Today, I’m finally at the destination where my family and I are going to spend our holidays. Last night I was in Gothenburg. I had a great time, and it was fun to see something I hadn’t seen in many years. I decided also that I wanted to start reading something in Swedish, so we bought two Swedish novels.

However, I’m not in Sweden anymore. If you have had a look at what ferry trips Stena Line offers from Gothenburg, you might have heard about the one to Frederikshavn. Yes, I’m in Denmark! In the Southern Djursland area, to be more precise.

It did rain today as well, but not at much as it did yesterday. It blew more today. I could see huge waves inside the Gothernburg harbour area, and when we were at  the sea, it was almost impossible to do something that don’t involve chairs or something to hold on to.

The trip to Sweden went quite well, expect some rain. No, what I meant was: a lot of rain. GP.se (Swedish) said it was one of the most rainy days in Western Sweden in a long period of time. According to what I saw (as someone who doesn’t visit Western Sweden that often), it seemed quite understandable. I haven’t seen that much rain in a really long period of time.

Bad things:

• Some of the puddles were deep enough to possibly do some damage on motors on smaller cars.
• As it rains, the road gets slippery. Hint: I saw a truck with a trailer I was a little sceptical about.

Good thing:

• To some people (like me), the whole ting is really interesting to watch.

On the other hand, the weather in Oslo isn’t much better.

Tomorrow, I’m going to Sweden! I’m so exited since I haven’t been there for quite a while (expect visiting the shopping centres close to the Swedish/Norwegian border, but that doesn’t count because the majority of the cars you see in that area is Norwegian. You are actually allowed to consider yourself lucky if you see more than 20 Swedish cars in the town centre of Strömstad.)

The weather reports (according to a Swedish newspaper. I always try to find local reports wherever I’m going. Especially if I understand the language) looks ok. It will rain, like it has done quite a while here in Oslo.

Anyway, I’m really excited! I think it will be a nice trip!

Q: Have you been in Sweden before?

The diet or sugar free version of Coca Cola’s cherry coke.

It tasted really good, and I also liked the design on the can (to be honest, I have a thing for packaging design).  I love the floral swirls and everything. The can is from the UK.

Yesterday I wanted to give myself a little challenge, so I decided to draw a flower, in only one hour.

This is the result.

The drawing was made in Photoshop Elements 7, and I’m quite happy with the result. I have drawn flowers before, but they were drawn the traditional way. The background was made using the brush tool and the liquify tool, so I didn’t use that much time on it.

Actually, I used most of my time on the flower itself. However, the whole hour included the whole process, from sketch  to finished product.

Q: Do you like it?

I love photographing the nature! It contains a huge amount of hidden treasures  that needs to be shown.

These pictures where all taken in Hvaler, Østfold, Norway.  (Hvaler is an island municipality in the southern parts of Norway, and it is also close to the Swedish border, if you didn’t know)

To me, it looks like dried leaves of some kind, but I do not know what it is.

Yesterday I went to a store I normally would not even think about going to, and I found a scrapbooking book/album and some really cool scrapbooking paper sheets (I’m not a huge fan of scrapbooking). I loved the colours and the designs on the sheets. Then I got the idea of creating an inspirational book for my future graphic designs.

I did already have a few boxes that i had collected for a few months. The boxes were originally used for product packaging, but I removed the parts that didn’t include the logo and the design on the front. I also had some stickers and some flags used for decorating cakes.

This is the paper.

Finished product pt 1.

Finished product pt 2. Do you recognise the chocolate packaging?

To do something similar you basically need a scrapbooking book, and something you find inspirational. It can be almost everything, and the topic of the book is of course chosen by you. Examples of topics to be covered might be makeup, fashion, architecture, cars, whatever.

Q: What do you think?

Just a litte hippo illustration I made after a few minutes of random playing in Inkscape, which is something I never do. To be honest, I was actually quite happy with the result. It looks a bit childish to me, which is nice.

Q: Do you like him?
Q:  Should I make more illustrations like this one?

Chocolate from Russia with almonds inside.

Banana yoghurt with colourful crisp.