Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen I do love my garden book from the 70s where each and every flower is painted down to the very detail. My favorite illustrator of all times is the Danish artist Verner Hancke who died two years ago at the age of 99. He is world famous for his drawings and […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen I have a passionate relationship with books. I love to read and surround myself with bookshelves. I also find a childish joy in displaying books under our glass coffee table…and here are my favorite books nowadays.
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen I stumbled over this quote by Pablo Picasso the other day; “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it” ……and so I bought a guitar.
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen We are back on our favorite island Sicily, enjoying the sun, the great wine, the lemons, capers, sardines and the pasta with a hint of fennel. Yesterday we had our lunch in Palermo. I loved the street-drawn lunch meny.
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen There’s a saying in Sicily that lemons are not real lemons unless they’re Sicilian. The land around Mount Etna, the Mediterranean climate, sunny hot days and cold nights, coupled with volcanic soil, gives the Sicilian lemon a typical sweetness and taste that is very difficult to find anywhere else in the world.By […]
I like road signs. In a way they symbolize life. Sometimes I feel that my life is in a roundabout. I keep on ending up where I started. Other times when I think I know the direction, I find myself in a dead end road and need to make a U-turn. But the best part […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen Whenever I recall the odor in the wood shop (sløydsalen) at school. How fun it was using the soldering pen engraving “To my mom” with a heart next to it. I came across this pen on the net the other day and I simply had to buy one for myself. So […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen I am a fan of collecting recipes and I have done it since I was 14, meaning when I go through my binder, it is like passing through history. Here are my favorite nut cake my aunt always served at family parties when I was a child, the crab mold salad […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen I found this great, happy-looking bird on a book cover the other day. A famous quote from Dalai Lama says; “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions”. True enough and according to an article in Time magazine the happiest among us simply make time for this: […]
Photo: Kristin Bae Mysen “Home is where the heart is” as the Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder said wisely already around 50 AD. This is one of my favorite sayings because my home does actually represent the center or the heart in my life. For me it is a shelter where I can be my true self, surrounded by the […]
