INSPIRATION

Bold and Bright Baby + The Nursery

It’s so hard to believe little P (aka Hazelnut, aka The Nut, aka our good friends’ Jon + Audrey Camp‘s lovely daughter) is nearly one year old (this shot is from back when she was a little squish of just two months old). If you’re curious about how her life is unfolding, Audrey has written some beautiful essays on motherhood and life with P here, here and here and you know what, here, too. Actually better just take a look at all these posts on parenthood. They are all amazing.

As for P’s first room, I think it turned out quite well! Audrey sent over these shots from back when we had just finished and she was still pregnant all those days ago. Since then, well, P’s shown up, but the Camps have also bought an apartment in the super cool Grünerløkka borough of Oslo. So now we have first hand proof that Ferm Living’s wall stickers really do re-stick!

Check out the Mood Board and Product Board for this room. And don’t miss the post on P’s Camp Baby Shower also in the same theme of Bold, Bright and Adventurous!

Have an adventure loving week, everyone!

Faves + (St. Patrick’s Day) Green Inspiration

Since today is St. Patrick’s Day, I’ve rounded up some of my fav green interiors for you for inspiration. Green is such a tricky, and yet intriguing, color to decorate with. I was so sure I hated the shade in no. 5, but it works so well with the dark stained countertop + serving board and I’m a convert. My fav shade of green has to be no. 2, in deep emerald (with amazingly awesome fuchsia sofa, love). But I know the weird matte blue-green of no. 6 + 7 is so popular right now, and I love it, too. I was thinking grey for our bedroom walls but now, maybe I’ll be a bit more daring and go deep green!

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Faves + Tranquil Bedrooms

The importance of a tranquil, cozy bedroom can not be understated. We spend so much of our lives in our bedrooms! It’s where was snuggle our loved ones and settle in for a good read or a weekend nap. The bedroom is were we start and end our days.

I love that all these inspiration bedrooms are a bit lived in, nothing is pristine in real life. They are perfect balances of pops of personality in color and pattern with large swatches of neutrals and simple shapes. Right now, my bedside table is overflowing with magazines (there’s quite a hefty stack on the floor, as well) and my dressing chair is layered with clean clothes still to be folded. I think I’m a few steps away from the perfect balance but I’m definitely inspired, especially by number two. That deep blue wall is calling me.

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Crafted + Camp Baby Shower

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This past Saturday was The Hazelnut‘s baby shower in Oslo. I was so lucky to work with two lovely, talented co-hosts, Audrey‘s good friends Zoë and Chelsea. Together we coordinated decorations, games and refreshments across international boarders (well, one boarder, Sweden to Norway) and to great success. Our theme started with The Hazelnut nursery mood board and shifted to be an even more camp-y feel. Thus Camp Baby was created.

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I modified a few crafts from around the web to fit our theme, including these great animal face pins as our guest’s favors. Chelsea pulled together a full yogurt bar, complete with hand lettered spoon labels and Camp Yogurt Bar sign (No Boys Allowed!).

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photos by Chelsea Ranger

I crafted up a little mountain + forest table-scape with orange tent (inspired by Pink Stripey Stocks) cut from cardboard and painted. And Zoë had the amazing idea to add a tiny campfire and mini marshmallows for roasting using toothpicks. So cute!

We also played a few literary themed quiz style games using Kahoot (which worked great). Zoë crafted up 20 paper birthday cards with simple, graphic fabric numbers and each guest wrote a a note to The Hazelnut for her to read on her first through 18th birthdays. I’m not sure how I missed getting a pic of these. They were really great and I know The Hazelnut and Audrey will look forward to opening them every year.

Chelsea did capture a shot of us reading Audrey’s “Telegrams” from friends and family in the States. There is always a few key people missing from parties like these because we are expats. To make everyone feel a bit more connected, I hosted a virtual baby shower (with Audrey’s mom and our best friend Amy) on Facebook for a couple weeks leading up to the party in Oslo. Everyone wrote in with welcome telegrams for the new baby and advice for the new mom. I printed all the messages onto 4×6 cards with a cute little fox logo. We passed them out at the party and had the guests (mostly literary folk) read them aloud. The idea worked beautifully and there were more than a few chuckles to go along with a couple tears.

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// Party Crafts

Woodland Creature Favors

Mountain + Forest Table-scape inspiration

Scalloped Orange, Blue, White + Gray Streamers

Clear balloons filled with 1″ confetti in orange + blue (1″ punch)

Polka Dotted + Scalloped Paper Tablecloth

Yogurt Bar + Sign

Years one to 18 birthday cards

Telegrams on 4×6 index cards

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FAVES + HAND LETTERING IN THE WILD

Today I’ve got seven lovely hand lettered bits as seen in the wild of the world. Well, to be honest (and for the graphic artist snobs) it’s five bits of hand lettering, one bit of hand lettered like typography and one bit of food sculpture. But they are all my fav. Have you seen any great hand lettering lately?

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