pictures from the wedding

i think I'll have to do several posts , with some pictures from the wedding, there are so many pictures..
but here's a few:

the beautiful camphouse where we lived for 2 days

beautiful view from my window

laura had asked people to do a star, blue or white, and then we hung them up so we could "dance under the stars"

the ceremony

some of Lauras friends brought a big basket with hundreds of these little golden bags, filled with ecological seeds to throw after the ceremony instead of rice, so that the little birds don't get really bad stomachs when they eat it afterwards...

throwing!

more photos on my facebook

españa

here's a route i'd love to do next time I visit Spain..
I've been in Spain 4 times but only in and around Barcelona..so I think it's time to see some other cities aswell soon!!
and well, also Portugal, really wanted to go there for a long time so:

Barcelona - Madrid- Valencia - Málaga - Cádiz - Lissabon - Porto

corolful clothes!!!

Lotten told me today that she went and bought, what we call community-shoes. alot of people in Taizé wear these kind of shoes, I guess you could say they are foot-friendly, good, stabile shoes..with seams..quite boho-looking
well I've been wanting them for quite some time aswell, so I got onto Gudrun Sjödén's website and started looking...

I really love the way they present their clothes, and all the different kinds of models, how beautiful and colorful! and oh those shoes!!! (i know these kind of shoes isnt something you will be seeing in any fashionblog around, but why do I care..this isn't a fashionblog!! :) )

(can't believe I'm writing about such colorful clothes, whilst my nickname is Blackie, for all my black clothes)

friendship

Oh, I just had a great moment.
taking a walk in the summer-warm evening, having a cigarette (eventhough I stopped, but the cigarettes in Barcelona were so cheap..kind of)..and i called Lotten,
How I love this little woman of mine, called Lotten..my soulmate and one of my best friends, that I met in Taizé..

and now after we've spoken I just feel really happy inside and can't wait to see her.
and she's so cute, she told me she went and got a new passport yesterday, because her old one expires in December 2011, and she d if she will be back in sweden by then (now after she left france she's only staying for some weeks in sweden and then she'll take her backak, and go wherever she feels lik. what a wonderful thing!!)..so I will really try to move down to malmö soon, get a wellpaid job and go to latinameric,a and hopefully ill meet up with her there sometime

and also, we both can't wait to start our future community, the countryside-house with a huge garden and lots of art-projects!!!

click on the link

BTSTU (Demo) by JAI PAUL

listen!!!

a casa

bueno!
I'm back, in my mom's appartment, in Sweden.
yes, ow boring, but atleast its hot in sweden, too hot
(how can I say this when ive just spent some freking boiling days in barcelona)

oh the wedding, how beautiful. my camera doesnt work, so, ill try to post some photos tomorrow
when i have more energy,
i havent eaten proper food since saturday and i woke up at 05.40 this morning so I'm a bit mashed at the moment..

did you guys miss me?!?!

barcelonaaaa

hola hola!!!

just a quick psot, im still in barcelona., the wedding was gorgeous, beautiful, personal, emotional and incrédible! so many beautiful details, and so laura! youll see pictures later on and ill tell you more about it

today ive been relaxing with my friend amanda on a beach outside of barcelona with some back gammon-playing and 2 big bags of picnic, this is life!!

going home early tomorrow morning...bu.,.hu....
but ill see lotten soon!! :)

barcelona

this is where we'll sleep and celebrate :)

this might be the last post for a couple of days..
tonight I'm finally off to the wedding in Barcelona, and I'll be bakc home on Tuesday, around noon I think..so..until then, adios amigos! have a beautiful weekend, and check back here next week!!

kissses & love & a wish for cookies

apples

so here's the kitchentowel i made for Laura & Unai, the weddingcouple..
I already gave them the real wedding-gift so this is just something to bring with me for the actual party...i got inspired by this blog, and printed with apples..
then i embroidered "laura y unai para siempre, 26 junio 2010" which means "laura and Unai forever, 26 Juni 2010) which is the date they are getting married, yey!

yeah, it kind of looks like something a 4year old did, but whatever!!

questionnaire

source: dont remember exactly, but from flickr

favouriteartist: there are so many different kinds of art, but if I limit this question to favourite-painter, I would say Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt & Alphonse Mucha (seems like I prefer womens-portraits...)
favouritemovie: there are many good movies, Little Ashes, Frida, Candy & Amélie from Montmartre are some of my favourites..
cutest textmessage: that I've gotten? Oh many, I save them, the nicest one could be one I got quite recently that said "do you want to make out and watch TV in your bed tonight?"
favouritecolor: up until some months ago it's always been black, just black. only black. but now, oh, aqua, mint-green and dark apple/pistachio-green
favouritecity: probably loads of cities I haven't visited yet (Buenos Aires?)..but Barcelona & Berlin are pretty good to me..& London of course, but without London we could say I have a thing for cities that starts with a B..
you often cook: pasta! at least I used too..nowadays I like to do different kind of stews and gratains, as long as it makes me feel like I've really made an effort..
favourite-drink: tea, juice, beer, mojito, rhubarb-lemonade, cherry-leomande, christmas-soda (swedish thing)
you would like to be: richer, more ambitious when it comes to work & study..
you speak: languages? hmm, swedish fluently & I'm pretty much fluent in english I guess..I can manage to speak somewhat OK spanish, I used to speak even better Italian, I could also mantain a very small conversation in French, Portuguese & German (probably without any correct grammar, but to make myself understood)..and of course, I understand Norwegian & Danish cause it's pretty much like Swedish.....so yeah..swedish, english & spanish :) at the moment!! i love languages, would love to learn all of these fluently, and also Lithuanian which is really beautiful..

beautiful women

I found this photo in a photobook, in a SoHo bookshop in London.
I just fell for this picture immidiately. She might be one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

too bad i dont remember the photographer
wait! it COULD be Mario Testino!!

midsummernights dream

last preparations until I'm off to Barcelona and the wedding!
The zebra-dress is finally finished, I even decided which necklace ..(the 5th picture)..black and gold..
i just cant decide which bracelets to wear to it, i have to many matching ones..
and without earrings looks so empty, but with earrings might be to much, and rings? should I wearings? what a misery!!!but ill be fine

this weekend is Midsummer, a Swedish (Scandinavian maybe) tradition/holiday (atleast the way we celebrate it)..I guess what we are celebrating is..the summer? i don't think anybody really knows, but it's nice...we eat some traditional midsummer-food, drink alcohol, kids (and some adults) go dancing around a big pole (hmmm) wrapped in flowers and plants..and alot of people are watching, listening to the swedish folk-music....and it always rains :/

oh, and also, young ladies should go out at night, pick 7 different kinds of flowers (and jump 7 different fences), put the flowers underneath their pillow, and they will dream about their future husband! how romantic :)

when me and Lotten have our countryside house in the south of europe, we will have a big, nice midsummer-feast for friends & loved ones..with strawberry-cake

amsterdam

sometime in my life, I'm gonna live on a houseboat in Amsterdam...

signs

this is one of my favourite short-movies, so so so beautiful!!

apples & wedding-gifts

oh my bloging is so unevenly updated!!
it keeps coming in waves (nothing during daytime, everything during night)
but it's just that the internet isn't very available for me during daytime,
and sometimes I'm just out of inspiration,
but then, nights like these, it just keeps flowing

I hope it's ok...anyway, I don't think I have that many readers, and if you do read my blog frequently, sorry & thankyou for still reading!

I have an idea of what to do tomorrow..
I'll go around some 2handshops looking for nice kitchentowels (or if it's nice weather , I might take the bike to IKEA to get some...well, it's quite "far away"..maybe not)
I already gave Laura & Unai (the spanish bride & groom-to be) a wedding-gift when I visited them in Barcelona in April ( a beautiful blue handmade ceramic-jar from taizé,france)..but, I saw these nice handprinted kitchentowels in a swedish blog, and got inspired. Maybe I'll do something like that, with their names & weddingdate on them...maybe maybe..we'll see what happens tomorrow..
goodnight for now,please give me some feedback, comments, questions, critics, or just a hello..it would make me happy!!

romantique francaise

Oh I'm such a nightperson, as usual, I'm up (it's 2.30 and I'm not in bed) late, finding new inspiring blogs & websites..
I've been thinking about weddings alot lately, probably because our crownprincess got married a couple of days ago (which ofcourse has been THE THING in media the last year) and also because I'm going to Barcelona for a friends wedding this coming weekend! I can't wait!! It will be one of the most beautiful weddings ever (i know i keep nagging about it, but it will just be so amazing!!)..when we talked about these people who don't really do anything personal for their weddings, you know, the usual wedding-cake, wedding-dress, dinner etc. etc..she said:

"well, when people celebrate their birthdays, they do different things, som people like to have a big party, some people stay at home, some people go out with friends...so why shouldn't the wedding be the same, do what YOU want to do, this day is all about you and the one you love"

yes yes, very true!
I just found a campaign from IKEA, where they are advertising their products in loads of different styles, it's called "party in cottage & castle", and I just fell in love with the romantic french-style wedding. (they also had a ocmpetition where , if you popped the big question, to the one you love, on facebook, you could win your wedding, with this french romantic style)
this is exactly what inspires me for my wedding...whenever that will be:

all pictures form ikea

her morning elegance

aqua kitchen cabinet

this is the perfect furniture - cause it has the perfect color and it's a bit scraped off.
I can only dream that me & Lotten finds something like this for our Community - I know she would love this one too..
aqua is my new favouritecolor..and mint-green..and sometimes apple-green...and black of course, always black..but oh these shades of green..
source: http://kootutmurut.blogspot.com

kiss & make up

I'm watching makeup-tutorials on youtube! haha
to get some inspiration for the wedding
I'm not a big makeup-user, well, I do use makeup everyday and I dont often go out without makeup, but usually people dont really think I'm wearing make-up, cause I lie it to look as natural as possible..I use the same makeup everyday, but for the wedding it would be nice to have something different..
I definately need more things to work with, but honestly I don't love spending money on make-up..it's quite boring for me..
I wish Amanda could come and help me out, she's the bomb at doing cool makeups!!

i want this

Today I would like to wake up, and just have a big hotel-breakfast-buffé in my kitchen. or maybe not in my kitchen, when I'm dreaming, so why not at a hostel on the beach in costa rica..yeah , why not?

life

i hate being a bitch,
i shouldn't start these things at all,
cause when you've started it, it's so hard to stop..

mobile me

I wanna make mobiles!!
http://www.fraenze-straessle.de

help

i have so much I should do, but I just can't be bothered. I need help.

peanutbutter cups

watching the royal wedding on tv, i needed to have something nice to eat to it ..
I decided to try to make my own peanutbutter cups, delicious!!!!
and really simple


I just melted some dark chocolate that I painted the paper-cups with, quite a thick layer..
then I melted (or just made it a bit softer) peanutbutter and butter..and then crushed some digestive-crackers (the recipe said grahamcrackers but we dont really have that in sweden so..)..and mixed with the peanutbutter-mix..then i put a spoon of this mix in every chocolate-painted cup, finsihed of with chocolate on top of the cups, and then put them in the fridge for an hour!!

royal love

I've never been really interested in the swedish royal family (or any royal family),
but today is the weddingday of our crownprincess Victoria and Daniel, a "normal" guy who is now prince..
The ceremony was so beautiful, they looked so nervous & inlove!!

in exactly a week I'm attending another wedding, which I don't doubt will be as beautiful, if not even more beautiful! in Barcelona...

new necklaces

Okey so, some of the first necklaces are ready now,
but I feel a bit stupid showing them, because they are VERY VERY inspired by marañóns necklaces, and I just loved them so much I wanted to try to do some embroidery myself, it was so fun I couldnt stop..I did all of the patterns myself, except from one, which is the second one I'm showing here..

OAK

beautiful necklace from oak via nicolettemason

lentilsoup with saffron, potatoes & white wine

i just have to share with your this fantastic recipe I came up with once.
well i dont know if it's really a recipe, I never use measures, but anyway..

the picture doesn't show the real soup, but it looks kind of the same..
source

for 3-4 portions (thought I eat it all after and hour or two)
you need:
a couple of potatoes, 3-4 maybe
maybe 3 dl of red lentils
saffron
a splash of white wine (0.5 dl maybe)
rosemary, salt, pepper, chilipowder
fresh lemonjuice
½ onion (i usually use yellow, but you could probably use red onion if that's what you have..or charlottes)
1 mediumsized clove of garlic
cream (half a dl maybe)
vegetable-stock

so start with chopping the onion, and the potatoes to in pieces...fry them in oil together with the saffron (you DON'T need alot, half a teaspoon maximum) and press the garlic or chop it finely...
stir all the time, and pour the wine over it..let it soak in and I guess it will kind of start boiling, so put the lentils (with about 1 dl of water), the lemon and the potatoe pieces in there..stir and put some salt, pepper rosemary and chili in there..
let it simmer for a minute, then pour about 1 L of stock or water (i usually boil it in the boiler first to make it boil faster) with a bouillon-cube...
let it boil for about 7 minutes, then put the crema in and let it boil for yet some minutes. it usually takes about 10 minutes for the lentils and potatos to get soft..just taste it and see...

then i usually use a mixer to make it smoother, but it's not necessery..

I usually eat it with a spoon of créme fraiche/sour cream, and some nice bread

doves, swallows & other birds

look at this beautiful little bobby pin I found on etsy..
it would be nice to have in the hair at the wedding..
but I think I will go with the butterflies I already bought, and do something inspired by this beautiful picture from flickr:

new york city

source: niotillfem

oh my dear God, this makes me wanna go to New York so much!
If you can't read the guide in Swedish, at least look at the pictures - and dream a little..

http://rodeo.net/niotillfem/2010/06/en-guide-over-new-york/

hair-inspiration

only 8 days to go!! then i will attend the most beautiful wedding I will ever attend (except from my own of course)..it's in barcelona
I'm almost sure of what I will wear! BUT the hair..I'm thinking some hair-do as it will be about 35 degrees (celsius) and sweatingly hot!..but something simple, not to strict..i love braids..and I bought these beautiful butterflies to put in the hair..
here's some inspiration for myself:

italiano

how italian. so beautiful

source: the sartorialist

notte sento

hey guys,
BIG sorry for BIG lack of blogging, not that anybody really cares? but still..
I've been so busy with the embroidering, hahaha, I just can't stop. today I even sat in a park and embroidered in public!!! woah..

here's a beautiful short-movie:

embroidery

got so inspired by Marañón, that I decided to dig out my old embroidery-skills (big joke)..I got some of my grandmothers old embroidery-thread, and went and bought a frame to sew on..
it's looking good, I must say I'm much better at this now, than I was when I was 12 years old..

maybe you'll see the result a bit later..

button-necklace!!

made a new necklace!!

here it is, what do you think?

a trip without you

I've just been reading every single post of Musse Hasselvall (swedish wrestler) blog.
it's about him, doing a trip he did with his ex-girlfriend, he visits the same places, meets the same people. but without her. and it's amazingly beautiful. if you're swedish - read it.




somehow it made me want to travel..but then again everything makes me wanna travel.
i really want to do a trip around portugal, spain, france and maybe a bit of italy too, I love southern europe..with somebody. somebody nice..

etno-dress

ok, so..do you remember the dress I made that I'm supposed to wear at the wedding...
well, I really like that one, but I'm making a new one aswell that I was supposed to sell in the shop, but I'm falling in love with it...this one is more african-boho-inspired I guess..and the other one is zebra-print..they would both be faboulous with big necklaces, and I just can't choose

here's the one I'm making at the moment


which one do you think I should wear at the wedding, which one is more wedding-style? (keep in mind that it's not really a snobbish uptight wedding i'm going to, but a spanish country-side-wedding with laidback people)