Coffee art

Some of you have been reading my blog for a while, and might allready know this. I work in a café/bar/restaurant, and we make loads of coffee every day. So I started challenging myself on how to make patterns in the foam of the cappuchinos and lattes.

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It only took me a week to learn how to pour the patterns, but half a year to perfect them. I am now able to make tulips, lillies and hearts. My next goal is to learn hpw to do the leaf, and then maybe even more difficult ones.

Do you know how to make coffee art?

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Dandelions and rain

It was heavy rain today, and the air felt amazing. Since I have allergies, flowers are my worst enemy. But silly as I am, I love them too much to keep away. So I always get really bad allergic reactions, and then I sneeze all the time.

Hopefully my doctor will give me some pills or something that helps more than the usual ones you get in a drugstore, cause I am constantly sleepy and get cranky all the time for nothing. Cause you know, I don’t itch in my eyes or nose from my allergies. I sleep all the day. I could sleep a whole 24 hours if I didn’t put on my alarm. True story.

Do you have any allergies?

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Not that great

I hate feeling ill. I really do. And today I feel like my stomack is fighting a war with my body, trying to rip me open and run away. It hurts so badly I stayed in bed all morning, and had painkillers for breakfast. Just hoping tomorrow will be a better day. It hopefully will.

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Dreaming of summer

I am looking through my pictures from long long ago, and I can’t wait until summer. Just to walk outside in the sun, wearing nothing but a long dress flowing in the wind and a pair of sunglasses.

Dreaming of picnicks in the garden under the trees, and of ice cream and hot dogs. Just living here and now seems so dull compared to the lazy summer days.

Dreaming of picking daisies from the communal gardens and running away before anyone sees you. Of laughter and sunsets. Old friends and new. Oh how I wish for summer…

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Wasted day and work

So today was wasted in front of the pc again, and I guess I should feel bad, but I am so awesome it is all okay.

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Now I am heading for work, and I am hoping I’ll be more useful there…

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Flowers, food and family

My one and only little brother turns 17 today, and I can’t even give him a hug. Why? Because I moved half a country away from him when I finished secondary school. He’s also in Krakow right now on a school trip, so he’ll probably never know I wrote this, but happy birthday Jon Anders!

I have spent the day sleeping, eating and cleaning. Since we are going to have two people coming to check out the apartment and perhaps move in with us here, it has to look clean and all. Therefore my hands now smell like lemon, and I feel like taking a shower.

At least it smells lemon all over, and my orchids are blooming, so that might keep my good mood up for a while. And then I have work. Always helps on the mood to be a little social.

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Pink skies and dogs

The skies blushed and became pink while the snow fell gently down on Bergen today. It was all clear above the islands and the sea, so we could watch the sunset while we got snow in our hair today. Very wierd feeling indeed. But pretty.

It was snowing pretty hard, and I couldn’t really see the other side of town like I am used to. Hoping this is the last snow of the year.

Since I have been at the gym today, I felt like lying down after looking at the weather outside, and did so in the middle of the livingroom floor. I was literally attacked by this little one who wanted to cuddle. Too cute.

So now I am going to just sit in front of my pc until I get too tired to keep my eyes open. Then I am going to roll into bed and feel good about myself. Love that feeling!

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Sunny days

I crouched up in bed all day yesterday. I had a fever, and I felt so bad I just wanted to sleep all day, so I did. Only time I went outside was to go to the nearest gas station to buy coke and chips. So today I did more appropriate things. I am still not feeling like all that, but at least I am better, and the fever is gone.

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My plans on getting fit for the summer seems to be moving along nicely, so going to the gym today was a must. Especially since I didn’t yesterday. Good thing the sun is up today so I get more energy to convince myself that the gym is the place to be. Especially since I hate running, and that is what works the best right now, so I spend alot of time on the threadmill.

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The scenery is so amazing around here when the weather is nice. Reminds me of why I love Bergen so much.

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Photoshop help #1

I have been reading Miras blog for almost half a year now, and once in a while she posts useful things about photography and editing. Sometimes I learn something, and sometimes she points out easier ways to do things I allready know. So I thought I’d share some tips with you today that I use when editing my images in photoshop. For those of you interested I use the CS5 version, and there can be small changes in where the tools are placed and how they work from older versions.

First of all, you need to know that I always take my pictures in raw format. As some of you allready might know, raw is the digital version of a negative. It contains more information than a .jpg file, and can be altered alot when it comes to the white balance (how much blue, yellow, magenta or green there is in an image), contrast, exposure and basically everything but altering the motive itself. Here is what it looks like when you open a raw image in photoshop:

As you can see, there is quite a few options there that you can play with before even opening the image. Once it is opened, it converts to .jpg and you can continue editing like you would if you didn’t use raw. The only difference is you might not have to, since you allready edited so much directly into the raw file. You can ofcourse manage to do all these things in a .jpg file aswell, but each time you alter a .jpg file it loses some of its quality. So if you alter the image too much, it can damage the whole file. In raw, you keep the same quality all the way, and don’t have to worry about such things.

Below you can see three examples with before and after images of when I have played around in raw. I also edited away the marks on the glasses, and made the details a bit crisper, but that has to wait until another time. For now, enjoy playing around in raw.

Hope this helps you making your editing more fun, and that you can see the quality difference in your art.

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New phone, jewelery and easter eggs

It is finally here! I ordered my new phone just before easter, and it took this long to get it because of the holidays. Sometimes I think holidays should be cancelled, but in the end I am quite happy they’re there after all. But after waiting for it for over a week, I wanted to turn it on and use it at once, and my sim card didn’t fit. So therefore I had to go to the city centre to have that fixed.

When I were there, I also used the opportunity to look at mustache jewelery that was too expensive for me to bring home with me.

I went for the cheaper alternative: easter egg chocolates. Since easter is over, they’re at half price, and i can eat my first egg this year without spending too much money.

I also found some very ugly sunglasses, looking like they were taken directly out of a lady gaga music video. Notice how many fingermarks there are on them. Apparently I am not the only one thinking that exact thing…

Would you buy sunglasses like these?

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Personligalmanakk.com

I decided to order myself an almanac from personligalmanakk.com that makes personalized almanacs and ships to Norway and Sweden. I decided to use my own signature aswell as a picture that I took of a cat last year that I am quite pleased with. I ordered it in late january, and after some trouble with shipping, I now got in my hands. Will just say that even tho there were a bit of trouble with the shipping, the company fixed it as fast as they could, and I got just what I paid for. If you want a quality almanac, this is the place to look for one.

I can allready say that I love it, and I just used a while putting in my personal details in it. I’m going to keep using this all year, keeping track of my weeks. Will probably also buy one for next year when that time comes.

Have you got an almanac yourself? If not, will you be getting one?

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Training in the morning

I’ve noticed that I am always more creative after I’ve been running, and today was no different. I start looking for details in the scenery, and get pretty images.

Do you have special routines to get your creativity going?

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Cupcakes for breakfast

Since my holidays are still not over, I decided to make myself the best breakfast in the world. Muffins! Well, cupcakes with no frosting to be exact. The no frosting part because I messed it up. And because it tasted so sweet I got a tummyache just by smelling them.

But they look nice, don’t they?

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Narwhal kebabs

I was looking online for cool stuff this afternoon, and stumbled across THIS:
I am totally in love. I mean, I want it so badly it hurts. Even tho I don’t really use t-shirts for anything other than sleep in or wear with my snugglepants. I still want it cause of its awesomeness. If you don’t get the narwhal reference, take a look at this:

NARWHALS!

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A couple useful things

As you all might be aware of, I have alot of things to watch over every day online. Not just the blog, but my deviantart user, my youtube account, my bloglovin and my twitter. To keep on top of all these accounts on a daily basis, I need some adjustments to my browser to keep me updated. And with adjustments, I mean these lil icons:

They make my day so much easier, and I thought I might share them with you, so your day can be easier aswell. First of all, I am using Google Chrome as a browser. I used to use Firefox, but it contained so many bugs that I switched. It was a good choice I believe, since I like GC, and it has so many addons to put on. The buttons are just that, add-ons. You can download whatever ones you wish, and add them to your browser. The ones I use are:

Deviantart (download here)

Bloglovin (download here) that is just a button taking you to the webpage, getting red numbers on it when there’s new posts.

Twitter (download here)

Youtube (download here)

What ones do you use? Did you find this post helpful?

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