Hello!

Before this spring has run away from us completely I thought it would be nice to show some glimpses of what I've been up to while enjoying the wonderful season.

Theatre reheasals with Teater Esther usually happens in a very cold house but since we are in the beginning of our new production we could read our play on the grass one beautiful evening. This year we are making our own play for the first time and our director Frida has been the one writing it. This particular evening we read the complete play from start to finish for the very first time and it felt wonderful! This is going to be so much fun!

From left to right. Frida, Matilda and Lisa.

Hanna.

When it was time to say goodbye the sun had set beautifully behind the trees and bushes.
It was one of those evenings when you walk home completely giddy with feelings of anticipation and joy.

At the end of April it was Beckas birthday! She is one of my best friends and we've known eachother for a very long time.

Picnic on the top of the park Redbergsparken with this amazing view was such a perfect way to celebrate a spring birthday.

Improvised table for a wine glass...

The most tasty chocolate mint cake ever.

Last saturday I met up with my sister Sara who was in town over the weekend with her kids Hilda and Alfred. The teddy bear got to ride on Hilda's shoulders when we went to a fleamarket.

Hot dog lunch break after some great fleamarket shopping.

On the tram back into town. Teddy had injured an arm, Hilda comforts him.

And one evening David and I ate thai food at a restaurant that almost made us feel like we surely must have left Sweden for Thailand.

Oh, and a quick reminder that today is the last day to use coupon code SPRINGTIME14 over at lottalosten.etsy.com for 15% off your entire order! Hop on over and snag yourself something pretty!

Today David and I are going to the theatre to watch the new Godzilla movie. Yesterday I heard so many people say it's utter crap so my expectations are not very high (more like below the lowest of low). But it's always nice to sit in the dark theatre holding hands with David, and the walk to and from the theatre always seem to inspire interesting and fun conversations so I'm at least going to enjoy that.

Hope your thursday is a great one too.

Tjingeling!
/Lotta

Some days you have a million ideas to blog but they aren't right for that exact day.
Sometimes it feels like you have to wait a little while, let the idea mingle with the synapses for a couple of days more and then it will be ready.
Maybe.
Because what happens if another new idea pops up before you have the chance to really dig down into that first one?
I'll tell you what usually happens. Nothing.
They just pile up in the brain and wait for another day in the unknown future.
Today is one of those "not today" days.
I have a folder filled with photos to blog but I just don't feel like blogging them right now. Maybe tomorrow? Yes, maybe.
I have a couple of ideas for blog posts that will take some time and dedication to plan out. My brain is NOT up for thinking too hard today.
I also have a really nice idea for a longer text but it might be even better if I can be patient a bit longer. Arghhh, I am so bad at being patient!
So what do I do? I look closely at the things surrounding me while I walk around in my apartment thinking of days in the future when it will be the perfect time for the blog posts sailing lazily on the waves of my mind.
And all of a sudden there are three Still lifes ready to be blogged right this minute.
It's strange, isn't it? It's all about timing. And synapses.

Hello!
So this is what I've been up to lately.
I've been making jewelry late into the night:

I've taken still life pictures of new jewelry pieces and pretty things:

I've looked in awe at my mango plant that was NOTHING two weeks ago but a fairly large seed in some soil, and now it looks like this! We're talking the long leafed plant in the middle that looks almost exactly like an avocado plant if you happen to know how those look like and thought to yourself "hey that's an avocado plant!" Then I can assure you: it is not. It's a mango that I ate a month ago then relieved the seed from inside the large core, planted it in a pot and watched as nothing happened for about two weeks and then BAM! Everything happened in no time at all! I'm amazed.

I've also been really happy lately that the seed pod I found on the ground in South Africa a couple of years ago turned out to be a Jacaranda tree (if my googling skills are right, which of course they are) and is growing nicely in my kitchen window.

I've been taken self portraits with the TimerCam app again and turned them into black and white dramatic photos:

I've been out running in the evenings and marvelled over our neighbourhood trees as they have been exploding in green leaf loveliness.

I have ventured into japanese recipes and cooked a couple of lovely noodle soups. This is going to be a thing this season in the Losten/Sandberg household, for sure! So tasty!

I've rediscovered my vintage fruit bowl scarf. It's a huge, soft, colourful scarf with fruit all over it. I love it like it was new every single year (I've had it for over ten years now) and it's definitely one of my favourite thrifting finds.

And that was all from me today.
Hope you're having a nice start of the week. I'm all confused about the week days since I've been working all weekend. But that is normal for me, no clue of what day of the week it is.
Monday! Off to theatre rehearsals!

Tjingeling!
/Lotta

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Tjingeling!
/Lotta