center to look for plants. The arrival of Austin roses was delayed, so I couldn´t get a replacement for my dear Heritage II who died this winter. Two very cold winters in a row has killed two lovely roses.... I still haven´t decided if I´ll get a Heritage again, or if I´ll try some other rose.

I´m looking here:
David Austin Roses
(but only a few varieties can be bought in Norway....)

I still got tomato plants, lavendel and a mint plant. They´re currently in my front garden (sunny side).

On the kumihimo front, I´ve made quite a few bracelets and some necklaces.

This one I like a lot:

Pink with blue flower

Most of my products can be ordered custom color and length, with a choice of silver or gold plated details.

:) Linuz

Og vinneren er.......

..... etter god, gammeldags lappetrekning ut av en blomsterpotte her på jobben (har bilde på mobilen, men dere får tro meg på mitt ord så lenge)......


Ble vinner av et armbånd i fritt valgt farge/r og fletteteknikk:
The winner of a bracelet is:


* Turid Bylund *


Gratulerer! Takk til dere som deltok. Det gjenstår fremdeles trekning på Facebooksiden til krysantemum design + at butikken på Epla alltid er åpen (hint, hint...) :)

Turid: Vil du sende meg navn, adresse + ønsker når det gjelder armbåndet (mål i cm, farge/r, rund/ flat fletting, sølv/ gull-detaljer, låstype) så starter jeg på det med en eneste gang! :) Send melding via krysantemums side på Facebook eller via Epla.

Beste hilsen Line

Rice! 米

Rice and new sakura rice bowl

Oh, simple happiness... yesterday I went to the japanese grocery store with my little girl and got supplies. I decided to get rice grown in Japan, much more pricy than the Italian or US-grown types, but worth it I think. We also got nori, kids crackers and furikake.

So we had dinner; new cooked rice, salmon and asparagus with nori on top.

ご飯 Still with training chopsticks....

New creations

While you´re waiting for me to draw a lucky winner; why not check out my bracelets for inspiration?

Ta en kikk i butikken på Epla; hvis du er den heldige vinner kan du velge fritt mellom rund eller flat fletting, og med fritt valgte farger (desverre ikke armbåndene med perler/ stener innflettet).

Hva med dette armbåndet?

http://epla.no/handlaget/produkter/205455/

:)

Celebration!

Why not? We´re fast approaching 5 000 page hits here on Life of Linuz.... so, after we hit the magic number I will give away a bracelet to one lucky winner!

What do you have to do? Leave a comment on my blog + click "like" on krysantemum design´s Facebook page. If you´re not using Facebook, leave a comment anyway and mention me in your own blog (if you have one), and that´ll be okay too.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Krysantemum-design/113532282056909

Jeg gir bort et armbånd for å feire 5 000 sidebesøk (snart). Hva må du gjøre? Legg igjen en kommentar i bloggen og klikk "liker" på Facebook-siden til krysantemum design. Har du ikke Facebook, kan du legge en kommentar i bloggen + evt. linke til min blogg i din egen/ nevne min blogg eller Epla-butikk og du er med allikevel!

:) Linuz

You choose the color/s!

Fritt valg av farge/r!

New design

Sorry for changing my mind so often the last days. But finally I´ve made up my mind and picked a custom design for my blog. I hope you find it nice, and still easy enough to read.
I´ll continue to make small adjustments regarding text, sizes and so on. But I hope it won´t be too confusing!

x Linuz

New background pic.

New matcha 抹茶 bowl.... 茶碗

茶碗 Black beauty

While buying a print at The Yooniverse studio http://www.theyooniversestudio.no/ last week, my eye caught some nice, japanese bowls. So, off course I had to get one, perfect for making matcha. And my litle girl got one with an owl.

Back home I realized I´ve lost my matcha whisk... so I´ll be getting a new one next week!

Hoot, hoot!