Yesterday David and I got to visit a place we've been dying to see for several years now.
The old Papyrus factory in Mölndal, just outside of Gothenburg.
The place has been abandoned for a long time and it's a dream come true for people who are into things like urban exploring.
David is going to make a shortfilm soon and this was the first place that came to our minds when we talked about possible locations for a couple of the film's scenes. We had to have permission to enter the old factory and a man who showed us around, it could be quite dangerous to walk around there alone. I've been dreaming of having a photoshoot with a model and my jewelry there, so I was happy to come along and see the place beforehand.
It was such an amazing adventure!
This is exactly the kind of places I love. It's rugged, rusty, scary and beautiful all at the same time.
We found that it is the perfect spot for both David's shortfilm and my jewelry photoshoot so we will definitely be back there soon.
I took A LOT of photos and it was really hard to cut down the amount of pictures to post here so beware: this is one large blog post.
So, lets have a look then. I hope you get a little bit of the feeling we had walking around this fantastic setting.

Waiting for our guide to arrive.

And we went inside...

The old escalators have been still for many years.

The light was amazing everywhere here!

White fabric was blowing in the wind.
My heart rate was beating all over the place, I was just so excited!

Spooky.

Light seeping in from the outside.
Click on the photo for beautiful wide screen effect.

Looked out the door in the previous picture.

Ha!
I stopped abruptly when I saw this in the corner of my eye.

Hello there, creepy large baby!

Looking through one of the large factory buildings.

The graffiti on the board says Snopp (Penis) which of course is a perfectly reasonable thing to write in an abandoned factory building.

Then we found this large room. It was breathtaking. I mean, yeah. Truly breathtaking.

The large windows and high ceiling made this room so light and beautiful.

Light coming through the ceiling like drapes over the cement.

We came out of the buildings and said goodbye to our guide who told us we were free to walk around on the outside as much as we wanted.
Here is the large cement pool.

I love how the graffiti and the trees turn these grey buildings into something colourful!

"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink"

This was another really great place. So cool with the two floors, the graffiti and the plants growing everywhere. Yeah, I love this so much!

Skum. Translates to both Weird and Foam. Sometimes swedish really is a weird language (Or a foam language?).

David behind my phone camera.

We walked back to the car with a happy bounce in our steps. Can't wait to return for the real thing.
I love how a place like this can exist in the middle of a city. Apparenly they want to tear it down and build new buildings sometime in the future. I can understand that it's a really unsecure place and the people working in the surrounding buildings must be very tired of people running around unauthorised, and destroying the place even more, but, but, but IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
Isn't it beautiful!?

Today it's exactly 100 days until David and I get married.
It's going to be a small and cozy wedding with as few wedding traditions as possible. We're not fans of old traditions that we don't have any idea why we're supposed to do them. The important thing for us is that the day will be free from stiff rules but owerflow with feelings of calm and joy.
The absolute closest family and friends, no toastmasters (master of ceremony), since we are not religious it will be a civil marriage and we will hold our wedding at our favourite place of all, Österlen.
The most important thing of all: we will get married, David and I, the way we want, hopefully in nice weather under a lonely tree on top of a hill surrounded by friends, family and sheep.

Two colourful things ending up in my stomach.
Water with fresh mint and sweet lemons (such a weird and lovely lemon!) and a plate of tasty things like fruit, vegetables and italian salami.

Two pictures of my jewelry work.
One of beautiful vintage marbles soon to end up in necklace pendants, and one of a Cage pendant in the making.

Two of me.
One with somber hues and a goofy face, and one with bright colours and a calm face.
It's all about contrasts, you know.

I had a lovely lovely weekend and now I'm looking forward to a great week with one of my oldest and bestest friends in the entire world. Tomorrow! Can't wait!!

During my long and boring cold the creative part of my brain got to work. I don't know why that always seems to happen, but maybe it's because my body can't focus on anything like moving and thinking complete thoughts. It's boring and my mind works really well while bored, apparently.
Anyway, during this boring cold my mind came up with some new kinds of cage pendants. One spear shaped and one in the shape of a teardrop.
It was so great when I made the first one because I realised that 1: This is too big and therefore too fragile. and 2: This is a really pretty necklace pendant, I need to make more of them!
So, I did. Smaller, stronger and better shaped.
This is the first four to go in my shop but more will come soon.
I'm going to make many many of them because I think they are the perfect necklace pendant for spring. The marble inside is a light collector and it's so pretty worn in sunshine; Glimmering all over the place.
A pendant with a simple, clean and intruiging shape with a touch of something magical.

What do you think? Would you like to wear a necklace pendant like this?

Today I'm off to work and later I'll start planning for a trip I'm going to make soon. I'll tell you all about it soon.

Tjingeling!