Author: Anne

Anne is a librarian by day. By night, she reads. She knits. She watches movies and television shows. She enjoys board games. And posting on royal related forums.

Quotation Monday #48

“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.” ― Carl Bard

Mette-Marit’s Jelsa bunad

Jelsa is a small town in South West Norway. It’s a minimum 3 hour drive (depending on ferries) from Norway’s 4th largest city. View Larger Map Jelsa is interesting in this context only because Crown Princess Mette-Marit has a national costume from there. Last week, I talked about how the wearer of the bunads tend… Continue reading Mette-Marit’s Jelsa bunad

Lemon & Poppyseed Muffin

Sometimes, baking means accepting failures. And then there is the option of what to do with said failures. I was going to make these muffins from Passion 4 Baking: Starbucks Skinny Lemon & Poppyseed Muffin. But something went wrong. I either filled them with too little dough, used the wrong sort of baking powder, or… Continue reading Lemon & Poppyseed Muffin

The Ski Museum

On Saturday, when the majority of people on the Frognerseteren metro-line were heading up to ski, I was heading up for the Ski Museum. If I had been a bit smarter about this – I would have realized that the Ski Museum is really a better place to visit if a) you have your own… Continue reading The Ski Museum

The Telemark bunad

In theory, to wear a  Norwegian national costume, (a bunad), you should have some relationship with the place the bunad comes from. Either with an ancestor from the area or living in the area yourself.  Or sometimes, gifting to a royal, it is good  PR when the royal is photographed in it. “The red jacket… Continue reading The Telemark bunad