soon Paris

it is j-3 as i will be flying to paris on friday this week , i don´t know what to pack because i get new contradictory messages from my mother all the time , once it is so hot everyone is in tee shirt the other is its raining and cold and everyone is depressed : i think the parisien are just as eager as us to see real spring coming .

last night i saw the documentary The september issue about the making of the biggest american VOGUE number and i kept dreaming about those two womans , Anna wintour ,Grace Goddington , my god what caracter they have , one is cold as ice and freaky the other one is a genius in making dream pictures come true , i really recommand that movie to anyone who loves fashion a bit or a lot .
i have lot to do before i leave but i will try to keep posting and posting :)

blue blue !

i loved this top/ dress from Baum und pferdgarten so much ! too sad i can get the bottom seam down my hips , i will have to enjoy seing someone else be fabulous in it , for the photo christina was trying it yesterday , it is fresh and cool and easy to wear everyday alone or with jeans . and the blue bag is by Louison and its now mine in this color but we have some brown and other shape left .

a wonderfull coat for next winter

i was asked today about what was coming next winter , i think a lot of woman are really upfront in fashion and nothing is better than a very new crisp coat . so here is the one from Phillip Lim ( as a warning : i ordered only one because of the price witch is rather hight but as this customer was saying , it is good we can find exclusive pieces also in trondheim ! so ...if that coat is not sold after a short time in the shop then it is mine :)
it is my dream coat and i would have cried in my heart if i did not have one in shop for next winter .

saturday outfit

today i decided to start taking pictures of what i wear when the outfit actually make sense ( most time it does not make sense as i just put something on while trying to get two small boys in their clothe too :)
so today outfit was my good old pair of Acne boots , summer 2010 beige dress from Baum und Pferdgarten( cost 2400 kr ) , scarf from Missoni , vintage beige bag Chanel , and my favorite spring wool coat from Paul and Joe winter 2006 .

endelig fredag !

one good things about the end of the holliday is that it´s back to cupcakes every fridays and saturdays at shine ! so see you for a sweet piece of cake :)

something about small time luxury ..

i know it is the second time i writte about nail polish but honestly there is something really over indulgent about painting my nails when i have to small boys to take care off and a shop ..and also i have a special fascination for nail polish witch is border line as i never get to use them more than a couple of time before i feel the color is out of fashion.. so about this one , the story is : it is the last trend color from CHANEL , a very special cross over mocca and beige ( how unlikely for me !) it took me about five store in 3 different city to put my hand on one bottle of it ! i was first in paris in a random perfumery and it was sold out , at the oslo international airport on my way to copenhagen sold out , finally at the chanel department inside birger chistensen they had 2 ! bottles left ! of course by then i was totally desperate so i bought one ... ( the real reason why i was at chanel in the first place was to buy a pair of ballerina but i had to satisfy myself with nail polish as all ballerinas from chanel were sold out in copenhagen ten days ago :)
there you can see my nail polish match my last gluten , sugar , milk free cupcakes ( ash !) but the polish was good :)
if you follow my blogg in ten days i am in PARIS again and theeeen i will get my pair of CHANEL ballerinas DEAD or ALIVE !

Tim Walker´s magic world

after a year trying to bring back my favorite photo book home it is thanks to amazon that my Tim Walker book landed at my place today ! i am so happy ! you have no idea how many time i have been dwelling in paris or elsewhere over the question on how much it would cost me in overweight luggage to take that book home . on my last trip i gave up , also because there was a waiting list on it , so i decided to try amazon on the good advice of my other photographer friend www.kimram.com
now i am looking forward to many evening spendings enjoying the inspiring world of Tim Walker .

it is so fun working with friends !

month ago we started anniken and i a trip to dream and creative land that brought us from trondheim to paris , from a room at shine filled with clothe collection to a room with interior , clothe , and a tea salong , from a visit to merci in paris to an article in interior magazine , en bref lots a fun and work and great results !
when anniken set her mind to create some new interior for my shop it is the full package i got : a set of pages with all i needed down to each prices and telephone numbers for all the things i dreamed of ! i just had to choose from all her great ideas and that was the only difficult part :) , the project shine is not entirely ready but in a small week most will be in place and then we will share some well deserved champagne !
in the interior magazine this month you can read all about our trip to Merci in paris and much more from anniken :zhalfurunes.blogspot.com ..

New dromadar cafe !

Oh joy ! Just yesterday dromadar opened the door of its new place and I had to take first a take away this morning early and now on my way home , the interior is a lot more ruff and masculine than the 3 first dromadar and I love the simplicity of it and the combination of the red brick wall , the leather sofa and the cool lighting ! This place is just going to get better as it ages .. And the terrace outside will be the perfect spot this summer ... Its between mollenberg and baklandet , go and enjoy : )

un cafe au zinc , s´il vous plait !

why do coffe looks always so cool in Paris ?
why do coffe always taste better at dromadar in trondheim ?
i know the answers for both but i wont bore you with my theory :)

save a place for that one !

i have been talking about this trench coat from Sonia Rykiel for next autumn for a while so i really feel its time to show it here , it is absolutly fabulous ! i loved it sooo much i ordered it in beige and dark blue and .... pink ! yes yes and the buttons and the doubling also are a dream so let us know if you are interested because as usual we are ordering very few pieces ..haaa how lovely we will be !

girls tea party

this last weekend was really fun at the shop , we had our first telephone order for twelve cupcakes ! and on friday there was sun in the street and this overwhelming feeling that spring was there and everyone was soo happy ! i am posting some sweet pictures to spread the feeling :)

a new brand for next winter

next winter we are going to get really cosy in our new cashmala brand Aymara , but it felt like a really long time to wait until next winter so i had to get myself two new pieces from Aymara and one of them was this beautifull thin cashmala dress in blue , it feels both light and warm and i feel like a wonder when i wear it !

god påske !

something yellow :)

happy friday !

so it soon friday and as promised the lemon macarons and the cupcakes will be delivered at shine early morning ! here at shine we are all about you starting your weekend with joy ! see you at shine ..

something unique ?

so this monday i was in oslo for the day , and one of my mission was to found out all about cupcakes , macarons and other treats in the capital ! i can tell you i ate quite an amount of sweets , i started first with a croissant at åpen bakeri , the new one by litteratur huset , i was quite disapointed , it was not fresh and crispy , rather stale and over dried , it felt like it had been made days ago . the new åpen bakeri local was cool and light and well placed in the center , i then was on my way to kolonihage witch was booming full of customers of all ages , the location is to die for , an oasis on frognerveien , i had my usual and still the best carrot cake in norway : a small taste bomb with the best icing to crown it . everything at koloniehage is ecologic and the owner himself is to be seen helping around everyday , a very nice place above the average , and a great place to have lunch . my next trip was to buy some macarons at sebastien.bruno a chocolatier on frogner too who specialise in chocolate and macarons , there i ate four differents ones and brought back home a full box ,not all them tasted as good as they looks and the samples i brought back home received the same critics , from there i went to united bakery , haaa there the local are cool in all the different branches trought town and most of the bake goods i sampled in the last years meet my taste , but for this monday i had one of their walnut pecan and caramel muffins and it never disapoint ! but as you can see no signs of any cupcakes anywhere in oslo ! could it be that we are doing something unique ?

and macarons too !

kim made fairytale cupcakes this weekend , covered with the most yummy cream and the sweetest butterfly and flowers . a tea dreams for us girls !

our new weekend windows with cupcakes .

kim had a try at macarons in two flavours , pistacio and lemon ...they both went down really well , and i must say it was so easy to love the yellow lemon flavor as the holiday is coming soon ..

a fantastic week !

the shine cupcakes logo is sooo cute i want to have it everywhere ... thank you dear Maiken ! your drawings are the best !

i can tell you not all girls where as still as the little girl in the shine cupcakes logo when they had to choose their favorite cupcakes on saturday ...but oh i do understand them , so many fabulous colors and motives to choose from , then the question was : witch colors for the box and the ribbons , and ..and ..

Why eat one cake when you can have 3

Guilt free indulging ..

Me loves raw

Raw !

No trip to copenhagen would have been complete without visiting 42raw ! It is the new craze in town , also very popular in new york and paris . The restaurant offers in an ascetic room a whole menu of ..namely raw food , nothing is cooked or heated over 42 degree hence the name ; but everything is absolutely delicious ! We tried 3 different salads , all the desert and yes they have the best raw chocolate cake in town ! The juice are super healthy and the whole raw movement claim that you can eat as much as you want without feeling guilty ...we did enjoy ourselves ..

tomorrow copenhagen..

first i want to say how gratefull i am to everyone who came to our little shop on saturday ! it was lovely seeing so many new faces and the good old ones :) and oh did we love love seeing the cupcakes fly off the shop ! i have to apologised for the ones who came in early and did not get their cupcakes at once , thats one of the downside of freshness , they were baked in the morning and kim had to wait until they cooled down to start on the toppings ... but we promise , next friday at ten they will be ready as soon as the door opens .. lovely friday !
also we are currently working on : taaatataaa : macaron !
and tomorrow morning we are travelling for several meetings to copenhagen were i will post about all the places we go and eat :)