food: chicken salad in a hurry

Gunnar Sverrisson for Home and Delicious

The truth can be cold and harsh – like when you're not in the mood for cooking or don't want fast food of whatever kind! What to do? Well, we have a saviour recipe for that kind of situation, that happened to be used yesterday. You will feel happy and set when finished and hopefully remember the idea we put forward. Notice that it's more of an idea of food than a recipe as I feel no measurements needed. It's more what you love and like that rules. 

Chicken salad

with sun dried tomatoes, charbroiled peppers and mozzarella

Grilled or cooked chicken, in bite size pieces

Sun dried tomatoes, chopped (ready made)

Grilled peppers, chopped (ready made)

Fresh basil, chopped

Mozzarella, in bite size pieces

Extra virgin olive oil

Salt and pepper

Ruccola

Parmegiano cheese

Mix everything together except ruccola and parmegiano. Put ruccola on a plate, drizzle with oil if you feel so, the chicken salad goes on top and spread with some parmegiano. Eat and enjoy. 

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birds of a feather...

...flock together. Like these images could almost be a home as a whole but are not. Urban meets rural, style and overall feeling, some connections makes it interesting to look at. 

Photos: The Poetry of Material Things / French by Design

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fashion: the turtleneck

Oh, I love the turtleneck and always have. As a child I couldn't bear being without it. The turtleneck is a true classic to dress up and down, whether tissue thin or bold and thick. Following are images to remind us of the beauty of the turtleneck.

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design: string

For all of you not on Pinterest – I decided to put together a post of nice images of the popular and brilliant String shelvings. Some of these images are all over Pinterest but seen in a context you can see the brilliance of the system. String is a Swedish company and the classic String System was designed in  1949 and has the status of being one of the most loved pieces of Scandinavian design. It's endless varieties is appealing and the great popularity of String has been renewed these last years. These prominent images play their part in introducing the design for new groups of people and future buyers. Here you see String System, String Plex and String Pocket.

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10 bathrooms – useful ideas

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Bathrooms I think have some X-factors to steal. Useful ideas for bathrooms in renovations and many more for beautiful bathrooms in need for some extra touch.

1. Floor lamp and unconventional rug for a bathroom. Two great ideas.

2. The easiest way – some photos on a string to decorate.

3. I'll never get tired of telling people to put some paintings and photographs in the bathroom.

4. Half and half; two colour scheme, great display and perfect unconventional pendant.

5. Focus on one wall and give it a new life with totally different tiles than used to be there. 

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6.  Use different kind of materials to mix but match perfectly.

7. Great wall lamp to add a different flair. 

8. Striped rug or something else than usual.

9. Great way is to find some new kind of fittings - kitchen island from Ikea; how creative!

10. Sea blue wall and you need nothing more.

Some extra images:

Photos: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11a / 11b / 11c / 11d / 11e / 11f

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thanks to John - Sienny

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thanks to Peter - Devina

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thanks to Soeyanto - Sonya

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thanks to Silvy - Irvan

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design: umemi

Ragnheiður Ösp Sigurðardóttir is the designer behind the brand Umemi. Recently she presented new Umemi candlesticks called Hearth tea light series that can be assembled in many different ways. Ragnheiður is known for her Notknot pillows that have been popular in homes, hotels and restaurants. For the pillows she got the Grapewine design awards last year. Ragnheiður graduated as a product designer in 2005 and 2008 as an MA in product design from the Cranbrook Academy of Arts. She has designed a number of interesting things you can see on following images and here is a link to a Hearth tea light series video.

–Elín Hrund

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home visit: california

A home in Sonoma California own by antique dealer Sarah Anderson. The house of her dreams she finally got, renovated and decorated in light neutral hues where most of the furniture and objects have passed the test of time and continue their living. I really like the bathroom and there are a lot of beautiful furniture.

Photos Planete Deco via Country Living. Photographer Alec Hemer. 

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style: feeling warm and well

The weather has been freezing cold and colder in our neighbouring countries than in Iceland actually. In the cold elsewhere it's usually quite still weather but here we have all kinds of wind and wet. That's why you sometimes feel beaten by the weather and just dress up to feel warm and probably not so nice!    When in the cold and you have to and want to look "cool" you can get some inspiration from the images following.

Photos: 1 / 2 / 3a / 3b / 3c / 4 / 5 

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