more pictures

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

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

Stolen inspiration

For her birthday, my mum got a lovely book about cupcakes from J's mum (and dad). I stole some of the frosting recipes that I found interesting. By camera. I'll make sure to post about the ones I actually try and like! Some of them just look gorgeous!

Magnolia

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

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! :)

Spring+evening+sun

Such a lovely spring evening. 7.30pm. I love how the evenings get brighter and brighter. It's as if I can really see the difference from evening to evening. Picture taken from our living room, through our newly cleaned windows. It's like there is no glass, right? :)

Nail problem

Capturing the actual colour of my current nail polish is virtually impossible. The picture below really is a sorry excuse... Try to picture it in neon... I think I need a new camera. Probably a digital system camera. Haha! Anyways, I added two fun pictures that aren't about the colour. Or anything else, for that matter. :)

Pictures: Me (with Photo Booth for Apple)

and blue eyes :)

A picture I made the other night... It's me. But it's not really me. If you know what I mean. Ha!

Outfit #10 Spring Sunset

Some pictures that J helped me shoot today... :)

Pictures: Me ©

Wearing: Tank - Cubus / Jeans Leggings - Vero Moda / Cardi - JC-Jeans&Clothes / Scarf - Cubus / Running shoes - Nike

Sara Norris Photography

A few days ago I kind of stumbled across a blog post with wonderful gorgeous pictures. I immediately switched off autopilot mode and went into detail mode. I love these photos! They are so fresh and happy and colourful! Behind them is artist/photographer Sara Norris, who works out of New Mexico, USA. On her Etsy shop, there are heaps of lovely pictures available for purchase. Here's a few of my favourites:

© Sara Norris Photography

I feel so inspired! I think I could fit any of her photos anywhere in my home! You really should stop by! :)

Take a look at these icicles!

Picture: Me

It's beautiful and scary. From yesterday's walk.

Lighter

I walk past this tree on my way to work. One of the pro's about winter and dark mornings is all these lights around and about. They make life... well, lighter :)

Coffee table candle group

Time for some living room pictures, I should think. Our living room has been finished for a while now, since about a week before Christmas. Obviously, these are not the "official after renovation pictures", they will have to wait a while longer. I need to clear out all things Christmas and let spring in before. Anyways, this is our current coffe table and a nice group of candles that I put on it. It's a vintage American trunk that I think belonged to my husbands grandfather's aunt (or something like that). It has travelled across the Atlantic Sea many times.

I like how candle holders + trunk details are the same colour + the heaps of storage that's inside.

Pictures: Me ©

On my way home from work

It is absolutely stunning outside these days! Everything is covered with frosty crystals and it is so quiet! People barely speek to one another. It is cold also, but I almost don't mind as long as I wear proper clothing. Here's a picture!

Photo: Me ©

Bringing new life

Currently, we are, as mentioned earlier, working on our living room. A few days ago we started renovating our oak parquet floor. After sanding the floor several times to make sure the old varnish was gone, we decided to finish the floor with oil instead of varnish - it looks so much better plus it ages more beautifully. I've got before & after pictures right here. I really didn't even retouch the photos... and if anything, I made the before-picture look slightly better than it originally did :P The floor has now got a whole other depth and luster to it - it looks alive. I'm in love with it! How amazing? Amaazing!

Pictures: Me (click image to enlarge)

Another thing that makes me love this floor is the structure, how it's layed out. I haven't seen a floor like our's before and love having something that's original.

Day tripper 2 IKEA

The bench I wrote about earlier was not ready to come home with me. But a bunch of other things (as ever) were. Here's some of what I got from IKEA on yesterday's trip.

Pictures: Me

SLOM - Bottle with stopper / GALEJ - Tea light candle holders / LÄMPLIG - Pot trivet / TRYGG - Serving bowl

More pictures are on the way!

It hits me now that I should probably post some more nice pictures of Norrköping some day... like, more than of beautiful autumn leaves. The thing is I'll need to shoot those photos first so... I'll get back to you about that! :)

Note to self: Take loads of nice artistic pictures of beautiful places in my home town! (Lol)

Autumn/Fall/Höst/Autumnus/Otoño

Photograph: Me

There is such a sense of autumn over rose hips... I think they're beautiful!

DIG OR DIS #01 - Tea light candle in clear plastic cup

This is SUCH a great idea! I absolutely love how when the whole piece of stearine melts it appears as though there is nothing but a flame in the candle holder. Like in the second & third pictures. Obviously it's more for clear or kind-of-clear candle holders but anyways! :)

Pictures: Me

They, the kind of candle that is, were hard to find, that's for sure, but I just bought a bunch from Swedish shop & web shop Inredningsboden. So there you go! Now you won't have to look so hard! :) (Unless your one of my international friends... which I know many of you are... sorry. At least you'll know what to look for, right?) Inredningsboden, btw, have real good service and I can really recommend shopping there!

Second picture is from a wedding this past spring and the third picture is how I used the candles in the decorations for my father-in-law's 50th birthday party.

Yes, favourites.