Notes by Cecilia

c a r r o t c a k e c u p c a k e s

2011-08-31T20:07:00.005+02:00

Had the most amazing carrot cake cupcakes yesterday. My sweet little sister made them for us and the baby as a late birthday cake kind-of-thing :) Sooo yummie! :)

Daddy and Granny snatched the best spots... :)

t r u e ♥ l o v e

2011-08-31T10:49:00.004+02:00

Because a picture is worth a thousand words...

how hooked am I?

2011-08-18T14:40:00.006+02:00

These are the brace pants that I got from my little sister yesterday. Ok, baby got them, alright! :) Anyways, today I matched them with a blue onesie and oh I'm in love! :) Maybe this is baby's going home outfit? Totally hooked! Ha!

image: me

la musica

2011-08-18T14:14:00.001+02:00

Cleaning and doing small things around the apartment whilst listening to Jamie Cullum and John Mayer. Should do that more often... :) I ♥ spotify!

waiting...

2011-08-18T14:13:00.006+02:00

Image from IKEA

SO looking forward to the 2012 IKEA catalogue!!! :) Within the next few days-weeks it should arrive at my door! :) Wohoo! Supposedly a lot about storage - thank God!

♥ blueberries

2011-08-17T15:19:00.005+02:00

I myself got this pajama set (other piece is blue+white stripes) in size waaay-to-big, whilst thinking "eventually...". I just LOVE the pattern... reminds me soo much of somthing (a table cloth maybe?) from my own childhood in Stavsjö. I just had to get it and since there were only large sizes left there was little left to do than snatching one of those.

I have the best little sister

2011-08-17T15:00:00.003+02:00

Not only did she make me come out of my hiding and actually do something today but she also gave me more super cute baby clothes :) Baby says "thanks auntie"! ♥

Jamie's 30 minute meals

2011-08-14T18:20:00.004+02:00

Maybe this can cause my food and cooking inspiration to come back! Would guess so! Coming out in Swedish in a few days and has been out in English for about a year(?) Anyways, new to me. I stumbled across an episode of the tv-show just now - thank goodness! :) And I think heaps (if not all?) recipes are also on his website. Here's what I saw today.

and while we were at it...

2011-08-14T17:06:00.005+02:00

J didn't really come home empty handed either... although the dust it is for me :) Miracle stuff ;)

investment

2011-08-14T16:36:00.002+02:00

Baby times = investment times. But this investment is for me :) And my hair, to be precise. I finally got around to getting these (supposed to be) really great products from Tigi. Hope they meet my expectations.

Mood board #09 - ready for baby

2011-08-12T14:37:00.000+02:00

4 days till due date. Please baby, be on time! :)

Pictures from NameIt, Lindex, Lekmer, Natusan, ImseVimse, MAM and NotesbyCecilia in collage by me.

ready, set, pancakes!

2011-08-11T23:28:00.006+02:00

Yuuum! :) Why don't we make pancakes more often?? With cold milk, naturally!

müsli / muesli

2011-08-11T14:41:00.005+02:00

Today I'm making my own muesli again... before summer ends, I figured :) Not that it's about to end or anything... hrm... :) But this time I'm writing my own recipe and leave out the cinnamon. Will be back about the recipe. But only if it turns out edible+awesome! :)

My last muesli endeavor.

That present

2011-08-10T12:42:00.010+02:00

So here's what I gave to 2-month-old Alicia, daughter of a fav couple of mine and J's. I designed and made it myself (pretty basic stuff) and I'm really happy with the outcome! So glad I went to have it done at a proper print shop! I'm starting to think graphic design really is for me :) Imagine working with something one really loves and maybe even turn it into a business... :)

text says: most beautiful

names

birth info

loved♥

the sneak peek

2011-08-08T14:57:00.003+02:00

Now it's just the other fun part left, wrapping! :) Wish me luuuck!

sneak peak coming up...

2011-08-08T13:57:00.005+02:00

I spent some time this morning (oh, it's 2pm already?? ..so much for morning, huh.) finishing a gift for someone special. I'm so happy with how it turned out! Just going to snap a "sneak peak"-picture and soon I'll put it out on here on the blog. After giving it away, I'll show you the whole thing, obviously :)

getting ready

2011-08-05T15:36:00.003+02:00

Got the packing list done and the baby's things ready. It's harder to start packing all of my stuff... I'm still using most of it. Anyways. 11 days till due date! :)

How gorgeous!

2011-08-05T15:26:00.004+02:00

Flowers I got from J yesterday on our anniversary. They kind of made me long for fall a bit. A tiny tiny bit :)

wow-moments

2011-08-04T10:54:00.004+02:00

bathroom adjustments

2011-08-04T07:09:00.001+02:00

Ha, lots of baby posts now. Getting ready is all! :) Here's how we managed to fit a changing table in our tiny bathroom. The window recess was deep but not deep enough to fit a babycare pad on so J built a kind of fitted shelf to put in front of the window and voila! :) With it comes a lot of well-needed storage space!

new, new & new

2011-08-03T15:55:00.012+02:00

So we went to IKEA the other day and now we've got a new pendant for the kitchen table (unsprayed as of yet and maybe we'll keep it this way? Kind of looks light (light) grey with all the white-white around...) and a big chest of drawers in the wardrobe. The drawers take a lot of space but then they give a lot of it too! So definitely worth it. And it's white :) of course.

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And now I have somewhere to put all our cute baby clothes! Perfect! Ahh, can't W A I T! :) And here's how the wardrobe looked before.

so that we can bring you home safely ♥

2011-08-02T16:53:00.006+02:00

And for you curious people, it's an all-black (never mind the crappy colours in the picture...) 2010 Brio Primo Infant Car Seat :)

i'm going to do this

2011-08-01T15:47:00.000+02:00

[image]

Heaps of pretty postcards, cutouts, photos and what not! Love it! Perfect for any white doorway with white walls around = just about any doorway in our apartment :) And oh-so-easy! Note to self: do this!

for the kitchen table

2011-07-07T16:48:00.003+02:00

I'm so definitely doing this! But I want my kitchen table pendant to be a light, soft, matte grey colour :) Well done IKEA!

seasonals

2011-06-29T16:57:00.005+02:00

Did I ever mention I love strawberries?? Boy, do I! I wonder though, how, when I hulled 4 liters of them, there's only 3 liters left when I'm done? Well, now I just need to figure out what to do with them. Cordial, compote, pie, cake... so many options. Already made jam. Maybe we'll just have them as they are, with milk+cream. So yummy! :)

Ideas? What do you make with strawberries?

my rye+raisin bread

2011-06-25T21:14:00.000+02:00

Here you go! Just choose language and start baking! :) Click the images to enlarge for easier reading!

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such a productive day yesterday

2011-06-23T09:35:00.007+02:00

My last endeavour yesterday was to save some frozen strawberries from last summer. Strawberry jam. Let me put it this way: Had I known it was this simple to make my own jam... well, then I would never have bought a single jar, ever. So much better + without the weird additives. And I love the jars! The two in the first picture are new additions to my collection and from my local grocery store. The others are old jars that I bought with jam and that are now filled with something much better :) Beautiful recycling.

Perfect!

2011-06-22T19:03:00.005+02:00

Yay! My bread turned out soo good!!! :) Yum! If anyone's interested, I'll post the recipe. Just let me know! Kind of a new favourite bread around here I think. :)

Looks like I'll be able to keep up baking my own bread... At least now that I don't have to work anymore. 8 weeks till my baby arrives! ♥

while I wait

2011-06-22T17:55:00.003+02:00

I'm reading this new magazine that arrived today, while I wait to put my experiment in the oven. My fav Swedish interior design magazine Allt i Hemmet, that is. And it's a summer special: Summer life :)

Bread experiment

2011-06-22T17:49:00.002+02:00

Today I wanted to make a new kind of bread but really didn't feel like scanning cookbooks and/or the internet. So I just made my own recipe instead. We'll see if it turns out :)

Can't WAIT! :)

2011-06-21T10:45:00.005+02:00

I ordered this book today and I just can't wait for it to arrive! Now I know what to spend this summer doing! :) It's a cookbook about edible goodies that are perfect as gifts. And I would expect amazing pictures and wrapping ideas, based on how absolutely gorgeous the writer's original blog is :) Linnéas Skafferi - the place to be. (Translates "Linnéa's Pantry")

Cut-out from image by Linnéas Skafferi ©

For all my list-making needs

2011-06-17T20:25:00.010+02:00

A board painted with magnetic paint and chalkboard paint. And then maybe a nice frame around. White of course. Just perfect and precisely what I need! :) Oh, and: note to self!

via

Btw, I wouldn't mind the Kitchen Aid either... :)

when I have a garden...

2011-06-17T17:13:00.004+02:00

1 | 2 | 3

What would you have/do you have in yours that you love? :)

pineapple.banana.nectarine.orange

2011-06-14T08:56:00.004+02:00

Last night was all about an exotic snack whilst watching a bunch of episodes of Hawaii Five-O. Every once in a while it's nice with an evening of doing just nothing of importance... :) And with a good tv-series it's not even hard...

as of yesterday

2011-06-12T18:23:00.004+02:00

I've started baking my own bread again (yay). It's been a while due to lack of energy. I'm not sure I have all that much more energy now, but I'm sooo over store-bought that there's just nothing left to do. And I love it. Yesterday morning I got up early and made fresh bread for a (late) brekkie. This morning I made another batch. Crossing my fingers that I can keep it up! Last night we had strawberries with cream. That was just life-changing (as one of my friends would put it) so I had to throw in a picture :)

S U M M E R ♥

2011-06-06T20:26:00.004+02:00

Now, it is definitely summer! Absolutely LOVE it! :) This weekend has been a "long weekend" here in Sweden due to two public holidays. From the feast of the ascension last Thursday until today, which is the Swedish National Day. I've made sure to enjoy these 5 gorgeous days off work. Friends, sun, swimming, bbq's, sleeping, movies, shopping... well all things good, except blogging... :) Bit sad to start work again tomorrow but only 5 weeks to go, after that I'm outta there! :) Note to self: Bring summer inside - pick a huge bunch of lupines+buttercups.

final touches

2011-05-27T14:41:00.011+02:00

on our new kitchen! Today, finishing the counter top with hardwax oil. It's a massive oak (not properly portrayed in colour...) counter top and we hope that this'll do the trick. Earlier, it was so sensitive to anything and everything that wasn't wiped off immediately. And that's not good enough for a kitchen, hey.

More pictures of finished kitchen (+before-pictures, obviously!) coming up!! :)

my 25th

2011-05-26T18:06:00.008+02:00

A few weeks ago I turned 25 and yesterday a bunch of lovelies took me out to celebrate... half'n half surprise, one might say :)

I got amazing gifts, bowls (matching what I've already got) + tablecloth from fav Bruka Design. Thank you girls so much! :) I feel spoiled and valued :) Gotta love a girl's night out... xoxo

Oh and "guide to Norrköping"... this is one of the best restaurants in the city.

+

2011-05-22T22:34:00.009+02:00

So I'm back to blogging again. Probably not as much as before, but I think I've given this enough thought and yes, I do want to blog. At some level at least. So here I am. Will try and do my very best. There's a lot going on in my life. Most of all this:

:) Due on August 16th.

But no worries. It's not all going to be baby-related from now on, just a little bit more.

Rhubarb+vanilla parfait

2011-05-22T22:25:00.006+02:00

And here it is! The second time I've made this parfait ice cream, and it's just the best recipe. I'll make sure to post it for you. It's a recipe I made out of two other ones, so I kinda guess one would say it's mine :) Oh, and don't you just looove the pink colour?? I dooo!

that time of year...

2011-05-20T13:49:00.007+02:00

which holds such an amazing abundance of flowers and sun and wonderfulness. Mum and I picked lilies of the valley yesterday, at the best spot ever. The lovely scent now fills our apartment. Especially the kitchen. Oh. The kitchen which calls for some serious blogging :) All renovated and new. And perfect. Hang in there...!

Who needs sea view

2011-05-20T13:41:00.004+02:00

when you can have flower view?? This is the view out from my parents' living room window. Gorgeous pink-white apple blossom in full bloom. Just amazing.

Dior FW 10/11

2010-12-27T14:36:00.005+01:00

I just have to post about these dresses by John Galliano for Christian Dior. I find them quite brilliant, you see.

Images from Dior in collage by me. Click to enlarge.

Gingerbread cookie houses

2010-12-13T22:58:00.002+01:00

How adorable are these?? :) I'll have to try making something similar some day... Note to self.

Thoughts of a dream

2010-12-13T22:25:00.004+01:00

Definitely something I'd consider for our bedroom wall. With the fairy lights, obviously. But not black letters, probably.

Picture from we♥it.

Gingerbread cookie recipe

2010-12-11T21:13:00.007+01:00

Serve with glögg or julmust. It's the best! Or hot chocolate. :)

Oh and click the recipe to enlarge.

My own gingerbread cookies

2010-12-11T19:12:00.004+01:00

Made from scratch and absolutely delicious. And not even the slightest bit difficult. I should just post the recipe here. It's an old well-tried recipe that my mum has been using for like ever. Would any of you want it? :) Now I've got a large tin of them in the freezer. Ready for Christmas.

My Narnia

2010-12-05T00:30:00.002+01:00

Went to my mom&dad's today. Amazing :) Premier walk on the frozen lake - love it! Other than that, just one great day!

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My list-making need...

2010-12-03T20:45:00.003+01:00

Maybe you didn't know, but I am a list freak. I list everything. Anything. (Some of the things you don't even want to know. Ha!) Lists help make order in my head. My latest one is for sweets I want to try making. Christmas is just around the corner (I know it never feels like it, but trust me, it is) and what better time to start experimenting in the kitchen? Note to self is: Make the most gorgeous sweets for Christmas! :)

- starting early -

2010-11-19T17:54:00.003+01:00

Love it! :) Just couldn't wait for December. Had to stop by the grocery shop and get some gingerbread cookies and julmust.

Capetured

2010-11-17T18:59:00.005+01:00

How lovely is this wool cape? :) Aww... I've posted about capes before and I'm even more into them now!

The best snack ever

2010-11-17T18:20:00.006+01:00

has got to be fruit salad! Definitely! I should go make myself some right now. And then watch a movie. Yes, that's it.

Here's how to make one for yourself! :) Oh, and make sure you eat it with whipped cream. It's the best.

No longer on my to-see-list

2010-11-17T17:42:00.006+01:00

Image source

Yesterday I saw the first film in the Underworld Trilogy. It's about vampires and werewolves. For a movie about "such creatures" it was probably an ok movie. But really it confirmed the fact that although I'm really into genres such as action, fantasy, sci-fi, adventure (all of which fit with the Underworld movies), I'm just really not into vampires. Or werewolves. The question is whether to watch the following two movies...

She looks really good though... Kate Beckinsale. :)

Finally home...

2010-11-17T17:31:00.002+01:00

Now I'm enjoying a nice cup hot chocolate :) With chocolate and whipped cream... :) Yum!

Yay! New episode of Gossip Girl out! I'm gone. :)

2010-11-16T15:40:00.002+01:00

And boy do I need it after a day like this...

Veggie soup recipe!

2010-11-10T17:24:00.005+01:00

I'm enjoying seconds even as I post this... :)

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Recipe is coming! Soon! :) I just got a lot more work this week that I reckoned.

2010-11-10T11:34:00.001+01:00

New Fav!

2010-11-08T23:16:00.010+01:00

Woah! That's a lot of new people visiting my blog! WELCOME! :)

This is what we had for supper...

It really really really is that good :) Especially with this bread. At least if you're the least into veggies and/or soup. And the best part? It is oh so very quick and easy! 30 minutes tops from scratch. Gotta love it!

Do you want the recipe?? Just let me know! :)

Swedish Cuisine #01

2010-11-05T10:35:00.006+01:00

So I'm on this quest of learning how to cook proper-homemade-from scratch food within the Swedish cuisine. Stuff that my mother and grandmother would make. First out (at least here on the blog) is pannbiff/wallenbergare or Salisbury steak in English, which is not really the same thing but well, close enough. Publication of recipes can definitely be arranged for if there is any interest - give me a shout should that be the case!

Pannbiff/Wallenbergare with potato wedges, chanterelle sauce and steamed cauliflower+broccoli+carrot.

This is the kind of food one kan feel good about eating! And so yummy! The chanterelles me and mum picked during one of our walks earlier this autumn... :)

Tv-series+bread+nose issues

2010-11-02T19:23:00.004+01:00

I've been by myself here at home almost the entire day. J came home for a quick meal at noon. I made him delish veggie soup (no really, a good one) and oven baked pancake (sorry no pictures, next time!). Yummy and easy as. Always a nice combo. I also made a large batch of my (current) fav bread. In between I squeezed in a few episodes of two of my favourite tv-series:

All this while also trying to cure my very persistent cold... wish me luck.

This is me tonight.

2010-10-25T23:59:00.008+02:00

On the couch, glued to the latest issue of (one of) my fav home+decorating magazines, Swedish Allt i Hemmet. Nothing quite beats it. A new magazine that is.

It is a christmas special. Needless to say, I loooong for Christmas by now. Ha! My head is full of inspiration and ideas and plans. Traditionally non-traditional. At least it makes sense in my head. More about that... when we get a little bit closer. Let's now enjoy A U T U M N, yes? :)

For autumn

2010-10-25T23:45:00.005+02:00

I really like these! They make me wanna make cupcakes! Autumn cupcakes. :) Mmm...

Picture customized from Åhlens.

Same style as these only... different! :)

L O V E

2010-10-24T19:22:00.006+02:00

Something I threw together in PS... :) Maybe something for our empty white walls. What do you think? Love colours!

Concrete

2010-10-23T22:28:00.007+02:00

Hello again :) Pause over? Play pressed? Maybe, and maybe not. Anyways, I just really wanted to show you a recent project of ours. As well as save it for myself. A concrete top for our tv bench. I love the way it turned out so great! :)

More of this definitely coming up in the future! I've been browsing google image search for a while [read: hours] and now I'm bursting with new inspiration!

60 days

2010-09-22T23:51:00.000+02:00

or 1 440 hours or 86 400 seconds of...

But I'll be back. :) Bear with me. Life's not always easy.

more pictures

2010-07-23T12:48:00.004+02:00

Here's a bunch of other photos from the other day when we watched the sunrise. Love the colours! :)

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New day, new possibilities

2010-07-19T12:29:00.004+02:00

Went out at 3.30 this morning to watch the sunrise. Absolutely stunning! More pictures coming up! :) Thanks for a beautiful morning girls!

Lager 157

2010-07-14T10:56:00.005+02:00

If you are in Sweden, look this way! :) I so like this! It's like a warehouse clearance sales place... and they focus on sustainable, honest, green business. At low, competitive prices. Well, it's all on their website, unfortunately in Swedish only, but if you can, do check it out! :)

Picture is screenshot from Lager 157.

Lager=Warehouse

Mismatch

2010-07-12T18:42:00.007+02:00

Look how beautifully gorgeous! :) It's like the rule for setting this table was the more mix+mismatch the better! :) I think I need to go second hand shopping for a bit... :)

Photography by Karin Borg - Ellas Inspiration ©

this is how we do it

2010-07-12T18:35:00.002+02:00

Table for two on balcony + potato gratin + pork fillet skewers = one awesome bbq lunch! :)

the wedding gift

2010-07-12T13:16:00.003+02:00

Guess who saved the present? (The shop assistant was clearly a fill-in during vacation times and the gift wrapping looked just like it...) I salvaged the beautiful paper and the string, re-wrapped it (in a correct manner), then added another string (pink lace-like one) and the white wooden heart on which I wrote the couple's intials and our names on the back. Turned out perfect, despite it all... :)

Good morning breakfast!

2010-07-12T11:59:00.006+02:00

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I made freshly baked bread for breakfast this morning. Sooo good! :) A type of rye bread buns, with syrup and raisins. Yum!

I love weddings!

2010-07-12T11:03:00.006+02:00

The day before yesterday, me and J went to a wedding together with my parents. It was such a beautiful day and an amazing wedding! :) My friend E got married to her R. Here's a whole bunch of pictures!

I absolutely love the first picture! It's E's father keeping watch for his daughter out the church doors. Then I love the picture of the little girl - cutest ever! :)

"A hole in nature"

2010-07-09T22:13:00.004+02:00

As my father-in-law so wisely chose to call it :) Beautiful, however. Even if the picture is kind of [read: very] blurry.

The Islet

2010-07-09T22:04:00.003+02:00

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Well, we've had a great couple of days in the archipelago! Good company and good... everything :) Pictures are: The cottage we stayed in, evening light, detail 1, the family Swan, old harbour at Oxelösund, J wakeboarding, house at gorgeous location just by a canal, detail 2.

Lol. I see now that the blog actually does not stand still at all. It just feels like a really long time since I was connected. That's funny :)

2010-07-08T22:18:00.002+02:00

p a u s

2010-07-08T21:33:00.003+02:00

While the blog stands still, I do not! :) We took off yesterday and headed out to an island in the archipelago. Specifically the archipelago outside of the Swedish village Oxelösund. Beautiful. The picture is yesterday's sunset :) Outside the window, J and his brothers and cousins are wakeboarding. We'll stay another night and then head back home tomorrow. See you then!

Strawberries!

2010-07-07T11:44:00.002+02:00

Yesterday I went strawberry picking with mum&dad. It was the best day, not too hot, not too cold, the strawberries we just perfect. And deliciously sweet. I got myself about 5 liters, they are now in the freezer. At least the 4 liters that were left when I was finally ready to put them in...

The best breakfast

2010-07-06T14:55:00.004+02:00

Even if a bit late... :) Filmjölk (wikipedia about filmjölk) with strawberries and peaches.... yum.

I love it when bread turns out!

2010-07-05T22:04:00.004+02:00

Click to enlarge!

Italian Bread

2010-07-05T17:32:00.005+02:00

Here's the delicious ingredients I'm using for the bread I'm baking.

Italian tortano bread filled with sundried tomato, mozzarella cheese, dry-cured ham and basil. Yuuum! :)

Book Love

2010-07-05T17:14:00.005+02:00

They've arrived! :) (actually last friday...) Tried one pie recipe from "A Piece of Cake" that same afternoon and now I'm baking a bread from "One More Slice". The pie, rhubarb+strawberry, was just heavenly. So good, the best pie ever! :) And I have good hopes for the bread. We shall know by tonight :)

The books are amazing!! :) Not only heaps of exciting recipes and handy tips, but the pictures are incredible. Love love love! :)

Ah, the freshness!

2010-07-05T17:04:00.001+02:00

Just came home from some grocery shopping. One of the best parts of summer is all the fresh food available. Loving it! :)

Guide to Norrköping

2010-07-05T08:15:00.009+02:00

This is my new label series. Not much to the world right now, but as we go along, which I am definitely planning on doing, more and more things will be added to the list. :) So if any of you sweeties, who are not from this city, are ever passing by, you'll know where to look for ideas on

places to eat

places to visit

things to do

shopping

and more. All of these, what shall I call them, sub-labels will be collected within the main label: GUIDE TO NORRKÖPING

So, uhm, yeah! Check it out! :)

Ol' man's garden

2010-07-04T23:20:00.008+02:00

click image to enlarge :)

Today Mum&Dad took me and J out for lunch at "Gubbens Trädgård" (=see title...) A real cozy place, like an oasis in the city - a garden with heaps of flowers and bushes and a fountain and a small second hand shop in one corner... just really my cup of tea! It's actually a café, offering , ice cream, pastries, tea, coffee (=fika) and more, but they also serve a lighter lunch. Thank you mum and dad! :)

Strawberries with milk+cream

2010-07-02T23:52:00.003+02:00

This was tonight's evening meal :) So yummy!

How cute are these??

2010-07-02T23:40:00.004+02:00

They're actually more pink, a really gorgeous pink, but I didn't have any better shots so this will have to do. At least for now. Until I get my own ones... Love 'em! As you already know, I love the idea of 1-portion size dishes. I believe these are from Danish Ib Laursen. Same series as the pink pitcher here. I even think that's the pink colour these dishes really have.

jump

2010-07-02T23:25:00.002+02:00

After our delish fika, we when to a lake, new for this summer, and took a quick and well-needed swim. And then U jumped :)

yuum!

2010-07-02T21:41:00.006+02:00

Yesterday J and I went to my parents' house, visiting my little gorgeous sister who's got the house all to herself for a few days. She had made cinnamon buns the day before, an apple shortcake earlier that same day, and when we arrived we made rhubarb+strawberry crumble pies = the best fika ever! :)

Here's the final plate of fika of which very little was left after I was done :) There's rhubarb+strawberry crumble pie with vanilla custard, apple shortcake, cinnamon buns, pear cider and earl grey tea.

yaaaay!

2010-07-02T21:09:00.001+02:00

Yesterday, it came! :)

Under my umbrella...

2010-07-02T20:59:00.002+02:00

That's some rhubarb :) Biggest does not equal best though... Could still not resist grabbing it when I was at my parents house to get some rhubarb. Haha! More serious posts coming up!

Morning of Midsummer's Eve 2010

2010-07-01T11:21:00.008+02:00

As mentioned earlier, last weekend was the Midsummer-weekend in Sweden. Here's how we spent the morning of Midsummer's Eve with my side of the family :)

Preparation of brunch picnic indoors at mum+dad's, then filling baskets with goodies and heading down to the lake (1,5 minute walk). We had our brunch in the sun on the lake jetty. We had delish subs+wraps, tea, yoghurt... Such a great morning! :)

My sis snapped a bunch of great photos of dragonflies. I'll post some of them later!

First of July

2010-07-01T10:02:00.000+02:00

Last of June

2010-06-30T23:39:00.001+02:00

This evening we went to the park and played beach volleyball. Well... I admit, those are my feet. I mostly sat on the side watching :) I did play a little though. While I didn't admire two of my favourite second hand bargains - the silver bracelets. The pearls were a gift from my sis-in-law. When we tired of watching the games, we went to an ice cream stand and had really good ice cream. There I spotted this nice vintage Volvo car. I'd like one of those :)

Then we went home to our place and watched Alice in Wonderland. Honestly, not so good. But a great night anyhow. :)

So looking forward to getting the things that I've ordered!!! :)

2010-06-30T20:49:00.002+02:00

This + this + this! :)

Said about life

2010-06-30T17:24:00.007+02:00

So, peeps, just do something! :) (from lazy me on the couch. well... I am going to do something. soon. + I just got home from working all day. ha!)

Let there be light. And warm and sunny.

2010-06-30T16:56:00.008+02:00

Finally off work! Yay :) Here's the weather forecast for my city Norrköping in Sweden. How good? Amaaazing! ;) So looking forward to the weekend!

.work

2010-06-30T10:23:00.002+02:00

need I say more? (it kinda sucks... Oh well. Still want the money. The worst part is that the weather is so flippin nice around here now! I wish I could just be out there enjoying it all! Evenings. I live for the evenings now :) haha!)

Oups!

2010-06-29T21:03:00.004+02:00

I didn't see these before! Oh well, they, too, are now on their way! :) Same as these only a different colour. Bring on the flowers! :)

Rose Leggings by ClubL 29SEK/$4(!!) [direct link]

A good bargain

2010-06-29T18:54:00.004+02:00

Between work and a, nowadays mandatory, trip to a nearby lake, I managed to squeeze in some shopping :) It's Nelly that has started their summer sale early for "facebook-VIPs". The official sale starts on Friday July 2nd. I clicked home a few goodies.

Click image to enlarge!

1. Brunge SS Tunic by Only - 59SEK/$8 [direct link]

2. Girl Chino by JeaneBlush - 59SEK/$8 [direct link]

3. Cavislong Dress by Soaked in Luxury - 149SEK/$20 [direct link]

Remeber the chinos? Good thing I didn't buy them at 199SEK/$27... :)