How gorgeous!

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

when I have a garden...

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

S U M M E R ♥

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.

that time of year...

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

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.

I love weddings!

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! :)

.flowers flowers

I have totally forgotten about showing you my new favourite pair of leggings. :) They are flowered :) Love love love 'em! People tell me that they are so me. :) Appreciate it! Haha!

Now: Definitely time for sleep! See yous! ;)

New header again...

Well... I just loved the picture I took of the lupines and so I used it to make a new header. It's all the same as before, really, only a new motif and a new scale of colours... one that I like better! What do you think?? :)

Here, you can take a look at the previous ones.

Another absolutely gorgeous picture of lupines

♥, now on my desktop :)

Midsummer's coming up!

And with it all these gorgeous flowers! :) I absolutely love them! Especially the pink ones.

lupine love

I was brought up to believe these flowers are weeds... not to bring into the garden because they spread so easily. Nowadays, I know better. :) They are gorgeous! :) These + more that I got the other day, will be just perfect on our balcony! They are so full of colour and shape!

And I did get on with those dishes and carrot bread! I love an effecient day! ;) (and a lazy one, too. Like today.)

Last weekends festivities

Last weekend was all about party! :) On the Sunday, Sister's 22nd birthday + Mother's Day, and on the Saturday, my dear friend Elisabet's birthday party. Here's some of the pictures! First my little sister's birthday/Mother's Day. The whole family got together and gave her a laptop of her own. She was so so so pleased! :) ♥ I also wanted to give her something from just me and J, so we got her a bangle bracelet. We also had real good food, ovenbaked salmon, potatoes, creme fraiche sauce, peas and salad.

The Saturday offered, as mentioned, the celebration of a new 30-year old. Cake buffet with so many amazing cakes. Colour theme: Pink+turquoise. Such a great idea to cover the conuters with nice colourful gift wrapping paper! Note to self on that! :)

Thanks you all! I really enjoyed celebrating you, sister, mum and Elisabet! ♥

Such lovely summer days!

Had a lovely day today, after work. :) Went to Sandviken (40 km from where we live) with J and had delicious ice cream, took a swim, and picked a huge bouquet of lilies of the valley. The lilacs+cow parsley are from my mum! Thank you... :) We finished the day with eating some food in one of our favourite spots. Beautiful view! (Well, in all honesty, we finished the day with cleaning and tidying our entire apartment... hehe)

I'm really trying to enjoy summer and life to the fullest, and loving it! :)

Wild strawberry flowers

I love this time of year!

My first Mårbacka Geranium

But definitely not the last! $7 at a local garden shop, I hope I can keep it alive.

Magnolia

Picture: Me ©, click to enlarge!

A picture that I took today, on my way to work. Magnolia, one of my favourites.

"Between bird cherry and lilac"

That time [between bird cherry and lilac blossom] is the time said to be the most beautiful part of spring, in Sweden. Now, that is.

Note to self: Enjoy now properly! :)

Lovely day yesterday

Yesterday after work, J and I took a drive out and enjoyed the beautiful weather. We also took the first swim of the year. It was cold but not too bad :) This is summer. Early summer. One of the most wonderful times of the year. Ha!

There will be SO much blueberries to pick this year (top pictures)! And flowers are from mum&dad's garden, cowslip + white and purple fritillaries.

The light was so beautiful today

Arrow: That's the building I live in :)

I had to shoot some pictures of my beautiful city, Norrköping. (As I think I happened to promise about 7 months ago...) Spring came and nature exploded! :) Love it! I'm really soaking up every last bit of sunshine I can get a hold of. I'm going to save it for harder days, I say. Experience tells me it doesn't work like that. Unfortunately. Ha!

So anyways, a stroll along the riverside is definitely a hit! :)

Today in pictures (+words, it seems...)

Essentially, a G R E A T day! Oh, and for 10 days my brother and his wife is visiting from Mexico! Haven't seen them since my own wedding, 2,5 years ago. Soo good to see them!

As you can tell by the picture, I finally decided on the small cup with a blue line for mum's cake stand. It was the right decision, mum would have made the same choice, she said. She loved it, btw. :) Today was such a lovely day! Super delish food that dad made, a super perfect present, warm+sunny weather! We took a long walk, picking spring flowers, cowslips. And then we sat outside in the sun until the very last beams. ♥