Hej hej!
Today I have a post for you that has been lying unedited on my computer since july. I just haven't had the time (or memory) to edit and post it but now, finally, here it is!
David and I found half a bridge one day when we were driving around during one of our visits to Österlen, and we thought "Huh! What was that?!? Was that really half a bridge in the middle of nowhere?!"
So obviously we had to go back and have a look one evening armed with our cameras.

The bridge is situated in a tiny town called Gärsnäs. We parked the car and crossed the train tracks.

The bridge!

We found our way underneath the bridge. The sun was setting and it was almost magical.

I both like and find it sad how the tree had made it all around the metal thingy but still someone came and chopped it down. Seems unnecessary, doesn't it? And kind of evil, sort of Ha! We waited until you thought you made it and then BAM! We killed you!

All of a sudden we heard a sound! We turned around and realised we had company by a cat who seemed to hang out there every day by the way it moved around so familiarly.

I understand how the cat must love this place because it was so beautiful! Like a jungle ruin from another time.

David was eager to get to the part of the bridge where it ends abruptly into nothing.

Sadly we couldn't find any way to get up there. David tried though...
Without success.

The cat had spotted something in the high grass.

Still looking for ways to get up there.

Looking back the way we came.

I took the opportunity to dance among the pillars.

Trying to do something acrobatic and realising I don't know how to so ending up doing this instead.

Aaahh, magical place!

David in the middle.

There in the distance you can see the end of the bridge. It just stops there.

David checking to see if it's open. Of course it wasn't.

Checking another door. It was open. But it was nothing intersting to see in there. I love the light in this photo though. So pretty.

Then I set up the camera to play with the timer. David was patiently waiting for me to prepare all the settings.

Obligatory kissing picture.

And then some goofing around.

Look at David's hand! Haha, so cute!

Then it was time to leave and we went back to the car and spotted the cat one more time. I think he followed us around to see what we were up to.

I really love to go on this kind of photo adventure with David. Taking lots of photos and discover interesting/beautiful/weird/fun places together.
Today it's three months since we got married. These photos were taken almost two months before that and I can't believe how quickly time has been passing. It feels like yesterday!

Hello!
Yesterday I brought my camera with me all day long to document the day. We are in my parent's house at Österlen in the south of Sweden spending some time writing and relaxing.
Let's see what we were up to yesterday, shall we?

Breakfast!
Swedish fil (Sour milk, really good!) with mango, roasted coconut, walnut and flax seeds and a sandwich with tomatoes on it. And a cup of coffee with lots of milk.

And look at that adorable mug!
David and I got it as a wedding gift from David's friends and it's just so spot on it's almost unbelievable. It IS David and me. I love it so much!

Time to get to work. My laptop booted up to what I was doing last night which was edit photos. But now I was going to spend the day writing on a little novella I started on the day before.

I got stuck after a while.

Reeeeaaaally stuck. WHAT TO DOOOOOOO!?!?!

Okay, maybe I can do something with this?

After a few hours we decided to drive to Simrishamn to buy some food. While I was wating for David to be ready to go I took this photo of our garage.

We went to the fish shop. It's near the docks with lots of buildings like this surrounding it.

In the garage for the food store. My beautiful husband mirrored in our new (to us) car.

When we came home we sat down in front of the big jigsaw puzzle that my mother started a while back when they were here. It's one of those very old ones that we collect where every piece is completely different from the other and there is no picture on the front of the box so you have no idea what it is you are trying to make. This puzzle is so incredibly hard! The hardest one we've ever found.

In the late afternoon we went for a walk to the woods. I was dressed according to the season since it's halloween today.

In the middle of nowhere someone has made two of these lion and gargoyle posts. They are standing on each side of a road that leads into the woods. At the end of that road is a castle that looks like it's taken from a fairytale. The owners of that place must be wonderful, creative people!

LOOK AT MY HUSBAND! HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL!

Me running around in the high grass trying to imitate a bird or something.

Then we entered the woods. Such a magical place.

We left the path to see more of the woods. Beech trees are so beautiful this time of the year.

This is me wanting to be a heroine in an Enid Blyton type young adult book.

Found the path again and went towards the pastures.

Hello cows!

All of these colours makes me weak in the knees with joy.

Found some blue, very large, berries. Anybody out there who knows the name of this kind of berry? Are they edible? I didn't try them, I promise!

On our way home we spotted a cloud that looked like a frog.

Time to start preparing the food! David was in charge of cleaning and checking the mussels.

And this was what we made! Mussels in a white whine and cream sauce with lots of garlic and different kinds of onion. And garlic bread of course! SO TASTY I COULD DIE.

I had some coffee after dinner and continued to write on my novella for a few hours.

And then we ended up in the couch listening to a podcast.
A really good day!

Today I have been taking photos all day with my iPhone. I thought it would be fun to do one of these Entire Day posts with my Nikon and one with my Iphone because I use them differently and I like the result of both cameras.
So that post will probably be up here tomorrow if everything goes according to plans.
Happy halloween if you are celebrating that.

Two months ago it was summer still but only for a few more days.
Two months ago I wore a green dress and you had a vest that made you look incredibly dapper.
Two months ago we hung pocket watches around eachother's necks and told everybody that we belong together forever.
Two months ago was our wedding day and since then I've been learning to call you my husband instead of boyfriend. I practice every morning: Good morning husband, I say. And you smile and say "Good morning wifey".
We've been eachother's for almost seven years so our lives together have not changed much just because we are married but those words: Husband and wife. Man och Hustru. Make och fru. They still make me giggle.
At work when I tell a new colleague about you and refer to you as my husband it's super hard not to smile with my entire face and look like a total lunatic.
Actually, I think I fail every time. And that's more than okay.
Today we've been married for two months and I just wanted to take this moment to think about that and giggle and smile like a lunatic.

Pictures from our little honeymoon the days after the wedding. We bought a new camera, went to the beach and set the camera timer to click away.

And here's a gif to make everything even more cute:

Hello hello hello!
This is so exciting!
I have been wanting to show you how I made my wedding shoes for so long and FINALLY I've had the time to go through the photos.
I got the idea a long time ago, I wanted to upcycle a pair of converse style shoes for fun and to match my dress and, frankly, to get out of wearing uncomfortable heels that I just can't walk in. I don't wear high heels and since our wedding was going to be held on top of a hill among (pooping) sheep I needed my shoes to be comfy!
I decided early on to take photographs as I worked on the shoes so that if they turned out as good as I hoped they would I could show you all how I did it.
So, lets do that!

This is what you need for the dying of the fabric. I bought textile paint at the art and craft supply shop IN-EX here in Gothenburg. I found an old cotton fabric tote in my wardrobe and tested the colours on that before I started working on the shoes. The first time I had a synthetic sponge that was too sharp around the edges because you could see the exact shape of the sponge on the fabric. So I went back to the supply shop and bought these two natural sponges instead. They were perfect!
I definitely recommend that you "rehearse" on a piece of fabric and not get too daring.
I got the shoes really cheap at Primark in Glasgow when I was there in may. I thought that if I failed with these I was going back there agin in august and I could always find similar ones in Sweden too if everything went really bad.
I didn't have to worry though.

When it was time to get working on the shoes I cut up a garbage bag and spread it out on the kitchen floor. I started with taping the rubber parts of the shoes with electrical tape so that no paint would smudge the white edges.

Looking neat and ready to be coloured!

The first touch of colour was so scary to make!
In addition to two containers (jar lids) with paint I also had two bowls of water to blend the paint with. I wanted an irregular and splotchy look and the two green paints were just too rich and thick to use as they were. That was something I learned in the Great Tote Rehearsing Part of this.
I used the lighter colour first and just sponged all over the shoes but left white spots everywhere to blend in the darker green later.

And here's what I look like when I think really hard.

I shifted a lot in how much water I used to get an irregular colouring.

And then I started with the darker green straight away. I wanted the colours to blend together so it was important to not let it dry in between. The darker green paint had a metallic shimmer to it that looked so good over the brighter yellow green paint. I used one sponge for each colour to not mix them up to much from the start and have more control of where the colour ended up.

A break in my work to speak with my mother who chose this moment to call me.

Talking on the phone about my shoes and looking at them fondly at the same time.

Back to work!
I went back and forth with the paints in the end to make sure that they were covered completely.

First shoe finished!

This fabric paint is meant to be ironed for the colour to be permanent but the lady in the supply store said that I could use a hair dryer instead because the important thing was heat. So here I'm blow drying my shoes with my grandmothers old hair dryer that is extremely slow but it did it's job anyway.

When both of the shoes were ready and dried it was time to look at the studs. I bought lots of different studs on ebay. Square, triangular, spiky, small and large ones.
I didn't make my mind up until this moment and I actually started with the large triangular studs but realised after a while that they didn't look good on these shoes and they where very hard to attach because the spikes in the back was too short for the thick fabric.
I went with the smaller square rivets instead.

That was a good choice! I loved it straight away.

It took some time with all the studs...
When I was finished I realised that the inside of the shoes weren't smooth anymore and my socks were going to be ripped and my feet would bleed. NOT good. I wanted comfy shoes!
I solved that when we were in Glasgow with epoxy glue and felt. I simply glued pieces of white felt over the rivets on the inside of the shoes and they were soft and lovely again! When Jennie made my dress I got some help from her assistant to find the strongest glue the theatre had and I applied that to my shoes. I don't think it needs to be THAT strong but yeah, it was good working glue, alright.

Here's what they looked like when they were finished but with the wrong laces. These are the white ones that came with the shoes. I squeezed some paint in them but it was just to have something until I had my real laces.

Pieces of the same fabric my dress was made off! I wanted the laces to look rugged so I just made a knot in the ends of them and left them be.

I am so incredibly happy with how they turned out!
I'm going to change the laces for something more sturdy so that I can wear them a lot because I will use these until they fall to pieces!
I have already bought another pair of white cotton fabric shoes that I'm going to re-do soon. This might turn into an addiction!

So what do you think about my green, sparkly, studded wedding shoes?

Oh, and have you upcycled any shoes? Let me know in the comments, send a link if you've blogged about it, I want to see!

OH! And today we've been married a month exactly! Already!
Married life is good. I like it. :-)