3 months travel!

Tomorrow I am leaving for the trip around the world! I'll be away for 3 months and I hope it will be a blast. If you want to follow my trip go to the travel blog here www.tellusexperiores.blogspot.com

Cheers Synne

Instagram 365

I have decided to try a 365 project. I have really wanted to try it before, but it is a big commitment and hard to do when you have a lot of days where you spend the day in bed with migraines. Therefore I have decided to do it on my phone instead, using the app instagram. These are the photos from week one.

Have a lovely weekend!
Synne

Happy New Year

Happy New Year! 

2012 is here and today I woke up to a good 10 cm of snow and white threes. I have also had a wonderful Christmas with family, friends and fun, snow and cross country skiing, just like it's supposed to be. 

February 1st and my around the world travel is only a month away and things are great!

all pictures © me, taken with my iPhone

I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday and that you get a happy new year!

Cheers Synne

P.S. I will admit that I totally failed to blog in December. I got too caught up in making youtube videos and planning christmas projects and this place got totally forgotten. I will not promise that it will not happen again, but I will try to stop by a bit more often in 2012, deal?

Back with some holiday spirit!

I'm finally done with my exam and I finally have time to do things again! Somehow the whole world went to christmas mood while I was studying and the streets are full of christmas lights and decorations. When I checked the calendar to start complaining that it was way before time, it somehow had managed to turn only days before December, and there was no reason to complain. 

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So instead I have dived into the Christmas spirit and I entertain myself with figuring out pretty ways to wrap presents and decorate the home. It's only two months left until I go traveling around the world and my time will be filled with work during the day and painting, crafting and photography during the evening. I am truly looking forward to not doing homework when I come home and I think this will be a nice couple of months. I will also have more time to this blog and I plan to update it with various christmas ideas and projects along the way. 

What are you looking forward to do until Christmas?

I have a very serious exam coming up so I will be off the internet for some time. 

I'll be back December 1. st with a lot of gift ideas and holiday inspiration, so until then have a super day!

Synne

Do it yourself

Lately I've been really into DIY projects. I find so many great tutorials through pintrest and it really gets my creativity going. My latest project has been to crocket this infinity scarf. I have only ever crochet once before, so this was quite a project for me. I went to a yarn store and got some help with choosing yarn and after a lot of googling to understand the directions, I started. I finished it last night and I am super happy. I had to make some changes to the pattern (mine goes only one time around but it's higher) but all in all I am

really pleased. 

I used yarn of merio and alpacka wool in a warm brown, and even though it was a bit expensive, the scarf is super soft and very warm which was what I was aiming for. I will definitively use it a lot this winter! If you want to make your own, the directions are here. This would make an amazing christmas gift!

Photography on a Sunday afternoon # 3

These are some pictures from earlier this autumn when the sunlight was bright and the fields behind our house golden. The last couple of weeks have been grey and foggy. It's been cold and rainy and time for tee and inside activities. Hopefully we'll see some sunlight soon, but until then I have these memories.

© Synne S. Skjørten

Autumn essentials: Scarves

My mom has always used a lot of scarves and I have grown up with admiring her colorful collection. I guess this is one of the reasons why I have such a love for them myself. For me a scarf is the perfect accessory. It can brighten up, add color to and complete an outfit, it can make you look more casual or more dressed up and if that is not enough it also keeps you warm! 

Credits: Nr 1. Nr 2. Nr 3. Nr 4. Nr 5. 

I must admit that I have quite a few scarves myself, both light, silky ones for warmer weather and a couple of really warm ones for the cold norwegian winter. But even though I have a lot of them I actually end up using every single one quite a lot. The money I spend in a nice scarf is often a lot better spent than if I were to by any other item of clothing, because I make sure that one scarf goes with a lot of different outfits. Here is a collection of some of the scarves I have been looking at lately, but right now I'm making this crochet infinity scarf so I don't think I'll buy any new ones too soon...

Favourite finds: Nature inspired jewellery

Credits:  No 1, No 2, No 3, No 4, No 5, No 6

I am a nature person, I love walking in the forest with my camera and find beauty in the small things. When I see jewellery inspired by nature it really makes me happy, so I wanted to share some of my recent Etsy finds. These are only a few so be sure to check out the artist's shops, because there are many more beauties out there! Some of these will certainly be on my wish list for christmas...


Something is wrong with the post editor and it will not let me add tags, so here they are : etsy, favourite finds, floral, flower, forest, fresh, green, moth, necklace, plant, silver beetle, style, jewellery, nature, inspired, pine, cone, branch, whale, ring, earrings, silver, cocrete, 

Photography on a Sunday afternoon # 2.

This sunday I wanted to share some of latest photos. It's a little while ago, but I got one of my friends to  come with me to this water nearby and take some photos. It was really cold, but a lot of fun! 

All images © Synne S. Skjørten

Always another journal

Lately I have realised that I have a slight obsession with journals and planners. There are so many uses for them and so many lovely ones out there and I have way too many already. The problem for me is that I never manage to decide what to put in the journals and I seldom finish them. Therefore I don't really need new ones, but I end up getting them anyway.

Credits: Nr 1.   Nr 2.    Nr 3.    Nr 4. 

Luckily the same does not go for planners. I am the kind of person who will forget everything if I do not write it down and if I don't have my appointments and things to do scheduled out I am pretty sure I would go insane (maybe I already have...). So around this time of year I start looking for the perfect planner for next year. This year I have had a very nice weekly planner from paprerblanks and last year I had a smaller moleskine. For 2012 I have my eyes on the Frankie journal (no 2. over) or a moleskine or one of the others above...

Are you a journal person? If any of you out there know of a nice planner please tell me!

Photography on a Sunday afternoon

It's Sunday afternoon and I'm pretty tired after doing maths homework the whole day, so I just wanted to share a couple of pictures from this summer. When I look at these they take me straight back to the moment I shot them and the happy memories from that time. I hope you like them!

All images © Synne S. Skjørten

Favourite finds: Ruche

Some days ago I found my way to the Ruche online store and was amazed! The style is perfect for me, just the right mix of cute and stylish. I could easily use a lot of money there, but for now I'll stick with posting some of my favourite finds here. If you know of any similar store, please tell me!

One day I'll buy:   1. These shoes  2. this blouse 3. this dress and 4. this necklace.

Inside gardens

Lately I've found myself looking a lot at indoor terrariums. There is something about having a patch of  green freshness on your desk while you work that seem to lighten up any day. Of course a flower does the same job, but the easy care of a terrarium makes me hope that even I might manage to keep it alive. There are dozens of very lovely glass containers you can find on etsy, but I think I might try and make one myself with that mason jar I put aside the other day, in the meantime I'll continue dreaming about the these lovelies...

  

Starry night

A couple of nights ago my father and I went out to look for shooting stars. We are both fascinated by stars, galaxies and those kind of things, so when we heard there was going to be something special to see we could not keep away. We went up on a field nearby and even though the moon was really bright and there was quite a lot of light from the nearest town, we actually saw a couple of really bright shooting stars. I feel really lucky that I have a father that always have taken me with him to look at things like this. I did not bring my camera, but take a look at all these fantastic images. All are linked to the original source so go on and take a look.

Welcome

Hello and welcome to the Silver Beetle!
This blog have just started up and will be a place for photography, crafts, design, food, style and everything else that interest and inspires me. Just now I am getting the design for the site ready, so expect some small changes! There will also be a new post in the near future, but until that I hope you have a very nice day!

xx Synne