{ Purple advent }

Although I´m not having any traditional purple in my home this advent, certainly doesn´t mean that I don´t like it. Purple decorations this time of year bring out some good childhood memories. We always had purple during the advent... Anyway, when I saw this living room I actually think that I will go for purple next year... I can still have my white candles (as I always do), but I can bring in purple by adding some cushions and throws...

Beautiful right? I love the look of this living room! It seems so nice to have a couch in front of a fireplace like this.... especially now during the wintertime.


(Images: Femina.dk )

{ Free Christmas decoration... }

Our Sunday walk in the forest resulted in a cute little juniper tree that I have put in our living room. I think it´s a nice way to bring some Christmas spirit in the house, so I will use it as Christmas decor until the real Christmas tree enters the house.

Kind of decorative right? Let´s hope it stays alive even though it only gets water... Do you have any experience with this kind of tree?

Flowers and scented candles are always a great way to set the mood as well. Tulips and hyacinths are both lovely, and they give me a true Christmas feeling...

Are you having a tree this year btw.? If so, what kind of tree are you having?




( Images: Nina Holst )

{ First Sunday of Advent... }

The day is here; The first day of Advent! The star is now twinkling in our kitchen window, and the first candle of four is ready to get lit....

As for Advent candle holders I have used four of Kähler´s Avvento trees on a black platter together with some nuts and pine cones... Traditionally it´s supposed to be purple candles, but I went for white ones together with green trees - what color do you have on your Advent candles? 

Do you have this kind of tradition in your country? What kind of preparations have you done for this first day of Advent?


Wish you all a lovely day.... Here the sun is shining today and we are going out in the woods for a walk ...




(Images: Nina Holst )

{ Winter cold & Christmassy }

I love looking at all the Christmas collections out there - you can actually get a lot of inspiration from their styled product photos. Hübsch always have a lot of lovely pictures in their inspiration file, and they don´t let us down with their wonderful Christmas collection either. Enjoy....

I´m usually the person that falls for cold colors and I do love the images above, but I have to say that the warm and cosy images underneath gives me an extra Christmas feeling...
Oh, and notice the deer cushion - L O V E L Y !

Do you see anything you like?
You can see more of their cosy photos on their website if you like what you see above. You will get lots of inspiration....

Happy Friday everyone! Any great plans? I´m actually going to a Christmas event in a lovely flower shop called "Blooming" in Oslo tomorrow. Other than that I´m planning to buy most of the Christmas presents tomorrow. My plan is so enjoy most of December and not running around for presents... Have you started yet?

Thank you so much for all of your wonderful comments on my DIY advent calendar  - you are all so sweet...

Nina
xx



(Images: Hübsch )

DIY: Advent Calendar

December is sneaking upon us, and it's time to prepare an advent calendar. I haven´t had an advent calendar in many years so this year we are definitely having one! I think the one with gifts are the funniest one, so I have made us a calendar that we can hang 24 gifts on. ( 12 each of course..*smile* )

Use your imagination - use whatever you have available and use the colors you prefer.

I´m actually quite happy with the result, and I´m really looking forward to fill it up with presents!
It´s so much fun making things like this - it makes me feel like a kid again ...

Do you have your advent calendar ready yet?



(Images: Nina Holst )

{ Guess what... }

.... I have made using this?

I´ll show you tomorrow. So stay tuned!

Have a lovely evening, morning or whatever it is where you live..

( Image: Nina Holst )

{ A happy day }

Yesterday I had my dear friend Cecilie over for lunch, you might have heard of her lovely blog "Cecilies Lykke"? Well, she is really the sweetest person to be with, and we had a wonderful time talking and eating (way to much! ) "mini - pizzas"  and cupcakes - OMG, I was so full afterwords.  *smile*

Cecilie brought me the loveliest gift... Two black & white striped Christmas balls and a little ball with the letter N for Nina - how sweet isn´t that? As you can see from the rest of the pictures I´ve started lightly with the Christmas decorations as well adding Kähler´s Christmas trees, some flowers, pinecones and of course a lovely larch twig....

Can´t wait to get those new Christmas balls up on the tree... But I guess I have to wait a little bit longer for that *smile*


Have a lovely day everyone - thank you for all your sweet comments. I´m so thankful for each and everyone..


Nina
xxx

{ Christmas moodboard }

Okay, so here you have yesterdays project - a Christmas moodboard! This is very me at the moment. I will not have a colorful Christmas, but I will bring nature in to soften up all the black and white.

This moodboard gives me so much inspiration; It tells me how I will decorate for Christmas, wrap the presents, make my Christmas cards, and it actually inspires me to do some more DIY´s... The creativity just flows!

Do you get any inspiration from this moodboard? I hope you do! *smile*
You should try making your own - it is so much fun!

If you wan to see last years Christmas moodboards you can see them here and here.

Have a creative one!



(Images: Nina Holst  )

{ Finding inspiration... }

Here you have a little preview of what I´m working with today - A Christmas moodbard! I love making moodboards when I need inspiration and to get new ideas - do you?

I´ll show you some pictures of my moodboard tomorrow, so make sure to pop by... *smile*



( Image: Nina Holst )

{ Who will be the lucky owner of a new clock? }

I can see that a lot of you liked Mrs Hardy´s clocks, but there can only be one winner...

....and the winner this time is Cathrine with the lovely blog Cathrines Hjerterom.  Congratulations to you!

Please send me an email too: nina(at)stylizimo(dot)com, so I can get your adress.

{ Industrial storage }

Hello everyone! How are you? I´m always in a good mood on Fridays - I just LOVE weekends, but I guess I´m not the only one who do that, right? *smile*

I have to show you this new industrial cabinet that we´ve bought for our living room. We needed more storage for our glasses etc., and I found this cabinet very suitable and likeable. 

I love getting new furniture in house - having a change is nice.

So what´s your plans for this weekend? I´m going out with some lovely girls on Saturday, and am really looking forward to that. Girl nights are the best!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone - enjoy every minute of it.

I will announce the winner of the FAB clock on Monday the 21th of Nov., so if you haven´t participated yet, you can do that here.



( Images:Nina Holst )

{ Tine K´s Christmas Home }

You have probably noticed that I´m a big TineK fan  - I love both her home and her home collections. So when I saw Tine´s home decorated for Christmas yesterday, I knew right away that I had to share it with you. Just see how lovely this Christmas home in shades of pink and purple are...

The colors are so wintry and fresh - I love it! Do you?



( Images from: BoligPluss / Photographer: Birgitta Wolfgang Dreier )

{ 10 design classics to love }

We all have dreams, and as the interior fanatic that I am, I´m of course dreaming of some of the design classics out there. Here you have 10 of my favorite design classics:

1. "The Egg™" by Arne Jacobsen in 1958.
2. "AJ floor lamp" by Arne Jacobsen in 1960
3. "RAR" by Charles & Ray Eames in 2004 ( fibreglass-reinforced plastic in 1950 ) 
4. "Wishbone chair" by by Hans J. Wegner in 1949 
5. "Kay Bojesen Monkey" by Kay Bojesen in 1951.
6. "Artichoke Lamp" by Poul Henningsen for Louis Poulsen Lighting Inc in 1958. 
7. "DLM XL" by Thomas Bentzen 2007-2009 ( maybe not a classic yet, but it will be... ) 
8. "Kaiser idell 6631 R table lamp" by Christian Dell in 1931.
9. "BL6 Wall Pendant" by Robert Dudley in 1930.
10. "The Swan™" by Arne Jacobsen in 1958.

Do you have any design classics that you dream about? Please tell me! Maybe Santa is reading my comment section.... *smile*


May all our wishes come true......


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{ See you at Storeys? }

Denne julelunsjen hos Storeys frister veldig for min del, og jeg tar turen. Kommer du?

Hvis du har egen blogg er du hjertelig velkommen. Du melder deg på ved å sende en mail til torhild(at)storeys(dot)no innen 24 november.

Håper å se deg der ;)


( An invitation to Norwegian bloggers from Storeys... )

{ Wrapping tips }

Later today I'm going to a birthday party of a good friend of mine, and I thought I´d share the wrapping and the cute little card that I´ve made. I like to put a little extra love into the wrapping if I have the time, and I think this one turned out pretty well...
 

 The cute little butterflies and the little bird is from Heart Handmade´s etsy shop.

I hope this gave you some inspiration until next time you are wrapping a gift to someone you care about...

 xxx

(Images: Nina Holst )

{ Setting the right mood.. }

Little by little I sneak in a few elements of Christmas in our living room. Amaryllis and hyacinths are two of my favorite Christmas flowers, and since they both are white they work perfect now in November also..

The lovely hyacinth was a gift from sweet Lene & Bente at the Blog meetup at Hviit. Thank you again for this beautiful flower.

Do you have any favorite Christmas flowers, and have you bought any Christmas flowers yet?


Wish you all a great Tuesday!
Don´t forget to enter my cool giveaway " - a black Plexi deer or legs clock"


(Images: Nina Holst )

{ Love is in the air }

Pictures like these make my heart melt...

♡

Lovely shades of pink. I would definitely sleep like a baby in this bed. *smile*

....and in case you haven´t seen them yet I wanted to share them here with you. Can you feel the love in the room? I certainly can.


See more pictures from this home on Tine K Home´s blog.




( Photographer: Kaisa Rautaheimo / Stylist: Jonna Kivilahti )

{ All I want for Christmas.. }

I love visiting Cox & Cox´s web shop and look at all their lovely things for sale, especially now that we are heading towards Christmas. Aren´t  these items the cutest or what?

 

 

...a lot of things to wish for.

Did you see anything you like?

(Images: Cox&Cox )

{ Handmade with love }

Do you like wise words in wooden frames, iVotts and "bird house-clocks" - things that are handmade with love and are inspired by nature? Well, then you will love the new Norwegian webshop "Fjellby".
This is a webshop where you can find lots of unique handmade goodies, so you should definitely check it out!

Behind the Fjellby shop is the sweet and talented blogger Lise and her handy boyfriend. 

Congratulations Lise and Robert - I love your work and your webshop!

( Collage made by me / Product images are from Fjellby )

{ Do you want a super trendy clock ? }

Hello you lovely people! How is your weekend so far? I hope it´s great!
I have some great news for you today; I´m very happy to announce that the creative and very talented blogger Mrs Hardy wants to have her big launch of the fabulous new plexi clocks here on Stylizimo. She is now selling wall clocks shaped like a deer or women legs - how cool is that? I love when creative bloggers get ideas like this...

Anyway... luckily for us she wants to give away one of her clocks to one of you readers, and to be part of the giveaway you just have to like Mrs Hardy on Facebook, and of course leave a comment here on which one of the clocks you would like to win. The winner will be announced 21.11.11.

 I´m already a proud owner of this cool, cool clock!

If you can´t wait to see if you win one, you can buy them directly from Manuela for 550 NOK ( $98 ) ex. shipping. Just send her an email.

She also sells necklaces in the same motifs. Check out more about that here.

Spread the love

So do you want this clock?


Did you notice my new logo and look on the blog btw? I hope you like it. It matches the new and improved Stylizimo.com that will be launched soon.


With love, 
Nina





( Images: Nina Holst )